A History of Early Christian Creeds (De Gruyter Studium) by: Wolfram Kinzig (Author) Publisher: De Gruyter Publication Date: 2024/7/1 Language: English Print Length: 750 pages ISBN-10: 3110318520 ISBN-13: 9783110318524 Book Description This history of early Christian creeds contains an up-to-date account of their origin and development from the credal texts in the New Testament to the fully fledged classical formulae of the 4th century. It includes the creeds’ use and alteration in subsequent pe...
Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture) by: Christopher Leslie Brown (Author) Publisher: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press Publication Date: 2006/3/27 Language: English Print Length: 496 pages ISBN-10: 0807856983 ISBN-13: 9780807856987 Book Description Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments ...
The Soviet Passport: The History, Nature and Uses of the Inteal Passport in the USSR (New Russian Thought) by: Albert Baiburin (Author),Stephen Dalziel(Translator) Publisher: Polity Edition: 1st Publication Date: 2022/1/10 Language: English Print Length: 455 pages ISBN-10: 150954318X ISBN-13: 9781509543182 Book Description In this remarkable book, Albert Baiburin provides the first in-depth study of the development and uses of the passport, or state identity card, in the former Soviet Union. Fi...
Holiness and Law: Kabbalistic Customs and Sexual Abstinence in Hasidism (Studia Judaica, 129) by: Benjamin Brown (Author) Publisher: De Gruyter Publication Date: 2024/6/4 Language: English Print Length: 244 pages ISBN-10: 3111358976 ISBN-13: 9783111358970 Book Description Hasidic groups have myriad customs. While ordinary Jewish law (halakhah) denotes the “bar of holiness” mandated for the ordinary Jew, these customs represent the higher threshold expected of Hasidim, intended to justify their t...
Italy’s Christian Democracy: The Catholic Encounter with Political Modeity by: Rosario Forlenza (Author),Bjø Thomassen(Author) Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: 2024/9/24 Language: English Print Length: 288 pages ISBN-10: 0198859864 ISBN-13: 9780198859864 Book Description The first comprehensive study of Italian Christian Democracy in English, Italy’s Christian Democracy unravels the encounter between Catholicism and democracy from pre-unification Italy in the eigh...
Regimes of Terror and Memory: Beyond the Uniqueness of the Holocaust (Political Theory for Today) by: Manfred Henningsen University of Hawaii (Author) Publisher: Lexington Books Publication Date: 2023/7/31 Language: English Print Length: 248 pages ISBN-10: 1666936170 ISBN-13: 9781666936179 Book Description Regimes of Terror and Memory: Beyond the Uniqueness of the Holocaust illustrates how convenient it has become in r not recognizing other regimes of terror in recent history. Manfred Henningsen...
Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses: Magic, Aesthetics, and Justice by: Laura Salah Nasrallah (Author) Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication Date: 2024/8/8 Language: English Print Length: 358 pages ISBN-10: 100940573X ISBN-13: 9781009405737 Book Description Ancient Christians and their non-Christian contemporaries lived in a world of ‘magic.’ Sometimes, they used curses as ritual objects to seek justice from gods and other beings; sometimes, they argued against the...
Killing America: Tuing the Tide on the Tsunami of Darkness by: Gene Bailey (Author),Teri Bailey(Author),Charlie Kirk(Foreword),Eric Metaxas(Foreword) Publisher: Harrison House Publishers Publication Date: 2024/7/2 Language: English Print Length: 304 pages ISBN-10: 1667503456 ISBN-13: 9781667503455 Book Description One Nation Under God?America the beautiful, founded on the God-given rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” is being systematically destroyed by those who...
The Nag Hammadi Codices As Monastic Books (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity, 134) by: Hugo Lundhaug (Editor),Christian H. Bull (Editor) Publisher: Mohr Siebrek Ek Publication Date: 2023/9/1 Language: English Print Length: 384 pages ISBN-10: 3161622324 ISBN-13: 9783161622328 Book Description Since their discovery in 1945, the significance of the texts contained in the thirteen papyrus manuscripts now known as the Nag Hammadi Codices has...
Freedom of Religion and Religious Diversity (ICLARS Series on Law and Religion) by: Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan (Editor),Ann Black (Editor) Publisher: Edition: 1st Publication Date: 2024/8/23 Language: English Print Length: 368 pages ISBN-10: 1032592850 ISBN-13: 9781032592855 Book Description Today, pluralism is increasingly the norm and can be seen as a permanent characteristic of modeity. As seen in world events, religion has not become irrelevant but more diverse, giving rise to a complex web of...
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