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Our churches are beset by challenges. From the outside, they are beset by a rapidly secularizing culture. From the inside, they're being hollowed out by the departure of young people and a watered-down spirituality. Many believers are blind to it, and their churches are...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2024-10-24
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This book successfully mines the rich theology of Passover through fresh exegesis, reading the text according to ancient Hebrew literary conventions. Numbers 3:13 indicates that, during Passover, Yahweh consecrated the firstborn. But how did he do this? Through a close...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-10-21
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Rekordtemperaturen, Dürre-Katastrophen und Starkregenereignisse treten heute immer häufiger auf, so dass die Folgen des Klimawandels im gesellschaftlichen Bewusstsein immer präsenter werden und nicht mehr zu verharmlosen sind. Dieser Band beleuchtet aus...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-10-21
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Diese Studie beschreitet innerhalb der Septuaginta-Forschung zum Danielbuch neue Wege. Das längste Kapitel des griechischen Danielbuches wird als eine eigenständige Textkomposition ernstgenommen und eingehend untersucht, unter anderem anhand einer erweiterten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-17
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Die Verbindung von Sprache und fiqh zeigt sich insofern klar, als die Normen (a?kam) im theologisch-rechtlichen Kontext u.a. direkt von den arabischen Überlieferungstexten des Koran und der Sunna ergründet werden.Die Lehren tafsir, fiqh bzw. u?ul al-fiqh spielen hier...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-10-17
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Saints, Angels, and Demons is an illustrated compendium of the fascinating lives and meaningful legacies of nearly 400 iconic figures who have influenced history, religion, literature, and art, throughout the centuries and across the world. From St....
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2024-10-15
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The idea that an external force can enter an individual and possess their body is prevalent in most cultures across the globe and throughout history. This possession can last for varying lengths of time, and its effects can be considered positive--when a "spirit"...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-15
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The pastor and founder of Zoe Church reveals the Church’s role in the rising levels of narcissism today and the Bible’s countercultural call to humility. Popular author, speaker, and pastor of Zoe Church in Los Angeles, Chad Veach tackles one of the...
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FaithWords
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2024-10-15
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'Forget the years, forget norms, let yourself be stirred by the boundless.'
The Zhuangzi -- an anthology of anonymous writings produced in China between the fourth and second centuries BC -- is one of the world's great literary treasures and the single most important...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-15
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More than 20 percent of Americans are Catholic, and overall membership in the Catholic Church has remained relatively steady even as increasing numbers of people claim no religious affiliation. The rising prominence of Catholics in important leadership positions and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-15
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Debatten um Radikalisierung und islamistisch begründeten Extremismus sind aus der deutschen Politik und Medienlandschaft nicht mehr wegzudenken, während die Bundesregierung umfangreiche Programme zur Förderung von Präventionsarbeit aufsetzt.
Die Studie nimmt mit einer...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2024-10-15
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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”...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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,...
Editeur :
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,...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-09-24
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