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This book offers a new way to justify privacy based on a theory derived from Buddhist insights.

The life and times of this iconic and enduring biblical bookThe Book of Job raises stark questions about the nature and meaning of innocent suffering and the relationship of the human to the divine, yet it is also one of the Bible's most obscure and paradoxical books, one that defies interpretation even today.

The Iraq War caused emotional, physical, psychiatric, relational, and spiritual challenges to an untold number of military reservists and their families.

Interfaith as a Faith-A Way to Move Past Preaching about Love and Compassion to Actually Practicing Them"e;A commitment to Interfaith is no small commitment.

Princes, Pastors and People traces the many changes in religious life that took place in the turbulent years of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries.

The academic fields of religion and values have become the focus of renewed interest in contemporary thinking about human activity and its motivations.

The conflict in Eastern Ukraine and the European refugee crisis have led to a dramatic increase in forced displacement across Europe.

This book offers a history of sociological theory from a Christian perspective, tracing the origins of sociology from the beginnings of Western science as introduced by the Scholastics of the twelfth century, which, when combined with their emphasis on rationality, led to the Enlightenment "e;science of man"e;-an emphasis that eventually resulted in sociology, which combined empiricism and a Christian moral philosophy.

Born in 1713 of French Huguenot stock, Philadelphia Quaker Anthony Benezet was probably the most significant force in advancing the cause against slavery and the African slave trade in the eighteenth century.

Jacob Neusner has published more than 1000 books and articles, scholarly and academic, popular and journalistic, and is one of the most published humanities scholars in the world.

First published in 1937, this volume offers an overview of witchcraft and its practices and history, written by Montague Summers.

The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics continues to be an essential resource for students and faculty pursuing the latest developments in Christian and religious ethics, publishing refereed scholarly articles - a preeminent source for further research.

This book is a thorough analysis and discussion of the nature of time and eternity, focusing on the timelessness of God.

This book traces the unitary source of all of the world's major religions.

Originally published in 2004.

A Preface to Mark is a literary study which, from the standpoint of the newer critical methodologies, explores two questions.

Often, a disconnect exists between the way pastors, children's ministry volunteers, and churches describe the health and impact of children's ministry volunteers (and the overall functioning of an ongoing children's ministry).

Drawing on her own experience as a surrogate mother, Grace Y.

Using a commentary on the influential text, the Manjusri-namasamgiti, 'The Chanting of the Names of Manjusri', this book deals with Buddhist tantric meditation practice and its doctrinal context in early-medieval India.

An inside look at how religious diversity came to PrincetonIn 1981, Frederick Houk Borsch returned to Princeton University, his alma mater, to serve as dean of the chapel at the Ivy League school.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.

Jung's correspondence with one of the twentieth century's leading theologians and ecumenicistsOn Theology and Psychology brings together C.

Are there nonexistent objects?

Archaeologists have been increasingly turning their attention to the study of religion, but the field so far has lacked a cross-cultural overview.

This book charts the profound changes in British Christianity over the last century.

Hymns and Constructions of Race: Mobility, Agency, De/Coloniality examines how the hymn, historically and today, has reinforced, negotiated, and resisted constructions of race.

Apart from her celebrity status as 'the art nun', generated by her television programmes, Sister Wendy has been approached throughout her life for counsel on the spiritual life and the life of prayer.

Die Froschauerbibel von 1531 ist ein reformations-, kultur- und sprachgeschichtliches Schlüsseldokument der Reformationszeit.

The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the United States.

On October 30, 1608, Jacobus Arminius presented his Declaration of Sentiments to the Assembly of the States of Holland and West Friesland in the Binnenhof at The Hague.

Creator of the popular website The Religion Teacher, Jared Dees shares practical, easy-to-use teaching strategies and exercises for spiritual growth in his book 31 Days to Becoming a Better Religious Educator.

The overall problem raised in this book is that the Western culture of modern rationality, power, and economics departs from a rather narrow, secular and ego-centric worldview.

This book presents an original and archivally rich account of the Church of England's institutional grappling with matters of sex, relationships, marriage, birth control, and same-sex attraction between 1918 and 1980, uncovering a long and complex history of debates and disagreements that led to its present-day impasse over issues of sexuality.

Rossteuschers Geschichte des Ursprungs der Irvingianerkirche behält trotz des apologetischen Tons ihren Wert.

This volume brings together a set of classic essays on early rabbinic history and culture, seven of which have been translated into English especially for this publication.

Any list of the most influential figures of the second half of the twentieth century would arguably have to begin with the name of Pope John Paul II.

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Dieser gewichtige Band versammelt Überlegungen zur kirchenhistorischen Methodik sowie Beiträge zur Rezeption des patristischen Erbes und der theologischen Überlieferung des Mittelalters in der reformatorischen Theologie Martin Luthers in Kontinuität und Konkurrenz zur kirchlichen Tradition.

Edwin Hatch provided a colorful portrait of the religious world to which Justin Martyr belonged: "e;The main subject-matter of .

Baptists in America began the eighteenth century a small, scattered, often harassed sect in a vast sea of religious options.

Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world.

This English edition of Menno Simons' writings contains all the known writings of Menno, including several tracts, letters, and hymns never previously translated.

Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it.

An examination of political and cultural acts of commemoration, this study addresses the way personal and collective loss is registered in prose, poetry and drama in early modern England.