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A study that focuses on identity formation and maintenance in the world of the early Christians by drawing on archaeological and epigraphic evidence concerning associations and immigrant groups and by incorporating insights from the social sciences.

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This study sheds new light on identity formation and maintenance in the world of the early Christians by drawing on neglected archaeological and epigraphic evidence.

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Presents practical material that focuses on the practices of Dzogchen, and which also encompasses much of the range of Buddhist practice. Written by one of the top tier of widely respected and acknowledged masters of the tradition, sophisticated in Western psychology, this volume is useful for a range of Buddhist practitioners.

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Describes how the author, an internationally-renowned psychic medium and healer, gained the confidence to develop her contacts with the spirit world and how she met her spirit guide, an American Apache Indian.

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This book makes the connection between early Buddhism and nature. Early Buddhism was a system of thinking which applied the universal laws of nature to human beings. It was a comprehensive worldview. But after the first 400 to 500 years, it was mostly lost.

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This book makes the connection between early Buddhism and nature. Early Buddhism was a system of thinking which applied the universal laws of nature to human beings. It was a comprehensive worldview. But after the first 400 to 500 years, it was mostly lost.

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But some of its influence persisted all over Europe, and it had a large share in shaping the culture that ultimately emerged from the dark ages. This book's fascination is the picture that it gives of the movements of peoples, the shaping of new countries, and the development of ideas during those too-little-known centuries.

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Did Chinese mysticism vanish after its first appearance in ancient Taoist philosophy, to surface only after a thousand years had passed, when the Chinese had adapted Buddhism to their own culture This survey of the mystical dimension of Taoism disputes the commonly accepted idea of such a hiatus.

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For the past hundred years, much has been written about the early editions of Christian texts discovered in the region that was once Roman Egypt. Scholars have cited these papyrus manuscripts--containing the Bible and other Christian works--as evidence of Christianity's presence in that historic area during the first three centuries AD.

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Provides a study of the rise, development and use of formularies in the creative centuries of the Church's history. This book opens with an examination of creedal elements in the New Testament and features an enquiry into the relation of creeds to the rite of Baptism. It also contains a reconstruction of the expansion of the Roman Creed.

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A history of the doctrines of the Early Church, this text describes the development of the principal Christian doctrines from the close of the first century to the middle of the fifth, from the end of the apostolic age to the Council of Chalcedon.

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Offers analysis of intertexuality within Early Christian literature. This title includes essays that explore the use of Old Testament scripture in the Gospels and Acts. It examines the apostle Paul's interpretation of scripture in his letters, and looks at non-Pauline writings and their utilization of scripture.

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Offers analysis of intertexuality within Early Christian literature. This collection of essays treats pre-Christian texts, as well as Christian texts, that make use of older sacred tradition. It analyzes the respective uses of scripture in diverse Jewish and Christian traditions.