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Medieval Canon Law

Medieval Canon Law

It is impossible to understand how the medieval church functioned and in turn influenced the lay world within its care without understanding canon law. This book examines its development from its beginnings to the end of the Middle Ages updating its findings in light of recent scholarly trends. This second edition has been fully revised and updated by Melodie H. Eichbauer to include additional material on the early Middle Ages; the significance of the discovery of earlier versions of Gratian’s Decretum; and the new research into law emanating from secular authorities councils episcopal acta and juridical commentary to rethink our understanding of the sources of law and canon law's place in medieval society. Separate chapters examine canon law in intellectual spaces; the canonical courts and their procedures; and using the case studies of deviation from orthodoxy and marriage canon law in the lives of people. The main body of the book concludes with the influence of canon law in Western society but has been reworked by integrating sections cut from the first edition chapters on canon law in private and public life to highlight the importance of this field of research. Throughout the work and found in the bibliography are references to current literature and resources in order to make researching in the field more accessible. The first appendix provides examples of how canonical texts are cited while the second offers biographical notes on canonists featured in the work. The end result is a second edition that is significantly rewritten and updated but retains the spirit of Brundage’s original text. Covering all aspects of medieval canon law and its influence on medieval politics society and culture this book provides students of medieval history with an accessible overview of this foundational aspect of medieval history.

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The Role of the Literary Canon in the Teaching of Literature

The Role of the Literary Canon in the Teaching of Literature

This book investigates the role of the idea of the literary canon in the teaching of literature especially in colleges and secondary schools in the United States. Before the term canon was widely used in literary studies which occurred in the second half of 20th century when the canon was first seriously viewed as politically and culturally problematic the idea that some literary texts were more worthy of being studied than others existed since the beginning of the discipline of the teaching of literature in the 1800s. The concept of the canon however extends as far back as to Ancient Greece and its meaning has evolved over time. Thus this book charts the changing meaning of the idea of the literary canon examining its influence specifically in the teaching of literature from the beginning of the field to the 21st century. To explain how the literary canon and the teaching of literature have changed over time and continue to change this book constructs a theory of canon formation based on the ideas of Michel Foucault and the assemblage theory of Manuel DeLanda illustrating that the literary canon while frequently contested is integral to the teaching of literature yet changes as the teaching of literature changes. | The Role of the Literary Canon in the Teaching of Literature

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Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D Focal Digital Camera Guides

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D Focal Digital Camera Guides

Just bought a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D and looking to combine practical know-how with inspiration? This one-stop easy-to-read guide covers all the basic functions of the camera and everything beyond. Inside you'll find detailed explanations of every control and every feature including full-color illustrations showing how changing each setting will affect your photos. But this book's greatest strength isn't its focus on the camera; it's the detailed easy-to-follow instruction it offers on using your camera to take superior photographs. The lens the subject matter the light-all these variables are covered in depth and always in the context of the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D. Written by a widely acclaimed photographer and teacher Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D shows you how to get the shots you can see in your head but have never been able to capture with a camera. . Get up and running in five minutes with the quick start guide. Master your camera's many features and controls. Profit from dozens of tips and tricks . See first-hand how different settings affect your photos. Refine and manage your photos using the Canon software. Be inspired by hundreds of gorgeous full color photographs and learn how to get the same effects in your own shots | Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS/1000D Focal Digital Camera Guides

GBP 130.00
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Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D

Focal Digital Camera Guides: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Just bought a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D and looking to combine practical know-how with inspiration? This one-stop easy-to-read guide covers all the basic functions of the camera and everything beyond. For the basics turn to the quick start guide which will get you up and running in five minutes. For an understanding of your camera's many controls and features check out the section called The Camera. If all you need is a quick explanation you'll find it. If you're looking for the Whole Story you'll find that too. Settings that affect how your pictures look are accompanied by full-color examples that show you exactly what you can expect. This section also covers the camera's menus playback features memory and power sources. The section called Software shows you how to get the most out of your camera's software. It covers tethered shooting color management RAW conversion storing your images managing your library and backup strategies - to name just a few topics. Ultimately this book's greatest strength isn't its focus on the camera or the software; it's the detailed easy-to-follow instruction it offers on using your camera to take truly superior photographs. Sections devoted to lenses subject matter and light cover these variables in depth always presenting the most effective techniques in the context of the strengths and limitations of the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D. Written by a widely acclaimed photographer and photography teacher Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D shows you how to get the shots you can see in your head but have never been able to capture with a camera. The quick start guide will have you taking great photos in five minutes. In-depth

