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Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful insight into the complexity and inexhaustibility of the Hebrew Scriptures as a theological resource… Meer
Rejoice and Sing is a completely new collection of hymns and songs for the United Reformed Church. It is the first major hymnbook to draw together the three traditions within the URC and as such represents a significant landmark in the history of the denomination… Meer
This Very Short Introduction argues that all faith needs reason, putting contemporary discussions into historical perspective, and shows that faith also involves a commitment to action. It matters for all social life, because religion is typically directed at what is seen as of crucial importance… Meer
What's Wrong with Rights? argues that contemporary rights-talk obscures the importance of civic virtue, corrodes military effectiveness, and subverts the democratic legitimacy of law. It draws upon legal and moral philosophy, moral theology, and court judgments… Meer
Filled with discoveries, this is the dramatic story of Pope Pius XII's struggle to response to the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Nazi domination of Europe. Meer
According to Thomas Aquinas, contemplation is the central goal of our life. This study considers the philosophical foundations of the contemplative act; the nature of the active and contemplative lives in light of Aquinas's Dominican calling; the role of faith in contemplation; and contemplation and… Meer
This work focuses on a central issue in the modern study of religion. It emphasizes the new dualistic taxonomy of religions had major consequences and sheds new light on the roots of European attitudes to Jews and Muslims in the twentieth century, up to the present day Meer
In this study of the development of Egyptian nationalism durin g the early part of this century, the authors argue that it was slow to evolve because Islam constituted both a religious and a political community that did not recognize territorial boundaries. Meer
This is the first thorough examination of what has become an intensely relevant contemporary issue. Beginning with an account of the basic premises of liberal democracy, it moves on to a comparison between rational, secular grounds of decision and grounds based on religious convictions… Meer
This book examines Syria's religious, intellectual, and political history during the period of transformation before World War I. Focusing on an attempt to reform Islamic belief and practice at the turn of the century, Commins shows how the reformers used debates over the religious law of Islam to… Meer
This volume analyses the levels of meaning present in a wide range of visual images - from high art by Jewish artists to Judaica, caricatures, and political propaganda. Meer
This book examines how American Jews from colonial times to the present have contended with living in a fundamentally Christian state. Separation of church and state has become a veritable creed in the American Jewish community, and the focus of the work is the way in which Jewish actions have… Meer
How far may Americans properly rely on their religious beliefs when they make and defend political decisions? Are decisions based on religious convictions compatible with liberal democratic premises? Kent Greenawalt dissects such issues as abortion and animal rights to illustrate secular and… Meer
This book contributes to the small but growing literature on the interaction between religion and power in antiquity. Edwards focuses on the eastern 'Greek' provinces in the first and second centuries A.D. - the period during which Christianity, Judaism, and numerous other religions and cults… Meer
McCracken argues that the gospels are in an important sense `occasions for offence', and that the Jesus of the gospels is a scandal (skandalon in the original Greek) and never more scandalous than when he speaks in parables… Meer
This is a collection of previously unpublished papers on `denominationalism' - the `free market' mode of organizing religious life which, it has been argued, manages to combine traditional religious claims with a free society in a peculiarly American way… Meer
Many contemporary feminists believe that early humans worshipped a nurturing Mother Goddess, who was subsequently displaced by autocratic male deities. In this book Motz examines the maternal deities of various cultures and religions and finds no signs of a common origin, and thus no evidence for a… Meer
Bernard Lewis brings together in this volume eleven essays that open doors to the innermost domains of Islam. Lewis ranges far and wide in these essays. He includes long pieces, such as his capsule history of the interaction--in war and peace, in commerce and culture--between Europe and its Islamic… Meer
For centuries, poets have drawn inspiration from the life of Jesus Christ as recorded in the gospels of the New Testament. Now, in a volume of astonishing range and originality, Robert Atwan, George Dardess, and Peggy Rosenthal present 280 remarkable poems from world literature focusing on Jesus's… Meer
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