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Lives of Objects Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity
ISBN: PB: 9780226707587, ISBN: HB: 9780226707440, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Our lives are filled with objects – ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When these are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they change. An object out...
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Tomaڑ Spidlik A Theological Life
ISBN: PB: 9788024643793, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2020
130 pp., 20.3x14.6 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Tomaڑ Spidlik: A Theological Life" offers one of the first comprehensive reflections on the life and work of the enigmatic Czech theologian. In part one, Karel Sladek explores Špid...
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Eastern Orthodox Church A New History
ISBN: HB: 9780300218763, Yale University Press, May 2020
376 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
In this short, accessible account of the Eastern Orthodox Church, John McGuckin begins by tackling the question "What is the Church?" His answer is a clear, historically and theologically rooted portrait of what the Church is for Orthodox Christianit...
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Unequal Partners In Search of Transnational Catholic Sisterhood
ISBN: PB: 9780226697550, ISBN: HB: 9780226697413, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 3 tables
When we think of Catholicism, we think of Europe and the United States as the seats of its power. But while much of Catholicism remains headquartered in the West, the Church's center of gravity has shifted to Africa, Latin America, and developing Asi...
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£78,00
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Subject of Crusade Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500
ISBN: PB: 9780226693354, ISBN: HB: 9780226693217, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones
In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives through lyric poetry, putting words to the experience...
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Religious Intolerance, America, and the World A History of Forgetting and Remembering
ISBN: HB: 9780226313931, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As the news shows us every day, contemporary American culture and politics are rife with people who demonize their enemies by projecting their own failings and flaws onto them. But this is no recent development. Rather, as John Corrigan argues here,...
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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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Christ's Associations Connecting and Belonging in the Ancient City
ISBN: HB: 9780300217049, Yale University Press, January 2020
536 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
As an urban movement, the early groups of Christ followers came into contact with the many small groups in Greek and Roman antiquity. Organized around the workplace, a deity, a diasporic identity, or a neighborhood, these associations gathered in sma...
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God's Library The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts
ISBN: PB: 9780300248609, Yale University Press, January 2020
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.
In this bold and groundbreaking book, Brent Nongbri provides an up-to-date introduction to the major collections of early Christian manuscripts and demonstrates that much of what we thought we knew about these books and fragments is mistaken. While b...
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Literary Theory and the New Testament
ISBN: HB: 9780300219913, Yale University Press, January 2020
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
For at least a half century, scholars have been adopting literary approaches to the New Testament inspired by certain branches of literary criticism and theory. In this important and illuminating work, Michal Beth Dinkler uses contemporary literary t...
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