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...

How can we reconcile the ideal church described by theology with the broken church that we see in the world? In this book Joseph Small argues that the church's true identity is known somewhere in the tension between the two.

Small revisits familiar ecclesiological concepts--people of God, the body of Christ, the communion of the Holy Spirit--but rather than focusing on theological abstractions or worldly cynicism, he carefully evaluates the church in its scriptural, historical, theological, ...

MARTIN BUBER (1878-1965) geldt als een der belangrijkste denkers en godsdienstfilosofen van de moderne tijd. Zijn boeken zoals «Ik en jij» en «Extatische getuigenissen» worden over de hele wereld nog volop gelezen. «Dialogisch leven» vormt het hart van zijn visie op mens en wereld. Centraal staat hierbij het vraagstuk van waarachtig contact tussen mensen onderling, en tussen mens en God, dat pas verwerkelijkt wordt door een actieve toewending tot de wereld en tot de ander. De dialoog di...

Het ruikt heerlijk, het ziet er fantastisch uit, het smaakt geweldig en wordt professioneel geserveerd. Rara wat is het?

Inderdaad: een preek. Of althans: zo kan een preek zijn! Wat je er voor nodig hebt? Een aantal basisingrediënten, een goede bereiding en een mooie presentatie van het eindresultaat.

Dit basisbakboek voor preken vertelt je er alles over en reikt je allerlei inzichten, voorbeelden en tips aan.

Dit boek roept een wereld op aan geur en smaak, een wereld van creatieve verwonder...

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.

In the twenty-first century, religion remains the single greatest influencein the world. But, argues religion scholar Stephen Prothero, persistentattempts to portray all religions as different paths to the same God overlookthe distinct human problem that each seeks to solve. For example:Islam: the problem is pride / the solution is submissionChristianity: the problem is sin / the solution is salvationBuddhism: the problem is suffering / the solution is awakeningJudaism: the problem is exile /...

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 ...