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Baker Publishing Group Faith Alone The Evangelical Doctrine of
Book SynopsisFounder of Ligonier Ministries calls Christians back to the biblical, Reformation view that justification is "by grace alone, through faith alone, because of Christ alone."
£21.27
Baker Publishing Group - Baker Books The Con Mans Daughter A Story of Lies
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Baker Publishing Group - Baker Books Building the Body 12 Characteristics of a Fit
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Baker Publishing Group A Global History of Christians How Everyday
Book SynopsisSurveys the progression of the Christian experience within historical, social, economic, and cultural contexts.
£40.63
Baker Publishing Group Encountering the Book of Genesis
Book SynopsisThis accessible introduction to the Book of Genesis examines introductory issues, overarching themes, and the overall argument of the book.
£33.70
Baker Publishing Group Performing the Sacred Theology and Theatre in
Book SynopsisA theologian and a theatre artist examine both the nature of theatrical performance within contemporary culture and its relationship to Christian life, faith, and worship.
£999.99
Baker Publishing Group Joyful Witness in the Muslim World Sharing the
Book SynopsisThis up-to-date textbook features global perspectives on current Christian engagement with Islam, equipping readers for mission among Muslims.Table of ContentsContentsSeries PrefaceIntroduction1. Toward Joyful Witness2. Muslim-Christian Attachment3. Connecting with iMuslims4. Joyful Witness through Art5. Thinking Green in Sharing the Gospel6. Caring for the Needy7. Meeting Muslim Urbanites8. Theological ConversationsConclusionIndex
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Baker Publishing Group Graceful Evangelism Christian Witness in a
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive text shows that despite different views and contexts, Christians can craft a grace-filled approach to sharing God's good news with the world.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What This Book Is AboutPart 1: Where Did We Come From?1. What Is Evangelism? Perspectives and Problems 2. What Does the Bible Say? Biblical Models of Evangelism 3. Patterns of Evangelism through the Ages 4. The Western Missionary Movement in the Nineteenth Century: An American PerspectivePart 2: Where Are We Now?5. The Situation for Evangelism in the Twenty-first Century: Two Sides of a Coin 6. Today's Mission Trends 7. Contemporary Theologies of EvangelismPart 3: Where Are We Going?8. Abundant Life 9. A Mission Statement for Evangelism 10. Changing Context: Transforming MissionPart 4: Can We Craft a Graceful Evangelism?11. Insights from Contemporary Theologies of Evangelism 12. Challenges to Crafting a Graceful Evangelism 13. Changes: New Movements and Institutional Re-visionings 14. Seeing through Their Eyes: A Spiral of Knowledge Acquisition 15. Radical Habits: Practices for Evangelism TodayAppendix: Constructing a Congregational TimelineIndexes
£27.73
Baker Publishing Group Sex and the iWorld
Book SynopsisA political scientist and pastor offers a positive, holistic vision that helps readers engage the cultural debate on sex and marriage in personal ethics and public policy.
