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Tomaڑ Spidlik A Theological Life

Sladek Karel

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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That All Shall Be Saved Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation

Bentley Hart David

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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Judaism

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Temple in Early Christianity Experiencing the Sacred

Regev Eyal

ISBN: HB: 9780300197884, Yale University Press, June 2019
496 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The first scholarly work to trace the Temple throughout the entire New Testament, this study examines Jewish and Christian attitudes toward the Temple in the first century and provides both Jews and Christians with a better understanding of their res...

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Three Christian Martyrdoms from Early Islamic Palestine Passion of Peter of Capitolias, Passion of the Twenty Martyrs of Mar Saba, Passion of Romanos the Neo-Martyr

Shoemaker Stephen J.

ISBN: HB: 9780842529884, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2017
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A distinctive feature of Christian culture in early Islamic Syria and Palestine was a renewed interest in literature on martyrs, which represented a potential reaction among some Christian communities to the rise of Islam in the region. The adaption...

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General

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To Care for Creation The Emergence of the Religious Environmental Movement

Ellingson Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780226367385, ISBN: HB: 9780226367248, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

Controversial megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll proclaimed from a conference stage in 2013, "I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV". The comment, which Driscoll later explained away as...

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Christianity

Ten Commandments A Short History of an Ancient Text

Coogan Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300212501, Yale University Press, June 2015
176 pp., 21x14 cm, 9 black&white illus.

<p>In this lively and provocative book, Michael Coogan guides readers into the ancient past to examine the iconic status of the Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue. How, among all the laws reportedly given on Mount Sinai, did the Ten Comman...

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Transient Apostle Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire

Luckritz Marquis Timothy

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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Ten Popes Who Shook the World

Duffy Eamon

ISBN: HB: 9780300176889, Yale University Press, October 2011
176 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Catholic popes have been powerful spiritual leaders for nearly two millennia, but their influence is not confined exclusively to Church matters. Many popes have played a central role in the history of Europe and the wider world, not only shouldering...

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History of Art

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Translating Truth Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England

Kumler Aden

ISBN: HB: 9780300164930, Yale University Press, May 2011
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 21 black&white illus., 63 colour illus.

"Translating Truth" is a novel and compelling account of how illuminated vernacular manuscripts transformed conceptions of Christian excellence in the later Middle Ages. Following the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), which legislated a broad pastoral o...

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Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Tobit

Moore Carey A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300139969, Yale University Press, December 2007
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, maps, illus.

"Tobit" is the story of a righteous, devout, and charitable man who – blind and miserable – sends his son, Tobiah, to collect on an old loan. To test his faith, an angel joins Tobiah on his journey, and in the end Tobiah returns with the money, a bea...

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