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The Oxford Companion to the Bible.
( 2205 ) The Oxford Companion to World War II.
Oxford Companion to the Bible.
* The Oxford Reader's Companion to the Brontës, Christine Alexander & Margaret Smith
Mehrgarh in Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by Brian Fagan.
According to David Leeming, writing in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, the harrowing of hell is an example of the motif of the hero's descent to the underworld, which is common in many mythologies.
In the article " Dying god " in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming notes that Christ can be seen as bringing fertility, though of a spiritual as opposed to physical kind.
In The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming notes that, in the Bible story, as in other flood myths, the flood marks a new beginning and a second chance for creation and humanity.
In the Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming lists Moses, Jesus, and King Arthur as examples of the " heroic monomyth ", calling the Christ story " a particularly complete example of the heroic monomyth ".
In The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming lists the story of Abraham and Isaac and the story of Christ's death as examples of this theme.
In The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming claims that Judeo-Christian messianic ideas have influenced twentieth-century totalitarian systems, citing Soviet Communism as an example.
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** " Dying god " The Oxford Companion to World Mythology.
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* The Oxford Reader's Companion to the Brontës, Christine Alexander & Margaret Smith
The Oxford Companion to Food.
In The Oxford Companion to Music, Percy Scholes devotes about four pages to this subject, pointing out the similarities to an early plainsong melody, although the rhythm is very distinctly that of a galliard, and he gives examples of several such dance tunes that bear a striking resemblance to " God Save the King / Queen ".
* Rignall, John, ed., ' Oxford Reader's Companion to George Eliot ', Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-19-860099-2

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Though not well known among philosophers, his philosophical work was taken up by Owen Barfield ( and through him influenced the Inklings, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis ) and Richard Tarnas.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the translation of the French term into " human creature " implies that the label " Christian " is a reminder of the humanity of the afflicted, in contrast to brute beasts.
* " The Origins of Anti-Semitism: Attitudes Toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian Antiquity " John G. Gager, Oxford Univ.
The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church.
( 1957 ) The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church mentions as the main streams of succession deriving from episcopi vagantes in the twentieth century those founded by Arnold Mathew, Joseph René Vilatte, and Leon Chechemian.
' The next year, John Brooke dedicated an English translation of Guy de Brès ' The Staff of Christian Faith to Oxford.
* Averil Cameron ( professor at King's College and Oxford ) and Stuart Hall ( historian and theologian ), in their recent translation of the Life of Constantine, point out that writers such as Burckhardt found it necessary to attack Eusebius in order to undermine the ideological legitimacy of the Habsburg empire, which based itself on the idea of Christian empire derived from Constantine, and that the most controversial letter in the Life has since been found among the papyri of Egypt.
* Cross, Frank L. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 2nd ed.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church notes that since 1925 they have recognized Anglican ordinations, that they have full communion with the Church of England since 1932 and have taken part in the ordination of Anglican bishops.
* The most important work by Paul S. Fiddes is The Creative Suffering of God ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992 ); see also his short overview " Process Theology ," in A. E. McGrath, ed., The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Modern Christian Thought ( Oxford: Blackwell, 1993 ), 472 – 76.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church indicates instead that it was in the fifteenth century ( when the Renaissance stirred up new interest in ancient Rome ) that " Pontifex Maximus " became a regular title of honour for Popes.
Livingstone, eds., The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ( Oxford: Oxford University Press ).
Terry Miethe, a Christian philosopher at Oxford University, stated, " ' Did Jesus rise from the dead?
The Christian cross | cross of the war memorial and a Menorah ( Temple ) | menorah for Hanukkah coexist in Oxford.
His last public statement was dictated to his daughter Helen in reply to receiving the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford's " sorrow and affection ": " There is no expression of Christian sympathy that I value more than that of the ancient University of Oxford, the God-fearing and God-sustaining University of Oxford.
The series was originally published between 1867 and 1873 by the Presbyterian publishing house T. & T. Clark in Edinburgh under the title Ante-Nicene Christian Library, as a response to the Oxford movement's Library of the Fathers which was perceived as too Roman Catholic.
He returned home to the United States and joined a First-Century Christian evangelical movement known as the Oxford Group ( later known as Moral Re-Armament ).

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