Adherents of the Abrahamic religions have traditionally held that God is morally perfect and unconditionally deserving of devotion, obedience, love, and worship. The Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scriptures tell us that God is compassionate, merciful, and just. As is well-known…
Isis on the Nile: Egyptian gods in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt : pr…
by Bricault, Laurent, Malaise, Michel, Colloque international sur les études isiaques, Liège, Colloque international sur les études isiaques, International Conference of Isis Studies
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The diffusion of the cults of Isis is recently again intensively studied. Research on this fascinating phenomenon has traditionally been characterised by its focus on L'egypte hors d'egypte, while developments in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt itself were often seen as belonging to…
The diffusion of the cults of Isis is recently again intensively studied. Research on this fascinating phenomenon has traditionally been characterised by its focus on L'egypte hors d'egypte, while developments in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt itself were often seen as belonging to…
A group of philosophers and theologians reflect upon their religious attitudes, detailing their various religious and spiritual sympathies, their secularism and agnosticism. -- Back cover.
Public interest in religious debate in the UK and USA has recently been fed by a series of books of popular polemic against theism, religion and the discipline of theology itself. A small industry has grown up around these works- Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens- which have complained…
