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  • A Grammar of Holy Mystery
    Larry Hart
    A Grammar of Holy Mystery is about Christian spirituality. It is about mysticism as a firsthand encounter with the presence of God--unfathomable, unnamable, mysterious, fulfilling. It is about classical Christianity, the way of transforming truth found in Christ, taught in Scripture, lived by saints, sages, and mystics, and passed on as a sacred trust through the centuries. Bei...
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    24,29 €

  • BRAHMINS INDIA CASTE SYSTEM
    Veena Samra
    Maybe you learned what the caste system is in world history class in school. Maybe you thought it was a historical system that was left in the past a long time ago. But, unlike other societal divisions we’ve seen throughout history – this one still dictates much of life in India today. Including where you can live, what job you can hold, and even what water you can drink. But l...
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    9,43 €

  • Richard McNemar
    Christian Goodwillie
    The first biography of a key and complex American religious figure of the nineteenth century, considered by many to be the 'father of Shaker literature.' Richard McNemar (1770-1839) led a remarkable life, replete with twists and turns that influenced American religions in many ways during the early nineteenth century. Beginning as a Presbyterian minister in the Midwest, he took...
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    120,61 €

  • Richard McNemar
    Christian Goodwillie
    The first biography of a key and complex American religious figure of the nineteenth century, considered by many to be the 'father of Shaker literature.' Richard McNemar (1770-1839) led a remarkable life, replete with twists and turns that influenced American religions in many ways during the early nineteenth century. Beginning as a Presbyterian minister in the Midwest, he took...
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    56,25 €

  • The Fundamentals, Principles and Practices of African American Spirituality
    Dr. Phyllis Baker
    This book, The Fundamentals, Principles and Practices of African American Spirituality, traces the evolution, development, and practices of a large segment of African American Spiritual life, found within the Black Church. It seeks to provide a road map and link to traditions that made for highly evolved Spiritual Beings, while at the same time embraces the cultural legacy of A...
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    34,10 €

  • Eternal light and earthly concerns
    Paul Fouracre
    This book investigates how the practice of keeping a light burning in churches was established in the early Middle Ages. It asks what the material consequences of implementing the practice were and why it ceased at the end of the Middle Ages. ...
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    35,72 €

  • Ramayana Versus Mahabharata
    Devdutt Pattanaik
    It is a popular belief that the Ramayana is idealistic, while the Mahabharata is realistic. Yet these two epics have identical building blocks, identical themes, and identical history.In this ground-breaking book, Devdutt Pattanaik, India’s most popular mythologist, explores the similarities and dissimilarities between the two epics in a ’playful analysis’ accompanied by his si...
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    17,49 €

  • Miracles and the Concept of Impossibility
    Anthony Walsh
    ’Miracles and the Concept of Impossibility’ takes a fresh look at the miracle of the resurrection of Jesus. A miracle is inexplicable by the methods of science and thus deemed impossible. I examine the concept of impossibility with primary reference to David Hume’s notion that there is a boundary of probability beyond which the improbable becomes the impossible, calculated at 1...
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    37,59 €

  • Canaanite Mythology
    Sebastian Berg
    Have you ever wondered about the gods and religion of ancient Canaan?Do you want to know more about its religion and mythology?This book explores the history and beliefs of the Canaanites from their earliest recorded beginnings through to their absorption into the larger ancient Near Eastern religious and cultural traditions. In this easy-to-read and comprehensive guide, you wi...
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    10,58 €

  • The Cross and the Centurion
    Jimmy Campagna
    Two thousand years ago in Jerusalem, a young Centurion in the Roman Empire named Marcus Plavus was ordered to command a squad of legionnaires to crucify a Jewish man named Jesus. Tribune Quantus was a friend of Jesus and Marcus’ commanding officer. This story is based on actual facts as revealed in the Holy Bible and the imagined impact of the crucifixion of Jesus on Quantus, M...
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    9,80 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    G. K. Chesterton
    An unabridged edition to include: Prefatory Note - Introduction: The Plan of This Book - The Man in the Cave - Professors and Prehistoric Men - The Antiquity of Civilization - God and Comparative Religion - Man and Mythologies - Demons and the Philosophers - The War of the Gods and Demons - The End of the World - The God in the Cave - The Riddles of the Gospel - The Strangest S...
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    17,46 €

  • Canaäd
    D. A. Wood
    ''Gods against gods, men against men, each kind / against each other: Who is in the right? / Truly, which ones could ever conquer Death?'' So Laeya--the Canaanite goddess Athirat masked in human form--asks after a crucial battle. Situated in the interimperial turmoil of the Late Bronze Age, Canaad follows this heroine’s journey as it dovetails with that of Aqhat, a refugee from...
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    56,90 €

  • Canaäd
    D. A. Wood
    ''Gods against gods, men against men, each kind / against each other: Who is in the right? / Truly, which ones could ever conquer Death?'' So Laeya--the Canaanite goddess Athirat masked in human form--asks after a crucial battle. Situated in the interimperial turmoil of the Late Bronze Age, Canaad follows this heroine’s journey as it dovetails with that of Aqhat, a refugee from...
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    74,00 €

  • A Harrowing Journey
    J. Roger Nelson
    God was going to war. God was going to war. His leader, a faraway, aged sheepherder, Moses; his army, a horde of browbeaten, rebellious slaves. Many staggering, disruptive challenges lay ahead as God captains these people, struggling from Egypt to God’s promised land, Canaan (Israel). ...
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    21,79 €

  • Religio Medici
    Sir Thomas Browne
    Religio Medici, the timeless book of contemplation by Sir Thomas Browne dating to 1642, is presented here unaltered and complete.Written by Browne during the 1640s as a means of profiling his own psyche while composing a personal spiritual testament to the divine, Religio Medici, or Religion of a Doctor, was received with great acclaim both in England and in continental Europe ...
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    8,29 €

