Theology

"e;Ecclesiology from below,"e; as it operates in this work, is directed to history; it moves through the actual church of history to ecclesiology or to an understanding of the church both as it is and as it should be.

This book offers empirical insight into the way Muslims reacted online towards various controversial issues related to Islam.

Adolescent girls are filled with passion, excitement, joy, critique, wit, and energy, even as they face and overcome a wide variety of difficult challenges.

Dennis Jensen looks at two very important problems that have led many to reject religious belief generally and Christianity in particular: Why has God allowed the extreme suffering we find in our world?

Der Band geht exemplarisch und interdisziplinär den medial und diskursiv artikulierten Zusammenhängen zwischen Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung sowie individuell-subjektivem Bekennen in ihren frühneuzeitlichen Ausprägungen nach.

This edited collection about good practice for mental health chaplains and other related professionals looks at how spirituality is viewed across mental health fields.

After serving for more than thirty years as a parish minister, the author was hospitalized with major depression.

The ancient practice of pilgrimage has become increasingly popular in recent decades, in both traditional and new forms.

This book explores philosophical ethics in Arabo-Islamic thought.

This book presents Islam as a lived religion through observation and discussion of how Muslims from a variety of countries, traditions and views practice their religion.

Mainstream American Protestantism is suffering from an identity crisis.

How can qualitative research methods be a tool for social change?

Effective communication with the African society in the field of missions, church planting, and social development work has been and continues to be a great challenge, particularly to people from western cultural and language orientation.

The starting point for In Deep Waters: Spiritual Care for Young People in a Climate Crisis is not news: the world as we know it is shifting.

John Fletcher's theology of Pentecost is generally unknown today, and this book is the first comprehensive treatise on this subject.

John Chryssavgis explores the sacred dimension of the natural environment, and the significance of creation in the rich theological history and spiritual classics of the Orthodox Church, through the lens of its unique ascetical, liturgical and mystical experience.

The contribution of the Johannine literature to the development of Christian theology, and particularly to Christology, is uncontested, although careful distinction between the implications of its language, especially that of sonship, in a first century 'Jewish' context and in the subsequent theological controversies of the early Church has been particularly important if not always easily sustained.

The emergence of Pentecostalism in Ghana has attracted a massive following and generated institutions that have significantly impacted Christian discourse and national life.

As ecological degradation continues to threaten permanent and dramatic changes for life on our planet, the question of how we can protect our imperiled Earth has become more pressing than ever before.

Before Nature caps a set of themes first brought to the fore in Santmires previous work, most notably the classic The Travail of Nature.

In The Missional Leader, consultants Alan J.

Originally published in Italian in 1978, The Transmission of Sin is a study of the origins of the doctrine of original sin, one of the most important teachings of the Catholic Church.

Maps and Meaning is rooted in the authors’ experience as clergy and chaplains and is relevant to those looking for a fresh perspective on biblical narratives related to the role of the priest, patients, soldiers, and others who spend time “outside the camp.

David Schnasa Jacobsen draws together the strengths of two exegetical approaches to the Gospel of Mark in this volume of the Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries series.

Trends and skills for those who offer pastoral careChristian pastoral care has changed a great deal in the past few decades in response to many factors in our rapidly changing world.

The big questions of Christian theology have intersected with those of philosophy since the beginning of the church.

Pastoral theologians from Congo, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address, in this book, the issues of leadership, Ubuntu (community), gender-based violence, political violence, healing, and deliverance faced by pastors and ministers in African contexts today.

Theologie, die sich auf das Kreuz Jesu gründet, um von dort her Erkenntnis über Gott und den Menschen zu gewinnen, ist radikal und anstößig.

The love of God crosses all boundaries.

Alle Christinnen und Christen in Deutschland sind von einer Situation kirchlicher "Diaspora" ("Zerstreuung") betroffen, sei es als Mitglied einer Kirche in einer Minderheitensituation, sei es in der Situation des mehrheitskirchlichen Gegenübers, mit zahlreichen Schattierungen zwischen diesen Extremen.

ERT publishes quality articles and book reviews from around the world (both original and reprinted) from an evangelical perspective, reflecting global evangelical scholarship for the purpose of discerning the obedience of faith, and of relevance and importance to its international readership of theologians, educators, church leaders, missionaries, administrators and students.

Three far-reaching global trends--terrorism, pluralism, and globalization--have irrevocably altered how we live, think, and communicate in the twenty-first century.

This informative guide helps readers combine their love of movies with their desire to grow closer to God.

Aquinas at Prayer draws attention to important aspects of Aquinas's life and work which have been all too often overlooked or forgotten.

Nothing is more distressing to the modern person than the experience of an unsurpassable limit of the calculable.

Based on case studies, the book creates a multidisciplinary conversation on the gendered vulnerabilities resulting from extractive industries and toxic pollution, and also charts the resilience and courage of women as they resist polluting industries, fight for clean water and seek to protect the land.

What do you need to know in order to provide the best possible care for sick children of different faiths?

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the German intellectual world was challenged by a growing distrust in the rational ideals of the enlightenment, and consequently by a belief in the existence of a radical 'cultural crisis'.

John and Philosophy: A New Reading of the Fourth Gospel offers a Stoic reading of the Fourth Gospel, especially its cosmology, epistemology, and ethics.