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Origen is frequently hailed as the most important Christian writer of his period (c.185-c.255 AD), and the first systematic theologian.Origen and Prophecy: Fate, Authority, Allegory, and the Structure of Scripture examines whether there was a system to Origen's thinking...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-09-24
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Target exam success with My Revision Notes. Our updated approach to revision will help students learn, practise and apply their skills and understanding. Coverage of key content is combined with practical study tips and effective revision strategies to create a revision...
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Hodder Education
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2021-09-24
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Covenant and the Jewish Conversion Question reevaluates conversion and Jewish identity through the lens of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s dual conception of the Covenants of Fate and Destiny. By studying an array of key rabbinic texts through this lens, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-24
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This book addresses the different forms that religious belief can take. Two primary forms are discussed: propositional or doctrinal belief, and belief in God. Religious belief in God, whose affective content is trust in God, it is seen, opens for believers a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-23
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This book ventures to describe Augustine of Hippo's understanding of demons, including the theology, angelology, and anthropology that contextualize it. Demons are, for Augustine as for the Psalmist (95:5 LXX) and the Apostle (1 Cor 10:20), the "gods of the nations."...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-09-23
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The study of religion by the humanities and social sciences has become receptive for an evolutionary perspective. Some proposals model the evolution of religion in Darwinian terms, or construct a synergy between biological and non-Darwinian processes.The results,...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-22
Collection :
New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion
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This book provides a unique Pakistani perspective and understanding of a region that has not been studied extensively to date. Pakistan’s Frontier Region has been at the forefront of the War on Terror since 2001. The Federally Administered Tribal Agencies (now known as...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-09-22
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A beloved musician shares her heart-wrenching story about how an abusive relationship helped her realize the importance of gaining freedom, letting go of expectations, and embracing the beautiful reality of who you already are. Unspoken expectations surround us. In...
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Worthy Books
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2021-09-21
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Say the words “evangelical worship” to anyone in the United States -- even if they are not particularly religious -- and a picture will likely spring to mind unbidden: a mass of white, middle-class worshippers with eyes closed, faces tilted upward, and hands raised to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-17
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The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore drinks and styles of drinking, as well as rationales for abstinence from the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-17
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This book presents a theological and missiological argument for pentecostals to engage more forcefully in higher education by expanding and renewing their commitment toward operating their own colleges and universities. The volume’s first part describes past and present...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-16
Collection :
Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies
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'This journey, of course, is not without its challenges . . . And yet facing those challenges also lends enchantment to the journey.' Join Professor Roderick Strange as he presents the core doctrine of the Catholic faith in a warm and accessible way. Using the...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2021-09-16
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Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination explores the role of biblical imagery in modernity through the lens ofGustave Doré (1832-83), whose work is among the most reproduced and adapted scriptural imagery in the history of Judeo-Christianity. First published in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-14
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In seinem Traktat de fuga in persecutione bezieht der frühchristliche Theologe Tertullian v. Karthago (ca. 160–220 n. Chr.) Stellung zur Frage, ob es für Christen erlaubt sei, in der Verfolgung zu fliehen. Seine ebenso von der klassischen Rhetorik wie der stoischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-09-10
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Discover the essence of the Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit and what it has contributed to societies across the ages In Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit, author and expert, Bruce B. Lawrence, delivers a spiritual elan filtered through cultural practices and artefacts....
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-09-08
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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This book intends to analyze Reinhold Niebuhr's understanding of the state in his Christian Realism. Although his overall notion was thoroughly analyzed in different disciplines and respects, this specific focus can be diagnosed as a lacuna. The task of this book is to...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-09-02
Collection :
Staat – Souveränität – Nation
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Military defeat, political and civil turmoil, and a growing unrest between Catholic traditionalists and increasingly secular Republicans formed the basis of a deep-seated identity crisis in Third Republic France. Beginning in the early 1880s, Republican politicians...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-01
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This innovative book challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the place of religion in Victorian society and in London, the world's first great industrial and commercial metropolis. Against the background of Victorian London it explores the religiosity of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-01
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This innovative book challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the place of religion in Victorian society and in London, the world's first great industrial and commercial metropolis. Against the background of Victorian London it explores the religiosity of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-01
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