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The Gospels of Mary

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Mary Magdalene, Jesus's Closest DiscipleMarvin Meyer, one of the foremost scholars of the Gnostic Gospels:translates and introduces the Gnostic and New Testament texts that together reveal the story and importance of Mary Magdaleneincludes new translations of the Gospels of Mary, Thomas, Philip, and related texts about Mary Magdalenediscloses, with Esther A. De Boer, the long-suppressed story of Mary's vital role in the life of Jesus and in the formative period after his crucifixionpresents as authentically as possible the real Mary Magdalene

Die Bibel nach Luther

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Text der Lutherbibel gemäß der Revision von 1912.Die Lutherbibel ist eine Übersetzung des Alten und Neuen Testaments der Bibel aus der althebräischen, der aramäischen bzw. der altgriechischen Sprache in die deutsche Sprache. Die Übersetzung wurde von Martin Luther unter Mitarbeit weiterer Theologen angefertigt. Im September 1522 war eine erste Auflage des Neuen Testamentes fertig (daher auch die Bezeichnung Septembertestament), 1534 eine vollständige Bibel.Null Papier Verlag

Dethroning Jesus

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New York Times bestselling author Dr. Darrell Bock teams up with Dr. Daniel Wallace to help you separate fact from fiction among constant attacks on Christianity from popular culture and bogus scholars.There is a quest going on to reduce Jesus to a mythic legend or to nothing more than a mere man. Scholars such as Elaine Pagels and James Tabor are using recent discoveries like the Gospel of Judas and the Gospel of Thomas to argue that the Christ of Christianity is a contrived figure and that a different Christ—one human and not divine—is the "true" Christ.Both research professors, Bock and Wallace set out a vigorous defense of Christianity against a popular trend that they dub "Jesusanity", where Christ was simply a human teacher. In their trademark, easy-to-understand style, the authors take on attempts to redefine Jesus in a convincing way that will help you understand that the orthodox understanding of Christ and his divinity is as trustworthy and sure as it ever was. This book:Refutes the six main claims that represent a large part of skepticism about Jesus todayProvides credible answers to attacks on the traditional textsDefends against the interpretations of bogus scholars and the arguments of biased scholarsConstructs a positive case for the Jesus of faithIf you’re exhausted by the constant attempts to dethrone Jesus, renew the security of your knowledge of who Jesus really is: the Son of God.

Studying Religion and Society

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How do you study religion and society? In this fascinating book, some of the most famous names in the field explain how they go about their everyday work of studying religions in the field. They explain how the ideas for their projects and books have come together, how their understanding of religion has changed over the years, and how their own beliefs have affected their work. They also comment on the changing nature of the field, the ideas which they regard as most important, and those which have not stood the test of time. Lastly they offer advice to young scholars, and suggest what needs to be done to enable the field to grow and develop further.

Kirche: Charisma und Macht

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Der Aufschrei der Armen ist noch nicht verhallt- Ein Werk von ungebrochener Aktualität- Inseln der Hoffnung schaffen für die Armen in der Welt

Passage Meditation – A Complete Spiritual Practice

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Easwaran’s classic manual on meditation and spiritual living is a unique source of practical spiritual support for new and experienced meditators. Easwaran taught passage meditation for over forty years, and his class at the University of California, Berkeley was the first accredited course on meditation at any Western university. He is the author of the best-selling translation in English of the Bhagavad Gita, India’s best-known scripture. In passage meditation, you focus attention on passages or texts from the world’s wisdom traditions that are positive, practical, and uplifting, and that fit with your own religious or non-religious beliefs. This universal method of meditation stays fresh and inspiring, prompting you to live out your highest ideals, and the mantram and six other spiritual tools help you to stay calm, kind, and focused throughout the day. This book shows how, with regular practice, you gain wisdom and vitality, and find a life that fulfills. This fourth edition of Passage Meditation has been extended by over thirty percent to include Easwaran’s answers to more than 100 questions posed by his students in question and answer sessions. It gives all the instruction needed to establish a vibrant meditation practice and keep it going.

Metaphysical Bible Dictionary (Rediscovered Books)

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The Metaphysical Bible Dictionary was Charles Fillmore's crowning achievement. Nowhere else will you find such a thorough and complete compilation of the metaphysical aspects of the bible. More than 900 pages of insights, definitions, and expert analysis of the most important book ever written. This full version has been especially formatted for easy online reading.

