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Carl A Vater

God's Knowledge of the World

A theory of divine ideas was the standard Scholastic response to the question how does God know and produce the world? A theory was deemed to be successful only if it simultaneously upheld that God has pe…

Rached Ghannouchi

Democracy and Human Rights in Islam

Available for the first time in English, this volume by the preeminent theorist Rached Ghannouchi examines the concepts of democracy and human rights from an Islamic perspective.Drawing on over 50 years o…

Paul H B Chang

The Spiritual Person

Watchman Nee (1903-1972) was a Chinese minister who promoted a unique set of Christian teachings. They included the idea that people were created with a human spirit, distinct from the human soul, and tha…

Paul H B Chang

The Spiritual Person

Watchman Nee (1903-1972) was a Chinese minister who promoted a unique set of Christian teachings. They included the idea that people were created with a human spirit, distinct from the human soul, and tha…

Chad Engelland

The Way of Aquinas

St. Thomas Aquinas did not arrive at his towering wisdom by standing still. His thought was forged on the highways and byways of his time, through castles and cloisters, universities and cities, mountains…

Harriet I Flower

The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden

A richly detailed study of everyday religion in ancient RomeThe most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the…

Lianne Vostermans

Beyond Faith and Fury

How, when and in what forms does religion shape violence ?Beyond Faith and Fury invites readers to rethink common assumptions about the role of religion in violence. It calls for a critical approach to on…

Walter Scott Stepanenko

Pietism and Pragmatism

Identifying the theological background for the later classical exposition of pragmatism by William James illuminates a method that can shift the parameters of contemporary philosophy of religion discourse…

Government Issue

Complete History Volume 1

William M Schniedewind

Locating God

A history of Israelite religion, driven by an enduring question: Where is God?Locating Godexplores ancient Israelite religion through the lens of sacred space and divine presence. The book traces a long a…

Joel R Beeke, Fraser E Jones, Randall Pederson

Meet the Puritans

Whether you're meeting them for the first time or returning with questions, this is the indispensable guide to the lives and works of the Puritans.If your impression of the Puritans comes from grim portra…

Timon Screech

Shogun Avatar

Shogun Avatar explores the transformation of Japan's first shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543--1616), from warlord to deity. Although deifications had become largely obsolete, Ieyasu's death in 1616 triggered …

Joseph L Locke

One State Under God

A broad and accessible history of religion in Texas, from prehistory to the present.From sprawling megachurches to religious billboards and towering steel crosses, religion quite literally looms over Texa…

Miriam Chusid

The Ill-Fated Afterlife

Visions of Buddhist hell transformed fear of death into ritual care and hope for salvation In thirteenth-century Japan, death was fraught with spiritual uncertainty. Salvation depended on dying with perfe…

Tzahi Weiss

Rethinking the Beginning of the Kabbalah

The Kabbalistic literature, with its enigmatic secrets, vivid mythical depictions, and profound mystical content, along with its exhortations and admonitions to study its contents with great caution, is a…

Peter Alan Lillback

George Washington's Sacred Fire

"Drawing on George Washington's writings and those of his closest confidants, Lillback argues that his deep Christian faith informed his values, thinking, and behavior that went on to shape history&q…

Words Hurt

**Investigates how discourse spills from language to action, generating, obfuscating, and perpetuating violence while also offering the words, principles, and practices that may interrupt it.**We are cont…

Stephen Asma

The Alchemist's Thread

Foreword by Paul GiamattiAn exploration of the enduring worldview that has inspired individuals across time, from Ancient Greece to modern Hollywood---a sustained combination of magic, mysticism, and anim…

Jodi Magness

Jerusalem Through the Ages

A major new history of one of the world's holiest of cities, based on the most recent archaeological discoveriesFirst settled five thousand years ago by a mountain spring between the Mediterranean and Dea…