Theology

Understanding World Christianity: Russia is a broad examination of Christianity--especially Orthodox Christianity--in modern Russia.

Trans Formations is not a book about trans and non-binary Christians it is a book by trans and non-binary Christians.

Drawing on the controversial case of Ashley X, a girl with severe developmental disabilities who received interventionist medical treatment to limit her growth and keep her body forever smalla procedure now known as the Ashley TreatmentReconsidering Intellectual Disability explores important questions at the intersection of disability theory, Christian moral theology, and bioethics.

In this collection of essays, Tom Greggs explores the nature of the church in a world of many religions.

This book is first and foremost an explanation to the reader of what theology is: it helps the student begin to define the subject.

For more than fifty years, Lutherans and Catholics in the United States have listened to the word of God in dialogue with one another.

The past fifty years have been an enormously fruitful period in the field of philosophy of religion, and few have done more to advance its development during this time than Richard Swinburne.

What kind of life would be truly worth wanting?

Religion has influenced the development of science over the past two millennia.

The landmark World Council of Churches convergence text, The Church: Towards a Common Vision (2012), which has the potential to become this generation's Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry (1982), invites the churches to envision how their own distinctive visions of the church might have a place in the global church's imagination of the ecumenical future.

What will the final state of the redeemed look like?

This book explores the church's engagement with worship and theology as a result of the pandemic, especially as it relates to digital worship and the means of grace.

My Burden Is Light: Making Room for Jesus in Preaching invites preachers to reclaim proclaiming Jesus as the goal of preaching.

In this succinct, inviting volume, four Balkan theologians probe their contextual ways with the theology of Jurgen Moltmann, whose classic The Crucified God influenced novel theological approaches around the globe, most recently the emerging postwar Christian theology in the Balkans.

In this book, Stan Chu Ilo offers an integral theology of development and a critical social analysis of different development theories and practices in the world, especially in Africa.

Confronting Religious Violence: Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination tells the tale of Christian theocracy in the West.

We are increasingly conscious of the significance of our body language in our everyday interactions.

This book puts radical theology and political theology into an interdisciplinary conversation with sustained and serious readings of resistance.

China's Urban Christians: A Light That Cannot Be Hidden looks at how massive urbanization is redrawing not only the geographic and social landscape of China, but in the process is transforming China's growing church as well.

Stanley Hauerwas is one of the most widely read and oft-cited theologians writing today.

“The most important contribution to the sociology of religion since Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” (Commonweal).

This book explores the aporias of liberal democracy, freedom, care, and justice--with the seemingly at-odds ideas of neoliberal fascism, racism, sexism, and other forms of violence.

Discover the writings of a leader in the Radical Reformation who sparred with Martin Luther, calling for change "e;from below.

We tend to look for God in the grand and spectacular, but most of our lives are filled with ordinary moments and routines: drinking coffee, reading a book, driving to work.

Gandhi famously argued that society's moral measure was its treatment of the vulnerable.

A critical issue in modern Catholic theology has been the relationship between the doctrine of revelation and the church’s liturgical and sacramental practice.

The theological enterprise in the West finds itself in a critical moment.

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Parishes of all denominations are in decline, shrinking, closing, dying.

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The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II is a rich source of information and reflections on many aspects of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), one of the most significant religious events of the twentieth century.

This project offers an original contribution to the interpretation of the documents of the Second Vatican Council that constitute the most authoritative doctrinal teaching within the Catholic Church.

The volume presents the results of a joint research project run by the Universities of Bonn and Oxford.