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The presence in the Bible of texts (i.e. Exo 21; Num 25; Deu 7) about violence and pointing to God as its direct agent raises many doubts in the contemporary reader. These texts understood literally can be read as an encouragement to aggression and hatred.
A closer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-07-18
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As the sacred text of a modern religious movement of global reach, The Book of Mormon has undeniable historical significance. That significance, this volume shows, is inextricable from the intricacy of its literary form and the audacity of its historical vision. This...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-18
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Change your life and become an inspiring, passionate praying warrior who proclaims God's Word with this refreshingly honest guide to strengthening your faith.If you want positive results from prayer, you first need to pray! But so many people who say they believe in the...
Editeur :
Worthy Books
Parution :
2019-07-16
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This is the biography of a contested memory, how it was born, grew, changed the world, and was changed by it. It's the story of the story of how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began. Joseph Smith, the church's founder, remembered that his first audible...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-15
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In recent years, there has been an astonishing revival of religious practices in China. Looking beyond numerical counts of religious practitioners, temples, and churches, anthropologist Adam Yuet Chau's vivid study explores how religion is embedded in contemporary...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-07-12
Collection :
China Today
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Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official religion in Christian Europe, pre-Christian Europe, and in the Arabic world. But from the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-07-11
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Until the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official religion in Christian Europe, pre-Christian Europe, and in the Arabic world. But from the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-07-11
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Deutschsprachige Literatur jüdischer Autor*innen in Palästina/Israel galt lange als Schwanengesang der ‚deutsch-jüdischen Symbiose‘. Dieses Buch nimmt eine neue Perspektive ein, sieht sie als Teil des „Jewish literary complex“ (Dan Miron) und fragt nach ihrer Beziehung...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-07-11
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Presbyterianism emerged during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. It spread from the British Isles to North America in the early eighteenth century. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Presbyterian denominations grew throughout the world. Today,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-08
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Exam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: RMPSFirst Teaching: August 2018First Exam: June 2019The only resource for RMPS Religious and Philosophical Questions at Higher level, written by a bestselling author and expert in the field. Completely updated for the 2018 SQA...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
Parution :
2019-07-08
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Die Menschenrechte und das humanitäre Völkerrecht haben eines gemeinsam: das Ziel des Schutzes und der Absicherung der Menschen. Das Verhältnis zwischen ihnen ist dabei nach wie vor umstritten und nicht abschließend geklärt. Hierfür gibt es vielfältige Gründe. Sie...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-04
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Today's twentysomethings have been labeled the "lost generation" for their presumed inability to identify and lead fulfilling lives, "kidults" for their alleged refusal to "grow up" and accept adult responsibilities, and the "least religious generation" for their...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-02
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In this book, Gaven Kerr expands on the brief treatment of creation offered in his 2015 volume, Aquinas's Way to God: The Proof in De Ente et Essentia. Aquinas does not offer one cohesive treatment on the issue of creation; Kerr synthesizes discussions from across his...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-01
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The biblical figure Melchizedek appears just twice in the Hebrew Bible, and once more in the Christian New Testament. Cited as both the king of Shalem-understood by most scholars to be Jerusalem-and as an eternal priest without ancestry, Melchizedek's appearances become...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-07-01
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The gods of Homer's Iliad have troubled readers for millennia, with many features of their presentation seeming to defy satisfactory explanation. Homer's Divine Audience presents and explores a new 'metaperformative' approach to scenes of divine viewing, counsel, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-07-01
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The gods of Homer's Iliad have troubled readers for millennia, with many features of their presentation seeming to defy satisfactory explanation. Homer's Divine Audience presents and explores a new 'metaperformative' approach to scenes of divine viewing, counsel, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-27
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The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism focuses on developments resulting from movements within the tradition as well as contact between India and the outside world through both colonialism and globalization. Divided into three parts, part one considers the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-27
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The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism focuses on developments resulting from movements within the tradition as well as contact between India and the outside world through both colonialism and globalization. Divided into three parts, part one considers the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-27
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AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES'A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit' Sunday Times The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-06-20
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Following a string of military defeats at the end of the eighteenth century, Ottoman leaders realized that their classical traditions and institutions could not compete with Russia and the European states' technological and economic superiority.One of a series of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-06-19
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