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From Jesus to the Internet examines Christianity as a mediated phenomenon, paying particular attention to how various forms of media have influenced and developed the Christian tradition over the centuries. It is the first systematic survey of this topic and the author...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-03-16
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Das Buch schildert den Kampf zwischen der katholischen Aufklärung und dem Ultramontanismus um die Haltung der Kirche zum Wallfahrtswesen, einer beliebten Form der Volksfrömmigkeit. Während der Kölner Erzbischof Spiegel (1825–1835) Wallfahrtsprozessionen mit staatlicher...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-16
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How and when did Jesus and the Spirit come to be regarded as fully God? The Birth of the Trinity offers a new historical approach by exploring the way in which first- and second-century Christians read the Old Testament in order to differentiate the one God as multiple...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-12
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How and when did Jesus and the Spirit come to be regarded as fully God? The Birth of the Trinity offers a new historical approach by exploring the way in which first- and second-century Christians read the Old Testament in order to differentiate the one God as multiple...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-12
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In this fascinating historical and cultural biography, writer and broadcaster Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot, who famously betrayed Jesus with a kiss. Beginning with the gospel accounts, Peter explores two thousand...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-03-12
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This book adds new impetus to ecumenical theology by focusing on embodied faith or the contextual interpretation of Revelation. It does so through an exploration of the insights of Lewis S. Mudge and Joseph Ratzinger. Mudge advocates catholicity as a hermeneutic which...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-09
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Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality, showing how a contest within Protestantism reshaped American political culture and led to the creation of an enduring religious nationalism.
Following...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-04
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Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power. A by-product of the ascetic path, power is displayed in the ability to fly, walk on water or through dense objects, read minds, discern the former lives of others, see...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-03
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury delivers a collection of powerful stories which explore adoption from the perspectives of those who have experienced it from all sides. Inspiring and comforting, the greatest gift of these stories is in the...
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FaithWords
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2015-03-03
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Catholic priest and radical social critic Ivan Illich is best known for books like Deschooling Society and Medical Nemesis that skewered the dominant institutions of the West in the 1970s. Although commissioned in 1961 by American bishops to run a missionary training...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-02
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Winner of the 2015 Saddleback Selection Award from the Historical Society of The United Methodist Church
During the nineteenth century, camp meetings became a signature program of American Methodists and an extraordinary engine for their remarkable evangelistic...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-03-02
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Zwar schreitet die Säkularisierung in Europa voran, aber der Prozess einer Re-Spiritualisierung gewinnt an Fahrt. Fragen, die unsere Gesellschaft unabhängig von konfessionellen Bindungen bewegen, lauten: Worauf können wir uns verlassen? Was sind Werte, die wirklich...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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This book, the second of three volumes dedicated to Professor Paul Nadim Tarazi, includes contemporary essays on the New Testament. The topics offer a rich array of exegetical studies related to the life and teachings of Jesus and the apostle Paul. Coming from America,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-03-02
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Analysis of inner-biblical exegesis ordinarily involves examination of the intertextual relationship between two texts within the biblical corpus. But in many cases there is an often overlooked intertext that serves as a bridge between the two texts. Such an...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-03-02
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Sanskrit Debate: Vasubandhu’s ‘Vimsatika’ versus Kumarila’s ‘Niralambanavada’ illustrates the rules and regulations of classical Indian debate literature (pramanasastra) by introducing new translations of twoSanskrit texts composed in antithesis to each other’s...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-03-02
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Spiritual guidance is the serious business of Mount Athos, the principal service that the Fathers offer to each other and to the world. Athonites have been purveyors of spiritual guidance for more than a thousand years in a tradition that goes back to the fourth-century...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-02
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The internet may be a utopia for free expression, but it also harbours nihilistic groups and individuals spreading bizarre creeds, unhindered by the risk-averse gatekeepers of the mass media -- and not all are as harmless as the Virtual Church of the Blind Chihuahua or...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-28
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In Jesus and the Chaos of History, James Crossley looks at the way the earliest traditions about Jesus interacted with a context of social upheaval and the ways in which this historical chaos of the early first century led to a range of ideas which were taken up,...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-02-27
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First published in 2008, Donna Freitas's Sex and the Soul revealed what college students -- at institutions large and small, public and private, secular, Catholic, and evangelical -- really think about sex, dating, religion, and spirituality. Based on face-to-face...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-02-27
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Now available in a fully-revised and updated new edition, this popular textbook by one of the world?s leading theologians offers a lively, jargon-free introduction to Christianity. Features a wealth of new material on global Christianity, American Christianity, the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-02-27
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