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World Religions in Practice / 2nd edition
A Comparative Introduction
2017 || Paperback || Paul Gwynne || Wiley
A new and expanded edition of a highly successful textbook on world religions with a comparative approach which explores how six major religions are lived and expressed through their customs, rituals and everyday practices. A new edition of this major textbook, exploring the world's great religions through their customs, rituals and everyday practices by focusing on the 'lived experience' This comparative study is enriched and broadened with the inclusion of a sixth religion, DaoismTakes a th...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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.
The Bible: Authorized King James Version
King James Version, with Apocrypha
2008 || Paperback || Robert Carroll e.a. || Oxford University Press
The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science. This unique edition offers an exciting new approach to the most influential of all English biblical texts - the Authorized King James Version, complete with the Apocrypha.
The Inner Chapters
The Inner Chapters
2001 || Paperback || Chuang-Tzu e.a. || Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
The Inner Chapters are the oldest pieces of the larger collection of writings by several fourth, third, and second century B.C. authors that constitute the classic of Taoism, the Chuang-Tzu (or Zhuangzi). It is this core of ancient writings that is ascribed to Chuang-Tzu himself.
God Is Not One
The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World
2020 || Paperback || Stephen Prothero || HarperCollins
In the twenty-first century, religion remains the single greatest influencein the world. But, argues religion scholar Stephen Prothero, persistentattempts to portray all religions as different paths to the same God overlookthe distinct human problem that each seeks to solve. For example:Islam: the problem is pride / the solution is submissionChristianity: the problem is sin / the solution is salvationBuddhism: the problem is suffering / the solution is awakeningJudaism: the problem is exile /...
A Guide To The Bodhisattva Way Of Life
1997 || Paperback || Santideva e.a. || Shambhala Publications Inc
Analects
With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
2003 || Paperback || Confucius || Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
This edition goes beyond others that largely leave readers to their own devices in understanding this cryptic work, by providing an entree into the text that parallels the traditional Chinese way of approaching it: alongside Slingerland's exquisite rendering of the work are his translations of a selection of classic Chinese commentaries that shed light on difficult passages, provide historical and cultural context, and invite the reader to ponder a range of interpretations. The ideal student ...
Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism
2005 || Paperback || Donald S. Lopez Jr. || The University of Chicago Press
Through incisive discussions of topics ranging from practice, power, and pedagogy to ritual, history, sex, and death, the authors offer new directions for the understanding of Buddhism, taking constructive and sometimes polemical positions in an effort both to demonstrate the shortcomings of assumptions about the religion and the potential.