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Protestant Interest New England After Puritanism
ISBN: PB: 9780300205046, Yale University Press, August 2013
226 pp., 21.6x14 cm, black&white illus.
During the early eighteenth century, colonial New England witnessed the end of Puritanism and the emergence of a revivalist religious movement that culminated in the evangelical awakenings of the 1740s. This engrossing book explores the religious his...
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£16,50
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Solomon's Secret Arts The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780300123586, Yale University Press, April 2013
412 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational tho...
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£27,50
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Abu Hatim al-Razi: The Proof of Prophecy A Parallel Arabic-English Text
ISBN: HB: 9780842527873, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, April 2012
400 pp., 23x15 cm
This book is the record of a debate that took place in the early tenth century between the famous Ismaili missionary Abu Hatim al-Razi and the even more celebrated Abu Bakr al-Razi, a physician and philosopher who was known to medieval Europe as "Rha...
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£40,00
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Authors of the Impossible The Paranormal and the Sacred
ISBN: PB: 9780226453873, ISBN: HB: 9780226453866, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 illus.
Most scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interes...
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£22,50
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£37,00
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Cosmopolitans and Heretics New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam
ISBN: PB: 9781849041294, Hurst Publishers, July 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Dramatic political events involving Muslims across the world have put Islam under increased scrutiny. However, the focus of this attention is generally limited to the political realm and often even further confined by constrict...
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£35,00
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Translating Truth Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England
ISBN: HB: 9780300164930, Yale University Press, May 2011
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 21 black&white illus., 63 colour illus.
"Translating Truth" is a novel and compelling account of how illuminated vernacular manuscripts transformed conceptions of Christian excellence in the later Middle Ages. Following the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), which legislated a broad pastoral o...
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£65,00
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Jonathan Edwards's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" A Casebook
ISBN: PB: 9780300140385, Yale University Press, April 2010
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 29 black&white illus.
Designed specifically for the classroom, this volume presents the accurate and definitive version of "Sinners", accompanied by the tools necessary to study and teach this famous American sermon. With an introduction aimed at students and teachers and...
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£20,00
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I Chronicles 10-29
ISBN: HB: 9780300139532, Yale University Press, December 2007
608 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus., maps
In this latest addition to the esteemed "Anchor Bible series", scholar Gary Knoppers examines one of the most neglected books of the Hebrew Bible and establishes its importance to understanding the nation of Israel. What was the place of the monarchy...
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£55,00
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I Chronicles 1-9
ISBN: HB: 9780300139525, Yale University Press, December 2007
544 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In his latest addition to the esteemed "Anchor Bible Commentaries", scholar Gary Knoppers examines one of the most neglected books of the Old Testament and established its importance as a key to understanding the nation of Israel. Who were the Israel...
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Hebrews
ISBN: PB: 9780300139891, Yale University Press, December 2007
640 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
One of early Christianity's most carefully crafted sermons, "Epistle to the Hebrews" addresses listeners who have experienced the elation of conversion and the heat of hostility, but who now must confront the formidable task of remaining faithful in...
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£35,00
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