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""A Creed For Christian Socialists: With Expositions"" is a book written by Charles William Stubbs and published in 1897. The book presents a Christian socialist perspective on social issues and provides a detailed exposition of the principles and...

A Commentary On The Book Of The Acts Of The Apostles is a book written by William Gilson Humphry in 1854. The book provides a detailed analysis and interpretation of the biblical text of the Acts of the Apostles, which is the fifth book of the New...

Religion, Politics and Cults in East Africa is the first major, original, and extensive research-based study of the apocalyptic and doomsday Catholic Marian Movement and its Benedictine monastic moral and religious practices, including vows of poverty,...

A history of Washington National Cathedral and the theory of an American civil religion.In 1792, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the first city planner of Washington, DC, introduced the idea of a "great church for national purposes." Unlike L'Enfant's plans for...

""En Tydelig Og Klar Fremstilling Af Helliggjorelsen Eller Den Christelige Fuldkommenhed"" er en bog skrevet af John Fletcher og udgivet i 1859. Bogen beskriver kristen helligg������relse og fuldkommenhed, og hvordan man kan opn������ disse tilstande...

""Elementos de Derecho Can������nico V1: Que Comprende el Derecho Privado"" es un libro escrito por Carlos Jos����� �����lvarez en 1872. Se trata de una obra que aborda el derecho can������nico, espec������ficamente el derecho privado. En sus...

De Fidei Notione Ethica Paulina est liber Georgii Schnedermann, qui anno MDCCCLXXX editus est. In hoc libro, Schnedermann disputat de fide et eius notione ethica, quae secundum Paulum Apostolum in Epistolis suis explicatur. Auctor argumenta et doctrinas...

De Eed: In Deszelfs Hooge En Gewigtige Waarde (1826) is een boek geschreven door de Maatschappij. Het boek behandelt de waarde en betekenis van de eed in verschillende contexten, zoals in de rechtspraak en de politiek. Het bespreekt ook de geschiedenis...

Brunetto Latinis Levnet og Skrifter: Philippi Gualteri Moralium Dogma (1869) er en bog af Thor Sundby, der giver en omfattende beskrivelse af livet og arbejdet for den italienske forfatter Brunetto Latino. Bogen indeholder ogs������ en overs�����ttelse...

""�����l�����ments de morale"" est un livre �����crit par Adolphe Franck en 1868. Ce livre traite de la morale et de l'�����thique, en explorant les questions li�����es ������ la conscience, ������ la libert�����, ������ la responsabilit�����, ������ la...

Le livre intitul����� ""Rapport Pr�����sent����� au Grand-Conseil: Dans sa S�����ance du 8 Janvier 1834, sur le Projet de Loi sur l'Exercice de la Libert����� Religieuse (1834)"" a �����t����� �����crit par le Conseil du Grand Vaud. Il s'agit d'un...

Origine Et Progres De La Puissance Des Sikhs Dans Le Penjab, Et Histoire Du Maha-Radja Randjit Singh (1839) est un livre �����crit par Henry Toby Prinsep. Ce livre traite de l'histoire des Sikhs dans la r�����gion du Penjab, en Inde, et de leur...

This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Highlighting the complex relationships between religious ideologies, practices and organizations on...

Science and the Eastern Orthodox Church explores core theological and philosophical notions and contentious topics such as evolution from the vantage point of science, Orthodox theology, and the writings of popular recent Orthodox critics as well as...

English evangelicals give the appearance of being a community at war, with each other and with the world around them. The issue of homosexuality is one of the key battlegrounds. How has this issue become so significant to evangelicals? Why is it...

Imagine the Lion of Judah throwing a knock-out blow to the political parties, effectively and permanently releasing God's people from bondage.Author, Jane Northrup Glenn is married to Darryl Glenn, 2016 Colorado Republican nominee for US Senate. The...

There is a unified field in the cosmos that holds everything together, and every discipline is a portal to it. Science calls it a field of fundamental forces and elementary particles. Religion calls it God and accepts it by faith as an impenetrable...

This book is the result of God's mysterious activities on George Hayes's behalf. George has been beholden to God throughout his life. He continues to return God's love with a second book, resuming the exposition of God and the Western World...

The purpose for this book is to present Mathematical and Scriptural evidence which the author believes points to the "Universal" Identity and Significance of the Most Hon. Elijah Muhammad and the Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan; evidence which suggests...

