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| List of Plates | |
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| List of Figures and Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Encountering Christianity: Some Gateways | |
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| Texts | |
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| Services | |
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| Buildings | |
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| Music | |
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| Art | |
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| Jesus of Nazareth | |
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| The Centrality of Jesus to the Christian Faith | |
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| The Gospels and Jesus | |
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| Jesus and Roman Historians | |
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| Jesus and Israel | |
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| Jesus and Jewish Groups | |
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| The Birth of Jesus | |
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| The Beginning of the Public Ministry of Jesus | |
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| Jesus and Women | |
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| The Teaching of Jesus: The Parables of the Kingdom | |
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| The Crucifixion | |
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| The Resurrection | |
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| Events and Meanings | |
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| The New Testament Understandings of Jesus | |
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| Messiah | |
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| Lord | |
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| Savior | |
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| Son of God | |
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| Son of Man | |
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| God | |
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| Introducing the Bible | |
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| The Bible: The Origin of the Term | |
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| The Continuity between Old and New Testaments | |
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| The Contents of the Bible | |
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| The Translation of the Bible | |
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| The Interpretation of the Bible | |
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| The Devotional Reading of the Bible: Christian Spirituality | |
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| Medieval conceptions | |
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| Protestant spirituality | |
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| Biblical themes and imagery | |
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| The Old Testament | |
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| The Shape of the Old Testament | |
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| The Contents of the Old Testament | |
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| The five books of the law | |
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| The historical books | |
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| The writings | |
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| The prophets | |
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| Major Themes of the Old Testament | |
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| The creation | |
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| Abraham: Calling and covenant | |
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| The Exodus from Egypt and giving of the law | |
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| The entry into the promised land | |
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| The establishment of the monarchy | |
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| The priesthood | |
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| Prophecy | |
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| The exile | |
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| The restoration | |
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| The New Testament | |
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| The Gospels | |
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| The period of oral tradition | |
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| Matthew | |
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| Mark | |
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| Luke | |
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| John | |
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| The synoptic problem | |
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| Acts | |
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| The Letters | |
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| The letters of Paul | |
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| The letters of Peter | |
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| The letters of John | |
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| Other letters | |
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| The Book of Revelation | |
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| The Background to Christian Belief | |
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| What is Faith? | |
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| Proofs for God's Existence? | |
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| The Sources of Christian Beliefs | |
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| The Bible | |
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| Tradition | |
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| Creeds | |
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| Reason | |
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| The "Handmaid": Dialogue Between Theology and Culture | |
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| What is Theology? | |
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| A Brief Outline of Core Christian Beliefs | |
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| God | |
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| God as father | |
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| A personal God | |
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| God as almighty | |
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| The doctrine of the Trinity | |
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| Creation | |
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| Models of creation | |
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| Implications of the doctrine of creation | |
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| Models of God as creator | |
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| Creation and natural theology | |
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| Humanity | |
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| Humanity and the "image of God" | |
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| Humanity, the fall, and sin | |
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| Jesus | |
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| Islamic approaches to the identity of Jesus | |
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| Early Christian approaches to Christology | |
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| The concept of the incarnation | |
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| Jesus as mediator | |
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| Salvation | |
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| Christ the victor: The defeat of death and sin | |
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| Christ the harrower of hell: Atonement as restoration | |
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| Christ the redeemer: Atonement as satisfaction | |
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| Christ the lover: Atonement as the enkindling of love | |
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| Grace | |
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| The Church | |
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| The unity of the church | |
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| The universality of the church | |
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| The holiness of the church | |
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| The apostolicity of the church | |
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| The Sacraments | |
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| What is a sacrament? | |
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| Baptism | |
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| The eucharist | |
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| Christianity and Other Faiths | |
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| The "commonsense" approach to other religions | |
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| The pluralist approach | |
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| The particularist approach | |
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| The inclusivist approach | |
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| The Last Things: Heaven | |
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| A Brief History of Christianity | |
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| The Early Church | |
