Religious
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Scott Atran [Atran, Scott]

Altruism is the sacrifice of one’s own interests for the sake of others, as in giving to charity, lending a helping hand, or just taking time to offer directions to ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State June 22,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2014-11-20 | Author:Mark Bradley

In October 2011 the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made a public speech about influences that he believed were causing young Muslims to fall away from the “pure” ...
( Category: Christianity June 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 1993-06-16 | Author:Bart D. Ehrman

Jesus, the Christ Raised from the Dead We have seen that orthodox Christians of the second and third centuries opposed separationist Christologies by emphasizing that Christ himself suffered and died. ...
( Category: New Testament June 17,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-10-02 | Author:Bart D. Ehrman [Ehrman, Bart D.]

"Orthodox" Christianity understood that God would redeem this sinful world, create it anew as a Utopian place of eternal life. This Gospel states that once saving knowledge comes to souls ...
( Category: New Testament June 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 1970-05-14 | Author:Cohn, Norman [Cohn, Norman]

Anarcho-communism in Bohemia If in the main Taborite eschatology derives from the Johannine and Joachite prophecies, some of its features certainly recall the myth of the Golden Age. This is ...
( Category: Christianity June 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Bruce Feiler

ON A GRAY approach from Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty doesn’t quite stir the soul as the postcard images would suggest. Her mint color seems more chilly than star-spangled. She ...
( Category: General June 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-13 | Author:Stephen Dando-Collins [Dando-Collins, Stephen]

AD 69 XXV. YEAR OF THE FOUR EMPERORS Legion versus legion “A year … which well nigh brought the commonwealth to an end.” TACITUS, Histories, I, 11 From the moment ...
( Category: Christianity June 14,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Omartian, Stormie [Omartian, Stormie]

Prayer Power Lord, I want to be one of Your faithful people who understands who the enemy is, what the war is all about, and how to do battle in ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State June 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-30 | Author:David Motadel [Motadel, David]

Discrimination and the Limits of Devotion In the eyes of German officers, efforts to use Islam seemed destined to succeed in maintaining discipline and strengthening military morale. Yet, their work ...
( Category: History & Theory June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-12 | Author:Norman Solomon

- M - MACCABEE. See FAITH AND REASON; HANUKA; ḤASID; JOSIPPON; SADDUCEES; Table 19. Judah the Maccabee led the Jewish revolt against the Seleucids in 168 BCE. The origin of ...
( Category: Judaism June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Czachesz, Istvan

Crossing the Boundaries From the examples discussed in this chapter, we can conclude that the main thrust of previous scholarship, focusing on the “polymorphy of Christ,” did not do justice ...
( Category: Christianity June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Desmond Tutu [Tutu, Desmond]

That ought to leave people quite speechless with the wonder of it all and make you want to be still in the presence of something so sublime, filled to overflowing ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Thomas Dixon [Dixon, Thomas]

13. Cartoons from Vanity Fair depicting Professor Thomas Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, whose encounter in Oxford in 1860 became legendary that they had won the day. But by the ...
( Category: General June 13,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1997-05-29 | Author:Michael Drosnin [Drosnin, Michael]

"Any human being in the area would be reduced to smoke and ashes; they would simply disappear. The incinerated population, now radioactive dust, would rise up into the mushroom cloud, ...
( Category: Old Testament June 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-06-11 | Author:Diarmaid MacCulloch

17 A House Divided (1517-1660) A DOOR IN WITTENBERG Two incidents stick in the popular consciousness from Martin Luther’s career: first, that he nailed some theses to a door in ...
( Category: Christianity June 12,2015 )