The Saudi "ulama" are known for their strong opposition to Shi'a theology, Shi'a communities in Saudi Arabia, and external Shi'a influences such as Iran and Hezbollah. Their potent hostility, combined with the influence of the 'ulama' within the Saudi state and the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-03-07
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Der Autor geht in vier Studien der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit des Kirchenhistorikers Franz Overbeck nach. Unter Verwendung unveröffentlichter Vorlesungen rekonstruiert er Overbecks Arbeit am Konzept einer altchristlichen Literaturgeschichte sowie an der...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2016-03-04
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Ausgangspunkt dieses Buches ist die seit Jahrzehnten im öffentlichen Sachenrecht umstrittene Frage, ob eine Widmung dingliche Rechtsfolgen auslöst. Trotz der gegenläufigen Entscheidung im Hamburger Stadtsiegelfall sind in der Rechtsprechung im Falle widmungswidriger...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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Central to the lives of the religiously committed are not simply religious convictions but also religious practices. The religiously committed, for example, regularly assemble to engage in religious rites, including corporate liturgical worship. Although the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-03-03
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Central to the lives of the religiously committed are not simply religious convictions but also religious practices. The religiously committed, for example, regularly assemble to engage in religious rites, including corporate liturgical worship. Although the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
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In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, 'selfless love' can appear as a threat to the lover's personal well-being. This perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it and therefore calls for a theological response.In...

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In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, 'selfless love' can appear as a threat to the lover's personal well-being. This perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it and therefore calls for a theological response.In...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
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Endorsed in its time by Francis Scott Key, John Jay, and Theodore Roosevelt, the American Bible Society (ABS) is a seminal institution for American Protestants. The group was founded in 1816 with the goal of distributing free copies of the Bible in local languages...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
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The cognitive science of religion has shown that abstract religious concepts within many established religious traditions often fail to correspond to the beliefs of the vast majority of those religions' adherents. And yet, while the cognitive approach to religion has...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-03-01
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To the dismay of religious leaders, study after study has shown a steady decline in affiliation and identification with traditional religions in America. By 2014, more than twenty percent of adults identified as unaffiliated--up more than seven percent just since 2007....

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Paul and the Gentile Problem provides a new explanation for the apostle Paul's statements about the Jewish law in his letters to the Romans and Galatians. Paul's arguments against circumcision and the law in Romans 2 and his reading of Genesis 15-21 in Galatians 4:21-31...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
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John Owen was a leading theologian in seventeenth-century England. Closely associated with the regicide and revolution, he befriended Oliver Cromwell, was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, and became the premier religious statesman of the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-02-29
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The School of Antioch: Biblical Theology and the Church in Syria contains the latest conclusions and findings of academic research by specialized biblical scholars in biblical theology of the Church in the East commonly referred to as the School of Antioch. This...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2016-02-26
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How the Light Gets In: Ethical Life I presents a systematic account of the teachings of the Christian faith to offer a vision, from a human, created, and limited perspective, of the ways all things might be understood from the divine perspective. It explores how...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-02-26
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Preparing for her husband's retirement from his parish, Michele Guinness, author of The Guinness Legend, decided to clear out the attic and in doing so rediscovered a trunk of letters, diaries, journals and notebooks, over one hundred years old, belonging to Grace...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2016-02-25
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How the Light Gets In: Ethical Life I presents a systematic account of the teachings of the Christian faith to offer a vision, from a human, created, and limited perspective, of the ways all things might be understood from the divine perspective. It explores how...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-02-25
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Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott offers a succinct and authoritative overview of this major religion, and analyses the challenges facing it...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-02-25
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Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott offers a succinct and authoritative overview of this major religion, and analyses the challenges facing it...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-02-25
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Latin is the language in which the New Testament was copied, read, and studied for over a millennium. The remains of the initial 'Old Latin' version preserve important testimony for early forms of text and the way in which the Bible was understood by the first...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-02-25
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Latin is the language in which the New Testament was...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-02-25
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