Uncover the ways the Christian church has changed in recent years—from the decline of the mainline denominations to the mega-churchification of American culture—and a hopeful reimagining of what the church might look like going forward. The United States is...

Editeur : Worthy Books
Parution : 2022-08-30
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This book collates selective outputs from the 1st International Conference on Contemporary Islamic Studies, focusing on interdisciplinary research that is relevant and timely. One of the most vital areas for national development in Malaysia, and other parts of the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-08-28
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This edited collection examines church-state relations in the European colonies in Africa during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The chapters focus on the period stretching from the most agitated stages of the ‘scramble for Africa’ during the 1870s and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-08-26
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This book examines the Anglican Church in Malaysia from multiple angles, unpacking its history from British colonialism to today’s Muslim-majority Asian nation. Analyzing tense Christian-Muslim dialogue and volatile intercommunity relations, themes of ethnicity,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-08-26
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The book examines the dynamic processes of the various social, political, and cultural negotiations that representatives of Christian groups engage in within authoritarian societies in Greater China, where Christianity is deemed a foreign religious system brought...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-08-26
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The Dark Bible explores early modern England's interactions with difficult aspects of the Bible. For the early modern reader, although the Bible was understood to be perfect, sufficient, and transcendent (indeed, the Protestant Reformation required it), it was not...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-08-25
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Since the Enlightenment, the churches have progressively suffered a severe loss of status because of their belief that revelation is realized only in Christianity. The suggestion that Christian revelation might be truer than other so-called revelations seems to be...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-08-25
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An accessible introduction to the New Testament, offering up-to-date historical-critical scholarship and diverse critical perspectives The New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction presents a concise account of the emergence of Jesus traditions in the broader context...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2022-08-23
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This book initiates a thorough analysis of baptism in the theology of Karl Barth, particularly how he initially stated his understanding and later modified. His theological context and methodology are analysed from its biblical roots to its relevancy for the key...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2022-08-22
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The Dark Bible explores early modern England's interactions with difficult aspects of the Bible. For the early modern reader, although the Bible was understood to be perfect, sufficient, and transcendent (indeed, the Protestant Reformation required it), it was not...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-08-22
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Der Vielfalt religiöser Emotionen liegt eine formale Einheit zu Grunde, deren semantischer Gehalt als das religiöse Grundgefühl der Selbsttranszendenz aufgefasst werden kann. Das religiöse Grundgefühl wird als Type verstanden, Ausdrücke für konkrete Emotionen entstammen...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2022-08-19
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Das Hohelied gilt als wichtiger Fundus der Sprache sowie Theologie vieler christlicher Autoren und Mystiker, die ihre persönlichen Erfahrungen mit Gott schildern. Dieser Band schlägt einen Bogen von der Hoheliedauslegung des antiken Theologen Origenes (185–254) zu den...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2022-08-19
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This book focuses on how religion—particularly Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and, to a lesser extent, Hinduism—is shaping the ethos and daily actions of market participants within the global money markets. The concepts inherent within Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-08-18
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Mocked, vilified, blamed, and significantly misunderstood - the 'Baby Boomers' are members of the generation of post-WWII babies who came of age in the 1960s. Parents of the 1940s and 1950s raised their Boomer children to be respectable church-attendees, and yet in some...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-08-18
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This book argues that the way to ensure that American Jewish life flourishes is to create vibrant local communities and that the ability to thrive will be won or lost in the trenches of each locality. For every generalization about the Jews of America, one can say,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-08-17
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Sowing the Sacred traces the development of Pentecostalism among Mexican-American migrant laborers in California's agricultural industry from the 1910s to the 1960s. At the time, Pentecostalism was often seen as a distasteful new sect rife with cultish and fanatical...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2022-08-12
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Richard Cross explores the largely uncharted territory of seventeenth-century Christology, paying close attention to its metaphysical and semantic presuppositions and consequences. He shows that theologians of all stripes develop and expand theories that are associated...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-08-11
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Richard Cross explores the largely uncharted territory of seventeenth-century Christology, paying close attention to its metaphysical and semantic presuppositions and consequences. He shows that theologians of all stripes develop and expand theories that are associated...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-08-11
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This book highlights the key features of Pentecostal theology in a South African context. In analyzing each feature, it seeks to demonstrate the peculiarity of Pentecostal theology among New Prophetic Churches in South Africa. The book will be useful for both scholars...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2022-08-09
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This book focuses on Samuel Miller (1769-1850), the first professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Government at Princeton Theological Seminary. It introduces the reader to a first-generation representative of Old Princeton, and the challenge that Stanton presents...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2022-08-09
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