In Honest Patriots, renowned public theologian and ethicist Donald W. Shriver, Jr. argues that we must acknowledge and repent of the morally negative events in our nation's past. The failure to do so skews the relations of many Americans to one another, breeds ongoing...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-09-04
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What sort of Bible did Augustine have? How did he quote from it - and was he accurate? Do Augustine's biblical citations transmit readings not found in any surviving manuscripts? This book is part of a major project on the Old Latin versions of the Gospel according to...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-09-04
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What sort of Bible did Augustine have? How did he quote from it - and was he accurate? Do Augustine's biblical citations transmit readings not found in any surviving manuscripts? This book is part of a major project on the Old Latin versions of the Gospel according to...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-09-04
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Rebecca St. James's messages of abstinence and modesty reflect her passionate love for Jesus and her commitment to living for Him.Rebecca does more than talk the talk -- she walks the walk. And in this daily devotional, she offers young women the encouragement they need...

Editeur : FaithWords
Parution : 2008-09-03
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In 680 C.E., a small band of the Prophet Muhammads family and their followers, led by his grandson, Husain, rose up in a rebellion against the ruling caliph, Yazid. The family and its supporters, hopelessly outnumbered, were massacred at Karbala, in modern-day Iraq. The...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-09-01
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Conservative evangelicalism has transformed American politics, disseminating a sometimes fearful message not just through conventional channels, but through subcultures and alternate modes of communication. Within this world is a "Religion of Fear," a critical impulse...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-08-29
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At its founding, the United States was one of the most religiously diverse places in the world. Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Quakers, Dutch Reformed, German Reformed, Lutherans, Huguenots, Dunkers, Jews, Moravians,...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-08-29
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How can we grasp the complex religious lives of individuals such as Peter, an ordained Protestant minister who has little attachment to any church but centers his highly committed religious practice on peace-and-justice activism? Or Hannah, a devout Jew whose rich...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-08-22
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The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs is a passionate yet analytical critique of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural fundamentalists. Schimmel examines the ways in which otherwise intelligent and bright Jews, Christians, and Muslims defend their belief in the divine...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-08-15
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Christ of the Celts "I explore the Celtic image ofChrist as the Memory of what we have forgotten. He remembers the dance of the universe and the harmony that is deep within all things. He is the Memory also of who we are." --from the Prelude "Diagnosing the human soul...

Editeur : Jossey-Bass
Parution : 2008-08-15
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Grow your faith and develop a positive attitude with Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen's inspiring advice about everyday living, happiness, and personal growth.Happy and fulfilled people make the most of new opportunities, live in the present, and expect great things...

Editeur : FaithWords
Parution : 2008-08-12
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St. Maximus the Confessor (580-662), was a major Byzantine thinker, a theologian and philosopher. He developed a philosophical theology in which the doctrine of God, creation, the cosmic order, and salvation is integrated in a unified conception of reality. Christ, the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-08-07
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St. Maximus the Confessor (580-662), was a major Byzantine thinker, a theologian and philosopher. He developed a philosophical theology in which the doctrine of God, creation, the cosmic order, and salvation is integrated in a unified conception of reality. Christ, the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-08-07
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The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang tells the saga of the seventh-century Chinese monk Xuanzang, one of China's great heroes, who completed an epic sixteen-year-long journey to discover the heart of Buddhism at its source in India. Eight centuries before Columbus, this...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2008-08-06
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The Jewish people's historical claims to a small area of land bordering the eastern Mediterranean are not only the foundation for the modern state of Israel, they are also at the very heart of Judeo-Christian belief. Yet inThe Mythic Past, Thomas Thompson argues that...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2008-08-05
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Celebrate motherhood and start living your full potential with seven eye-opening principles from Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen.In this great Mother's Day gift, #1 New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen revisits these seven core principles from Your Best Life...

Editeur : FaithWords
Parution : 2008-08-05
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Over the past few decades, there has been a dramatic and unprecedented shift in Jewish -- Christian relations, including signs of a new, improved Christian attitude towards Jews. Christianity in Jewish Terms is a Jewish theological response to the profound changes that...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2008-08-01
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Free yourself from the past, break through into a new mentality, and discover God's great plans for you with these powerful scriptures and meditations for Christians.You don't want to live your life with a 'barely-get-by' mentality -- you want to move beyond ordinary...

Editeur : FaithWords
Parution : 2008-08-01
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Named by Christianity Today as one of the twenty-five most influential preachers of the last fifty years, best-selling author Tony Campolo has spent decades calling on readers and audiences around the world to live their faith through committed activism. A tireless...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2008-07-31
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Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently?Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty-first century? Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist "cube" of the...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2008-07-31
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