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Debates concerning the relationship between Tridentine Catholicism and Catholicism after Vatican II dominate theological conversation today, particularly with regard to the Church and its engagement with the world. Current historical narratives paint ecclesiology after...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-05-03
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Das Buch rekonstruiert die Konzeption der Orthodoxen Kirche Siebenbürgens über die soziale Ordnung Rumäniens in der Zwischenkriegszeit. Der Autor fasst dieses regional geprägte Ordnungsdenken durch das Konzept der politischen Ethnotheologie zusammen. Dieser zufolge wäre...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-05-03
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In 1614 the shogunate prohibited Christianity amidst rumors of foreign plots to conquer Japan. But more than the fear of armed invasions, it was the ideological threat--or "spiritual conquest"--that the Edo shogunate feared the most. This book explores the encounter of...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-05-02
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From the author of The Tech-Wise Family'A fascinating and eye-opening book' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion: The Making of the Western MindOur greatest need is to be recognised - to be seen, loved, and embedded in rich relationships with the people around us. But for...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2022-04-28
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The coming of Islam marks a watershed in world history. A new movement arose from the sands of Arabia. It destroyed old empires and reshaped lands that had been the very cradle of civilisation in its own image. Debate on the origins of Islam is fierce. Far from being...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2022-04-27
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Proselytes of a New Nation analyzes questions such as: Why did many Muslims convert to Greek Orthodoxy? What did conversion mean to the converts? What were their economic, social, and professional profiles? And how did conversion affect the converts' relationships with...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-04-26
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This book is a multichapter introduction to spiritual formation within the Christian tradition. Corneliu C. Simu? discusses spiritual formation from the views of several Christian thinkers, with a chapter devoted to each thinker. The concluding chapter notes common...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-26
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A Grammy Award-winning singer and her husband share what a Godly marriage looks like and encourage readers with faith-forward and Biblical relationship advice. Fantasia Taylor—American Idol, Grammy-winning vocalist, and chart-topping singer—and...
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Worthy Books
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2022-04-26
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John Edwards of Cambridge (1637-1716) has typically been portrayed as a marginalized 'Calvinist' in an overwhelmingly 'Arminian' later Stuart Church of England. In Retaining the Old Episcopal Divinity, Jake Griesel challenges this depiction of Edwards and the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-22
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In this open-access monograph, Paul Weller explores how the movement known as Hizmet (meaning “service”) is undergoing a period of transitions in Europe. Inspired by the teaching and practice of the Turkish Islamic scholar, Fethullah Gülen, Hizmet has been active in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-04-21
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Die Begriffe Tod und Sterben werden häufig im alltäglichen Sprachgebrauch synonym verwendet. Wie kommt es zur Gleichstellung dieser unterschiedlichen Bedeutungen? Mithilfe historischer und philosophischer Betrachtungen über den Umgang mit Sterben und Tod in der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-04-20
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The Apocalypse—or the Revelation of St. John the Divine, the last book in the Bible—has inspired many artists over the centuries to present their own perceptions of its events and characters. What might a woman clothed with the sun, a dragon with seven heads, the harlot...
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Nemora Publishing/Nemora Kustannus
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2022-04-20
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The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies represents more than a century of scholarship related to the theology, history, and methodology of the propagation of Christian faith and the engagement of Christians with cultures, religions, and societies worldwide. It contains...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-18
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The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies represents more than a century of scholarship related to the theology, history, and methodology of the propagation of Christian faith and the engagement of Christians with cultures, religions, and societies worldwide. It contains...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-18
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Environmental issues are an ever-increasing focus of public discourse and have proved concerning to religious groups as well as society more widely. Among biblical scholars, criticism of the Judeo-Christian tradition for its part in the worsening crisis has led to a...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-04-15
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Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands brings into conversation the distinct fields of tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis) studies and women's studies by exploring significant shifts in modern Qur'anic commentaries on the subject of women. Hadia Mubarak places three of the most...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-15
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Der Tafsir des tunesischen Gelehrten Ibn ?Ašur ist einer der meistgelesenen Korankommentare, die im 20. Jahrhundert verfasst wurden. In diesem dreißigbändigen Werk wird versucht, eine Verbindung zwischen traditionellen islamischen Wissenschaften und den geistigen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-04-13
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Christianity is often assumed to be pro-capitalist and socially conservative – in short, necessarily aligned with the political Right. But can this be straightforwardly true of a religion founded by a figure who drew his early followers from among the poor and...
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Polity
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2022-04-13
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A unique and incisive exploration of the place and nature of friendship in both its personal and civic dimensions In Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities:A Practical Theology of Friendship, distinguished theological researcher Anne-Marie Ellithorpe delivers a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-04-13
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Drawing insights from gender studies and the environmental humanities, Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture analyzes how ancient Christians constructed the Christian body through its relations to demonic adversaries. Through case studies of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-12
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