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by Ben Stahlberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
While Spinoza is often interpreted as an early secular or liberal thinker, this book argues that such interpretations neglect the senses of order and authority that are at the heart of Spinoza’s idea of God. For Spinoza, God is an organized and directed totality of all that exists. God is entirely...
The School of Antioch
Biblical Theology and the Church in Syria
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The School of Antioch: Biblical Theology and the Church in Syria contains the latest conclusions and findings of academic research by specialized biblical scholars in biblical theology of the Church in the East commonly referred to as the School of Antioch. This collection of essays will be of special...
by Maciej Litwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Cognitive linguistics provides tools to discuss identity as a process. Identity depends on the underlying conceptualisation of the present, while innovation and creation are borderline phenomena in epistemology. The two may be seen as generalised accounts of causation as a process: open-ended and...
«Succeed Here and in Eternity»
The Prosperity Gospel in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book presents a qualitative study of the «Gospel of Prosperity» preached by the Charismatic and Neo-Pentecostal churches in Ghana, with a particular focus on its soteriological significance. The author explores the concept of the Gospel of Prosperity from a number of different angles, surveying...
The Gospel of Matthew
A Hypertextual Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
This monograph presents an entirely new solution to the synoptic problem. It demonstrates that the Acts of the Apostles functioned as the structure-giving hypotext for the Gospel of Matthew. Accordingly, the Gospel of Matthew is a reworking of not only the Gospel of Luke, but also, in a strictly sequential...
«I turned back my feet to your decrees» (Psalm 119, 59)
Torah in the Fifth Book of the Psalter
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Scholars have described Psalm 119 as the «crux criticorum» of the Fifth Book of the Psalter (Pss 107-150). While the length of the psalm and its insistence on the question of YHWH’s Torah are basic indices pointing to its importance in the Book, the question of its message, that is, the logical...
The Leaving of Ireland
Migration and Belonging in Irish Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The Leaving of Ireland brings together an international group of scholars to reflect critically on the unfolding nature of the experience of Irish cultural identity at a time when Ireland is struggling to adjust to the shattering impacts of globalization and religious scandals of recent decades. Looking...
The Stated Motivations for the Early Islamic Expansion (622641)
A Critical Revision of Muslims Traditional Portrayal of the Arab Raids and Conquests
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
What motivated the early Islamic conquests? Did the Arabs fight for Allah, or for wealth and dominance? Were the conquerors principally Arabs, or specifically Muslims? Were the Muslim believers motivated by religious zeal to proclaim Islam to the non-Muslims? Consequently, was Islam spread by the...
The Non-Surviving Preterite-Present Verbs in English
The Demise of *dugan, munan, *-nugan, *þurfan, and unnan
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Based on four historical corpora, the book is a comprehensive study of the demise of five preterite-present verbs in English. It offers a detailed description of their distribution in Old and Middle English. The subsequent comparison of the forms and uses of the preterite-presents in the two periods...
The Best Surgeon in England
Percivall Pott, 171388
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Percivall Pott (1713–88) was a leading surgeon in eighteenth-century Britain. This work mines the rich biographical and bibliographical record Pott and his students left behind to add to the historical and intellectual understanding of pre-modern surgery. This was a time when surgery was becoming...
A Global History of Historical Demography
Half a Century of Interdisciplinarity
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
At the XXIst World Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS/CISH) in 2010 in Amsterdam, the International Commission for Historical Demography (ICHD) decided to write an overview of its own history. Fifty years had gone by since the CISH XIst World Congress in Stockholm...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This collection of articles is the outcome of extensive investigations into archival materials, concerning the involvement of various nations in the Great War. The authors analyse the wartime experiences of individuals and local communities, as well as whole nations. They offer a closer, more personal...
Messianic Jews and their Holiday Practice
History, Analysis and Gentile Christian Interest
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Celebrating Biblical and Jewish holidays is most characteristic of the Messianic Jewish movement, and it arouses much interest among Gentile Christians. This practice arose in the struggle of Hebrew Christians in the 19th century against «Christian assimilation». From the 1970s onwards, a new generation...
by Mary McCaughey
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
This book adds new impetus to ecumenical theology by focusing on embodied faith or the contextual interpretation of Revelation. It does so through an exploration of the insights of Lewis S. Mudge and Joseph Ratzinger. Mudge advocates catholicity as a hermeneutic which embraces the contextuality of...