<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:32:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>Comparative Religion</category><category>Controversy</category><category>Audio (other)</category><category>Bible Translation</category><category>Sociology</category><category>Ministry / Leadership</category><category>Old Testament</category><category>Prophecy</category><category>Folklore / Mythology</category><category>Terrorism</category><category>Philosophy</category><category>Women</category><category>Evangelism</category><category>Judaism</category><category>Religion and Science</category><category>Kabbalah</category><category>Politics</category><category>Protestantism</category><category>Criticism</category><category>New Testament</category><category>Occultism</category><category>General</category><category>Popular Culture</category><category>Poetry</category><category>Family / Marriage</category><category>Theism</category><category>Hinduism</category><category>History</category><category>Series</category><category>Jesus</category><category>Ethics</category><category>Law</category><category>New Age</category><category>Middle East</category><category>News</category><category>Mormonism</category><category>Theology</category><category>Religion and Medicine</category><category>Islam</category><category>Agnosticism</category><category>Religious Studies</category><category>Jehovah's Witnesses</category><category>Gender / Sexuality</category><category>Salvation</category><category>Criticism / Interpretation</category><category>Intelligent Design</category><category>Arts / Architecture</category><category>Buddhism</category><category>Creationism</category><category>Mysticism</category><category>Cults</category><category>Practical Life</category><category>Medieval</category><category>Christology</category><category>Atheism</category><category>Bible Study</category><category>Gnosticism</category><category>Children</category><category>Biography</category><category>Jewish</category><category>Evolution</category><category>Christian Living</category><category>Biblical Study</category><category>Worship / Devotion</category><category>Reference</category><category>Christianity</category><category>Dead Sea Scrolls</category><category>Inspirational</category><category>Spirituality</category><category>Archaeology</category><category>Other Religions / Practices</category><category>Education</category><category>Catholicism</category><category>Orthodoxy</category><title>REVELATION</title><description>Freely you have received, freely give</description><link>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>781</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/revelation-online" /><feedburner:info uri="revelation-online" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /><meta xmlns="http://pipes.yahoo.com" name="pipes" content="noprocess" /><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Frevelation-online" src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/my/addtomyyahoo4.gif">Subscribe with My Yahoo!</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/subext.aspx?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Frevelation-online" src="http://www.newsgator.com/images/ngsub1.gif">Subscribe with NewsGator</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://feeds.my.aol.com/add.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Frevelation-online" src="http://o.aolcdn.com/favorites.my.aol.com/webmaster/ffclient/webroot/locale/en-US/images/myAOLButtonSmall.gif">Subscribe with My AOL</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://feeds.feedburner.com/revelation-online" src="http://www.bloglines.com/images/sub_modern11.gif">Subscribe with Bloglines</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.netvibes.com/subscribe.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Frevelation-online" src="http://www.netvibes.com/img/add2netvibes.gif">Subscribe with Netvibes</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://fusion.google.com/add?feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Frevelation-online" src="http://buttons.googlesyndication.com/fusion/add.gif">Subscribe with Google</feedburner:feedFlare><feedburner:feedFlare href="http://www.pageflakes.com/subscribe.aspx?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Frevelation-online" src="http://www.pageflakes.com/ImageFile.ashx?instanceId=Static_4&amp;fileName=ATP_blu_91x17.gif">Subscribe with Pageflakes</feedburner:feedFlare><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-6542345200733839012</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 07:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:50:37.474-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">New Testament</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Biblical Study</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Audio (other)</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christianity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">History</category><title>The History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon</title><atom:summary> 
Course No.: 6299 (12 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Taught by: Bart D. Ehrman
Language: English

The New Testament stands unchallenged, in the words of Professor Bart D. Ehrman, not only as the "'bestseller' of all time," but also as the most important "book—or collection of books—in the history of Western civilization."

