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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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This book examines the academic legacy of the Han dynasty. It explicates the line between the explaining of a classical text (??) and the study of classical texts and their interpretation (???). The study of hermeneutics was developed already, including the Chinese...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-05-20
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 : 2025-05-19
Format(s) : PDF
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This book brings to light an extraordinary connection between Jesus of Nazareth and the Jewish historian Josephus. Writing in 93/94 CE, Josephus composed an account of Jesus known as the Testimonium Flavianum. Despite this being the oldest description of Jesus by a...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-05-19
Format(s) : PDF
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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 : 2025-05-16
Format(s) : ePub
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What can early Jewish courtroom narratives tell us about the capacity and limits of human justice? By exploring how judges and the act of judging are depicted in these narratives, Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice challenges the prevailing...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-05-15
Format(s) : ePub
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