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The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls by James VanderKam
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-16 | Author:James VanderKam

AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE SECTARIAN SCROLLS AND ANCIENT DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ESSENES The second line of argument in support of the Essene identification is that the traits of the group as ...
( Category: Bible Study & Reference June 17,2017 )
Liturgy as a Way of Life by Bruce Ellis Benson
epub |eng | | Author:Bruce Ellis Benson

4 On Not Being an Artistic Whore “Work is what you do for others, Liebchen, art is what you do for yourself.” That quote comes from the servant of the ...
( Category: Worship & Devotion June 17,2017 )
Is There a God? by Richard Swinburne
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-12-31 | Author:Richard Swinburne [Swinburne, Richard]

Since brain events cause mental events, and mental events cause brain events, scientists could perhaps establish a long list of such causal connections in humans, at any rate. The list ...
( Category: Philosophy June 17,2017 )
Loom of God, The by Pickover Clifford A
epub |eng | 2010-08-16 | Author:Pickover, Clifford A

In this chapter, as in others, we’ve seen the prominent role that integers play in religion. However, the Urantia religion appears to attribute significance to multidigit numbers (e.g., 5,342,482,337,666), more ...
( Category: History & Philosophy June 16,2017 )
Cities of God by Rodney Stark
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Rodney Stark

The Cessation of Jewish Conversion Virtually everyone believes that the mission to the Jews soon failed. Some suppose that an impervious barrier to Jewish conversion was erected during the Jewish ...
( Category: History June 16,2017 )
Supersense by Hood Bruce
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-31 | Author:Hood, Bruce [Hood, Bruce]

THE ESSENTIAL CHILD Children’s essentialist thinking is amazing.17 Before they reach school age, they know that baby joeys raised by goats grow up into adult kangaroos, not adult goats. They ...
( Category: Behavioral Sciences June 16,2017 )
Signature in the Cell by Stephen C. Meyer
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:Stephen C. Meyer

Conclusion Since the intelligent-design hypothesis meets both the causal-adequacy and causal-existence criteria of a best explanation, and since no other competing explanation meets these conditions as well—or at all—it follows ...
( Category: Evolution June 16,2017 )
Pagans and Christians by Robin Lane Fox
mobi |eng | 2008-10-29 | Author:Robin Lane Fox

9. Persecution and Martyrdom I The most excellent Christians in the early Church were neither the virgins nor the visionaries. They were the Christians whom pagans put to death. The ...
( Category: World June 16,2017 )
Life in Year One by Scott Korb
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Scott Korb

X DEATH IN YEAR ONE Follow me, and leave the dead behind to bury their dead. —MATTHEW 8:22 If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a thousand times: To ...
( Category: Middle East June 16,2017 )
Discovering God by Rodney Stark
mobi |eng | 2007-03-10 | Author:Rodney Stark

By the end of the fourth century CE, elite Taoism had largely become a monastic faith, catering to both men and women seeking a withdrawn, celibate life of meditation and ...
( Category: Religious Studies June 16,2017 )
The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion by Rodney Stark
epub |eng | | Author:Rodney Stark [Stark, Rodney]

Rural Neglect IF MOST MEDIEVAL EUROPEANS did not attend church, a primary reason was that for many centuries only the nobility and those living in towns and cities had a ...
( Category: History June 16,2017 )
When God Talks Back by T.M. Luhrmann
mobi |ru | 2012-03-26 | Author:T.M. Luhrmann

Are your thoughts sometimes as real as actual events in your life? Does it often happen that nearly every thought immediately and automatically suggests an enormous number of ideas? Are ...
( Category: Religious Studies June 16,2017 )
Europe, Globalization, and the Coming of the Universal Caliphate by Ye'or Bat
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-09-16 | Author:Ye'or, Bat [Ye'or, Bat]

These proposals closely paralleled those made by Ihsanoglu at the European Parliament in 2006 and in the recommendations of the Mecca Symposium (§1 and 2). 1. Strengthen OIC relations with ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 16,2017 )
Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth by Bart D. Ehrman
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Bart D. Ehrman

Are All the Stories of the Gospels Filled with Legendary Material? The legendary character of the Gospel accounts of Jesus are stressed by almost all mythicists, but by none with ...
( Category: Theology June 16,2017 )
Atheism by Julian Baggini
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Julian Baggini [Baggini, Julian]

The English novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) is the author of the famed 1932 science fiction novel Brave New World, set in “the year of our Ford 632” (the ...
( Category: Atheism June 16,2017 )

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