History of religion

An exploration of how popes attempted to construct, maintain, and represent their power beyond Europe's eastern frontiers during the Avignon period of the 14th century.

Originally published in 1971, this book gives the real substance of Scotland at the time of Mary Queen of Scots.

An interdisciplinary examination of heresy, offering fresh perspectives on Milton, Locke and Hobbes.

Im August 1560 diskutierten die Theologieprofessoren Matthias Flacius Illyricus und Victorin Strigel im Weimarer Schloss über die menschliche Willensfreiheit.

Der Christ Julius Africanus hat in der ersten Hälfte des dritten Jahrhunderts unter dem Titel „Kestoi“ (Stickereien) ein Werk der Universalgelehrsamkeit verfasst, in dem er scheinbar disparate Wissensgebiete behandelt: von der Magie zur Militärtechnik, von der Veterinärmedizin zur Dichtkunst, von der Landwirtschaft bis zur Lehre von Maßen und Gewichten.

This book discusses various dynamic facets of the life of Rashid al-Ghannushi, a distinguished Islamic thinker and activist not only in Tunisia and North Africa, but in the entire Muslim world.

In this book, Julian Young argues that Nietzsche''s early religious communitarianism persists through all his published works.

In this fascinating book, Richard Smoley examines the roles God has played for us and reconciles them with what we today know through science and reason.

This is the third volume of Ferguson's collected essays, and includes some of his most memorable work, especially on "e;laying on of hands.

To what kind of existence does Christ call us?

The term 'jar' refers to any man-made shape with the capacity to enclose something.

Originally published in 1957.

This book examines the life and work of the Reverend John Callender (1706-1748) within the context of the emergence of religious toleration in New England in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, a relatively recent endeavor in light of the well-worn theme of persecution in colonial American religious history.

This thought provoking book deals with religious scholarship and important controversies of the early modern period, specifically those relating to the question of the salvation of the pagans and the afterlife.

An exploration of how ordinary U.

Antiquarianismus ist eine gleichermaßen aktuelle wie wissenschaftshistorisch belastete Kategorie.

Now available in a fully-revised and updated third edition, Islam: History, Religion and Politics, provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the core teachings, historical development, and contemporary public struggles of Islam.

Arnold of Brescia (ca 1100-1155), exiled twice and finally martyred, takes us into the student world of Paris during the blossoming of the twelfth-century Renaissance, through an infamous heresy trial, to teaching in Paris, then Zurich, and into Rome where he was the spiritual leader of the city for almost a decade.

"Los Grandes Iniciados" es una obra seminal.

This book explores why the metaphor of the church as a family is insufficient.

This book looks back to the period 1860 to 1950 in order to grasp how alternative visions of amity and co-existence were forged between people of faith, both within and resistant to imperial contact zones.

Jesus of Nazareth is a perennial subject of interest, and one of the most influential people that ever lived.

This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies written in Latin and the vernacular primarily in France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

This work, aimed at students unfamiliar with religious ideas and terminology, attempts to convey the centrality of religion to people's lives in early modern England, and to understand why people were prepared to die and kill for their faith.

First published in 1929, this book was intended to explain, "e;with documentary evidence"e;, the main principles and ideas for which Gandhi had stood over the course of his career up until that point.

John and Philosophy: A New Reading of the Fourth Gospel offers a Stoic reading of the Fourth Gospel, especially its cosmology, epistemology, and ethics.

Engaging Bonhoeffer documents the extraordinary impact of Dietrich Bonhoeffers life and writing on later thought.

Ellen White's two thousand visions, revered by her twenty million disciples, were doctrinally inspired by William Miller, who fathered the largest millennial movement in US history.

Between the religious massacres, conflicts and martyrdoms that characterised much of Reformation Europe, there seems little room for a consideration of the concept of moderation.

This book, first published as two volumes in 1977 and 1978, was published purely for the purpose of showing how Buddhist training was done by the Reverend Jiyu-Kennett in the Far East.

Demonstrates how, far from being peripheral, the stable communities of conventual religious in mainland Europe acted as important centres of religious and secular activity in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation.

If one is saved by faith alone in Jesus Christ, then what is the origin of that faith?

The Dictionary of Basilian Biography contains 632 biographical entries on the members of the Congregation of Saint Basil who died in the years between 1822, when the congregation was founded, and 2002.

Collected Studies CS1070The present book collects 31 articles that Jacques van der Vliet, a leading scholar in the field of Coptic Studies (Leiden University / Radboud University, Nijmegen), has published since 1999 on Christian inscriptions from Egypt and Nubia.

Die Universität Jena galt lange Zeit als Hort des wahren Luthertums und Rezeptionsort Luthers und der Reformation.

The Impassioned Life argues that theologys task today is to rethink the nature of emotions and their relation to human reason.

This is a detailed description of the various Sufi orders and movements which entered into the Balkans, the Crimean peninsula and other parts of Eastern Europe following the Ottoman conquests.

A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children.

The Book of Raymond of Aguilers, also called the Historia Francorum qui Ceperunt Iherusalem, is one of a handful of eyewitness accounts of the First Crusade, the name given to an armed expedition called for by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095 that journeyed and fought its way to the Holy Land, culminating in the conquest of Jerusalem in July 1099.

Germany was the most powerful kingdom in the medieval West from the mid-tenth to the mid-thirteenth century.

Places and spaces are key factors in how individuals and groups construct their identities.