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This monograph provides and defends a widely-shared definition of the world's religions. It calls this definition "systematic anthropomorphism" - the attribution of human characteristics to non-human events.
Anthropomorphism. --- Religion --- Symbolism --- God --- Corporeality --- Controversial literature.
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This bilingual edition of the Synopsis Purioris Theologiae (1625) makes available for the first time to English readers a seminal treatise of Reformed Scholasticism. Composed by four professors of Leiden University (Johannes Polyander, Andreas Rivetus, Antonius Walaeus, and Anthonius Thysius) , it gives an exhaustive yet concise presentation of Reformed theology as it was conceived in the first decades of the seventeenth century. From a decidedly Reformed perspective, the Christian doctrine is defined in contrast with alternative or opposite views (Catholic, Spiritualist, Arminian, Socinian). Both on the academic level and on the ecclesiastical level, the Synopsis responds to challenges coming from the immediate context of the early seventeenth century. The disputations of this first volume cover topics such as Scripture, doctrine of God, Trinity, creation, sin, Law and Gospel. Volume One was published in 2014, Volume Two came out in 2016. Volume Three, the final volume, is expected late 2019.
Theology, Doctrinal --- Reformed Church --- Controversial literature --- Doctrines
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Islam --- Christianity and other religions --- Controversial literature --- Relations --- Christianity
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In Europe religion and the secular are often depicted as inherently opposed to one another, with religions often considered to be only relevant to private affairs and personal beliefs. In contrast, the public sphere is understood as a secular and rational place where religious influence must be curtailed. In this binary perspective, Islam is viewed as misunderstanding the nature of religion and the secular because it seeks to enter the public space and does not properly accept the separation of religion and state. By contrast, Europe is associated with political secularism and it is presumed to be both secular and Judeo-Christian. This leaves other religious traditions, especially Islam and Muslims, as outside the dominant vision of Europe. The book brings authors together who share a vision of Europe beyond these binaries. It shows paths to a fruitful encounter of religion and secularities in Europe on the one hand and of Judaism, Christianity and Islam on the other.
Older people --- Rationalism. --- Religion --- Religious life. --- Controversial literature.
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This treatise argues that the traditional Christian understanding of hell fails to solve the problem of hell from a philosopher's viewpoint, as it has been constructed from a retributive model. The author develops a philosophical account of hell which does not depend on the retributive model.
Hell --- Good and evil --- Evil --- Wickedness --- Ethics --- Philosophy --- Polarity --- Religious thought --- Christianity. --- Christianity --- Controversial literature --- Hell - Christianity - Controversial literature.
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Church history --- Primitive and early church --- ca. 30-600 --- Controversial literature
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The Ezourvedam, used by Voltaire among others, as sourcebook for the most ancient of religions, was thereupon found to have been a fraud. Actually it was composed by a Christian - the text shows him to have been a French Jesuit missionary, who did not necessarily know Sanskrit - in order to convert Hindus to Christianity. The controversy surrounding the spurious Veda continues, involving a number of scholars and missionaries particularly in the question of whether or not the Veda was composed in Sanskrit or French.
Hinduism --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- Essence, genius, nature --- History --- Ezourvedam. --- Controversial literature --- Early works to 1800 --- Ezourvedam --- Early works to 1800.
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This volume is the first extensive study of a Christian work from the 4th century, Titus of Bostra's Contra Manichaeos , which is the only text from the early Greek Church setting out a comprehensive theodicy. The study illuminates the text's relation to contemporary theology and philosophy and interprets it in the light of the ideological conflicts between pagans, Catholic Christians and Manichaeans in the 4th century. It includes an examination of the possible Manichaean sources used by Titus, and, furthermore, a critical text study and translation of central passages in Contra Manichaeos , based both on the Greek text and the Syriac version of it.
Manichaeism --- Controversial literature --- History and criticism --- Titus, --- 276 =75 TITUS BOSTRENSIS --- 273.21 --- 273.21 Manicheïsme --- Manicheïsme --- Griekse patrologie--TITUS BOSTRENSIS --- Dualism (Religion) --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Controversial literature&delete& --- Christianity --- Titus of Bostra --- Manichaeism - Controversial literature - History and criticism --- Titus, - of Bostra, Bishop of Bostra, - fl. ca. 362-378. - Against the Manichees --- History and criticism.
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This book is about the communicative purpose and the audience of the Confessions . It illuminates the degree to which the communicative purpose of the work is to convert its readers, id est a protreptic purpose, and the degree to which the target audience may be identified as Augustine's potential Manichaean readers. A brief survey of possible literary antecedents points to the existence of other works that consist of the same combination of an autobiographical section (a conversion story) with a polemical and exegetical section (an argument that aims to convince the reader of the merits of a specific point of view) that characterizes the Confessions . The book provides a new perspective on the meaning and structure of Augustine's often misunderstood masterpiece.
Didactic literature, Latin --- Manichaeism --- Apologetics --- History and criticism. --- Controversial literature --- History --- Augustine, --- 276 =71 AUGUSTINUS --- Latijnse patrologie--AUGUSTINUS --- Latin didactic literature --- Latin literature --- Dualism (Religion) --- Philosophy, Ancient --- History and criticism --- Controversial literature&delete& --- Christianity --- Augustine --- Didactic literature [Latin ] --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Didactic literature, Latin - History and criticism. --- Manichaeism - Controversial literature - History and criticism. --- Apologetics - History - Early church, ca 30-600 --- Augustine, - Saint, Bishop of Hippo. - Confessiones.
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