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Gazing Eastwards Of Buddhist Monks and Revolutionaries in China, 1957
ISBN: HB: 9780857428165, Seagull Books, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 12 halftones
In 1957, renowned Indian historian Romila Thapar visited China, where, together with Sri Lankan art historian Anil de Silva, she worked at two cave sites that were the locations of Buddhist monasteries and shrines from the first millennium CE. The fi...
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Gnostic Scriptures Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300208542, Yale University Press, October 2020
744 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
This definitive introduction to the gnostic scriptures provides a crucial look at the theology, religious atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism. It provides authoritative translations of ancient texts fro...
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God's Library The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts
ISBN: PB: 9780300248609, Yale University Press, January 2020
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.
In this bold and groundbreaking book, Brent Nongbri provides an up-to-date introduction to the major collections of early Christian manuscripts and demonstrates that much of what we thought we knew about these books and fragments is mistaken. While b...
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£16,99
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Global Sufism Boundaries, Structures and Politics
ISBN: HB: 9781787381346, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
296 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sufism is a growing and global phenomenon, far from the declining relic it was once thought to be. This book brings together the work of fourteen leading experts to explore systematically the key themes of Sufism's new global p...
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God The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction
ISBN: PB: 9781454930105, GMC Group, Sterling, March 2018
320 pp., 22.6x15 cm, black&white illus.
What words come to mind when we think of God? Merciful? Just? Compassionate? In fact, the Bible lays out Gods primary qualities clearly: jealous, petty, unforgiving, bloodthirsty, vindictive – and worse. Originally conceived as a joint presentation b...
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£14,99
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George Whitefield America's Spiritual Founding Father
ISBN: PB: 9780300223583, Yale University Press, October 2016
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
An engaging, balanced, and penetrating narrative biography of the charismatic eighteenth-century American evangelist In the years prior to the American Revolution, George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies. Thomas Kidd's fascinating n...
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£18,99
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God Being Nothing Toward a Theogony
ISBN: HB: 9780226359625, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this long-awaited work, Ray L. Hart offers a radical speculative theology that profoundly challenges classical understandings of the divine".God Being Nothing contests the conclusions of numerous orthodoxies through a probing question": How can th...
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£36,00
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God is No Thing Coherent Christianity
ISBN: HB: 9781849046374, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
96 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "God is no thing, but not nothing". These words from the renowned thinker Herbert McCabe point to a fallacy at the heart of New Atheist polemics against religion: the deity rejected by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam...
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£9,99
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Genius Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism
ISBN: PB: 9780300205923, ISBN: HB: 9780300179309, Yale University Press, June 2014
352 pp., 21x14 cm
Elijah ben Solomon, the "Genius of Vilna", was perhaps the best-known and most understudied figure in modern Jewish history. In this book Eliyahu Stern offers a new narrative of Jewish modernity based on Elijah's life and influence. While the experie...
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Global Catholicism Towards a Networked Church
ISBN: PB: 9781849042710, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Forces as divergent as Jihadist Islam and Richard Dawkins are making religion more central to our lives today. Ian Linden has been an active lay member of the Catholic Church for many years and has witnessed firsthand such impo...
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