Yet how many of us, Christian or otherwise, are as knowledgeable about the</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/PGicrzq3h2s/history-of-bible-making-of-new.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/S-OCOg61V2I/AAAAAAAAC_E/axpGPJPufis/s72-c/History%20of%20the%20Bible%20TMotNTC.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/PGicrzq3h2s" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2010/05/history-of-bible-making-of-new.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-3574564906713782106</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 07:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:40:53.392-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Arts / Architecture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">General</category><title>Religion and Film: An Introduction</title><atom:summary> 
Author: Melanie J. Wright
Publisher: Publisher (2007)
Language: English
Pages: 253
ISBN-10: 1850437599
ISBN-13: 9781850437598

Studies of religion and film have long been dominated by the question of a film's fidelity to a religious text or worldview, or its value as a tool in ministry and mission. Religion and Film seeks to redress this balance, and will have strong appeal to students as well </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/Pzqb-jytTPY/religion-and-film-introduction.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/Pzqb-jytTPY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2010/05/religion-and-film-introduction.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-5101138735459401018</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 07:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:41:43.894-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Arts / Architecture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Religious Studies</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">General</category><title>Film as Religion: Myths, Morals, and Rituals</title><atom:summary> 
Author: John C. Lyden
Publisher: Publisher (2003)
Language: English
Pages: 302
ISBN-10: 0814751814
ISBN-13: 9780814751817

Film as Religion argues that popular films perform a religious function in our culture. Like more formal religious institutions, films can provide us with ways to view the world and values to confront it. Lyden contends that approaches which interpret films only </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/zhFGt4JUvKI/film-as-religion-myths-morals-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/zhFGt4JUvKI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2010/05/film-as-religion-myths-morals-and.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-3082571218587528564</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 07:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:36:21.389-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Theology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Arts / Architecture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Popular Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christianity</category><title>Theology Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Critical Christian Thinking</title><atom:summary> 
Author: Clive Marsh
Publisher: Publisher (2008)
Language: English
Pages: 205
ISBN-10: 0203088832
ISBN-13: 9780415380119

Theology Goes to the Movies is an introduction to understanding theology through film. Clive Marsh, an experienced teacher in the field, uses a range of contemporary films including Touching the Void, Bruce Almighty, Notting Hill, 21 Grams, Legally Blonde and The Piano to </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/Ece57j85L_g/theology-goes-to-movies-introduction-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/Ece57j85L_g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2010/05/theology-goes-to-movies-introduction-to.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-2291535554572549295</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 07:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:35:15.875-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Biblical Study</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Religious Studies</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Popular Culture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Series</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christianity</category><title>Teaching the Bible through Popular Culture and the Arts</title><atom:summary> 
Series: ~
Editor(s): Mark Roncace, Patrick Gray
Publisher: Publisher (2007)
Language: English
Pages: 404
ISBN-10: 1589832442
ISBN-13: 9781589832442

This resource enables biblical studies instructors to facilitate engaging classroom experiences by drawing on the arts and popular culture. It offers brief overviews of hundreds of easily accessible examples of art, film, literature, music, and </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/0eJyPywrW68/teaching-bible-through-popular-culture.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/0eJyPywrW68" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2010/05/teaching-bible-through-popular-culture.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-964310186257024276</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 07:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:33:34.291-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Bible Study</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Series</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christianity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Education</category><title>Teaching the Bible: Practical Strategies for Classroom Instruction</title><atom:summary> 
Series: ~
Editor(s): Mark Roncace, Patrick Gray
Publisher: Publisher (2005)
Language: English
Pages: 471
ISBN-10: 1589831713
ISBN-13: 9781589831711

While books on pedagogy in a theoretical mode have proliferated in recent years, there have been few that offer practical, specific ideas for teaching particular biblical texts. To address this need, Teaching the Bible, a collection of ideas and </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/IifCDh4suo8/teaching-bible-practical-strategies-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/IifCDh4suo8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2010/05/teaching-bible-practical-strategies-for.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-3458840424949385529</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-25T23:49:01.361-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Theology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Criticism / Interpretation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Old Testament</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christian Living</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christianity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ethics</category><title>Keeping the Ten Commandments</title><atom:summary>
Author: J. I. Packer
Publisher: Publisher (2007)
Language: English
Pages: 132
ISBN-10: 1581349831
ISBN-13: 9781581349832

