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What do we mean when we talk about 'being Christian' in Late Antiquity? This volume brings together sixteen world-leading scholars of ancient Judaism, Christianity and, Greco-Roman culture and society to explore this question, in honour of the ground-breaking...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-01-30
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Mit der Erinnerung an das II. Vatikanische Konzil ist eine Besinnung auf das funktionierende Zusammenspiel von kirchlichem Lehramt, wissenschaftlicher Theologie und gesellschaftlicher Öffentlichkeit verbunden. Diesen Zusammenhängen von Konzil und Theologie im Kontext...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-01-22
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From diverse international and multi-disciplinary perspectives, the contributors to this volume analyze the experiences, challenges and responses of Orthodox Churches to the foundational transformations associated with the dissolution of the USSR.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-01-16
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Der Band versammelt Beiträge, die das Œuvre von Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg im Kontext von Scharfsinn und Frömmigkeit gleichermaßen deuten – eine Verbindung, von der gemeinhin angenommen wird, dass es sie bei Autorinnen im 17. Jahrhundert nicht hat geben können....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-01-10
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A charismatic Christian revival is sweeping through the Romani communities of Europe. Since the early 1950s, Romani peoples across Europe have organized themselves in charismatic congregations and today, although there are many exceptions, Pentecostalism could be said...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-01-10
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This study provides a general overview and a succinct analysis of the primary ways in which the Old Testament has been received, interpreted and conveyed within Eastern Orthodox tradition, filling a vacuum in scholarly literature on the history of biblical...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-01-09
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Winner of 2014 Book Award for Excellence in Missiology from the American Society of Missiology
Winner of the 2015 Christianity Today Award for Missions/Global Affairs
Named by the International Bulletin of Missionary Studies as an Outstanding Book of 2014 for Mission...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-01-02
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In the last century St. Catherine of Siena, an Italian lay woman and mystic of the fourteenth century, was named first a Doctor of the Church and then one of six patron saints of Europe. This recognition of her life and spirituality has been accompanied by increased...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-13
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Explaining the Cosmos analyzes the writings of three thinkers associated with Gaza: Aeneas, Zacharias and Procopius. Together, they offer a case study for the appropriation, adaptation, and transformation of classical philosophy in late antiquity, and for cultural...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-13
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Royal Priesthood in the English Reformation assesses the understandings of the Christian doctrine of royal priesthood, long considered one of the three major Reformation teachings, as held by an array of royal, clerical, and popular theologians during the English...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-12-12
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Kevin M. Watson offers the first in-depth examination of an essential early Methodist tradition: the band meeting, a small group of five to seven people who focused on the confession of sin in order to grow in holiness. Watson shows how the band meeting, which figured...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-10
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Some days, the news seems too much to bear. Yet another tsunami or earthquake or flood or fire or war atrocity. One more gun-toting madman stalking young people in idyllic Norway or moviegoers in Colorado or schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut. We turn off the news...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2013-12-05
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What is my purpose in life? Who am I meant to be? How can I live a successful life? Why is there so much wrong with our world today? Am I part of the problem?What can I do to help change that? These are the big, seemingly unanswerable questions that everyone must ask...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2013-11-21
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Recent years have seen increasing numbers of Protestant and Catholic Christians converting to Eastern Orthodox Christianity. In this book D. Oliver Herbel examines Christian converts to Orthodoxy who served as exemplars and leaders for convert movements in America...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-21
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The United States has never had an officially established national church. Since the time of the first British colonists, it has instead developed a strong civil religion that melds God and nation. In a deft exploration of American civil religious symbols-from the...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-18
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This short book by one of France's leading historians deals with a big question: how was it that Christianity, that masterpiece of religious invention, managed, between 300 and 400 AD, to impose itself upon the whole of the Western world? In his erudite and inimitable...
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Polity
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2013-11-18
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Parma. A multiple pile-up occurs on the autostrada into the city. A truck transporting cattle skids off the road. Dozens of cows and bulls go on the rampage, injured and crazed. In the chaos, the burned body of a young woman is found at the side of the road. Her death...
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Maclehose Press
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2013-11-07
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Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Emeritus, is one of the most prolific catholic theologians of the contemporary era. He became Professor of theology at the age of 29, the youngest holder of a theological chair at that time. His theology not only draws from biblical-historical...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Bob Tennant presents a history of the missionary work, cultures, and rhetoric of the Church of England in 1760-1870, when it was the predominant organizer of Protestant overseas missions. Through close attention to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-24
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The problem of pain is a perennial one; and for those who undergo particular sufferings it can often be the largest obstacle for trusting in a good and loving God. If such a God exists, why is there so much suffering in the world? And how do we deal with it when it...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2013-10-10
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