Theology

Joy, pain, celebration, and grief are constant companions on the journey of caregiving.

Significant advances in science bring new understandings of the human as a unity of mind, body and world and calls into question the deep-seated dualistic presuppositions of modern theology.

Providing an excellent overview of the latest thinking in Maimonides studies, this book uses a novel philosophical approach to examine whether Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed contains a naturalistic doctrine of salvation after death.

As we start to name an aspect of his existence which long remained unspoken, namely his engagement and wrestling with his own identity as inhabiting a white body, interpreting and understanding Dietrich Bonhoeffer today is perhaps more complex than ever.

This undergraduate text provides an introduction to the Old Testament covering all the core topics provided on a typical level one course.

Prophecy and millennial speculation are often seen as having played a key role in early European engagements with the new world, from Columbus's use of the predictions of Joachim of Fiore, to the puritan 'Errand into the Wilderness'.

Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith PrizeSurpassing scholarly discourse surrounding the emergent secularism of the 19th century, Theology, Horror and Fiction argues that the Victorian Gothic is a genre fascinated with the immaterial.

This volume puts Barth and liberation theologies in critical and constructive conversation.

Is the Trinity biblical?

It has become standard in modern interpretation to say that Jesus performed miracles, and even mainline scholarly interpreters classify Jesus's healings and exorcisms as miracles.

Christian theology has been complicit in justifying the war on women, but it also has resources to help finally declare peace in the war on women.

It is a central tenet of Christian theology that we will be resurrected in our bodies at the last day.

The contributors to this volume examine the complex and dynamic role that Protestant majorities and minorities played in shaping the Reformations of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

A denial of the sufficiency of Scripture is at the core of almost every form of opposition to the Christian faith today.

Christianity and politics cannot and should not be divided.

Isaac of Nineveh's Ascetical Eschatology demonstrates that Isaac's eschatology is an original synthesis based on ideas garnered from a distinctively Syriac cultural milieu.

It is often claimed that we live in a secular age.

This book is an invitation to envision an experiential theology that interconnects the personal, the interpersonal, the communal, the societal, and the creational, held together by a God who is not removed from creation but who is infused in the very life of all beings and things of the created world.

An increase in secularization throughout the Western world has resulted in Christian communities finding themselves in a new context: emerging as a minority group.

Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to the Renaissance.

The Church in Act explores the dynamics of ecclesial and liturgical theology, examining the body of Christ in action.

Throughout history, Western esoteric movements have provided meaning and power for what the Rosicrucians of the early modern period called the quest for "e;Universal Reformation"e;--the utopian restructuring of religion, science, the arts, and human society.

The biblical foundations of a Christian communal movement that has stood the test of five centuries.

Of course, by writing we refer to the kinds of reflections, essays, and exams students will have to complete in the seminary classroom.

"e;[Sh]ould take a prominent place on the shelf of literature about the man who changed 20th century America.

Brett Gray traces the portrayal of Christ that emerges throughout Williams' diverse writings, including in his engagements with literature and philosophy.

What does it mean to understand the world religiously?

Gott hat sich in Jesus Christus geoffenbart!

Culture is defined as the shared values and practices found in a community.

Sensory language is commonly used to describe human encounters with the divine.

Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman?

George Lindbeck wrote one of the most often read and debated theological works of the twentieth century, The Nature of Doctrine.

Faith and Science in Russian Religious Thought provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between science and faith in Russian religious thought.

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Rabbi Sacks argues that preoccupation with self is a mistake and that ethics are concerned with the life we live together, talking with as much authority about Sigmund Freud or Karl Marx as he does about the Bible.

From its very beginning, Christian faith has been engaged with religious violence.

In his third book about the conversion to Judaism, Lawrence J.

What role does the interpretation of Scripture play in theological construction?

Miikka Ruokanen reveals the powerfully Trinitarian and participatory nature of Martin Luther's conception of divine grace in his magnum opus The Bondage of the Will.

In the century and a half since Darwin's Origin of Species, there has been an ongoing--and often vociferously argued--conversation about our species' place in creation and its relationship to a Creator.

Unravel the mystery of the most unique part of Christianity: the doctrine of the Trinity.

This book introduces Catholic doctrine through the crucible of the women mystics' reception of the gospel.