They’re often mistakenly considered God’s “rules”—his outdated list of do’s and don’ts that add up to a guilt-ridden, legalistic way of life. But as beloved author and Bible scholar J. I. Packer probes the purpose and true meaning of the Ten Commandments, you’ll discover that</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/qEjvL9-yLAA/keeping-ten-commandments.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>7</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/qEjvL9-yLAA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2009/02/keeping-ten-commandments.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-5613746685307751226</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:32:47.560-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Theology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Judaism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Jewish</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Law</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">History</category><title>Performing Israel's Faith: Narrative and Law in Rabbinic Theology</title><atom:summary>
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: Publisher (2005)
Language: English
Pages: 242
ISBN-10: 1932792252
ISBN-13: 9781932792256

If law alone yields legalism, then religious belief, by itself, fails to create justice. In Performing Israel's Faith, Jacob Neusner shows how Jewish Halakhah (law) and Aggadah (narrative) fit together to form a robust and coherent covenant theology—one directly concerned </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/3_haAwUtcAg/performing-israels-faith-narrative-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/3_haAwUtcAg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2009/02/performing-israels-faith-narrative-and.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-1424318624013322588</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:32:26.378-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Biography</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Series</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christianity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">History</category><title>Gregory the Great</title><atom:summary>
Series: The Early Church Fathers
Author: John Moorhead
Publisher: Publisher (2005)
Language: English
Pages: 188
ISBN-10: 0203012631
ISBN-13: 9780203012635

Gregory’s life culminated in his holding the office of pope (590–604). He is generally regarded as one of the outstanding figures in the long line of popes, and by the late ninth century had come to be known as ‘the Great’. He played a </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/0paPoygLekU/gregory-great.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/0paPoygLekU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2009/02/gregory-great.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-334390234841152838</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:31:58.969-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Mormonism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christianity</category><title>Mormonism Explained: What Latter-day Saints Teach and Practice</title><atom:summary>
Author: Andrew Jackson
Publisher: Publisher (2008)
Language: English
Pages: 212
ISBN-10: 1581349351
ISBN-13: 9781581349351

A concise, informative introduction to the origins, teaching, and practices of Mormonism today contrasted with historic Christianity. Sociologist Rodney Stark estimates that by 2080, Mormonism will have 267 million adherents. As a leading rival to biblical Christianity in </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/pkPLYzOIE_M/mormonism-explained-what-latter-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/pkPLYzOIE_M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2009/02/mormonism-explained-what-latter-day.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-149369733484014357</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:31:16.974-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Theology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Religion and Science</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Evolution</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christianity</category><title>Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist</title><atom:summary>
Author: Joan Roughgarden
Publisher: Publisher (2006)
Language: English
Pages: 172
ISBN-10: 1597260983
ISBN-13: 9781597260985

“I’m an evolutionary biologist and a Christian,” states Stanford professor Joan Roughgarden at the outset of her groundbreaking new book, Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist. From that perspective, she offers an elegant, deeply </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/fX02WhAK2CY/evolution-and-christian-faith.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/fX02WhAK2CY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2009/02/evolution-and-christian-faith.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-4059011899422614011</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:46:02.834-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Other Religions / Practices</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christianity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">History</category><title>Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire</title><atom:summary>
Editor: Iain Gardner, Samuel N. C. Lieu

Language: English
Pages: 334
ISBN-10: 0521568226
ISBN-13: 9780521568227

Founded by Mani (c. ad 216–76), a Syrian visionary of Judaeo-Christian background who lived in Persian Mesopotamia, Manichaeism spread rapidly into the Roman Empire in the third and fourth centuries ad and became one of the most persecuted heresies under Christian Roman emperors. The</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/ofxJN7NE1G4/manichaean-texts-from-roman-empire.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/ofxJN7NE1G4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2009/02/manichaean-texts-from-roman-empire.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-4043694039353117535</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:45:12.778-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Philosophy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Series</category><title>Philosophy of Religion in the 21st Century</title><atom:summary>
Series: Studies in the Philosophy of Religion
Editor: D. Z. Phillips, Timothy Tessin

Language: English
Pages: 332
ISBN-10: 033380175X
ISBN-13: 9780333801758

This book offers the rare opportunity to assess, within a single volume, the leading schools of thought in the contemporary philosophy of religion. Their exponents seek to meet objections made to their point of view and relate it to the </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/YGWoqrCDSr0/philosophy-of-religion-in-21st-century.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/YGWoqrCDSr0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2009/02/philosophy-of-religion-in-21st-century.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-6757140057507739755</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:49:17.133-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Reference</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Philosophy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Series</category><title>A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion</title><atom:summary>
Series: Concise Encyclopedias
Author: Anthony C. Thiselton
Language: English
Pages: 355
ISBN-10: 1851683011
ISBN-13: 9781851683017

With entries on everything from agnosticism to Zen Philosophy, this concise and authoritative encyclopedia from one of the world's most renowned theologians explores all the major themes in the philosophy of religion.

