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Reflections - Lessons for Life from the Man You Are Becoming (Paperback): Spencer Geswein Reflections - Lessons for Life from the Man You Are Becoming (Paperback)
Spencer Geswein; Foreword by Andrea Brackett; Illustrated by Tekoa
R507 R477 Discovery Miles 4 770 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
There Is Life After Tragedy - God's Pathway to Healing for Deeply Wounded Souls (Paperback): Sarah Jane Kellogg There Is Life After Tragedy - God's Pathway to Healing for Deeply Wounded Souls (Paperback)
Sarah Jane Kellogg
R353 R333 Discovery Miles 3 330 Save R20 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Year Of Inspiration - 2019 Calendar (Hardcover): Danielle Lynn A Year Of Inspiration - 2019 Calendar (Hardcover)
Danielle Lynn
R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Holy Qur'an (English, Arabic, Urdu, Hardcover): Jallendhri Fateh Mohammad, M. Pickthall, Abdullah Yusuf Ali The Holy Qur'an (English, Arabic, Urdu, Hardcover)
Jallendhri Fateh Mohammad, M. Pickthall, Abdullah Yusuf Ali
R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Relentless Gratitude - Transform Your Life with Gratitude Cultivate Resilience Thrive in Tough Times (Paperback): Uno Okon Relentless Gratitude - Transform Your Life with Gratitude Cultivate Resilience Thrive in Tough Times (Paperback)
Uno Okon
R469 R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Save R24 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Unexpected Perspective - The Implications of Darwin and the Big Bang for Christians ... and Everyone Else (Paperback): Carl... The Unexpected Perspective - The Implications of Darwin and the Big Bang for Christians ... and Everyone Else (Paperback)
Carl W Treleaven
R595 R549 Discovery Miles 5 490 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Knowing God - The Trilogy - Knowing Jesus, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit through the Old Testament (Hardcover):... Knowing God - The Trilogy - Knowing Jesus, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit through the Old Testament (Hardcover)
Christopher J.H. Wright
R1,110 Discovery Miles 11 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Gift Worth Keeping (Hardcover): Dori Schubring A Gift Worth Keeping (Hardcover)
Dori Schubring; Illustrated by Zybrena Porter
R650 R583 Discovery Miles 5 830 Save R67 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beyond the Sphere - Encounters with the Divine (Paperback): Alfred Stefan Guart Beyond the Sphere - Encounters with the Divine (Paperback)
Alfred Stefan Guart
R366 R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Save R24 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Iran - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Hardcover): Michael Axworthy Iran - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Hardcover)
Michael Axworthy
R1,689 Discovery Miles 16 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since the beginning of recorded history, Iran/Persia has been one of the most important world civilizations. Iran remains a distinct civilization today despite its status as a major Islamic state with broad regional influence and its deep integration into the global economy through its vast energy reserves. Yet the close attention paid to Iran in recent decades stems from the impact of the 1979 revolution, which unleashed ideological shock waves throughout the Middle East that reverberate to this day. Many observers look at Iran through the prism of the Islamic Republic's adversarial relationship with the US, Israel, and Sunni nations in its region, yet as Michael Axworthy shows in Iran: What Everyone Needs to Know, there is much more to contemporary Iran than its fraught and complicated foreign relations. He begins with a concise account of Iranian history from ancient times to the late twentieth century, following that with sharp summaries of the key events since the1979 revolution. The final section of the book focuses on Iran today-its culture, economy, politics, and people-and assesses the challenges that the nation will face in coming years. Iran will be an essential overview of a complex and important nation that has occupied world headlines for nearly four decades.