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The Old Testament: Canon Literature and Theology Collected Essays of John Barton

The Old Testament: Canon Literature and Theology Collected Essays of John Barton

This collection of John Barton's work engages with current concern over the biblical canon in both historical and theological aspects; with literary reading of the Bible and current literary theory as it bears on biblical studies; and with the theological reading and use of the biblical text. John Barton's distinctive writing reflects a commitment to a 'liberal' approach to the Bible which places a high value on traditional biblical criticism and also seeks to show how evocative and full of insight the biblical texts are and how they can contribute to modern theological concerns. This invaluable selection of published writings by one of the leading authorities on biblical text and canon also includes new essays and editorial introductions from the author. | The Old Testament: Canon Literature and Theology Collected Essays of John Barton

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Cold Mountain Poems Text Travel and Canon Construction

Cold Mountain Poems Text Travel and Canon Construction

This book unveils the legendary life and the mystic poems of the iconic Chinese Tang poet Han-shan (known by his pen name “Cold Mountain”) and investigates the dissemination and reception of the Cold Mountain Poems (CMPs) attributed to him. Han-shan and the CMPs are amongst the most legendary literary landscapes and cultural memories in the history of world scholarly exchange. The maniac poet recluse hidden in the Cold Mountains the delicate poetic realms of Confucianism Buddhism Zen and Taoism contained in the Cold Mountain Poems and the incredible pervasiveness of its text travel and canon construction worldwide as well as the profound impact of CMPs on comparative literature world literature and Chinese studies provide the perfect lens to learn about Chinese language literature culture and society. This book is thus intended to investigate CMPs in a coherent global context. Considering the vertical studies of the Chinese literature polysystem it highlights the horizontal influence of CMPs literarily or non-literarily. Furthermore it addresses the making and developing of the Han-shan phenomenon and its implications for translation studies travel writing canon construction and literary historiography. This book is for scholars researchers and students in literary history and East Asian Studies focusing on Chinese literature and culture and those interested in the history of poetry in general. | Cold Mountain Poems Text Travel and Canon Construction

GBP 130.00
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Critical Explorations of Young Adult Literature Identifying and Critiquing the Canon

Critical Explorations of Young Adult Literature Identifying and Critiquing the Canon

Recognizing the determination of a canon as an ongoing process of discussion and debate which helps us to better understand the concept of meaningful and important literature this edited collection turns a critical spotlight on young adult literature (YAL) to explore some of the most read taught and discussed books of our time. By considering the unique criteria which might underpin the classification of a YAL canon this text raises critical questions of what it means to define canonicity and designate certain books as belonging to the YAL canon. Moving beyond ideas of what is taught or featured in textbooks the volume emphasizes the role of adolescents’ choice the influence of popular culture and above all the multiplicity of ways in which literature might be interpreted and reflected in the lives of young readers. Chapters examine an array of texts through varied critical lenses offer detailed literary analyses and divergent interpretations and consider how themes might be explored in pedagogical contexts. By articulating the ways in which teachers and young readers may have traditionally interpreted YAL this volume will extend debate on canonicity and counter dominant narratives that posit YAL texts as undeserving of canonical status. This text will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students academics professionals and libraries in the field of young adult literature fiction literacy children’s literacy and feminist studies. | Critical Explorations of Young Adult Literature Identifying and Critiquing the Canon

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Expanding the Canon Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom

Expanding the Canon Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom

Directly addressing the underrepresentation of Black composers in core music curricula Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom aims to both demonstrate why diversification is badly needed and help faculty expand their teaching with practical classroom-oriented lesson plans that focus on teaching music theory with music by Black composers. This collection of 21 chapters is loosely arranged to resemble a typical music theory curriculum with topics progressing from basic to advanced and moving from fundamentals diatonic harmony and chromatic harmony to form popular music and music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Some chapters focus on segments of the traditional music theory sequence while others consider a single style or composer. Contributors address both methods to incorporate the music of Black composers into familiar topics and ways to rethink and expand the purview of the music theory curriculum. A foreword by Philip Ewell and an introductory narrative by Teresa L. Reed describing her experiences as an African American student of music set the volume in wider context. Incorporating a wide range of examples by composers across classical jazz and popular genres this book helps bring the rich and varied body of music by Black composers into the core of music theory pedagogy and offers a vital resource for all faculty teaching music theory and analysis. | Expanding the Canon Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom

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Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Before there could be imagined remarriages of the sort Cavell documents there had to be imagined marriages of equality. Such imagined marriages were first mapped out on the Restoration stage by witty pairs such as Harriet and Dorimant Millamant and Mirabell and Alithea and Harcourt who are precursors of the central couples in films such as Bringing Up Baby His Girl Friday and The Lady Eve. In considering the Restoration comedy canon in one-on-one discourse with the Hollywood remarriage comedy canon Kraft demonstrates the indebtedness of the twentieth-century films to the Restoration dramatic texts-and the philosophical richness of both canons as they explore the nature and significance of marriage as pursuit of moral perfectionism. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars. | Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

GBP 38.99
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Film on Video A Practical Guide to Making Video Look like Film

Film on Video A Practical Guide to Making Video Look like Film

Film on Video: A Practical Guide to Making Video Look like Film is an accessible guide to making video captured on a camcorder DSLR camera smartphone action camera or cinema camera look like it was shot on motion-picture celluloid film. Chapter by chapter Jonathan Kemp introduces the reader to a key characteristic of celluloid film explains the historical and practical reasons why it exists before providing a simplified method for best replicating that characteristic on a digital camera. The book includes various practical exercises throughout that are designed to underline the takeaway principles of each chapter and features case studies on specific cameras including the Sony NX5 Camcorder Canon 5D Mk IV Canon 4000D iPhone X GoPro Hero 6 Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 4. 6K and Canon C200. Ideal for students studying film and media production and filmmaking newcomers who want to get up to speed quickly this is an indispensable guide to how the numerous settings on a digital camera can be used to create footage that more closely resembles the film ‘look’. | Film on Video A Practical Guide to Making Video Look like Film

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Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond

Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond

Approaching from bibliographical literary cultural and intercultural perspectives this book establishes the importance of Hesperides or the Muses’ Garden a largely unexplored manuscript commonplace book to early modern English literature and culture in general. Hesperides or the Muses’ Garden is a seventeenth-century manuscript commonplace book known primarily for its Shakespearean connections which extracts works by dozens of early modern English authors including Shakespeare Bacon Ben Jonson and Milton. This book sheds light on the broader significance of Hesperides that refashions our full knowledge of early modern authorship and plagiarism composition reading practice and canon formation. Following two introductory chapters are three topical chapters which respectively discuss plagiarism and early modern English writing early modern English reading practice and early modern English canon formation. The final chapter further expands the field to ancient China comparing commonplace books with Chinese leishu exploring Matteo Ricci’s cross-cultural commonplace writing and re-reading Shakespeare’s sonnets in light of Ricci’s On Friendship. The solid book will serve as a must read for scholars and students of early modern English literature manuscript study commonplace books history of the book and intercultural study. | Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond

GBP 130.00
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Resurrection Songs The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Resurrection Songs The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

This title was first published in 2001. Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-49) was a powerful poet of the English Romantic period who has been and is still strangely neglected by critics. His macabre blank verse dramatic writings and his delicately balanced lyrics have both won ardent admirers such as Browning Gosse Pound and Christopher Ricks. Yet there are formal and generic problems in Beddoes's writings which continue to marginalize him as merely an eccentric and the canon of Romanticism seems to have found no place for him. | Resurrection Songs The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

GBP 31.99
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Bertrand Russell on Modality and Logical Relevance

Bertrand Russell on Modality and Logical Relevance

First published in 1999 this volume re-examines Bertrand Russell’s views on modal logic and logical relevance arguing that Russell does in fact accommodate modality and modal logic. The author Jan Dejnožka draws together Russell’s comments and perspectives from throughout his canon in order to demonstrate a coherent view on logical modality and logical relevance. To achieve this Dejnožka explores questions including whether Russell has a possible worlds logic Rescher’s case against Russell Russell’s three levels of modality and the motives and origins of Russell’s theory of modality. | Bertrand Russell on Modality and Logical Relevance

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Speedlights & Speedlites Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed Second Edition

Speedlights & Speedlites Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed Second Edition

