Diakoniewissenschaft, diakonische Ethik und diakonische Theologie – so lautet die Grundthese des vorliegenden Buches – sind als Gestalt öffentlicher Theologie zu verstehen, ist doch Diakonie gleichermaßen Ort wie Akteur öffentlicher Theologie.
This book attempts a close reading of the fiction of Flannery O'Connor, story by story, with one eye on her use of the Bible, and her view of the Bible in relation to her own work.
The T&T Clark Handbook of Political Theology is a comprehensive reference resource informed by serious theological scholarship in the three Abrahamic traditions.
This book provides a view of the work of philosopher Giorgio Agamben in relation to his own most basic theological premises and the discipline of theology.
Bjorn Krondorfer, one of the leading scholars in this field, has collected 35 key texts that have shaped this field within the wider area of the study of gender, religion and culture.
The two-volume work The New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers offers a comparative study of two collections of early Christian texts: the New Testament; and the texts, from immediately after the New Testament period, which are conventionally referred to as the Apostolic Fathers.
Die Debatte über Begründung und Ausgestaltung der Menschenrechte zeigt, dass das Ringen um Freiheit entscheidend mit dem Verständnis der menschlichen Person zusammenhängt.
A compelling book that casts the Qur'anic encounter with Jews in an entirely new lightIn this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted in the Qur'an and later Islamic literature, providing needed context to those passages critical of Jews that are most often invoked to divide Muslims and Jews or to promote Islamophobia.
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.
Black Suffering articulates suffering as an everyday reality of Black life and names suffering''s many manifestations, both in history and in the present moment.
Natural theology is a philosophical site that is hotly debated and controversial—it is claimed by Roman Catholics, Protestants, and Evangelicals as a crucial vantage point for the intersection of theology, philosophy, science, and politics.
Much post-Holocaust Jewish thought published in North America has assumed that the Holocaust shattered traditional religious categories that had been used by Jews to account for historical catastrophes.
Mit seiner umfassenden und materialreichen Untersuchung leistet der Autor einen gewichtigen Beitrag zur Erforschung der theologischen Aufklärung in Deutschland, insbesondere der Neologie.
Diese erstmalige deutsche Ausgabe der Korrespondenz Mühlenbergs ist von grundlegender Bedeutung nicht nur für die Kirchengeschichte der USA, sondern auch für die frühe Geschichte dieses Landes.
Uniquely authoritative and wide-ranging in its scope, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is the indispensable reference work on all aspects of the Christian Church.
For close to two thousand years, Christian theology has been captivated by a sacrificial rendering of the Gospel that renders God as retributive, arbitrary, and Janus-faced.
The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters.
In an often violent and dangerous world military defense systems exercise a major role in the ways societies and nations function, develop their aspirations, protect themselves, promote their identities and shape their destinies.
Philosophy and the advances in cosmology, neurology, molecular biology, and the social sciences have made the convincing and converging arguments for God's existence more probable than ever in history.