• 300 entries and sub-entries • Offers detailed</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/E1AQ3YlD9PU/concise-encyclopedia-of-philosophy-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/E1AQ3YlD9PU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2009/02/concise-encyclopedia-of-philosophy-of.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-3483821234806483071</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:47:24.219-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Islam</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Reference</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Series</category><title>A Concise Encyclopedia of Islam</title><atom:summary>
Series: Concise Encyclopedias
Author: Gordon Newby
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN-10: 1851682953
ISBN-13: 9781851682959

From the birth of the Prophet Muhammad to the growth of Islam in the United States, this comprehensive yet concise encyclopedia captures the full scope of the Muslim faith in an accessible and direct manner.

• Covers key people, places, rituals, texts and art • Extends </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/loG3l44rIUA/concise-encyclopedia-of-islam.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/loG3l44rIUA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2009/02/concise-encyclopedia-of-islam.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-1725516354748374811</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:54:02.424-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Reference</category><title>The Encyclopedia of World Religions, Revised Edition</title><atom:summary>
Series: Religion and Mythology
Editor: Robert S. Ellwood, Gregory D. Alles
Language: English
Pages: 531
ISBN-10: 0816061416
ISBN-13: 9780816061419

The Encyclopedia of World Religions, Revised Edition provides young adults with reliable, unbiased, and easy-to-use information on the world's religions, from ancient times to the present day. In about 600 entries—with 115 new to this edition—this </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/jXybRP1gAOk/encyclopedia-of-world-religions-revised.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/jXybRP1gAOk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2009/02/encyclopedia-of-world-religions-revised.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-2537542817694041792</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:55:24.559-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sociology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Religion and Science</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ethics</category><title>Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science</title><atom:summary>
Author: Robert L. Park
Language: English
Pages: 238
ISBN-10: 0691133557
ISBN-13: 9780691133553

From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks why people persist in superstitious convictions </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/HtnTmpNkfGY/superstition-belief-in-age-of-science.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>6</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/HtnTmpNkfGY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2008/12/superstition-belief-in-age-of-science.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-2190584111815710806</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:57:11.641-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Politics</category><title>Taking Religious Pluralism Seriously: Spiritual Politics on America's Sacred Ground</title><atom:summary>
Editor: Barbara A. McGraw, Jo Renee Formicola

Language: English
Pages: 370
ISBN-10: 1932792333
ISBN-13: 9781932792331

The clash between the religious right and the secular left undermines any serious debate about the role of religion in American public life. Such strident cultural rhetoric often ignores the positive contributions of America's many religions. By contrast, this volume celebrates</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/9inaCmAxuVM/taking-religious-pluralism-seriously.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/9inaCmAxuVM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2008/12/taking-religious-pluralism-seriously.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-8337217877972905816</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T00:59:05.575-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Judaism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Series</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christianity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">History</category><title>Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity</title><atom:summary>
Series: The Transformation of the Classical Heritage
Author: Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony
Language: English
Pages: 272
ISBN-10: 0520241916
ISBN-13: 9780520241916

This innovative study sheds new light on one of the most spectacular changes to occur in late antiquity—the rise of pilgrimage all over the Christian world—by setting the phenomenon against the wide background of the political and </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/Yo3ppiUlETM/encountering-sacred-debate-on-christian.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/Yo3ppiUlETM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2008/12/encountering-sacred-debate-on-christian.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-2631663985726479607</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T01:00:38.414-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Terrorism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Politics</category><title>The Politics of Extremism in South Asia</title><atom:summary>
Author: Deepa M. Ollapally
Language: English
Pages: 254
ISBN-10: 0521875846
ISBN-13: 9780521875844