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Baker Publishing Group The Jewish World Around the New Testament
Book SynopsisA leading biblical scholar shows that the New Testament texts cannot be understood without careful attention to their Judaic and Second Temple roots.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. The Martyrdom of Enoch and Elijah: Jewish or Christian?3. Enoch and Elijah in the Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah4. The Rise of Apocalyptic5. The Delay of the Parousia6. A Note on a Problem in the Greek Version of 1 Enoch 1.97. The Son of Man: 'A Man in my Position' or 'Someone'?8. The Apocalypses in the New Pseudepigrapha9. Pseudo-Apostolic Letters10. Kainam the Son of Arpachshad in Luke's Genealogy11. The List of the Tribes of Israel in Revelation 712. The Parting of the Ways: What Happened and Why13. The Messianic Interpretation of Isaiah 10:3414. The Relevance of Extra-Canonical Jewish Texts to New Testament Study15. Josephus' Account of the Temple in Contra Apionem 2.102-10916. Life, Death, and the Afterlife in Second Temple Judaism17. What if Paul Had Travelled East rather than West?18. Covenant, Law, and Salvation in the Jewish Apocalypses19. The Restoration of Israel in Luke-Acts20. Paul and Other Jews with Latin Names in the New Testament21. The Horarium of Adam and the Chronology of the Passion22. The Spirit of God in Us Loathes Envy (James 4:5)23. Tobit as a Parable for the Exiles of Northern Israel24. The Continuing Quest for the Provenance of Old Testament PseudepigraphaIndexes
£63.39
Baker Publishing Group Why Study History Reflecting on the Importance
Book SynopsisShows why Christians should study history, how faith impacts our understanding of the past, and how studying the past can transform our lives.Table of ContentsContentsPrologue1. What Do Historians Do?2. In Search of a Usable Past3. The Past Is a Foreign Country4. Providence and History 5. Christian Resources for the Study of the Past6. History for a Civil Society7. The Power to Transform8. So What Can You Do with a History Major?Epilogue: History and the ChurchAppendix: A Proposal for the Center for American History and a Civil SocietyIndex
£22.62
Baker Publishing Group Old Testament Commentary Survey
Book SynopsisLeading Old Testament scholar Tremper Longman III provides students and pastors with expert guidance on choosing a commentary for any book of the Old Testament. The fifth edition has been updated to assess the most recently published commentaries, providing evaluative comments. Longman lists a number of works available for each book of the Old Testament, gives a brief indication of their emphases and viewpoints, and evaluates them. The result is a balanced, sensible guide for those who preach and teach the Old Testament and need help in choosing the best tools.
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Baker Publishing Group Matthew Storyteller Interpreter Evangelist
Book SynopsisThis introduction to the Gospel of Matthew offers readers a way to look at scriptural texts that combines historical, narrative, and contemporary interests.
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Baker Publishing Group Effective Bible Teaching
Book SynopsisWhy does Bible study flourish in some churches and small groups and not in others? In this updated edition of a trusted classic, two Christian education specialists provide readers with the knowledge and methods needed to effectively communicate the message of the Bible. The book offers concrete guidance for mastering a biblical text, interpreting it, and applying its relevance to life. Its methods, which have been field-tested for twenty-five years, help pastors, teachers, and ministry students improve their classroom skills. Readers will learn how to develop the 'big idea' of a passage and allow the text itself to suggest creative teaching methods. This new edition has been updated throughout and explores the changed landscape of Bible study over the past two decades. Readable and interdisciplinary in approach, this book will help a new generation of Bible students teach in a purposeful and unified way.Table of ContentsPart 1: Effective Teaching1. The Changing Landscape of Bible Study2. The Church's Unfinished Task3. The Tasks of the Effective Teacher4. The Teacher: The Human Element in TeachingPart 2: The Methods of Effective Bible Teaching5. Discovering Unity in Biblical Passages: The Genre and Structure of a Passage6. Thematic Unity in Biblical Passages: Teaching the Big Idea7. Bridging the Gap8. Principles of Biblical Interpretation9. Understanding the Methods of Inductive and Directed Bible Studies10. Leading Inductive Bible StudiesPart 3: The Bible We Teach11. What Kind of Book Is the Bible?12. Types of Writing in the Bible13. Teaching the Stories of the Bible14. Teaching the Poetry of the Bible15. Teaching Other Genres of the BibleIndexes
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Baker Publishing Group The Church according to Paul Rediscovering the
