Theology

A lo largo de los siglos, todas las civilizaciones han utilizado el concepto de alma para explorar el significado de la conciencia, la espiritualidad, la vida después de la muerte y, en general, la relación del hombre con Dios y sus semejantes.

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Put together as a companion volume to his earlier volume, Word and Church, in this book John Webster begins to give voice to a reordered conception of the substance of Christian teaching, at the heart of which lies a discovery of the content and consequences of Christian teaching about God's perfection.

James Pereiro provides a new key for a fuller and proper understanding of the Oxford Movement.

Most ideas of sacrifice, even specifically Christian ideas, as we saw in the Reformation controversies, have something to do with deprivation or destruction.

What has been lost, what has been gained, in replacing sexual orthodoxy with the 'heresies' of postmodern sexualities?

Wolfhart Pannenberg is one of the most important theologians of the second half of the twentieth century.

This volume deploys theology in a reconstructive approach to contemporary literary criticism, to validate and exemplify theological readings of literary texts as a creative exercise.

The present volume aims at a clarification and a discussion of the church in the 16th century: What did the reformers think about the essence and origin of the holy, apostolic and Catholic church?

MLK and the Practice of SpiritualityThe scholarship on Martin Luther King Jr.

Flannery O'Connor and Stylistic Asceticism explores the impact style has not only on a story's meaning, but on the reading experience.

"e;The papers and responses in this volume were delivered, fittingly, on All Saints Day, 2013, as part of a day-long event to celebrate the career of Stanley Hauerwas, upon the occasion of his retirement from the faculty of Duke Divinity School.

The Passiontide and Easter – is there a difference?

Ryan J.

Das gespaltene Verhältnis der katholischen Kirche zur Aufklärung und zur Moderne belastet die Theologie bis heute.

Martin Luther war ein begnadeter Texter, Sänger und Liedermacher.

The transition between the reality of war and a hope for peace has accompanied the Jewish people since biblical times.

Nach der Eroberung Englands avancierte Canterbury unter den Erzbischöfen Lanfranc und Anselm für einige Jahrzehnte zu einem der kulturellen Brennpunkte Europas.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the German intellectual world was challenged by a growing distrust in the rational ideals of the enlightenment, and consequently by a belief in the existence of a radical 'cultural crisis'.

To this day Jewish thinkers struggle to articulate the appropriate response to the unprecedented catastrophe of the Holocaust.

Der Kommentar besteht aus zwei Teilen, einem ausführlichen Einleitungsteil und dem Kommentarteil.

Every group within Christianity has its own opinions on what Christianity really is.

Step into the vibrant world of Pentecostal theology with Pentecostal Perspectives.

Joseph Bobik offers a translation of Aquinas's De Principiis Naturae (circa 1252) and De Mixtione Elementorum (1273) accompanied by a continuous commentary, followed by two essays: "e;Elements in the Composition of Physical Substances"e; and "e;The Elements in Aquinas and the Elements Today.

Der Band stellt die Praktische Theologie in ihrer Gesamtheit dar und zieht, gegliedert in drei Teile, eine Bilanz.

This book contains essays on current projects from several rising figures in religious ethics, collected into a field-shaping anthology of new work.

This book offers a new theoretical perspective on the thought of the great fifteenth-century Egyptian polymath, Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d.

Once rarely discussed in medical circles, the relationship between spirituality and health has become an important topic in health care.

A philosophical case against religious violenceWe live in an age beset by religiously inspired violence.

How might one live the Christian faith within a culture that idealizes and privileges Christianity while also relativizing it and making it redundant?

The sense of touch had a deeply uncertain status in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Anhand der Rekonstruktion des homiletischen Ansatzes von Gerhard Aho in seinem Kontext entsteht ein Bild der nordamerikanischen Predigtlehre mit ihrer eigenständigen Ausprägung im 20.

This study analyses the commentaries of four Muslim intellectuals who have turned to scripture as a liberating text to confront an array of problems, from patriarchy, racism, and empire to poverty and interreligious communal violence.

The early Christian movement known as "e;Montanism"e; referred to itself as the "e;New Prophecy"e;.

Despite increasing public attention to animal suffering, little seems to have changed: Human beings continue to exploit billions of animals in factory farms, medical laboratories, and elsewhere.

This study offers a radical reinterpretation of the sixteenth-century Christological debates between Lutheran and Reformed theologians on the ascription of divine and human predicates to the person of the incarnate Son of God (the communicatio idiomatum).

Jewish philosophy is often presented as an addendum to Jewish religion rather than as a rich and varied tradition in its own right, but the History of Jewish Philosophy explores the entire scope and variety of Jewish philosophy from philosophical interpretations of the Bible right up to contemporary Jewish feminist and postmodernist thought.

Until now, Fresh Expressions has been about starting and sustaining mission initiatives among people with little or no church contact.

Introducing university students to the academic discipline of Christian theology, this book serves as an orientation to "e;fundamental theology"e; from a Protestant perspective by addressing issues that are preliminary and foundational to the discipline in the context of a liberal arts university.