Theology

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.

In diesem Band stellen Physiker, Biologen, Historiker, Philosophen und Theologen ihren Gegenstandsbereich vor und benennen die dort anzutreffende Wirklichkeitsschichtung zwischen (gegebenen) Phänomenen, (allgemeinen) Theorien und (konstruierten)Deutungen.

In A Faith Not Worth Fighting For, editors Justin Bronson Barringer and Tripp York have assembled a number of essays by pastors, activists, and scholars in order to address the common questions and objections leveled against the Christian practice of nonviolence.

Die Union zwischen Lutheranern und Reformierten am Anfang des 19.

A detailed study of one theological concept (divine mediation) that was central to the Christological controversy of the early fourth century.

Provides an accessible account of the variety and subtlety of Greek and Roman philosophy of death, from Homer to Marcus Aurelius.

Henry VIII and the Anabaptists describes a bloody chapter in the reign of the infamous Tudor king.

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Before Utopia demonstrates that Thomas More's Utopia (1516) is not, as is widely accepted, a rhetorical play of spirit but is instead built from a particular philosophy.

Despite prolific feminist voices in Christian ethics, transnational perspectives are still underdeveloped.

Interrogating Barth's discipleship-shaped vision of sanctification, this book investigates both Lutheran and Calvinian source material to develop an account that differs markedly from other Lutheran and Calvinist perspectives.

The first in-depth psychoanalytic study of the Old and New Testaments, Beyond Yahweh and Jesus centers on God's role in enabling humans to cope with death and the anxieties it evokes.

The election of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth president of the United States was a watershed moment in American history.

The Oxford Handbook of Russian Religious Thought is an authoritative new reference and interpretive volume detailing the origins, development, and influence of one of the richest aspects of Russian cultural and intellectual life - its religious ideas.

This monograph details the life and ideas of Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari, the leading representative of secular Islam among the Iranian clergy and a pioneer of the Post-Islamist Movements in Iran.

Christianity struggles to show how living on Earth matters for living with God.

Viele evangelische Gottesdienstordnungen kennen ein Sündenbekenntnis, das im Wechsel mit der Gemeinde gesprochen und oft durch einen Vergebungszuspruch abgeschlossen wird.

Die katholische Kirche lehnt Gender als eine Ideologie ab, weil hier das Geschlecht radikal losgelöst von biologischen Vorgaben begriffen und auf diese Weise zur frei wählbaren Konstruktion werde.

Towards the end of the 19th century, Yiddish, the mother tongue of the majority of Jews in Eastern Europe, ceased to be a mere "jargon" and became a full-fledged language of high culture and source of identity politics.

Purity Texts is a handbook that gathers the data of the Dead Sea Scrolls on ritual purity and analyzes it systematically as part of a coherent ideology.

What happens when a five-century tradition of Christian pacifism no longer needs Jesus to support nonviolence?

Theology and disability have not always had an easy relationship.

Richard Hooker's Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity has long been acknowledged as an influential philosophical, theological and literary text.

Weit verbreitet ist die Rede von einem "christlich-jüdischen Dialog".

A Visible Witness presents a fresh, innovative perspective on a vital movement in twentieth-century theology.

Es wundert sehr, wie gering der Bezug auf das Reich Gottes in der aktuellen Sakramentenpastoral und der Sakramententheologie insgesamt ist.

Lesslie Newbigin was arguably the greatest missionary thinker of the twentieth century.

There are still big theological discoveries to be found when digging into Scripture.

Rabbi Sacks Book Prize Finalist 2024.

Die Kurfürsten Friedrich der Weise (1463–1525) und Johann der Beständige (1468–1532) waren Schlüsselgestalten der frühen Reformationsgeschichte.

PrädikantInnen und LektorInnen finden in diesem Band fertige Lesepredigten zu wichtigen Themen und besonderen Anlässen – eine echte Alternative für die, die nicht (immer) der Perikopenordnung folgen wollen.

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Mit seinem Urteil vom Mai 2012 hat das Landgericht Köln eine öffentliche Diskussion über die rituelle Beschneidung von Jungen ausgelöst, die immer noch unabgeschlossen und zugleich schwer zu überblicken ist.

This volume examines the use of the image of the Jewish temple in the writings of the Anglo-Saxon theologian and historian, Bede (d.

A fresh examination of the history of early Christian doctrine, by one of the world's leading authorities, which sets its development in the political and cultural context of the Roman Empire.

Have you ever thought about how self-consciousness (self-awareness) originated in the universe?

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

In Speaking of Sin, Barbara Brown Taylor brings her fresh perspective to words that often cause us discomfort and have widely fallen into neglect: sin, damnation, repentance, penance, and salvation.

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