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Maximus the Confessor (c.580-662) has become one of the most discussed figures in contemporary patristic studies. This is partly due to the relatively recent discovery and critical edition of his works in various genres, including On the Ascetic Life, Four Centuries on...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-26
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Maximus the Confessor (c.580-662) has become one of the most discussed figures in contemporary patristic studies. This is partly due to the relatively recent discovery and critical edition of his works in various genres, including On the Ascetic Life, Four Centuries on...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-26
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Jeder kennt sie, fast jeder hat sich eine Meinung über sie gebildet, aber kaum jemand weiß, wofür sie genau eintritt, was sie genau vermitteln will. Die Rede ist von der katholischen Kirche. »Katholizismus für Dummies« erklärt, wie und warum Katholiken Heilige verehren,...
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Wiley-VCH
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2015-03-23
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Für Dummies
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From Jesus to the Internet examines Christianity as a mediated phenomenon, paying particular attention to how various forms of media have influenced and developed the Christian tradition over the centuries. It is the first systematic survey of this topic and the author...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-03-16
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Das Buch schildert den Kampf zwischen der katholischen Aufklärung und dem Ultramontanismus um die Haltung der Kirche zum Wallfahrtswesen, einer beliebten Form der Volksfrömmigkeit. Während der Kölner Erzbischof Spiegel (1825–1835) Wallfahrtsprozessionen mit staatlicher...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-16
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In this fascinating historical and cultural biography, writer and broadcaster Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot, who famously betrayed Jesus with a kiss. Beginning with the gospel accounts, Peter explores two thousand...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-03-12
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Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality, showing how a contest within Protestantism reshaped American political culture and led to the creation of an enduring religious nationalism.
Following...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-04
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Winner of the 2015 Saddleback Selection Award from the Historical Society of The United Methodist Church
During the nineteenth century, camp meetings became a signature program of American Methodists and an extraordinary engine for their remarkable evangelistic...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-02
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Now available in a fully-revised and updated new edition, this popular textbook by one of the world?s leading theologians offers a lively, jargon-free introduction to Christianity. Features a wealth of new material on global Christianity, American Christianity, the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-02-27
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The Ladder of Divine Ascent, the work of an otherwise shadowy figure, John Climacus (meaning of the Ladder), abbot of St. Catherine's, Sinai (ca. 579-649 CE), is one of the most popular and enduring classics of Greek ascetic spiritual direction. Hailed as the great...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-19
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Peter Rollins knows one magic trick - now, make sure you watch closely. It has three parts: the Pledge, the Turn, and the Prestige. In The Divine Magician, each part comes into play as Rollins describes the way God works in our world today, and how this connection helps...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-02-12
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This innovative volume provides an interdisciplinary, theoretically innovative answer to an enduring question for Pentecostal/charismatic Christianities: how do women lead churches?This study fills this lacuna by examining the leadership and legacy of two architects of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-02-11
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Every year, there are several hundred attacks on India's Christians. These attacks are carried out by violent anti-minority activists, many of them provoked by what they perceive to be a Christian propensity for aggressive proselytization, or by rumored or real...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-02
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Under the Big Top examines the immensely popular big tent revivals of turn-of-the-twentieth-century America and develops a new framework for understanding Protestantism in this transformative period of the nation's history. Contemporary critics of the revivalists often...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-02
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Der erste Bischof von Budweis, Johann Prokop Schaffgotsch (1748-1813), ist zweifellos eine große Gestalt der Geschichte Südböhmens. Ziel dieses Werkes ist es, dem Leser eine tiefergehende und systematischere Darstellung von Schaffgotschs Leben, vor allem der Zeit seines...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-28
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The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out in Europe and across the world.The protests against the marketing of indulgences staged by the German monk Martin Luther in 1517 belonged to a long-standing pattern of...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-22
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A best-selling history of the Third Crusade, when the Catholic Church waged war against heretics in its own ranksIn 1208 Pope Innocent III called for a Crusade against a country of fellow-Christians. The new enemy was Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, one of the greatest...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-01-12
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Catholicism has been a prominent Christian sect for more than 1,700 years, and is professed by more than 1.2 billion people worldwide. People outside the faith who seek to understand it sometimes have trouble comprehending its structure, values, traditions, and beliefs....
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Dk
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2015-01-06
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The bestselling Catholicism has now been revised and updated for an eagerly-anticipated second edition. This lucid and accessible account explains how Roman Catholicism and its beliefs and practices came to be what they are. Renowned scholars Gerald O'Collins and Mario...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-12-25
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The bestselling Catholicism has now been revised and updated for an eagerly-anticipated second edition. This lucid and accessible account explains how Roman Catholicism and its beliefs and practices came to be what they are. Renowned scholars Gerald O'Collins and Mario...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-12-25
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