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This classic presents people seeking to change their community by pledging themselves to experiment for a whole year with the question, 'What would Jesus do'

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This action-oriented resource, written from a male perspective, will help you to minimize the surprises and maximize the successes in your first year(s) of marriage.

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After a list of prayers going his way, 8-year-old Sebastian learns that not all of them are answered. He soon learns the true meaning of prayer.

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When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts What if the government commits a moral crime The protestor's slogan--"Not in our name!"--testifies to the need to separate ourselves from the wrongs of our leaders. Yet the idea that individual citizens might bear a special responsibility for politi

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Advances the discussion of rhetorical criticism of history writing in the ancient world by showing the similarities and differences between ancient Hellenistic history writing and ancient Jewish history writing.

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The getting of Wisdom - the ultimate expression of joining of head and heart in search of God - is a key theme in biblical wisdom literature. Examining many aspects and developments of the Biblical concept of Wisdom, this work focuses on Wisdom as it evolves through the works of Shakespeare, Goethe, Melville, and Dostoevsky.

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In this book, Marianne Moyaert develops a new interreligious appropriation of Paul Ricoeurs hermeneutical philosophy. Viewed in context of his philosophical, anthropological, and ethical work, Ricoeurs fragmentary reflections on the encounters between religions provide insights on global cooperation practices and religious identity concerns.

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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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Tells of a quest to the ends of the earth, of the villainous usurper King Pelias, of dragons' teeth, of the doom of Hylas, ravished to his end by nymphs who greatly desired him for his beauty, and of Jason's lust for the witch Medea, it speaks to us of more: of sex and gender; of identity and race; and, of colonisation and conquest.

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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.