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  • Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith: Religion and Doctor Who

    by James McGrath, Andrew Crome ...
    Doctor Who has always contained a rich current of religious themes and ideas. In its very first episode it asked how humans rationalise the seemingly supernatural, as two snooping school teachers refused to accept that the TARDIS was real. More recently it has toyed with the mystery of Doctor’s real name, perhaps an echo of ancient religions and rituals in which knowledge of the secret name of a ... Read more

    $10.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Apocalypticism and Millennialism

    Edited by Tristan Sturm, Andrew Crome ...
    In an age shadowed by pandemics, climate catastrophe, authoritarian resurgence, and existential technological threats, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Apocalypticism and Millennialism offers a timely and indispensable exploration of how societies make sense of their Ends-and their hoped-for new beginnings. This ground-breaking volume gathers leading scholars to trace the evolution, meanings, and ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

  • Christian Zionism and English National Identity, 1600–1850

    by Andrew Crome ...
    Series series Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World
    This book explores why English Christians, from the early modern period onwards, believed that their nation had a special mission to restore the Jews to Palestine. It examines English support for Jewish restoration from the Whitehall Conference in 1655 through to public debates on the Jerusalem Bishopric in 1841. Rather than claiming to replace Israel as God’s “elect nation”, England was “chosen” ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Religion and Doctor Who

    Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith

    Edited by Andrew Crome, James F. McGrath ...
    Doctor Who has always contained a rich current of religious themes and ideas. In its very first episode it asked how humans rationalize the seemingly supernatural, as two snooping schoolteachers refused to accept that the TARDIS was real. More recently it has toyed with the mystery of Doctor's real name, perhaps an echo of ancient religions and rituals in which knowledge of the secret name of a ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Prophecy and Eschatology in the Transatlantic World, 1550−1800

    Edited by Andrew Crome ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Prophecy and millennial speculation are often seen as having played a key role in early European engagements with the new world, from Columbus’s use of the predictions of Joachim of Fiore, to the puritan ‘Errand into the Wilderness’. Yet examinations of such ideas have sometimes presumed an overly simplistic application of these beliefs in the lives of those who held to them. This book explores ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Restoration of the Jews: Early Modern Hermeneutics, Eschatology, and National Identity in the Works of Thomas Brightman

    by Andrew Crome ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book offers the first detailed examination of the life and works of biblical commentator Thomas Brightman (1562-1607), analysing his influential eschatological commentaries and their impact on both conservative and radical writers in early modern England. It examines in detail the hermeneutic strategies used by Brightman and argues that his method centred on the dual axes of a Jewish ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    New-Edge Spirituality in a Digital Democracy

    by Barry Taylor, William Dyrness, Robert Johnston ...
    Series series Cultural Exegesis
    It's the end of the church as we know it. In a digitally connected world, people are seeking spiritual answers through pop culture. Instead of retreating, Christians must "rethink the sacred" and enter global conversations about God--in film, literature, TV, and music--or face extinction, argues Barry Taylor in Entertainment Theology.Taking snapshots from theology, cultural studies, sociology, and ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Reason for God

    Belief in an Age of Skepticism

    by Timothy Keller ...
    A New York Times bestseller people can believe in—by "a pioneer of the new urban Christians" (Christianity Today) and the "C.S. Lewis for the 21st century" (Newsweek).Timothy Keller, the founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, addresses the frequent doubts that skeptics, and even ardent believers, have about religion. Using literature, philosophy, real-life conversations, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Doctor Who and Philosophy

    Bigger on the Inside

    by Courtland Lewis, Paula Smithka ...
    Series Book 55 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Not only is Doctor Who the longest-running science fiction TV show in history, but it has also been translated into numerous languages, broadcast around the world, and referred to as the way of the future” by some British politicians. The Classic Doctor Who series built up a loyal American cult following, with regular conventions and other activities. The new series, relaunched in 2005, has ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Anime and Philosophy

    Wide Eyed Wonder

    by Josef Steiff, Tristan D. Tamplin ...
    Series Book 47 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Anime and Philosophy focuses on some of the most-loved, most-intriguing anime films and series, as well as lesser-known works, to find what lies at their core. Astro Boy, Dragon Ball Z, Ghost in the Shell, and Spirited Away are just a few of the films analyzed in this book. In these stories about monsters, robots, children, and spirits who grapple with the important questions in life we find ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Making Sense of God

    Finding God in the Modern World

    by Timothy Keller ...
    We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives?In this thoughtful and inspiring new book, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller invites skeptics to consider that ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • History of the Jews

    by Paul Johnson ...
    National Bestseller"A tour de force. . . . A remarkable achievement." —New York Times Book Review"A marvelous book. . . . This is history: richly textured, provocative and wise." —Plain DealerFrom acclaimed historian Paul Johnson, author of Modern Times and A History of American People, this brilliant 4000 year survey covers not only Jewish histor... ... Read more

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