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The historical involvement of Jews in the political Left is well known, but far less attention has been paid to the political and ideological factors which attracted Jews to the Left. After the Holocaust and the creation of Israel many lost their faith in universalistic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-05-20
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Dieses Buch widmet sich dem einen Grundthema der biblischen Überlieferung: dem Bund. Es setzt sich aus Aufsätzen, Vorträgen und Seminarberichten, freien Reflexionen und einer Reihe von exegetischen Einzelstudien zusammen. Damit soll der Aussicht auf eine Erneuerung der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-20
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints renounced the practice of plural marriage in 1890. In the mid- to late nineteenth century, however--the heyday of Mormon polygamy--as many as three out of every ten Mormon women became polygamous wives. Paula Kelly Harline...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-19
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The writings of theologians Thierry of Chartres (d. 1157) and Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464) represent a lost history of momentous encounters between Christianity and Pythagorean ideas before the Renaissance. Their robust Christian Neopythagoreanism reconceived the Trinity...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-16
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This book is an examination of natural law doctrine, rooted in the classical writings of our respective three traditions: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic. Each of the authors provides an extensive essay reflecting on natural law doctrine in his tradition. Each of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-05-16
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Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism argues that the eighteenth-century Methodist revival participated in and was produced by a rich textual culture that includes both pro- and anti-Methodist texts; and that Methodism be understood and approached as a rhetorical...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-05-15
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This book is an examination of natural law doctrine, rooted in the classical writings of our respective three traditions: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic. Each of the authors provides an extensive essay reflecting on natural law doctrine in his tradition. Each of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-05-15
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«Die Studie bietet im Kern eine Untersuchung zu Dietrich Bonhoeffers Doktor-arbeit Sanctorum Communio. Eine dogmatische Untersuchung zur Soziologie der Kirche. Sie konzentriert sich dabei zunächst auf die sozialphilosophischen und soziologischen Ansätze zur Analyse der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-13
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Why go to church? What happens in church and why does it matter? The Empty Church presents fresh answers to these questions by creating an interdisciplinary conversation between theater directors and Christian theologians.
This original study expands church beyond the...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-09
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Aquinas and Calvin on Romans is a comparative study of John Calvin's and Thomas Aquinas's commentaries on the first eight chapters of Paul's letter to the Romans. Focusing on the role of human participation in God's work of salvation, Charles Raith argues that Calvin's...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-05-08
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Being a man of God is not easy in today's world. There are many distorted ideas and images being presented by contemporary culture, and even by men's families, that don't line up with the Word of God. Consequently many men are confused about their true identity and at a...
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FaithWords
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2014-05-06
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Tap into your God-given intuition and start achieving ultimate success with this inspiring #1 New York Times bestseller from Bishop T.D. Jakes.If you have ever felt misaligned, this book is for you. If you have lost the rhythm, the passion, or the thrill of living in...
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FaithWords
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2014-05-06
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"Forgive one another lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices." 2 Corinthians 2:11Today's Christians are largely ignorant of Satan's evil. It's why multitudes of Christians are tormented with fears, bound by addictions and sins, and...
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FaithWords
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2014-05-06
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Recently, voices were raised in the worldwide Christian ecumenical movement that it was high time the Protestant-Catholic fundamental topic «Holy Scripture and Tradition» was approached and ecumenically reviewed. In Germany, this has already been achieved by the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-05
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Francis’s forma vitae for the Fratres Minores, the original rule for the Franciscan Order, was meant to establish peace and equality among people who worked together in a community, yet each using his own particular talent: an ideal that had a short life. AtFrancis’s...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-05-05
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This book is a study of contemporary Buddhist-Christian encounter in Thailand. Case studies, which include a Buddhist nationalist group, a charismatic church movement, and a village community, describe the variety and nature of Buddhist-Christian relations. Arising...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-05
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We are haunted, Samuel Kimbriel suggests, by a habit of isolation buried, often imperceptibly, within our practices of understanding and relating to the world. In Friendship as Sacred Knowing, Kimbriel works through the complexities of this disposition to contest its...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-01
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A number of passages in the Qur'an criticize Jews and Christians, from claims of exclusive salvation and charges of Jewish and Christian falsification of revelation to cautions against the taking of Jews and Christians as patrons, allies, or intimates. Mun'im Sirry...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-01
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Ma Anandamayi is generally regarded as the most important Hindu woman saint of the twentieth century. Venerated alternately as a guru and as an incarnation of God on earth,Ma had hundreds of thousands of devotees. Through the creation of a religious movement and a vast...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-01
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In recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world.In Islam, martyrdom is mostly conceived as "bearing witness" to faith and God. Martyrdom is also central to the Christian...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-05-01
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