The present volume honors Rabbi Professor Nehemia Polen, a rare scholar whose religious teachings, spiritual writings, and academic scholarship come together into a sustained project of interpretive imagination and engagement.
Dem Gott der klassischen Philosophie, der vollkommen,unveränderlich und ewig ist, steht inder christlichen Theologie die geschichtliche WirkmächtigkeitGottes in seiner Gerechtigkeit, Barmherzigkeit,Gnade, Fürsorge, Vergebung und Treuezur Seite.
Die vorliegende griechisch-deutsche Ausgabe der "Psalmen Salomos" ermöglicht einen leichten Zugang zu diesem theologisch und historisch wichtigen Dokument des palästinischen Judentums der Zeitenwende.
Occupy Religion introduces readers to the growing role of religion in the Occupy Movement and asks provocative questions about how people of faith can work for social justice.
Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, Vietnam, and the Middle East is the personal, yet profoundly political first-person account of one man's unique interracial and interfaith leadership roles over five decades in movements for civil rights, against the Vietnam War, and for Arab-Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Diese interdisziplinäre Untersuchung verbindet eine empirische Studie zu einer heutigen Kirchengemeinde, die vor 20 Jahren einen Trennungskonflikt durchlebte, und exegetische Untersuchungen zum Matthäusevangelium.
John Hall Snow was professor of pastoral theology at the Episcopal Divinity School and considered preacher-in-residence at Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for over eighteen years.
Der Band macht Lehrerinnen und Lehrer stark, in Frieden zu leben mit dem Schulalltag, mit eigenen Stärken und Schwächen und mit denen der Schülerinnen und Schüler.
Rarely do theological thinkers have the opportunity to present their own self-understanding of both their context and their methodology and the inter-relation of the two.
Between Apocalypse and Eschaton examines the systematic theology of Henri de Lubac, SJ, one of the most significant Catholic theologians of the twentieth century.
Die Emmaus-Perikope Lukas 24,13-35 gehört zu den bekanntesten neutestamentlichen Erzählungen, erfährt jedoch erst in der jüngeren theologischen Forschung eine ausführliche Bearbeitung.
In 1611 Edmond Richer, the syndic of the Faculty of Theology of Paris, published a short but incisive defence of the conciliarist doctrine under the title De ecclesiastica et politica potestate.
Belonging to Hebrew Wisdom literature, the Song of Songs offers a fresh look at love and relationships through its main female character, the Shulamite, which profoundly differs from traditional religious approaches to love and sexuality.
Der vorliegende Band geht jener Irritation der Religion nach, die stets ein elementares und konstituierendes Moment der Kultur geblieben ist, obwohl sie in der Moderne neue Formen angenommen hat.
Revealing a tension between the medical model of depression and the very different language of theology, this book explores how religious people and communities understand severe sadness, their coping mechanisms and their help-seeking behaviours.
Personalised accounts of out-of-body (OBE) and near-death (NDE) experiences are frequently interpreted as offering evidence for immortality and an afterlife.
This work focuses on divine command, and in particular the theory that what makes something obligatory is that God commands it, and what makes something wrong is that God commands us not to do it.
This book, steeped in the traditions of both postcolonial theory and Continental philosophy, addresses fundamental questions about God and theology in the postcolonial world.
Die evangelische Predigt rekurriert im Zuge ihrer bibeltextlichen Orientierung auf Inhalte, die wiederum selbst innerhalb verschiedener Kontexte und der Tradition zu lesen sind.
This study of the miracles attributed to Jesus in the Gospels begins with a survey of the sciences, because in our present cultural context, materialism is the dominant approach to and understanding of our world, of history, and of our very selves.
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.