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“thomas albert howard”

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  • The Idea of Tradition in the Late Modern World

    An Ecumenical and Interreligious Conversation

    Edited by Thomas Albert Howard ...
    Our late modern era is marked by the rapidity of change; waxing pluralism; focus on the future, not the past; the elevation of personal choice over communal obligation; and, for some, a sense of spiritual and intellectual disorientation that can lead to resentment, fear, nostalgia, and/or a disordered desire for absolute certainty and rigid authority. How can religious traditions be maintained and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pope and the Professor

    Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age

    by Thomas Albert Howard ...
    The Pope and the Professor tells the captivating story of the German Catholic theologian and historian Ignaz von Döllinger (1799-1890), who fiercely opposed the teaching of Papal Infallibility at the time of the First Vatican Council (1869-70), convened by Pope Pius IX (r. 1846-1878), among the most controversial popes in the history of the papacy. Döllinger's thought, his opposition to the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Faiths of Others

    A History of Interreligious Dialogue

    by Thomas Albert Howard ...
    The first intellectual history of interreligious dialogue, a relatively new and significant dimension of human religiosityIn recent decades, organizations committed to interreligious or interfaith dialogue have proliferated, both in the Western and non†‘Western worlds. Why? How so? And what exactly is interreligious dialogue? These are the touchstone questions of this book, the first major history ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Remembering the Reformation

    An Inquiry into the Meanings of Protestantism

    by Thomas Albert Howard ...
    The 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 focuses the mind on the history and significance of Protestant forms of Christianity. It also prompts the question of how the Reformation has been commemorated on past anniversary occasions. In an effort to examine various meanings attributed to Protestantism, this book recounts and analyzes major commemorative occasions, including the famous ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Protestantism after 500 Years

    Edited by Thomas Albert Howard, Mark A. Noll ...
    The world stands before a landmark date: October 31, 2017, the quincentennial of the Protestant Reformation. Countries, social movements, churches, universities, seminaries, and other institutions shaped by Protestantism face a daunting question: how should the Reformation be commemorated 500 years after the fact? In this volume, leading historians and theologians, Protestant and Catholic, come ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • God and the Atlantic

    America, Europe, and the Religious Divide

    by Thomas Albert Howard ...
    Since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the United States and Western Europe's paths to modernity have diverged sharply with respect to religion. In short, Americans have maintained much friendlier ties with traditional forms of religion than their European counterparts. What explains this transatlantic religious divide? Accessing the topic though nineteenth and early twentieth-century ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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    How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization

    by Vishal Mangalwadi ...
    Understand where we came from.Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its relevance, The Book That Made Your World will transform your perception of its influence on virtually every facet of Western civilization.Indian philosopher Vishal Mangalwadi reveals the personal motivation that fueled his own study of the Bible and systematically illustrates how its precepts became the ... Read more

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  • The Lost History of Christianity

    The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died

    by John Philip Jenkins ...
    The New York Times bestselling history of early Christianity in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East—from "one of America's best scholars of religion" ( The Economist).In this groundbreaking book, renowned scholar Philip Jenkins explores a vast and forgotten network of the world's largest and most influential Christian churches that existed to the east of the Roman Empire. These churches and their ... Read more

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  • A People's History of Christianity

    The Other Side of the Story

    by Diana Butler Bass ...
    “It would be difficult to imagine anyone reading this book without finding some new insight or inspiration, some new and unexpected testimony to the astonishing breadth of Christianity through the centuries.” — Philip Jenkins, author of The Lost History of Christianity“Interesting, insightful, illuminating, and remarkably relevant.” — Marcus Borg, author of The Heart of ChristianityIn the ... Read more

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  • The Future of Faith

    by Harvey Gallagher Cox ...
    Legendary Harvard religion scholar Harvey Cox offers up a new interpretation of the history and future of religion. Cox identifies three fundamental shifts over the last 2,000 years of church history:The Age of Faith was when the early church was more concerned with following Jesus' teachings than enforcing what to believe about Jesus.The Age of Belief marks a significant shift-between the fourth ... Read more

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  • Fields of Blood

    Religion and the History of Violence

    by Karen Armstrong ...
    A sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence—from the New York Times bestselling author of The History of God • “Elegant and powerful.... Both erudite and accurate, dazzling in its breadth of knowledge and historical detail.” —The Washington PostIn these times of rising geopolitical chaos, the need for mutual understanding between cultures has never been more urgent. ... Read more

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  • Taming the Gods

    Religion and Democracy on Three Continents

    by Ian Buruma ...
    For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide. In Europe, the increasing number of radicalized Muslims is creating widespread fear that Islam is undermining Western-style liberal democracy. And even in polytheistic Asia, the development of democracy has been hindered in ... Read more

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