Theology

This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts.

This first volume of Sermons by Jonathan Edwards on the Matthean Parables contains a previously unpublished series by Edwards on Jesus' Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, as found in Matthew 25.

In Building a Community of Interpreters Walter Dickhaut argues that the practice of reading (and, by extension, listening) is no less creative than the practice of writing (and speaking); readers and hearers, just as much as writers and speakers, are producers of meaning.

As the gospel continues to spread to the farthest corners of the world, the Christian faith encounters an array of diverse cultures, religions, philosophies, and belief systems.

Philip Kennedy, here, offers the first book that any student - with or without religious convictions - can profitably use to get quickly to grips with the essentials of the Christian religion: its history and its key thinkers, its successes and its failures.

In the early 1970s, living in inner-city St.

Over the centuries, Baptists have labored to follow Christ in faithful devotion and service.

Recinos' love for poetry dates back to being abandoned by Latino parents at age twelve to live on New York City streets.

Jane Barter Moulaison's remarkable book engages contemporary critical understandings of Jesus Christincluding postcolonial, feminist, pluralist, ecological, and socialistto argue that the core convictions of traditional Christology remain a viable, valuable, and even indispensable witness to the gospel in an imperiled world.

Martin Luther's thought continues to challenge people throughout the world in the twenty-first century.

The growing housing crisis cries out for solutions that work.

Kirchliches Handeln ist in hohem Maße kontextabhängig.

Books on the Christian life abound.

While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker, his intellectual contacts with his surrounding world are often described as related primarily to Islamic philosophy.

Friedrich Schleiermacher, einst der Kirchenvater des 19.

The question of hospitality is the most pressing question in contemporary thought: How can we host that which is utterly Other, that which resists all conceptualization, and thus disrupts the proper course of thought?

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969), the German sociologist and philosopher was one of the intellectual leaders of the post-war Frankfurt School.

Accessible, challenging, funny, and one of the best reads on how to love others in any situation.

This book offers a new theoretical perspective on the thought of the great fifteenth-century Egyptian polymath, Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d.

This book attempts a close reading of the fiction of Flannery O'Connor, story by story, with one eye on her use of the Bible, and her view of the Bible in relation to her own work.

Questions how the church and state should be related, through an examination of the relationship between divine and political authority.

In general, theological terms this study examines the interplay of early Christian understandings of history, revelation, and identity.

Consistently Pro-Life is a book about killing.

This book explores 'A Common Word Between Us and You', a high-level ongoing Christian-Muslim dialogue process.

Faith and Science in Russian Religious Thought provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between science and faith in Russian religious thought.

Thomas Aquinas believed that human actions have species, such as theft or almsgiving.

Analyzing the intersection between Sufism and philosophy, this volume is a sweeping examination of the mystical philosophy of Muhyi-l-Din Ibn al-?

Explores ''polis religion'' – a leading paradigm in current studies on ancient Greek religion – and shows ways of moving beyond it.

Designed primarily for the layperson, The Catholic Imagination is a journey through the liturgical year by way of weekly reflections on the life of the church.

Once considered inimical to ethics, Karl Barth's theology is now rightly recognized for the central role ethics plays in it.

This book situates Kierkegaard in the nineteenth-century debates which influenced him and discusses his relevance to contemporary Christian theology.

Der Band bietet eine Sammlung von Predigten über Texte aus dem Alten Testament, die der Verfasser in den Jahren 2004 bis 2015 in Hochschulgottesdiensten gehalten hat.

The Bible is a perplexing book.

In this book, Christopher D.

Thomas Ruster hat stets eine Theologie getrieben, der es um die kontingente Wirklichkeit geht: um das Lebendige und Ökonomie, um die Gesellschaft und die Kirche, um das "biblische Wirklichkeitsverständnis".

Trentaz proposes an inclusive, complex framework for understanding the creation and maintenance of risk of contracting HIV & AIDS, takes a hard look at dominant theologies and proposes a new way of approaching a theo-ethical response to the pandemic within a communal ethic of 'risk-sharing,' privileging the voices of the marginalized.

Dieses Buch untersucht den Einfluss semitischer Sprachen im vierten Evangelium.

How important is childhood in the spiritual formation of a person?

Islam is often described as abstract, ascetic, and uniquely disengaged from the human body.

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