South Asia is home to a range of extremist groups from the jihadists of Pakistan to the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka. In the popular mind, extremism and terrorism are invariably linked to ethnic and religious factors. Yet the dominant history of South Asia is notable for tolerance and co-existence, </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/o-U6EAXCEN8/politics-of-extremism-in-south-asia.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/o-U6EAXCEN8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2008/12/politics-of-extremism-in-south-asia.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-5965976886294668000</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-22T04:38:47.117-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sociology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Philosophy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ethics</category><title>The Evolution of Morality and Religion</title><atom:summary>
Author: Donald M. Broom
Publisher: Publisher (2003)
Language: English
Pages: 274
ISBN-10: 0521821924
ISBN-13: 9780521821926
Format: PDF

Accepted codes of conduct and established religions are features of human societies throughout the world. Why should this be? In this book, biologist Donald Broom argues that these aspects of human culture have evolved as a consequence of natural selection; </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/IhWmrkwkUpc/evolution-of-morality-and-religion.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/SUEb7pwAFiI/AAAAAAAACec/-TJjcOhOTLI/s72-c/tEvoMoralReli.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/IhWmrkwkUpc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2008/12/evolution-of-morality-and-religion.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-2043040666103378383</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T01:05:45.018-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ministry / Leadership</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Series</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christianity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gender / Sexuality</category><title>The Serpent and the Dove: Celibacy in Literature and Life</title><atom:summary>
Series: Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality
Author: A. W. Richard Sipe
Language: English
Pages: 290
ISBN-10: 0313347255
ISBN-13: 9780313347252
Format: PDF

Richard Sipe, himself a former monk and priest, has made a lifelong venture of determining the reality and meaning of religious celibacy. Even an adequate operational definition of religious celibacy, he says, has been avoided and denied </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/ge_d6MoZk1w/serpent-and-dove-celibacy-in-literature.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/ge_d6MoZk1w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2008/12/serpent-and-dove-celibacy-in-literature.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-2793410092561000718</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T01:07:50.746-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Series</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christianity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">History</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gender / Sexuality</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Comparative Religion</category><title>Sexual Liberation: The Scandal of Christendom</title><atom:summary>
Series: Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality
Author: Raymond J. Lawrence, Jr.
Language: English
Pages: 196
ISBN-10: 0275993736
ISBN-13: 9780275993733
Format: PDF

Sex sells, they say, but even today it is considered forbidden or sinful by many in the Western world. This book is an account of the ways in which sexual pleasure has been devalued and demonized in the West by the historical forces </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/X7uw37Ay2mA/sexual-liberation-scandal-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/X7uw37Ay2mA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2008/12/sexual-liberation-scandal-of.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-4535055223955420011</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T01:09:13.476-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Catholicism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Series</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Christianity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Ethics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gender / Sexuality</category><title>The Sexual Person: Toward a Renewed Catholic Anthropology</title><atom:summary>
Series: Moral Traditions
Author: Todd A. Salzman, Michael G. Lawler
Language: English
Pages: 355
ISBN-10: 1589012089
ISBN-13: 9781589012080
Format: PDF

Two principles capture the essence of the official Catholic position on the morality of sexuality: first, that any human genital act must occur within the framework of heterosexual marriage; second, each and every marriage act must remain open </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/SbpIDc3fnNg/sexual-person-toward-renewed-catholic.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/SbpIDc3fnNg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2008/12/sexual-person-toward-renewed-catholic.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-565582421630399634.post-4387365857661336730</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-04-13T01:10:23.155-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Medieval</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">History</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Gender / Sexuality</category><title>The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity</title><atom:summary>
Author: Stephanie Lynn Budin
Language: English
Pages: 383
ISBN-10: 0521880904
ISBN-13: 9780521880909
Format: PDF

In this study, Stephanie Lynn Budin demonstrates that sacred prostitution, the sale of a person’s body for sex in which some or all of the money earned was devoted to a deity or a temple, did not exist in the ancient world. Reconsidering the evidence from the ancient Near East, the </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/revelation-online/~3/lg59WxkUYGs/myth-of-sacred-prostitution-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Revelation)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vl1-gGEXu5o/TSd9hARaIiI/AAAAAAAAEcg/T54Gy4lvr0U/s72-c/cover_s.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/revelation-online/~4/lg59WxkUYGs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://revelation-online.blogspot.com/2008/12/myth-of-sacred-prostitution-in.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>
