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Product Description: This is the first full biography of Schillebeeckx, a Dutch Dominican and theologian who has been seen as one of the greatest Roman Catholic theologians of the last century, and is still writing important work in the 21st century. His influence on the Second Vatican Council was profound, and he was regarded as the theological voice of progressive Catholicism until in 1968 the Vatican Authorities started an investigation into his orthodoxy and a great many Catholics also felt that this was an attack on them...read more
By Erik Borgman and John Bowden (trans)
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9780826461940 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, April 1, 2003, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This is the first full biography of Schillebeeckx, a Dutch Dominican and theologian who has been seen as one of the greatest Roman Catholic theologians of the last century, and is still writing important work in the 21st century.

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Product Description: Islam can be called a 'narrative community': in which stories are told about how people deal with one another and with God; what norms and values they have in their life that can give them guidance in any age and in any new environment; how they can cope with their life and death; and how faith, morality, rules of behaviour can be handed on to the following generation...read more
By John Bowden (trans) and Anton Wessels
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9789042911963 | Peeters Bvba, November 1, 2002, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Islam can be called a 'narrative community': in which stories are told about how people deal with one another and with God; what norms and values they have in their life that can give them guidance in any age and in any new environment; how they can cope with their life and death; and how faith, morality, rules of behaviour can be handed on to the following generation.

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Product Description: This important book sketches out the questions currently asked about God. In the midst of religious pluralism and agnosticism, Houtepen asks, how can we think about God? He finds the question impossible to answer without defining one's own position...read more
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9780826459503 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, August 1, 2002, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: This important book sketches out the questions currently asked about God.

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9780826459510 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, July 1, 2002, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: After an introduction describing the current situation, this book attempts to sketch out the contours of questions currently asked about God, to open up windows on the infinite, to get to the heart of the Christian confession about God and in the midst of pluralism of religions and agnostic culture to try and work out a way of thinking about God.

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Product Description: Internationally renowned scholar Erhard Gerstenberger here offers a radical departure from traditional treatments. Rather than a systematic approach to theological topics in the Old Testament, Gerstenberger discusses its various theological voices rooted in different social settings within ancient Israel: the family and clan, the village, the tribal group, and the kingdom...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780800634650 | Fortress Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Internationally renowned scholar Erhard Gerstenberger here offers a radical departure from traditional treatments.

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Product Description: Hans Küng describes the history of the Roman Catholic Church from its origins in St Paul’s Rome, through the disputes of the medieval era to the modern world. He examines the historic tension in the Church between pluralism and exclusivity; how the role of the Pope has changed; the motivations of the great reforming pontiffs; the evolving functions of the bishops and cardinals; the story of church’s enthusiasm for missionary activity; the origins of the Marian cult; and how the shock waves of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation can still be felt today...read more
By John Bowden (trans)
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9781842124949 | New edition (Orion Pub Co, June 20, 2002), cover price $12.35 | About this edition: Describes the history of the Roman Catholic Church from its origins in St Paul's Rome, through the disputes of the medieval era to the modern world.

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9781435297616 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Hans Küng describes the history of the Roman Catholic Church from its origins in St Paul’s Rome, through the disputes of the medieval era to the modern world.

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Product Description: Dominicans believe that the world - turbulent and restless, often violent and terrifying - is also the place where the holy comes to light, the place where we encounter God. Eric Borgman shows how the Dominican Way has something to offer people coping with the exigencies of the modern world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Eric Borgman and John Bowden (trans)
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9780826456847 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, December 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Dominicans believe that the world - turbulent and restless, often violent and terrifying - is also the place where the holy comes to light, the place where we encounter God.

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Product Description: How should Christians live in what is still an affluent society? What should be their attitude to money and to possessions ? How far has the welfare state relieved the church of its obligations ? Is anything short of a complete renunciation of possessions a compromise with Christian teaching ? While the experience of the early church cannot be applied directly to our modern situation, it is by no means irrelevant to these questions...read more
By John Bowden (trans) and Martin Hengel
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9781888961034 | Sigler Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: How should Christians live in what is still an affluent society?

