Religion: general

How could the Apostle Paul maintain in his first letter to the Christians in Corinth that all their ancestors were baptized into Moses at the Red Sea / exodus event (10:2), and how could he tolerate some of them having themselves baptized again on behalf of the dead (15:29)?

This collection of essays and thoughts covers such areas as basic Christian thought, which includes traditional family morality and a great concern for alleviating poverty and promoting social justice, political thought comparing the need for a system which includes both socialist and capitalist elements, and the need for values in our society, which has come to emphasize money, power, and greed as philosophical goals and values, though they are not.

This book explores one of the great paradoxes of our era.

The history of Catholic homiletics is rich and layered with theology and spirituality.

Translating Totality in Parts offers an annotated translation of two of preeminent Chinese Tang dynasty monk Chengguan's most revered masterpieces.

The Invention of Monotheist Ethics, Volume II presents a comprehensive analysis of the Biblical Book of Samuel.

There is no universally accepted definition of moral damages, but the concept is usually understood in the context of torts that cause psychological harm to a person or a person's rights that are difficult to quantify.

Another Look: One God and Three Faiths is a unique study of sacred history and monotheism.

Nuns Without Cloister explores one of the first and most innovative among the non-cloistered women's congregations established after the Council of Trent.

This two-volume Journey of a Rabbi consists of essays describing ventures undertaken, events experienced, and ideas articulated that reflect the life work of a rabbi and Jewish educator.

In the past, as in the present, science has explored the reasons for belief.

Incidental Psychotherapy within Christian Relationships points out the close similarity between the loving connections of Christians and therapeutic relationships between psychotherapists and clients.

Homo Mysticus presents three renowned lectures delivered by Wolfgang Struve from 1974 to 1984, translated into English in this volume.

"e;Beneath the surface [of our society],"e; writes historian Robert Wistrich, are "e;ancient myths, dark hatreds, and irrational fantasies [that] continue to nourish antisemitism.

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A Crisis of Belief, Ethics and Faith presents a self-corrective and contemporary system of philosophy in a very readable format.

Food for the Soul is a work of theology that sheds light on the history of Catholicism while discussing important issues facing the Church and our society today.

This book is the third in a trilogy of books on introductory psychology.

The book examines issues of disabilities in Nigeria focusing on attitudes and reactions to people with disabilities within the context of practices perpetuating the treatment of people with disabilities.

This book provides scholarly and applied perspectives on culturally sensitive narrative interventions for culturally diverse and immigrant children and adolescents.

The scope of this research focuses on a sample of undergraduate university students who attended the Westchester campuses of Pace University in New York to determine the relative significance of ethnicity in the educational and professional options perceived by Italian-American vs.

This book examines "e;eternal colonialism,"e; a term used to describe the policies that were designed by the Western world and the United States in order to keep most of the world in a permanently subordinate political, economic, social, and military state.

Anyone familiar with the Rastafari movement and its connection with the Bible is struck by the prevalence of messianic I-locution found in both.

What is it to be truly human at work?

Seven Ways of Knowing is an examination of what we mean when we say we know something, and the extent and sureness of this knowledge.

Unearthing Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching: The Legacy of Gloria Jean Merriex focuses on the theory and practices of a highly successful mathematics teacher of African American children in a high-poverty school.

Western dualism is an illusion.

The Continuing Legacy of Simone Weil analyzes the core work of Simone Weil and her views on the nature of the human condition, humanity's relationship with God, and the objective state of our world.

Before the Arabo-Muslim conquest of 698, the Jews lived peacefully in North Africa with the other inhabitants of the region, except for a few brief periods of Roman and Byzantine rules.

This book concerns the origins, structure, purpose, meaning, and signi?

A growing number of Jews identify themselves as secular or "e;somewhat secular.

This book combats the anti-religious sentiment of some psychologists.

In a culture firmly grounded in scientific thought, it has become common to think of "e;God"e; as the label we use for natural law, the creative, organizational forces in the universe, rather than as a great, omniscient Being.

What are scientific theories?

A Physician Under the Nazis are the memoirs of the first forty years (1909-1948) of the life of Henry Glenwick.

Color Struck: Essays of Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective is a compilation of expositions on race and ethnicity, written from multiple disciplinary approaches including history, sociology, women's studies, and anthropology.

No two figures could seem further removed than Mohandas K.

In The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future, Theodore John Rivers explores the changing relationship between technology and religion.

Examining American psychology's development from a Jungian perspective, Jennings argues that the discipline is at a point where a deeper and broader exploration of spirituality is essential in order to realize the goal of creating a complete psychology of human beings.

This book offers a new, European-centered approach to Tocqueville's thought.

The Invention of Monotheist Ethics, Volume I presents a comprehensive analysis of the Biblical Book of Samuel.

Goddess Durga and Sacred Female Power is an exploration of the many faces of the Goddess Durga in ancient and contemporary culture.

This collection of essays was inspired by the desire to create a suitable tribute to Dr.

In today's world, we are witnessing both the spread of a hopeful secular humanism and the persistence of cultural traditions that mindlessly glorify humans and are paving the path to environmental collapse.

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

"The Varieties of Religious Experience is certainly the most notable of all books in the field of the psychology of religion and probably destined to be the most influential [one] written on religion in the twentieth century," said Walter Houston Clark in Psychology Today.

A Concise History of American Antisemitism shows how Christianity's negative views of Jews pervaded American history from colonial times to the present.

Intended for students as well as scholars of religion and violence, Belief and Bloodshed discusses how the relationship between religion and violence is not unique to a post-9/11 world-it has existed throughout all of recorded history and culture.

The Audacity to Teach!

The oral history of Britain's first West Indian immigrants and their descendantsIn 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica.

Discover a story 400 years in the making - the definitive biography of the man who dominated England in the first half of the sixteenth century'Engrossing' THE TIMES'In this excellent study, Thomas More is reborn as a complex, absorbing man' DAILY TELEGRAPH'[A] immersive, richly told account of life, death, faith and politics at the early Tudor court' SPECTATOR'THE definitive biography of one of history's most complex and often inscrutable characters' NATHEN AMIN'Significant.