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First published 1992, Sheffield Academic Press, Republished 2006, Continuum.

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Many critics read the Gospel of Mark through a context external to Mark's story world. Hatina examines how contexts determine the meaning of embedded scripture texts in Mark, in a way that is sensitive to the story world, without disregard for the historical setting of the gospel.

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The issue of authority has been contended in Anglican Theology since the Reformation, and remains very much alive today. Setting his critique within its ecumenical context, Avis examines the way that Anglican theologians throughout history have developed their theories of authority in relation to the Bible, tradition, reason and experience.

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In this work, the author asks what agendas, assumptions, and human needs do the contributors to this work take to their studies of Jesus Analyzing popular and scholarly images of Jesus, writers discussed include: Marcus Borg, the Dalai Lama, Abraham Geiger, Barbara Thiering and Tom Wright.

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Are families inherently unjust, and must they therefore be replaced by just anti-familial alternatives Challenging entrenched pro-family and anti-family views, this book advances a reconciliatory pro-family solution, syncretizing that binarys seemingly irreconcilable ideas with practical alternatives for the problems of actual families.

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Muhammad's memory, example and name are universally revered by Muslims, for whom he represents the highest human ideal. This book argues that the historic reconstruction of Muhammad's biography does not explain why he has remained so important in the life of Muslims.

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In recent years there has been a tendency among certain scholars to claim that little can be known about pre-exilic Israel, because the Old Testament was only compiled in the post-exilic period (for example Philip Davies, Thomas Thompson, Neils Peter Lemche). One scholar (Lemche) has even claimed that the Old Testament is a Hellenistic work.

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This collection focuses on the meaning of the common good and what resources Christian theology, biblical studies, and ethics might contribute to our understanding of it. The rationale for the discussion is ultimately theological.

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In this book, a series of interviews offers an accessible, revealing, human and intellectual biography of leading Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is one of the preeminent philosophers writing today.

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These five superb homilles by the newly elected Pope, Benedict XVI, provide a clear and biblically based explanation of the first few chapters of the Bible. Reissued with a new cover and ISBN to celebrate Joseph Ratzinger's election.

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A collection of essays, addressing the core subjects of political philosophy such as justice, liberty, and equality; the nature and meaning of liberalism; toleration; power and the fear of power; democracy; and the nature of political philosophy itself.

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A brilliant new work by Luce Irigaray, one of the greatest living French thinkers, in which she deepens her arguments in relation to sexuate difference.

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A brilliant new work by Luce Irigaray, one of the greatest living French thinkers, in which she deepens her arguments in relation to sexuate difference.

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The foundation stone of Jewish and Christian scriptures, the power of the Book of Genesis lies in its stories - Creation, the Fall, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob and Joseph. Karen Armstrong traces the themes and meanings of these stories, examining what they can still tell us about the human quest for meaning.

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This book is a general survey of the Greeks' extraordinarily rapid advance from a mythological to a rational view of the world and of man's origins and place in the universe.

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This five-session small group Bible study, In the Dust of the Rabbi, by noted teacher and historian, Ray Vander Laan, is volume six of the That the World May Know series. In this volume, Vander Laan helps you experience Jesus life up close and personal.

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A book written in solitude, in a time of self-isolation, a gathering of inner strength to continue this remarkable spiritual journey called Life.

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One day in the life of Christ. Call it a tapestry of turmoil: A noisy pictorial in which the golden threads of triumph knot against the black, frazzled strings of tragedy. If you've ever wondered if God in heaven can relate to you on earth, then read this account of a pressure-packed day in the life of Christ. God knows how you feel.