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The Lost Spot.is a short but powerful vignette-type book, designed specifically to draw readers to the cross of Christ, through child-like verse. Yet it is the simplicity of the book that makes salvation so approachable and readily obtainable.

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"The Lulling to Sleep of the Church" is a call for reformation. It is the proverbial ninety-five theses nailed to the door of the present-day church. It explains what is wrong with the church, why it is wrong, and how to fix it. If you have concerns about the future of the church, this book gives Scriptures and applications to your concerns.

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A study of Lutheran history with increased attention to the activities and contributions made by the laity, by women, and by persons from outside the dominant ethnic groups.

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A study of Lutheran history with increased attention to the activities and contributions made by the laity, by women, and by persons from outside the dominant ethnic groups.

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Rushing's seminal work addresses the ways in which modern women struggle with holistic spirituality, sexuality, and anger. The Magdalene, known as the apostle to the apostles, has remained tainted through repressive scholarly action and deliberate distortion.

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This comprehensive, psychological, and naturalistic analysis of prayer offers an alternative to William James's model of prayer, represented in his work The Varieties of Religious Experience, which links supplication to the divine or supernatural realm.

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In reaction to massive membership decline, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America looks to postdenominational Christianity for inspiration on how to transform and attract people to the pews. But is this pluralization of the faith in late modernity compatible with its confessional, liturgical tradition

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This volume explores the idea that survival of the Christian faith depended upon the making of these communities, of which the Christians of this period were themselves acutely - and sometimes acrimoniously - aware.

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Interest in Jewish universalism is on the rise, yet scholars lack a common definition of the concept. This book advocates for a common definition of universalism as it applies to an Early Jewish context and traces the origins of Jewish universalist thought from the prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible through the period of the Second Temple.

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Uses the lens of medieval preaching to examine the mendicant friars' transformation of Mary Magdalen, a shadowy gospel figure, into an emblem of action and contemplation, a symbol of vanity and lust, a model of perfect penance, and the embodiment of hope and salvation.

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The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible explains how Jewish translators, commentators, and scholars made the Bible a keystone of Jewish life in Germany, Israel and America. In each site, a particular need-religion, nationalism, ethnicity-drove the enterprise of Bible study as sc...

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Father Andrew Greeley recounts the dramatic unfolding of the centuries-old conclave of cardinals in this firstshand account of the papal election of 2005. 16-page insert.

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Indonesian Islam is often portrayed as being intrinsically moderate by virtue of the role that mystical Sufism played in shaping its traditions. According to Western observers--from Dutch colonial administrators and orientalist scholars to modern anthropologists such as the late Clifford Geertz--Indonesia's peaceful interpretation of Islam has been

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The Man Who Knew God decodes the complexities of the book of Jeremiah and argues that this prophet is the key figure in shaping Western civilization and Judaism. Among many other fascinating assertions, Mordecai Schreiber posits that Jeremiah is not only the one who eradicated...