Manuel Mª Bru ofrece en este libro un análisis detallado y ameno sobre la situación de la Iglesia en el contexto actual, profundamente secularizado, en relación con la siempre acuciante llamada a proclamar el Evangelio.
Im Raum zwischen Ostsee und Adria setzte nicht nur die Entwicklung konfessioneller Vielfalt innerhalb der lateinischen Christenheit deutlich früher, rund ein Jahrhundert vor dem Auftreten Luthers, ein, hier blieb das Konfessionelle auch spürbar länger prägende Kraft als im westlichen Europa.
Middle Platonism explained how a transcendent principle could relate to the material world by positing an intermediary, modeled after the Stoic active cause, that mediated the supreme principle's influence to the world while preserving its transcendence.
Welche Themen bewegen Gläubige, die für existenzielle Grundfragen und Antwortversuche empfänglich sind, sich in bestimmtem Maße vom kirchengemeindlichen Leben "angezogen" fühlen, dort aber nicht aktiv teilnehmen?
The secrets of a complex belief system that have sustained the Mandaeans in their centuries-old native lands in Iraq and Iran have been collapsing before their eyes.
This book provides a reassessment of the relationship between Reformed theology and early modern literature, with analysis of key writers and thinkers.
Evaluating the writings of one of the most significant religious figures in early modern England, this volume summarizes Owen's life, explores his various intellectual, literary and political contexts, and considers his roles as a preacher, administrator, polemicist and theologian.
Christian ethicists from a wide spectrum of methods and commitments come together in arguing for some kind of social conception of the self, noticing that convergence sheds new light on the current range of theoretical options in Christian ethics.
Der Fußball ist in Deutschland und in vielen weiteren Ländern weltweit eine omnipräsente Lebensrealität und begeistert zahlreiche Menschen jeden Alters und Geschlechts leidenschaftlich.
Highlights the emergence of self-knowledge in rabbinic literature, showing how Babylonian rabbis relied on knowledge accessible only to the individual to determine the law.
Contributors to this volume consider the implications of 'the Age of Breath': a spiritual shift in human awareness to the needs of the other figured through breathing.
The Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s was a movement led by white religious liberals that housed Central Americans fleeing dictatorships supported by the United States government, giving them a platform to speak about the situation in their countries of origin.
Kierkegaard's religious discourses - his writings which have explicitly dealt with religion - have historically been given scant attention by philosophers.
The Hiddenness of God addresses the problem of divine hiddenness which concerns the ambiguity of evidence for God's existence, the elusiveness of God's comforting presence, the palpable and devastating experience of divine absence and abandonment, and more; phenomena which are hard to reconcile with the idea, central to the Jewish and Christian scriptures, that there exists a God who is deeply and lovingly concerned with the lives of humans.
This teaching and textbook describes the biblical writings, first by content and structure, and then follows their process of coming into being back to the respective reason for their origin.
Manche Texte des Alten Testaments sind »schwierig«: Sie widersprechen unserem modernen Weltbild, vermitteln ein Gottesbild, das dem »neutestamentlichen« entgegensteht oder erzählen von Betrug, Gewalt und Krieg unter den Augen Gottes.
Briefe waren für Melanchthon zeitlebens das vorrangige Instrument, um mit entfernt lebenden Freunden im Gespräch zu bleiben und verschiedenste Angelegenheiten zu regeln; täglich schrieb er Briefe, manchmal zehn an einem Tag.
El competente trabajo presentado en este libro representa el rescate de un período de nuestra historia continental que clama continuidad e invita a las nuevas generaciones a dejarse llamar hacia dentro de esta realidad del reino de Dios y busquen llevarlo a la práctica en este continente que aún tiene tantas «venas abiertas».