Theology

Just Generosity calls Christians to examine their priorities and their pocketbooks in the face of a scandalous tendency to overlook those among us who suffer while we live in practical opulence.

A challenging critique of narrative theologies, including the works of George Lindbeck, Robert Jenson, and Herbert McCabe.

Origen is frequently hailed as the most important Christian writer of his period (c.

In modern times, evangelical Protestants have advocated for the belief that the Bible is the only real standard of truth and true Christian praxis for the church.

Hannah Bacon draws on qualitative research conducted inside one UK secular commercial weight loss group to show how Christian religious forms and theological discourses inform contemporary weight-loss narratives.

This book argues that, for Aquinas, a human act exhibits a structure analogous to that of a material object.

This book, first published in 1958, examines the life and works of Avicenna, one of the most provocative figures in the history of thought in the East.

Written in the high art style of prophetic witness, The Scroll of Anatiya reveals a new kind of biblical heroine who is fiercely passionate and sensual.

This is a detailed examination of the theological innovations of Kevin Vanhoozer and John Franke.

Nothing is more dangerous to be misunderstood than the question, "e;What is the human being?

This project brings readers into conversation at the intersections of gender studies and Christian theology--particularly diverse feminist and queer theologies.

This volume is the first complete English translation of Hasdai Crescas's Light of the Lord.

Health is God's original created intent: whole persons, healthy relationships, a thriving environment, and ongoing interaction with himself.

Immediacy and Meaning seeks to approach the odd uneasiness at root in all metaphysical meaning; that the human knower attempts to mediate what cannot be mediated; that there is a pre-cognitive immemorial immediacy to Being that renders its participants irreducible, incommunicable and personal.

Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates the different trajectories they could follow in a revolutionary setting.

This study begins with an examination of Girolamo Zanchi's De Tribus Elohim (1572), setting this important defense of the doctrine of the Trinity in the immediate context of the recent rise of antitrinitarianism within the Reformed Palatinate.

University Ethics: The Status of the FieldMatthew J.

This is a revised edition of John Milbank s masterpiece, which sketches the outline of a specifically theological social theory.

The diaspora of scholars exiled from Russia in 1922 offered something vital for both Russian Orthodoxy and for ecumenical dialogue.

George Whitefield (1714-70) was one of the best known and most widely travelled evangelical revivalist in the eighteenth century.

An Avant-garde Theological Generation examines the Fourviere Jesuits and Le Saulchoir Dominicans, theologians and philosophers who comprised the influential reform movement the nouvelle theologie.

Expanding the impact of Gilles Deleuze and F lix Guattari's philosophy to the disciplines of Christian Origins and Christian theology, this original study makes the case for understanding early Christianity through such Deleuzioguattarian concepts as the 'rhizome', the 'machine', the 'body without organs' and the 'multiplicity', using the theoretical tool of schizoanalysis to do so.

The Religions Book clearly and simply explains all of the important information about the world's major, and many minor, religions, in an easy-to-access format.

Love Divine provides a systematic account of the deep and rich love that God has for humans.

Some philosophers have thought that life could only be meaningful if there is no God.

In this volume, originally published in 1983, W Montgomery Watt looks at the meeting of Christianity and Islam, how they see and have seen each other, and considers how they can aid each other in dealing with the problems of the world today.

Longing is a universal human experience, born of the inevitable gulf between dream and reality, what we need and what we have.

There is a lively debate about the mission of the local church and an interest in doing new things or doing things differently.

The incarnation of God in Jesus poses numerous challenges for the historical consciousness.

The problem of creation and grace has a long history of contention within Protestant and Catholic theology, involving not only internecine conflict within the traditions but fueling, as well, ecumenical debates that have continued a dogmatic divide.

[Philip Gulleys] vision of Christianity is grounded, gripping, and filled with uncommon sense.

Gianni Vattimo, who has long been a prominent postmodern European philosopher, has recently taken a more significant interest in religion.

On first consideration, one might not be inclined to view Adolf Hitler and Dietrich Bonhoeffer in relation to Jehanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc), but Brenda E.

This book is a consideration of major contemporary Black and Jewish understanding of God, examining how profound faith in a just God is sustained, and even strengthened, in the face of particularly horrific and long-standing evil and suffering in a community.

Judit aus Bethulia – viel ist über diese Frau geschrieben worden.

Provides the first book-length treatment of what Augustinian thought has to offer contemporary economic theory.

Trans/formations is a new addition to "e;SCM's Controversies in Contextual Theology"e; series.

In early modern Europe it has been estimated that up to one in two children did not survive to the age of ten.

Were slavery and social injustice leading to dire poverty in antiquity and late antiquity only regarded as normal, 'natural' (Aristotle), or at best something morally 'indifferent' (the Stoics), or, in the Christian milieu, a sad but inevitable consequence of the Fall, or even an expression of God's unquestionable will?

It is the first study which comprehensively, systematically and critically examines the role and usefulness of the concept of Maqasid al-Shari'a (higher Objectives of Islamic Law) in contemporary Muslim reformist thought in relation to number of specific issues pertaining to Islamic legal philosophy, law, ethics and the socio-political sphere.