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Language
English
Description
Evaluates the role of religion in history, stating that modern expressions of faith are considerably removed from those of previous generations while arguing that an increased awareness of past insights may build a faith that speaks to an increasingly polarized society.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology, Wright's findings overturn basic assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and are sure to cause controversy. He explains why spirituality...
7) The Trinity
Author
Series
Publisher
W.B. Eerdmans
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
vii, 156 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Baker Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A thousand years ago, the church experienced a time of tremendous upheaval called the Great Schism. The one faith became two churches, East and West, and the course of world history was forever changed. And it all swirled around one Latin word in the Nicene Creed, filioque, that indicated the Holy Spirit proceeded both from God the Father "and from the Son." From the time that phrase was officially instituted onward, the Holy Spirit's place in the...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
xv, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Eire traces the concept of eternity from ancient times to the present. He examines the rise and fall of five different conceptions of eternity, how they developed, and how they have helped shape individual and collective self-understanding.
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