Theology

Old Testament scholar and interpreter Brent A.

In Writing Faith, Timothy Stanley provides a novel reevaluation of Jacques Derridas deconstructive account of writing.

Is the Western world really post-Christian, or does Christianity simply need a reinterpretation?

Soteriology and the End of Animal Sacrifice traces the historically sustained critique of animal sacrifice in both the Jewish prophets and Greek philosophers and offers a reinterpretation of the fundamental expression of piety in both cultures.

Priest, poet, and broadcaster Rachel Mann believes the world is charged with a divine spark.

The call to teach means different things to different people.

If the origin of the world is not a part of the world, what are the implications for our understanding of ourselves, the world, and its origin?

At the center of contemporary struggles over aggressive policing practices is an assumed association in U.

In the fifty years since its initial publication, Is It Too Late?

In today's world the Christian is constantly being challenged with new teachings.

The book of Isaiah places a distinctive emphasis on the miraculous.

Radical Friendship explores the contours of communal discernment as a practice that is especially relevant to Christians seeking radical democratic alternatives to the predominance of political liberalism.

The Word within the Words is a Poet's Credo, in which Malcom Guite sets out to show how his Christian faith informs and underpins his poetry and, in turn, how poetry itself and, more widely, the poetic imagination help him understand and interpret his faith.

Bringing the wisdom of generations of black Catholics into conversation with contemporary scholarly accounts of racism, Christ Divided diagnoses "e;antiblackness supremacy"e; as a corporate vice that inhabits the body of Christ.

Double Particularity is a constructive proposal for theological methodology addressing the Asian American context using the theology of Karl Barth.

In ways both confident and gentle, Stars Beneath Us brilliantly shows Gods presence in the ever-evolving cosmos.

Athanasius of Alexandria wrote over seven dozen works, the majority of which contain at least one reference to the Holy Spirit.

Translated for the first time from the original Persian into English, these selected treatises from Aziz O-Din Nasafi's thirteenth-century work The Perfect Being provide a fascinating and rare, yet applicable, introduction to Sufism.

This book is a critique of Dalit theology, leading to proposals for the future directions of a theology of social transformation in India.

A translation of Luther's explanations along with other catechetical study helps, such as prayers, worship rites, and Luther's introduction.

Twenty years ago, Anthony Pinn‘s engrossing survey highlighted the rich diversity of black religious life in America, revealing expressions of an ever-changing black religious quest in four non-Christian religious movements.

In Tough Questions, Honest Answers, Christian theologian Cameron Harder explores pressing contemporary challenges to religion--from religion itself to modern "e;big ideas"e; that often confound thoughtful seekers.

Ingolf U.

A particularly nettlesome question is around the relationship of the confession of God as a simple yet threefold beingthe treatises of the one God and the Trinity.

Fundamental theology is traditionally viewed as the starting point for the various disciplines within Catholic theology; it is the place where solid foundations are established for further research and engagement with the vast terrain of historical, systematic, philosophical, and sacramental/liturgical theology.

The profound ambivalence of the biblical portrayals of Hagar and Ishmaeldispossessed, yet protected; abandoned, yet given promises that rival those of the covenant with Abrahambelies easy characterizations of the Pentateuch's writers.

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

In this creative approach to the doctrine of the Trinity, author Veli- Matti Krkkinen focuses on keeping a dynamic balance between the intellectual-doctrinal and spiritual-charismatic approaches as parallel avenues towards theological understanding.

What if you could have been an insider to some of the greatest stories ever told?

The "e;summer sermons"e; have been delivered in the Presbyterian Church of Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania, over a period of fifteen years.

Born into a pack of religiously divided siblings with a devout mother and an agnostic father, Sponheim finds the triad of faith/unfaith/many faiths central in telling the tall tale of God.

Have you ever wondered about the gifts of tongues, prophecy, or the Baptism of the Holy Spirit?

A guide to meaningful life choices for living an ethical life without theology or religious faith.

Although the Apostle John endorses "e;Lamb"e; twenty-nine times in his Apocalypse and employs a term that is used only one other time in the New Testament to this end, this unique title and its sophisticated christological implications has only received cursory attention both historically and more recently.

The Divine Mother is known by many names and takes many forms.

How may the notion of Trinity become a practical, down to earth, living reality?

We want to live good lives, but determining what a good life is isn't easy, especially if we want the lives we lead to be ours, rather than somebody else's.

As artists not uncommonly keep sketchbooks, so thinkers often write notebooks.

For over forty years Stanley Hauerwas has been writing theology that matters.

Born during the Great Depression and the height of the modernist/fundamentalist controversies, Paul Emanuel Larsen entered pastoral ministries in the late fifties.

A lot has been said about the atonement theology of the theologians, but what of ordinary believers and their church leaders?

The Second Vatican Council committed the Catholic Church to the service of the world when it defined the church to be missionary by nature and a sacrament pointing to and making Christ present to all.

In 1906, a new religious phenomenon emerged from California.

How does one culture "e;read"e; another?

Being a clergyperson can be stressful--mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and relationally.

Consider: -The church both learns and becomes what it truly is when it gathers to worship.

Calvinism and Middle Knowledge is an anthology of essays that moves the discussion of Molinism/middle knowledge out of the philosophical arena, where it has almost exclusively remained, and into the broader theological community.

The church's witness to the world falters in an age of doctrinal uncertainty, emerging experiments of life forms and behavior norms, and consequent cultural pressures.

What does it mean to be Asian American?