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On This Day The Armenian Church Synaxarion – February
ISBN: HB: 9780842529402, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, November 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian C...
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£40,00
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On This Day The Armenian Church Synaxarion – January
ISBN: HB: 9780842528641, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, October 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian C...
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Negative Certainties
ISBN: HB: 9780226505619, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "Negative Certainties", renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he loo...
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£36,00
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Little Bit of Buddha An Introduction to Buddhist Thought
ISBN: HB: 9781454913023, GMC Group, Sterling, January 2015
128 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, illus.
At its heart, Buddhism blossoms from one source: the words and life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. Chad Mercree, a lifetime student of Buddhist philosophy and meditation, reveals in simple language how Buddhism can yield personal growth in the mo...
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£8,99
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Clerics of Islam Religious Authority and Political Power in Saudi Arabia (Eighteenth-Twenty-first Centuries)
ISBN: HB: 9780300178906, Yale University Press, September 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Followers of Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab', often considered to be Islam's Martin Luther, shaped the political and religious identity of the Saudi state while also enabling the significant worldwide expansion of Salafist Islam. Studies of the movement...
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£50,00
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Alexander to Constantine Archaeology of the Land of the Bible
ISBN: PB: 9780300205831, ISBN: HB: 9780300141795, Yale University Press, March 2014
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 colour images, 203 black&white illus.
This comprehensive and richly illustrated book explores the archaeological record of the land of the Bible from its conquest by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B. C. E. until the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century...
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£21,00
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£30,00
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Atheist's Bible The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed
ISBN: HB: 9780226530291, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
264 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line illus.
Like a lot of good stories, this one begins with a rumor: in 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous...
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£24,00
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Ancient Christian Martyrdom Diverse Practices, Theologies and Traditions
ISBN: HB: 9780300154658, Yale University Press, July 2012
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The importance of martyrdom for the spread of Christianity in the first centuries of the Common Era is a question of enduring interest. In this innovative new study, Candida Moss offers a radically new history of martyrdom in the first and second cen...
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£38,00
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New Testament History and Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780300180855, Yale University Press, May 2012
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In this engaging introduction to the New Testament, Professor Dale Martin presents an historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements. Focusing mainly on the New Testament, he also consi...
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£16,99
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God Without Being Hors-Texte (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226505657, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm
Jean-Luc Marion is one of the world's foremost philosophers of religion as well as one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. In "God Without Being", Marion challenges a fundamental premise of traditional philosophy, theology, and metaphys...
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£25,50
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