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Gentle and Lowly Study Guide - Paperback

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by Dane C. Ortlund (Author)A Study Guide Companion to the Bestselling Book Gentle and Lowly In his bestselling book, Gentle and Lowly, Dane Ortlund takes readers into the depths of Christ's very heart for sinners. Focusing on Jesus's words that he is "gentle and lowly in heart," Ortlund dives deep into Bible passages that speak of who he most deeply is, encouraging readers with the affections of Christ for his people. Designed to be used in conjunction with the book, the Gentle and Lowly Stu...

Does God Go on Vacation?: A Book about God's Presence - Board Book

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by Amy Gannett (Author)Does God ever leave Heaven? Does He take vacations? Will He ever go somewhere where He can't hear our prayers? Amy Gannett, founder and creator of the popular Tiny Theologians(R) brand, aims to answer questions like these in Does God Go on Vacation? The engaging, rhyming text and bold, delightful illustrations make God's omnipresence (His all-present nature) understandable, relatable, and applicable for kids. Young readers will close the book knowing there's no need to ...

NASB Large Print Compact Reference Bible, Burnt Sienna Leathertouch - Imitation Leather

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by Holman Bible Publishers (Author)The NASB Large Print Compact Reference Bible features a large, easy-to-read 8-point type in a convenient, easy-to-carry compact size that slips nicely into a coat pocket, backpack, or purse. It is the perfect gift for a person who wants to keep the Word of God on hand at work or when traveling. FEATURES Durable Smyth-sewn lay-flat binding Two-column text format Robust cross-reference system Topical subheadings Words of Christ in red 8-point type size Gild...

The Politics of Reformation: Benjamin Bailey and the CMS in the Ecclesiastical Development of Travancore - Hardcover

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by Gary McKee (Author)In this book you will learn of the unheralded CMS missionary Benjamin Bailey. You willl hear the story through unpublished archive material combined with rare accounts from an Indian perspective. You will see how church reformation in India was aided by Western involvement but retained independence from it. You will learn how the story of colonial politics and church reform are intertwined but never straightforward. For practitioners today there is much food for thought ...

Henry Cadbury: Quaker, Pacifist, and Skeptic - Paperback

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by James Krippner (Author), David Harrington Watt (Author)This book introduces readers to the life, thought, social activism and political conflicts of the Quaker intellectual and peace activist Henry Cadbury (1883-1974). Born into an established Orthodox Philadelphia Quaker family, Cadbury was among the most prominent Quaker intellectuals of his day. During his lifetime, he was well known as a contributor to one of the most important English translations of the Bible (the Revised Standard Ve...

American Christian Programmed Quaker Ecclesiology: A Foundational Model for Future Empirical and Confessional Approaches - Paperback

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by Derek Brown (Author)In American Christian Programmed Quaker Ecclesiology, Derek Brown argues that American Christian Programmed Quakerism has inherited a practical and pragmatic ecclesiology at the expense of an ontological understanding of the church. Inspired by the work of Gerben Heitink, Brown proposes a normative, deductive, ontological ecclesiology based on the biblical concept of koinonia, which would act as a 'foundational' model for future confessional, empirical, and practical ef...

Lamentations: A Commentary Based on the Text in Codex Vaticanus - Hardcover

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by Antje Labahn (Author)This commentary on Greek Lamentations is based on the Codex Vaticanus, and includes an introduction, Greek text and English translation. LamLXX presents a new interpretation of the past, creating its own conceptual idea about loss and destruction, grief and suffering. In varied vivid images, metaphors and pictures, LamLXX retells past experiences as present life, invoking conditions reminiscent of Exodus. Hope is reduced to a limited amount, suffering seems endless. On...

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by J. I. Packer (Author)J. I. Packer's Bestselling Book, Knowing God, Now Available in a Beautiful Hardcover Edition Knowing God by J. I. Packer is a modern Christian classic. Since its original publication in 1973, Packer's insightful and practical approach has impacted countless Christians throughout the world as they are introduced to the wonder and joy of knowing God. In this beloved work, Packer challenges readers that while they may know about God, it is not the same thing as knowing h...

One Big Story Bible Storybook, Hardcover: Connecting Christ Throughout God's Story - Hardcover

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by B&h Kids Editorial (Author)Discover how the Bible is one big story! Give kids the big picture of God's story with this exciting Bible storybook. It includes 146 Bible stories that show kids how God's plan for salvation appears throughout the Bible. The One Big Story Bible Storybook is the perfect companion to The Gospel Project for Kids curriculum and features Christ Connections that connect the story of Jesus from Genesis to Revelation. Each story also features a Big Picture Question...

What Doesn't Kill You: Beyond the Morbid Thoughts in Search of God's Purpose for Me

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Report copyright infringementby Perry Muse (Author)Readers get an up-close and confiding look at the true, inspiring tale of an accomplished author and business leader's once-reckless life turned fulfilling when a spiritual awakening brought him closer to God.When Perry was young, his life was made up of near-death experiences and reckless choices. Even he admits some of these close calls happened in his more mature years-leading him to a place he hadn't thought to go before.Inside himself.Wh...

