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Many Christians profess that Jesus died as a sacrifice for sins. The Catholic Mass is even understood as a “sacrifice.” Some take issue with this language, for it seems to put forward an idea of God that is implicated in vengeance and violence. Why would God accept the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-14
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This study explores the role that Bibles have come to play in the worldview of the contemporary European far right. Taking the case of far-right terrorism in Norway on 22 July 2011 as a starting point, Hannah M. Strømmen argues that particular perceptions of “the Bible”...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-10-11
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Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell argues that the first two words of Christianity's most famous prayer - the Lord's Prayer - encapsulate the radical heart of the Christian faith: that we belong to each other, and that we all have access to God. And if we could...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2024-10-10
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This book offers an examination of an expanding set of options for being Jewish in contemporary American society. It examines the evolution of Jewish identity across five epochs of Jewish civilization as well as the transformation of the American Jewish experience...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-03
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More than half a century ago, sociologist J. Milton Yinger remarked about religion, "There are few major subjects about which men know so little, yet feel so certain." Samuel L. Perry says that Yinger had it right. Americans--and Westerners more generally--neglect the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-01
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A hilarious and eye-opening account of leaving Christian Nationalism behind to follow Jesus better. April Ajoy wouldn’t have called herself a Christian Nationalist when she performed her original song “America Say Jesus” on the Jim Bakker show,...
Editeur :
Worthy Books
Parution :
2024-10-01
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Anti-Jewish sentiment in the Orthodox liturgy was and still is one of the main stumbling blocks for the Jewish–Orthodox Christian encounter. In the last five decades, this subject has often been mentioned during official dialogues between the two religious communities,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-09-26
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The book of Job and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland may not seem like natural bedfellows at first, but both have become literary classics by lifting a voice of protest against injustice. They employ similar techniques to mock self-assured moralists: nonce-formation,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-09-24
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The star quarterback takes the field for the national championship game, "John 3:16" scrawled on his eye black.The NBA's Most Valuable Player leads his team in Bible study.The newly crowned World Series champion thanks God in a postgame interview while wearing a t-shirt...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-09-24
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This is the first comparative study of Mosaic and Islamic law in American history to be published. Constructing a complex picture in trans-Atlantic, trans-European and world historical perspectives, this book elucidates the intersections that lie beneath and behind the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-23
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A detailed exploration of both Paul the Apostle and his world, providing an understanding of how the Christian faith originated in the first centuries Paul the Apostle is often acclaimed as “the true founder of Christianity,” but many Christians are unaware of Paul's...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-09-20
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A wise, heartfelt, and compelling guide to our quest for wholeness in a broken worldA Hidden Wholeness—now in its 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new Introduction by bestselling author Parker J. Palmer—has helped people in every walk of life rise to the challenge of...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2024-09-18
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«Hafizullah Emadi, a recognized authority on the Ismaili sect of Islam, has produced an extensively researched report on the community in Afghanistan whose leaders ("Pirs") deployed their sacred authority to build a cult of personality and dominate the social affairs of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-09-18
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A 2025 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner From “national treasure” Francis Collins (Philip Yancey), the New York Times bestselling author of The Language of God and former director of the National Institutes of Health, comes a deeply...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2024-09-17
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Wedding, Gender, and Performance in Ancient Greece traces the wedding song tradition, its imagery, and its tropes as a genre that became crystallized throughout the ages. It explores how wedding poetics permeates ancient Greek literature. It first analyzes how explicit...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-17
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What do we do with our unmet expectations? When life has not turned out the way we imagined? Feeling fragmented and frazzled, many women today are caught in a vicious cycle trying to do too much, hold everything together, manage and control their...
Editeur :
Worthy Books
Parution :
2024-09-17
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From the viral social media account @oldjewishmen comes a hilarious and irresistible guide and perfect gift for every OJM and the people who put up with him Here is a humorous, surprisingly stylish, and crotchety celebration of a most fascinating group of...
Editeur :
Workman Publishing Company
Parution :
2024-09-17
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Krieg, politische Gewalt und Frieden stellen zentrale Themen der internationalen Politik dar. Elementar geht es darum, ersteres zu verhindern und letzteres zu befördern. Vor diesem Hintergrund reflektiert das Handbuch die Rolle, die der Religion in Konflikten und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-09-16
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This book interprets Jesus Christ as a complicated, disunified literary character in Middle English literature, where he appears variously as king, traitor, victorious conqueror, sacrificial lamb, heroic knight, lover, and spouse--often as several contradictory figures...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-16
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This book traces developments in Christology--and specifically the metaphysics of the union of divine and human natures in one person--from 1050 (the age of Anselm of Canterbury) to 1250 (the age of Albert the Great). During the first part of the period, the key issue...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-16
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