Book SynopsisA leading biblical scholar examines Paul's vision of community, offering guidance for reimagining the church in a post-Christian climate.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Reimagining the Church1. A Community Like No Other: The Key Themes--from Paul's First Letter2. Not Just Any Body: The Church and Paul's Corporate Christology3. The Church Made Visible: Baptism and the Lord's Supper in 1 Corinthians, Galatians, and Romans4. Spiritual Formation Is Corporate Formation: The Transformative Church in Romans and 2 Corinthians5. Justification Is about Unification: The Death of Jesus and the People of God in Romans and Galatians6. "Missional" May Not Mean What You Think: Evangelism and Social Action according to Paul7. The Universal Church Is the Local Church: Koinōnia according to Paul8. Discovering the Real Megachurch: Cosmic Church and House Church in the Disputed Letters9. Leadership Like No Other for a Community Like No Other: Authority and Ministry in the Undisputed LettersConclusion: The Church after ChristendomIndexes
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Baker Publishing Group Reading the Bible with Martin Luther An
Book SynopsisA prominent Reformation historian introduces the basic components of Luther's theology of the Bible and examines Luther's contributions to present-day biblical interpretation.Table of ContentsContents1. Authority: Putting James in Its Place James and Straw The Self-Authenticating Scripture Sola Scriptura?2. Method: Dying and Rising A Cautionary Tale about Throwing Stones Distinguishing Law and Gospel The Law's First Use: The Pastor as Vo-Tech Teacher A Third Use for the Law: The First and the Second Uses Apply to Believers Exegesis Is for Proclamation: Finding the Law and the Gospel in the Text3. Interpretation: Strength Perfected in Weakness The Weakness of Scripture Finding the Central Weakness of Scripture: Romans Finding the Center of the Gospels4. Practice: Luther's Biblical Ethics Gleichmut: The Christian's Balancing Act Das Gewissen: The Conscience Glaube: Faith Gemeinschaft: Community5. Example: Luther Interpreting Galatians 3:6-14 The Argumentum Galatians 3:6-14 in 1519 Galatians 3:6-14 in 1535An Afterword: Looking Forward to Reading the Bible with LutherIndexes
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Baker Publishing Group Christianity and the Constitution The Faith of
Book SynopsisUsing the writings of the founders and records of their conversations and activities, John Eidsmoe demonstrates the influence of Christianity on the political convictions of the founding fathers.
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Baker Publishing Group Relativism
Book SynopsisAn extremely well-researched, intellectual approach to the problem of relativism and its effect on education, public policy, and our everyday lives. --YouthworkerTable of ContentsIntroduction: Who Are You to Judge?Part 1: Understanding Relativism1 The Death of Truth2 What Is Moral Relativism?3 Three Kinds of RelativismPart 2: Critiquing Relativism4 Culture as Morality5 Culture Defining Morality6 Moral Common Sense7 Relativism's Seven Fatal FlawsPart 3: Relativism and Education8 Values Clarification9 Relativism's Offspring--Political Correctness and Multiculturalism10 On the Road to BarbarismPart 4: Relativism and Public Policy11 Relativism and the Law12 Relativism and the Meaning of Marriage13 Relativism and the Meaning of LifePart 5: Responding to Relativism14 Tactics to Refute Relativism15 Monkey Morality16 Why Morality?ConclusionNotes Index
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Baker Publishing Group Organic Community
Book SynopsisThe bestselling author of The Search to Belong helps church leaders create more natural congregational communities by becoming environmentalists--people who create or shape environments.
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Baker Publishing Group Everyday Strength A Cancer Patients Guide to
Book SynopsisThirty-three meditations and prayers for cancer patients and their friends and family.
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Baker Publishing Group The Art of Worship A Musicians Guide to Leading
Book SynopsisA complete resource to which musicians or pastors can turn when asked to lead contemporary music, providing in-depth instruction to every aspect of contemporary worship leadership.
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Baker Publishing Group Pure Eyes
Book SynopsisWhen it comes to sex and sexuality, men often find themselves in a losing battle against temptation. Whether it''s overt pornography or simply oversexualized images of women, media can be a man''s worst enemy. In this straightforward book, Craig Gross and Steven Luff help men understand and embrace the true purpose and role of sex in their lives. Whether single or married, all men must cope with sexual temptation--sometimes on a daily basis. This honest treatment of an uncomfortable issue will free men to experience forgiveness and renewal.
