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Between Allah & Jesus What Christians Can Learn From Muslims

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Description :  W hat would happen if Christians and a Muslim at a university talked and disagreed, but really tried to understand each other? What would they learn? That is the intriguing question Peter Kreeft seeks to answer in these imaginative conversations at Boston College. An articulate and engaging Muslim student named 'Isa challenges the Christian students and professors he meets on issues ranging from prayer and worship to evolution and abortion, from war and politics to the nature of spiritual struggle and spiritual submission. While Kreeft believes Christians should not learn extremism or unitarian theology from Muslims, he does believe that if we really listened we could learn much about devoted religious practice and ethics. Here is a book to open your understanding of one of the key forces shaping our world today. It's a book that just could make you a better Christian. Details :  Paperback: 188 pages Publisher: IVP Books (March 12,...

Ashgate Methodist Studies Series Ashgate Research Companion to World Methodism

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Title : Ashgate Methodist Studies Series  Ashgate Research Companion to World Methodism Hardcover: 550 pages Publisher: Routledge (28 Feb. 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1409401383 ISBN-13: 978-1409401384 Description :  As a religious and social phenomenon Methodism engages with a number of disciplines including history, sociology, gender studies and theology. Methodist energy and vitality have intrigued, and continue to fascinate scholars. This Companion brings together a team of respected international scholars writing on key themes in World Methodism to produce an authoritative and state-of-the-art review of current scholarship, mapping the territory for future research. Leading scholars examine a range of themes including: the origins and genesis of Methodism; the role and significance of John Wesley; Methodism’s emergence within the international and transatlantic evangelical revival of the Eighteenth-Century; the evolution and growth of Methodism...

An Introduction to Islam in the 21st Century

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Title : An Introduction to Islam in the 21st Century Paperback: 346 pages Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (March 4, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1405193603 ISBN-13: 978-1405193603 Description :  This engaging introduction to Islam examines its lived reality, its worldwide presence, and the variety of beliefs and practices encompassed by the religion. The global perspective uniquely captures the diversity of Islam expressed throughout different countries in the present day. A comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, and global introduction to Islam, covering its history as well as current issues, experiences, and challenges Incorporates key new research on Muslims from a variety of countries across Europe, Latin America, Indonesia, and Malaysia Central Asia Directly addresses controversial issues, including political violence and ‘terrorism’, anti-western sentiments, and Islamophobia Explores different responses from various Islamic communities to global...

Amy Levy Critical Essays

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Title : Amy Levy Critical Essays Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Ohio University Press; 1 edition (15 Mar. 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 0821419056 ISBN-13: 978-0821419052 Description :    Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation. Embraced by feminist scholars for her radical experimentation with queer poetic voice and her witty journalistic pieces on female independence, she remains controversial for her representations of London Jewry that draw unmistakably on contemporary antisemitic discourse. Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women's poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy's writing and its contemporary reception. Working from close analyses of Levy's texts, the collection aims to rethink her engagement with Jewis...