Theology

Until his untimely death in 2018, Vitor Westhelle's incisive and probing thought on the church, Luther, and theology shaped a generation.

The postmodern human condition and relationship to God were forged in response to Auschwitz.

For too many students, Christian theology is learned in isolation from other religions traditions.

This book explores why the metaphor of the church as a family is insufficient.

In a context of globalization, socioeconomic disparity, environmental concerns, mass migration, and multiplying political and social upheavals, Christians from different parts of the world are forced to ask complex questions about poverty, migration, race, gender, sexuality, and land-related conflicts.

The Art of Living for A Technological Age sketches the crisis of our late modern age, where persons are enamored by the promises of progress and disciplined to form by the power of technology--the ontology of our age.

In this significant book Mark C.

Hans Urs von Balthasar, one of the preeminent theologians of Roman Catholic theology in the modern era, constructed a theological world suffused by the literary, a vision carried across over 16 volumes of his magnum opus.

A short, definitive account of Keith Ward's theology, based on the philosophy of personal idealism, this book records his views about God, revelation, the kingdom of God, life after death, the incarnation, atonement, and the Trinity.

Christology is crazy.

Liberating youth through theological reflection on vocationJeremy P.

Helmut Gollwitzer was a direct heir of the theological legacy of the great Protestant theologian Karl Barth.

It is time for the Holy Spirit to get its own street cred!

Martin Luther King used news cameras as a means of exposing anti-Black violence by white mobs in the 1950s and 60s.

Making Sense of Martin Luther uses a conversational format to explore how Luther’s dynamic understanding of God’s life-changing gospel informs day-to-day faith and life in the world today.

The devil has fallen on hard times.

As profound as Martin Luther's ideas are, this giant of church history was concerned above all with practical instruction for daily Christian living.

In The Corner of Fourth and Nondual, a title inspired by Thomas Merton's moment of revelation 'at the corner of Fourth and Walnut' in his celebrated essay 'A Member of the Human Race', Cynthia Bourgeault--internationally renowned retreat leader, and a practitioner and teacher of centering prayer--describes the foundations of her theology: a cosmological seeing with the eye of the heart, and classic Benedictine daily rule informed and enlightened by wisdom from the Asian traditions.

From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience, to nineteenth-century decadent literature, and to early-twentieth century essayistic forms of writing and film, Niklaus Largier shows that mystical practices have been reinvented across the centuries, generating a notion of possibility with unexpected critical potential.

In Confessing and Believing, Trevor Hart takes readers on a guided tour of the Apostles' Creed, one of the most ancient, universally recognized, and important statements of faith ever penned by the Christian Church.

Martin Luther‘s effort to put God at the very center of human life hinged on five principles: sola gratia, sola fide, sola Scriptura, solus Christus, and ecclesia semper reformanda.

Mother of the Lamb tells the remarkable story of a Byzantine image that emerged from the losing side of the Crusades.

This book opens a window into the lives and extraordinary witness of a Christian couple whose faithful life of service has earned them the moniker of Ethiopias Bonhoeffer.

Although written from a Lutheran religious tradition, the invitation and reach of They Are Us: Lutherans and Immigration, Second Edition is broad and inclusive.

This book reconsiders the question of Martin Luther's relationship with Rome in all its sixteenth-century manifestations: the early-modern city he visited as a young man, the ancient republic and empire whose language and literature he loved, the Holy Roman Empire of which he was a subject, and the sacred seat of the papacy.

John D.

Passion for Nothing offers a reading of Kierkegaard as an apophatic author.

One of the central claims that Textual Rivalries makes is that the Kabbalah is often mislabeled as mysticism.

This book argues that interfaith dialogue begins with the basic goal of improving Christian relationships with people of other religious traditions.

We once believed that as a majority culture in North America everyone knew all there was to know about a church and its surroundings.

Forgiveness and Reparation, the Healing Journey is about reparations.

The Bible can be hard to understand.

Enkindling Love chronicles the journey toward a living partnership with God, as articulated by two of Christianity's great mystical teachers.

What the emergent church movement is all about and why it matters to the future of ChristianityFollowing on the questions raised by Brian McLaren in A New Kind of Christian, Tony Jones has written an engaging exploration of what this new kind of Christianity looks like.

In his revolutionary book Cross Vision, Gregory A.

Dietrich Bonhoeffers work has persistently challenged Christian consciousness due to both his death at the hands of the Nazis and his provocative prison musings about Christian faithfulness in late modernity.

Free in Deed serves as a primer in Lutheran ethics for faith and the church as the body of Christ.

Pastors are often ill-equipped in preparing churches to be sacred advocates and activists in the communities most affected by social injustice and neglect.

How should the Catholic church remember the sins of its saints?

The Holy One in Our Midst: An Essay on the Flesh of Christ aims to defend the doctrine of the extra Calvinisticumthe doctrine that maintains the Son of God was not restricted to the flesh of Christ during the incarnationby arguing that it is logically coherent, biblically warranted, catholically orthodox, and theologically useful.

Understandings of the Church explores the ways imagery is used by biblical writers and early Christian teachers such as Cyprian, Ignatius of Antioch, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen to describe the concept of church.

Understanding and assessing the New Testament writings from Asian viewpoints provides a unique and original outlook for interpretation of the Christian Scriptures.

In this one-of-a-kind volume, author and poet Gracia Grindal has written 366 sonnets based on the life and ministry of Jesus to inspire meditation and reflection.

Since his death in 2010, there has been continuing and growing interest in the life, vision, and thought of the late Spanish-Indian mystical theologian Raimon Panikkar.

North America has rarely produced a theologian as creative and productive as Robert W.

Christianity has been present in India since at least the third century, but the faith remains a small minority.

Biblical theologian Terence E.

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