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The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought is about the necessity and value of vulnerability in human experience. In this book, Michael Ing brings early Chinese texts into dialogue with questions about the ways in which meaningful things are vulnerable to...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-07-06
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The Theologia Indorum by Dominican friar Domingo de Vico was the first Christian theology written in the Americas. Made available in English translation for the first time, Americas' First Theologies presents a selection of exemplary sections from the Theologia Indorum...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-07-03
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Richard Baxter, one of the most famous Puritans of the seventeenth century, is generally known as a writer of practical and devotional literature. But he also excelled in knowledge of medieval and early modern scholastic theology, and was conversant with a wide variety...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-07-03
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How do young African Americans approach their faith in God when continued violence and police brutality batters the news each day? In The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans, Almeda M. Wright argues that African American youth separate their everyday lives and...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-07-03
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The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue offers a complete annotated translation, the first into English, of a Chan Buddhist classic, the collected letters of the Southern Song Linji Chan teacher Dahui Zonggao (1089-1163). Addressed to forty scholar-officials, members of...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-07-03
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This book is a theoretically and historically informed exploration of 'secularism' in Muslim contexts. It does this through a critical assessment of an influential tradition of thinking about Islam and secularism, derived from the work of anthropologist Talal Asad and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-06-30
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This book traces a recovery of iconographic religious experience and theology in the nineteenth century. In contrast to a logocentric religious focus, which privileges texts and their analysis, an iconographic focus emphasizes the visual and narrative attributes of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2017-06-29
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Where is Home?This question troubles many of us. We may live far from where we grew up, away from those we love or in a culture not our own. But we all need somewhere to belong, to find a sense of home in this world.Jo Swinney was born in the UK, but grew up in...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2017-06-29
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Das Kreuz ist und bleibt ein Skandal. Nicht nur in öffentlichen Gebäuden und gesellschaftlichen Debatten, sondern auch bei Theologen erregt der Anblick des Gekreuzigten immer wieder Ärgernis.
Der Schriftsteller und Philosoph Albert Camus, der zeitlebens nach dem Sinn...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-06-28
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Inspired by the author's fortieth birthday celebration where she committed to forty days of intentional kindness, this book shares the ripple effect that changed an entire community. In less than a year, more than 20,000 separate acts of kindness took place as others...
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Worthy Inspired
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2017-06-27
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Street Smarts From Proverbs reveals Solomon's steps to divine wisdom while providing tools to navigate out of conflict into community.Mitch Kruse learned the hard way that going to church three times a week while growing up did not answer the question: Have you ever...
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FaithWords
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2017-06-26
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The period between the late Renaissance and the early Enlightenment has long been regarded as the zenith of the 'republic of letters', a pan-European community of like-minded scholars and intellectuals who fostered critical approaches to the study of the Bible and other...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-23
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The book chronicles the evolution of the church's political power throughout Poland's unique history. Beginning in the tenth century, the study first details how Catholicism overcame early challenges in Poland, from converting the early polytheists to pushing back the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-22
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Through various realignments beginning in the Revolutionary era and continuing across the nineteenth century, Christianity not only endured as a vital intellectual tradition contributed importantly to a wide variety of significant conversations, movements, and social...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-22
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Through various realignments beginning in the Revolutionary era and continuing across the nineteenth century, Christianity not only endured as a vital intellectual tradition contributed importantly to a wide variety of significant conversations, movements, and social...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-22
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PUT THE DISCIPLE INTO DISCIPLINE gives parents the tools they need to truly disciple their kids through their most trying discipline situations.What do you say when your kid has really messed up?How do you respond when your three-year-old is throwing pennies at other...
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FaithWords
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2017-06-20
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This singular reference explores religion and spirituality as a vital, though often misconstrued, lens for building better understanding of and empathy with clients. A diverse palette of faiths and traditions is compared and contrasted (occasionally with secularism),...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-06-19
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This book follows a reader’s logic of association through a series of overlapping constructs in biblical prescription of things prized and lofty—holy hair, unblemished beasts, sacred edibles, wholesome wombs, pristine precincts, esteemed ethnicities and, as unlikely as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-06-19
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Das Buch untersucht Gregor von Nyssas Traktat «In inscriptiones Psalmorum». Dieser legt den Psalter als einen Meditationstext aus, der Gott suchende Menschen begleiten und über einen stufenweisen Aufstieg bis zur vollendeten Seligkeit führen will. Die Reihenfolge der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-06-15
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The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology brings together leading scholars in the fields of theology and epistemology to examine and articulate what can be categorized as appropriate epistemic evaluation in theology. Part one focuses on some of the epistemic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-15
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