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How should we look after the world we inhabit? Martin and Margot
Hodson bring together scientific and theological wisdom to offer 62
reflections inspired by passages from the Bible in a thoughtful
exploration that encourages both reflection and response. Themes
include The Wisdom of Trees, Landscapes of Promise and Sharing
Resources.
This book is designed to introduce readers to the world of
Christian scholarship by way of primary literary sources. It
contains the most notable and instructive primary sources from the
entire sweep of Christian history, along with accessible
introductions, line-by-line annotations, study questions, a
glossary, and suggestions for further reading.
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Unclean
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Richard Beck
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The Shame Factor
(Hardcover)
Robert Jewett, Wayne Alloway, John G Lacey
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Six Minor Prophets Through the Centuries is the work of highly
respected biblical scholars, Richard Coggins and Jin H. Han. The
volume explores the rich and complex reception history of the last
six Minor Prophets in Jewish and Christian exegesis, theology,
worship, and arts. This text is the work of two highly respected
biblical scholars It explores the rich and complex reception
history of the last six Minor Prophets in Jewish and Christian
theology and exegesis
The second edition of David Bentley Hart’s critically acclaimed
New Testament translation David Bentley Hart’s
translation of the New Testament, first published in 2017, was
hailed as a “remarkable feat” and as a “strange,
disconcerting, radical version of a strange, disconcerting
manifesto of profoundly radical values.” In this second edition,
which includes a powerful new preface and more than a thousand
changes to the text, Hart’s purpose remains the same: to render
the original Greek texts faithfully, free of doctrine and theology,
awakening readers to the uncanniness that often lies hidden beneath
doctrinal layers. Through his startling translation, with
its raw, unfinished quality, Hart reveals a world conceptually
quite unlike our own. “It was a world,” he writes, “in which
the heavens above were occupied by celestial spiritual potentates
of questionable character, in which angels ruled the nations of the
earth as local gods, in which demons prowled the empty places, . .
. and in which the entire cosmos was for many an eternal divine
order and for many others a darkened prison house.” He challenges
readers to imagine it anew: a God who reigned on high, appearing in
the form of a slave and dying as a criminal, only then to be raised
up and revealed as the Lord of all things.
• Muslim expansion into the western Mediterranean in the Early
Middle Ages had a great influence on Italy. Without minimizing the
extent of the destruction that occurred in those centuries, this
book presents the annotated sources translated into English for
postgraduate and upper level undergraduate students about the way
Muslims and Christians perceived each other. • Providing students
with primary sources about the circulation of news about them, and
their knowledge of their opponents, this book clarifies the
relationship between Muslims and Christians in early medieval
Italy. • This book allows students provides students with a
fuller picture, not currently offered on the market. It enables
them to see the dynamic between Muslims and Christians in early
medieval Italy in a time of invasion and peace to better understand
the relationship between the two religions.
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Dust and Ashes
(Hardcover)
James L. Crenshaw; Edited by Katherine Lee
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Provides an overview of the fundamental history, diverse
approaches, and ideas associated with this exciting and relatively
new field of study. Each chapter features engaging case studies and
ends with summaries and recommendations for further study with
suggested readings. Written by leading academics in the field, this
will be the go-to introduction to digital religion.
A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the
internationally renowned evolutionary psychologist When did humans
develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose?
And in our increasingly secular world, why has it endured? Every
society in the history of humanity has lived with religion. In How
Religion Evolved, evolutionary psychologist Professor Robin Dunbar
tracks its origins back to what he terms the 'mystical stance' -
the aspect of human psychology that predisposes us to believe in a
transcendent world, and which makes an encounter with the spiritual
possible. As he explores world religions and their many
derivatives, as well as religions of experience practised by
hunter-gatherer societies since time immemorial, Dunbar argues that
this instinct is not a peculiar human quirk, an aberration on our
otherwise efficient evolutionary journey. Rather, religion confers
an advantage: it can benefit our individual health and wellbeing,
but, more importantly, it fosters social bonding at large scale,
helping hold fractious societies together. Dunbar suggests these
dimensions might provide the basis for an overarching theory for
why and how humans are religious, and so help unify the myriad
strands that currently populate this field. Drawing on
path-breaking research, clinical case studies and fieldwork from
around the globe, as well as stories of charismatic cult leaders,
mysterious sects and lost faiths, How Religion Evolved offers a
fascinating and far-reaching analysis of this quintessentially
human impulse - to believe.
The Parish Church was the primary site of religious practice
throughout the early modern period. This was particularly so for
the silent majority of the English population, who conformed
outwardly to the successive religious upheavals of the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries. What such public conformity might have
meant has attracted less attention - and, ironically, is sometimes
less well documented - than the non-conformity or semi-conformity
of recusants, church-papists, Puritan conventiclers or separatists.
In this volume, ten leading scholars of early modern religion
explore the experience of parish worship in England during the
Reformation and the century that followed it. As the contributors
argue, parish worship in this period was of critical theological,
cultural and even political importance. The volume's key themes are
the interlocking importance of liturgy, music, the sermon and the
parishioners' own bodies; the ways in which religious change was
received, initiated, negotiated, embraced or subverted in local
contexts; and the dialectic between practice and belief which
helped to make both so contentious. The contributors - historians,
historical theologians and literary scholars - through their
commitment to an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, provide
fruitful and revealing insights into this intersection of private
and public worship. This collection is a sister volume to Martin
and Ryrie (eds), Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern
Britain. Together these two volumes focus and drive forward
scholarship on the lived experience of early modern religion, as it
was practised in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The first full, philosophical introduction to Descartes for many
years – competitors are either out of date or considerably higher
in level Descartes is the most important Western philosopher after
Plato and studied by virtually all philosophy students at some
point Explains and assesses Descartes’ most important ideas,
arguments and texts, particularly his Meditations Concerning First
Philosophy Ideal for anyone coming to Descartes for the first time
Additional features include a chronology, a glossary and annotated
further reading
How and why did the early church grow in the first four hundred
years despite disincentives, harassment, and occasional
persecution? In this unique historical study, veteran scholar Alan
Kreider delivers the fruit of a lifetime of study as he tells the
amazing story of the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire.
Challenging traditional understandings, Kreider contends the church
grew because the virtue of patience was of central importance in
the life and witness of the early Christians. They wrote about
patience, not evangelism, and reflected on prayer, catechesis, and
worship, yet the church grew--not by specific strategies but by
patient ferment.
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