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Baker Publishing Group How We Got the Bible
Book SynopsisOVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLDThe story behind the most widely read book of all timeA classic for more than forty years, How We Got the Bible provides well-researched, accessible answers to many questions about the Bible, such as● How old are the earliest biblical manuscripts?● How has the Bible been preserved and transmitted to us? ● Why do we have so many different translations of the Bible? ● How did early Christians decide which writings to include in the Bible? Learn about the first materials used to write down the words of Scripture. Uncover the facts of some of history''s most fascinating archaeological discoveries. Travel through history, from Jerome to Tyndale and beyond, as Neil R. Lightfoot discusses the origin, transmission, and translation of the Bible. Illustrations and review questions at the end of each chapter make this book ideal for either individual or group study. Concise and engaging, How We Got the Bible is a trusted resource for anyone who wants to know the story behind the most widely read book of all time.
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Baker Publishing Group Play the Man Participants Guide
Book SynopsisSomewhere along the way, our culture lost its definition of manhood, leaving generations of men and men-to-be confused about their roles, responsibilities, relationships, and the reason God made them men. It''s into this 'no man''s land' that New York Times bestselling author Mark Batterson declares his mantra for manhood: play the man.In this inspiring call to something greater, he helps men understand what it means to be a man of God by unveiling seven virtues of manhood. Mark shares inspiring stories of manhood, including the true story of the hero and martyr Polycarp, who first heard the voice from heaven say, 'Play the man.' Mark couples those stories with practical ideas about how to disciple the next generation of men. This is more than a book; it''s a movement of men who will settle for nothing less than fulfilling their highest calling to be the man and the father God has destined them to be. Play the man. Make the man.
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Baker Publishing Group Dream with Me
Book SynopsisAccording to recent surveys and studies, race relations in the United States are the worst they''ve been since the 1990s, and many would argue that life for most minorities has not significantly improved since the civil rights era of the 1960s. For so many, the dream of true equality has dissolved into a reality of prejudice, fear, and violence as a way of life.John M. Perkins has been there from the beginning. Raised by his sharecropping grandparents, Perkins fled Mississippi in 1947 after his brother was fatally shot by a police officer. He led voter registration efforts in 1964, worked for school desegregation in 1967, and was imprisoned and tortured in 1970. Through it all, he has remained determined to seek justice and reconciliation based in Christ''s redemptive work. 'Justice is something that every generation has to strive for,' he says. And despite the setbacks of recent years, Perkins finds hope in the young people he has met all across the nation who are
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Baker Publishing Group Words of Delight A Literary Introduction to the
Book SynopsisA survey of the kinds of literature found in Scripture combines the author's Words of Delight and Words of Life. The author clearly explains and offers numerous examples.
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Baker Publishing Group The Power of Vision Discover and Apply Gods Plan
Book SynopsisAward-winning author George Barna helps church leaders uncover God's vision for their ministry so they know where they're headed and can minister authentically and authoritatively.
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Baker Publishing Group Care of Souls Revisioning Christian Nurture and
Book SynopsisA practicing psychologist explores the church's role in soul care, advocating a counseling method that anchors modern therapy in timeless biblical principles.Table of ContentsPreface: The Rediscovery of Soul and the Recovery of Its CarePart 1 Understanding Soul Care1 What Is Soul Care?2 The Rise of Therapeutic Soul Care3 The Boundaries of the Soul4 Psychology and Spirituality5 Christian Spirituality6 The Psychospiritual Focus of Soul CarePart 2 Giving and Receiving Soul Care7 Dialogue in Soul Care8 Dreams, the Unconscious, and the Language of the Soul9 Forms of Christian Soul Care10 Challenges of Christian Soul Care11 Receiving Soul Care
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Baker Publishing Group Jesus Christ Disciplemaker
Book SynopsisThomas doubted. Peter denied. Matthew had a shady past. And most of Jesus'' disciples had trouble understanding his true message and mission at times. How did Jesus take lowly fishermen and tax collectors and turn them into some of the most influential men that ever lived? And how can modern church leaders empower regular church members to meet their potential as servants of God? In Jesus Christ, Disciplemaker, Hull outlines Christ''s methods in training his twelve disciples and presents a biblical pattern that emulates Christ''s model for reaching the lost. By taking readers through four growth phases-evangelizing, establishing, equipping, and leading-Hull shows how these principles can be adapted for any discipler. Jesus Christ, Disciplemaker is the perfect resource for pastors and church leaders who want to learn how to help others grow in God''s service.