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Product Description: A monument in historical Jesus studies In this revised translation and retrieval of the full text of the revised German edition, Schweitzer describes and critiques eighteenth and nineteenth century attempts at retrieving the "Jesus of history" and stands at the crossroads of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to bring closure to the former, and to open the latter for New Testament scholarship...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780800632885 | Subsequent edition (Augsburg Fortress Pub, June 1, 2001), cover price $39.00 | About this edition: A monument in historical Jesus studies In this revised translation and retrieval of the full text of the revised German edition, Schweitzer describes and critiques eighteenth and nineteenth century attempts at retrieving the "Jesus of history" and stands at the crossroads of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to bring closure to the former, and to open the latter for New Testament scholarship.

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9781857036725 | 2nd edition (How to Books Ltd, May 1, 2001), cover price $14.95

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9781857035674 | How to Books Ltd, November 1, 2000, cover price $12.00

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Product Description: You have a wonderful opportunity to add to the magic of your daughter's wedding. Your words will linger in memories - they may even be captured on video for future generations to hear. So what are the golden rules of speech-making? How can you convey emotion, seriousness and add a touch of humour...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781857035681 | How to Books Ltd, November 1, 2000, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: You have a wonderful opportunity to add to the magic of your daughter's wedding.

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Product Description: Inger Hermann has taught RE to deprived children in three special schools in Stuttgart. This book describes her experiences with them and the way in which it is possible to help them ask profound existential questions.
By John Bowden (editor) and Inger Hermann
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9780334028178 | Scm Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Inger Hermann has taught RE to deprived children in three special schools in Stuttgart.

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9781857035278 | How to Books Ltd, June 1, 2000, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: A guide to after dinner speaking, featuring practical tips and techniques for success and confidence. It covers how to choose your material, use humour, find a beginning and ending, and then how to actually deliver the speech. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781857035223 | How to Books Ltd, June 1, 2000, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A guide to after dinner speaking, featuring practical tips and techniques for success and confidence.

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Product Description: Whether it's a christening, retirement or confirmation, an engagement, wedding, or funeral, never again will you be stuck for words. With the help of this invaluable book, you can add that special something to any family occasion...read more
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9781857035896 | How to Books Ltd, May 1, 2000, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Whether it's a christening, retirement or confirmation, an engagement, wedding, or funeral, never again will you be stuck for words.

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Product Description: A major contribution to the theory of religion and the formative stages of churches around the Mediterranean. In these distinguished Oxford lectures, Theissen picks up where he left off in The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide (1998)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By John Bowden (trans) and Gerd Theissen
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9780800631796 | Fortress Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A major contribution to the theory of religion and the formative stages of churches around the Mediterranean.

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Product Description: "Making an After Dinner Speech" is a guide aiming to show how to prepare and present speeches that are relevant, topical, fast, punchy and funny. Topics include, making it entertaining, choosing the right material, preparing the script and delivering the speech.
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9781857034783 | How to Books Ltd, November 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "Making an After Dinner Speech" is a guide aiming to show how to prepare and present speeches that are relevant, topical, fast, punchy and funny.

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9781857035100 | How to Books Ltd, September 1, 1999, cover price $9.95

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9781857035117 | How to Books Ltd, September 1, 1999, cover price $9.95

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9781857032918 | How to Books Ltd, November 1, 1998, cover price $19.95

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By John Bowden (trans)
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9780334027423 | Scm Pr, June 30, 1998, cover price $19.95

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9781857033854 | 4th edition (How to Books Ltd, June 1, 1998), cover price $19.95

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Product Description: At many weddings each year people are called on to "say a few words". This book explores how to put together an effective speech suited to the occasion. For the best man, bridegroom or father of the bride, it offers opening lines, quotations, anecdotes, tips on humour and model speeches...read more
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9781857033472 | 3rd edition (How to Books Ltd, October 1, 1997), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: At many weddings each year people are called on to "say a few words".

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Product Description: According to the commonly held view, early Christianity was a time of great harmony, and heresy emerged only at a later stage. To the contrary, Gerd Ludemann argues that the time from the first Christian communities to the end of the second century was defined by struggle by various groups for doctrinal authority...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By John Bowden (trans) and Gerd Ludemann
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9780664220853 | Westminster John Knox Pr, August 1, 1996, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Examines the scriptures of Chritianity and their authority, and asserts that the Bible is the word of human beings, not the word of God

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9780664226428 | Westminster John Knox Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: According to the commonly held view, early Christianity was a time of great harmony, and heresy emerged only at a later stage.

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9781563381584 | Trinity Pr Intl, April 1, 1996, cover price $10.00

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