Religious Studies
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2001-04-30 | Author:Bart D. Ehrman [Ehrman, Bart D.]

Considering the Specific Criteria Does this judgment hold up when we scrutinize the surviving sources in view of the various criteria we’ve discussed for establishing historically reliable material? Given some ...
( Category: Theology August 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-18 | Author:Carole Hillenbrand

Islamic Philosophy The word used in Arabic to denote philosophy is falsafa. It is a borrowing from the Greek word philosophia; there is no proper Arabic term for it. And ...
( Category: Islam August 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Elicka Peterson Sparks [Peterson Sparks, Elicka]

While Christian nationalists very much want to see the Ten Commandments play a larger role in the United States, they—and the majority of Americans (60 percent)—cannot name even five of ...
( Category: Politics & Government August 26,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-03-18 | Author:Judith Shulevitz [Shulevitz, Judith]

5. IT WAS IGNATIUS, the bishop of Antioch under the Roman emperor Trajan at the very beginning of the second century C.E., who came up with the term “Sabbatizing.” It ...
( Category: Worship & Devotion August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-05 | Author:Judith Shulevitz [Shulevitz, Judith]

5. IT WAS IGNATIUS, the bishop of Antioch under the Roman emperor Trajan at the very beginning of the second century C.E., who came up with the term “Sabbatizing.” It ...
( Category: Worship & Devotion August 26,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1952-01-01 | Author:Niebuhr, Reinhold [Niebuhr, Reinhold]

In a letter to the journal Science this naive belief, widely held particularly in America, is succinctly expressed: “For if by employing the methods of science, men can come to ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-18 | Author:E.A. Wallis Budge [Budge, E.A. Wallis]

[1. Naville, Einleitung, pp. 48-54. 2. See Brugsch, Aegyptologie, p. 223. 3. In the list of the high officers of the priesthood given by Brugsch ( Aegyptologie, p. 218), we ...
( Category: Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-18 | Author:Sir James George Frazer [Frazer, Sir James George]

XXXVII. Oriental Religions in the West THE WORSHIP of the Great Mother of the Gods and her lover or son was very popular under the Roman Empire. Inscriptions prove that ...
( Category: Classics August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-06-05 | Author:Amina Wadud [Wadud, Amina]

142 inside the gender jihad capability for child-bearing, is a serious overestimation on the part of too many cultures today. It stands in stark contrast to the Qur’anic statement, “lil-rijaali ...
( Category: Women's Studies August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:Jonathan Kirsch [Kirsch, Jonathan]

Those who condemned the way Arius explained the Trinity readily conceded that it was not easy to express or understand “the single divinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,” ...
( Category: World August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-19 | Author:Stephen Prothero [Prothero, Stephen]

Chapter Six Yoruba Religion The Way of Connection In my introduction to religion courses I ask my students to invent their own religions. They form groups and dream up new ...
( Category: Religious Studies August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-06-01 | Author:Daniel L. Akin [Akin, Daniel L.]

LET IT BE A PLACE OF SENSUAL ANTICIPATION (VV. 8–11) Humans are apparently the only creatures on the planet who see sex as fun. Some say possible exceptions are dolphins ...
( Category: Sexual Health August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Stenger, Victor [Stenger, Victor]

Chapter VI The Failures of Revelation bq._ If the statements it_ [the Bible] contains concerning matters of history and science can be proven by extrabiblical records, by ancient docu-ments recovered ...
( Category: Physics August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Joseph Telushkin

Rooting His Arguments in Science, Not Religion One figure to challenge the Rebbe concerning his position on evolution was Dr. Herbert Goldstein, an American physicist and the author of a ...
( Category: Judaism August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-20 | Author:Ramesh Menon [Menon, Ramesh]

TEN THE RAJASUYA YAGNA Yudhishtira called a council of his ministers and advisors and all the kshatriyas of Indraprastha, in the Mayaa sabha. Veda Vyasa was there. Unlike the last ...
( Category: Classics August 25,2017 )