O Plano Eterno

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O homem, e ser, do qual eu aprendi a descrever e conhecer como meu pai por toda a minha vida, é Colin Jones. Ele me de algumas sacolas em 1999 e me pediu para ler conteúdos e escrever um livro, se eu pudesse. Naquele tempo, eu não pude e também não tinha pressão de tempo então eu coloquei as sacolas em um cofre em casa. Ele faleceu poucos anos depois no seu 72 aniversário, em 21 de fevereiro. Eu, e toda nossa família estávamos devastados, e eu não fiz nada sobre seus papéis. Eu não tinha idéia do que fazer. Eu mudei para o exterior e escrevi um romance que levou em torno de 5 anos, e ainda incompleto e não publicado. Em 2011, eu comecei uma nova aventura publicando ebooks do qual eu mesmo escrevi. A coragem para escrever este ebook veio através da escrita do primeiro livro. Eu procurei por formas de evitar o modo tradicional de publicação então me deparei com o Kindle. Eu aprendi como publicar meus ebooks através deles e descobri como publicar o livro do meu pai. Isso levou um bom tempo, mas entendi que estava sendo guiado por um espírito, embora eu fosse somente um aprendiz. Meu pai, Colin Jones, nunca disse que as escritas era de sua autoria. Em vez disso, dissera que estava sob inspiração no bom senso da palavra. As pessoas diziam a ele o que escrever. Toda a nossa família testemunhou isso por 5 ou 6 décadas. Algumas vezes, meu pai estava sentado conosco assistindo TV, mas com os seus olhos fechados ele escrevia notas que você verá neste ebook. Ele pintava também. Meus irmãos e eu somos muito privilegiados por termos nascidos com tal pessoa, e ainda mais como meu pai, nós notamos isso muito tarde. Eu espero que você aproveite este livro. Eu vou expandir novas edições. Uma última coisa, a mãe de meu pai, Lavinia Jones, fundou uma igreja espiritualista em Barry, País de Gales, onde nós moramos e a igrej

God and the Nature of Time

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Is God temporal, 'in time', or atemporal, 'outside of time'? Garrett DeWeese begins with contemporary metaphysics and physics, developing a causal account of dynamic time.Â Drawing on biblical material as well as discussions of divine temporality in medieval and contemporary philosophical theology, DeWeese concludes that God is temporal but not in physical time as we measure it. Interacting with issues in the history of philosophy, contemporary philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion, this book offers students a thorough introduction to the key issues and key figures in historical and contemporary work on the philosophy of time and time in theology.

Glorious Freedom

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Richard Sibbes’s little Puritan classic is an insightful meditation on 2 Cor 3:17,18: “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

Caesar and the Lamb

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Through the available patristic writings Caesar and the Lamb focuses on the attitudes of the earliest Christians on war and military service. Kalantzis not only provides the reader with many new translations of pre-Constantinian texts, he also tells the story of the struggle of the earliest Church, the communities of Christ at the margins of power and society, to bear witness to the nations that enveloped them as they transformed the dominant narratives of citizenship, loyalty, freedom, power, and control. Although Kalantzis examines writings on war and military service in the first three centuries of the Christian Church in an organized manner, the ways earliest Christians thought of themselves and the state are not presented here through the lens of antiquarian curiosity. With theological sensitivity and historical acumen this companion leads the reader into the world in which Christianity arose and asks questions of the past that help us understand the early character of the Christian faith with the hope that such an enterprise will also help us evaluate its expression in our own time.

Is God a Vindictive Bully?

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Critics outside the church often accuse the Old Testament God of genocide, racism, ethnic cleansing, and violence. But a rising tide of critics within the church claim that Moses and other "primitive," violence-prone prophets were mistaken about God's commands and character. Both sets of critics dismiss this allegedly harsh, flawed, "textual" Old Testament God in favor of the kind, compassionate, "actual" God revealed by Jesus. Are they right to do so? Following his popular book Is God a Moral Monster?, noted apologist Paul Copan confronts false, imbalanced teaching that is confusing and misleading many Christians. Copan takes on some of the most difficult Old Testament challenges and places them in their larger historical and theological contexts. He explores the kindness, patience, and compassion of God in the Old Testament and shows how Jesus in the New Testament reveals not only divine kindness but also divine severity. The book includes a detailed Scripture index of difficult and controversial passages and is helpful for anyone interested in understanding the flaws in these emerging claims that are creating a destructive gap between the Testaments.

Coping With Change - Ecclesiastes

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Ecclesiastes is a book filled with good news for those struggling to make sense of what is happening in life. Why does man madly pursue one thing and then another without meaning? True joy comes from the Lord himself, and for the one who has learned to fear God and keep his commandments, all of life holds purpose and delight. In Coping with Change, noted theologian Walter Kaiser mines the riches of Ecclesiastes to reveal the source of true joy.

