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When Donald Trump was married to his first wife Ivana Ivana Zelnícková in 1977, the family minister who officiated the wedding was the preacher and author of The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale. Perhaps more than any other figure in American public life...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-02-21
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In August of 1520, Martin Luther published the first of three incendiary works, Address to the German Nobility, in which he urged secular authorities to take a strong hand in "reforming" the Roman church.In October, he published The Church Held Captive, and by December...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-02-13
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This study brings three different kinds of readers of the Gospel of John together with the theological goal of understanding what is meant by Incarnation and how it relates to Pascha, the Passion of Christ, how this is conceived of as revelation, and how we speak of it....
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OUP Oxford
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2019-02-07
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American Millennials--the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s--have been leaving organized religion in unprecedented numbers. For a long time, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was an exception: nearly three-quarters of people who grew up Mormon stayed...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-02-01
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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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2019-01-04
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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 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
Parution :
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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This book analyzes two large surveys of clergy and lay people in the Church of England taken in 2001 and 2013. The period between the two surveys was one of turbulence and change, and the surveys offer a unique insight into how such change affected grassroots opinion on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-11
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In 1947, the Supreme Court embraced the concept of church-state separation as shorthand for the meaning of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The concept became embedded in Court's jurisprudence and remains so today. Yet separation of church and state is...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-12-11
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Augustine's Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement considers the relationship betweenAugustine's account of God's judgment and his theology of grace in his early works. How does God use his law and the penal consequences of its transgression in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-12-06
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Augustine's Early Thought on the Redemptive Function of Divine Judgement considers the relationship betweenAugustine's account of God's judgment and his theology of grace in his early works. How does God use his law and the penal consequences of its transgression in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-06
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Christians have often admired and venerated the martyrs who died for their faith, but for a long time thought that the bodies of martyrs should remain undisturbed in their graves. Initially, the Christian attitude towards the bones of the dead, saint or not, was that of...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-12-06
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Christians have often admired and venerated the martyrs who died for their faith, but for a long time thought that the bodies of martyrs should remain undisturbed in their graves. Initially, the Christian attitude towards the bones of the dead, saint or not, was that of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-06
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In Before Jonathan Edwards, Adriaan Neele seeks to balance the recent academic attention to the developments of intellectual history after Jonathan Edwards. Neele presents the first comprehensive study of Edwards's use of Reformed orthodox and Protestant scholastic...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-04
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Millennials in the U.S. have been characterized as uninterested in religion, as defectors from religious institutions, and as agnostic about the role of religious identity in their culture. Amid the rise of so-called "nones," though, there has also been a countervailing...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-03
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For people drawn to a life of contemplation, the dawning of luminous awareness in a mind full of clutter is deeply liberating. In the third of his best-selling books on Christian contemplative life, Martin Laird turns his attention to those who are well settled in their...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-11-07
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The five-volume Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England'). It first traces organized church traditions that arose in Britain and Ireland as Dissenters distanced themselves from a state church defined...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-18
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John Henry Newman (1801-1890) has always inspired devotion. Newman has made disciples as leader of the Catholic revival in the Church of England, an inspiration to fellow converts to Roman Catholicism, a nationally admired preacher and prose-writer, and an...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-10-18
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