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Karen Taliaferro, "The Possibility of Religious...
Taliaferro argues that natural law can act as a mediating tool...
80 min
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John Loughlin, "Human Dignity in the Judaeo-Chr...
This book offers an historical survey of how dignity has been understood and explores the concept in the Judaeo-Christian tradition....
71 min
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Harrison Perkins, "Catholicity and the Covenant...
Historians of early modern religion recognise the importance of the development of covenant theology in the formation of Calvinism...
28 min
1204
D. Benge and N. Pickowicz, "The American Purita...
The authors present nine mini-biographies that outline key events in the lives of individuals including Anne Bradstreet, John Eliot, John Cotton and Cotton Mather...
30 min
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Cory C. Brock, "Orthodox Yet Modern: Herman Bav...
Herman Bavinck negotiated his conservative background through life-long engagement with the work of Friedrich Schleiermacher...
28 min
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David Tavárez, "The Invisible War: Indigenous D...
Tavárez guides his readers through four centuries of the Mexican Inquisition in the episcopal sees of México and Oaxaca...
58 min
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Christopher J. Blythe, "Terrible Revolution: La...
Blythe examines apocalypticism across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly as it took shape in the writings and visions of the laity...
37 min
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Adriaan C. Neele, "Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1...
Neele combines work by new and well-established scholars to examine the ways in which the achievements of this eminent protestant scholastic theologian have impacted upon theology and philosophy...
28 min
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Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, "Absent Mother God o...
Saxena draws on her personal religious experiences and devotion to the Goddess Kali as a starting point to reflect on the absence of a Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism...
57 min
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Kenneth Austin, "The Jews and the Reformation" ...
Austin describes the long and complex history of the two traditions, shows how both religions defined themselves in opposition to each other...
37 min
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Matthew Thiessen, "Jesus and the Forces of Deat...
Thiessen demonstrates that the Gospel writers depict Jesus opposing ritual impurity itself, not the Jewish ritual purity system or the Jewish law...
34 min
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Ken M. Penner, "The Lexham English Septuagint" ...
What is the Septuagint, and why does it matter?
34 min
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Dana M. Malone, "From Single to Serious: Relati...
Malone shines a light on friendship, dating, and, sexuality, in both the ideals and the practical experiences of heterosexual students at U. S. evangelical colleges....
70 min
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Kristin Kobez Du Mez, "Jesus and John Wayne: Ho...
One of the most perplexing elements of Donald Trumps’s 2016 electoral victory was the overwhelming support he received from white Evangelicals...
86 min
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Eryn M. White, "The Welsh Methodist Society: Th...
White focuses on the movement that became known as the Calvinistic Methodists, a community that emerged under the leadership of outstanding organisers, orators and hymnwriters....
29 min
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Crawford Gribben, "An Introduction to John Owen...
Gribben details his subject’s conception of the roles that belief and doctrine should play in the lives of Christians....
33 min
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Richard G. Moore, "The Writings of Oliver Olney...
Oliver H. Olney, an early convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, fled to Nauvoo, Illinois, following persecution in Missouri...
32 min
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John Barton, "A History of the Bible: The Story...
How did the Bible become the Bible? It's a long story....
59 min
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Paul Moyer, "Detestable and Wicked Arts: New En...
Witch hunts. Not the metaphorical kind. Real witch hunts. Learn all about it here...
43 min
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Andrew S. Ballitch, "The Gloss and the Text: Wi...
Throughout the seventeenth century, and on both sides of the Atlantic, William Perkins exercised enormous influence on the ways in which protestants approached the reading of the Bible and thought about the practice of preaching...
32 min
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E. F. Bloomfield, "Communication Strategies for...
Bloomfield positions religion as an important factor in environmentalism and focuses on how identities play a role in environmental conversation...
50 min
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Patrick Schreiner, "The Ascension of Christ: Re...
Schreiner argues that Jesus’ work would be incomplete without his ascent to God’s right hand...
24 min
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T. Campolo and B. Campolo, "Why I Left, Why I S...
Over a Thanksgiving dinner, fifty-year-old Bart Campolo announced to his famous Evangelical pastor father, Tony Campolo, that after a lifetime immersed in the Christian faith, he no longer believed in God....
66 min
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Jered Rubin, "Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why...
Why did the modern economy emerge in northwestern Europe at some point in the 17th or 18th century but not in the Middle East?
73 min
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Lauren R. Kerby, "Saving History: How White Eva...
Kerby examines how white evangelicals perceive themselves and their role in American life through an analysis of the narratives told by Christian heritage tours...
57 min