The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit

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We are all dwellers in two kingdoms, the inner kingdom, the kingdom of the mind and spirit, and the outer kingdom, that of the body and the physical universe about us. In the former, the kingdom of the unseen, lie the silent, subtle forces that are continually determining, and with exact precision, the conditions of the latter

A heresia da ortodoxia

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Este livro é uma crítica ampla e abrangente da tese de Bauer-Ehrman, segundo a qual a forma mais antiga do cristianismo era pluralista, havia múltiplos cristianismos, e a heresia precedeu a ortodoxia. Köstenberger e Kruger não somente reagem à "teoria de Bauer", usando os próprios termos da teoria, mas também empregam evidências neotestamentárias negligenciadas para refutá-la. Os autores analisam três elementos como base para as suas conclusões: a evidência de unidade no Novo Testamento, a formação e o fechamento do cânon, e a metodologia e a integridade no registro e na difusão de textos religiosos por parte da igreja primitiva.

Réflexions sur la question juive

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"Si un homme attribue tout ou partie des malheurs du pays et de ses propres malheurs à la présence d'éléments juifs dans la communauté, s'il propose de remédier à cet état de choses en privant les juifs de certains de leurs droits ou en les écartant de certaines fonctions économiques et sociales ou en les expulsant du territoire ou en les exterminant tous, on dit qu'il a des opinions antisémites. Ce mot d'opinion fait rêver..." Jean-Paul Sartre.

Practicing Theology

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In a time when academic theology often neglects the lived practices of the Christian community, this volume seeks to bring balance to the situation by showing the dynamic link between the task of theology and the practices of the Christian life. The work of thirteen first-rate theologians from several cultural and Christian perspectives, these informed and informative essays explore the relationship between Christian theology and practice in the daily lives of believers, in the ministry of Christian communities, and as a needed focus within Christian education.Contributors: Dorothy C. Bass, Nancy Bedford, Gilbert Bond, Sarah Coakley, Craig Dykstra, Reinhard Hütter, L. Gregory Jones, Serene Jones, Amy Plantinga Pauw, Christine Pohl, Kathryn Tanner, Miroslav Volf, Tammy Williams

Witches

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A history of witchcraft from ancient sorcery to modern spiritualists includes discussion of witch trials, spells, earth spirits, and werewolves

Il cammino dell'uomo

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«Tra i suoi scritti, Il cammino dell'uomo resta probabilmente quanto di piú bello io abbia letto. La ringrazio di vero cuore per questo dono cosí prezioso e inesauribile. Lascerò che mi parli ancora e molto spesso». Hermann Hesse Prima ancora dell'inizio di qualunque storia umana, nel primo di tutti i luoghi, un Giardino, il progenitore di ogni nostra confusione (già) si nasconde. «Dove sei?» è infatti la prima domanda, quella fondamentale, che Dio gli rivolge, ma non perché sia Lui a non saperlo... In sei brevi e folgoranti interventi a un congresso del 1947, Martin Buber indica la via ḥasidica alla soluzione del quesito. Attingendo al suo ampio repertorio, Buber narra della saggezza di antichi rabbini, di dialoghi tra sogni premonitori, delle incertezze di esseri umani decisi a purificarsi ma dubbiosi su quale sia il modello migliore da seguire per farlo. Ne emerge una chiave di lettura dai contorni definiti: il Ḥasidismo non risponde in modo diretto, ma chiede al ricorrente Adamo che nasce con ciascuno di noi: «Sei sicuro di aver capito la domanda?» Sí, perché a non sapere dove si trova è sempre e ogni volta l'essere umano, diviso da sé stesso, conflittuale con il mondo, lontano da Dio. Smarrimento e nostalgia. Trovare la pace in sé stessi, accettare con consapevole e umile gratitudine la propria assoluta unicità nel grande disegno della Creazione, significa anche aprire il cuore al mondo, al Tutto e a tutti, per rispondere al Signore. Cosí, questo piccolo libro sarà diverso per ciascuno dei suoi lettori e si modificherà insieme con loro e con le tappe del loro cammino. È uno stradario dell'anima. Ognuno ha la sua, grazie a Dio.

Charles Spurgeon’s Classics

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Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Charles Spurgeon was a prominent Baptist preacher in the 19th century.Spurgeon would become known as the Prince of Preachers and he also was a very popular author of Christian books.This collection includes the following:The Treasury of DavidAll of GraceThe Soul WinnerAround the Wicket GateAn All-Round MinistryCome Ye ChildrenCommenting & CommentariesJohn Ploughman’s Talk: Plain Advice for Plain PeopleA Defense of Calvinism Faith’s Checkbook: A Daily Devotional

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