Recognition and Religion - A Historical and Systematic Study (Hardcover): Risto Saarinen Recognition and Religion - A Historical and Systematic Study (Hardcover)
Risto Saarinen
R3,598 Discovery Miles 35 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

During the last twenty years, the theory of recognition has become an established field of philosophy and social studies. Variants of this theory often promise applications to the burning political issues of current society, such as the challenges of multiculturalism, group identity, and conflicts between ideologies and religions. The seminal works of this trend employ Hegelian ideas to tackle the problem of modernity. Although some recent studies also investigate the pre-Hegelian roots of recognition, this concept is normally considered to be a product of the secular modernity of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Recognition and Religion: A Historical and Systematic Study challenges this assumption and claims that important intellectual roots of the concept and conceptions of recognition are found in much earlier religious sources. Risto Saarinen outlines the first intellectual history of religious recognition, stretching from the New Testament to present day. He connects the history of religion with philosophical approaches, arguing that philosophers owe a considerable historical and conceptual debt to the religious processes of recognition. At the same time, religious recognition has a distinctive profile that differs from philosophy in some important respects. Saarinen undertakes a systematic elaboration of the insights provided by the tradition of religious recognition. He proposes that theology and philosophy can make creative use of the long history of religious recognition.

The Bible in American Life (Hardcover): Philip Goff, Arthur Farnsley, Peter Thuesen The Bible in American Life (Hardcover)
Philip Goff, Arthur Farnsley, Peter Thuesen
R3,669 Discovery Miles 36 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There is a paradox in American Christianity. According to Gallup, nearly eight in ten Americans regard the Bible as either the literal word of God or the inspired by God. At the same time, surveys have revealed gaps in these same Americans' biblical literacy. These discrepancies reveal the complex relationship between American Christians and Holy Writ, a subject that is widely acknowledged but rarely investigated. The Bible in American Life is a sustained, collaborative reflection on the ways Americans use the Bible in their personal lives. It also considers how other influences, including religious communities and the internet, shape individuals' comprehension of scripture. Employing both quantitative methods (the General Social Survey and the National Congregations Study) and qualitative research (historical studies for context), The Bible in American Life provides an unprecedented perspective on the Bible's role outside of worship, in the lived religion of a broad cross-section of Americans both now and in the past. The Bible has been central to Christian practice, and has functioned as a cultural touchstone, throughout American history, but too little is known about how people engage it every day. How do people read the Bible for themselves outside of worship? How have denominational and parachurch publications influenced the interpretation and application of scripture? How have clergy and congregations influenced individual understandings of scripture? These questions are especially pressing in a time when denominations are losing much of their traditional cultural authority, technology is changing reading and cognitive habits, and subjective experience is continuing to eclipse textual authority as the mark of true religion. From the broadest scale imaginable, national survey data about all Americans, down to the smallest details, such as the portrayal of Noah and his ark in children's Bibles, this book offers insight and illumination from scholars across the intellectual spectrum. It will be useful and informative for scholars seeking to understand changes in American Christianity as well as clergy seeking more effective ways to preach and teach about scripture in a changing environment.

Whispers from God - Miraculous Testimonies of a Supernatural Friendship (Paperback): Vicki White Whispers from God - Miraculous Testimonies of a Supernatural Friendship (Paperback)
Vicki White
R347 R325 Discovery Miles 3 250 Save R22 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Short Bible - A Chronological Summary of the Old and New Testaments (Hardcover): Peter J Bylsma The Short Bible - A Chronological Summary of the Old and New Testaments (Hardcover)
Peter J Bylsma
R784 R700 Discovery Miles 7 000 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Popes and Jews, 1095-1291 (Hardcover): Rebecca Rist Popes and Jews, 1095-1291 (Hardcover)
Rebecca Rist
R4,671 Discovery Miles 46 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Popes and Jews, 1095-1291, Rebecca Rist explores the nature and scope of the relationship of the medieval papacy to the Jewish communities of western Europe. Rist analyses papal pronouncements in the context of the substantial and on-going social, political, and economic changes of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, as well the characters and preoccupations of individual pontiffs and the development of Christian theology. She breaks new ground in exploring the other side of the story - Jewish perceptions of both individual popes and the papacy as an institution - through analysis of a wide range of contemporary Hebrew and Latin documents. The author engages with the works of recent scholars in the field of Christian-Jewish relations to examine the social and legal status of Jewish communities in light of the papacy's authorisation of crusading, prohibitions against money lending, and condemnation of the Talmud, as well as increasing charges of ritual murder and host desecration, the growth of both Christian and Jewish polemical literature, and the advent of the Mendicant Orders. Popes and Jews, 1095-1291 is an important addition to recent work on medieval Christian-Jewish relations. Furthermore, its subject matter - religious and cultural exchange between Jews and Christians during a period crucial for our understanding of the growth of the Western world, the rise of nation states, and the development of relations between East and West - makes it extremely relevant to today's multi-cultural and multi-faith society.

