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This book offers an introduction to the thought of Robert Holcot, a great and influential but often underappreciated medieval thinker. Holcot was a Dominican friar who flourished in the 1330's and produced a diverse body of work including scholastic treatises, biblical...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-01
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The world stands before a landmark date: October 31, 2017, the quincentennial of the Protestant Reformation. Countries, social movements, churches, universities, seminaries, and other institutions shaped by Protestantism face a daunting question: how should the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-01
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In the years since 1945, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has grown rapidly in terms of both numbers and public prominence. Mormonism is no longer merely a home-grown American religion, confined to the Intermountain West; instead, it has captured the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-01
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The thousand-year-old Sanskrit classic the Bhagavatapurana, or "Stories of the Lord," is the foundational source of narratives concerning the beloved Hindu deity Krishna. For centuries pious individuals, families, and community groups have engaged specialist...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-01
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The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. It began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India, the Sultanate of Delhi, was established at the end of the 12th century. This power...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-01
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The thirteenth-century Jewish mystical classic Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Splendor), commonly known as the Zohar, took shape against a backdrop of rising anti-Judaism in Spain. Mystical Resistance reveals that in addition to the Zohar's role as a theological...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-01
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Redeeming Gender argues that the problems about sexuality which continue to sap the churches' energies are really about gender. The dominant understanding of women's bodies in the Christian West has been that they are inferior versions of the superior male body. This...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-06-30
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The Evangelical Revival of the mid-eighteenth century was a major turning point in Protestant history. In England, Wesleyan Methodists became a separate denomination around 1795, and Welsh Calvinistic Methodists became independent of the Church of England in 1811. By...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-06-30
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Echoes of Enlightenment explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the recently discovered "liberation story" of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner Sönam Peldren.
Born in 1328, Sönam Peldren spent most of her adult life as a nomad...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-29
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The Stream provides the refreshing life-giving water that must begin to flow freely if we are to restore freedom and rebuild America before it's too late. Robison's focus for 2016 and beyond is the restoration of the Christian faith and the renewal of an America whose...
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Worthy Books
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2016-06-28
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The ABCs of Christianity is a concise summary of the fundamental principles of the religion of Jesus, presented so today's generation will understand the Bible and experience the gift of knowing God.Yes, this is Grandma's religion.The underpinnings are the same rock...
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FaithWords
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2016-06-28
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Redeeming Gender argues that the problems about sexuality which continue to sap the churches' energies are really about gender. The dominant understanding of women's bodies in the Christian West has been that they are inferior versions of the superior male body. This...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-06-27
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The Evangelical Revival of the mid-eighteenth century was a major turning point in Protestant history. In England, Wesleyan Methodists became a separate denomination around 1795, and Welsh Calvinistic Methodists became independent of the Church of England in 1811. By...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-06-24
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Die Garantie der unantastbaren Menschenwürde hat sich zu einer universalen ethischen und rechtlichen Norm herausgebildet. Sie wird jedoch in Abhängigkeit vom jeweiligen weltanschaulichen und religiösen Hintergrund unterschiedlich begründet. Diese Uneinheitlichkeit der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-16
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Historically, the relationship between religion and psychotherapy has been more negative than positive. Are there inherent contradictions between the two, or can advances in the area of mental health care offer insights that are useful for the work of those in ordained...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-16
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The year 2015 was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Brother Roger and the tenth anniversary of his death. As part of the celebrations during that year, an international colloquium brought together theologians and theology students to Taizé to address the issue:...
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Les Presses de Taizé
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2016-06-16
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If God knows human actions in advance, do humans really have freedom of choice? Throughout the centuries various solutions have been offered as to how to retain or reconcile both the concepts of divine omniscience and human freedom. One solution focuses on the idea of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-16
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J. I. Packer maintains that anyone who wants to know God will want to know as much as they can of what is in the Bible. For through it God reveals himself and his purpose to us; and in it we discover his fellowship and grace. Packer presents the case for reliability of...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2016-06-16
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In the hustle and bustle of today's busy world, sometimes it's hard enough to hear yourself think, much less take a minute to stop and listen for the voice of God. But learning to recognize God's voice and the many ways in which He speaks is vital for following His...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2016-06-16
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Religion is a racialized category, even when race is not explicitly mentioned. In Modern Religion, Modern Race Theodore Vial argues that because the categories of religion and race are rooted in the post-Enlightenment project of reimagining what it means to be human, we...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-06-16
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