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Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Central Himalayan region of Kumaon, Tales of Justice and Rituals of Divine Embodiment draws on oral and written narratives, stories, testimonies, and rituals told and performed in relation to the "God of...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-12
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L'autore compie l’impresa di presentarci un «Gesù storico» sicuramente lontano da quello reso familiare dall’iconografia e dalla predicazione cristiana, ma perfettamente plausibile, benché delineato componendo un mosaico frammentario di cui l’autore è il primo a...
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Rosenberg & Sellier
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2016-05-12
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La critica sociale
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century, a lone pilgrim reached Gujarat and joined a small ashram in Loj. In time, his followers not only accepted him as the leader of the ashram but also as the manifestation of deity and called him Swaminarayan. His followers...
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OUP India
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2016-05-12
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From its inception what came to be known as the Oxford Movement was always intended to be more than just an abstruse dialogue about the theoretical nature of Anglicanism. Instead, it was meant to spread its ideas not only through college common rooms, but also bishop's...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-05-12
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The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto was one of the most widely read and disseminated Greek hagiographic texts during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. To this day it remains, alongside Athanasius' Life of Antony, one of the core primary sources for fourth-century...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-05-12
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Winner of the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise
Winner of the 2017 The George A. and Jean S. DeLong Book History Book Prize
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed a world of early Jewish writing larger than the Bible, from multiple...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-05
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Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and National Humanities Medalist Krista Tippett has interviewed the most extraordinary voices examining the great questions of meaning for our time. The heart of her work on her national public radio program and podcast, On Being, has...
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Corsair
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2016-05-05
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From Christian libertarian farmer Joel Salatin, a clarion call to readers to honor the animals and the land, and produce food based on spiritual principles.What on earth is The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs? It's an inspiring call to action for people of faith . . . a...
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FaithWords
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2016-05-03
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If we are to believe sensationalist media coverage, Satanism is, at its most benign, the purview of people who dress in black, adorn themselves with skull and pentagram paraphernalia, and listen to heavy metal. At its most sinister, its adherents are worshippers of evil...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-02
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The Book of Matthew cautions readers that "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." But for at least a century conservative American Protestants have been trying to prove that adage wrong. InThe Blessings of Business, Darren E. Grem argues that while preachers, activists, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-02
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This collection of critical essays and personal reflections explores the insights provided by official statements of the Roman Catholic Bishops of the Caribbean. In so doing, it presents a critical reading of the corpus with a view to presenting its relevance to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-30
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Content and Context in Theological Ethics
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The authentic spiritual quest is marked not by certainties but by questions and doubt. Mark Vernon who was a priest, and left an atheist explores the wonder of science, the ups and downs of being 'spiritual but not religious', the insights of ancient philosophy, and God...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-30
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Offering a theology of migration, Cruz reflects on the Christian vision of 'one bread, one body, one people' in view of the gifts and challenges of contemporary migration to Christian spirituality, mission, and inculturation and the need for reform of migration policies...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-30
Collection :
Content and Context in Theological Ethics
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Dialectical Democracy through Christian Thought offers an accessible yet theologically groundbreaking intervention into the battle over the role of government in the market. This book shows that the fight over policy involves a fundamental disagreement about who we are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-04-29
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In this thought-provoking study, Dan Lioy asserts that a Christocentric and Christotelic perspective is an unmistakable feature of Paul’s discourse. The journey begins with an analysis of the old Adamic creation in Genesis 1–3 before digressing into representative...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-04-29
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Das Bild des katholischen Priestertums hat sich seit Ende des II. Vatikanums 1965 verändert. Der Autor untersucht, ob der katholische Priester in einer sich wandelnden Gesellschaft seine Identität als Repraesentatio Christi, seine Aufgaben sowie seine Stellung in der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-29
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Der Wiederaufbau von in der NS-Zeit zerschlagenen Strukturen innerhalb der katholischen Kirche steht im Zentrum dieses Buches. Die Darstellung erfolgt sowohl auf gesamtösterreichischer Ebene als auch auf der Ebene einzelner Diözesen. Die Autoren berücksichtigen ebenso...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-04-29
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The rise of early Christianity has been examined from a myriad of perspectives, but until recently ritual has been a neglected topic. Ritual and Christian Beginnings: A Socio-Cognitive Analysis argues that ritual theory is indispensable for the study of Christian...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-04-29
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The rise of early Christianity has been examined from a myriad of perspectives, but until recently ritual has been a neglected topic. Ritual and Christian Beginnings: A Socio-Cognitive Analysis argues that ritual theory is indispensable for the study of Christian...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-04-28
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