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Summary: Philip Jenkins, one of America's foremost scholars of religion, argues that much of the Judeo-Christian tradition we know today was born between 250-50 BCE, during a turbulent "Crucible Era." It was during these years that Judaism grappled with Hellenizing forces, and produced new religious ideas that reflected and responded to their changing world. By the time of the fall of the Temple in 70...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 200 JENJenkins, Philip
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270.83 JENJenkins, Philip
Summary: "Perhaps nothing evokes more universal disgust than child pornography. The world of its makers and users is so abhorrent that it is rarely discussed, much less studied. Child pornographers have taken advantage of this and are successfully using the new electronic media to exchange their wares without detection or significant sanction. What are the implications of this threat for free speech and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.47 JENJenkins, Philip
Contents: Mainstreaming the sixties -- Going too far : bicentennial America -- Against the grain -- The politics of children : 1977 -- Predators -- Captive America : 1980 -- Into the Reagan era -- Evil empires -- Dark victories -- The abuse epidemic -- Wars without end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 JENJenkins, Philip
Summary: A lost history revealing that, for centuries, Christianity's center was actually in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, with significant communities extending as far as China.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.7 JENJenkins, Philip
Summary: Jesus Wars reveals how official, orthodox teaching about Jesus was the product of political maneuvers by a handful of key characters in the fifth century. Jenkins argues that were it not for these controversies, the papacy as we know it would never have come into existence and that today's church could be teaching some-thing very different about Jesus. It is only an accident of history that one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270.2 JENJenkins, Philip
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005