This volume includes selected papers (in English and Chinese) from an international conference held in Beijing in 2001, the year that marked the 400th anniversary of Matteo Ricci's arrival in Beijing.
Id, pues, y enseñad a todas las gentes bautizándolas en el nombre del Padre y del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo, enseñándoles a observar todo cuanto yo os he mandado.
Parents - the godless anti-Bible Veejack religion is using the public schools and government funding to train our children, family, and friends to reject our Judeo-Christian values and beliefs.
In obedience to Jesus' command, 'Do this in remembrance of me', the ritual repetition of the Lord's Supper down through the ages and across multiple Christian cultures in the liturgies of East and West, has given rise, inevitably, to innumerable diversities of shape, text, cultural context, and theological interpretation, as well as to debates, sometimes heated, among modern experts as to the methodologies for resolving the problems arising from these differences.
Originally published in 1959, this book was planned as a second contribution towards critique and apologetics of Quakerism, the first being a booklet called Friends and Truth published in 1956.
Im Zentrum der Reformation stand nicht nur Martin Luther – auch seine Kinder spielten eine bedeutende Rolle in der Neuordnung einer durch religiöse Umwälzungen geprägten Welt.
This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of its most fascinating periods.
Franciscan friars were everywhere in the early modern Catholic world, a world that stretched from the Americas, through Western and Central Europe, to the Middle East and Asia.
In a day fascinated with questions of historiography and with explicating a distinctive Christian philosophy of time and history, Henri-Charles Puech's (1950s) work on Gnosis and time found an audience.
Shinto: Der Weg der Götter II – Die Seele Japans zwischen Tradition und GegenwartTauchen Sie ein in die magische Welt des Shintoismus – die spirituelle Seele Japans!
Stories about the Virgin Mary began to appear in the second century, a spring of tradition that branched off from the mainstream teaching of the canonical gospels.
Stories about the Virgin Mary began to appear in the second century, a spring of tradition that branched off from the mainstream teaching of the canonical gospels.
This volume presents innovative studies of how the emerging disciplines of archaeology and ancient history shaped the modern Middle East, and how they were in turn shaped by competing visions and agendas of empires and new nations.
Enacting the Reformation in Germany brings together sixteen essays and articles written over a thirty-year period by a historian who has made it his special scholarly concern to trace and analyze the social consequences of the German Reformation's salient ideas and positions.
Constantinople was well known in its heyday for the enormous collection of relics housed in its churches: bones, even whole bodies and intimate possessions of holy men and women.
Die immer stärker werdende Zuwendung zu der eigenen Leiblichkeit und der Welt, erleben viele Menschen als Verhinderung der Rückkehr ihres Bewusstseins zu sich, zu der eigenen Tiefe im Inneren.
In der frühneuzeitlichen Debatte um den Rang der Frauen in der Gesellschaft, der sogenannten "Querelle des femmes", spielten religiöse Positionierungen und biblische Referenzen eine herausragende Rolle.
Running through the papers collected here is the concern to try and understand the reasons which people thought they had for acting in a certain way, and - not always the same thing - the reasons which they expressed for what they were doing.
The Christian culture of Rus (the medieval precursor of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) is sometimes presented either as a reflection of an indigenous spirituality wrapped in borrowed (Byzantine) forms or, by contrast, as merely a provincial version of its Byzantine original.
The first eight studies in this volume seek to address a series of questions concerning the emergence and the role of the military orders in the 12th and 13th centuries: the reasons for the appearance of the institution, the recruitment and instruction of novices, and, though the military orders were predominantly male organisations, the role of women within them.
Elite Women in Early Modern Catholic Europe offers a new look at early modern Catholic Europe through the lens of the diverse experiences of elite women, using a historiographical approach to analyze women's roles through changing political, social, and cultural contexts.
