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Aphrahat's Demonstrations: A Conversation with the Jews of Mesopotamia by Eliyahu Lizorkin 9789042925748
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $161.21Various opinions on the nature of Aphrahat's interactions with the Jews have essentially revolved around either accepting or rejecting the claim that the Persian Sage had contact with (Rabbinic) Jews... -
Church and Order: A Reformed Perspective by P. Coertzen 9789042905696
Booksplease Price: $48.73Church and order. A reformed perspective. are the Onclin lectures given at the Faculty of Canon Law in Leuven during February 1998. The first four chapters give a perspective on the fundamental... -
The Predynastic Egyptian Cemetery of El-Gerzeh: Social Identities and Mortuary Practices by Alice Stevenson 9789042921764
RRP: $208.65Booksplease Price: $197.69The cemetery of el-Gerzeh (dated to c. 3600-3350 BC) excavated in 1910-11, seemingly provided the first evidence of Predynastic 'Naqada culture' outside its previously documented social field in... -
The Role of Mothers in the Genealogical Lists of Jacob's Sons by D.C. Smith 9789042936003
RRP: $142.35Booksplease Price: $135.06This work demonstrates that the genealogy of Jacob/Israel was singular and based on the rankings of the four mothers Leah, Rachel, Zilpah and Bilhah. These positions remained in the... -
The Hidden Heritage of Diaspora Judaism: Essays on Jewish Cultural Identity in the Roman World by Leonard Victor Rutgers 9789042906662
Booksplease Price: $81.12In recent scholarly debates concerning the history of the Jews in Roman times, the study of the Diaspora has begun to play an increasingly important part. New archaeological and inscriptional... -
Liturgical Catechesis of Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest by Veronica Rosier 9789042910720
Booksplease Price: $116.75The number of Catholic communities with no priest available to celebrate Sunday Eucharist has increased steadily over 60 years. For many, other forms of Sunday celebration are the statistical norm... -
Grammars of Faith: A Critical Evaluation of D.Z. Phillips's Philosophy of Religion by P.F. Bloemendaal 9789042917446
Booksplease Price: $104.64D. Z. Phillips is a leading figure in advocating a Wittgensteinian approach to the philosophical study of religion. His writings exert an important influence on contemporary philosophy of religion,... -
Spiritual Spaces: History and Mysticism in Michel De Certeau by Inigo Bocken 9789042927063
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $93.7625 years after his death, Michel de Certeau's thesis of a correlation between the development of modernity and the history of mysticism, still remains a challenge for the study of spirituality in its... -
Encountering God in the Abyss: Titus Brandsma's Spiritual Journey by Constant Dolle 9789042911635
Booksplease Price: $46.41Born on a Frisian farm, Titus Brandsma (1881-1942) entered the novitiate of the Carmelites in Boxmeer. On his journey he cultivated the spiritual garden of his cell in order to dwell in the face of... -
One Bread, One Body, One Church: Essays on the Ecclesia of Christ Today in Honor of Bernard P. Prusak by C. Cimorelli 9789042944848
RRP: $169.65Booksplease Price: $159.43How does the church come from Jesus? Previously, this was a much clearer and more settled question. It could be answered from dogmatic conclusions, rather than from historical... -
Bridging Past and Future: Monsignor W. Onclin Revisited: Monsignor W. Onclin Chair 1998 by Rik Torfs 9789042900332
Booksplease Price: $29.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042900332Author R. TorfsFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher Peeters... -
The Weeping Rock: Revisiting Niobe through 'Paragone', 'Pathosformel' and Petrification by B. Baert 9789042942028
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $97.56Publius Ovid (43 BC-17/18 AD) describes in his Metamorphoses Niobe's transformation into a weeping rock. Niobe's transformation incorporates the form and matter of the medium... -
The Rationale for Aniconism in the Old Testament: A Study of Select Texts by M.K. Korada 9789042933972
RRP: $191.10Booksplease Price: $178.62"Why does the Old Testament reject idolatry?" is a question that might be asked by both academics and others. Although many people may be satisfied with a simple answer, the scholarly... -
Church and State: Changing Paradigms: Monsignor W. Onclin Chair 1999 by Rik Torfs 9789042907492
