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Christianity in Asia explores the history, development, and current state ofChristianity across the world’s largest and most populous continent. Offers detailed coverage of the growth ofChristianity within South Asia; among the thousands of islands comprising...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-11-02
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Guides to Global Christianity
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In Lev Shestov: Existential Philosopher and Religious Thinker, Michael Finkenthal explores the evolution of Lev Shestov’s philosophical and religious intellectual contributions. The hermeneutical effort is mainly based on the Shestovian oeuvre, but his thought is...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-11-01
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Here is an unprecedented collection of twenty freewheeling and revealing interviews with major players in the ongoing--and increasingly heated--debate about the relationship between religion and science. These lively conversations cover the most important and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-11-01
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Jennifer Rees Larcombe is well known for the calm grace she brings to even the hardest things, and her books celebrate God's goodness and care in the midst of tough times, as well as when all goes well. In this book she helps us to see how God is with us in good times...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2010-10-28
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What is agnosticism? Is it just the 'don't know' position on God, or is there more to it than this? Is it a belief, or merely the absence of belief? Who were the first to call themselves 'agnostics'?
These are just some of the questions that Robin Le Poidevin...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-10-28
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What is agnosticism? Is it just the 'don't know' position on God, or is there more to it than this? Is it a belief, or merely the absence of belief? Who were the first to call themselves 'agnostics'?
These are just some of the questions that Robin Le Poidevin...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-10-28
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This is a history of the King James Version of the Bible (known in Britain as the Authorised Version) over the four hundred years from its remote beginnings to the present day.
Gordon Campbell, expert in Renaissance literatures, tells the fascinating and complex story...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-10-28
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This is a history of the King James Version of the Bible (known in Britain as the Authorised Version) over the four hundred years from its remote beginnings to the present day.
Gordon Campbell, expert in Renaissance literatures, tells the fascinating and complex story...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-10-28
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Damascius was head of the Neoplatonist academy in Athens when the Emperor Justinian shut its doors forever in 529. His work, Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles, is the last surviving independent philosophical treatise from the Late Academy. Its survey of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-10-28
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An examination of the views on capitalism of bishops, academics and business people in the Church of England. Highlighting the richness and distinctiveness of these arguments, it also points to flaws and gaps. Offering a new framework for public theology, Poole urges...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-27
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Dealing with the historical and thematic intersections of Christianity and critical theory, this collection brings together a diversity of specialist scholars in the area. Building on recent discourses in theology as well as their knowledge of hermeneutic and critical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-27
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This book looks at a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarcerated African Americans to heartfelt disagreements over the true nature of marriage and the proper role of faith in public...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-25
Collection :
Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice
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This introduction presents Martin Luther as historians now see him. Instead of singling him out as a modern hero, the book emphasizes the context in which Luther worked, the colleagues who supported him, and the opponents who adamantly opposed his agenda for change.
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-10-21
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This introduction presents Martin Luther as historians now see him. Instead of singling him out as a modern hero, the book emphasizes the context in which Luther worked, the colleagues who supported him, and the opponents who adamantly opposed his agenda for change.
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-10-21
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Journalist and spiritual seeker Philip Yancey has always struggled with the most basic questions of the Christian faith. The question he tackles in What Good Is God? concerns the practical value of belief in God. His search for the answer to this question took him to...
Editeur :
FaithWords
Parution :
2010-10-19
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After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-18
Collection :
The New Middle Ages
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In The Moral World of James, James Riley Strange compares the moral system in the Epistle of James with other Greco-Roman and Judaic texts. The author of the epistle prescribed moral practices in a world in which other people, both pagan and Jewish, had long been...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2010-10-18
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Human beings necessarily understand their social worlds in moral terms, orienting their lives, relationships, and activities around socially-produced notions of right and wrong.
Morality is sociologically understood as more than simply helping or harming others; it...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-10-17
Collection :
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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Jack's father was one of the most successful entrepreneurs of his time - the only problem was that the old man had no time, no friends, and died early. The prospect of following in the family tradition seems less than appealing to Jack but on the first day of his MBA...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2010-10-17
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It is commonly thought in secular society that the Bible is one of the greatest hindrances to doing justice. Isn't it full of regressive views? Didn't it condone slavery? Why look to the Bible for guidance on how to have a more just society? But Timothy Keller, pastor...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2010-10-14
Collection :
Law, Justice and Power
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