Religion: general

How might one describe early Christian exegesis?

How might one describe early Christian exegesis?

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century.

Soren Kierkegaard's work is teeming with images of earthquakes, floods, storms, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, burned down cities, and apocalyptic events that 'let the heavens fall and the stars change their places in the overturning of everything'.

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century.

Increasingly, North Americans and Western Europeans identify as 'spiritual but not religious'.

Soren Kierkegaard's work is teeming with images of earthquakes, floods, storms, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, burned down cities, and apocalyptic events that 'let the heavens fall and the stars change their places in the overturning of everything'.

Increasingly, North Americans and Western Europeans identify as 'spiritual but not religious'.

Poetic Priesthood reads seventeenth-century devotional verse as staging a surprising competition between poetry and the established church.

Dissenting Daughters reveals that devout women made vital contributions to the spread and practice of the Reformed faith in the Dutch Republic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Dissenting Daughters reveals that devout women made vital contributions to the spread and practice of the Reformed faith in the Dutch Republic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Protestant nuns and mixed-confessional convents are an unexpected anomaly in early modern Germany.

Protestant nuns and mixed-confessional convents are an unexpected anomaly in early modern Germany.

Poetic Priesthood reads seventeenth-century devotional verse as staging a surprising competition between poetry and the established church.

Catholics in Contemporary Britain showcases findings from a wide-ranging, empirical study of Catholics living in Britain.

Catholics in Contemporary Britain showcases findings from a wide-ranging, empirical study of Catholics living in Britain.

Richard Cross explores the largely uncharted territory of seventeenth-century Christology, paying close attention to its metaphysical and semantic presuppositions and consequences.

Richard Cross explores the largely uncharted territory of seventeenth-century Christology, paying close attention to its metaphysical and semantic presuppositions and consequences.

Writing, publishing, and marketing five politically engaged novels that appeared between 1899 and 1908, Sutton E.

Writing, publishing, and marketing five politically engaged novels that appeared between 1899 and 1908, Sutton E.

This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to.

This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to.

Abu Hamid al-Ghazl, a Muslim jurist-theologian and polymath who lived from the mid-eleventh to the early twelfth century in present-day Iran, is a figure equivalent in stature to Maimonides in Judaism and Thomas Aquinas in Christianity.

Brown proposes a theory of poetic metaphor that attempts to account for literatures complex role in the discovery and creation of significant patterns within both language and life.

In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution.

From 2004 to 2006 the Osage Nation conducted a contentious governmental reform process in which sharply differing visions arose over the new governments goals, the Nations own history, and what it means to be Osage.

Civil rights activist Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) developed a citizenship education program that enabled tens of thousands of African Americans to register to vote and to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment.

The eleventh and twelfth centuries comprised a period of great significance in Islamic history.

In the years of expanding state authority following the Black Death, English common law permitted the leasing of parishes by their rectors and vicars, who then pursued interests elsewhere and left the parish in the control of lay lessees.

The authors analyze abortion and death penalty decisions by the Supreme Court and argue that they provide prime examples of abrupt legal change.

Although historians over the past two decades have written extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they have largely neglected the world of the working woman.

How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades?

In a work of striking breadth and clarity, Paul Conkin offers an even-handed and in-depth look at the major American-made forms of Christianity - a diverse group of religious traditions, each of which reflects a significant break from western Christian orthodoxy.

In the decades after World War II, Protestant missionaries abroad were a topic of vigorous public debate.

Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century.

Reason, Faith, and Purpose: The Ultimate Gamble is a guide for believers and inquiring skeptics.

Light of the Universe is an exciting exploration of the link between God, science, and the human mind and soul.

Recent decades have witnessed an enthusiastic retrieval of eudaimonism, according to which the virtuous life is the happy life.

In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism, a strand of Protestantism gaining popularity around the world.

Recent decades have witnessed an enthusiastic retrieval of eudaimonism, according to which the virtuous life is the happy life.

Known as the ';Father of Church History,' Eusebius was bishop of Caesarea in Palestine and the leading Christian scholar of his day.

This is a study of the relationship between Anglicans and the armed forces, of the military heritage and history of the Anglican Communion, and the changing nature of this relationship between the mid-Victorian period and the 1970s.

This is a study of the relationship between Anglicans and the armed forces, of the military heritage and history of the Anglican Communion, and the changing nature of this relationship between the mid-Victorian period and the 1970s.

Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia.

In search of an explanation of how a sense of ethnic identity evolves to create the concept of nation, Armstrong analyzes Islamic and Christian cultures from antiquity to the nineteenth century.

According to Michael Barkun, many white supremacist groups of the radical right are deeply committed to the distinctive but little-recognized religious position known as Christian Identity.

In tenth- and eleventh-century England, Anglo-Saxon Christians retained an old folk belief in elves as extremely dangerous creatures capable of harming unwary humans.

The problem of mourning is the last and hardest part of the problem of evil.

The problem of mourning is the last and hardest part of the problem of evil.

Catholics and Treason takes the narratives generated by the contemporary law of treason as it applied to Roman Catholics, during and after the Reformation of the Church in the sixteenth century, and uses them to explore the Catholic community's writing of its own history.