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Contemplation, according to Thomas Aquinas, is the central goal of our life. This study considers the epistemological and metaphysical foundations of the contemplative act; the nature of the active and contemplative lives in light of Aquinas's Dominican calling; the...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-02-24
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Over the last thirty years, conservative evangelicals have been moving to the Northwest of the United States, where they hope to resist the impact of secular modernity and to survive the breakdown of society that they anticipate. These believers have often given up on...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-23
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This monograph demonstrates that the books of Exodus–Numbers, taken together, are the result of one, highly creative, hypertextual reworking of the book of Deuteronomy.This detailed reworking consists of around 1,200 strictly sequentially organized conceptual, and at...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-02-22
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_____________________________________________________________________________________________'Deliverance is an intriguing, strangely comforting book that shines a light into a world that's little talked about' - The Mail on...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2021-02-18
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Holiness is the attribute most emphatically ascribed to God in Scripture, but there has been little attention devoted to characterizing and considering the entailments of divine holiness. In DivineHoliness and Divine Action, Mark C. Murphy defends an account of holiness...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-02-18
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Holiness is the attribute most emphatically ascribed to God in Scripture, but there has been little attention devoted to characterizing and considering the entailments of divine holiness. In DivineHoliness and Divine Action, Mark C. Murphy defends an account of holiness...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-18
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This authoritative collection brings together the latest thinking on women's leadership in early Christianity. Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity considers the evidence for ways in which women exercised leadership in churches from the 1st to the 9th...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-18
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This authoritative collection brings together the latest thinking on women's leadership in early Christianity. Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity considers the evidence for ways in which women exercised leadership in churches from the 1st to the 9th...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-02-18
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Transhumanismus wird oft als Konglomerat spekulativer Technikvisionen, als Enhancement-Utopie oder als Science-Fiction betrachtet. Der Autor setzt sich kritisch mit gängigen Auffassungen über die DenkformTranshumanismus auseinander und argumentiert, dass sie eine...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-02-17
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Der Tagungsband untersucht den gegenwärtigen Umbau vieler Bistumsverwaltungen, der insbesondere die Themen Transparenz, Frauen in Leitungspositionen sowie die Vermeidung von Finanzskandalen und Machtmissbrauch umfasst.Der Band präsentiert aktuelle Berichte von...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-02-17
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This book brings together interdisciplinary scholars from history, theology, folklore, ethnology and meteorology to examine how David Cranz’s Historie von Grönland (1765) resonated in various disciplines, periods and countries. Collectively the contributors demonstrate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-17
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This book introduces readers to Abu Bakr al-Razi (known in Latin as Rhazes), one of the most innovative and divisive figures of the early philosophical tradition in the Islamic world. Drawing on his extant works on ethics and a range of quotations and testimony from...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-11
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This research work examines Heidegger’s (1889-1976) contention that phenomenology can inspire, illuminate, motivate, reinforce and guide (human) individual’s actions. It achieves this by adapting Heidegger’s phenomenological approach to analyze and interpret...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-02-09
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The goal of this book is to suggest that Jesus as a creative artist was heavily influenced by the Hebrew Bible’s Book of Proverbs. It posits that he created some of his short parables from specific verses found in Proverbs, suggests that he expanded some basic sapient...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-02-09
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Dress, Adornment, and the Body in the Hebrew Bible is the first monograph to treat dress and adornment in biblical literature in the English language. It moves beyond a description of these aspects of ancient life to encompass notions of interpersonal relationships and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-09
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Dress, Adornment, and the Body in the Hebrew Bible is the first monograph to treat dress and adornment in biblical literature in the English language. It moves beyond a description of these aspects of ancient life to encompass notions of interpersonal relationships and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-09
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The United States has long thought of itself as exceptional--a nation destined to lead the world into a bright and glorious future. These ideas go back to the Puritan belief that Massachusetts would be a "city on a hill," and in time that image came to define the United...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-05
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Mormonism, Medicine, and Bioethics provides the first comprehensive treatment of principles and positions on questions of bioethics encountered by members, professionals, and ecclesiastical leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon). The...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-03
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Throughout their shared history, Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches have lived through a very complex and sometimes tense relationship – not only theologically, but also politically. In most cases such relationships remain to this day; indeed, in some cases the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-02
Collection :
Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue
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The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards offers a state-of-the-art summary of scholarship on Edwards by a diverse, international, and interdisciplinary group of Edwards scholars, many of whom serve as global leaders in the burgeoning world of research and writing on...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-02-02
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