In Augustine's Leaders, Peter Iver Kaufman works from the premise that appropriations of Augustine endorsing contemporary liberal efforts to mix piety and politics are mistaken--that Augustine was skeptical about the prospects for involving Christianity in meaningful political change.
Der Band weist einen anschaulichen und leicht nachvollziehbaren Weg durch die vielfältigen methodischen und inhaltlichen Fragen, die sich bei der kompetenzorientierten Planung von Religionsunterricht stellen.
This edited volume offers an incisive exploration of the intersection between Islam and evolutionary theory - a topic that remains a focal point of vigorous academic debate and inquiry.
Holiness is the attribute most emphatically ascribed to God in Scripture, but there has been little attention devoted to characterizing and considering the entailments of divine holiness.
In this study, Jim Petty and Miles Cotham have made a thorough analysis of the biblical passages concerning the purpose of baptism, particularly as it relates to holiness and forgiveness.
This book investigates the impact of education on the formation of character, moral education and the communication of values in late modern pluralistic societies.
Diese erste umfassende Studie über das Werk Friedrich Schleiermachers in gendertheoretischer Perspektive untersucht die Entwicklung seines Denkens im Blick auf die zeitgenössische Geschlechterdebatte.
A first-ever collection of contemporary Muslim women's khutbahs (sermons) drawing on their social, religious, and spiritual experiences and framed by original reflections on an emerging Muslim feminist ethics Within the Muslim world, there is a dynamic and exciting social change afoot: a number of communities across the globe have embraced more gender-inclusive and representative ideas of religious authority.
This book, first published in 1957, is the study of 14th-century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, who founded a special science to consider history and culture, based on the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle and their Muslim followers.
Written by leading experts on both the thought of Edward Schillebeeckx and modern theology, this handbook offers the first comprehensive study of the historical, philosophical, political and theological aspects of Schillebeeckx's work.
Hier wird eine Dogmatik aufgebaut in Einzelstudien zu bestimmten Themen und Texten der Theologiegeschichte: John Henry Newman, Tertullian, Luther, Melanchthon, Origenes, Paul Gerhardt, Calvin, Augustinus, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Dante, das Dies irae usw.
The so-called extra Calvinisticum-the doctrine that the incarnate Son of God continued to exist beyond the flesh-was not invented by John Calvin or Reformed theologians.
In den derzeitigen Umbrüchen von Gemeinden und Kirchen erweisen sich kleine Gruppen als erstaunlich anpassungsfähig: Menschen bauen Netzwerke auf, starten Kleingruppen, binden sich an Hauskreise, bewirken Veränderungen in Initiativgruppen, kommunizieren in digitalen Communities.
The Victorian Archbishop of Trebizond, George Errington (1804-1886) was one of the most prominent figures of nineteenth-century English Roman Catholicism.
The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards offers a state-of-the-art summary of scholarship on Edwards by a diverse, international, and interdisciplinary group of Edwards scholars, many of whom serve as global leaders in the burgeoning world of research and writing on 'America's theologian'.
A groundbreaking new theory of religionReligion remains an important influence in the world today, yet the social sciences are still not adequately equipped to understand and explain it.
The Tactile Heart is a collection of theological essays on relating blindness and faith and developing a theology of blindness that makes a constructive contribution to the wider field of disability theology.