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The Messiah formerly known as Jesus dispatches from the intersection of Christianity and pop culture / by Breen, Tom

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Jewish messianism and the history of philosophy by Kavka, Martin

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Kabbalah and postmodernism a dialogue / by Drob, Sanford L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Postmodernism and Jewish mysticism -- Derrida and Jewish mysticism -- Tzimtzum and différance -- The shevirah and deconstruction -- A-systematic theology -- The doctrine of coincidentia oppositorum in Jewish mysticism -- The Torah of the tree of life -- Beyond the bounds of language -- Creation ex nihilo and the impossible Messiah -- Kabbalah, forms of consciousness and the structure of language.…”
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Approaching the apocalypse a short history of Christian millenarianism / by Court, John M.

Table of Contents: “…Jezreel : the trumpeter and his tower -- An Anglican Israel at the end of time : the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury -- 'Somewhere a place for us' : modern utopias -- Christian missions and the cargo cults -- Figures of the Messiah : David Koresh and the Waco siege -- 'Apocalypse now' : celebrating the millennium on or after 2000 CE.…”
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Faith-based war from 9/11 to catastrophic success in Iraq / by Herbert, T. Walter (Thomas Walter), 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Faith-based war -- Catastrophic success -- American blindspot -- Religious trauma -- America the beautiful -- Defending God's chosen -- City on a hill -- Alternative cities -- Amalek -- Limitless divine sanction -- Land of promise -- Wine of astonishment -- Rival traditions -- The fire of freedom -- The shining city as God -- Christian soldiers -- The president as mystic -- Drinking the Kool Aid -- Conquest as liberation -- Saddam as Hitler -- Unreal cities -- Avenging angel -- Saint George -- Christlike sacrifice -- The wrath of the Lamb -- Six-gun saviors -- Make-believe cowboys -- Messiahs on horseback -- Six-gun saviors in the White House -- Moral clarity and moral collapse -- Shock and awe -- Moral clarity in battle -- Dead certainty -- Shaken souls -- A theology of torture -- Advertising the dark side -- A theology of torture -- UnAmerican activities -- Coda: Hooded man.…”
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