The Building of Vṛndāvana: Architecture, Theology, and Practice in an Early Modern Pilgrimage Town - Hardcover

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by Kiyokazu Okita (Editor), Rembert Lutjeharms (Editor)The small town of Vṛndāvana is today one of the most vibrant places of pilgrimage in northern India. Throngs of pilgrims travel there each year to honour the sacred land of Kṛṣṇa's youth and to visit many of its temples. The Building of Vṛndāvana explores the complex history of this town's early modern origins. Bringing together scholars from various disciplines to examine history, architecture, art, ritual, theology, and literature in t...

The Mystery of Prayer: The Ascension of the Wayfarers and the Prayer of the Gnostics - Paperback

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by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (Author), Sayyid Amjad Hussain Shah Naqavi (Editor), Sayyid Amjad Hussain Shah Naqavi (Translator)Sayyid Amjad Hussain Shah Naqavi's introduction and annotated scholarly translation of Ayatollah Khomeini's The Mystery of Prayer brings to light a rarely studied dimension of an author better known for his revolutionary politics.Writing forty years before the Islamic revolution, Khomeini shows a formidable level of insight into the spiritual aspects of Islamic pray...

The Canadian Pentecostal Experience - Paperback

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by Linda Ambrose (Volume Editor), Michael Wilkinson (Volume Editor)The Canadian Pentecostal Experience includes eighteen essays organized into three themes: 1) Historiography and Early Canadian Pentecostalism; 2) Theological Practices and Processes; and 3) Social and Cultural Change. This collection makes a significant contribution to the growing literature of global Pentecostal scholarship. The works are important for the Canadian context but as the editors argue in the Introduction, Canadia...

Open Mind, Open Heart 20th Anniversary Edition - Paperback

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by Thomas Keating (Author)This is the 20th anniversary edition of Continuum's best-selling spiritual classic, which has sold over half a million in the English language and has appeared in 10 foreign-language editions (Croatian, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesia, Italian, Korean, Polish, and Portuguese). The new edition consists of a substantial new preface, an expanded glossary, some changes in terminology, and a reordering of several chapters. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.6 x 7.6 x...

Rule-Formulation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition: Ibn Quṭlūbughā's Commentary on the Compendium of Qudūrī - Paperback

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by Talal Al-Azem (Author)In Rule-Formulation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition, Talal Al-Azem argues for the existence of a madhhab-law tradition' of jurisprudence underpinning the four post-classical Sunni schools of law. This tradition celebrated polyvalence by preserving the multiplicity of conflicting opinions within each school, while simultaneously providing a process of rule formulation (tarjīḥ) by which one opinion is chosen as the binding precedent (taqlīd). The pred...

Resurrecting Family Histories and Biographies for Members of the Society of Friends in Ireland: John Boles, a Case Study - Paperback

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by Peter J. F. Coutts (Author), Alan Watson (Author)Irish Quaker biographers have focused on ministers, the influential and wealthy; many biographies are also unstructured and selective, leaving gaps in the narrative. The current work uses the life and family of John Boles (1661-1731), a Quaker stalwart for 50 years, as a case study for the biographer, introducing the major sources and showing how they can be deployed to 'resurrect' the contributions of the anonymous Quaker majority. As the b...

A Short History of Christianity beyond the West - Paperback

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by Klaus Koschorke (Author)Today, the majority of the world's Christian population lives in the Global South. This textbook offers in one volume a compact and vivid overview of the history of Christianity in Asia, Africa and Latin America since 1450, focussing on diversity and interdependence, local actors and global entanglements. Number of Pages: 400 Dimensions: 1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: February 13, 2025

I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist - Paperback

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by Norman L. Geisler (Author), Frank Turek (Author), David Limbaugh (Foreword by)To some, the concept of having faith in a higher power or a set of religious beliefs is nonsensical. Indeed, many view religion in general, and Christianity in particular, as unfounded and unreasonable. Norman Geisler and Frank Turek argue, however, that Christianity is not only more reasonable than all other belief systems, but is indeed more rational than unbelief itself. With conviction and clear thinking, Ge...

Oh, Baby! Devotions for New Parents - Hardcover

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by Dayspring (Author)An inspirational devotional that brings peace and joy to new parents Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.79 x 6.46 x 4.49 IN Publication Date: May 03, 2021

How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization - Paperback

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by Thomas E. Woods (Author), Cardinal Antonio Cañizares (Introduction by)Ask someone today where Western Civilization originated, and he or she might say Greece or Rome. But what is the ultimate source of Western Civilization? Bestselling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. provides the long neglected answer: the Catholic Church. In the new paperback edition of his critically-acclaimed book, How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization, Woods goes far beyond the familiar tale of m...

A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic - Paperback

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by Federico Corriente (Author)A detailed scientific description of the Andalusi Arabic dialect bundle did not exist until recent times, although the correct understanding of some of its texts bears heavily on many momentous conclusions drawn by contemporary scholars about the extent and depth of cultural interaction between the Arabs and the West.After many years of work on the grammar of this variety of Neo-Arabic, and having produced accurate editions of its materials, the author now undert...