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| Christianity and Judaism | |
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| Christianity and women | |
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| The expansion of the gospel: Paul | |
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| The expansion of the gospel: Rome | |
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| The consolidation of Christianity | |
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| Theological debates of the early Christian period | |
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| The origins of monasticism | |
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| The rise of Celtic Christianity | |
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| The Middle Ages | |
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| Instability: The church in a period of uncertainty | |
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| Christianity in the east to the fall of Constantinople | |
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| The renewal of western Christianity | |
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| The rise of scholasticism | |
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| The rise of the religious orders | |
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| The rebirth of western culture: The Renaissance | |
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| Western Christianity in the late Middle Ages | |
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| The growth in adult literacy | |
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| A surge in anti-clericalism | |
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| The rise of doctrinal pluralism | |
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| The Reformation | |
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| The Lutheran Reformation | |
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| The Calvinist Reformation | |
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| The Radical Reformation (Anabaptism) | |
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| The Catholic Reformation | |
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| The rise of Protestantism | |
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| The Reformation in England | |
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| The leading features of Protestantism | |
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| The confessionalization of faith: Protestant orthodoxy | |
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| English-language Protestantism: Puritanism | |
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| A Protestant religion of the heart: Pietism | |
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| The Great Awakening: American Protestantism | |
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| The resurgence of Roman Catholicism | |
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| The Council of Trent | |
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| The Society of Jesus | |
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| The renewal of Catholic spirituality | |
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| The Wars of Religion | |
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| The Modern Period | |
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| The rise of indifference to religion in Europe | |
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| The Enlightenment: The rise of rationalism | |
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| Christianity in the American Revolution | |
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| The great revolt against God: The origins of western atheism | |
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| Karl Marx and the consolidation of atheism | |
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| The globalization of Christianity: The age of mission | |
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| The shifting fortunes of Roman Catholicism | |
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| The First Vatican Council | |
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| The Victorian crisis of faith | |
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| The Armenian genocide of 1915 | |
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| The Russian Revolution and the state enforcement of atheism | |
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| The Nazi crisis: The failure of "Culture Protestantism" | |
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| The Second Vatican Council | |
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| Christianity: A Global View | |
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| A Regional Survey of Christianity | |
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| Africa | |
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| Southeast Asia | |
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| North America | |
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| South America | |
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| Europe | |
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| Christianity: A Survey of its Contemporary Forms | |
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| Roman Catholicism | |
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| Eastern Orthodoxy | |
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| Pentecostalism | |
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| Protestantism | |
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| Anglicans | |
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| Baptists | |
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| Lutherans | |
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| Methodists | |
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| Presbyterians and other Reformed Christians | |
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| Evangelicalism | |
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| Christianity: A Survey of its Global Concerns | |
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| The globalization of Christianity | |
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| The challenge of fundamentalism | |
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| Tensions between Christianity and Islam | |
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| The uncertain future of the Protestant denomination | |
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| The commodification of Christianity in the west | |
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| The demands for de-westernization of Christianity | |
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| The emergence of new ways of "being church" | |
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| The Life of Faith: Encountering Christianity as a Lived Reality | |
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| The Life of the Church | |
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| Christian weddings | |
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| Christian funerals | |
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| The Service of Nine Lessons and Carols | |
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| Christian worship | |
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| Prayer | |
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| Praise | |
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| Reading Scripture | |
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| Preaching | |
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| The reciting of the creeds | |
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| The sacraments | |
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| Baptism | |
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| The eucharist | |
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| The Rhythms and Seasons of the Christian Life | |
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| The Christian year | |
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| Advent | |
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| Christmas | |
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| Epiphany | |
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| Lent | |
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| Easter | |
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| Ascension | |
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| Pentecost | |
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| Trinity | |
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| The monastic day | |
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| Christian Attitudes to Culture: Some General Considerations | |
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| The Impact of Christianity on Culture | |
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| Christianity and the development of the natural sciences | |
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| Christian symbolism: The cross | |
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| Christian art | |
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| Church architecture | |
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| Stained glass | |
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| Icons | |
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| Christian music | |
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| Christianity and literature | |
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| Pilgrimage and the Christian life | |
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| A Glossary of Christian Terms | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |