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The Meaning of Creation: Genesis and Modern Science

The Meaning of Creation: Genesis and Modern Science

M. Conrad Hyers

Focusing on the creation texts from the book of Genesis, Hyers interprets the biblical account in light of its relationship to its culture, context, and purpose.
Stability of Functional Equations in Several Variables

Stability of Functional Equations in Several Variables

D.H. Hyers

Donald H. Hyers (deceased) George Isac Themistocles M. Rassias Royal Military College of Canada National Technical University of Athens Department of Mathematics Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Zografou Campus ...
And God Created Laughter: The Bible as Divine Comedy

And God Created Laughter: The Bible as Divine Comedy

M. Conrad Hyers

Recognizing "a playful spirit" as part of our human makeup, Conrad Hyers shows how laughter and humor are integral to our serious study of the Bible.
The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith: A Celebration of ...

The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith: A Celebration of ...

Conrad Hyers

In The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith Hyers offers the first detailed study of the special significance of comic and religious themes to show that the comic tradition enriches and informs as well as entertains.
Topics in Nonlinear Analysis and Applications

Topics in Nonlinear Analysis and Applications

Donald H Hyers

This book develops methods which explore some new interconnections and interrelations between Analysis and Topology and their applications.
Topics in Nonlinear Analysis & Applications

Topics in Nonlinear Analysis & Applications

Donald H. Hyers

This book develops methods which explore some new interconnections and interrelations between Analysis and Topology and their applications.
The Chickadees: A Contemporary Fable

The Chickadees: A Contemporary Fable

M. Conrad Hyers

A modern fable about a band of chickadees whose envy of the condor and golden eagle eventually teaches them the value of self-acceptance.
The Laughing Buddha: Zen and the Comic Spirit

The Laughing Buddha: Zen and the Comic Spirit

Conrad Hyers

This book has been highly acclaimed both as an imaginative way of introducing the Zen tradition to Western readers, and as an important contribution to understanding the fullness of the Zen perspective and way of life.
The Spirituality of Comedy: Comic Heroism in a Tragic World

The Spirituality of Comedy: Comic Heroism in a Tragic World

Conrad Hyers

The approach of this book is broadly interdisciplinary, with materials and interpretations introduced from the various fields of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences as they illuminate both the tragic and comic ...
Humor in the Gospels: A Sourcebook for the Study of Humor in ...

Humor in the Gospels: A Sourcebook for the Study of Humor in ...

Terri Bednarz

Edited by Conrad Hyers. New York: Seabury, 1969. Lang, Dov B. “On the Biblical Comic.” Judaism 11, no. 3 (1962): 249–54. Manson, Thomas Walter. The Sayings of Jesus. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1979. Niebuhr, Reinhold. “Humour ...
Once-Born, Twice-Born Zen: The Soto and Rinzai Schools of Japan

Once-Born, Twice-Born Zen: The Soto and Rinzai Schools of Japan

Conrad Hyers

The portrait of Dogen is from Dogen 's Formative Years in China by Takashi James Kodera, (Boulder: Prajna Press, I980). Acknowledgement is given to a frontispiece in Dogen to sono deshi (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbun-sha. I972).
Functional Equations, Inequalities and Applications

Functional Equations, Inequalities and Applications

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[6] George Isac and Themistocles M. Rassias: “On the Hyers—Ulam stability of up -additive mappings', J. Approx. Theory 72 (2) (1993), 131–137. [7] George Isac and Themistocles M. Rassias: 'Stability of p-additive mappings: applications to ...

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