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Economics of Faith examines the role of religious leaders in the development of poor relief institutions in early modern Europe. As preachers, policy makers, advocates, and community leaders, these reformers offered a new interpretation of salvation and good works that...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-04-02
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A Comedian's Prayer Book. The title is a worry, isn't it?...God is a tough audience as far as audible response is concerned, but at least you don't have to explain the references. In this collection of prayers, much-loved comedian, broadcaster and radio host Frank...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2021-04-01
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Fallenness and Flourishing opens with defenses of the philosophy of pessimism, first on secular grounds and then again on distinctively Christian grounds with reference to the fallenness of human beings. It then details traditional Christian reasons for optimism with...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-04-01
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Fallenness and Flourishing opens with defenses of the philosophy of pessimism, first on secular grounds and then again on distinctively Christian grounds with reference to the fallenness of human beings. It then details traditional Christian reasons for optimism with...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-04-01
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Am 15. September 1680 fand die feierliche Translation der Reliquien der Katakombenheiligen Sergius, Bacchus, Hyacinthus und Erasmus im Kloster St. Gallen statt. Als Director musicae bekam der Stiftsorganist Pater Valentin Müller (Molitor) die Aufgabe, die Musik für die...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-03-31
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Im Jahr 2002 wurde seitens der chinesischen Regierung die Forderung der Entfaltung der exzellenten nationalkulturellen Tradition aufgestellt. Nach einem Kultur-Gipfelforum mit dem Hauptthema „Globalisierung und die Chinesische Kultur" unter der Leitung von bedeutenden...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2021-03-29
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The cradle of the Church of the East was in Mesopotamia (between the Tigris and the Euphrates), where it developed its first centre at Seleucia-Ctesiphon, then the capital of the great Persian Empire and today an archaeological site to the south of Baghdad. From the...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2021-03-26
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From the beginning of his career, Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1969) was often in conflict with the spirit of his times. While during the First World War German poets and philosophers became intoxicated by the experience of community and transcendence, Barth fought...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-03-25
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From the beginning of his career, Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1969) was often in conflict with the spirit of his times. While during the First World War German poets and philosophers became intoxicated by the experience of community and transcendence, Barth fought...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-03-25
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Der Band ist die erste größere Studie zur Vita von Josef Busnaya. Diese Quelle beschreibt in großem Detailreichtum das alltägliche Leben im 10. Jahrhundert in einem ostsyrischen Kloster und seinem ruralen Umfeld in einer ansonsten schlecht dokumentierten Zeit und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-03-24
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The social values of honor and shame, which have attracted much research from cultural anthropology and New Testament studies for the past five decades, is the main focus of the book. This book proposes the need to combine major contributions of narrative, rhetorical,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-03-24
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The author re-examines the movements in the Hebrew Psalter as a whole, "from laments to praises" and "from psalms of individual to those of community," indicated by Westermann (1977) and Gottwald (1985). In general, these movements are widely observable, however, there...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2021-03-24
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Luke, the eponymous author of the gospel that bears his name as well as the book of Acts, wrote the largest portion of the New Testament. Luke is generally thought to be a gentile. This book addresses a question raised by Jesus's disciples at the very beginning of Acts:...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-03-23
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History has long viewed French Protestants as Calvinists. Refusing to Kiss the Slipper re-examines the Reformation in francophone Europe, presenting for the first time the perspective of John Calvin's evangelical enemies and revealing that the French Reformation was...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-03-19
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Die Frage nach der Bewertung des Todes und die Einordnung seiner Bedeutung für das Leben eines Menschen gehört zu den ältesten existentiellen Fragen der Philosophie. In diesem philosophischen Versuch der Todesbewertung werden ausgehend von den Überzeugungen von Epikur...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-03-17
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The field of political theology in the Orthodox traditions of Europe in post-Byzantine times is an almost unknown area.The book offers a comparison of four mirrors for princes from the beginning of the sixteenth century:The Teachings of Neagoe Basarab to His Son...
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NBN International
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2021-03-17
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This is the first book-length study to examine the interface between literary and theological modernisms. It provides a comprehensive account of literary responses to the modernist crisis in Christian theology from a transnational and interdenominational...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-03-16
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Seitdem John Hick durch seine pluralistische Position den Weg für eine Annäherung der Religionen geschaffen hat, haben seine Werke viel Aufmerksamkeit von Anhängern und Kritikern erfahren. Dieses Werk setzt sich kritisch mit dem Lebenswerk Hicks auseinander, und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-03-15
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This book brings together international scholars of Islamic philosophy, theology and politics to examine these current major questions: What is the place of pluralism in the Islamic founding texts? How have sacred and prophetic texts been interpreted throughout major...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-03-12
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