In this fully revised and updated second edition of his accessible account of systematic Christology, Gerald O'Collins continues to challenge the contemporary publishing trend for sensationalist books on Jesus that are supported neither by the New Testament witness nor by mainline Christian beliefs.
Die Trennung von Staat und Kirche in der Weimarer Reichsverfassung 1919 eröffnete den deutschen evangelischen Landeskirchen erstmalig die Möglichkeit, sich eigenverantwortlich in der Gesellschaft und gegenüber der staatlichen Politik zu positionieren.
Um ein neues Kapitel in der Forschungsgeschichte zu Musik und Religion aufschlagen zu können, sollte wohl auf überholte Unterscheidungen (etwa von sakraler und profaner Musik) oder auf vereinfachende Gegenüberstellungen (etwa von wertvoll-ernster, geistreicher Musik und minderwertig-heiterer, niveaulos-trivialer Musik) verzichtet werden: Die in vorliegendem Band gesammelten Beiträge orientieren sich folgerichtig an einem reichen Bündel geschichtsträchtiger und alltagsrelevanter Kulturphänomene, die sensibel wahrgenommen, sorgfältig reflektiert – und diskursiv erschlossen werden wollen.
Being Christian in the Twenty-first Century was written to help struggling and doubting Christians develop an understanding of Christianity that avoids literalism, creeds, and doctrines--all factors which seem to be driving people away from the church.
Journey to the Manger explores the New Testament’s various accounts of the birth of Jesus: their origins in Old Testament prophecies, the genealogies, the angelic announcements, the journeys and arrivals, and the aftermath of Jesus’ birth for the powerful and the poor alike.
Theologians in Their Own Words is a volume of 23 brief, straight-forward autobiographical statements from many of the most important theologians and scholars of religion of recent decades.
This book invites its readers to an exploration of some of the greatest theologians in Christian history through the lens of disability theology in order to understand how the Christian Church is intended to deal with the ever-evolving concept and reality that is the disabled human experience.
Die Serbische Orthodoxe Kirche, ihre jüngste Entwicklung und die Herausforderungen durch den fortschreitenden gesellschaftlichen Wandel sind in den letzten Jahren im deutschsprachigen Raum etwas aus dem Blick geraten.
The Philokalia (literally "e;love of the beautiful or good"e;) is, after the Bible, the most influential source of spiritual tradition within the Orthodox Church.
An Emancipatory Pedagogy of Jesus: Toward a Decolonizing Epistemology of Education and Theology is an in-depth analysis on the emancipatory power of love exhibited and exemplified in the life, pedagogy, and praxis of Jesus Christ.
These essays emerge from different crucial and complex conflicts: from the memory of a bishop, Bartolome de las Casas, urging the pope of his time to cleanse the church of complicity with violence, oppression, and slavery; from the lament and defiance of so many Middle Eastern women, victims of male domination and too many wars; from the voices bursting out from the colonial margins that dare to question and transgress the norms and laws imposed by colonizers and conquerors; from the emerging and diverse theological disruptions of traditional orthodoxies and rigid dogmatisms; from the denial of human rights to immigrant communities, living in the shadows of opulent societies; from the use of the sacred Hebrew Scriptures to displace and dispossess the indigenous peoples of Palestine.
Winner of the 2023 ANZATS Award for the Best Monograph by an Established ScholarApplying a re-envisioned, ecological, feminist hermeneutics, this book builds on two important responses to twentieth- and twenty-first-century situations of ecological trauma, especially the complex contexts of climate change and cross-species relations: first, ecological feminism; second, ecological hermeneutics in the Earth Bible tradition.
Toward the end of his career, Karl Barth made the provocative statement that perhaps what Schleiermacher was up to was a theology of the third article and that he anticipated in the future that a true third-article theology would appear.
In kritisch-konstruktiver Perspektive rekonstruiert Leppek das komplexe Wahrheitsverständnis des Münchner Systematikers Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928-2014).
"Inklusion" bildet die Botschaft der bedingungslosen Liebe Gottes zu allen Menschen so trefflich ab, dass man geradezu von einer theologischen Grundkategorie sprechen kann.
Cawdron's book explores the applications of cosmopsychism, the idea that the universe is conscious, to contemporary discussions of original sin in Christian analytic theology.