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19 produkter
The Americanization of the Apocalypse
Creating America's Own Bible
Inbunden, 2023
2702 kr
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In the early twentieth century, a new, American scripture appeared on the scene. It was the product of a school of theological thinking known as Dispensationalism, which offered a striking new way of reading the Bible, one that focused attention squarely on the end-times. That scripture, The …
Americanization of the Apocalypse
Creating America''s Own Bible
E-bok, 2023
1540 kr
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In the early twentieth century, a new, American scripture appeared on the scene. It was the product of a school of theological thinking known as Dispensationalism, which offered a striking new way of reading the Bible, one that focused attention squarely on the end-times. That scripture, The …
Americanization of the Apocalypse
Creating America''s Own Bible
E-bok, 2023
1540 kr
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In the early twentieth century, a new, American scripture appeared on the scene. It was the product of a school of theological thinking known as Dispensationalism, which offered a striking new way of reading the Bible, one that focused attention squarely on the end-times. That scripture, The …
The Americanization of the Apocalypse
Creating America's Own Bible
Häftad, 2026
335 kr
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In the early twentieth century, a new, American scripture appeared on the scene. It was the product of a school of theological thinking known as Dispensationalism, which offered a striking new way of reading the Bible, one that focused attention squarely on the end-times. That scripture, The …
Saint Saul
A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus
E-bok, 2002
196 kr
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The gospels, scholars agree, were written after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. This catastrophic event, argues Donald Akenson, forever altered the outlook--and the agenda--of the Christian and Jewish faiths. Of all the New Testament writings, only Paul''s letters were composed …
Small Differences
Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815-1922: an International Perspective
Häftad, 1991
441 kr
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The assumption that Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics are fundamentally different is central to modern Irish history. There are hundreds of books and thousands of articles that either presuppose the existence of Irish Catholic-Protestant differences
Discovering the End of Time
Irish Evangelicals in the Age of Daniel O'Connell
Inbunden, 2016
525 kr
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Apocalyptic millennialism is embraced by the most powerful strands of evangelical Christianity. The followers of these groups believe in the physical return of Jesus to Earth in the Second Coming, the affirmation of a Rapture, a millennium of peace under the rule of Jesus and his saints, and, at …
Between Dispersion and Belonging
Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice
Av Amitava Chowdhury, Donald Harman Akenson
Häftad, 2016
468 kr
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As a historical and religious term "diaspora" has existed for many years, but it only became an academic and analytical concept in the 1980s and '90s. Within its various usages, two broad directions stand out: diaspora as a dispersion of people from an original homeland, and diaspora as a claim of …
Small Differences
Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815-1922: An International Perspective
E-bok, 1988
400 kr
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The assumption that Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics are fundamentally different is central to modern Irish history. There are hundreds of books and thousands of articles that either presuppose the existence of Irish Catholic-Protestant differences
At Face Value
The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John White
E-bok, 1990
411 kr
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In a parish register in Ireland, Akenson discovered a record naming an Eliza McCormack White as John''s sister. Employing imaginative reconstruction, he proposes that Eliza McCormack, a transvestite prostitute who was in central Canada at the time John White arrived on the Canadian scene, was …
Saint Saul
A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus
E-bok, 2000
314 kr
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In this follow-up to his acclaimed Surpassing Wonder, Akenson recreates the world of Christ, a time rich with ideas, prophets, factions, priests, savants, and god-drunk fanatics. Saint Saul sheds light on Yeshua''s birth and his relationship to his family, clarifies Yeshua''s views on issues such …
Some Family
The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself
E-bok, 2011
286 kr
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Using supporting evidence that runs from the Solomon Islands and classical China to ancient Ireland, Akenson argues that there are four basic genealogical forms. Highly significant on its own, this insight also provides the information needed to assess the Latter-day Saints'' efforts to provide a …
Discovering the End of Time
Irish Evangelicals in the Age of Daniel O''Connell
E-bok, 2016
471 kr
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Apocalyptic millennialism is embraced by the most powerful strands of evangelical Christianity. The followers of these groups believe in the physical return of Jesus to Earth in the Second Coming, the affirmation of a Rapture, a millennium of peace under the rule of Jesus and his saints, and, at …
Discovering the End of Time
Irish Evangelicals in the Age of Daniel O''Connell
E-bok, 2016
471 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Apocalyptic millennialism is embraced by the most powerful strands of evangelical Christianity. The followers of these groups believe in the physical return of Jesus to Earth in the Second Coming, the affirmation of a Rapture, a millennium of peace under the rule of Jesus and his saints, and, at …
Between Dispersion and Belonging
Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice
Av Donald Harman Akenson, Amitava Chowdhury
E-bok, 2016
411 kr
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As a historical and religious term "diaspora" has existed for many years, but it only became an academic and analytical concept in the 1980s and ’90s. Within its various usages, two broad directions stand out: diaspora as a dispersion of people from an original homeland, and diaspora as a claim of …
Between Dispersion and Belonging
Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice
Av Donald Harman Akenson, Amitava Chowdhury
E-bok, 2016
403 kr
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As a historical and religious term "diaspora" has existed for many years, but it only became an academic and analytical concept in the 1980s and ’90s. Within its various usages, two broad directions stand out: diaspora as a dispersion of people from an original homeland, and diaspora as a claim of …
Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration
1815–1914
Häftad, 2013
474 kr
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This book is the product of Donald Akenson's decades of research and writing on Irish social history and its relationship to the Irish diaspora - it is also the product of a lifetime of trying to figure out where Swedish-America actually came from, and why. These two matters, Akenson shows, are …
Irish in Ontario
A Study in Rural History
Häftad, 1999
454 kr
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Hailed as one of the most important books on social sciences of the last fifty years by the Social Sciences Federation of Canada. Akenson argues that, despite the popular conception of the Irish as a city people, those who settled in Ontario were primarily rural and small-town dwellers. Though it …
Saint Saul
A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus
Häftad, 2002
408 kr
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In this follow-up to his acclaimed Surpassing Wonder, Akenson recreates the world of Christ, a time rich with ideas, prophets, factions, priests, savants, and god-drunk fanatics. Saint Saul sheds light on Yeshua's birth and his relationship to his family, clarifies Yeshua's views on issues such as …
