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For too long, scholars have published new research on Edwards without paying due attention to the work he took most seriously: biblical exegesis. Edwards is recognized as an innovative theologian who wielded tremendous influence on revivalism, evangelicalism, and New...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-04-02
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Postmortem existence in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament was rooted in mortuary practices and conceptualized through the embodiment of the dead. But this idea of the afterlife was not hopeless or fatalistic, consigned to the dreariness of the tomb. The dead were cherished...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-04-02
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This volume presents the first English translation of the Confucian classics, Four Books for Women, with extensive commentary by the compiler, Wang Xiang, and introductions and annotations by translator Ann A. Pang-White. Written by women for women's education, the...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-04-02
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Food trucks announcing "halal" proliferate in many urban areas but how many non-Muslims know what this means, other than cheap lunch? Here Middle Eastern historians Febe Armanios and Bogac Ergene provide an accessible introduction to halal (permissible) food in the...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-04-02
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The thirteenth century mystic Ibn `Arabi was the foremost Sufi theorist of the premodern era. For more than a century, Western scholars and esotericists have heralded his universalism, arguing that he saw all contemporaneous religions as equally valid. In Rethinking Ibn...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-04-02
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This book describes Reformed ecclesiology through the lived faith of the Filipino American Christian diaspora. It proposes a contextual, constructive ecclesiology by engaging with the Presbyterian/Reformed theological tradition’s understanding of the ascension of Jesus...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-03-31
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Asian Christianity in the Diaspora
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Der Begriff des gerechten Friedens impliziert engen Zusammenhang von Frieden und Gerechtigkeit. Auch in biblischen Traditionen wird die Verknüpfung beider Begriffe deutlich. So umfasst der biblische Friedensbegriff Schalom stets auch Dimensionen der Gerechtigkeit. Das...
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Springer VS
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2018-03-29
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Gerechter Frieden
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The sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy, its most influential pontiffs, troubling doctrines, and rise in global authority In 1799, the papacy was at rock bottom:The Papal States had been swept away and Rome seized by the revolutionary French...
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PublicAffairs
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2018-03-27
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This volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian and European traditions. Specifically, it focuses on the deepest and most fundamental uncertainty of human existence---the awareness of...
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Springer
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2018-03-27
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It is said that the famous ninth century Chinese Buddhist monk Linji Yixuan told his disciples, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." The deliberately confounding statement is meant to shock people out of complacent ways of thinking. But beyond the purposeful...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-03-27
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Der Zusammenhang und das Verhältnis von Ethik und Recht gehören zu den fundamentalethischen Herausforderungen und werden seit der Antike diskutiert. Dennoch stellt sich dieses Problem je nach aktueller Situation immer wieder neu. Fragt man nach der Stellung des Rechts...
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Springer VS
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2018-03-23
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Gerechter Frieden
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The Heart of Success,The Money Secret andThe Wisdom House capture wisdom from Rob's own experiences and of others he's met.'Rob Parsons has an uncanny ability for asking life's most challenging questions in an unobtrusive way.' - Jill Garrett,The Gallup...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2018-03-22
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OVERLOAD - How to Unplug, Unwind and Free Yourself from the Pressure of StressLIVING BEYOND YOUR FEELINGS - A comprehensive guide to the range of emotions that we feel every day and shows how to manage them - instead of letting them manage you.MAKING GOOD HABITS,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2018-03-22
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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...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2018-03-22
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This is the first history of the Plymouth Brethren, a conservative, nonconformist evangelical Christian movement whose history can be traced to Dublin, Ireland in the late 1820s. The teachings of John Nelson Darby, an influential figure among the early Plymouth...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-03-21
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Made teen-friendly with contemporary language, BATTLEFIELD OF THE MIND FOR TEENS equips a new audience desperately in need of guidance with a means of winning the war raging inside them.
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FaithWords
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2018-03-20
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Many forms of Buddhism, divergent in philosophy and style, emerged as Buddhism filtered out of India into other parts of Asia. Nonetheless, all of them embodied an ethical core that is remarkably consistent. Articulated by the historical Buddha in his first sermon, this...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-20
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In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus promised his disciples kingship and thrones of judgment at the Last Supper. Many commentators have long seen this as a totally futuristic promise that is unrelated to the book of Acts. David H. Wenkel argues that the Twelve inaugurated their...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-03-17
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During the nineteenth century, white Americans sought the cultural transformation and physical displacement of Native people. Though this process was certainly a clash of rival economic systems and racial ideologies, it was also a profound spiritual struggle. The fight...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-03-15
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By the late second century, early Christian gospels had been divided into two groups by a canonical boundary that assigned normative status to four of them while consigning their competitors to the margins. Connecting Gospels: Beyond the Canonical/Non-canonical Divide...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-09
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