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Baker Publishing Group Taking Your Church to the Next Level What Got
Book SynopsisThis book explains the impact of age and size on churches and outlines the improvements that must be made at each point for a church to remain fruitful and faithful to its mission.
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Baker Publishing Group She Is Free Learning the Truth about the Lies
Book SynopsisSpeaker, pastor, and founder of the She Is Free conference offers women effective, yet simple tools to break free from lies entangling them, enabling them to stop faking it and start truly living.
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Baker Publishing Group Rise of the Truth Teller
Book SynopsisSpeaker, blogger, and pastor helps women courageously own their story, say what nobody else has the guts to say, and create safe spaces for others to do the same.
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Baker Publishing Group Why Christian Faith Still Makes Sense A Response
Book SynopsisA prominent Christian philosopher offers a contemporary, sophisticated, yet accessible response to skeptics, showing that Christian faith makes sense.Table of ContentsContents1. Who Are the New Atheists, and What Are They Saying?2. The Value of Natural Theology3. The Concept of a Natural Sign for God4. Natural Signs for God and Theistic Arguments5. Can We Trust the Natural Signs for God?6. Recognizing God's Self-Revelation7. Criteria for a Genuine Revelation from God8. Conclusions: Making the Case for Christian FaithIndex
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Baker Publishing Group Learn Biblical Hebrew
Book SynopsisA comprehensive introduction and study guide to biblical Hebrew.
£39.79
Baker Publishing Group Jewish Believers in Jesus
Book SynopsisAn impressive international team of scholars examines the formative first five centuries of Christian history as experienced by individuals who were ethnically Jewish but who professed faith in Jesus Christ as the Messiah.
£66.46
Johns Hopkins University Press Violence and the Sacred
Book SynopsisHis fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy.--Victor Brombert, 'Chronicle of Higher Education.'Trade ReviewHis fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the 'heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy. -- Victor Brombert Chronicle of Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. SacrificeChapter 2. The Sacrificial CrisisChapter 3. Oedipus and the Surrogate VictimChapter 4. The Origins of Myth and RitualChapter 5. DionysusChapter 6. From Mimetic Desire to the Monstrous DoubleChapter 7. Freud and the Oedipus ComplesChapter 8. Totem and Taboo and the Incest ProhibitionChapter 9. Lévi-Strauss, Structuralism, and Marriage LawsChapter 10. The Gods, the Dead, the Sacred, and Sacrificial SubstitutionChapter 11. The Unity of All RitesConclusionBibliographyIndex
£30.81
Johns Hopkins University Press The Hammer and the Flute
Book SynopsisIt provides an argument for the evaluation of religious lives and their struggles for meaning and power in the contemporary landscape of critical theory.Trade Review[A] provocative exploration of possession theory... Keller is able to offer not only fresh insight into possession phenomena but also a penetrating critique of the categories and concepts with which it has been theorized. -- Kelly E. Hayes Journal of Religion 2004 Keller's argument for a revisioning of agency, women, and possession is important intervention. By bringing together an unusual mix of theorists and case studies, she makes a thoughtful contribution to the study of religion, gender, and post-colonial theory that raises provocative questions for all scholars of religion. -- Pamela E. Klassen History of Religions 2004 A welcome addition to scholarly literature on spirit possession. It provides an innovative exploration into the agency of women's possessed bodies and the way scholarly representations construct agency. -- Margaret J. Rausch Journal of the American Academy of Religion 2005Table of ContentsContents: The Hammer and the Flute: Women, Power, and Spirit Possession Introduction Part 1: Re-Orienting Possession in Theory Chapter One: Signifying Possession Chapter Two: Re-Orienting Possession Chapter Three: Flutes, Hammers and Mounted Women Part II: The Work, War and Play of Possession Chapter Four: Work Chapter Five: War Chapter Six: Play(s) Conclusion Bibliography
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Johns Hopkins University Press Science and Religion 14501900 From Copernicus to
