Now in a third edition, this seminal text has been updated to provide an insightful and original portrait of one of England's most unforgettable monarchs and the many paradoxes of his character and reign.
This book offers a timely and original contribution to the field of religion and politics by exploring how religion interacts with political institutions, political parties, law, and public discourse across Europe, North America, and the Middle East.
This book offers a timely and original contribution to the field of religion and politics by exploring how religion interacts with political institutions, political parties, law, and public discourse across Europe, North America, and the Middle East.
Refounding the Church weaves together the basic dynamics of a lay incarnational spirituality, including synodality, a liberated theology, an informed conscience, local eucharistic magisteria, the sensus fidelium and a western theology of liberation.
Refounding the Church weaves together the basic dynamics of a lay incarnational spirituality, including synodality, a liberated theology, an informed conscience, local eucharistic magisteria, the sensus fidelium and a western theology of liberation.
In traditional societies, ancestry is an important organising principle, often determining the lives of individuals or groups from the moment that they are born.
In traditional societies, ancestry is an important organising principle, often determining the lives of individuals or groups from the moment that they are born.
Established & Flourishing: Building What Will Outlive You is a faith-centered devotional designed to realign your thoughts, strengthen your identity, and awaken the life you were created to build.
This volume contains the Syriac version, with Latin translation, of Severus' polemical work against Julian, bishop of Halicarnassus, especially on the question of the corruptibility of Jesus' body.
This book is the first attempt to apply formal pragmatics to Judaic studies as a discipline under the auspices of cultural studies, reconstructing the pragmatic approach in Judaism and defining some of the pragmatic limits assumed in the Torah.
Explore the contemporary significance of the Old Testament and hear the Word of God afreshThe book of Lamentations is disturbing, says highly regarded Old Testament scholar Mark J.
The first and only extensive treatment of the genocide of the Aramaic-speaking Christians of the Middle East, in particular the Syriac Orthodox communities, in the late 1800s and early 1900s under the Ottomans.
A foundational collection of texts for the study of eastern (and western) liturgy, Assemani's Codex Liturgicus Ecclesiae Universae, in twelve volumes, contains texts in Latin, Greek, Coptic, Arabic, and Syriac; the non-Latin texts have translations into that language.
In this volume, Bore (1809-1878), who traveled in the Middle East, offers a study of religious life among the Chaldeans, with much attention given to religious communities and monasticism, especially the Rabban Hormizd Monastery.
In Behind Ancient Bars, law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back to depictions of detention and confinement in the Hebrew Bible.
In the present work, Baby Varghese presents the Syriac text, accompanied by an English translation, of Dionysius's commentaries on the rites of myron (anointing of oil) and baptism.
This book is a collection of a number of small catalogues and hand-lists of manuscripts held in the possession of Syrian Orthodox churches, monasteries, and even individuals throughout the Middle East.
This volume is a translation into Arabic of the papers and discussions published as part of the Pro-Oriente ecumenical consultation between members of Roman Catholic, Chaldean Catholic, Syro-Malankar, Syrian Orthodox, Maronite, and Assyrian Orthodox Churches, originally published in Vienna in 1994.
