This book explores the role of millennialism, the Millerites, and prophecy in the historical development of the Baha'i faith, especially in North America.
Natural Theology: A Reassessment offers corrections to widespread misinterpretations of the authoritative sources of Christian theology and shows that these sources affirm a traditional view of natural theology that refers to what can be rationally believed about God without using religious doctrines as premises.
The roots of evil are often held to be Biblical, but philosophers in ancient China and Greece were thoroughly conversant with both the phenomena and the languages of evil.
Tolerance as a universal value of modernity is not usually associated in popular consciousness with religion, which is often regarded as inherently intolerant.
Bringing together scholars from across the world, this publication shows Christians and Muslims - individually or together - reading the canonical Gospels of the New Testament in 'conversation' with Islamic texts and contexts.
Bringing together scholars from across the world, this publication shows Christians and Muslims - individually or together - reading the canonical Gospels of the New Testament in 'conversation' with Islamic texts and contexts.
This volume celebrates the work and impact of Professor Helen Nicholson by bringing together twenty-two chapters by colleagues, former students and friends which focus on her major research interests: the Military Orders, women in the Middle Ages and the history of the crusades and the Latin East.
This book highlights some important continuities as well as differences between the teachings of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), co founder of the Theosophical Society in 1875, and Krishnamurti Jiddu (1895-1986), the Theosophist who was trained to be the World Teacher.
Building Bridges Among Abrahams Children honors the extraordinary career of Professor Michael Berenbaum, a luminary in Holocaust studies, museum design, filmmaking, and interfaith dialogue.
Interludes of Peace in the Medieval Latin East undertakes a multifaceted examination of peacemaking processes as they unfolded in the medieval Latin East.
With a tradition of almost five hundred years the Jesuit order has repeatedly produced original thinkers from various fields, thus enriching Western culture.
This volume illuminates some of the manifold ways in which Britain's communication infrastructure affected everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain.
Working with Crisis and Trauma from an Islamic Perspective provides a holistic framework and treatment methods for working with trauma and crises, framed within an Islamic Psychology paradigm.
The Jesuit Relations, a series of annual reports produced between 1632 and 1673 detailing the experiences of Society of Jesus missionaries in what is now Eastern Canada, have long been an influential source on the history of New France and encounters between European settlers and Indigenous Peoples.
At the age of nineteen, Catherine Spalding (17931858) ventured into what would become a lifetime of leadership with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (SCN)one of the most significant American religious communities for women.
Jacob Taubes war ein Denker zwischen Judentum und westlicher Philosophie, die sich ihm von Parmenides bis Marx und Kierkegaard, Heidegger und Benjamin spannte, "von Ionien bis Jena", wie er zu sagen pflegte.
Die erste Frau in der Bibel ("EVA" Gen 1-3) ist in der christlichen Geschichte und Tradition weitgehend zu einer negativen Figur gemacht worden, zum Symbol für die Unzuverlässigkeit von Frauen, zur Verführerin und Ursache allen Übels.
Die soziale und politische Wirkmächtigkeit und die Konflikthaftigkeit von religiösen Überzeugungen erfordern es, das Verhältnis von Religion und Bildung neu zu reflektieren.
Interludes of Peace in the Medieval Latin East undertakes a multifaceted examination of peacemaking processes as they unfolded in the medieval Latin East.
Die Feststellung einer Wiederkehr religiöser Erscheinungsformen und Deutungsmuster prägt die wissenschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Debatte am Beginn des 21.
This volume reveals how some Christian authors used the poetry of Vergil to explain important aspects of the three persons of the trinity, shedding new light on the attitudes of early Christians towards non-Christian texts.
