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Comedy is both relative, linked to a time and culture, and universal, found pervasively across time and culture. The Hebrew Bible contains comedy of this relative, yet universal nature. Melissa A. Jackson engages the Hebrew Bible via a comic reading and brings that...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-26
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Während in den ersten beiden Teilen des Werkes die kirchliche und staatliche Wallfahrtspolitik nachgezeichnet wurde, geht es im dritten Teil um die jeweilige Rolle und das wechselseitige Verhältnis der beiden unmittelbar involvierten ‘Basisakteure’, des Pfarrklerus und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-24
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Faith, Rationality and the Passions presents a fresh and original examination of the relation of religious faith, philosophical rationality and the passions. Contributions see leading scholars refute the widely-held belief that religious Enlightenment forced passion and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-07-20
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Directions in Modern Theology
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Die Entwicklung der zeitgenössischen Philosophie ist durch Hegels Denken entscheidend beeinflusst worden.Die Gründe für seine andauernde Aktualität aber sind selten verstanden worden. Im Gegensatz zu vielen Hegel-Interpreten wird hier der «absolute Idealismus» als das...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-20
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In THE SIXTY MINUTE MOTHER Rob Parsons turns his warm wisdom and wit to the subject of motherhood. Talking to a variety of mothers, including Dianne Parsons, from all backgrounds and situations (working, lone, home-based, mothers of babies, teenagers, adopted kids and...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-07-19
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The Bible challenges God's children to reach out to others and to seek their Heavenly Father. We see this in Isaiah's teaching and the courageous life of Daniel, as we consider the theme 'Living Our Faith'. Also, through a study of the minor prophets, the importance of...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-07-19
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The #1 testimony book that every Christian needs to read. Despite the danger and threat of discovery, the ten Boom family courageously offered shelter to persecuted Jews during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Then a trap brought about the family's arrest. Could God's...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-07-19
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The differing beliefs that emerged between Christianity and Judaism, especially in the first two centuries AD, were mainly caused by the introduction of heavenly beings in the Jewish religion. This resulted in the predominance of a messiah, who will be sent by God as...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-19
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Anhand der Geburt Jesu durch die Jungfrau Maria werden die in der Zeitenwende in Palästina vorhandenen Geisteshaltungen dargestellt und die in den letzten vorchristlichen Jahrhunderten aufgetretenen deuteronomistischen, weisheitlichen, apokalyptischen und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-19
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Kabbalah and Postmodernism: A Dialogue challenges certain long-held philosophical and theological beliefs, including the assumptions that the insights of mystical experience are unavailable to human reason and inexpressible in linguistic terms, that the God of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-07-18
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In der heutigen krisenhaften Situation wird mit dem Begriff «Integrales Bewusstsein» eine neue Möglichkeit für das Individuum und die Gesellschaft eröffnet. Die Herkunft dieses Begriffs aus dem Werk des Kulturanthropologen Jean Gebser wird aufgezeigt und dessen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-18
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Scholars of Daoism in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) have paid particular attention to the interaction between the court and certain Daoist priests and to the political results of such interaction; the focus has been on either emperors or Daoist masters. Yet in the Ming...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-07-16
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The seventeenth century was the century of Saint Augustine. In 1695, Louis Sébastien, Le Nain de Tillemont, finished volume 13 of his Mémoires ecclésiastique, entitled La vie de saint Augustin.The volume consisted of approximately 1200 pages wherein Louis Sébastien...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-07-11
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The lectures collected for this book focus on transpersonal expression – heightened states of feeling, emotion, and deeper regions of the psyche, from the Paleolithic (so-called rock art), to the medieval (Solomon Ibn Gabirol), to the modern (Rilke), and postmodern...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-07-11
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Reiko Ohnuma offers a wide-ranging exploration of the complex role of maternal imagery and discourse in pre-modern South Asian Buddhism. Motherhood was sometimes extolled as the most appropriate symbol for buddhahood itself, and sometimes denigrated as the most...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-07-11
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In the wake of the Holocaust, a number of influential scholars argue for a «bi-covenantal» or «two-covenant» approach to Paul’s view of Israel and the Gentiles. They maintain that Israel has always been right with God apart from Jesus Christ, and that the death of Jesus...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-09
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Calvin’s Theodicy has been substantially ignored or simply negated until now on the assumption that the issues raised by the modern problem of evil andCalvin’s discussion of providence and evil would be different. The unspoken premise underlying this conviction is that...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-07-05
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In Debating the Saints' Cults in the Age of Gregory the Great, Dal Santo argues that the Dialogues, Pope Gregory the Great's most controversial work, should be considered from the perspective of a wide-ranging debate about the saints which took place in early Byzantine...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-05
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Well-Mannered Medicine explores the moral discourses on the practice of medicine in the foundational texts of Ayurveda. The classical ayurvedic treatises were composed in Sanskrit between the first and the seventh centuries CE, and later works, dating into the sixteenth...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-07-03
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In this groundbreaking study, James P. Hering investigates the theological and ethical motivation that informs the controversial New Testament household codes (Haustafeln) found in the epistles to the Colossians (3:18-4:1) and Ephesians (5:22-6:9). Within most New...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-07-03
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