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Having the Spirit of Christ Spirit Possession and Exorcism in the Early Christ Groups
ISBN: HB: 9780300245622, Yale University Press, February 2020
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The earliest Christian writings are filled with stories of possession and exorcism, which were crucial for the activity of the historical Jesus and for the practice of his earliest followers. Possession, besides being a harmful event that should be e...
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£50,00
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That All Shall Be Saved Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
ISBN: HB: 9780300246223, Yale University Press, November 2019
232 pp., 21x14 cm
The great fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea once observed that, in his time, most Christians believed that hell was not everlasting, and that all would eventually attain salvation. But today, this view is no longer prevalent within Chris...
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God The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction
ISBN: PB: 9781454930105, GMC Group, Sterling, March 2018
320 pp., 22.6x15 cm, black&white illus.
What words come to mind when we think of God? Merciful? Just? Compassionate? In fact, the Bible lays out Gods primary qualities clearly: jealous, petty, unforgiving, bloodthirsty, vindictive – and worse. Originally conceived as a joint presentation b...
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Birth of Christian History Memory and Time from Mark to Luke-Acts
ISBN: HB: 9780300165098, Yale University Press, October 2017
280 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
When the Gospel writings were first produced, Christian thinking was already cognizant of its relationship to ancient memorial cultures and history-writing traditions. Yet, little has been written about exactly what shaped the development of early Ch...
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£55,00
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Sarah Osborn's Collected Writings
ISBN: HB: 9780300182897, Yale University Press, August 2017
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Riveting and eloquent, the collected writings of a key figure – and one of the first female leaders – of the eighteenth-century evangelical movement. Sarah Osborn (1714–1796) was one of the most charismatic female religious leaders of her time and o...
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£30,00
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Faith in Conflict The Impact of the Great War on the Faith of the People of Britain
ISBN: HB: 9781911512677, Casemate, Helion and Company, July 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white photos
It may seem obvious that the Great War, with its immense cost in terms of lives lost and injuries of body and mind incurred, must have had a significant impact on the religious faith of the British people. There is much anecdotal evidence to support...
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£35,00
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Holy Rus' The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia
ISBN: HB: 9780300222241, Yale University Press, April 2017
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
A fascinating, vivid, and on-the-ground account of Russian Orthodoxy's resurgence. A bold experiment is taking place in Russia. After a century of being scarred by militant, atheistic communism, the Orthodox Church has become Russia's largest and mo...
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£25,00
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Spiritual Economy Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus
ISBN: HB: 9780300220407, Yale University Press, March 2017
240 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Thomas Blanton sheds light on the philosophy surrounding gift giving in Paul's letters and on modern theories of gift exchange through the lens of religion. The exchange of gifts is a fundamental part of society and a foundational element in Greco-Ro...
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£65,00
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Peaceful Conquest Woodrow Wilson, Religion, and the New World Order
ISBN: HB: 9780226232317, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
A century after his presidency, Woodrow Wilson remains one of the most compelling and complicated figures ever to occupy the Oval Office. A political outsider, Wilson brought to the presidency a distinctive, strongly held worldview, built on powerful...
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£36,00
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Faithonomics Religion and the Free Market
ISBN: HB: 9781849046367, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Faithonomics" uses economic theory to provide a new and unorthodox view of religion in today's world. Drawing on state-of-the-art research and on case studies from around the globe, this book shows that religion should be anal...
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