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Lucy Gardner; David Moss; Ben Quash
T&T Clark 1999 192 pages
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Paperback 0567087042
Published Price £27.99 Sale Price £11.99
This study presents Hans Urs von Balthasar as one of the very few contemporary theologians to have demonstrated how the patterns and resources of the Christian tradition have relevance and importance for the world today.
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The Expulsion of the Foreign Women in Ezra 9-10 Religion
David Janzen
Sheffield Academic 2002 184 pages
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Hardback 1841272922
Published Price £65.00 Sale Price £17.99
No jacket.
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Julia Watkin
Continuum 2000 120 pages
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Paperback 0826450865
Published Price £12.99 Sale Price £5.99
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) has been proposed as the founder of existentialism, as a forerunner of post-modernism and as the proponent of a purely humanistic religiosity. According to Julia Watkin, all of these approaches suppress the reality of Kierkegaard as a Christian thinker. Her introduction to his ethical-religious thinking shows how the Danish philosopher raised and addressed vital questions about existence and agency in a way that continues to be relevant today. Outstanding Christian Thinkers.
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Zechariah 1-8 and the Frustrated Reader Religion
Mark Cameron Love
Sheffield Ac 1999 272 pages
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Hardback 1841270202
Published Price £55.00 Sale Price £7.99
This work employs an eclectic mix of structuralist and post-structuralist theories in a doomed attempt to discover the symbolic logic at work in Zechariah 1-8's surreal narrative world. Lengthy analyses of Zechariah's intra- and intertextual logic, or lack thereof, are presented. It is finally concluded that Zechariah lacks a concrete symbolic logic, defies grammatical conventions and is 'unreadable' as it stands-and always was this way. One suggestion is that it was the intent of the author, conceived of in a postmodern way, to produce such a work. It is finally concluded that the 'post-prophetic' age of Hebrew literature has much in common with the postmodern. No jacket.
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Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy Religion
Alison Knowles Frazier
Columbia University Press 2005 528 pages
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Hardback 0231129769
Published Price £33.50 Sale Price £4.99
The lives of saints were the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern Europe. During the century before the Reformation, these narratives of impossible goodness fell into the hands of classicizing, humanist intellectuals. In a study of the intertwining of classical and religious culture on the eve of the Reformation, Frazier examines how the humanists received, criticized and rewrote the traditional stories. Includes an annotated list of authors and their Latin works on saints.
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From Cassiciacum to Confessions Religion
Karla Pollmann; Mark Vessey (Edited by)
Oxford University Press 2007 258 pages
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Paperback 0199230048
Published Price £21.00 Sale Price £6.99
Augustine (354-430) is widely regarded as one of the founders of the Bible-centred Christian culture of medieval Europe, and as the promulgator of the canon of Liberal Arts that was to shape educational curricula for centuries. These nine essays question Augustine's historical significance as a disciplinary thinker, concentrating on the period in his intellectual development between De Ordine and the Confessiones and examining the relationship of Augustine's educational theories to other initiatives in Christian education in late antiquity.
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Volume 2: Exegetical and Theological Studies Religion
Wonil Kim; Deborah Ellens; Michael Floyd (Edited by)
Trinity 2001 352 pages
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Paperback 1563383268
Published Price £24.99 Sale Price £15.99
These 17 essays apply Rolf Knierim's interpretive methodology to several biblical texts, ranging from Joshua 1-12 and its 'theology of extermination' to Leviticus 15 and its contrasting conceptual associations about women.
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Study Edition Religion
Geoffrey Chapman 1991 437 pages
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Paperback 0225666499
Published Price £19.99 Sale Price £2.99
This is the English version of the Ordo Exsequiarum for Catholic funerals. Part one sets out, with alternatives, the rites that may be used for the burials of Christians and is divided according to three ritual moments: vigil; funeral liturgy; and rites of committal for cemetery or crematorium. Part two contains funeral rites and prayers for children and further sections give texts for the funerals of catechumens, the office for the dead and prayers for particular circumstances. Slightly off-mint.
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Religion
Silvia Schroer; Sophia Bietenhand (Edited by)
Sheffield Academic 2003 182 pages
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Paperback 0567083721
Published Price £34.99 Sale Price £2.99
Presenting questions central to feminist exegesis and the hermeneutics of liberation, this guide provides a lively example of the kind of global discussion of the Bible and liberation that can take place among women worldwide.
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Biblical Women and their Successors Religion
Paula Clifford
Canterbury 2001 193 pages
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Paperback 1853114049
Published Price £8.99 Sale Price £1.99
Although the societies we see in the Bible appear deeply patriarchal, Paula Clifford introduces a surprising number of important female figures, some quiet and supportive, such as Ruth and Naomi, and others who spoke out - Deborah and Esther. These women are compared with their successors in later ages, such as Hildegard of Bingen, Simone Weil and Lavinia Byrne.
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The Sacred Journey Religion
Ruth Barnes; Crispin Branfoot (Edited by)
Ashmolean Museum 2006 132 pages
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Paperback Illustrated 1854442155 280x220mm
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Comprising five richly illustrated essays, this volume explores the role of pilgrimage in Christianity, Islam, Judaism and the religions that developed in India. It was written to coincide with an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum (2006), but it is not a catalogue of the display. It is intended to be read independently as it examines attitudes to pilgrimage in the different religions, and it also includes accounts of individual pilgrimages, both historical and contemporary.
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Prejudice versus Reality Religion
A G Noorani
Zed 2002 166 pages
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Hardback 1842772708
Published Price £32.99 Sale Price £3.99
Published in the Global Issues series, this short, accessible work aims to correct misperceptions and misrepresentations of Islam among both westerners and Muslims themselves. Noorani, a Mumbai Muslim, regards the 'so-called Islamic fundamentalist' as an imposter and attempts to explain the true political vision of Islam, tracing the historical roots of modern radicalized Islam and elucidating concepts such as Jihad and Fatwa, democracy and Islam and Ijtihad (reason). No jacket.
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Today's King James Version Religion
BibleFirst 2002 1206 pages
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Hardback 0863475329
Published Price £20.00 Sale Price £3.99
'The English Bible, a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power' - Lord Macaulay was writing in 1828, but for many people, his words remain true. This edition preserves the language of the King James Version, with certain changes in line with modern usage: there are added headings, making it easy to locate passages; the text is set out in paragraphs; speech has been put into quotation marks; and poetic passages are presented in verse form.
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Religion
Peder Borgen; Soren Giversen (Edited by)
Aarhus UP 1995 293 pages
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Hardback 8772884584
Published Price £22.95 Sale Price £3.99
Four interrelated themes are dealt with in this volume of 14 papers: eschatological apocalyptism in the Jewish Diaspora; Philo and the New Testament; the interpretation of the Old Testament in the Diaspora and the New Testament; and New Testament themes in the light of the Diaspora. Specific topics include apotheosis and resurrection in the empty tomb story in Mark; the meaning of Hellenistic theios aner; Paul's use of Deut 30, 12-14; and the catalogues of hardship in the Pauline correspondence. No jacket.
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A Memoir Religion
George Carey
HarperCollins 2004 468 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 0007120303
Published Price £25.00 Sale Price £4.99
Know the Truth is the first autobiography by an Archbishop of Canterbury, and is based on daily diaries recording a complex public life. George Carey, who held the office from 1991 to 2002, reflects on the challenges of his archiepiscopate, which was one of the Church's most turbulent periods, seeing the vote on the ordination of women. He also describes his relationships with politicians (Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair) and other religious leaders including Cardinal Hume and Pope John Paul II.
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