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The most forceful philosophical objections to belief in God arise from the existence of evil. Bad things happen in the world and it is not clear how this is compatible with the existence of an all-powerful and perfectly loving being. Unsurprisingly then, philosophers...
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Polity
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2014-11-11
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Key Concepts in Philosophy
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If you could spend a few minutes with the giants of faith in the Old Testament in person, what lessons would they share with you? In Learning From the Giants John C. Maxwell draws on fifty years of studying the Bible to share the stories of Elijah, Elisha, Job, Jacob,...
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FaithWords
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2014-11-11
Collection :
Giants of the Bible
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A fully updated new edition of a critically acclaimed examination of the theories and writings of Richard Dawkins by a world-renowned expert on the relation of science and religion Includes in-depth analysis of Dawkins’ landmark treatise The God Delusion (2006), as...
Editeur :
Wiley
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2014-11-11
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Ethics in Ancient Israel is a study of ethical thinking in ancient Israel from around the eighth to the second century BC. The evidence for this consists primarily of the Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha, but also other ancient Jewish writings such as the Dead...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-11-07
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This text crafts a trinitarian theology that reorients theology from presumptions about the immateriality of the Trinity toward the places where the Trinity matters—material bodies in historical contexts and the intersecting ways political and theological power...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-06
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'"Can't anyone teach me how to pray?" Millions of people today are asking the same question. There is a sense of the necessity of prayer - we have to pray. But how?'Prayer is central to Christian faith; indeed, as Timothy Keller notes in his introduction, it is the main...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2014-11-06
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FOR FANS OF THE NATIVITY! FILMS: AN UNMISSABLY HUMOROUS COLLECTION OF POETRY AND PROSEFOR THE FESTIVE SEASON FROM BELOVED CHILDREN'S AUTHOR GERVASE PHINNNothing says Christmas like the school Nativity play. But what happens when it goes badly wrong?Drawing upon...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2014-11-06
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Philoxenos of Mabbug (c. 440-523) was a prolific late-antique theologian and polemicist who produced the largest literary corpus to have survived in Syriac. He earned a reputation as the leading Syriac opponent of the Council of Chalcedon (451) and its two-nature...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-11-06
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Ethics in Ancient Israel is a study of ethical thinking in ancient Israel from around the eighth to the second century BC. The evidence for this consists primarily of the Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha, but also other ancient Jewish writings such as the Dead...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-11-06
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Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the world's great spiritual writings, Belden C. Lane embarks on solitary spiritual treks through the Ozarks and across the American Southwest. For companions, he has only such teachers as Rumi, John of the Cross,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-11-03
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Islam has been part of the increasingly complex American religious scene for well over a century, and was brought into more dramatic focus by the attacks of September 11, 2001. AmericanIslam is practiced by a unique blend of immigrants and American-born Muslims. The...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-11-03
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"Fundamentalism" and "authoritarian secularism" are commonly perceived as the two mutually exclusive paradigms available to Muslim majority countries. Recent political developments, however, have challenged this perception. Formerly associated with a fundamentalist...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-11-03
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The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-1958 examines the most momentous years in papal history. Popes Benedict XV (1914-1922), Pius XI (1922-1939), and Pius XII (1939-1958) faced the challenges of two world wars and the Cold War, and threats posed by...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-31
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Winner of the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies from the American Academy of Religion
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1148 - 1210) wrote prolifically in the disciplines of theology, Quranic exegesis, and philosophy. He composed treatises on...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-10-31
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Many philosophers believe that God has been put to rest. Naturalism is the default position, and the naturalist can explain what needs to be explained without recourse to God. This book agrees that we should be naturalists, but it rejects the more prevalent scientific...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-31
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The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914-1958 examines the most momentous years in papal history. Popes Benedict XV (1914-1922), Pius XI (1922-1939), and Pius XII (1939-1958) faced the challenges of two world wars and the Cold War, and threats posed by...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-30
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William Perkins and the Making of Protestant England presents a new interpretation of the theology and historical significance ofWilliam Perkins (1558-1602), a prominent Cambridge scholar and teacher during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Though often described as a...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-10-30
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Contrary to the portrayals of Chrysostom as a theologically impaired, moralizing sophist, this book argues that his thinking is remarkably coherent when it is understood on his own terms and within his culture. Chrysostom depicts God as a teacher of philosophy who...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-10-30
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The 1662 Act of Uniformity and the consequent 'ejections' on 24th August (St. Bartholomew's Day) of those who refused to comply with its stringent conditions comprise perhaps the single most significant episode in post-Reformation English religious history. Intended, in...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-10-30
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For centuries, Muslim countries and Europe have engaged one another through theological dialogues, diplomatic missions, political rivalries, and power struggles. In the last thirty years, due in large part to globalization and migration from Islamic countries to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-30
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