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Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment
ISBN: PB: 9780226758299, ISBN: HB: 9780226684611, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A timely new work by one of France's premier philosophers, "A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment" offers insight into what "catholic" truly means. In this short, accessible book, Jean-Luc Marion braids the sense of catholic as all-embracing and univ...
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Blood and Boundaries The Limits of Religious and Racial Exclusion in Early Modern Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9781684580200, ISBN: HB: 9781684580194, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 colour plates
In "Blood and Boundaries", Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and discrimination based on religious origins and genealogy were transferred to their colonies in Latin Ameri...
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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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Becoming a New Self Practices of Belief in Early Modern Catholicism
ISBN: HB: 9780226472850, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "Becoming a New Self", Moshe Sluhovsky examines the diffusion of spiritual practices among lay Catholics in early modern Europe. By offering a close examination of early modern Catholic penitential and meditative techniques, Sluhovsky makes the ca...
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£34,00
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Biblical Truths The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300222838, Yale University Press, April 2017
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A leading biblical scholar's landmark work challenges the historical realism that has dominated the discipline for more than two centuries. How can a modern person, informed by science and history, continue to recite the traditional creeds and confe...
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Body of Faith A Biological History of Religion in America
ISBN: HB: 9780226025087, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
248 pp., 23x15 cm
The postmodern view that human experience is constructed by language and culture has informed historical narratives for decades. Yet newly emerging information about the biological body now makes it possible to supplement traditional scholarly models...
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Book of Numbers, a Critique of Genesis
ISBN: HB: 9780300179187, Yale University Press, July 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In this work Calum Carmichael – a legal scholar who applies a literary approach to the study of the Bible – shows how each law and each narrative in "Numbers", the least researched book in the Pentateuch, responds to problems arising in narrative inc...
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Bountiful Harvest Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown
ISBN: HB: 9780842528047, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2012
482 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 figures, 1 colour illus.
Over the course of his forty-year career, S. Kent Brown, professor of religious studies, has taught and inspired thousands of students at Brigham Young University and has produced over one hundred publications and several films in the fields of early...
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Book of Daniel
ISBN: PB: 9780300139686, Yale University Press, December 2007
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"The Anchor Bible" series offers new, book-by-book translations of the "Old and New Testament" and the "Apocrypha", with commentary. This volume on the "Book of Daniel" has been prepared by two distinguished biblical scholars from the faculty of the...
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Birth of the Messiah A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke
ISBN: PB: 9780300140088, Yale University Press, December 2007
752 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Over his illustrious career, Raymond E. Brown, S. S. , Ph. D. , was internationally regarded as a dean of "New Testament" scholars. He was Auburn Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, rec...
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