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Who wrote the Pauline Epistles? For nearly 1,700 years the answer seemed fairly straightforward. The New Testament canon set the boundary at thirteen (or fourteen, including Hebrews) Pauline Epistles, alongside an uncontroversial biographical framework within which to...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-04-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Devotion to the Name of Jesus in Medieval English Literature, c. 1100 - c. 1530 offers a broad but detailed study of the practice of devotion to the Name of Jesus in late medieval England. It focuses on key texts written in Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English that...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-08-01
Format(s) : ePub
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Devotion to the Name of Jesus in Medieval English Literature, c. 1100 - c. 1530 offers a broad but detailed study of the practice of devotion to the Name of Jesus in late medieval England. It focuses on key texts written in Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English that...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-08-01
Format(s) : PDF
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This comparative introduction explores the mission obligation as it is expressed across seven traditions: the Bahá’í Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Mormonism, and nonreligion.
In a structure that facilitates side-by-side comparison and contrast, the...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2022-02-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Pastor Tillich: The Justification of the Doubter tells the story of Paul Tillich's early theological development from his student days until the end of the First World War, set against the backdrop of church politics in Wilhelmine Germany and with particular reference...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-02-03
Format(s) : PDF
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Pastor Tillich: The Justification of the Doubter tells the story of Paul Tillich's early theological development from his student days until the end of the First World War, set against the backdrop of church politics in Wilhelmine Germany and with particular reference...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-02-03
Format(s) : ePub
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In Early Christian Apologetics, D.H. Williams offers a comprehensive presentation of Christian apologetic literature from the second to the fifth century, considering each writer within the intellectual context of the day. Williams argues that most apologies were not...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-05-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Interviews with people of faith including: Sara Maitland | Sister Wendy Beckett | Delia Smith | The Revd Richard Coles | Dermot O'Leary | Cherie Blair | Archbishop Desmond Tutu | Bronwen Astor | Amos Oz | Nick CavePeter Stanford has been interviewing people of faith...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2018-03-22
Format(s) : ePub
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'All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well'
Julian of Norwich is one of the most celebrated figures of the English Middle Ages. She is esteemed as one of the subtlest writers and profoundest thinkers of the period for her account...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2015-05-14
Format(s) : ePub
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'All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well'
Julian of Norwich is one of the most celebrated figures of the English Middle Ages. She is esteemed as one of the subtlest writers and profoundest thinkers of the period for her account...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2015-05-14
Format(s) : PDF
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Die Walpurgisnacht, die Nacht vom 30. April auf den 1. Mai, ist nach volkstümlicher Vorstellung das einschlägige Datum für die Zusammenkunft von Geistern und Hexen. Während der Hexenverfolgungen galt die Teilnahme am vermeintlichen Hexenkonvent als wichtiges Indiz für...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2015-04-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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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....
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-01-10
Format(s) : PDF
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The Victorian novel acquired greater cultural centrality just as the authority of the scriptures and of traditional religious teaching seemed to be declining. Did the novel supplant the Bible?The novelists often adopted or participated in a broadly progressive narrative...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-07-05
Format(s) : PDF
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Disciplining Christians reconsiders several of Augustine's most well-known letter exchanges, including his famously controversial correspondence with Jerome and his efforts to engage his Donatist rivals in a letter exchange. It reads these letters with close attention...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2012-08-31
Format(s) : PDF
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Against the Christians examines the anti-Christian polemic works of Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian the Apostate. The first book to analyze the phenomenon of early anti-Christian literature in depth, it chooses the critics' objection to Christian exclusivism as its...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2012-08-29
Format(s) : PDF
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A Postcolonial Reading of the Acts of the Apostles explores Acts, with its twofold motif of self-exaltation and self-attribution of divine prerogatives, from the viewpoint of postcolonial criticism. The Lukan community struggles to legitimize itself, in hybrid fashion,...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2012-02-15
Format(s) : PDF
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), perhaps the most famous European poet of the twentieth century, exemplifies how the «crisis of language» inherent in literary Modernism also constitutes a crisis of religious discourse. In Rilke’s poetry and prose, language replaces God...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2011-12-22
Format(s) : PDF
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Before etching Jerusalem William Blake wrote about creating 'the grandest poem that this world contains.'
Blake's avowed intention in constructing the work was to move readers from a solely rational way of being (called Ulro) to one that is highly imaginative (called...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-10-20
Format(s) : PDF
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'Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.'
Jesus Christ is the central figure in Western culture, and one of the most...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2011-03-10
Format(s) : PDF
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The study analyses the current state of research on the synoptic problem and proves that the Synoptic Gospels were written in the Mark, Luke, Matthew order of direct literary dependence. Moreover, the work demonstrates that the Synoptic Gospels are results of...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2010-11-23
Format(s) : PDF
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