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Mary and Early Christian Women : Hidden Leadership
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book reveals exciting early Christian evidence that Mary was remembered as a powerful role model for women leaders—women apostles, baptizers, and presiders at the ritual meal. Early Christian art portrays Mary and other women clergy serving as deacon, presbyter/priest, and bishop. In addition, the two oldest surviving artifacts to…
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- 9783030111113
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- XVII, 295p. : ill.
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- 232.91 ALL m
Sport, psychology and Christianity : welfare, performance and consultancy
The majority of sport psychology research to date has been underpinned and driven by a secular perspective. There is an urgent need for sport psychologists to better understand the relevance of Christian faith in athletes’ sporting experiences and day-to-day lives in order to improve their performance and well-being. Sport, Psychology and Christianity is the first book to consider the relatio…
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- 9781351165488
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- xiii, 212 p
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- 796.019 BRI s
Abrahamic reflections on randomness and providence
This open access book addresses the question of how God can providentially govern apparently ungovernable randomness. Medieval theologians confidently held that God is provident, that is, God is the ultimate cause of or is responsible for everything that happens. However, scientific advances since the 19th century pose serious challenges to traditional views of providence. From Darwinian evolut…
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- 13
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- 9783030757977
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- xiv + 384
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- 231.5 ABR a
A God of Time And Space; New Perspectives On Bob Dylan And Religion
"This book is a collection of essays on Bob Dylan and religion. The eight scientific essays present new perspectives on the subject, aiming to elucidate the role played by religion in Bob Dylan’s artistic output and in the reception history of some of his songs. Few would dispute the fact that religion or religious traditions and the use of religious imagery have always played an important ro…
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Time And Soul
In Book IV of his Physics, Aristotle asked whether time could exist without a soul that counts it. As a result, philosophers throughout antiquity tackled the problem of subjective time and its relation to the physical time of the cosmos. The present book gives an account of this debate. It analyses the contributions made by Aristotle and his Peripatetic followers but also discusses Neoplatonist…
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- 9783110692723
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Welcoming Africa’s children – theological and ministry perspectives
The purpose of this book is to combine perspectives of scholars from Africa on Child Theology from a variety of theological sub-disciplines to provide some theological and ministerial perspectives on this topic. The book disseminates original research and new developments in this study field, especially as relevant to the African context. In the process it addresses also the global need to hear…
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- 9781928396079
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- 308 p.; 23 cm.
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- 259.22 WEL w
The Latin New Testament : a guide to its early history, texts, and manuscripts
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and development of the Latin New Testament and a user’s guide to the resources available for research and further study. The first five chapters offer a new historical synthesis, bringing together evidence from Christian authors and biblical manuscripts from earliest times to the late Middle Ages. Each witness is considered in its…
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- 9780198744733
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- XVII, 366 p.
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- 225.5209 HOU l
Printing and prophecy : prognostication and media change, 1450-1550
Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 examines prognostic traditions and late medieval prophetic texts in the first century of printing and their effect on the new medium of print. The many prophetic and prognostic works that followed Europe's earliest known printed book---not the Gutenberg Bible, but the Sibyl's Prophecy, printed by Gutenberg two years earlier and k…
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- 9780472117833
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- xi, 265p. : ill.
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- 261.51309409024 GRE p
Christianity, Islam, and nationalism in Indonesia
Although over eighty percent of the country is Muslim, Indonesia is marked by an extraordinary diversity in language, ancestry, culture, religion and ways of life. This book focuses on the Christian Dani of West Papua, providing a social and ethnographic history of the most important indigenous population in the troubled province. It presents a fascinating overview of the Dani’s conversion to…
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- 9780203007556
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- xxi, 233p. : ill.
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- 305.899120951 FAR c
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