Theology

Die Legitimität von Notstandsmaßnahmen beruht auf einem eigentümlichen Zirkelschluss: Mit ihm berechtigt sich eine Regierung zu Sonderbefugnissen, die sie damit schon besitzen müsste, um sich auf sie zu berufen.

The issue of debt and how it affects our lives is becoming more and more urgent.

Die Sammlung von Grundtexten der neueren evangelischen Theologie kommt einem verbreiteten Interesse nach Übersichtlichkeit und Konzentration auf das Wesentliche entgegen.

Die elektronischen Medien haben in den letzten Jahren bei vielen Menschen zu drastischen Veränderungen im Kommunikationsverhalten geführt.

"Martina Steinkühler lets the Bible dance," writes Fulbert Steffensky in his Introduction: a personal and gripping retelling of the most important texts of the Old and New Testament, addressing modern life and beliefs.

Ambrose of Milan (340-397) was the first Christian bishop to write a systematic account of Christian ethics, in the treatise De Officiis, variously translated as "e;on duties"e; or "e;on responsibilities.

Why do humans who seem to be exemplars of virtue also have the capacity to act in atrocious ways?

Although the doctrine and work of the Holy Spirit is no longer being ignored in theology (as was often the case in centuries past), the authority of the Spirit remains essentially undefined.

The orthodox doctrine of the incarnation affirms that Christ is both truly divine and truly human.

Der Gottesbezug steht im Zentrum des christlichen Religionsunterrichts – doch damit beginnen schon die Fragen: Wie kann man angemessen von Gott reden?

The incursion of evil has always caused people to turn to the divine, to gods or to a god, in order to reorientate their life.

Kabbalah and Ecology resets the conversation about ecology and the Abrahamic traditions.

The posthumous publication of previously unavailable academic lectures by Karl Barth allows unprecedented access to the crucial formative years between the production of his two major masterpieces, the Commentary on Romans and the Church Dogmatics.

Die Evangelische Kirche im Rheinland gehört zu den Kirchen, die als erste aufmerksam die Öffnungen des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils verfolgt und darauf geantwortet haben.

Reading Christian Theology in the Protestant Tradition offers a distinctive approach to the value of classic works through the lens of Protestantism.

Philoxenos of Mabbug (c.

Future of the Prophetic argues that in the persistence of the prophetic, the legacy of the ancient Jewish world spread beyond the boundaries of the Jewish community and took root throughout the world.

Zu den großen Denkern der Subjektivität im 19.

A critical figure in understanding doctrinal debates, Robert Jenson's work is nonetheless incredibly hard to get a handle on.

The connections between religion and violence are complex and multifaceted.

Augustine's dominant image for the human life is peregrinatio, which signifies at once a journey to the homeland (a pilgrimage) and the condition of exile from the homeland.

Examines the importance of the Nicene Faith for Christian theology, cutting across the divide between East and West and between Catholic and Evangelical, illuminating our understanding of the doctrine of the Holy Trinity.

The most influential of Augustine's works, City of God played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West.

The Platonic tradition affords extraordinary resources for thinking about the meaning and value of work.

This is a book Jean Wyatt felt compelled to write, as she has for many years wrestled with questions surrounding the love and the justice of God, his salvation and judgment through Jesus Christ, and the effect of our response (or lack of response) to that salvation.

This volume explores the ethical and philosophical paradigms presented by most of the influential Matriarchs of the Circle of African Women Theologians.

This book offers resources for re-imagining the biblical vision of water for a time quickly emerging as "e;the century of water wars.

Reveals Israel''s intense relationship with YHWH: a masochistic dance on an epic scale.

Dieser Band vereint die Forschungsbeiträge von Hans Schneider zu Martin Luther und dem Augustiner-Eremitenorden.

Over the course of a career of more than forty years, Jonathan Z.

In this brilliant culmination of his seminal Powers Trilogy, now reissued in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Walter Wink explores the problem of evil today and how it relates to the New Testament concept of principalities and powers.

This study examines how the New Testament scriptures might form and foster intellectual humility within Christian communities.

This interdisciplinary study is the result of an international and ecumenical meeting of nineteen scholars held in New York at Easter 1998: the Trinity Summit.

Immer noch gilt die Kirchenmoral als Feind des guten und schönen Lebens.

Graham Hill's pioneering classic remains the seminal work on missional ecclesiology.

Meetings sets forth the life of one of the twentieth-century's greatest spiritual philosophers in his own words.

The theology of the sacraments is one of the most contested parts in Barths theology, none more so than the doctrine of baptism.

The Second Vatican Council (Vatican II, 1962-65) was distinctly different from other councils in one significant aspect.

Friendship is an outcome of, as well as a condition for, advancing interfaith relations.

Sallie McFague offers a lucid and powerful guide to theological thinking about God and the world, individual and community, humanity and nature, reality and metaphor, the sacramental and the prophetic, and the critical issue of climate change for today’s world.

In churches today, those on the autism spectrum are often at best overlooked by neurotypical church members or at worst infantilized.