At the age of five, Nando Speranza had his first out-of-body experience. Alone and afraid, a voice comforted him. This was only the beginning of these occurrences that ignited the author's desire for connection through relationships, music, and a higher...

Comparing United States Federal courts' approach to free exercise in the workplace with that of the European Court of Human Rights, this book explores two different methodologies for adjudicating rights conflicts. It argues that while the European...

This book focuses on Akan-speaking Ghanaians in London and explores in detail the experience of African migrants living in Britain, investigating how they construct their British citizenship through their membership of the church.Building on extensive...

Combining empirical research with a structural analysis of Western media industries, this volume presents evidence for the maligned representation of Muslims and minorities by media corporations, analysing why negative narratives persist and outlining...

This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has persisted as a highly charged...

This book explores the activities of the local Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan. It examines how the Brotherhood, working to establish an alternative social, political and moral order through a network of Islamic institutions, made a huge contribution to the...

Six years into the papacy of Pope Francis, Catholics are still figuring out how to respond to his image of the church as a field hospital --a church that goes into the streets rather than remaining locked up behind closed doors. Marriage and family are...

What does consumerism have to do with the sacraments? We live in cultures where our senses of meaning, identity, and purpose are often found in what we purchase. Apart from the question of hedonism, there is the question of how we orient ourselves in an...

Globalization is uniting the world more closely than ever before while at the same time increasing the likelihood of division and conflict. Humanity faces problems of an unprecedented scope: vast inequality, climate change threatening the conditions of...

In 1973, nearly a decade before the height of the Moral Majority, a group of progressive activists assembled in a Chicago YMCA to strategize about how to move the nation in a more evangelical direction through political action. When they emerged, the...

Elegant writings by a cutting-edge research scientist defending traditional theological and philosophical positions Both an accomplished theoretical physicist and a faithful Catholic, Stephen Barr in this book addresses a wide range of questions about...

In this book Johnny Bernard Hill argues that prophetic rage, or righteous anger, is a necessary response to our present culture of imperialism and nihilism. The most powerful way to resist meaninglessness, he says, is refusing to accept the realities of...

It is true -- and troubling -- that we humans are able to control and manipulate nature in many ways, and this ability seems to be growing exponentially. In this book Allen Verhey addresses this reality and seeks to show the importance of bringing a...

Emmauel Katongole is a Catholic priest from Uganda, born in 1960, who lived through the reign of Idi Amin and has seen the postcolonial struggles of his home country and its sub-Saharan neighbors -- Rwanda, the Congo, Zimbabwe, Liberia, and others -- up...

Interest in theories of religion has never been greater. Scholars debate single theoretical approaches in different scholarly journals, while the 'new atheists' such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett criticize the whole idea of religion. For...

Inspired by the current political moment around the globe in which uprisings, protests, revolutions, and movements are on the rise, this book examines the intersections between the Bible and activism. It does this by showcasing intersectional readings of...

This book examines the shifting, non-linear relationship between religion, nationalism and politics in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. In the wake of the revocation of Article 370, the state's plural and relatively harmonious society has come...

Originally published in 1995, Early Creationist Journals is a concise primary source collection containing a selection of journals outlining discoveries in biology, geology, physiology and archaeology and its relation to Christianity, published in the...

The return of Christian social service to the centre of British political life through the emergence of the foodbank movement has elicited a range of ecclesial responses. However, in their urgency and brevity these Church responses fail to systematically...

Many Americans, regardless of political affiliation, are anxious about the future of the "land that we love." In America's Expiration Date, trusted political commentator Cal Thomas offers a diagnosis of what's wrong with the United States and...

Why is the Russian Church supporting Putin in his war against Ukraine?Why does the Patriarch of Moscow believe that history is on Russia's side?And what are the implications for Christianity and Christian culture in the West?These are among the vital...

Many people assume that science 'disproves' the idea of God, and that we no longer need faith in order to understand the world or why we are in it. Roger Trigg examines these assumptions and considers whether recent developments in science may in fact...

<p><strong>What has Christianity ever done for us?</strong></p><p>A lot more than you might think, as Nick Spencer reveals in this fresh exploration of our cultural origins.</p><p>Looking at the big ideas that...

Zionism and Jewish Culture examines the history of Zionism from a new perspective, arguing that Zionism was not only a political project, but also a major cultural force in modern Jewish life. To understand the growth of this movement and its success in...