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How can we live well in a world that can feel meaningless? Ecclesiastes invites us to face the hard truth that our lives are very brief and mostly out of our control. But that doesn't mean God leaves us to despair.In this searching and uplifting commentary, Eric Ortlund...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2024-07-18
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Hodder Bible Commentary
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'This is Rich Villodas at his pastoral best. His writing shimmers with grace, reflecting the radiance of a kingdom vision of the good life.'-GLENN PACKIAM'This book is a much-needed heart checkup for every Jesus follower.'-CHRISTINE CAINE'A book for all who are...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2024-07-18
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Wer war Maria Magdalena? Diese große, biblische Frauengestalt changiert in Kirche, Kunst und Gesellschaft zwischen dem Objekt des Begehrens und der Verehrung als Heilige, zwischen frevelhafter Prostituierter und aufreizender, schöner Sünderin. Gerade diese Rolle ist es,...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-07-17
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Could a Good God Permit So Much Suffering? presents a debate over whether the degree and amount of moral evil that actually exists in our world is logically incompatible with the existence of the all-good, all-powerful God of traditional theism. James Sterba puts the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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The book brings together fourteen essays from the work of John Cottingham on moral philosophy and the philosophy of religion spanning the past fifteen years.The papers are closely related in so far as they all deal with the perennial moral and spiritual challenges of...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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Contemporary nudge theory points out that people make good choices over issues where they have had past experience of similar circumstances, where there is reliable, substantial, and relevant information about the situation, and where they will get prompt feedback about...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism.
Literature is a mode of thinking, stories being one of the oldest thinking 'devices' known to humankind. The ways in which literature...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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The Rule of the Association (1QS; Serek ha-Yahad) is the primary description of the sectarian community described in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It was one of the first Scrolls published, in 1951. Several related fragmentary scrolls subsequently came to light. This book...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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The problem of evil has long perplexed traditional theists: Why do terrible events, such as crimes, wars, and natural disasters, occur in a world believed to be created by an omnipotent and wholly good God? InThe Problem of Evil for Atheists, Yujin Nagasawa offers a...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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A Christian imagination of colonial discovery permeated the early modern world, but legal histories developed in very different ways depending on imperial jurisdictions. Indigenous Rights and the Legacies of the Bible: From Moses to Mabo explores the contradictions and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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This book explores the faith, work, and lives of port chaplains and seafarers.
It draws on archive materials, fieldwork in ports and on cargo ships, and interviews with chaplains in the UK and overseas. The volume presents a detailed picture of seafarers' attitudes to...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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What can early Jewish courtroom narratives tell us about the capacity and limits of human justice? By exploring how judges and the act of judging are depicted in these narratives, Trial Stories in Jewish Antiquity: Counternarratives of Justice challenges the prevailing...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-12
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This is the first academic work to focus explicitly on Pentecostal public theology in Europe. Following a growing interest in understanding Pentecostal beliefs and practices with respect to the public sphere, this book shifts the focus of Pentecostal engagement with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-11
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
What is faith? It usually means religious belief, and sometimes diverse religions are grouped together as 'faiths', with reference to 'faith leaders' or 'faith schools'. What we have faith in matters, and that...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-10
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The Books of Kings have long been at the center of scholarly discussions on the Hebrew Bible because they constitute important sources for the history of ancient Israel and Judah, and because they are key components of the Deuteronomistic History.The Oxford Handbook of...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-07-10
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This book takes its motive force from our contemporary climate crisis. It seeks to reorient human (and especially Christian) understanding, towards a more ecologically-focused, indigenously-informed way-of-living. James W. Perkinson argues that our current eco-climatic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-08
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This open-access book provides a concise analysis of the apex of team-based translation of Buddhist scriptures during the Tang Dynasty, initiated by the notable gathering of translation experts led by Prabhakaramitra. Showcasing the diverse and innovative...
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Springer
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2024-07-07
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Nach Einschätzung der Sicherheitsbehörden ist Deutschland seit Jahren mit einer latenten Bedrohung durch den islamistischen Terrorismus konfrontiert. Um den damit verbundenen Gefahren vorzubeugen, werden erhebliche finanzielle Mittel in die Radikalisierungs- und...
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Springer
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2024-07-04
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This is the first book to examine how pre-Islamic/Late Antique goddesses shaped the Qur’an, including its basic theology and cosmology. Exploring the traces found in the text of cultic veneration to goddesses of Arabia and the Ancient Near East, this book analyses what...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-04
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The book brings together fourteen essays from the work of John Cottingham on moral philosophy and the philosophy of religion spanning the past fifteen years.The papers are closely related in so far as they all deal with the perennial moral and spiritual challenges of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-03
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