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A noted theologian explains how the radical idea of Christian love animated the African American civil rights movement and how it can power today's social justice struggles Speaking to his supporters at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, Martin Luther King,...
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Basic Books
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2008-07-31
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Jeanne Halgren Kilde's survey of church architecture is unlike any other. Her main concern is not the buildings themselves, but rather the dynamic character of Christianity and how church buildings shape and influence the religion. Kilde argues that a primary function...
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Oxford University Press
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2008-07-21
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A volume of the Opera Omnia of Erasmus series, this title is comprised of two separate treatise translated into one volume. First, The Institution of Christian Matrimony (Basel, 1526) which was dedicated to Catherine of Aragon. In this work, Erasmus deals with the...
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Elsevier Science
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2008-07-16
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Jesus' birth in a cave, his childhood, escapades, his secret sayings, and his descent to the underworld; the torments in Hell; Saint Paul baptizing a lion; the death of Pontius Pilate and Saint Peter being crucified upside down. These are among the fascinating stories...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-11
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Jesus' birth in a cave, his childhood, escapades, his secret sayings, and his descent to the underworld; the torments in Hell; Saint Paul baptizing a lion; the death of Pontius Pilate and Saint Peter being crucified upside down. These are among the fascinating stories...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-10
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The orderliness of the universe and the existence of human beings already provides some reason for believing that there is a God - as argued in Richard Swinburne's earlier book Is There a God ? Swinburne now claims that it is probable that the main Christian doctrines...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-10
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The World Council of Churches has called for renewed theological reflection on the biblical roots of ordination to strengthen the vocational identity of the ordained and to provide a framework for ecumenical dialogue. This book is a response to that call. It is grounded...
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Oxford University Press
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2008-07-10
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The Council of Chalcedon in 451 divided eastern Christianity, with those who were later called Syrian Orthodox among the Christians in the near eastern provinces who refused to accept the decisions of the council. These non-Chalcedonians (still better known under the...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-10
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The various versions of the Infancy Gospels illustrate how stories about the Virgin and Child lend themselves to be told and retold - much like the stories in the canonical Gospels. This first translation of the full text of the Armenian Gospel of the Infancy, itself...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-03
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In 1960, Democrats and Catholics united to elect John F. Kennedy, America's first Catholic president. As we approach the 2008 presidential election, the Democratic party is struggling to secure Catholic votes. For most of the twentieth-century, however, the Catholic...
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Basic Books
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2008-07-01
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Robert Frykenberg's insightful study explores and enhances historical understandings of Christian communities, cultures, and institutions within the Indian world from their beginnings down to the present. As one out of several manifestations of a newly emerging World...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-06-27
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Three decades ago in a cordoned-off corner of the developing world an angry Catholic priest armed only with pencil, paper, and crayons, declared a revolution. From a shanty school shared with Buddhists and Muslims in Bangkok's squatter slums, Father Joe Maier began his...
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Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2008-06-20
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St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) saw religion as part of the natural human propensity to worship. His ability to recognize the naturalness of this phenomenon and simultaneously to go beyond it, to explore spiritual revelation, makes his work fresh and highly readable...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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This book explores the spiritual dimensions (political, racial, sexual, and violent) of Malcolm X's journey from Christianity to Islam, Julius Lester's journey from Christianity to Judaism, and Jan Willis's journey from Christianity to Buddhism.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-06-09
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Sharon Moughtin-Mumby considers the often unrecognised impact of different approaches to metaphor on readings of the prophtic sexual and marital metaphorical language. She outlines a practical and consciously simplified approach to metaphor, placing strong emphasis on...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-05
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A little known philosopher and scholar of the French Humanism : Charles de Bovelles, gains throught this penetrating study the consideration and interest he and his works deserve.
Editeur :
Librairie Droz
Parution :
2008-06-01
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Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
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Conçue pour accompagner sa grande sœur des « Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance », la collection des « Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance » rassemble une grande variété d’études, historiques, philologiques, bibliographiques ou littéraires, et d’éditions de sources (de...
Editeur :
Librairie Droz
Parution :
2008-06-01
Collection :
Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance
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Calvin encouraged female education and, with other reformers, positively reevaluated marriage. This study focuses on the place of women in his exegesis, both Old and New Testament, comparing it with that of his predecessors, especially Augustine, Chrysostom and the...
Editeur :
Librairie Droz
Parution :
2008-06-01
Collection :
Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
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This book is a study of the Anglican Reformed tradition (often inaccurately described as Calvinist) after the Restoration. Hampton sets out to revise our picture of the theological world of the later Stuart period. Arguing that the importance of the Reformed theological...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-05-29
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