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The sword, the cross, and the eagle
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Davis Brown |
"Cutting across religion, law, and political theory, The Cross, the Sword, and the Eagle presents a comprehensive just war theory that prioritizes justice over peace and is based on time-honored Chri… |
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Flickering pixels
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Shane Hipps |
Flickering pixels are the tiny dots of light that make up the screens of life - from TVs to cell phones. They are nearly invisible, but they change us. In this provocative book, author Shane Hipps ta… |
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Creation Untamed
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Terence E. Fretheim |
The Bible often speaks of natural disasters, but its insights have been insufficiently explored. Terence Fretheim offers fresh readings of familiar Old Testament passages--creation, the flood, Sodom … |
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Jesus Freak
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Sara Miles |
"I came late to Christianity," writes Sara Miles, "knocked upside down by a mid-life conversion centered around eating a literal chunk of bread. I hadn't decided to profess an article of doctrine, bu… |
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Reconciliation
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Thích Nhất Hạnh |
"Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, author of Anger, offers insights on how mindfulness practice can encourage wellness and balanced mental health, and help heal childhood suffering and trauma. With persona… |
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Food and faith
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Norman Wirzba |
"This book provides a comprehensive theological framework for assessing eating's significance, demonstrating that eating is of profound economic, moral, and theological significance"-- |
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Islam in the modern world
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Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
"As Muslims grow in numbers, and as Islam's role in world affairs becomes larger, we've begun to see the breakdown in a united fellowship among believers. Certainly the misunderstandings and friction… |
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Digital Jesus
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Robert Glenn Howard |
In the 1990s, Marilyn Agee developed one of the most well-known amateur evangelical websites focused on the "End Times", The Bible Prophecy Corner. Around the same time, Lambert Dolphin, a retired St… |
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Sacred sound
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Guy L. Beck |
"This innovative book explores religion through music - the source of spiritual elation, social cohesion, and empowerment in cultures around the world."--BOOK JACKET |
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Zeit und Ewigkeit als Raum göttlichen Handelns
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Reinhard G. Kratz,Hermann Spieckermann |
Main description: The volume contains the papers from an international symposium held in 2007 by the Göttingen Graduate School on Images of Gods- Images of God- World Views: Polytheism and Monotheism… |
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Women and Islam
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Zayn Kassam |
A collection of essays to stimulate discussion and help readers achieve a more sober understanding of the lives of Muslim women around the world. |
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New faiths, old fears
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Bruce B. Lawrence |
"As a result of immigration from Asia in the wake of the passage of the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act, the fastest-growing religions in America - faster than all Christian groups combined - are Is… |
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God's bounty?
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Peter D. Clarke,Tony Claydon |
"Christianity has long sought to learn from nature as a 'book', full of examples to illustrate religious teaching and signs of divine and saintly interventions in human history. Some Christians have … |
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The African Christian diaspora
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Afeosemime U. Adogame |
The last three decades have witnessed a rapid proliferation of African Christian communities, particularly in Europe and North American diaspora, thus resulting in the remapping of old religious land… |
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The Oxford handbook of religion, conflict, and peacebuilding
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Little, David,R. Scott Appleby,Atalia Omer |
This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. Looking far beyond the traditional parameters of the field, the contrib… |
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Educating early Christians through the rhetoric of hell
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Meghan Henning |
Meghan Henning explores the rhetorical function of the early Christian concept of hell, drawing connections to Greek and Roman systems of education, and examining texts from the Hebrew Bible, Greek a… |
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Democracy, human rights and law in Islamic thought
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Muḥammad ʻĀbid Jābirī |
"Mohammad Abed al-Jabri is one of the most influential political philosophers in the contemporary Middle East. A critical rationalist in the tradition of Avincenna and Averroes, he emphasises the dis… |
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Feminism in Islam
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Margot Badran |
"Many in the West regard feminism and Islam as a contradiction in terms. However, this is a grave misconception as Margot Badran illustrates in this career-spanning collection of influential essays. … |
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One Step Closer
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Christian Batalden Scharen |
U2 is widely hailed as the greatest rock and roll band in the world, and lead singer Bono is often seen in the media touting humanitarian goals. Now Christian Scharen provides a thoughtful look at th… |
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What is truth?
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John M. Rist |
This book studies the nature, growth and prospects of Roman Catholic culture, viewed as capable of appropriating all that is noble both from internal and external sources. John Rist tests his argumen… |
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