When debating the need for prophets, Muslim theologians frequently cited an objection from a group called the Barahima - either a prophet conveys what is in accordance with reason, so they would be superfluous, or a prophet conveys what is contrary to reason, so they would be rejected.
What this book argues for in today's twenty-first-century church was a hallmark doctrine of old school Presbyterianism of the nineteenth century: the doctrine of the spirituality of the church.
Kyrill von Alexandriens vermutlich erste Schrift, der Dialog "Über Anbetung und Verehrung in Geist und Wahrheit" bietet eine ethisch-moralische Anleitung für ein christliches Leben, die aus der Exegese ausgewählter Passagen aus dem Pentateuch hergeleitet wird.
Beyond Christian Zionism tracks the journey of a Christian pastor/theologian from his initial enthusiasm for Christian Zionism in the heady days of the early 1980s, to something approximating a volte-face as a result of hermeneutical revision and political engagement.
This volume explores the ethical and philosophical paradigms presented by most of the influential Matriarchs of the Circle of African Women Theologians.
The meditations in this collection originated from a series of questions about suffering, death, and eternal life put to the author by a friend who was dying from cancer.
Vulnerabilität als existenzielles Grunddatum menschlichen Daseins wird von Hanna Braun mit einem inklusiven Verständnis von Gottebenbildlichkeit in einer Weise zusammengedacht, dass freiheitstheoretisch und im Rahmen einer relationalen Ontologie die Rede vom vulnerablen Menschen als Ebenbild Gottes fundamentaltheologisch plausibel wird.
Often, a disconnect exists between the way pastors, children's ministry volunteers, and churches describe the health and impact of children's ministry volunteers (and the overall functioning of an ongoing children's ministry).
In The Audacity of Peace, Scot McKnight sketches a peace ethic, or a peace witness, that embraces the embodied self-denial of Jesus to the point of the cross, which through the resurrection is vindicated by God.
Thomas Goodwin has been described as 'the forgotten man of English theology' and, though known by some as a pioneer of congregationalism and a prominent member of the Westminster Assembly, the true significance and scope of his life's work has only recently been discovered.
Joy is crucial to human life and central to God’s relationship to the world, yet it is remarkably absent from contemporary theology and, increasingly, from our own lives!
This project brings readers into conversation at the intersections of gender studies and Christian theology--particularly diverse feminist and queer theologies.
