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Is power the essence of divinity, or are divine powers distinct from divine essence? Are they divine hypostases or are they divine attributes? Are powers such as omnipotence, omniscience, etc. modes of divine activity? How do they manifest? In which way can we apprehend...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-26
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Is power the essence of divinity, or are divine powers distinct from divine essence? Are they divine hypostases or are they divine attributes? Are powers such as omnipotence, omniscience, etc. modes of divine activity? How do they manifest? In which way can we apprehend...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-26
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
With the rise of Christianity in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-26
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This book traces the historical phenomenon of “the Jew as Legitimation.” Contributors discuss how Jews have been used, through time, to validate non-Jewish beliefs. The volume dissects the dilemmas and challenges this pattern has presented to Jews.Throughout history,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This work analyzes the history of the application of Islamic law (Shari`ah) in Nigeria. It analyzes how Islamic law emerged in Nigeria toward the beginning of the 19th century and remained applicable until the arrival of the British Colonial regime in Northern Nigeria...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This volume examines mystical experiences as portrayed in various ways by “authors” such as philosophers, mystics, psychoanalysts, writers, and peasant women. These “mystical authors” have, throughout the ages, attempted to convey the unsayable through writings,...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-01-19
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Hegel's analysis of his culture identifies nihilistic tendencies in modernity i.e., the death of God and end of philosophy. Philosophy and religion have both become hollowed out to such an extent that traditional disputes between faith and reason become impossible...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-19
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Hegel's analysis of his culture identifies nihilistic tendencies in modernity i.e., the death of God and end of philosophy. Philosophy and religion have both become hollowed out to such an extent that traditional disputes between faith and reason become impossible...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-19
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Humanism and the Death of God is a critical exploration of secular humanism and its discontents. Through close readings of three exemplary nineteenth-century philosophical naturalists or materialists, who perhaps more than anyone set the stage for our contemporary...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-19
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Humanism and the Death of God is a critical exploration of secular humanism and its discontents. Through close readings of three exemplary nineteenth-century philosophical naturalists or materialists, who perhaps more than anyone set the stage for our contemporary...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-01-19
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This study confronts the current crisis of churches. In critical and creative conversation with the German theologian Ernst Troeltsch (1865-1923), Ulrich Schmiedel argues that churches need to be “elasticized” in order to engage the “other.” Examining contested concepts...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-17
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Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue
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The King James Bible has been a sacred and cultural icon of the English-speaking world since it was first published in 1611.The Kàroli Bible has played a similarly iconic role for Hungarians as the King James Bible has for the British.The selection of the papers offered...
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Editions L'Harmattan
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2017-01-15
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Collection Karoli
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I Synonyma di Isidoro di Siviglia (ca. 562–636), un dialogo in due libri tra Homo e Ratio, godettero di vastissima fortuna dalla loro composizione fino almeno al XVI secolo. Il dialogo è infatti composto nel peculiare stilus isidorianus – una prosa ritmata e rimata – e...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-12
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The Papacy and the Orthodox examines the centuries-long debate over the primacy and authority of the Bishop of Rome, especially in relation to the Christian East, and offers a comprehensive history of the debate and its underlying theological issues.
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Oxford University Press
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2017-01-12
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This book is an investigative study of Christian and Islamic relations in the kingdom of Sicily during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. It has three objectives. First, it establishes how and why the Norman rulers of Sicily, all of whom were Christians,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-11
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Home to the largest Muslim minorities in Western Europe and Asia, France and India are both grappling with crises of secularism. In Politicizing Islam, Fareen Parvez offers an in-depth look at how Muslims have responded to these crises, focusing on Islamic revival...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-01-11
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Based in New Zealand, the author, an Anglican priest, made a number of pilgrimages 1995–2008 to the extermination (and other camp) sites of the Third Reich, 1933–45. These find expression in Diary entries that describe the sites as they now are and scope the problems...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-01-11
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The fourth volume of the «Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology: Vocations, Social Identities, Spirituality: Phenomenological Perspectives» presents variety of contemporary authors who explore the problem of vocation and closely related phenomena of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-01-10
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Die Studie stellt einen direkten Vergleich zwischen der Scholastik und der byzantinischen Philosophie und Theologie dar. Sie stellt Lehren der Philosophie und Theologie des Hoch- und Spätmittelalters einander gegenüber und bespricht diese in kritischer, jedenfalls nicht...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-01-04
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The author examines three 20th/21st century Muslims' accounts of reading the Quran. To master contemporary social challenges, Fazlur Rahman (d. 1988), Muhammad Arkoun (d. 2010), and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (d. 2010) call for revisiting the Islamic heritage, plus a fresh...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-04
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