The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America (Hardcover): Paul C. Gutjahr The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America (Hardcover)
Paul C. Gutjahr
R3,778 Discovery Miles 37 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Early Americans have long been considered "A People of the Book" Because the nickname was coined primarily to invoke close associations between Americans and the Bible, it is easy to overlook the central fact that it was a book-not a geographic location, a monarch, or even a shared language-that has served as a cornerstone in countless investigations into the formation and fragmentation of early American culture. Few books can lay claim to such powers of civilization-altering influence. Among those which can are sacred books, and for Americans principal among such books stands the Bible. This Handbook is designed to address a noticeable void in resources focused on analyzing the Bible in America in various historical moments and in relationship to specific institutions and cultural expressions. It takes seriously the fact that the Bible is both a physical object that has exercised considerable totemic power, as well as a text with a powerful intellectual design that has inspired everything from national religious and educational practices to a wide spectrum of artistic endeavors to our nation's politics and foreign policy. This Handbook brings together a number of established scholars, as well as younger scholars on the rise, to provide a scholarly overview-rich with bibliographic resources-to those interested in the Bible's role in American cultural formation.

Loving Naomi (Paperback): Meghan Newkirk Loving Naomi (Paperback)
Meghan Newkirk
R454 R427 Discovery Miles 4 270 Save R27 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Nonreligious - Understanding Secular People and Societies (Hardcover): Phil Zuckerman, Luke W Galen, Frank L Pasquale The Nonreligious - Understanding Secular People and Societies (Hardcover)
Phil Zuckerman, Luke W Galen, Frank L Pasquale
R3,830 Discovery Miles 38 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The number of non-religious men and women has increased dramatically over the past several decades. Yet scholarship on the non-religious is severely lacking. In response to this critical gap in knowledge, The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive summation and analytical discussion of existing social scientific research on the non-religious. The authors present a thorough overview of existing research, while also drawing on ongoing research and positing ways to improve upon our current understanding of this growing population. The findings in this book stand out against the corpus of secular writing, which is comprised primarily of polemical rants critiquing religion, personal life-stories/memoirs of former believers, or abstract philosophical explorations of theology and anti-theology. By offering the first research- and data-based conclusions about the non-religious, this book will be an invaluable source of information and a foundation for further scholarship. Written in clear, jargon-free language that will appeal to the increasingly interested general readers, this book provides an unbiased, thorough account of all relevant existing scholarship within the social sciences that bears on the lived experience of the non-religious.

My Adventure: An Encounter with Life (Hardcover): William Millard My Adventure: An Encounter with Life (Hardcover)
William Millard
R712 R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Save R73 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
God Of The Impossible (Paperback): Rene O Lopez God Of The Impossible (Paperback)
Rene O Lopez
R297 R278 Discovery Miles 2 780 Save R19 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Maximus the Confessor - Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World (Hardcover): Paul M. Blowers Maximus the Confessor - Jesus Christ and the Transfiguration of the World (Hardcover)
Paul M. Blowers
R3,236 Discovery Miles 32 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This study contextualizes the achievement of a strategically crucial figure in Byzantium's turbulent seventh century, the monk and theologian Maximus the Confessor (580-662). Building on newer biographical research and a growing international body of scholarship, as well as on fresh examination of his diverse literary corpus, Paul Blowers develops a profile integrating the two principal initiatives of Maximus's career: first, his reinterpretation of the christocentric economy of creation and salvation as a framework for expounding the spiritual and ascetical life of monastic and non-monastic Christians; and second, his intensifying public involvement in the last phase of the ancient christological debates, the monothelete controversy, wherein Maximus helped lead an East-West coalition against Byzantine imperial attempts doctrinally to limit Jesus Christ to a single (divine) activity and will devoid of properly human volition. Blowers identifies what he terms Maximus's "cosmo-politeian" worldview, a contemplative and ascetical vision of the participation of all created beings in the novel politeia, or reordered existence, inaugurated by Christ's "new theandric energy". Maximus ultimately insinuated his teaching on the christoformity and cruciformity of the human vocation with his rigorous explication of the precise constitution of Christ's own composite person. In outlining this cosmo-politeian theory, Blowers additionally sets forth a "theo-dramatic" reading of Maximus, inspired by Hans Urs von Balthasar, which depicts the motion of creation and history according to the christocentric "plot" or interplay of divine and creaturely freedoms. Blowers also amplifies how Maximus's cumulative achievement challenged imperial ideology in the seventh century-the repercussions of which cost him his life-and how it generated multiple recontextualizations in the later history of theology.

