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What if our long-held understandings of gender have less historical basis than we imagine?
The gender norms and sexual distinctions of the first century world that produced the New Testament were not strictly binary, as we might think. Although some ancient writers did...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-06-13
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Amongst the oldest continuing cultures on Earth, San Bushmen are indigenous peoples that make up the first nations of Southern Africa. San culture is rich in myth and lore, actively and expansively transmitted by storytellers. Mythology of the San Bushmen of Southern...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-06-13
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Packed with resonant and thoughtful reflections, chosen as indispensable signposts for all who wish to make the best possible progress on life's journey.Offering inspiration for any situation you might face, Bible Verses to Lift the Soul is the perfect easy-to-use life...
Editeur : Welbeck
Parution : 2025-06-12
Format(s) : ePub
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The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters brings together the work of world-renowned scholars in Bible, theology, religion, and cultural studies to explore the monsters that rampage through the biblical text. Essays provide in-depth analysis of the Ancient Near Eastern...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-06-10
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Leah Hirsig was a Swiss-American occultist, follower and lover of the prominent British occultist Aleister Crowley in the 1920s. The self-styled Great Beast 666, Crowley was also the founder and prophet of the new religion Thelema. This annotated edition of Hirsig's...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-06-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Living Black Theology provides a challenging and radical critique of the present world order. It argues that the world as we experience it presently has its roots in the era of slavery and European colonialism, especially the British empire, the largest example of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-09
Format(s) : PDF
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While there has been renewed scholarly interest in paratextual features of early Christian manuscripts, that interest has rarely extended to the size of manuscripts, particularly the format known as the miniature codex. Such neglect is surprising given that this...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-07
Format(s) : ePub
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The Letter to the Hebrews is a confounding book in the New Testament. For one, it is not really a letter. Nor is the author of this indistinctly-titled letter named or identified. In fact, many of the rudimentary questions surrounding its intended audience, date, and...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-06-06
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The idea that something can be present at every place has engendered much discussion both in the past and at present. Typically, omnipresence is thought to be a divine attribute, but the question as to how something can be omnipresent has not been historically confined...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-04
Format(s) : ePub
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A neuroscientist and surgeon makes an argument for the existence of a spiritual human soul in this eye-opening book. Many scientists and doctors believe that there is no such thing as the soul. That there is no part of us that persists beyond death. We are not spiritual...
Editeur : Worthy Books
Parution : 2025-06-03
Format(s) : ePub
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This book presents a full and updated portrait of al-Junayd al-Baghdadi, a towering figure in the history of Islamic piety and thought. Examining the character of Junayd as both an architect of the Sufi mainstream as well as a charismatic and pragmatic personality, the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-06-02
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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'Glaubensmacht und Politik' – so lautete eine Berliner Konferenz aus Anlass des 90. Geburtstags von Hans Maier. Diese widmete sich dem Werk des langjährigen Münchner Guardini-Professors, um das Zusammenspiel von Glauben, Macht und Politik zu analysieren. Immer wieder...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2025-06-02
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The writings of ancient and medieval Christian mystics were rediscovered in the twentieth century, and today they are read more widely than ever before. But do modern assumptions about religious experience influence how we hear those premodern voices? Do we do them...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-02
Format(s) : PDF
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In 1626, Europe was in the midst of the Thirty Years' War; a flu pandemic began spreading in Asia; the Dutch acquired the island of Manhattan; Queen Christina of Sweden was born; and Francis Bacon died. A lot can happen in a year, and 1626 was no exception. It was an...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-05-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book applies spatial theories from human and cultural geography to the archaeological remains of Ancient Corinth in order to consider how sacred places could have been created in the first century. Building on Philip Sheldrake's theory, among others, the book...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-05-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book offers a comparative examination of the esoteric dimension across diverse religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Islam. It seeks to answer the question of whether the concept of the esoteric can be applied across traditions...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-05-27
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The pews overflow on Christmas Eve and Easter Sunday. A mother reaches out to a local church for the first time to request the baptism of her newborn.The death of a public figure is marked with an extravagant funeral at a cathedral. These are all examples of what Sarah...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-05-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Oxford Handbook of the Pelagian Controversy delves into the heart of one of Christianity's earliest and most profound theological disputes.The Pelagian controversy, characterized by fierce debates on topics such as original sin, grace, and predestination, was a...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-05-22
Format(s) : PDF
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Living Black Theology provides a challenging and radical critique of the present world order. It argues that the world as we experience it presently has its roots in the era of slavery and European colonialism, especially the British empire, the largest example of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-05-22
Format(s) : ePub
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Known since the Renaissance as the "Christian Cicero," Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius was a professor of Latin rhetoric, Christian apologist, and theologian at the court of Emperor Constantine. In this historical study, Jason M. Gehrke examines the central notion...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-05-20
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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