Booksplease Price: $27.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042907492Author J.E. WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 73Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher Peeters... -
Ancient Lines in the Landscape: A Geo-archaeological Study of Protohistoric and Roman Roads and Field Systems in Northwestern Gaul by Frank Vermeulen 9789042909915
Booksplease Price: $161.30In recent decades, archaeological research in north-west Europe has developed a keen interest in the total landscape that was inhabited and used by man in ancient times. The present study of... -
Canon Law, Consultation and Consolation: Monsignor W. Onclin Chair 2003 by R. Torfs 9789042912946
Booksplease Price: $39.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042912946Author R. TorfsFormat PaperbackPage Count 163Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher Peeters... -
Covenant and Contract: Politics, Ethics and Religion by Adela Cortina 9789042913400
Booksplease Price: $84.63In today's world two narrations are vital for understanding human bonds: the account of reciprocal recognition, the Covenant, as told in the book of "Genesis", extended in the works of G.H. Mead,... -
The Ge'ez Acts of Abba Estifanos of Gwendagwende: T. by Getatchew Haile 9789042917408
RRP: $159.90Booksplease Price: $148.16Abuna Estifanos (Stephen), the edition and translation of whose hagiographical life is presented here, was the leader of a monastic reform movement that shook the foundations of the Ethiopian State... -
Exaltation of the Cross: Toward the Origins of the Feast of the Cross and the Meaning of the Cross in Early Medieval Liturgy by L.Van Tongeren 9789042909519
Booksplease Price: $109.67The origin, development and spread of the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross is traced on the basis of liturgical sources, and through a careful examination of the liturgical textual material, the... -
Chaos, Complexity and God: Divine Action and Scientism by Taede Smedes 9789042915213
Booksplease Price: $74.14In Christian theology, the belief that God is actively involved in earthly affairs is fundamental. Yet it is challenged by the contemporary scientific worldview. The author of this study argues that... -
The Art of Theology: Hans Urs Von Balthasar's Theological Aesthetics and the Foundations of Faith by Stephan van Erp 9789042914674
Booksplease Price: $95.28Art and theology are two different ways of making meaning. Art is a matter of inspiration and intuition. It needs neither standards, nor guidelines. It does not follow predictable patterns, nor is it... -
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Plotinus, Ennead Ii 9 [33] "Against the Gnostics": A Commentary by N. Spanu 9789042925830
RRP: $208.65Booksplease Price: $193.77This book consists in a commentary and translation of Plotinus's Ennead II 9 [33], entitled by Porphyry Against the Gnostics. The commentary has tried to go beyond the traditional... -
The Greek Figure Poems by Jan Kwapisz 9789042927452
RRP: $138.45Booksplease Price: $129.91The earliest European specimens of visual poetry are found in the literature of the ancient Greeks: these are six famous technopaegnia, which were composed between the end of the fourth century BC... -
Papers Presented at the Sixteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies Held in Oxford 2011: Volume 1: Former Directors by Markus Vincent 9789042929869
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $182.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042929869Author M. VinzentFormat PaperbackPage Count 97Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher Peeters... -
Apollonius Rhodius by M. A. Harder 9789042909274
Booksplease Price: $117.74This volume contains the papers of the "Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry 4 : Apollonius Rhodius" (Groningen, 2-4 September 1998). During the workshop a first draft of the papers was... -
Religion and Society: Emerging Questions by Rik Torfs 9789042916302
Booksplease Price: $26.60In this booklet the lectures given at the Monsignor W. Onclin Chair 2005 are published. R. Torfs' address is titled '(No) Separtion between Church and State', wheras that of M.P. Hilbert is called... -
Papers Presented at the Sixteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies Held in Oxford 2011: Volume 3: Early Monasticism and Classical Paideia by Markus Vincent 9789042929883
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $182.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789042929883Author M. VinzentFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher... -
