Author: Robert C. Richardson
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: psychology, issues, biology, philosophical, life, maladapted, evolutionary, mind
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2007-11-30
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0262182602
ISBN-13: 9780262182607

Human beings, like other organisms, are the products of evolution. Like other organisms, we exhibit traits that are the product of natural selection. Our psychological capacities are evolved traits as much as are our gait and posture. This much few would dispute. Evolutionary psychology goes further than this, claiming that our psychological traits—including a wide variety of traits, from mate preference and jealousy to language and reason—can be understood as specific adaptations to ancestral Pleistocene conditions. In Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology, Robert Richardson ta

Author: Kathleen Adams
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Keywords: journal, writing, reading, creating, life, understanding, open, twenty, paths, personal, growth, door
Number of Pages: 239
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0446390380
ISBN-13: 9780446390385

A nationally known therapist provides a powerful tool for better living--a step-by-step method to personal growth, creative expression, and career enhancement through journal writing.

Authors:Peter Richardson, Stephen Westerholm, Albert I. Baum
Publisher: Canadian Corp. Studies in Religion
Keywords: christianity, judaism, nomos, post, biblical, torah, studies, over, communities, religious, roman, period, debate, law
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 1991-04-02
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 088920201X
ISBN-13: 9780889202016

The role and function of law in religious communities in the Roman period—especially in Judaism—has been a key issue among scholars in recent years. This thought-provoking work is the first full-scale attempt to write a historical assessment of the scholarly debate concerning this question, focussing on two closely related religious communities, Judaism and Christianity. By juxtaposing the two religions, a clearer understanding of the developments with respect to torah and nomos in Judaism and early Christianity emerges. This insightful work, placing emphasis on the major figures and bo

Author: Erwin Fahlbusch
Publisher: Brill Academic Publisher
Keywords: encyclopedia, christianity, brill
Number of Pages: 984
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 9004145958
ISBN-13: 9789004145955

Volume 4 of the award-winning reference work on Christianity The multiple award-winning Encyclopedia of Christianity (EC), copublished by Brill Academic Publishers and Eerdmans, is a monumental five-volume work presenting the history and current state of the Christian faith in its rich spiritual and theological diversity around the world. Volume 4 of the EC contains more than 300 articles covering the alphabetical entries P–Sh — articles on significant topics ranging from Paul, political theology, and the Qur’an to religious liberty, salvation history, and scholasticism.

Authors:Rosalind Field, Rosalind Field, Phillipa Hardman, Mic
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: christianity, teaching, research, issues, england, romance, medieval, culture
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2010-04-15
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 184384219X
ISBN-13: 9781843842194

The relationship between the Christianity of medieval culture and its most characteristic narrative, the romance, is complex and the modern reading of it is too often confused. Not only can it be difficult to negotiate the distant, sometimes alien concepts of religious cultures of past centuries in a modern, secular, multi-cultural society, but there is no straightforward Christian context of Middle English romance - or of medieval romance in general, although this volume focuses on the romances of England. Medieval audiences had apparently very different expectations and demands of their ente

Authors:Amanda Porterfield, Amanda Porterfield, Denis R. Jan
Publisher: Fortress Press
Keywords: christianity, history, people, modern
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2007-08-20
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0800634160
ISBN-13: 9780800634162

After the Reformation, Christians found themselves living amidst wars of religion, Enlightenment, and colonization. This volume explores the spread of Christianity to lands outside Europe and the Middle East, the new pluralism within Christianity, and the incredible transformation of the Americas and of Christianity in the Americas, including the advent of Evangelical, African American, and Asian Christianities. Includes 50 illustrations, maps, bibliographies, and an 8-page color gallery. In this volume, the way in which lived Christianity and its practices were altered by t

Author: Paul Freston
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: evangelical, democracy, christianity, south, global, latin, america
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-04-11
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0195174763
ISBN-13: 9780195174762

In Latin America, evangelical Protestantism poses an increasing challenge to Catholicism’s long-established religious hegemony. At the same time, the region is among the most generally democratic outside the West, despite often being labeled as ’underdeveloped.’ Scholars disagree whether Latin American Protestantism, as a fast-growing and predominantly lower-class phenomenon, will encourage a political culture that is repressive and authoritarian, or if it will have democratizing effects. Drawing from a range of sources, Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America