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In 1974 nearly 3,000 evangelicals from 150 nations met at the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. Amidst this cosmopolitan setting — and in front of the most important white evangelical leaders of the United States — members of the Latin American Theological...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-04-09
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This book provides a recipe for healthy moral and personal transformation. Belliotti takes seriously Dante’s deepest yearnings: to guide human well-being; to elevate social and political communities; to remedy the poisons spewed by the seven capital vices; and to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-08
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Born of a virgin, crucified under Pontius Pilate, died and was buried, and rose again on the third day – this, the Church’s conception of Jesus, is based on mystical and mythological thinking. But Jesus is not a citizen of another world, he is not an alien who dwelt...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2020-04-08
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The ability to connect with an audience is an essential element of public speaking. While an effective presentation can have all the elements of good pace, pitch and body language, it can still leave an audience unaffected or unmoved. Rob Parson believes even the most...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2020-03-19
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From the mid-90s to the present, television drama with religious content has come to reflect the growing cultural divide between white middle-America and concentrated urban elites. As author Charlotte E. Howell argues in this book, by 2016, television narratives of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-02
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The leading introductory textbook on the study of religion and the natural sciences, including new coverage of the latest topics in the field Science and Religion provides students with a thorough introduction to the major themes and landmark debates in the interaction...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-02-25
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Encountering Eve's Afterlives: A New Reception Critical Approach to Genesis 2-4 aims to destabilize the persistently pessimistic framing of Eve as a highly negative symbol of femininity within Western culture by engaging with marginal, and even heretical,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-06
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Encountering Eve's Afterlives: A New Reception Critical Approach to Genesis 2-4 aims to destabilize the persistently pessimistic framing of Eve as a highly negative symbol of femininity within Western culture by engaging with marginal, and even heretical,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-06
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Why do so many conservative Christians continue to support Donald Trump despite his many overt moral failings?Why do many Americans advocate so vehemently for xenophobic policies, such as a border wall with Mexico?Why do many Americans seem so unwilling to acknowledge...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-02-03
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A unique, wide-ranging volume exploring the historical, religious, cultural, political, and social aspects of Christian martyrdom Although a well-studied and researched topic in early Christianity, martyrdom had become a relatively neglected subject of scholarship by...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-01-27
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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C. S. Lewis is one of the most influential and beloved Christian writers of the past century, and interest in him continues to grow as books about his fantasy, fiction, and biography continue to appear. Although Lewis's personal journey was a deeply philosophical search...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-01-24
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'Wonderfully learned, wonderfully written, a microscopic examination of the acorn from which a truly mighty oak would spring. I learnt a huge amount.' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind2020 sees the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2020-01-23
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The Preacher King investigates Martin Luther King Jr.'s religious development from a precocious "preacher's kid" in segregated Atlanta to the most influential America preacher and orator of the twentieth century. To give the most accurate and intimate portrait possible,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-31
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Im Rahmen des Konzeptes des gerechten Friedens gilt zivile Konfliktbearbeitung als vorrangige Aufgabe. Dabei verbindet sich mit ihr zuvorderst der Modus des Umgangs mit gewaltsamen Konflikten, womit zivile Konfliktbearbeitung in erster Linie eine Kritik an der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-12-26
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The chapters reconstruct the values, norms, experiences, material manifestations, and power structures underlying the understandings of the holy and the sacred in early modern Christian contexts. They intend to gain a characteristic profile of the associated concepts...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-12-04
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This book describes the history in late 19th-century Russia and immigration to Canada of an ethnic and religious group known as Doukhobors, or Spirit Wrestlers. The book is a translation into English of the Russian original authored by Grigorii Verigin, published...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-05
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Scholars have associated Calvinism with print and literary cultures, with republican, liberal, and participatory political cultures, with cultures of violence and vandalism, enlightened cultures, cultures of social discipline, secular cultures, and with the emergence of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-01
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This book explores the relationship between the distinctive Islamic beliefs (Ibadism) of Oman and how they define the experience of the church with regards to religious freedom. Oman is a nation with a long and glorious history of maritime trade, stretching from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-31
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This book explores the impact of the sixteenth-century Reformation on the plays of William Shakespeare. Taking three fundamental Protestant concerns of the era – (double) predestination, conversion, and free will – it demonstrates how Protestant theologians, in England...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-10-29
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Is it possible for a life to change?In their own compelling words, fifteen men from all walks of life tell the stories of their lives and how they have been transformed, often in dramatic circumstances, by an encounter with God. Some have overcome years of crime and...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2019-10-17
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ALPHA BOOKS
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