Emotions and Care: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by E. Pulcini 9789042937116
RRP: $159.90Booksplease Price: $150.74This volume explores the connections between emotions and care-understood here as a practice, an ethical ideal and a moral disposition. Ever since its origins in the early 1980s, the... -
Schoenberg and Tonality: The Eight Songs Op. 6 by K. Boucquet 9789042935709
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $190.81Arnold Schoenberg is usually associated with the breakdown of tonality in the early twentieth century. The present book challenges this familiar narrative by considering his Eight Songs... -
Language and Cultural Change: Aspects of the Study and Use of Language in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Lodi Nauta 9789042917576
Booksplease Price: $106.63It is common wisdom that language is culturally embedded. Cultural change is often accompanied by a change in idiom, in language or in ideas about language. No period serves as a better example of... -
Q6: 37-42. Not Judging - The Blind Leading the Blind - The Disciple and the Teacher - The Speck and the Beam by L. E. Youngquist 9789042922938
RRP: $206.70Booksplease Price: $195.31The ninth volume in the series Documenta Q is concerned with the reconstruction of the Q text behind Luke 6:37-42 par. Matt 7:1-5; 10:24-25a; 15:14. The database and evaluations are expanded and... -
The Apocryphal Acts of Peter: Magic, Miracles and Gnosticism by Jan Bremmer 9789042900196
Booksplease Price: $83.56This is the first modern collection of studies on the most important aspects of the Acts of Peter, the source of the famous novel Quo Vadis ? by Henry Sienkiewicz. The collection of essays discusses... -
Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Paul by R. D. Anderson 9789042907058
Booksplease Price: $74.37This new edition of Anderson's Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Paul is the result of a considerable reworking and bringing up-to-date of many aspects of the original book. Anderson, after giving a... -
Religious Education as Practical Theology by B. Roebben 9789042910324
Booksplease Price: $116.32This book is meant to honour the Belgian religious educationalist Herman Lombaerts reflecting on his legacy. He is internationally renowned as a scholar with a strong commitment to and a conceptual... -
Mediations in Theology: Georges De Schrijver's Wager and Liberation Theologies by Jacques Haers 9789042913127
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $94.09On the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Georges De Schrijver, his former students organised a special symposium in close collaboration with the Centre for Liberation Theologies of the Faculty of... -
Divinising Experience: Essays in the History of Religious Experience from Origen to Ricoeur by Lieven Boeve 9789042913837
Booksplease Price: $84.61There is hardly a category more prominent in modern and postmodern reflection on religion than that of religious experience. In "Divinising Experience", scholars gathered in the Research Group... -
Multi-media Compositions from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period by Margiet Hoogvliet 9789042915329
Booksplease Price: $108.67Since the introduction of the personal computer, multi-media has become an important ingredient of modern life. Yet the combination of different media has a long history in western European culture:... -
The Three Rings: Textual Studies in the Historical Trialogue of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by P. Valkenberg 9789042915633
Booksplease Price: $85.61In history, Judaism, Christianity and Islam have been both partners and rivals. The well-known parable of the three rings argues in a beautiful paradox how the religion most beloved by the other two... -
Looking for Mithra in Malta by Claudia Sagona 9789042921603
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $93.25Many aspects of the mystery cult of Mithra remain enigmatic. It was a belief system that touched the hearts and minds of all manner of people, rich and poor, in the early centuries AD. Secretive,... -
Becoming Living Communities - Construyendo Comunidades Vivas - Lebendige Gemeinschaften Werden by S. Bieberstein 9789042922082
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $86.25This number of the Journal of the ESWTR presents a good selection of the lectures and mini-lectures at the conference, which took place in the beach resort of Vico Equense (south of Naples, Italy)...