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God Without Being Hors-Texte (Second Edition)

Marion Jean-Luc

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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Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars Critical Explorations in the History of Religions

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481876, ISBN: HB: 9780226481869, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 colour plates, 10 line illus.

Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion – historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understandin...

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Greater Than a Mother's Love Kinship in the Spirituality of Francis and Clare of Assisi

Cavazos-Gonzalez Gilberto

ISBN: PB: 9781589662131, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, September 2010
308 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Although there are several studies dedicated to the lives of Francis and Clare of Assisi, Gilberto Cavazos-Gonzalez's "Greater Than a Mother's Love" is the first to investigate their spirituality in the context of family relationships. He delves into...

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Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Good and Evil Serpent How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized

Charlesworth James H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140828, Yale University Press, April 2010
672 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 143 black&white illus.

In a perplexing passage from the Gospel of John, Jesus is likened to the most reviled creature in Christian symbology: the snake. Attempting to understand how the Fourth Evangelist could have made such a surprising analogy, James H. Charlesworth has...

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Islam

Global Salafism Islam's New Religious Movement

Meijer Roel

ISBN: PB: 9781850659808, Hurst Publishers, August 2009
464 pp., 21.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Salafism" and "jihadi-Salafism" have become significant doctrinal trends in contemporary Islamic thought, yet the West has largely failed to offer a sophisticated and discerning definition of these movements. The contributors...

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Global Mufti The Phenomenon of Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

Graf Bettina, Skovgaard-Petersen Jakob

ISBN: PB: 9781850659396, Hurst Publishers, November 2008
280 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! An outstanding legal scholar, an Islamist activist and a renowned host of al-Jazeera's most popular religious programme, "Sharia and Life", Yusuf al-Qaradawi is one of the best-known and most controversial figures of contempora...

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Europe

Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague

Rosenberg Yudl

ISBN: PB: 9780300143201, Yale University Press, August 2008
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

This collection of interrelated stories about a sixteenth-century Prague rabbi and the golem he created became an immediate bestseller upon its publication in 1909. So widely popular and influential was Yudl Rosenberg's book, it is no exaggeration to...

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Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Gospel According to John I-XII

Brown Raymond E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300140521, Yale University Press, December 2007
688 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In the first volume of Raymond E. Brown's magisterial three-volume commentary on the "Gospel According to John", all of the major Johannine questions – of authorship, composition, dating, the relationship of John to the Synoptics (Mark, Matthew, and...

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Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Gospel According to John XIII-XXI

Brown Raymond E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140729, Yale University Press, December 2007
688 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This volume concludes Raymond E. Brown's commentary on the "Gospel of John". Continuing his study begun in "Anchor Bible Volume 29", the author translates the original Greek text into today's English, which allows all readers to make sense of the Gos...

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Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Gospel According to Luke I-IX

Fitzmyer Joseph A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300139808, Yale University Press, December 2007
848 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this first of two volumes on the "Gospel According to Luke", Joseph A. Fitzmyer provides an exhaustive introduction, a definitive new translation, and extensive notes and commentary on "Luke's Gospel". Fitzmyer brings to the task his mastery of an...

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