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Gnostic Scriptures Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300208542, Yale University Press, October 2020
744 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
This definitive introduction to the gnostic scriptures provides a crucial look at the theology, religious atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism. It provides authoritative translations of ancient texts fro...
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How the Gospels Became History Jesus and Mediterranean Myths
ISBN: HB: 9780300242638, Yale University Press, September 2019
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Did the early Christians believe their myths? Like most ancient – and modern – people, early Christians made efforts to present their myths in the most believable ways. In this eye-opening work, M. David Litwa explores how and why what later became...
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£50,00
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Five Points of Calvinism
ISBN: PB: 9781861187918, Bookport, Third Millennium Press, March 2019
72 pp., 23x15.4 cm
This Doctrine, while it lays man's pride low, gives him an anchor of hope sure and steadfast, drawing him to Heaven; for his hope is founded not in the weakness, folly, and fickleness of his human will, but in the eternal love, wisdom, power of almig...
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£19,99
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Consuming Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780226482095, ISBN: HB: 9780226481937, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are questions for the study of religion. In eleven essays ex...
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£22,00
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£67,50
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Frank Brangwyn Stations of the Cross
ISBN: PB: 9780956713971, Casemate, Liss Llewellyn Fine Art, March 2015
40 pp., 23x23 cm, 30 colour illus.
This publication – which has been made possible entirely through the generosity of Tigger Hoare – was prompted by the discovery of a complete set of Brangwyn's Stations of the Cross, painted in oil, which originally hung in St Michael's Abbey, Farnbo...
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£10,00
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Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities
ISBN: PB: 9780226143187, ISBN: HB: 9780226471075, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
336 pp., 23x15 cm
In "Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam", Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined – and continues to define today – the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths. Lassner l...
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£43,50
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Image of God Catholics and American Eugenics
ISBN: HB: 9780226038988, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm
During the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reproduction of "unfit" members of society. Through institutionalization, compulsory sterilizatio...
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£39,00
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Transient Apostle Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300187144, Yale University Press, May 2013
216 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In a significant reevaluation of Paul's place in the early Christian story, Timothy Luckritz Marquis explores the theme of travel in the apostle's correspondence. He casts Paul's rhetorical strategies against the background of Augustus' age, when Rom...
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£46,00
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Devil Within Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West
ISBN: HB: 9780300114720, Yale University Press, March 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 16 black&white illus.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms – violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of for...
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Age of Doubt Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty
ISBN: PB: 9780300188073, ISBN: HB: 9780300141924, Yale University Press, January 2013
248 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm, 19 black&white illus.
The Victorian era was the first great "Age of Doubt" and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectuals battled the Church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upended everything the...
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