The Politics of Multifaith: The Limits of Legible Religion in Europe - Paperback

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by Ryszard Bobrowicz (Author)In this book, Ryszard Bobrowicz discusses why seemingly neutral rooms, multi-faith spaces, were subject to contestations from, and clashes between, their users, their managers, and those shaping policies concerning them. From street protests to parliamentary debates, from Sweden to Spain, this book explores the impact of multi-faith spaces in Europe by critically examining the visions of religion behind, in, and around them. Ryszard Bobrowicz investigates the hist...

Worship, Ritual, and Pentecostal Spirituality-As-Theology: A Rhythm That Connects Our Hearts with God - Paperback

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by Martina Bjkander (Author)Vibrant worship music is part of the Charismatic liturgy all around the world, and has become in many ways the hallmark of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. Despite its centrality, scholarly interest in the theological and ritual significance of worship for pentecostal spirituality has been sparse, not least in Africa. Combining rich theoretical and theological insight with an in-depth case study of worship practices in Nairobi, Kenya, this interdisciplinary s...

Anglican Biblical Interpretation in the Nineteenth Century: A Critical Evaluation - Paperback

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by Cole William Hartin (Author)How did Anglicans read the Bible 200 years ago? This book invites you into the world of nineteenth-century Anglican biblical interpretation. It draws on sermons, memoirs, and commentaries to show the interesting, compelling, and sometimes confusing ways that Anglicans read the Bible. The book contains new research on Charles Simeon, Benjamin Jowett, John Keble, Christina Rossetti, F.D. Maurice, Richard Chenevix Trench, and many others. Number of Pages: 232 Publi...

Ezekiel and Eschatological Violence - Paperback

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by Alicia Jackson (Author)This monograph engages Ezek. 36.16 39:29, Rev. 19.11-21, and Rev. 20.7-10, offering a Pentecostal peace reading of these texts as an alternative to Pentecostal interpretations that follow classical dispensationalism s expectation for eschatological violence. Number of Pages: 340 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: January 16, 2025

Monarchy, the Court, and the Provincial Elite in Early Modern Europe - Hardcover

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by Peter Edwards (Editor)A team of experts view the relationship between rulers and their leading subjects across Europe and further afield. If God-derived authority legitimized a monarch's rule, it did not necessarily prevent opposition to perceived arbitrary government as subjects put forward the counter-concept of consensual rule. The provincial elite might serve the ruler as advisors and officers at court but they also possessed an independent source of power based on their extensive esta...

Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 3, 2024 - Hardcover

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by Michela Torbidoni (Volume Editor)The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history, and literature and to showcase their multifarious junctures within the framework of Jewish studies. Contributions to the Review place special thematic emphasis on scepticism within Jew...

The Awakening of the Hinterland: The Formation of Regional Vinaya Traditions in Tang China - Hardcover

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by Anna Sokolova (Author)This volume explores the dissemination of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya tradition in Tang China (618-907) in the context of the dispersal of the state bureaucracy throughout the empire and the changing centre-periphery dynamics. The tradition's development in China during the Tang Dynasty has traditionally been associated with northern China, particularly the capital city of Chang'an, where Daoxuan (596-667), the de facto founder of the "vinaya school" in China, resided. ...

James Nayler and the Quest for Historic Quaker Identity - Paperback

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by Euan David McArthur (Author)Scholars continue to dispute the foundations of Quakerism. James Nayler, his prophetic Bristol 'sign' of 1656, and George Fox's relation to him have been of especial interest in defining the movement's identity. Conventionally, historians and theologians have taken either a 'traditional' approach, which assesses Nayler by the standards of orthodoxy, or a 'revisionist' one, which absolves him by the standards of early Quaker relativism and Christology. This study...

Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience: Religious Stories Korean American Dreamers Tell in the Face of Uncertainty - Paperback

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by Eunil David Cho (Author)In Undocumented Migration as a Theologizing Experience, Eunil David Cho examines how Korean American undocumented young adults tell religious stories to cope with the violence of uncertainty and construct new meanings for themselves. Based on in-depth interviews guided by narrative inquiry, the book follows the stories of ten Korean American DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients who have found their lives in limbo. While many experience narrative ...

Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament - Paperback

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by Bart D. Ehrman (Author)In one volume, this book presents contributions to the textual criticism of the New Testament made over the past twenty years by Bart Ehrman, one of the premier textual scholars in North America. The collection includes fifteen articles and six lectures on a range of topics of central importance to the field. This book will be of vital interest to any scholar or advanced student of the New Testament and early Christianity. It will make anideal companion volume for Ba...

The Dynamic Essence of Transmedia Storytelling: A Graphical Approach to the Journey to the West in Korea - Hardcover

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by Barbara Wall (Author)The Dynamic Essence of Transmedia Storytelling challenges many established truths about popular literary classics by presenting an analysis of sixty Korean variations of The Journey to the West, a set which includes novels and poems, as well as films, comics, paintings, and dance performances dating from the 14th century until today. In contrast to the typical assumption that literary classics like The Journey to the West are stable texts with a single original, Barbar...