Canon Speedlites and Nikon Speedlights are small off-camera flashguns that can provide big results - if you know how to use them properly. Acclaimed Boston photographers Lou Jones Bob Keenan and Steve Ostrowski guide you through the technical and creative aspects of how to get the most out of these powerful tools in this indispensable guide packed full of inspirational images and comprehensive diagrams of the lighting set ups used to capture them. They are significantly more advanced lighter and considerably cheaper than a standard flashgun and have many advantages. They are small (and cheap) enough that a number can be carried in your kit and they can be used in combination triggered wirelessly. They use through-the-lens (TTL) metering which allows you to use the in-camera LCD and histograms to calculate the required power/direction rather than havng to use a light meter or trial and error. They use proprietary dedicated technology (from Canon and Nikon) that means there are no compatability issues. Getting the most out of them however remains a mystery - most photographers still just use their speedlights in the same way as a standard flash gun. This is where this book comes in. | Speedlights & Speedlites Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed Second Edition

GBP 175.00
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Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 1770–1860 Questioning Canons

Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 1770–1860 Questioning Canons

Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 1770–1860: Questioning Canons reveals how various cultural processes have influenced what has been included and what has been marginalised from canons of European music dance and theatre around the turn of the nineteenth century and the following decades. This collection of essays includes discussion of the piano repertory for young ladies in England; canonisation of the French minuet; marginalisation of the popular German dramatist Kotzebue from the dramatic canon; dance repertory and social life in Christiania (Oslo); informal cultural activities in Trondheim; repertory of Norwegian musical clocks; female itinerant performers in the Nordic sphere; preconditions dissemination and popularity of equestrian drama; marginalisation and amateur staging of a Singspiel by the renowned Danish playwright Oehlenschläger also with perspectives on the music and its composers; and the perceived relevance of Henrik Ibsen’s staged theatre repertory and early dramas. By questioning established notions about canon marginalisation and relevance within the performing arts in the period 1770–1860 this book asserts itself as an intriguing text both to the culturally interested public and to scholars and students of musicology dance research and theatre studies. | Relevance and Marginalisation in Scandinavian and European Performing Arts 1770–1860 Questioning Canons

GBP 38.99
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Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women From Marie de France to Elizabeth Vige-Le Brun

Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women From Marie de France to Elizabeth Vige-Le Brun

The present volume covers 30 Pre-Revolutionary French women providing a representative sampling of their manifold and varied contributions to intellectual and cultural history. This volume is unique in its grouping of essentially French writers from the Pre-Revolutionary period. The authors included here range from those prominent because of their social position or literary fame to those slowly becoming part of a new canon of Old Regime women writers - authors whose works were known to their contemporaries but who have slipped into near invisibility in the following centuries until their recent rediscovery and reassessment. | Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women From Marie de France to Elizabeth Vige-Le Brun

GBP 42.99
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Nineteenth-Century Interiors Volume II: Styles of Decoration and Design

Nineteenth-Century Interiors Volume II: Styles of Decoration and Design

This volume of primary source materials documents the nineteenth-century search for a representative style and the alternating fashions for interiors that demonstrated the consumerism of the period. Although in some senses every interior is unique so that a style canon may seem to be meaningless there have been important historical trends or styles that have influenced individual interiors and these have formed the groundwork from which other styles and tastes have developed and changed. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of art history. | Nineteenth-Century Interiors Volume II: Styles of Decoration and Design

GBP 110.00
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SamulNori: Korean Percussion for a Contemporary World

SamulNori: Korean Percussion for a Contemporary World

SamulNori is a percussion quartet which has given rise to a genre of the same name that is arguably Korea’s most successful ’traditional’ music of recent times. Today there are dozens of amateur and professional samulnori groups. There is a canon of samulnori pieces closely associated with the first founding quartet but played by all and many creative evolutions on the basic themes made by the rapidly growing number of virtuosic percussionists. And the genre is the focus of an abundance of workshops festivals and contests. Samulnori is taught in primary and middle schools; it is part of Korea’s national education curriculum. It has dedicated institutes and there are a number of workbooks devoted to helping wannabe ’samulnorians’. It is a familiar part of Korean performance culture at home and abroad in concerts but also in films and theatre productions. SamulNori uses four instruments: kkwaenggwari and ching small and large gongs and changgo and puk drums. These are the instruments of local percussion bands and itinerant troupes that trace back many centuries but samulnori is a recent development of these older traditions: it was first performed in February 1978. This volume explores this vibrant percussion genre charting its origins and development the formation of the canon of pieces teaching and learning strategies new evolutions and current questions relating to maintaining developing and sustaining samulnori in the future. | SamulNori: Korean Percussion for a Contemporary World

