American Religious HistoryAmanda Porterfield John Wiley & Sons, 2008 M04 15 - 352 pages In this outstanding historical reader, the editor has gathered nine essays and over thirty primary documents to present a coherent picture of the history of American religion. |
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... Christ in the sacraments and in the world. At the same time, Buddhist ideas about the illusory nature of selfhood challenged essentialist notions of the soul common in Catholic philosophy in ways that Catholic practitioenrs of Buddhist ...
... Christ in the sacraments and in the world. At the same time, Buddhist ideas about the illusory nature of selfhood challenged essentialist notions of the soul common in Catholic philosophy in ways that Catholic practitioenrs of Buddhist ...
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... to alleviating the social conditions of distress that owed much to the moral activism of Protestant culture. In traditional, European-style Catholicism, mystical identification with Christ through devotion to the. INTRODUCTION 2|
... to alleviating the social conditions of distress that owed much to the moral activism of Protestant culture. In traditional, European-style Catholicism, mystical identification with Christ through devotion to the. INTRODUCTION 2|
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... Christ as the redeemer of humankind, as the fulfillment of Hebrew scripture. Christian belief that the New Testament supersedes the Hebrew Bible has also carried the anti-Semitic idea that Jews should give up their stubborn loyalty to ...
... Christ as the redeemer of humankind, as the fulfillment of Hebrew scripture. Christian belief that the New Testament supersedes the Hebrew Bible has also carried the anti-Semitic idea that Jews should give up their stubborn loyalty to ...
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