How did apocalyptic concerns shape ancient Jewish life and literature?
In this compelling study, renowned scholar John J. Collins examines the apocalyptic worldview that emerged in Jewish thought du……続きを見る
Rabbi "Shy" Zeldin was a visionary and an inspiring leader. A dynamic speaker, Zeldin was an advocate for social justice, Jewish education, and Zionism. He was an extraordinary fundraiser and organi……続きを見る
This work explores the influential Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola, the sixteenth-century Spanish soldier, saint, mystic, and founder of the Jesuit Order. The Ignatian Exercises, including th……続きを見る
著者:John J. Collins
出版社: University of California Press
発売日: 2017年02月14日
Most people understand Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. However, in The Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argues this was not always the case. The Torah became t……続きを見る
In Godly Letters, Michael J. Colacurcio analyzes a treasury of works written by the first generation of seventeenth-century American Puritans. Arguing that insufficient scrutiny has been given this ……続きを見る
著者:H.E.J. Cowdrey
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2024年10月28日
The essays in this volume centre upon the epoch-making papacy of Gregory VII (1073-85), and complement the author’s major study of the pope. They look at the formation and expression of Gregory’s id……続きを見る
Nine of the ten essays in this collection appeared first between 1995 and 2005. Centered in the Carolingian age, they explore how the seventh-century Visio Baronti was read in the ninth century and ……続きを見る
Dieser Sammelband präsentiert einige der bedeutendsten Klassiker der Weltliteratur - die einflussreichen und wegweisenden Werke von Autoren, Dichtern und Philosophen jüdischer Herkunft: Ein Hungerkü……続きを見る
This book is a comprehensive study of the history of pew-renting in the church of England, from the first known rented sittings in the fifteenth century to the system’s collapse in the twentieth. Th……続きを見る
This book traces the history of the idea that the king and later the messiah is Son of God, from its origins in ancient Near Eastern royal ideology to its Christian appropriation in the New Testamen……続きを見る
Parte da ideia de que a literatura apocalíptica evoca um mundo imaginativo colocado em contraponto deliberado com o mundo empírico do presente, apontando que o apocalipticismo se desenvolve especial……続きを見る
John J. Collins here offers an up-to-date review of Jewish messianic expectations around the time of Jesus, in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
He breaks these expectations down into categories: David……続きを見る
著者:Frank J. Coppa
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年07月01日
This ambitious survey launches a major new five-volume series. It explores the response of the papacy, one of the world's longest-enduring institutions, to the multiplying challenges of the modern a……続きを見る
Richard Greenham was one of the most important and respected figures among the Elizabethan clergy. His contemporaries described him as the founder of a previously unknown pastoral art: the cure of c……続きを見る
著者:J. Clark
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2012年10月10日
This work is concerned with the way Black Christian formation, because of the acceptance of universal, absolute, and exclusive Christian doctrines, seems to justify and even encourage anti-African s……続きを見る
This is the first book-length treatment in English of the Nag Hammadi text, The Thunder: Perfect Mind - a poem of 'I am' statements that has garnered a strong following in mainstream culture. This b……続きを見る
著者:Jessey J. C. Choo
出版社: University of Hawaii Press
発売日: 2022年07月31日
This nuanced study traces how Chinese came to view death as an opportunity to fashion and convey social identities and memories during the medieval period (200–1000) and the Tang dynasty (618–907), ……続きを見る
First published in the summer of 1557 - as the protestant martyrs’ pyres blazed across England - Songes and Sonettes, written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and othe……続きを見る
First published in 1622, Jeremias Drexel's 'Zodiacus christianus' (or 'Christian Zodiac') was a remarkable work of religious iconography and spiritual self-help. Raised a Lutheran but converting to ……続きを見る
著者:Wojciech Tworek
出版社: State University of New York Press
発売日: 2019年08月01日
Demonstrates that Rabbi Shneur Zalman's teachings regarding time and history enabled Habad's growth into a mass Jewish movement.
The Habad movement, formed in eighteenth-century Belarus, has develop……続きを見る
著者:Patrick J. Corbeil
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2021年12月01日
This book is the first extensive historical analysis of the relationship between empire and the Victorian secularist movement. Historians have paid little attention to the role of empire in the deve……続きを見る
A Christmas in Princeton
A Christmas in Princeton, is about holly, carols, and joy, but it also celebrates the very reasons for Christmas and its colorful traditions. It is a touching tale of friend……続きを見る
Seven Hundred Years to Bethlehem: The Story of the Magi and the Birth of Jesus of Nazareth
In his Gospel, Matthew briefly mentions wise men from the east who followed a celestial ray of light to Bet……続きを見る
We had hoped it was he [the Messiah] who would redeem Israel (Luke 24:21)
In this book, you will learn
that the religion Jesus founded was not Gentile or called Christianity. The name Christianity i……続きを見る
In this fascinating account of the search for the remains of the world's first pope, none other than Peter, the chief apostle of Jesus, Thomas J. Craughwell takes us on one of the most exciting arch……続きを見る
著者:John J. Collins
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2012年10月28日
Since they were first discovered in the caves at Qumran in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have aroused more fascination--and more controversy--than perhaps any other archaeological find. They appear to ……続きを見る
This book challenges the widespread view of Kierkegaard’s idiosyncratic and predominantly religious position on mimesis.
Taking mimesis as a crucial conceptual point of reference in reading Kierkega……続きを見る
Who was the “Mysterious Sofía,” whose letter in November 1934 was sent from Washington DC to Mexico City and intercepted by the Mexican Secret Service? In The Mysterious Sofía Stephen J. C. Andes us……続きを見る
What people think affects what they do, and what people do affects what they think. There is no better illustration of this adage than John Wesley, the pivotal founder of Methodism. For this phenome……続きを見る
Winner of the 2023 CSBS' Frank W. Beare Award.
Honourable Mention for Best Book in Jewish Studies from the British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies.
This engaging and accessible textbook pro……続きを見る