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Introduction to World Religions / 3rd edition
2018 || Paperback || Christopher Partridge || Fortress Press,U.S.
This leading textbook for world religion is designed to help students in their study and research of the world's religious traditions. Known and valued for its balanced approach and its respected board of consulting editors, this text addresses ways to study religion, provides broad coverage of diverse religions, and offers an arresting layout with rich illustrations. Introductory sections on understanding religion and the religions of antiquity lay the foundation for the study of the numerou...
The Happiness Hypothesis
Ten Ways to Find Happiness and Meaning in Life
2021 || Paperback || Jonathan Haidt || Cornerstone
Happiness comes from within. Can these 'truths' hold the key to a happier, more fulfilled life?In The Happiness Hypothesis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines ten Great Ideas which have been championed across centuries and civilisations and asks: how can we apply these ideas to our twenty-first century lives?
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, and The Natural History of Religion
2008 || Paperback || David Hume || Oxford University Press
David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. No philosopher is more important for his careful, critical, and deeply perceptive examination of the grounds for belief in divine powers and for his sceptical accounts of the causes and consequences of religious belief, expressed most powerfully in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion. The Dialogues ask if belief in God can be inferred ...
An Introduction to the Johannine Gospel And Letters / 1st edition
2008 || Paperback || Jan Van Der Watt || Bloomsbury Publishing
This accessible guide to the Gospel and Letters of John introduces readers to key issues arising from historical, literary, and theological approaches to the Johannine literature, also discussing the methodological rationale underlying each of these approaches. After introducing the reader to the development of the narrative structure of the book, the message (theology) is discussed in detail, with the aim of introducing the reader to the interrelatedness of the multiple theological ideas in ...
Flawed Church, Faithful God
A Reformed Ecclesiology for the Real World
2018 || Paperback || Joseph D. Small || William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
How can we reconcile the ideal church described by theology with the broken church that we see in the world? In this book Joseph Small argues that the church's true identity is known somewhere in the tension between the two.
Small revisits familiar ecclesiological concepts--people of God, the body of Christ, the communion of the Holy Spirit--but rather than focusing on theological abstractions or worldly cynicism, he carefully evaluates the church in its scriptural, historical, theological, ...
The Hebrew Bible / 2nd edition
A Contemporary Introduction to the Christian Old Testament and the Jewish Tanakh
2021 || Paperback || David M. Carr || John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Discover the historical and social context of one of the most influential works ever written with this authoritative new resource The newly revised second edition of The Hebrew Bible: A Contemporary Introduction to the Christian Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh delivers a brief and up-to-date introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the broader context of world history. Its treatment of the formation of the Bible amidst different historical periods allows readers to understand the bib...
The Living Paul / 1st edition
An Introduction To The Apostle'S Life And Thought
2009 || Paperback || Professor Anthony Thiselton || SPCK Publishing
In this accessible book, Anthony Thiselton introduces the apostle Paul, sometimes described as the founder of Christianity, to students and the general reader.
Encountering Religion / 1st edition
An Introduction to the Religions of the World
2000 || Paperback || Ian S. Markham e.a. || John Wiley and Sons Ltd
This comprehensive, user-friendly text introduces students to the principal world faiths. This text is cross-referenced to and can be used in conjunction with Markham's World Religions Reader, Second Edition as a complete teaching package for comparative religion courses.
Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology / 1st edition
2019 || Paperback || Catherine Cornille || John Wiley and Sons Ltd
The first systematic overview of the field of comparative theology Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology offers a synthesis of, and a blueprint for, the emerging field of comparative theology. It discusses various approaches to the field, the impact of the views of other religions on the way in which comparative theology is conducted, and the particularities of comparative theological hermeneutics. The text also provides an overview of the types of learning and of the importance of compa...
Understanding Religious Ethics / 1st edition
2010 || Paperback || Charles Mathewes || John Wiley and Sons Ltd
This accessible introduction to religious ethics focuses on the major forms of moral reasoning encompassing the three 'Abrahamic' religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Draws on a range of moral issues, such as examples arising from friendship, marriage, homosexuality, lying, forgiveness and its limits, the death penalty, the environment, warfare, and the meaning of work, career, and vocationLooks at both ethical reasoning and importantly, how that reasoning reveals insights into a reli...