Book SynopsisExplores the many ways in which religion - its ideas, attitudes, practices, and institutions - interacted with science from the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution to the end of the nineteenth century. This work explores those interactions by focusing on a sequence of major religious and intellectual movements.Trade ReviewHighly recommended. Readers with an interest in science, at the lower-undergraduate level and above. Choice Provide[s] a rich historical background to the interaction between science and religion. -- Seymour H. Mauskopf Nuncius 2007 Should appeal to aficionados of science and religion interested in the interaction of culture with the development of science. -- Fraser F. Fleming Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 2007 An interesting, insightful, and clearly argued overview. -- Edward B. Davis Isis 2007 Olson's meticulous treatment of the rich variety of interconnections between science and religion was a refreshing revelation. The book does an excellent job of documenting the complex tangle of interconnections between religious thought and scientific work during this time period. Journal of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences 2008 The book can be warmly recommended to anyone interested in the various ways in which religion interacted with science from the beginning of the Scientific Revolution to the end of the 19th century. -- William R. Shea Archives Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences 2007Table of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsChronology of Events1. Introduction: Galileo and the Church-Or, How Do Science and Religion Interact?The Conflict ModelThe Case of the Galileo AffairThree Additional Special Cases of ConflictModern Claims That Religion Supports Science2. Religion and the Transition to "Modern" Science: Christian Demands for Useful KnowledgeThe Starting Point: Late Medieval ScienceChallenge to Medieval ScienceChristian Humanism and the Hermtic CorpusThe Life and Works of ParacelsusChristian Utopias and the Institutions for Modern Science3. Science and Catholicism in the Scientific Revolution, 1550-1770Science and the Council of TrentJesuit ScienceCatholics and the Mechanical Philosophy: Mersenne, Descartes, and GassendiThe Special Case of Blaise Pascal4. Science and Religion in England, 1590-1740The Anglican Focus on Natural TheologyThe Puritan Approach to Natural KnowledgeThe Origins of Anglican Mechanical PhilosophyThe Anti-Materialist Response to Hobbes5. Newton's Religion, Newtonian Religions, and Eighteenth-Century ReactionsNewton's Science and ReputationNewton and Prophecy InterpretationNewtonian ReligionJohn Locke and the Rise of DeismReactions against Newtonian Natural Theology6. Scientific Understanding of Religion and Religious Understanding of Science, 1700-1859Early Anthropological Approaches to ReligionReligion and the EmotionsImmanuel Kant's Separation of Scientific Knowledge from Religious FaithThe Post-Kantian Tradition in German Theology- Schleiermacher and HegelA New Anthropology of Religion- FeuerbachDavid Strauss and the Use of Science to Reject Evangelical ChristianityAuguste Comte's "Religion of Humanity"Scottish Common Sense Philosophy Calls for a Scientific Religion and a Religious Science7. Back to the Beginnings-of the Earth, of Life, and of Humankind, 1680-1859Mosaid GeologySecular Geology and the Age of the EarthAccounting for Change Over TimeBuffonLamarckThe Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation8. What to Do about Darwin?The Character of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of SpeciesInitial Anglo-American Religious Responses to DarwinDarwinism and Concerns about Scientific NaturalismAnglo-American Protestant Responses to Darwin after 1875Anglo-American Catholic and Jewish Responses to EvolutionConclusionPrimary Sources1. Hermes Trismagistus, Hermetica2. Richard Hooker, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity in Eight Books3. Robert Boyle, "A Free Inquiry into the Vulgarly Conceived Notion of Nature"4. John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creations5. Thomas Burnet, The Theory of the Earth6. David Hume, The Natural History of Religion7. Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity8. John William Draper, History of the Conflict between Religion and Science9. James McCosh, The Religious Aspect of EvolutionAnnotated BibliographyIndex
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Hidden Order of Intimacy
