Theology

Pastoral leadership has always been challenging, but clergy and parish leaders today face unprecedented challenges, many of which simply didn’t exist a generation ago.

In the grip of serious numerical decline, American Evangelical churches are now experiencing a missional movement.

God's invitation to join in the love feast of Holy Communion resounds at the very heart of the Christian faith and life.

From disagreement over an Islamic Center in New York to clashes between Christians and Muslims in Egypt, tension between the three Abrahamic faiths often runs high.

Throughout the Hebrew Bible, God guides and saves his people through the words of his prophets.

This book explores ''innocent blood'' and its traditions as keys to the death of Jesus in Matthew, against background of exile and return.

In a context of globalization, socioeconomic disparity, environmental concerns, mass migration, and multiplying political and social upheavals, Christians from different parts of the world are forced to ask complex questions about poverty, migration, race, gender, sexuality, and land-related conflicts.

Concisely critiquing the internal contradictions and practical limitations of the social contract theory espoused by John Locke and John Rawls, Timothy Beach-Verhey presents a covenantal theory for political life based on H.

The Sheed & Ward Anthology of Catholic Philosophy is a thorough introduction to the evolution of Catholic philosophy from Biblical times to the present day.

Challenging Bruce McCormack's paradigm of post-Kantian Barth scholarship, this book builds on the interpretative model that Sigurd Baark developed in 2018.

The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain argues that British evangelicals in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries invented new methods of spreading the gospel, as well as new forms of personal religious practice, by exploiting the era's growth of urbanization, industrialization, consumer goods, technological discoveries, and increasingly mobile populations.

A devout Catholic politician assassinated by a capricious dictator.

Drawing on a range of approaches developed by paediatric chaplaincy teams worldwide, this edited collection provides best principles, practices and skills of chaplaincy work with neonates, infants, children, young people and their families.

Now in paperback: a distinguished psychiatrist, spiritual counsellor and bestselling author shows how the dark sides of the spiritual life are a vital ingredient in deep, authentic, healthy spirituality.

This book contains eleven essays, prefaced by a general introduction, on a set of related themes: the characteristic traits and diverse functions of holy men; the fashioning of saints out of a small minority of holy men and a number of other individuals of high social status but with more dubious spiritual credentials; the literary processes involved in the construction of hagiographical texts; the role of hagiography in the creation and diffusion of cults; and the worldly interests and other purposes which were served by hagiographical texts and the cults which they propagated.

Das Zentrum für Seelsorge ist eine wichtige Schnittstelle zwischen Seelsorgepraxis, Aus- und Fortbildung und wissenschaftlich-theologisch fundierter Poimenik, die von der Evangelischen Landeskirche in Baden sowie von der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg verantwortet wird.

This book begins with the scriptural support for person-organization fit and person-job fit.

In this book, Gavin Rae analyses the foundationsof political life by undertaking a critical comparative analysis of thepolitical theologies of Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel Levinas.

Kierkegaard's Theology of Encounter provides a theoretical framework that brings the unity of Kierkegaard's 'middle period' into relief.

Die religionspädagogische Forschung hat auf die anhaltende Krise des Religionsunterrichts, die sich in stetig schrumpfenden Lerngruppen und der immer weniger vorhandenen Vertrautheit mit »Religiosität« manifestiert, keine erfolgversprechende Antwort gefunden.

Offering a detailed analysis of the structure of authority in Islamic law, this book focuses on the figure of Yahya b.

The T&T Clark Handbook of Colin Gunton is a theological companion to the study of Gunton's theology, and a resource for thinking about Gunton's importance in modern theology.

Voices of the Ritual analyzes the revival of rituals performed at female saint shrines in the Middle East.

Efforts at interpreting Joban poetry have often been divided between philological and literary critics.

The period from Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus is one of the richest in the history of Christian theology.

Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) is one of the most important thinkers in the history of western civilization.

The late Pope John Paul II frequently invoked Dignitatis Humanae as one of the foundational documents of contemporary Church social teaching.

Many philosophers believe that God has been put to rest.

Eine Geschichte des reformierten Protestantismus in Deutschland im 20.

Now available in English for the first time, Augustine's Commentary on Galatians is his only complete, formal commentary on any book of the Bible and offers unique insights into his understanding of Paul and of his own task as a biblical interpreter.

The Islamic perception of the socio-economic process is dynamic and its insistence on social justice is uncompromising.

Offers a state-of-the-art contribution by providing critical analyses of and creative insights to the nature of religious experience.

What exactly is cancer?

Dreamcare: A Theology of Youth, Spirit, and Vocation helps parents, youth workers, and congregations cultivate purpose and vocation in youth and young adults.

Spinoza is commonly perceived as the great metaphysician of coherence.

Champion of martyrs, scourge of heretics, erudite theologian, shrewd politician–no account of early Christianity is complete without careful consideration of Irenaeus of Lyons.

Für dieses neuartige Wörterbuch der griechischen Wörter in den koptischen dokumentarischen Texten wurden die entsprechenden Editionsbände zugrunde gelegt.

In recent years, events in the Islamic world have captured the attention of the West to an unprecedented degree.

Does heaven exist?

An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention.