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We men are so predictable. As a way of avoiding even the most remote possibility of authentic relationships, most of us are quick to form a complex web of surface-level friendships, an ever-expanding collection of "buddies." Yet we never manage to develop even...
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Worthy Books
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2013-04-01
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Western theology has long regarded 'Being' as a category pre-eminently applicable to God, the supreme Being who is also the source of all existence. This idea was challenged in the later philosophy of Martin Heidegger and identified with the position he called...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-29
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The father-daughter dyad features in the Hebrew Bible in all of narratives, laws, myths and metaphors. In previous explorations of this relationship, the tendency has been to focus on discrete stories - notable among them, Judges 11 (the story of Jephthah's human...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-28
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The relationship of the rabbis of Late Antique Palestine to their non-Jewish neighbors, rulers, and interlocutors was complex and often fraught. Jenny R. Labendz investigates the rabbis' self-perception and their self-fashioning within this non-Jewish social and...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-03-28
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This study reconstructs F.W.J. Schelling's philosophy of language based on a detailed reading of §73 of Schelling's lectures on the Philosophy of Art. Daniel Whistler argues that the concept of the symbol present in this lecture course, and elsewhere in Schelling's...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-28
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In diesem Buch wird Aufmerksamkeit dafür geweckt, dass der Mensch durchgängig hier und heute eine Weltverantwortung trägt. Ziel ist die weitergehende radikal humanisierende und sozial-nachhaltige Veränderung von Kultur und Zivilisation im Zeitalter der globalen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-03-28
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Many observers greeted the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) as the most important religious event in the twentieth century. Its implementation and impact are still being felt in the Catholic Church, the wider Christian world, and beyond. One sea change that Vatican II...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-28
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Drawing on two years of ethnographic field research among the Navajos, this book explores a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practice: ceremonial consumption of the psychedelic Peyote cactus in the context of an indigenous postcolonial healing...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-03-27
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Created by two of the field’s leading experts, this unique introduction to international religious demography outlines the challenges in interpreting data on religious adherence, and presents a contemporary portrait of global religious belief. Offers the first...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-03-25
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Narratives and Jewish Bioethics searches for answers to the critical question of what roles ancient narratives play in creating modern norms by Jewish bioethicists utilizing the Jewish textual tradition.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-03-19
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Content and Context in Theological Ethics
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Tying in to a nationwide joint campaign by the Evangelical Alliance and Care for the Family, Krish Kandiah wants us all to take seriously Jesus's call to 'suffer the little children' by engaging with the needs of the many thousands of children up and down the country...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2013-03-14
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John Wimber's first book, POWER EVANGELISM describes the releasing of God's power today through signs and wonders to refresh, renew, heal and equip his people. Drawing from the teaching of the New Testament, with illustrations from his own experience, Wimber persuades...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2013-03-14
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Drawing from new archival research, Pius IV and the Fall of the Carafa shows how the popes of the mid-sixteenth century sought to re-assert and project their authority over the Catholic Church during the first phase of the Counter-Reformation. Its narrative focus is the...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-14
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This comprehensive volume brings together a distinguished editorial team, including some of the field’s pioneers, to explore the aims, practice, and historical context of interfaith collaboration. Explores in full the background, history, objectives, and discourse...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-03-13
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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The enigma of Buddhism, and especially Tibetan Buddhism, has enchanted Westerners for centuries. Most of the papers in this volume were delivered at the ‘Pilgrims and Travellers in Search of the Holy’ international symposium convened at the University of Helsinki on 18...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-03-08
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This uniquely comprehensive reference work provides a global account of the history, expansion, diversity, and contemporary issues facing the Anglican Communion, the worldwide body that includes all followers of the Anglican faith. An insightful and wide-ranging...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-03-08
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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PresentationInnovative and concrete lighting.By commenting on certain parables of the New Testament, Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov unveils and illuminates, once again, many subjects: renewing the memory of our cells, the importance of love and wisdom, our dual nature, the...
Editeur :
Editions Prosveta
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2013-03-07
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Izvor (EN)
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With a diverse list of contributors, this volume seeks to discuss in depth some of the key issues that migration poses to World Christianity in the fields of constructive theology, ethics, spirituality, mission, ministry, inculturation, interreligious dialogue, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-06
Collection :
Christianities of the World
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Sayyid Qutb is widely considered the guiding intellectual of radical Islam, with a direct line connecting him to Osama bin Laden. But Qutb has too often been treated maliciously or reductively-"the Philosopher of Islamic Terror," as Paul Berman famously put it in the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-03-06
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