Book SynopsisA masterly analysis of the Book of Leviticus, the newest volume in the award-winning series of commentaries on the Hebrew Bible by “a celebrated biblical scholar, keen on weaving together traditional Jewish exegesis, psychoanalysis, and postmodern criticism” (The New York Times Book Review)The image of the Golden Calf haunts the commentaries that thread through Leviticus. This catastrophic episode, in which the Israelites (freed from Egyptian slavery and forty days after their momentous encounter with God at Mount Sinai) worship a pagan idol while Moses is receiving the Torah from God on the mountaintop, gives the mostly legalistic text a unique depth and resonance. According to midrashic tradition, the post-traumatic effects of the sin of the Golden Calf linger through the generations, the sin to be “paid off” in small increments through time. Post-biblical perspectives view this as the diffusion of punishment, as well as a way of addressi
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Broadman & Holman Publishers Believers Baptism
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Beacon Press Two Billion Caliphs
Book SynopsisExplains the attraction of Muslims to their faith, and discusses the challenges contemporary Islam confronts, and how we might imagine an Islamic theology and identity ready to face tomorrowIslam is often associated with and limited to the worst of the world—extremism, obscurantism, misogyny, bigotry. So why would so many people associate with such a fundamentalist faith? Two Billion Caliphs advocates for a way of being Muslim in the world, ready for today and prepared for tomorrow. Unlike stale summaries, which restrict themselves to facts and figures, Haroon Moghul presents a deeply Muslim perspective on the world, providing Islamic answers to universal questions: Who are we? What are we doing here? What happens to us when we die? And from description, Moghul moves to prescription, aspiring to something outrageous and audacious. Two Billion Caliphs describes what Islam has been and what it is, who its heroes are, what its big ideas are, but not only
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Beacon Press When Time Is Short
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Beacon Press Dangerous Religious Ideas The Deep Roots of
Book SynopsisReveals how faith traditions have always passed down tools for self-examination and debate, because all religious ideas—not just extremist ones—can cause harm, even as they also embody important moral teachings.Scripture’s abiding relevance can inspire great goodness, such as welcoming the stranger and extending compassion for the poor. But its authority has also been wielded to defend slavery, marginalize LGBTQ individuals, ignore science, and justify violence. Grounded in close readings of scripture and tradition in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, religious scholar Rachel Mikva shows us that the Abrahamic religions have always been aware of their tremendous power both to harm and to heal. And so they have transmitted their sacred stories along with built-in tools—interpretive traditions—to do the necessary work of taking on dangerous religious ideas and fostering self-critical faith.By exploring the themes of Scripture, Election,
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Beacon Press Buddhish
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Beacon Press The Jefferson Bible The Life and Morals of Jesus
Book SynopsisWe must reduce our volume to the simple evangelists, select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus. There will be remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man.—Thomas JeffersonFeaturing an introduction by Forrest Church, this reissue of The Jefferson Bible offers extraordinary insight into the logic of Thomas Jefferson and the Gospel of Jesus. Working in the White House in 1804, Jefferson set out to edit the Gospels in order to uncover the essence of true religion in the simple story of the life of Jesus. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic message of Jesus could be found only by extracting from the Gospels Jesus's message of absolute love and service, rather than the miracle of the Annunciation, Virgin Birth, or even the Resurrection. Completed in 1819, this little book is the remarkable result of Jefferson's efforts.
£16.19
W. W. Norton & Company A Thinking Persons Guide to Americas National
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Paulist Press International,U.S. Stumbling Blocks or Stepping Stones Spiritual
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