Theology

In recent years there has been a bold revival in the field of natural theology, where natural theology can be understood as the attempt to demonstrate that God exists by way of reason, evidence, and argument without the appeal to divine revelation.

This volume provides two of Martin Luther's most significant writings on prayer.

The chief characteristic of Christian morality is its being linked to the person of Jesus Christ who is himself the universal, personal, and concrete norm of moral action.

How does a missional mindset or perspective impact the way we read Scripture?

"e;My freshman year of college was a battle,"e; writes Katie, a college student and a strong Christian.

Contents1 The Practice of Homefulness2 A Myriad of "e;Truth and Reconciliation"e; Commissions3 Bragging about the Right Stuff4 A Culture of Life and the Politics of Death5 Elisha as the Original Pentecost Guy6 The Stunning Outcome of a One-Person Search Committee7 The Non-negotiable Price of Sanity8 The Family as World-Maker

This volume provides a thorough introduction to the major classic and modern writings dealing with religious sacrifice.

One of those rare questions in philosophy that is not only technically recalcitrant but also engages the hearts and minds of the broad community is the so-called 'problem of evil': How can the existence of an absolutely perfect God be reconciled with the existence of suffering and evil?

In the present upheaval in the Islamic world, as chaos, war, and vengeance are overtaking order, security, and civil rights, Muslim radicals have been venting their frustrations among their minorities, most of whom are Christian: from ancient Chaldeans in Iraq to Orthodox denominations in Turkey; from Catholics in Indonesia and Malaysia to remote and isolated Christian communities in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Dickinson traces the development of two concepts, the messianic and the canonical, as they circulate, interweave and contest each other in the work of three prominent continental philosophers: Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben, though a strong supporting cast of Jan Assmann, Gershom Scholem, Jacob Taubes and Paul Ricoeur, among others, also play their respective roles throughout this study.

Defends a unified conception of human nature and a view of what is natural that can cover both the physical and the psychological worlds.

Questions how the church and state should be related, through an examination of the relationship between divine and political authority.

Karl Barth famously argued that all theology is sermon preparation.

The dominant contemporary model for ecclesiology (theological views of the church itself) is the ecclesiology of communion.

Explores ideas on monotheism in Buddhism, along with overlaps in Buddhist and monotheist ideas and practices.

Alexander Samely surveys the corpus of rabbinic literature, which was written in Hebrew and Aramaic about 1500 years ago and which contains the foundations of Judaism, in particular the Talmud.

This book is the second of two volumes collecting together Michael C.

In an age plagued by selfishness, materialism, and violence, ethicists feel impelled to find a universal system of values.

By the late second century, early Christian gospels had been divided into two groups by a canonical boundary that assigned normative status to four of them while consigning their competitors to the margins.

Philip Burton explores Augustine's treatment of language in his Confessions - a major work of Western philosophy and literature, with continuing intellectual importance.

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Was there a genuine theological consensus about Christ in the early Church?

This book represents a series of incursions or philosophical forays between realms of Byzantine and Russian thought and territory long claimed by Western philosophy and theology.

This book investigates the way in which the 'actualistic ontology' - i.

The meaning of 'forgiveness' and its role within restorative justice are highly contested.

After the birth of the Protestant ecumenical movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and following the first great wave of universal Christian ecumenism in the 1960s and 1970s after the Second Vatican Council, prominent theologians of nearly every ecclesial tradition charted new territory in the last decades of the twentieth century.

Als Stadtpfarrer von Wittenberg, Universitätslehrer und theologischer Schriftsteller befasste sich Johannes Bugenhagen 1525 und 1526 besonders mit den Problemen um Abendmahl und Zölibat.

In the face of ongoing religious conflicts and unending culture wars, what are we to make of liberalism's promise that it alone can arbitrate between church and state?

Alister McGrath explains how he returned to Christianity from the "e;distant country"e; of Marxism and scientific atheism and became a Christian theologian.

 This book argues that Christians have a stake in the sustainability and success of core cultural values of the West in general and America in particular.

This book explores the neglected significance of the doctrine of the Trinity for the understanding of human law.

A new edition of Gregory Dix's masterpiece, still essential reading for students and scholars and in print constantly for fifty years.

Reconstructs the idea of the creation of man in the image of God attributed in the Midrash and the Talmud.

This enlightening analysis of the image of a cruel God sustained by conservative Christianity reveals how this image formed, the psychological effects of this concept, and the ways in which it has guided religious individuals-in both positive and negative ways.

Just Generosity calls Christians to examine their priorities and their pocketbooks in the face of a scandalous tendency to overlook those among us who suffer while we live in practical opulence.

A challenging critique of narrative theologies, including the works of George Lindbeck, Robert Jenson, and Herbert McCabe.

Origen is frequently hailed as the most important Christian writer of his period (c.

In modern times, evangelical Protestants have advocated for the belief that the Bible is the only real standard of truth and true Christian praxis for the church.