Michal Choinski explores the language of the key preachers of the "e;Great Awakening"e; of the mid-eighteenth century, and seeks to explain the impact their sermons exerted upon colonial American audiences.
When people of different cultures and religious traditions are being constantly drawn closer together, interreligious dialogue becomes not only a strategy to understand the "e;Others,"e; but also an attitude to deepen one's faith.
Im Dialog zwischen Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft hat nun eine jüdische Stimme das Wort: Der aus dem traditionsbestimmten Judentum kommende und international hochangesehene Immunologe Irun R.
Recognizing the absence of a God named Yahweh outside of ancient Israel, this study addresses the related questions of Yahweh's origins and the biblical claim that there were Yahweh-worshipers other than the Israelite people.
Die ethische Relevanz biblischer Texte liegt in ihrer Literarizität begründet, die fremde Textwelten entstehen lässt und dem Lesenden Möglichkeitsräume des Denkens und Handelns eröffnet.
The influence of the Old Testament and Early Judaism on the Fourth Gospel is the subject of various contributions of this book, as well as the influence of the Synoptic tradition.
Der Apostel Paulus war der Missionar, der die im Urchristentum neuentstandenen Traditionen am stärksten für die jeweilige Situation adaptiert und variiert hat.
Erstmals werden in der vorliegenden Arbeit mit einer aus geschichtswissenschaftlichen und philologischen Ansätzen kombinierten Methode der Stiluntersuchung die Gestaltungsprinzipien in päpstlichen Briefen des 13.
Die Erinnerung an das historische Sepharad und vor allem an die trikulturelle convivencia auf der mittelalterlichen Iberischen Halbinsel stehen derzeit in Spanien hoch im Kurs, verweisen sie doch scheinbar auf eine jahrhundertelange Tradition der Toleranz und Demokratie.
Based on modern methods on social memory taken from cultural studies the author of this volume presents a model for reading Biblical texts as collective memories, the example here being the Gospel of Mark.
During the 19th century the natural sciences set up a firmly established and nearly unassailable canon of knowledge that since has seemed to challenge the Christian worldview.
In his contribution to the fragmentary Jewish historians of Hellenistic times and their treatment of the biblical tradition Erich Gruen shows not only that the fragments disclose a remarkable range and diversity of texts, but also that their authors' engagement with biblical texts was more light-hearted in tone, deliberately idiosyncratic, and, far from parochial in temperament, tended to connect with Hellenic and Near Eastern cultures in order to set Jewish traditions into a broader context.
Children's bibles are one of the main media in the past and present Protestant religious education, but only recently, in the last three decades, scholarship focused on this topic.
How, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to dominate late Roman imperial politics and piety The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods.
Chastity in its general sense is a created value with man when God created it, and it is one of the balance that God has put in place to straighten life, so the deviations of chastity represented a refraction in the course of human life, and between the reader's hands a model in history with a dialogue between the Prophet of God, peace be upon him, with two women who did not respond In the Qur'an, their name, declaring that this is not a mind, as this is the course of life that God created to be on chastity between a man and a woman.
Portaceli, degana de les cartoixes hispanes, va viure la seua esplendor al segle XV, quan es va convertir en una de les més influents del regne de València i, fins i tot, de la Corona d'Aragó, la qual cosa va enriquir el seu patrimoni arquitectònic i artístic.
An inside account of the Chinese invasion of Tibet told through the voices of three persecuted monks*; 2024 International Book Award Nonfiction - Creative Category*; Shares the true story of three monks' heroic escape from occupied Tibet and the subsequent rebirth of the Bn religion in exile*; Introduces Bn, Tibet's oldest religion, and a traditional way of life extinguished by foreign occupation*; Reveals details of the 1950 Chinese invasion of Tibet and the exodus of thousands of Tibetans to neighboring countriesProviding an inside view into the Chinese occupation of Tibet and the tenets of Bn, one of the world's oldest but least known religions, this book chronicles the true story of three Bn monks who heroically escaped occupied Tibet and went on to rebuild their culture through incredible resilience, determination, and passion.
Talking about human beliefs is essentially an old matter; Contemporary - because people differ in their sects and approaches - its material expands at times and narrows at times; To the extent that people of religions get to know each other and agree with each other's doctrines.
An Instant Sunday Times Bestseller'A profoundly urgent intervention' Naomi KleinFrom one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing movements today.
In ›Die Erfindung des Astralkörpers‹ begibt sich der Leser auf eine faszinierende Reise durch die schillernde Welt des metaphysischen Phänomens, das seit Jahrhunderten die menschliche Vorstellungskraft beflügelt – den Astralkörper.
