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This book provides a full, contextual study of St Irenaeus of Lyons, the first great theologian of the Christian tradition. John Behr sets Irenaeus both within his own context of the second century, a fundamental period for the formation of Christian identity,...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-26
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Elisha's Profile in the Book of Kings uses the tools of literary criticism to read the Elisha narrative as an integral component of the Deuteronomistic History compiled in the aftermath of the Babylonian invasion and destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.
From his...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-25
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As discussed in The Da Vinci Code... Long buried and suppressed, the Gnostic Gospels contain the secret writings attributed to the followers of Jesus.In 1945 fifty-two papyrus texts, including gospels and other secret documents, were found concealed in an earthenware...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2013-07-25
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Heidegger's Eschatology is a ground-breaking account ofHeidegger's early engagement with theology, from his beginnings as an anti-Modernist Catholic to his turn towards an undogmatic Protestantism and finally to a resolutely a-theistic philosophical method. The book...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-25
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This book aims to create a Christian theology of wisdom for the present day, in discussion with two sets of conversation-partners. The first are writers of the 'wisdom literature' in ancient Israel and the Jewish community in Alexandria. Here, special attention is given...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-25
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This book brings together prominent voices from the global North and South to present brief analyses of liberation theology's future. It includes leaders in the field along with the newest voices. Each of these pieces was presented in the American Academy of Religion in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-07-24
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.... compares two theories—Naturalism and Theism—on a wide range of relevant data. It concludes that Naturalism should be preferred to Theism on that data. The central idea behind the argument is that, while Naturalism is simpler than Theism, there is no relevant data...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2013-07-23
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The Gospels are full of encounters that made a profound impact on those who spoke with Jesus Christ. In the first essay of his new series, Timothy Keller, pastor of New York's Redeemer Presbyterian Church and New York Times-bestselling author ofThe Reason for God, shows...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2013-07-18
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The Gospels are full of encounters that made a profound impact on those who spoke with Jesus Christ. In the second essay of his new series, Timothy Keller, pastor of New York's Redeemer Presbyterian Church and New York Times-bestselling author ofThe Reason for God,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2013-07-18
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The way which society conceives of power in the twenty-first century determines how it approaches future issues. Placing the twentieth-century French philosopher Michel Foucault into critical conjunction with the apostle Paul, Fuggle re-evaluates the way in which power...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-07-17
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When Rob Strong tells people he's a pastor in Massachusetts--"the least churched state in the USA"--it sometimes stops them in their tracks, but Strong never lets his faith bar him from doing what matters most: building sincere relationships with people as, together,...
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Jericho Books
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2013-07-16
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Der vorliegende Band der Zeitschrift Morgen-Glantz (23/2013) enthält die überarbeitete Fassung der Vorträge, die bei der 22. Tagung der Christian Knorr von Rosenroth-Gesellschaft vom 29.–30. Juni 2012 in Sulzbach-Rosenberg gehalten wurden. Thema der Tagung war:...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-15
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David Weiss Halivni's The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud, originally published in Hebrew and here translated by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, is widely regarded as the most comprehensive scholarly examination of the processes of composition and editing of the Babylonian...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-07-15
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This book is a major contribution to the sociology of religion and to religious and biblical studies. Beginning from the classic work of Max Weber, the author analyses the origins of Judaism in the light of more recent scholarship. The result is a work that will become...
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Polity
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2013-07-12
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This book analyses religious identity transformations through inter-religious relations. It aims to highlight the link between religious discourse and social cohesion, or the lack of such a link, and ultimately seeks to contribute to the dominant discourse on...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-09
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This book is an attempt to reveal the advantages and disadvantages rendered in the ongoing dialogue between Orthodoxy and modernity, by way of Thermos’s discussions of the complex interaction between Orthodox pastoral theology and psychoanalysis. The author seeks to...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-09
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Feeding the Dead outlines the early history of ancestor worship in South Asia, from the earliest sources available, the Vedas, up to the descriptions found in the Dharmshastra tradition. Most prior works on ancestor worship have done little to address the question of...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-07-08
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This study aims to understand how the nineteenth-century African agent of mission appropriated change without losing cultural integrity. Drawing essentially from the contexts that produced the man, from Sierra Leone to the Yoruba country, the study shows Samuel Johnson...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-08
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How did people think about listening in the ancient world, and what evidence do we have of it in practice? The Christian faith came to the illiterate majority in the early Church through their ears. This proved problematic: the senses and the body had long been held in...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-05
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The Victorian novel acquired greater cultural centrality just as the authority of the scriptures and of traditional religious teaching seemed to be declining. Did the novel supplant the Bible?The novelists often adopted or participated in a broadly progressive narrative...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-05
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