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Christian Understandings of Evil : The Historical Trajectory /

In this exciting volume, Charlene Burns offers a brief but thorough tour through more than two millennia of thought on the nature of evil. Starting with the contexts of the Hebrew Bible and moving forward, Burns outlines the many ways that Christian thought has attempted to deal with the reality of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burns, Charlene Embrey, 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Christian understandings.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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