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Buddhist studies is a rapidly changing field of research, constantly transforming and adapting to new scholarship. This creates a problem for instructors, both in a university setting and in monastic schools, as they try to develop a curriculum based on a body of...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-09-01
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What kind of person should I strive to be?What ideals should I pursue in my life? These basic human questions and others like them are components of the overall question that guides this book:What is enlightenment?
As Dale Wright argues, any serious practitioner of...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-09-01
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Modern-day Renaissance man and star of Bravo's Thicker Than Water Ben Tankard offers powerful motivation and practical tools to empower readers to find their destiny and create an action plan to unlock it. As a pastor, pilot, motivational speaker, bestselling...
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FaithWords
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2016-08-30
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1828 unterzeichneten 23 Professoren aus Freiburg i. Br. Petitionen zur Abschaffung des Zölibates und verteidigten diese mit einer erläuternden «Denkschrift». Hierauf antwortete Johann Adam Möhler (1796–1838) mit der «Beleuchtung der Denkschrift».
Die Autorin analysiert...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-08-29
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Die Religionswissenschaft mit ihren beiden Subdisziplinen Religionssoziologie und Religionspsychologie hat als sogenannte „Außenperspektive" wichtige Forschungsbeiträge für die „Innenperspektive" der christlichen Theologien geliefert. Einen Konflikt stellte dabei immer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-08-29
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The 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 focuses the mind on the history and significance of Protestant forms of Christianity. It also prompts the question of how the Reformation has been commemorated on past anniversary occasions. In an effort to examine...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-25
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Franz Overbeck war einer der großen religionskritischen Denker des 19. Jahrhunderts. Sein Einfluss auf Nietzsche, Barth, Löwith, Benjamin, Taubes und viele andere ist unbestritten. "Werke und Nachlaß" erschließt erstmals Overbecks Gesamtwerk und stellt den Theologen und...
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J.B. Metzler
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2016-08-25
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Our Greatest Gift is a meditation on dying. Dying and death can often bring fear. But the experience of dying and caring for the dying can become the deepest experience of love. Nouwen encourages us to ask: 'How can my death become fruitful in the lives of others?'...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2016-08-25
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The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.Life of the Beloved asks how one can live a spiritual life in a Western secular culture.The greatest challenge, concludes Nouwen, is to bridge the gap between secular...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2016-08-25
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Joyce Meyer has a knack for coining phrases - her fans call them 'Joyceisms' - and one of her best loved is 'Where the mind goes, the man follows.' This was the basis for BATTLEFIELD OF THE MIND, and in her latest book, Meyer provides 'power thoughts', bringing the...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2016-08-25
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In this 365-day devotional, best-selling author Pastor John Hagee walks you through Scripture with words of strength and hope for every day. As only he can, Pastor Hagee draws from his decades of Bible study and ministry to bring authoritative yet inspirational...
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Worthy Books
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2016-08-23
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This book develops a new philosophy of Israel education. “Person-centered” Israel education is concerned with developing in individual learners the ability to understand and make rational, emotional, and ethical decisions about Israel, and about the challenges Israel...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-08-20
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Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of followers on the Arabian peninsula into a global religion of over a billion believers. How did this happen? The usual answer is that Islam spread by the sword-believers waged jihad against...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-19
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The 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 focuses the mind on the history and significance of Protestant forms of Christianity. It also prompts the question of how the Reformation has been commemorated on past anniversary occasions. In an effort to examine...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-19
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The Lutheran doctrine of the orders of creation specifies fundamental forms of human community. Grounded in God’s structuring of the universe, these institutions acquire their expression in human history. Although they are fallen and distorted under sin, they remain...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-08-19
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This volume engages with the work of E. Douglas Lewis, who has made major contributions to the understanding of Eastern Indonesia, ethnography, culture, and religion, as well as a neurobiologically informed anthropology. Lewis’ work on the Ata Tana ‘Ai (People of the...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-08-19
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In his sixth satire, Juvenal speculates about how Roman wives busy themselves while their husbands are away, namely, by entertaining a revolving door of exotic visitors who include a eunuch of the eastern goddess Bellona, an impersonator of Egyptian Anubis, a Judean...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-08-18
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How can we, in our times, understand the biblical concept that human beings have been created in the image of an invisible God? This is a perennial but increasingly pressing question that lies at the heart of theological anthropology. Humanity in God's Image: An...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-18
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How can we, in our times, understand the biblical concept that human beings have been created in the image of an invisible God? This is a perennial but increasingly pressing question that lies at the heart of theological anthropology. Humanity in God's Image: An...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-18
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Since the late 1980s the theme of God's self-revelation has been treated only briefly in Christian theology, at times simply ignored, and often confused with biblical inspiration. Revelation: Towards a Christian Theology of God's Self-Revelation lays out its basic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-18
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