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Target success in WJEC GCSE Religious Studies with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam-style tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide you can rely on to review, strengthen and test their...
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Hodder Education
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2018-12-31
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Against the backdrop of the ongoing Rohingya crisis, this book takes a close and detailed look at the rise of militant Buddhism in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand, and especially at the issues of ‘why’ and ‘how’ around it. We are well aware of Christian fundamentalism,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-12-30
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Die mit 1990 gehegten Hoffnungen auf einen liberalen Frieden haben sich nicht erfüllt. Nicht nur, dass Krieg in Europa wieder zu einem Mittel der Außenpolitik geworden ist, scheint auch die Geopolitik wieder zurückgekehrt. Zudem sind die Konflikte im Nahen und Mittleren...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-28
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Gerechter Frieden
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Die bundesdeutsche Gesellschaft ist stark von einer multikulturellen Pluralität geprägt. So verkörpert das Christentum nur eine von vielen gesellschaftlichen Kräften. Zugleich möchte es aber nicht nur einen partikularen Anspruch erheben, sondern vielmehr Gesellschaft...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-28
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In Brjansk, wo im September 1941 der deutsche Angriff auf Moskau begann, befassten sich russische und deutsche Wissenschaftler mit der Frage, inwieweit in der bewegten Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts christliche Überzeugungen das politische und staatliche Handeln beider...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-28
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In the past thirty years, the Catholic bishops of the United States have made headlines with their statements on nuclear disarmament and economic justice, their struggles to address sexual abuse by clergy, and their defense of refugees and immigrants. Despite many...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-12-21
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The 19th century was a pioneering age for vernacular texts in India. Vernacular writings became popular for making the 'first' interventions of their kind, written by Indians for Indians, and establishing new genres such as the biographical novel.The Subhedar's Son, an...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-12-20
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The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together expert work by leading scholars of the archaeology of Early Christianity and the Roman world in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions.The thirty-four contributions to this volume survey Christian...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-12-20
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This study examines how the New Testament scriptures might form and foster intellectual humility within Christian communities. It is informed by recent interdisciplinary interest in intellectual humility, and concerned to appreciate the distinctive representations of...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-12-20
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Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630 revisits what used to be regarded as an entirely 'mainstream' topic in the historiography of the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries - namely, the link between royal dynastic politics and the outcome...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-12-20
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An Obituary for "Wisdom Literature" considers the definitional issues long plaguing Wisdom scholarship. Will Kynes argues that Wisdom Literature is not a category used in early Jewish and Christian interpretation. It first emerged in modern scholarship, shaped by its...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-12-20
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This book shows how, through a series of fierce battles over Sabbath laws, legislative chaplains, Bible-reading in public schools and other flashpoints, nineteenth-century secularists mounted a powerful case for a separation of religion and government. Among their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-12-19
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In Debating the Sacraments, Amy Nelson Burnett brings together the foundational disputes regarding the baptism and the Lord's Supper that laid the groundwork for the development of two Protestant traditions-Lutheran and Reformed-as well as of dissenting Anabaptist...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-12-18
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Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature offers an engaging philosophical overview ofTibetan Buddhist thought. Integrating competing and complementary perspectives on the nature of mind and reality, Douglas Duckworth reveals the way that Buddhist theory informs...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-12-18
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In the seventeenth century, English Baptists existed on the fringe of the nation's collective religious life. Today, Baptists have developed into one of the world's largest Protestant denominations. Despite this impressive transformation, those first English Baptists...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-12-14
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Our understanding of human rationality has changed significantly since the beginning of the century, with growing emphasis being placed on multiple rationalities, each adapted to the specific tasks of communities of practice. We may think of the world as an ontological...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-12-13
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In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology: A Philosophical Essay examines the logical consistency and coherence of Extended Conciliar Christology-the Christological doctrine that results from conjoining Conciliar Christology, the Christology of the first seven...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-12-13
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The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils examines the role that appeals to Nicaea (both the council and its creed) played in the major councils of the mid-fifth century. It argues that the conflict between rival construals of Nicaea, and the struggle convincingly...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-12-13
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The vast homiletic corpus of John Chrysostom has received renewed attention in recent years as a source for the wider cultural and historical context within which his sermons were preached. Scholars have demonstrated the exciting potential his sermons have to shed light...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-12-13
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For too long certain scholars have been content to portray Irenaeus of Lyons as a well-meaning churchman but incompetent theologian. By offering a careful reading of Irenaeus' polemical and constructive arguments, God and Christ in Irenaeus contradicts these claims by...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-12-13
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