Theology

Der Begriff des erfolgreichen, aktiven oder gelingenden Alterns spielt sowohl im wissenschaftlich-gerontologischen Diskurs als auch in den gesellschaftlichen Debatten eine zentrale Rolle.

This new handbook for lay workers in the parishes offers easy access to the most important matters: How to deal with other people?

The Irrational Augustine takes the notion of St Augustine as rigid and dogmatic Father of the Church and turns it on its head.

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In the #MeToo times in which we live, there are few hard and fast rules that govern personal encounters and sexual liaisons.

Churches today face unique challenges as they seek to help young people engage with the Christian faith and youth workers, whether employed or volunteer, play a key role in supporting this process.

Saving the World and Healing the Soul treats the heroic and redemptive trials of Jason Bourne, Bruce Wayne, Bella Swan, and Katniss Everdeen.

Eschatology is the study of the last things: death, judgment, the afterlife, and the end of the world.

You're pro-life.

This Companion offers an overview of the beliefs, doctrines, and practices of the key philosophical concepts at the heart of Christian theology.

Religious Representation in Place brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the Humanities and Sciences to broaden the understanding of how religious symbols and spatial studies interact.

Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature investigates the meaning of purity, purification, defilement, and disgust for Christian writers, readers, and listeners from the first to third centuries.

This Companion views Puritanism from new angles and reveals the surprising diversity that fermented beneath its surface.

In failing to take the sacramentality of the word of God seriously, the preaching of the church has suffered negative consequences.

What are human rights?

Satan's transformation from opaque functionary to chief antagonist is one of the most striking features of the development of Jewish theology in the Second Temple Period and beyond.

Das Jahrbuch »Theologie für die Praxis« sucht den Brückenschlag zwischen akademischer Theologie und kirchlich-diakonischer Praxis.

Jesus the Everlasting Hope of Humankind: Biblical Theology Prompted by Visions and Dreams from the Holy Spirit begins with a vision that came to Don Eckhart of two persons: one a Spirit-filled Christian and the other in the lake of fire.

This work seeks to provide a critical analysis of the prophecies in the book of Isaiah that parallels the prophetic insights in the book of Revelation.

This volume addresses whether, how, and where academic research has an impact on ethical education, character formation, and the communication of values in late modern pluralistic societies.

This volume of essays explores the themes of radicalism and dissent within Protestantism.

Debate about the authorship of the manuscript known to us as De Doctrina Christiana has bedevilled Milton studies over recent years.

For the better part of two centuries, Wesley scholars have been given a picture of the family of John Wesley that focuses positively upon the relationships of John and his brother Charles and his mother Susanna.

If Basil of Caesarea receives mention in a standard course of lectures on Christian theology or history it is as the first person to write a dedicated discourse on the Holy Spirit.

This commentary interprets the first part of the book of Exodus, through 15:21.

Adrienne von Speyr was one of the most important mystical theologians of the last century, heralded by figures like John Paul II and T.

The patristic doctrine of Scripture is an understudied topic.

Beyond the Centaur questions the accuracy and usefulness of the virtually unquestioned ancient consensus that persons are composed of unequally valued, hierarchically stacked antagonistic components, usually soul or mind and body.

The Passiontide and Easter – is there a difference?

John Blakely dreams of reporting the big story, but when he finally gets the assignment to find out why people have gone missing, it hits a little too close to home.

If there is one God, why have so many religions?

In late 20th-century India, Christian-Hindu dialogue was forever transformed following the opening of Shantivanam, the first Christian ashram in the country.

The Song of Songs , with its highly sexual imagery, was very popular in seventeenth-century England in commentary and paraphrase.

In The Corner of Fourth and Nondual, a title inspired by Thomas Merton's moment of revelation 'at the corner of Fourth and Walnut' in his celebrated essay 'A Member of the Human Race', Cynthia Bourgeault--internationally renowned retreat leader, and a practitioner and teacher of centering prayer--describes the foundations of her theology: a cosmological seeing with the eye of the heart, and classic Benedictine daily rule informed and enlightened by wisdom from the Asian traditions.

In How the Spirit Became God, Kyle Hughes tells the often-neglected story of how and why the early church came to recognize that the Holy Spirit was a distinct divine person.

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James used to laugh and joke with the other third graders.

Christianity has lost control of its brand.

Taking three terms from the letters of Paul as a thematic guide, Kevin Mills investigates the respective roles of faith, hope and love in language and interpretation, and uses them to uncover and to question some of the key assumptions in deconstructive and postmodernist discourse.

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

Mary continues to be a source of theological interest and concern for Catholics and Protestants alike.

Wolfgang Greive würdigt in seinem Buch das Werk Wolfhart Pannenbergs (1928-2014) als einzigartige Denkleistung, die den christlichen Glauben in seinem Wahrheitsanspruch neu zur Geltung bringt.

Christianity Made in India: From Apostle Thomas to Mother Teresa discusses the indigenization of Christianity in the Indian context.

"Was ist der Mensch?

Radical Friendship explores the contours of communal discernment as a practice that is especially relevant to Christians seeking radical democratic alternatives to the predominance of political liberalism.