Theology

This book provides an exegetical-theological-rhetorical paradigm, "e;the Christ-oriented approach"e; (Lk 24:27, 44), that facilitates accuracy, effectiveness, and practicality in preaching the New Testament use of the Old.

This book reconsiders ways in which the cross of Christ was construed before "e;atonement theories"e; narrowed the categories.

Is Christianity but a selection of stories, as some suppose, or is there more to it than that?

You are There: Restoring Churches, People, and Places is a pastoral conversation about creation care.

Pastoral theologians from Congo, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address, in this book, the issues of leadership, Ubuntu (community), gender-based violence, political violence, healing, and deliverance faced by pastors and ministers in African contexts today.

Do you remember?

Mainline Protestant congregations face a profound adaptive challenge.

In Finding Voice, Kincaid employs an often used but somewhat elusive metaphor, "e;voice,"e; as a way of speaking of pastoral identity and contends that a lively, imaginative pastoral voice emerges from a thorough grasp of context, theology, pastoral roles, personal journey, and systemic dynamics.

Karl Barth hat die Theologie und die Kirche im 20.

This new edited collection explores the intersection of spiritual direction and counselling/psychotherapy, and the relationship between the two.

Making the case for the relevance of pastoral care today, this book explores the role of pastoral care through the prism of music.

Conventional coping strategies can be pushed to their limits when people find themselves in situations of suffering, illness, and dying.

Revealing a tension between the medical model of depression and the very different language of theology, this book explores how religious people and communities understand severe sadness, their coping mechanisms and their help-seeking behaviours.

Religious faith is a powerful source of comfort and support for individuals and families facing dementia.

Outcome Oriented Chaplaincy (OOC) is a method of chaplaincy care that emphasizes achieving, describing, measuring, and improving the outcomes that result from a chaplain's work, alongside the parallel framework of evidence-based healthcare.

With insight that only comes from a life spent with God, The Journey is filled with wisdom, encouragement, hope, and inspiration for anyone who wants to live a happier, more fulfilling life.

In this third of three volumes addressing Luther's outlaw God, Steven D.

Frithjof Schuons perspective of pure esoterism focuses on the inward and universal dimension of religion, also referred to as the sophia perennis (';perennial wisdom').

Over a career spanning more than fifty years, Hans Schwarz has grappled with nearly all of Christianity's major theological questions.

Postmodernism.

Sren Kierkegaard (18131855), the Danish theologian, philosopher, and preacher, in his last years issued a blistering attack on the established Christianity of the nineteenth century.

Christianity is a global religion!

In the last thirty years, books on the Trinity have abounded.

No twentieth-century American understood Luther's law-gospel distinction better than Gerhard O.

Beneath the commonplace affirmation that Jesus “paid for our sins” lie depths of implication: did God demand a blood sacrifice to assuage divine anger?

Third Article Theology (TAT) is the name given to a new movement in constructive theology utilizing a distinctly pneumatological approach to dogmatics.

Apocalyptic scenarios remain prevalent and powerful in popular culture (in television, film, comic books, and popular fiction), in politics (in debates on climate change, environmentalism, Middle East policy, and military planning), and in various religious traditions.

Discovering how to live with dementia"e;I'm a stranger in a strange land,"e; sighed the dignified gentleman Janet L.

Building on his previous work on embodied liturgy, Frank C.

Accessible, challenging, funny, and one of the best reads on how to love others in any situation.

Intersectional Theology: An Introductory Guide offers a pathway for reflective Christians, pastors, and theologians to apply the concepts and questions of intersectionality to theology.

The Preached God speaks directly to preachers, calling them to deliver the truths of forgiveness, life, and salvation through both word and sacrament to all who listen.

Between the Sea and the Sky is an inquiry into the religious world of a traditional fishing community on the Southwest coast of India.

Seeing the contours of Christian thought about ChristThroughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world.

Follow a trailblazer's path and see for yourself all the places that Paul visited .

John Wyclif (d.

For many decades, militant atheism and religious dogmatism have fed off each other.

Into the Far Country is an investigation of Karl Barth's response to modernity as seen through the prism of the subject under judgment.

The new edition of Mark Lewis Taylors award-winning The Executed God is both a searing indictment of the structures of Lockdown America and a visionary statement of hope.

Each volume of the Understanding World Christianity series analyzes the state of Christianity from six different angles.

Love in a Time of Climate Change challenges readers to develop a loving response to climate change, which disproportionately harms the poor, threatens future generations, and damages God's creation.

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

The first two chapters of Pauls first epistle to the Christians of Corinth, written in the fifth decade of the first century, have played a significant role in the history of Christian theology.

In this exciting volume, Diane B.

Everyone is paying attention to Pope Francis, and that includes the most unlikely of admirers: a female Baptist pastor.

Planetary Solidarity brings together leading Latina, womanist, Asian American, Anglican American, South American, Asian, European, and African woman theologians on the issues of doctrine, women, and climate justice.

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

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

How growing in self-awareness deepens relationshipsFrom their years of counseling individuals, couples, and families, George Faller and Heather Wright show how to repair conflict, move from disconnection to reconnection, and discover God's movement in our life and relationships.

This brief introduction to Judaism is designed to help readers understand this important religious tradition.