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The Good Samaritan. You've heard of him. It is one of the most well-known stories in Scripture. Or is it? If you're like Edwin Crozier, you knew this story better than most, but didn't know it at all. Edwin puts the story in modern terms, placing the reader right in the middle of Jesus's parable, shaking us out of our easy-chairs.
“Vivir en el corazón de la Iglesia, es lograr de golpe, en toda su existencia y riqueza, el designio de salvación; es compartir el ritmo de fervor y de esfuerzo, de acogida y de misión, que traduce en el tiempo y el espacio el amor de Dios. Teresa ha querido hacerse con esta fuerza de santificación de la Iglesia, en el estado naciente, tal como ardorosamente fluye del Corazón de Jesús. Ciertamente, todo bautizado, participa de esta realidad dinámica que sin cesar nos eleva hasta el Padre. Pero es un rasgo de genio espiritual de parte de Santa Teresita, haberlo vivido en plena conciencia y, sobre todo, haber descubierto el punto de inserción providencial de todas las almas, por sola...
Most people associate the term "Samaritan" exclusively with the New Testament stories about the Good Samaritan and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. Very few are aware that a small community of about 750 Samaritans still lives today in Palestine and Israel; they view themselves as the true Israelites, having resided in their birthplace for thousands of years and preserving unchanged the revelation given to Moses in the Torah. Reinhard Pummer, one of the world's foremost experts on Samaritanism, offers in this book a comprehensive introduction to the people identified as Samaritans in both biblical and nonbiblical sources. Besides analyzing the literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources, he examines the Samaritans' history, their geographical distribution, their version of the Pentateuch, their rituals and customs, and their situation today.
This volume is concerned with the origins, development and character of ritual in Islam. The focus is upon the rituals associated with the five 'pillars of Islam': the credal formula, prayer, alms, fasting and pilgrimage. Since the 19th century academic scholarship has sought to investigate Muslim rituals from the point of view of history, the study of religion, and the social sciences, and a set of the most important and influential contributions to this debate, some of them translated into English for the first time, is brought together here. Participation in the ritual life of Islam is for most Muslims the predominant expression of their adherence to the faith and of their religious identity. The Development of Islamic Ritual shows some of the ways in which this important aspect of Islam developed to maturity in the first centuries of Islamic history.
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The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
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