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The New Testament: A Translation
David Bentley Hart · Yale University Press
Pages: 616
Format: Hardcover
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From one of our most celebrated writers on religion comes this fresh, bold, and unsettling new translation of the New Testament David Bentley Hart undertook this new translation of the New Testament in the spirit of "etsi doctrina non daretur," "as if doctrine is not given."... |
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Chinese Astrology: Understanding Your Horoscope
Amber Books · Chartwell Books
Format: Hardcover
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Chinese Astrology is a beautifully illustrated guide with easy to use instructions to help you understand the fundamental ideas and determine the more advanced aspects. Each page includes a newly commissioned artwork of a Chinese character, from the animals of the Zodiac to the Five Phases... |
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Damaged Goods: New Perspectives on Christian Purity
Dianna Anderson · Jericho Books
Format: Hardcover
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Dianna Anderson offers a fresh approach to the purity conversation, one that opens a new dialogue with the most influential Christian authors of her generation. Anderson's new sexual ethics draw on core biblical principles and set a standard for today's Christians that may be as influential... |
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American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present
Philip Gorski · Princeton University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Was the United States founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither, argues Philip Gorski in American Covenant. What the founders actually envisioned was a prophetic republic that would weave together the ethical vision of the Hebrew prophets and the Western political heritage... |
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Questions for Christians: The Surprising Truths behind Basic Beliefs
John Morreall · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Questions for Christians: The Surprising Truths behind Basic Beliefs asks whether or not Christians today have gotten Jesus’ message right, drawing on the Bible and the history of Christianity for answers. From the gender of God to what happens when we die, Questions for Christians... |
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Mission at Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and the Trial of the Nazis
Tim Townsend · HarperCollins
Pages: 388
Format: Hardcover
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Mission at Nuremberg is Tim Townsend's gripping story of the American Army chaplain sent to save the souls of the Nazis incarcerated at Nuremberg, a compelling and thought-provoking tale that raises questions of faith, guilt, morality, vengeance, forgiveness, salvation, and the essence... |
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The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
Niall Ferguson · Penguin Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networksMost history is hierarchical: it's about emperors, presidents, prime ministers and field marshals. It's about states,... |
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The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State
Graeme Wood · Random House
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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The author of the explosive Atlantic cover story "What ISIS Really Wants" has written the definitive, electrifying account of the strategy, psychology, and theology driving the Islamic StateTens of thousands of men and women have left comfortable, privileged lives to join the Islamic... |
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A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
Alon Confino · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred In this gripping new analysis Alon Confino draws on an array... |
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God: 48 Famous and Fascinating Minds Talk About God
Jennifer Berne · Running Press
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover
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For anyone who has wondered, "What have the greatest minds in human history thought of God?" This charmingly-illustrated compendium of quotes will inspire, comfort, and delight anyone who has contemplated the higher power. Throughout history, humans have been fascinated by the idea... |
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How's Your Faith?: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey
David Gregory · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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"Join former NBC newsman and Meet the Press moderator David Gregory as he probes various religious traditions to better understand his own faith and answer life's most important questions: who do we want to be and what do we believe? While David was covering the White House, he had the unusual... |
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The Ten Commandments: A Short History of an Ancient Text
Michael David Coogan · Yale University Press, 2014.
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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In this lively and provocative book, Michael Coogan guides readers into the ancient past to examine the iconic Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue. How, among all the laws reportedly given on Mount Sinai, did the Ten Commandments become the Ten Commandments? When did that happen?... |
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