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An inspiring book on the spirituality of following Christ.Continuing Peterson's major evaluation of contemporary Christian spirituality, THE JESUS WAY asks what it means to authentically follow Christ in the modern world. As with other books in the series, THE JESUS...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-10-27
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This edited collection of essays examines how religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and chronic illness. Contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historical, cultural, or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-24
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The term ''mysticism'' has never been consistently defined or employed, either in religious traditions or in academic discourse.The essays in this volume offer ways of defining what mysticism is, as well as methods for grappling with its complexity in a classroom.
This...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-10-24
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Before etching Jerusalem William Blake wrote about creating 'the grandest poem that this world contains.'
Blake's avowed intention in constructing the work was to move readers from a solely rational way of being (called Ulro) to one that is highly imaginative (called...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-10-20
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The author asks readers: What prayer do you want answered? If you could sit down with God over a cup of coffee, how would you respond if He asked you, "What do you want me to do for you?" What would you ask?The author believes these questions could usher in the greatest...
Editeur :
FaithWords
Parution :
2011-10-19
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The Importance of Religion reveals the significance of religion in modern times, showing how it provides people with meaning to their lives and helps guide them in their everyday moral choices Provides readers with a new understanding of religion, demonstrating how in...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-10-18
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Can non-Muslims be saved? And can those who are damned to Hell ever be redeemed? In Islam and the Fate of Others, Mohammad Hassan Khalil examines the writings of influential medieval and modern Muslim scholars on the controversial and consequential question of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-10-15
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In Sacred High City, Sacred Low City, Steven Heine argues that lived religion in Japan functions as an integral part of daily life; any apparent lack of interest masks a fundamental commitment to participating regularly in diverse, though diffused, religious practices....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-10-13
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Jesus is the most vague, misrepresented figure in the history of the world. Is it possible to know and trust someone so ethereal and lofty? What is he really like? BEAUTIFUL OUTLAW offers a look into the humanity of Jesus, dismantling all the religious nonsense and...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-10-13
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In The Formation of the Hebrew Bible David Carr rethinks both the methods and historical orientation points for research into the growth of the Hebrew Bible into its present form. Building on his prior work, Writing on the Tablet of the Heart (Oxford, 2005), he explores...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-10-12
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In this incendiary new work, philosopher-theologian Peter Rollins proclaims that the Christian faith is not primarily concerned with questions regarding life after death but with the possibility of life before death.In order to unearth this truth, Rollins prescribes a...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-10-12
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Revised and updated edition of the classic work on spiritual leadership In A Work of Heart, bestselling author and missional expert Reggie McNeal helps leaders reflect on the ways in which God is shaping them by letting us see God at work in the lives of four...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-10-12
Collection :
Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series
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The Day Satan Called is Bill Scott's account of an excruciating 18-month period in his life.Out of Christian love he and his wife invited a young lady who was demon possessed and the member of an active satanic network into their home. They prayed the sinner's prayer...
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FaithWords
Parution :
2011-10-11
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Romantic Dharma maps the emergence of Buddhism into European consciousness during the first half of the nineteenth century, probes the shared ethical and intellectual commitments embedded in Buddhist andRomantic thought, and proposes potential ways by which those...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-10
Collection :
Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
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Examines Tertullian of Carthage's (160-220 C.E.) writings on dress within Roman vestimentary culture. It employs a socio-historical approach, together with insights from performance theory and feminist rhetorical analysis, to situate Tertullian's comments in the broader...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-10
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Believing in Belonging draws on empirical research exploring mainstream religious belief and identity in Euro-American countries. Starting from a qualitative study based in northern England, and then broadening the data to include other parts of Europe and North...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-10-07
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Taking the Long View argues in a series of engagingly written essays that remembering the past is essential for men and women who want to function effectively in the present--for without some knowledge of their own past, neither individuals nor institutions know where...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-10-05
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Use this helpful book to learn about the leadership tools to fuel success, grow your team, and become the visionary you were meant to be.True leadership isn't a matter of having a certain job or title. In fact, being chosen for a position is only the first of the...
Editeur :
Center Street
Parution :
2011-10-04
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After Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt was the most influential figure in early Mormon history and culture. Missionary, pamphleteer, theologian, historian, and martyr, Pratt was perennially stalked by controversy--regarded, he said, "almost as an Angel by...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-10-04
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This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-10-03
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