Theology

Churches large and small across the world and in every denomination have rising numbers of single people on their leadership staff.

Die Bestattungskultur hat sich unverkennbar pluralisiert.

Seit öffentliche Rede im Zuge ihrer Konzentration auf mediale Übertragung und Reproduktion allein der sogenannten Medienkompetenz zugerechnet wird, ist ein hoher Formatierungsdruck zu beobachten.

Reinhold Niebuhr remains at the center of a national conversation about Americas role in the world, and commentators with divergent political and religious positions look to his 1952 work, The Irony of American History, in support of their views.

Theological conversations about violence have typically framed the discussion in terms of victim and perpetrator.

Offering not only state-of-the-art introductions from Biblical, historical, and constructive theologians, this volume also fosters an inter-disciplinary and cross-confessional conversation, reclaiming the idea of election as a central notion for any retelling of the biblical narrative.

Nach der Ortsbestimmung philosophischer Theologie und der Diskussion der Metaphysikkritik durch fideistische Theologie und Atheismus in den ersten beiden Bänden, geht es nun um Wegbahnungen zum Aufweis des Anwesens Gottes aus ursprünglicher Erfahrung und damit um die Methodologie und Logik des Faches.

Menschliches Leben bedarf der Stellvertretung.

Seit Beginn dieses Jahrhunderts hat die Rede von der 'Kommunikation des Evangeliums' viel Beachtung gefunden in den Subdisziplinen der Praktischen Theologie, aber auch in deren Grundlegung, zuletzt in Christian Grethleins Entwurf aus dem Jahr 2012.

Christmas season is a time to reflect on the life-altering, universe-shaking event that took place approximately 2000 years ago in a small village in Palestine.

The modern and contemporary legacy of Luther's theology is a vital topic of continuing investigation, assessment, and construction.

This book is aimed at those Christians who have begun to question the conventional understandings of Jesus, and Christianity, and even of what we mean by "e;God,"e; and have become discomforted by the dissonance between their own thinking and the church's stance.

The Spirit and the Church celebrates the life and legacy of Peter Damian Fehlner, OFM Conv.

Chapters 60-62 of the book of Isaiah are considered to be key texts for explaining the origins of the third section of the book in Isaiah 56-66.

Concerned to think intentionally about liturgy in Baptist life and thought, this book aims to address the practices of Christian worship in a theological light, examining how each brings individual Christian believers and communities of faith to a greater understanding and embodiment of the gospel.

Henry VIII and the Anabaptists describes a bloody chapter in the reign of the infamous Tudor king.

Why are 80 percent of our congregations stagnant or dying?

What role does, could or should theology play in current discussions about our political realities?

This is a book Jean Wyatt felt compelled to write, as she has for many years wrestled with questions surrounding the love and the justice of God, his salvation and judgment through Jesus Christ, and the effect of our response (or lack of response) to that salvation.

Recent years have seen a paradigm shift in Christian self-understanding.

This book is a multichapter introduction to spiritual formation within the Christian tradition.

What does it mean to be compassionate?

The content of the gospel never changes; however, communicating it constantly fluctuates.

The Wendell Cocktail describes a major social problem, exemplified by the journals of a person with coexisting conditions--mental illness and addiction.

"Nun sag!

When I was seven years old the nun teaching my Catechism class told us that Mary immaculately conceived Jesus.

Dantes Divina Commedia stellt den Weg des Menschen zu Gott in dichterischer Form dar.

Bernhard Rothmann brachte die reformatorische Lehre in den 1530er Jahren nach Münster.

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Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the twentieth century's most prominent atheists.

For over forty years Stanley Hauerwas has been writing theology that matters.

This book is a comparative study of miracles in the major world religions and explores the value of miracles in religious belief.

The first two chapters discuss the religious practices of the Hasmoneans.

Colección de diez ensayos cuyo propósito es entablar un diálogo fecundo y temáticamente variado entre la teología de la liberación y otros discursos filosóficos y teológicos contemporáneos.

This volume presents a collection of essays by leading experts which examine nineteenth century ideas about Christian theology, art, architecture, restoration, and curatorial practice.

Jesus rose from the dead, and that makes a difference in our lives here and now.

Insights from Reading the Bible with the Poor provides a spirited introduction to methodologies and strategies for reading the Bible "e;from below"e;--from the back of what used to be church sanctuaries, from basements, from sidewalks.

Every age needs to examine and propose its ways of living ethically.

Theology is the study of the nature of God and of religious belief.

An ambitious history of how medieval writers came to terms with paganismFrom the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "e;Problem of Paganism,"e; which this book identifies and examines for the first time.

This volume examines the Bible''s role in the modern world, with a focus on its dissemination throughout the Americas, Africa, and Asia.

Like many young Christians, Kevin Brown had what he believed to be a strong faith, one that provided answers to all the questions he had and might encounter.

Thomas Merton is one of the most important spiritual voices of the last century.