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  • The Book of Job

    A History of Interpretation and a Commentary

    This book is the product of fifty years of scholarship. It consists of two main parts: the first is an essay on the history of interpreting the book of Job in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The second part is a commentary on the book. ... Read more

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  • Ronald Reagan's Religious Beliefs

    Ronald Reagan was arguably the most religious of our presidents, able to cite chapter and verse of many passages in both the Old and New Testaments. Yet very little has been written about Ronald Reagan's religious views or the major influences that shaped them.This book explores Reagan's early religious life, and examines his views on God, atheism, the Bible, freedom, prayer, ethics, abortion, ... Read more

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  • Theodicy in the Christian Tradition

    A History

    Theodicy in the Christian Tradition: A HistoryBy: Stephen VicchioTheodicy in the Christian Tradition: A History is an examination of what is called the Problem of Evil. If God is All Good, All-Knowing, and All-Powerful, then why is there so much evil and suffering in the world? This book analyzes perspectives from Ireanaus, in the second century to two prominent thinkers in the late twentieth ... Read more

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  • Jefferson's Religion

    Thomas Jefferson's views have led many to conclude that he was an atheist, as recently as in the work of Christopher Hitchens. But the third President has also been labeled a deist, a Unitarian, and a Christian. Philosopher and theologian Stephen Vicchio takes on the challenge of analyzing Jefferson's writings in detail to see if any of these appellations is fitting. The author finds that ... Read more

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  • Abraham Lincoln’s Religion

    An Essay on One Man’s Faith

    This work is a summary and analysis of Abraham Lincoln's religion. This study begins with a description of the earliest relations Mr. Lincoln had with religion, his parents' dedication to a sect known as the "Separate Baptists." By late adolescence, Lincoln began to reject his parents' faith, and he appears to have been a religious skeptic until his marriage to Mary Todd. After his marriage, he ... Read more

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  • Job in the Ancient World

    Series Book 1 - Image of the Biblical Job: A History
    In this first of a three-volume work, Vicchio addresses the most ancient Hebrew text of Job in all its complexity, with particular emphasis on the problems of evil and suffering. But he follows this with the "reception history" of the text--how it was translated, read, and interpreted in other ancient works: the Septuagint, apocryphal books, early Christian writings, Talmud, Midrash, Dead Sea ... Read more

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  • The Legend of the Anti-Christ

    A History

    In The Legend of the Anti-Christ, Stephen Vicchio offers a concise and historical approach to the history of the idea of the Anti-Christ, including precursors to the idea, the development of the idea in the New Testament, as well as the understandings of the legend of the Anti-Christ in the history of Christianity. Vicchio also raises the question of why there is so much emphasis in the modern ... Read more

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  • Job in the Medieval World

    Series Book 2 - Image of the Biblical Job: A History
    In this second of a three-volume work, Vicchio addresses the Job traditions as interpreted in the period of the Middle Ages--in Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources. From the Vulgate to the Qur'an, from Maimonides to Calvin, Vicchio addresses the complexities of the “reception history" of intriguing work. Two appendices address how Job has been treated throughout history in literature, in drama, ... Read more

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  • Job in the Modern World

    Series Book 3 - Image of the Biblical Job: A History
    In this third of a three-volume work, the author traces the interpretation of the book of Job from the Authorized Version of the Bible (King James Version) through philosophers of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. He also covers Job in the literature of the Romantics, Blake, Melville, and Dostoyevsky. As appendices, he treats Job in Geography (Uz), Job and Zoology (Behemoth ... Read more

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  • George Washington's Religion

    The Faith of the First President

    In this book, Professor Stephen Vicchio gives a comprehensive analysis of the religious beliefs of the first president of the United States, George Washington. After discussing Washington's early religious life in the Anglican and Episcopal churches, Professor Vicchio goes on to analyze Washington's views on God, the Bible, religious toleration, ethics and virtue, prayer, and whether or not ... Read more

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  • Biblical Figures in the Islamic Faith

    "Vicchio believes that by understanding how much Muslim tradition overlaps with the biblical traditions of Judaism and Christianity, we might begin to expose a wedge of common ground on which understanding and respect might begin to be built. "Vicchio begins with a brief introduction sketching some fundamentals of Muslim history and culture, and clearing away some common misconceptions. His main ... Read more

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    The Hidden Sayings of Jesus

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