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Specialised Anti-Corrupt...
Review of Models
International anti-corruption treaties, including the UN Convention against Corruption, require member states to establish two types of anti-corruption institutions – one to prevent corruption and the other to combat corruption through law enforcement. The treaties also establ...
(2008)
147 Reads
Courage in Chaos
How can I live my life while still staying true to my beliefs? Can I stay in control when everything is changing? Saint Francis de Sales is known for his spiritual guidance and advice for everyday problems.
(2012)
115 Reads
Identität und Verständig...
am Beispiel des kooperativen Lernens
Wie können Kinder und Jugendliche im Religionsunterricht befähigt werden, unter den Bedingungen der religiösen und weltanschaulichen Pluralität eine eigene religiöse Identität aufzubauen und in eine dialogische Verständigung mit den anderen und fremden Religionen zu treten? Di...
(2011)
138 Reads
The Dawn of the Invisible
The Reception of the Platonic Doctrine on Beauty in the Christian Middle Ages: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite –Albert the Great – Thomas Aquinas – Nicholas of Cusa
Um die Relevanz des Schönen für die gegenwärtige Theologie herauszuarbeiten, muss man zur Geschichte zurückgehen: zu Platon als Wurzel der philosophischen Behandlung des Themas, sowie zu seiner Rezeption im Mittelalter, dem Höhepunkt des klassischen theologischen Denkens. Im B...
(2010)
73 Reads
Person' in Christian Tra...
A Systematic Study of ist Concept as Illuminated by the Mysteries of the Trinity and the Incarnation
This volume surveys the historical development of the notion of personality as brought into relief by salient patristic and medieval theologians, culminating with the thought of St. Albert the Great. The philosophical problems of "subsistence", "individuation", "relative disti...
(2001)
104 Reads
Creation Myths of the Wo...
ABC-CLIO's breakthrough reference work on creation beliefs from around the world returns in a richly updated and expanded new edition. From the Garden of Eden, to the female creators of Acoma Indians, to the rival creators of the Basonge tribe in the Congo, _Creation Myths...
(2009)
244 Reads
Catholic Family Fun
Looking for a way to bring your family together in faith and fun, but not sure where to start? Discover how game night meets Catholicism in this guidebook of activities with strategies and suggestions for fun family engagement - with one another and with faith! Adaptable ideas...
(2012)
104 Reads
The Passions of Christ's...
St. Thomas Aquinas' theology of Christ's human passions comes at the height of a medieval debate centering on the reality and extent of Christ's experience of affective suffering. Weighing in on the debate, Aquinas forges a defense of Christ's full humanity that stretches far ...
(2002)
111 Reads
Religious Schooling in A...
Private Education and Public Life
by STEVEN JONES
Advocates of religious schooling have frequently had to answer the charge that what they supported was un-American. In a book that is more than just a history, Jones tries to make sense of that charge by tracing the development of religious schooling in America over the last 1...
(2008)
48 Reads
Archa Verbi. Yearbook fo...
Yearbook for the Study of Medieval Theology
Das Jahrbuch der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Theologische Mediävistik »Archa Verbi« bietet einen Publikationsort für Artikel aus allen Teilbereichen der Theologischen Mediävistik, also nicht allein der theologischen Systematik, sondern ebenso der Kanonistik, der Liturgiew...
(2007)
628 Reads
Archa Verbi. Yearbook fo...
Yearbook for the Study of Medieval Theology
Das Jahrbuch der Internationalen Gesellschaft für Theologische Mediävistik »Archa Verbi« bietet einen Publikationsort für Artikel aus allen Teilbereichen der Theologischen Mediävistik, also nicht allein der theologischen Systematik, sondern ebenso der Kanonistik, der Liturgiew...
(2005)
451 Reads
A Simple Life: Wisdom fr...
Simple Life: Wisdom from Jane Frances de Chantal
How do I pull all the pieces of my life together? How can I keep my focus on God when novelty and consumerism constantly pull me in different directions? Saint Jane Frances de Chantal's steadfast pursuit of inner simplicity of life in God offers rest to our psyches and spirits...
(2012)
14 Reads
Preaching Poverty in the...
Perceptions and Realities
by Pauline Allen, Wendy Mayer, and Browen Neil
In 2002 the influential scholar of Late Antiquity, Peter Brown, published a series of lectures as a monograph titled Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire. Brown set out to explain a trend in the late Roman world observed in the 1970s by French social and economic ...
(2009)
91 Reads
God and Evolution? Scien...
Meet the "match made in heaven" between religion and science as they harmoniously converge through exploring the Catholic view on God and evolution. Author Dr. Verschuuren, a practicing Catholic and human geneticist, challenges the 'black and white' attitude toward matters of ...
(2012)
28 Reads
World Religions and the ...
by Vesselin Pop..., Gregory M. R..., and Nicholas Turner
Recent armed conflicts—domestic and international—have drawn fresh attention to age-old questions concerning when war can be justified, and what methods and targets are permissible during war. Over more than two millennia, the world’s leading religious traditions— Hinduism, Ju...
(2009)
19 Reads
Assist Me To Proclaim
The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley
by John R Tyson
Der Erweckungstheologe Charles Wesley (1707-1788) ist bekannt für seine Lieder und Gedichte, weit über 9000 sind überliefert. Als Prediger und Theologe hatte er eine wichtige Rolle in der Entstehungsgeschichte des Methodismus - so gilt er als Gründer des Ox...
(2007)
41 Reads
He and I
In this timeless spiritual testament, readers enter into the intimate, interior conversations between Jesus and Gabrielle Bossis, a French nurse and playwright. Recorded in her diary from 1936 to 1950, their tender exchanges capture Jesus' enduring presence in our daily lives,...
(2013)
6 Reads
Separation of Church and...
Examining an issue that has been a matter of controversy since the founding of the United States, _Separation of Church and State_ offers a chronological survey that helps put the ongoing debate in broad historical context. The book briefly traces the earliest instances of t...
(2010)
13 Reads
Confucianism and Christi...
The First Encounter
The book centres around a major theme: the first ‘confrontation' between the Supreme Ultimate (or T' ien) of the Confucian cosmological order and the Christian anthropomorphic God as conveyed to the Chinese literati by the Western missionaries. This encou
(2010)
2 Reads
Open Secret
by Wu-wei Wei
The old Masters were fond of a little joke. For instance one of them might say that the Buddha had a secret, but that Mahakashyapa let it out. Mahakashyapa, you may remember, was the bodhisattva to whom the Supreme Vehicle, chiefly represented by Ch'an an
(2010)
5 Reads
