Compassion in Healthcare gives an account of the nature and content of compassion and its role in healthcare. While compassion appears to be a straightforward aspect of life and practice, Hordern's analysis shows that it is plagued by both conceptual and practical ills,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-10-30
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Compassion in Healthcare gives an account of the nature and content of compassion and its role in healthcare. While compassion appears to be a straightforward aspect of life and practice, Hordern's analysis shows that it is plagued by both conceptual and practical ills,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-10-30
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'Honest, revealing insight into the bestselling book of all time.'Bear Grylls'A stimulating and accessible survey of history's most influential book.'Tom Holland, historian and author of Dominion'Personal and profound; informative and practical. If you want to...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2020-10-29
Collection : Andrew Ollerton ePub

Why is Christmas the way it is? How did we get from the birth of Jesus to everyone pushing their credit card and their belts to their maximum extent? Starting with the events surrounding Jesus' birth, this book takes us through centuries of commemoration, celebration...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2020-10-29
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'Heartfelt and lovely' JENNY COLGANHappy ever after is only a page away. . .It's almost Christmas and snow is falling the Cotswolds. Simon and Nora might be gearing up for the festive season - but their beloved bookshop is in trouble!So Nora is delighted when a customer...

Editeur : Trapeze
Parution : 2020-10-29
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Vorstellungen eines Niedergangs der islamischen Welt – ob bereits erfolgt, sich abzeichnend oder prognostiziert – drücken sich in einer Fülle von Thesen und Erzählungen zu Kultur, Literatur, Mentalität, Theologie und Geschichte derselben aus. Die Autorinnen und Autoren...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2020-10-28
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This book examines the oracle of deliverance that Yhwh communicated to Ebed-melech, the Cushite (Jer 39,15-18). In order to comprehend this analeptically presented promise, however, the research also scrutinizes two other related events in Jeremiah’s mission in the...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2020-10-28
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In this book, Paul Crittenden offers a critical guide to the problematic origins of biblical teaching about the afterlife and the way in which it was subsequently developed by Church authorities and theologians—Origen, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas in particular.In the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-24
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Becca Whitla uses liberationist, postcolonial, and decolonial methods to analyze hymns, congregational singing, and song-leading practices. By way of this analysis, Whitla shows how congregational singing can embody liberating liturgy and theology. Through a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-24
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The Gospel of John has long been recognized as being distinct from the Synoptic Gospels. John among the Apocalypses explains John's distinctive narrative of Jesus's life by comparing it to Jewish apocalypses and highlighting the central place of revelation in the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-10-22
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The Gospel of John has long been recognized as being distinct from the Synoptic Gospels. John among the Apocalypses explains John's distinctive narrative of Jesus's life by comparing it to Jewish apocalypses and highlighting the central place of revelation in the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-10-22
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The Oxford Handbook of Christmas provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of all aspects of Christmas across the globe, from the specifically religious to the purely cultural.The contributions are drawn from a distinguished group of international experts from...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-10-21
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The Oxford Handbook of Christmas provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of all aspects of Christmas across the globe, from the specifically religious to the purely cultural.The contributions are drawn from a distinguished group of international experts from...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-10-21
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The book studies the way the luxurious fashion develops re-presentational politics by reinvesting symbolic fields such as art and culture, religion and the sacred as well as politics, in other words fields that represent a certain common pattern of life and a common...

Editeur : Wiley-ISTE
Parution : 2020-10-21
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The idea of Maya pervades Indian philosophy. It is enigmatic, multivalent, and foundational, with its oldest referents found in the Rig Veda. This book explores Maya's rich conceptual history, and then focuses on the highly developed theology of Maya found in the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-10-21
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The idea of Maya pervades Indian philosophy. It is enigmatic, multivalent, and foundational, with its oldest referents found in the Rig Veda. This book explores Maya's rich conceptual history, and then focuses on the highly developed theology of Maya found in the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-10-21
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Ali bin Abi Talib (gest. 661) gilt bei Aleviten, Schiiten und Sunniten als charismatische Männergestalt. Als Wegbegleiter des Propheten Muhammad wurde er Verheißungen zuteil. Diese Umstände sorgten später im fiktiven Bewusstsein einiger Kreise dafür, dass sie ihm eine...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2020-10-20
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This book addresses several dimensions of religious revelation. These include its occurrence in various religious traditions, its different forms, its elaborations, how it has been understood by Western theologians, and differing views of revelation’s ontological...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-10-19
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The most widely spoken Jewish language on the eve of the Holocaust, Yiddish continues to play a significant role in Jewish life today, from Hasidim for whom it is a language of daily life to avant-garde performers, political activists, and LGBTQ writers turning to...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-10-19
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This book argues that contemporary Christianity is in crisis because freedom of religion is concealed and under pressure by secularization and migration. A drastic change is necessary - in the Catholic Church at first - from a God-given hierarchical structure to a...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-10-19
Collection : Religion and Human Rights PDF, ePub