Union Made - Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago (Hardcover): Heath W. Carter Union Made - Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago (Hardcover)
Heath W. Carter
R1,206 Discovery Miles 12 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Union Made, Heath W. Carter advances a bold new interpretation of the origins of American Social Christianity. While historians have often attributed the rise of the Social Gospel to middle-class ministers, seminary professors, and social reformers, this book places working people at the very center of the story. The major characters-blacksmiths, glove makers, teamsters, printers, and the like-have been mostly forgotten, but as Carter convincingly argues, their collective contribution to American Social Christianity was no less significant than that of Walter Rauschenbusch or Jane Addams. Leading readers into the thick of late-19th-century Chicago's tumultuous history, Carter shows that countless working-class believers participated in the heated debates over the implications of Christianity for industrializing society, often with as much fervor as they did in other contests over wages and the length of the workday. Throughout the Gilded Age the city's trade unionists, socialists, and anarchists advanced theological critiques of laissez faire capitalism and protested "scab ministers" who cozied up to the business elite. Their criticisms compounded church leaders' anxieties about losing the poor, such that by the turn-of-the-century many leading Christians were arguing that the only way to salvage hopes of a Christian America was for the churches to soften their position on "the labor question." As denomination after denomination did just that, it became apparent that the Social Gospel was, indeed, ascendant-from below.

Razi - Master of Quranic Interpretation and Theological Reasoning (Hardcover): Tariq Jaffer Razi - Master of Quranic Interpretation and Theological Reasoning (Hardcover)
Tariq Jaffer
R2,932 Discovery Miles 29 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1148 - 1210) wrote prolifically in the disciplines of theology, Quranic exegesis, and philosophy. He composed treatises on jurisprudence, medicine, physiognomy, astronomy, and astrology. His body of work marks a momentous turning point in the Islamic tradition and his influence within the post-classical Islamic tradition is striking. After his death in 1210 his works became standard textbooks in Islamic institutions of higher learning. Razi investigates his transformative contributions to the Islamic intellectual tradition. One of the leading representatives of Sunni orthodoxy in medieval Islam, Razi was the first intellectual to exploit the rich heritage of ancient and Islamic philosophy to interpret the Quran. Jaffer uncovers Razi's boldly unconventional intellectual aspirations. The book elucidates the development of Razi's unique appropriation of methods and ideas from ancient and Islamic philosophy into a unified Quranic commentary-and consequently into the Sunni worldview. Jaffer shows that the genre of Quranic commentary in the post-classical period contains a wealth of philosophical material that is of major interest for the history of philosophical ideas in Islam and for the interaction of the aqli ("rational") and naqli ("traditional") sciences in Islamic civilization. Jaffer demonstrates the ways Razi reconciled the opposing intellectual trends of his milieu on major methodological conflicts. A highly original work, this book brilliantly repositions the central aims of Razi's intellectual program.

Surviving Your Child's Adolescence - A Christian Guide for Meeting Your Teen's Deepest Needs (Paperback): Buddy Mendez Surviving Your Child's Adolescence - A Christian Guide for Meeting Your Teen's Deepest Needs (Paperback)
Buddy Mendez
R292 R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Save R20 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
One Degree - Unleashing Your Focus (Paperback): Gary L Wilder One Degree - Unleashing Your Focus (Paperback)
Gary L Wilder
R314 R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Save R23 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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