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