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In Tertullian’s Use of the Pastoral Epistles, Hebrews, James, 1 and 2 Peter, and Jude, Mark A. Frisius establishes that Tertullian (a third-century theologian) only used the Pastoral Epistles, Hebrews, and 1 Peter, although he at least knew of Jude. It is further...
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A Psycho-Spiritual View on the Message of Jesus in the Gospels explores elements of mysticism in the words of Jesus. Four fields are analyzed with the help of two key concepts of mysticism: presence of the divine and transformation of the self. Analyses, semantic and...
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The imperative mood as a whole has generally been neglected by Greek grammarians.The Greek Imperative Mood in the New Testament: A Cognitive and Communicative Approach utilizes insights from modern linguistics and communication theory in order to propose an inherent...
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Die Forschung der letzten Jahre hat sich verstärkt dem «Sichtbaren und Unsichtbaren» bzw. der Nacht oder Rückseite der Aufklärung zugewandt und das Fortleben hermetischer Elemente im Denken des 18. Jahrhunderts verdeutlicht. Elisa von der Recke galt zu ihrer Zeit als...
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Für den mittelalterlichen Menschen waren das Bewusstsein und der Lebensalltag vom Glauben an das konkret vorgestellte Jenseits in einer Selbstverständlichkeit und Intensität geprägt, die für den modernen Menschen kaum noch nachvollziehbar ist. Wenngleich die Bildsprache...
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Der Band leistet einen grundlegenden interdisziplinären Beitrag zum Verständnis, wie zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten in den unterschiedlichen Kulturen Asiens und Afrikas Frauen ihre Positionen in Gesellschaft und Religion erworben haben und wie sie im kulturellen Gedächtnis...
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‘Jewish Communism’ was one of the most powerful and destructive political myths in 20th-century Europe. The cry of Jewish communist conspiracy turned traditional, often religiously inspired anti-Jewish sentiments into a murderous anti-Semitic rampage. The connection of...
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Diese Studie analysiert am Beispiel der Zeugen Jehovas Chancen und Risiken weltanschaulicher Erziehung in geschlossenen religiösen Gruppierungen. Im Mittelpunkt steht eine qualitative Inhaltsanalyse von Texten der Zeugen Jehovas zum Thema Erziehung. Dabei werden...
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It has been widely recognized that the Book of the Twelve, Hosea to Malachi, was considered a single composition in antiquity. Recent articles and monographs have discussed the internal clues to this composition, but there has been little effort to understand the way...
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In the twenty-five years since his death, Karl Rahner moved from being the most celebrated Roman Catholic theologian of the twentieth century to among the most neglected of the twenty-first. This work attempts to redress this imbalance, with the contributors treating...
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How can one believe in a God of love amid all the evil and suffering found in the world?How does one do theology ‘after Auschwitz’, while vast numbers of people still have to endure violent oppression every day? This book seeks to address such questions from a...
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Scholarship on early Christian exegesis is full of puzzlement at the commentator’s apparent lack of concern for the literal or historical meaning of the text, usually explained as the result of an illegitimate allegorical method. This study comes to grips with the...
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«Schweizer Kirchengeschichte – neu reflektiert» – unter diesem Titel vereinigt das vorliegende Buch die Vorträge des gleichnamigen Symposiums, das im November 2008 zum 65. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Rudolf Dellsperger in Bern veranstaltet wurde. Die Beiträge des Bandes...
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Christianity has changed. Formerly known as the religion of Europe and North America, it is now a religion of the Global South: Asia, Africa, and Latin America. However,Christianity has never been merely a Western phenomenon – it has always been a borderless religion....
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In 1695, Louis Sébastien, Le Nain de Tillemont completed volume 13 of his Mémoire ecclésiastique, entitled La vie de saint Augustin. Consisting of approximately 1,200 pages wherein Tillemont compiled all extant passages relevant to the biography of Augustine of Hippo,...
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In Axis of Glory, Dan Lioy conducts a biblical and theological analysis of the temple motif as a conceptual and linguistic framework for understanding Scripture. His investigation takes a fresh look at the topic, assesses a representative group of the Judeo-Christian...
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In the Pauline literature of the New Testament, the characteristics of the Spirit and Christian life are described through the use of metaphor. An interpreter of Paul must understand his metaphors in order to arrive at a complete understanding of the Pauline...
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Der vorliegende Band der Reihe «New German-American Studies» erörtert anhand der Lebensgeschichte des gebürtigen Westfalen August Rauschenbusch und unter Anwendung gängiger Methoden der deutsch-amerikanischen und transatlantischen Geschichtsschreibung das Schicksal...
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This book contains the first comprehensive collection of Seventh-day Adventist texts and statements on interchurch and interfaith relations. With more than 16 million baptized members and about 30 million adherents in total today, this church is a significant global...
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Diese Darstellung der Ausbreitung des Buddhismus und ihre quantitative Erfassung stützt sich in erster Linie auf epigraphische Quellen und andere Artefakte seit der Zeit des indischen Königs Asoka (reg. 268 bis nach 240 n. Chr.), die in Kontrast zu den Inselchroniken...
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