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This book brings together prominent voices from the global North and South to present brief analyses of liberation theology's future. It includes leaders in the field along with the newest voices. Each of these pieces was presented in the American Academy of Religion in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-07-24
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.... compares two theories—Naturalism and Theism—on a wide range of relevant data. It concludes that Naturalism should be preferred to Theism on that data. The central idea behind the argument is that, while Naturalism is simpler than Theism, there is no relevant data...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2013-07-23
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The Gospels are full of encounters that made a profound impact on those who spoke with Jesus Christ. In the first essay of his new series, Timothy Keller, pastor of New York's Redeemer Presbyterian Church and New York Times-bestselling author ofThe Reason for God, shows...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2013-07-18
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The Gospels are full of encounters that made a profound impact on those who spoke with Jesus Christ. In the second essay of his new series, Timothy Keller, pastor of New York's Redeemer Presbyterian Church and New York Times-bestselling author ofThe Reason for God,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2013-07-18
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The way which society conceives of power in the twenty-first century determines how it approaches future issues. Placing the twentieth-century French philosopher Michel Foucault into critical conjunction with the apostle Paul, Fuggle re-evaluates the way in which power...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-07-17
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When Rob Strong tells people he's a pastor in Massachusetts--"the least churched state in the USA"--it sometimes stops them in their tracks, but Strong never lets his faith bar him from doing what matters most: building sincere relationships with people as, together,...
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Jericho Books
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2013-07-16
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Der vorliegende Band der Zeitschrift Morgen-Glantz (23/2013) enthält die überarbeitete Fassung der Vorträge, die bei der 22. Tagung der Christian Knorr von Rosenroth-Gesellschaft vom 29.–30. Juni 2012 in Sulzbach-Rosenberg gehalten wurden. Thema der Tagung war:...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-15
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David Weiss Halivni's The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud, originally published in Hebrew and here translated by Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, is widely regarded as the most comprehensive scholarly examination of the processes of composition and editing of the Babylonian...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-07-15
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This book is a major contribution to the sociology of religion and to religious and biblical studies. Beginning from the classic work of Max Weber, the author analyses the origins of Judaism in the light of more recent scholarship. The result is a work that will become...
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Polity
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2013-07-12
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This book analyses religious identity transformations through inter-religious relations. It aims to highlight the link between religious discourse and social cohesion, or the lack of such a link, and ultimately seeks to contribute to the dominant discourse on...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-09
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This book is an attempt to reveal the advantages and disadvantages rendered in the ongoing dialogue between Orthodoxy and modernity, by way of Thermos’s discussions of the complex interaction between Orthodox pastoral theology and psychoanalysis. The author seeks to...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-09
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Feeding the Dead outlines the early history of ancestor worship in South Asia, from the earliest sources available, the Vedas, up to the descriptions found in the Dharmshastra tradition. Most prior works on ancestor worship have done little to address the question of...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-07-08
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This study aims to understand how the nineteenth-century African agent of mission appropriated change without losing cultural integrity. Drawing essentially from the contexts that produced the man, from Sierra Leone to the Yoruba country, the study shows Samuel Johnson...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-07-08
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The Victorian novel acquired greater cultural centrality just as the authority of the scriptures and of traditional religious teaching seemed to be declining. Did the novel supplant the Bible?The novelists often adopted or participated in a broadly progressive narrative...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-05
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How did people think about listening in the ancient world, and what evidence do we have of it in practice? The Christian faith came to the illiterate majority in the early Church through their ears. This proved problematic: the senses and the body had long been held in...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-05
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The world of the Bible is a textual world. Its composition and intertextuality are what make it a representation of reality. To understand biblical world making, it is important to understand how biblical books are made and read.The Textual World of the Bible explores...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-07-03
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There is a great deal of popular belief in the connection between religious extremism and terrorism.There are also numerous statistical analyses that reject that connection. Upon a deeper analysis, however, both of these approaches are oversimplifications. To adequately...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-07-03
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Something wonderful and life-changing has been happening at Michael W. Smith's concerts. Recently he began closing the evening with a simple prayer of blessing woven from Scripture. The response has been overwhelming. The emails and letters of testimony are like nothing...
Editeur :
Worthy Books
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2013-07-02
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According to Cottrell, God's goodness is predictable. His mercy is dependable. His ability to work in every moment of every reader's life, leading them to Him, is unfailing. But often in those moments, even the most devout are distracted by great distress, failing to...
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Worthy Books
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2013-07-02
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This vigorously argued book reveals the central role that Islam has played in European history. Following the movement of people, culture and religion from East to West, Goody breaks down the perceived opposition between Islam and Europe, showing Islam to be a part of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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