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Atheism's leading lights have long been intellectuals raised in the secular and academic worlds: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens. By contrast, Jerry DeWitt was born and bred into the church and was in fact a Pentecostal preacher before...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2013-06-25
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How did the New Testament writers and the earliest Christians come to adopt the Jewish scriptures as their first Old Testament? And why are our modern Bibles related more to the Rabbinic Hebrew Bible than to the Greek Bible of the early Church?
The Septuagint, the name...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-06-21
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I do not know much about God and prayer, butI have come to believe, over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help. Thanks. Wow.' Readers of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott's funny and perceptive...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2013-06-20
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Help, Thanks, Wow
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This book traces the rise of the political dynasty in the Middle East and, in the process, provides the context for the current Arab uprising. The author shows that a father-to-son transfer of power has no basis in Islam, and yet the idea of dynastic power became...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-06-18
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Many of the most controversial moral decisions we face hinge upon competing descriptions of life, and never is this truer than at the beginning of life. James Mumford draws upon phenomenology (a branch of continental philosophy) to question the descriptive adequacy, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-06-14
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Sexual abuse scandals, declining attendance, a meltdown in the number of priests and nuns, the closing of many parishes and parochial schools--all have shaken American Catholicism. Yet conservatives have increasingly dominated the church hierarchy.
In The Catholic...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-06-14
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For over a century, the Carmelite Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (1873-1897) has been revered as Catholicism's foremost folk saint of modern times. Universally known as "the Little Flower," she has been a source of consolation and uplift, an example...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-06-14
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Reinhold Niebuhr remains at the center of a national conversation about Americas role in the world, and commentators with divergent political and religious positions look to his 1952 work, The Irony of American History, in support of their views. In this study, Scott R....
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OUP Oxford
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2013-06-13
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The definitive guide to understanding Taoism—no matter your background or faith Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is the second most translated book in the world, and the practice of religious Taoism is on the rise in China, where adherents currently number in the hundreds of...
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For Dummies
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2013-06-12
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In dieser Gerfried W. Hunold gewidmeten Festschrift werden Einsichten der allgemeinen Ethik in die Bereichsethiken transformiert. Die Autoren arbeiten in unterschiedlichen Erfahrungskontexten und wissen sich der ethischen Reflexion verpflichtet: Der Freiheit, neue...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-06-10
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According to Augustine's doctrine of original sin, Adam's progeny share a collective guilt which, like an infection, spreads through wayward sexual desires, passing from parent to child. But is it fair to blame sinners if they inherit evil like a disease? In Stricken by...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-06-07
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Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was chosen as the next Pope in one of the shortest conclaves in history. He is the first Pope Francis, the first Jesuit Pope, the first Pope to come from Latin America. Who is this man, and how did he come to such high position?This book begins...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2013-06-06
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In The Story of Christianity, acclaimed theologian David Bentley Hart provides a sweeping and informative portrait of a faith that has shaped the western world and beyond for over 2,000 years. From the persecutions of the early church to the papal-imperial conflicts of...
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Quercus
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2013-06-06
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Zunehmend wird Religion als ein störender Faktor für das gesellschaftliche Zusammenleben wahrgenommen. Dennoch enthalten Religionen eigene Ressourcen, die Autonomie des Politischen zu achten. Diese Ressourcen werden in dem Band präzise beschrieben. Dabei spielt der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-06-06
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Millions of American Christians see U.S. support for the State of Israel as a God-ordained responsibility. American sympathies for the State of Israel are consistently and often substantially higher than for Arab states or Palestinians. More Desired than Our Owne...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-06-06
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Interweaving feminist theological ideas, Asian spirituality, and the witnesses of World War II sex slaves, this book offers a new theology of body. It examines the multi-layered meaning of the broken body of Christ from Christological, sacramental, and ecclesiological...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-06-05
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Il presente studio mette in luce l’insistenza con cui il tema della trasmigrazione delle anime ricorre nell’opera di Goethe e, più in generale, nei testi da lui letti e nel clima culturale da lui respirato. La monografia si apre con la presentazione delle fonti...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-06-05
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Alister E. McGrath is one of the world’s leading theologians, with a doctorate in the sciences. Richard Dawkins is one of the bestselling popular science writers, with outspoken and controversial views on religion. This fascinating and provoking work is the first...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-06-05
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has 6 million members in the United States today (and 13 million worldwide). Yet, while there has been extensive study of Mormon history, comparatively little scholarly attention has been paid to contemporary Mormons.The...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-06-03
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In our current pluralist context, there is no clearly designated means of valuing or defining the human person. Matthew Drever shows that in the writings of St. Augustine we find a concept of the human person that is fluid, tenuous, prone to great good and great vice,...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-06-03
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