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The author discerns two distinct currents of personal religion, which he illustrates through striking instances of faith on the part of individual Greeks: popular piety, or the indirect approach to God through saints, idols, and images as intermediaries; and reflective piety, which seeks direct and immediate union with God himself.

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Explores the idea that individuals bear a special responsibility for the success or failure of their own lives looking at philosophical theories, political ideologies and public opinion on the subject. This book shows how philosophy can contribute to public democratic debate on pressing issues of personal responsibility.

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Explores the idea that individuals bear a special responsibility for the success or failure of their own lives looking at philosophical theories, political ideologies and public opinion on the subject. This book shows how philosophy can contribute to public democratic debate on pressing issues of personal responsibility.

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Fred Greenstein, an acknowledged authority in this field, lays out conceptual and methodological standards for carrying out personality-and politics inquiries, ranging from psychological case studies of single actors, through multi-case analyses of types of political actors, to aggregative analyses of the impact of individuals and types of individu

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Applying personality-type theory to study the way we read the Scriptures, this book asks questions such as why people disagree about Scripture; and why, when two people are asked what they find of importance in a Bible passage, are they likely to give different answers

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Helps students and practitioners to become aware of the significance of self-knowledge for the provision of sensitive spiritual and pastoral care. This book offers an aid to those who seek to understand themselves better with a view to enhancing the quality of spiritual and pastoral care they offer.

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Psychologists, theologians, medical doctors, and Christian clergy discuss the significance of spiritual direction and identify the problems that inhibit one's ability to reach spiritual goals in modern life.

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This text argues for pluralistic ethics, philosophical anthropology and epistemology in a cross-cultural context. It provides an account of what it means to be a genuine social and spiritual being - a person in the diverse worlds of which we are a part, and to which we contribute.

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Explores the structure of human participation in the triune life.

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Explores the structure of human participation in the triune life.

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Named in Hebrew an 'angle of view' ("angle become point when feeling aligned"), the book was written during the year of 2023, the 75th year of Israel's independence. A viewpoint from our Life here and now, to the time and place of the holy book, the bible.

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In the wake of socialism's demise and liberalism's loss of direction, new ideas are needed for the next major realignment of the social and political domain. Making a unique contribution to the idea of 'the commons', this book offers a radical form of direct democracy with real-world as well as scholarly implications.

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A collection of essays on purification and atonement in the "Hebrew Bible" that provides insights into the discussion of these ideas by looking at the values of sociological and anthropological approaches to the topics. It also examines multivalence and polyvalence in ritual and asks to what extent it is possible to speak of the meaning of ritual.

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Takes into account biblical interpreters, writers, artists and composers to address the theme of the reception history of the passion narratives. This volume highlights the varying cultural contexts of differing biblical interpretations of the Passion narratives.

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The biblical commentaries from Qumran (the Pesharim) are well known, but the voluminous scholarship can appear daunting and the exegesis challenging. In this user-friendly textbook, the reader is introduced to basic and less obvious features of Qumran exegeses.

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Dennis Vanden Auweele explores Kants moral and religious philosophy and shows that a pessimistic undercurrent pervades them. This provides a new vantage point not only to comprehensively assess Kantian philosophy, but also to provide much needed context and reading assistance to the general premises of Kant's philosophy and rationality.

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Pessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation. Even when pessimism looks like utter truth, we are told that it makes the worst of a bad situation. This book challenges the received wisdom about pessimism, arguing that there is an unrecognized yet vibrant pessimistic philosophical tradition.

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