A new and expanded edition of a highly successful textbook on world religions with a comparative approach which explores how six major religions are lived and expressed through their customs, rituals and everyday practices. A new edition of this major textbook, exploring the world's great religions through their customs, rituals and everyday practices by focusing on the 'lived experience' This comparative study is enriched and broadened with the inclusion of a sixth religion, DaoismTakes a th...

David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. No philosopher is more important for his careful, critical, and deeply perceptive examination of the grounds for belief in divine powers and for his sceptical accounts of the causes and consequences of religious belief, expressed most powerfully in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion. The Dialogues ask if belief in God can be inferred ...

Het maken van een preek vereist een grondige voorbereiding. Ze bestaat in het zetten van een aantal stappen: van bezinning op de situatie van de hoorders en op de liturgische context tot en met het werken aan een goede opbouw en aan verzorgd taalgebruik. Dit boek is voor het grootste deel gewijd aan het stappenplan dat wil helpen bij de preekvoorbereiding. Dat begint met nadenken over de context van de gemeente en gaat via exegese en meditatie naar de vertolking en de preekopbouw.

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This introductory theology text explains key concepts in Christian doctrine and shows that doctrine is integrally linked to the practical realities of Christian life. In order to grow into more faithful practitioners of Christianity, we need to engage in the practice of learning doctrine and understanding how it shapes faithful lives. Beth Felker Jones helps students articulate basic Christian doctrines, think theologically so they can act Christianly in a diverse world, and connect Christian...

Benedictus noemt zijn levensregel uitdrukkelijk een 'regel voor beginners'. Zowel de novice als de abt blijven hun leven lang beginners. Een levensregel voor beginners vertaalt het benedictijnse leven naar vormen van samenleven en samenwerken buiten de muren van het klooster: een gezin, het werk, een organisatie. De soepele benedictijnse spiritualiteit is hiervoor uitermate geschikt. Zij is eenvoudig en down to earth. Ze sluit goed aan bij een spreuk uit de Zen-traditie: 'Vóór de verlichtin...

The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science. This unique edition offers an exciting new approach to the most influential of all English biblical texts - the Authorized King James Version, complete with the Apocrypha.

The Inner Chapters are the oldest pieces of the larger collection of writings by several fourth, third, and second century B.C. authors that constitute the classic of Taoism, the Chuang-Tzu (or Zhuangzi). It is this core of ancient writings that is ascribed to Chuang-Tzu himself.

This edition goes beyond others that largely leave readers to their own devices in understanding this cryptic work, by providing an entree into the text that parallels the traditional Chinese way of approaching it: alongside Slingerland's exquisite rendering of the work are his translations of a selection of classic Chinese commentaries that shed light on difficult passages, provide historical and cultural context, and invite the reader to ponder a range of interpretations. The ideal student ...

Through incisive discussions of topics ranging from practice, power, and pedagogy to ritual, history, sex, and death, the authors offer new directions for the understanding of Buddhism, taking constructive and sometimes polemical positions in an effort both to demonstrate the shortcomings of assumptions about the religion and the potential.