GBP 38.99
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The Inequality Reader Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race Class and Gender

The Inequality Reader Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race Class and Gender

Oriented toward the introductory student The Inequality Reader is the essential textbook for today's undergraduate courses. The editors David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi have assembled the most important classic and contemporary readings about how poverty and inequality are generated and how they might be reduced. With thirty new readings the second edition provides new materials on anti-poverty policies as well as new qualitative readings that make the scholarship more alive more accessible and more relevant. Now more than ever The Inequality Reader is the one-stop compendium of all the must-read pieces simply the best available introduction to the stratifi cation canon. | The Inequality Reader Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race Class and Gender

GBP 130.00
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Women Philosophers Genre And The Boundaries Of Philosophy

Women Philosophers Genre And The Boundaries Of Philosophy

Long considered ?non-philosophical ? the letters and novels of women like Catharine Macaulay Mary Wollstonecraft and George Eliot have often been omitted from the canon of the Western philosophical tradition. This unfortunate omission is corrected here through Catherine Villanueva Gardner's thorough discussion of the philosophical importance of their work. Gardner also looks carefully at why letters and novels have been considered this way since they are so prevalent in the work of women in general. Gardner argues that the devaluation or exclusion of certain forms of writing is connected to the biases that underpin the Western ethical tradition. This book is critical reading for courses in introductory philosophy and women's studies. | Women Philosophers Genre And The Boundaries Of Philosophy

GBP 130.00
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Magnyfycence A Moral Play

Magnyfycence A Moral Play

First published in 1906 this edition of Magnyfycence aimed to highlight the true significance of the play within both the canon of John Skelton’s work and English drama. Robert Lee Ramsay situates Magnyfycence as a morality play which functioned as a bridge between medieval miracle plays and the modern comedy. He demonstrates the text’s significance as the first example of a play by an English man of letters and our first example of a secular and literary rather than theological morality play. This edition features an extensive scholarly introduction exploring areas such as the staging versification sources and characterisation followed by the Middle-English text itself along with glosses. | Magnyfycence A Moral Play

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Writing and America

Writing and America

Writing and America surveys the writing genres that have contributed to the American notions of America . Essays from scholars from both side of the Atlantic chart the range of responses to American nationhood from colonial times to the present and include dissenting responses from communities such as native American black and feminist writers. Case studies from writers such as James Fenimore Cooper and William Carlos Williams provide a framework for discussions on topics such as colonial notions of America as the promised land the discourses of nationhood in the republic the sense of nationhood in American historiography and the formation of the American Canon. Draws upon extracts from the American Bills of Rights and the Constitution as examples of different types of writing. | Writing and America

GBP 84.99
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Critical Approaches to Teaching the High School Novel Reinterpreting Canonical Literature

Critical Approaches to Teaching the High School Novel Reinterpreting Canonical Literature

This edited collection will turn a critical spotlight on the set of texts that has constituted the high school canon of literature for decades. By employing a set of fresh vibrant critical lenses—such as youth studies and disabilities studies— that are often unfamiliar to advanced students and scholars of secondary English this book provides divergent approaches to traditional readings and pedagogical practices surrounding these familiar works. By introducing and applying these interpretive frames to the field of secondary English education this book demonstrates that there is more to say about these texts ways to productively problematize them and to reconfigure how they may be read and used in the classroom. | Critical Approaches to Teaching the High School Novel Reinterpreting Canonical Literature

GBP 38.99
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Are Christians Mormon?

Are Christians Mormon?

In the past scholars and others have asked whether Mormons are Christian. This work reverses this question by asking ‘are Christians Mormon?’. By identifying Mormon doctrines formerly considered heretical and documenting how these doctrines have recently gained increasing acceptance within mainstream Christian theologies the work presents some surprising insights. In chapters focusing on subjects such as deification the divine feminine and the reopening of the scriptural canon among others the book sets out Joseph Smith's teachings on these ideas summarizes traditional Christian views and criticisms of Joseph's positions and examines trends in contemporary Christian theology that significantly converge in Joseph's direction. Exploring the convergence of contemporary Christian theology with Mormon doctrines this book will appeal to a broad range of students and other readers exploring Christian theology and Mormonism.

GBP 42.99
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