  • Apocalyptic Politics
    Martyn Whittock
    Apocalyptic (end times) beliefs are found across different religious cultures and time periods, especially those influenced by the Abrahamic faiths. These apocalyptic beliefs are often associated with radicalized politics and what we would today often describe as 'populist' movements and leaders. What are the roots of such beliefs? How have they developed over time? In what way...
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    25,41 €

  • Apocalyptic Politics
    Martyn Whittock
    Apocalyptic (end times) beliefs are found across different religious cultures and time periods, especially those influenced by the Abrahamic faiths. These apocalyptic beliefs are often associated with radicalized politics and what we would today often describe as 'populist' movements and leaders. What are the roots of such beliefs? How have they developed over time? In what way...
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    39,27 €

  • Word-Spirit Communal Revelationalism
    Jason S. Barnhart
    This work first examines the theological streams of influence that constitute Brethren theology--Anabaptism and Radical Pietism--with particular focus given to key thinkers and leaders. It then explores the nuances of what came to be American Fundamentalism and Protestant Liberalism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which provide important context to the tho...
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    24,33 €

  • Word-Spirit Communal Revelationalism
    Jason S. Barnhart
    This work first examines the theological streams of influence that constitute Brethren theology--Anabaptism and Radical Pietism--with particular focus given to key thinkers and leaders. It then explores the nuances of what came to be American Fundamentalism and Protestant Liberalism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which provide important context to the tho...
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    38,14 €

  • Situating Poetry
    Joshua Logan Wall
    A retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found in poetry.What happens if we approach the reading and writing of poetry not as an individual act, but as a public one? Answering this question challenges common assumptions about modern poetry and requires that we explore the important questions ...
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    44,70 €

  • Saint Benedict in his Community
    Richard Newman
    This book looks at the life and work of Saint Benedict through the history of sixth-century Italy, throwing fresh light on Benedict’s Rule and Pope Gregory the Great’s Life of Benedict (his second Dialogue). Commentaries on the Rule concentrate-quite naturally-on Benedict’s spirituality but rarely take into account modern historical scholarship on the period.Though often though...
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    25,13 €

  • Mennonite German Soldiers
    Mark Jantzen
    Mark Jantzen describes the policies of the Prussian government toward the Mennonites and the legal, economic, and social pressures brought to bear on the Mennonites to conform. ...
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    179,66 €

  • Bible and Battlefield 7 Lessons from the Civil War for our Christian Faith Today
    Amanda J. Lucas
    Bible and Battlefield: 7 Lessons from the Civil War for Our Christian Faith Today is a type of Bible study that weaves history and biblical lessons together in a way that has not been done before. Bible and Battlefield will guide readers and study groups through several topics ranging from how to handle difficult people, what radical hospitality truly means, and having courage ...
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    13,22 €

  • Boomi Sasthram / பூமி சாஸ்திரம்
    Rev. C.
    Boomi Sasthram is a Tamil book published in 1832 by Kanam Irenius Iyer. It was one of the first books on geography in Tamil. Sanskrit terms are extensively used in this book.The geography, countries, climate, people and species of every continent inhabited by the people of the earth are written in this book in Tamil that children can understand. A number of terms were adopted w...
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    17,69 €

  • Symbolique Religieuse (sic Simboliqe religieuse)
    Louis Ménard
    Louis Ménard, grand homme de lettres français, passionné d’hellénisme et de justice sociale, nous offre ici deux magnifiques textes traitant des religions et de leurs interactions. Il y étudie notamment le milieu où s’est développé le christianisme et les causes qui en ont préparé son avènement, la lente mais certaine transformation des croyances humaines au fil des siècles. Se...
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    20,58 €

  • The Quest for Early Church Historiography
    Jeremiah Mutie
    The Quest for Early Church Historiography explores how early church historiography underwent a significant shift beginning with the thought of Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860), a shift that eventually culminated in the current extreme historiographies of such scholars as Bart D. Ehrman (1955-). Through the tracing of this historiographical trajectory, this work argues that,...
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    30,41 €

  • The Quest for Early Church Historiography
    Jeremiah Mutie
    The Quest for Early Church Historiography explores how early church historiography underwent a significant shift beginning with the thought of Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860), a shift that eventually culminated in the current extreme historiographies of such scholars as Bart D. Ehrman (1955-). Through the tracing of this historiographical trajectory, this work argues that,...
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    41,79 €

  • The Indestructible Talmud
    Steven Rosner
    Everyone loves a good story, but inside is a great story. It is the story of the Talmud’s survival, despite its countless trials and tribulations in every century since the Babylonian exile.For without 'hope,' an individual or a nation goes into despair and after a short time, depending on one’s strength of character, the will to live no longer exists, and death usually comes q...
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    20,13 €

  • Fallible Heroes
    Harley T. Atkinson / Stephen Fortosis
    To the casual observer the major contributors of the Protestant Reformation include a select few--Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, John Calvin, and perhaps Philip Melanchthon. However, the movement might have easily perished in its infancy were it not for a very unique and courageous company of more obscure individuals who worked together across continental Europe during the sixt...
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    44,42 €

  • Something Happens Here
    Stephen P. West
    The United Methodist Church is at a crossroads, and nothing is more important than reclaiming our sacramental distinctiveness in times of great divisiveness. This book takes a fresh look at Wesley’s core teachings on the Lord’s Supper, letting each unique feature of Wesley’s communion theology become a lens to navigate troubled waters. The author explores the historical backgro...
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    22,31 €


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