Personalised accounts of out-of-body (OBE) and near-death (NDE) experiences are frequently interpreted as offering evidence for immortality and an afterlife.
In his latest book, Laurence Freeman shows that the basic experience of contemplation is the experience of faith and that we all need to develop this in order to become fully human.
Two major obstacles to belief in God in the twenty-first century are the idea that science is incompatible with religious faith, and the idea that the diversity of religions undermines the credibility of belief that any one religion could be truer than the others.
Personalism is understood today as the name of an important current in twentieth-century thought which, inspired by the Christian and humanistic traditions of the West, has sought to deepen our understanding of the meaning and value of human personhood.
Michael Schneider gibt Einblicke in die Geschichte und Gegenwart des Singens im Raum der Kirche – einen relevanten Bereich religiöser Praxis, der im Theologiestudium zumeist unterrepräsentiert ist.
Um geschichtspolitischen und erinnerungskulturellen Verengungen und Einseitigkeiten entgegenzuwirken, die im Rahmen des Reformationsjubiläums 2017 mit der Betonung auf Luther und Wittenberg allgegenwärtig waren, nimmt dieser Band den Prozess der Reformation in einer zeitlich und geographisch anders gelagerten Fokussierung in den Blick.
Bold, faithful, challenging this volume uncovers the social and political implications of the gospel message by looking at Anabaptist theology and practice from a female perspective.
By casting the identity of Christ as the One-Who-Is-Present, Holmes concentrates on how Christ ministers his power, truth, and love in the Spirit for the sake of the transformation of human life.
Seit der sehr erfolgreichen Aufnahme der "Sinus-Kirchenstudie" und ihrer durchaus unbequemen Ergebnisse ist die "Milieusensibilität" ein fester Begriff im kirchlichen Vokabular der Gegenwart.
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.
John Scottus Eriugena, the brilliant and controversial Irishman in the court of Charles the Bald (823-877), the grandson of Charlemagne, drew upon both the Latin and Greek patristic traditions in order to present a bold and original Christian vision.
The recent resurgence of Islam in the Middle East is a far more complex phenomenon than is often suggested by those analyses which reduce recent developments in the area to no more than an intensification of religiosity.
Die gesammelten Studien von Ernstpeter Maurer beinhalten Grundthemen und zentrale Fragestellungen sowohl der wissenschaftlichen Theologie als auch des christlichen Glaubens und Lebens und zielen auf die Förderung einer lebendigen Sprachfähigkeit des Glaubens ab.
The question of hospitality is the most pressing question in contemporary thought: How can we host that which is utterly Other, that which resists all conceptualization, and thus disrupts the proper course of thought?
A critical issue in modern Catholic theology has been the relationship between the doctrine of revelation and the church’s liturgical and sacramental practice.
Rezeptionstheorien bieten Lösungsansätze für die sogenannte "Krise des Schriftprinzips", wurden bisher aber noch nicht hinreichend auf ihre Vermittelbarkeit mit Motiven reformatorischer Schrifthermeneutik untersucht.
The twentieth century witnessed considerable debate over the question of the possibility of a "e;Christian philosophy,"e; particularly in light of the revival of Thomism initiated by the papal encyclical Aeterni Patris.
