Preachers often think of prophetic preaching in the caricature of the prophet as the lonely outsider confronting the congregation, often angrily, with the congregation's complicity in social injustice and with a bracing call for repentance.
In God in the Labyrinth, Andrew Hollingsworth uses Umberto Eco's semiotic concept of the model encyclopedia as the basis for a new model and approach to systematic theology.
Have you ever been betrayed by friends, stabbed at work, hurt by the church, gossiped about, slandered, let down by your own body, or even crucified by those you trusted?
In this unique volume, Lampley analyzes the theology of Nat Turner's violent slave rebellion in juxtaposition with Old Testament views of prophetic violence and Jesus' politics of violence in the New Testament and in consideration of the history of Christian violence and the violence embedded in traditional Christian theology.
This book explores the parameters of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's dual existence as evangelical Christians and as children of Ham, and how the denomination relied on both the rhetoric of evangelicalism and heathenism.
Most modern literature on the rationality of religious belief is primarily written from Christian and Secular perspectives, the introduction of a reflective Muslim perspective provides a fresh and alternative perspective.
This book re-imagines the universe (and the scientific study of it) through the lens of a triune Creator, three persons of irreducible identity in a perichoretic or coinherent communion.
In dieser eindringlichen Rechenschaft über den Glauben setzt sich Tiemo Rainer Peters mit zentralen christlichen Geheimnissen wie Erlösung, Auferstehung oder Gnade auseinander.
This book is titled Comparative Studies of World Religions and covers the seven major religions, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism.
Twelve scholars from the biblical, historical, theological, and philosophical disciplines engage in a conversation on the transforming work of the Holy Spirit in the Christian life.
Grau reconsiders the relationship between "logos" and "mythos" as a precondition to opening theological hermeneutics to discourse from other cultures and genres, other modes of telling and retelling.
Das Büchlein 'Der ARS-MECUM-Nukleus - LOGOS-BOUND ---- Ein Tribut an die Liebe Gottesr'} ist quasi das Herzstück des Vademecums ARS-MECUM - Mein zuverlässiges VADEMECUM -- Auf dem Weg .
