Theology

Created in Delight challenges the church to take seriously the relationship of human beings with the earth and their fellow creatures.

Most New Testament scholars today agree that Jesus used an enigmatic self-designation, bar nasha ("e;the Son of Man"e;), translated into Greek as ho huios tou anthropou in the Synoptic Gospels.

What are human beings created for?

Teaching on the sanctification of Christians using the difficult word perfection has been part of Christian spirituality through the centuries.

Kierkegaard's Pastoral Dialogues takes a selection of Kierkegaard's most insightful spiritual writings and transforms them into a series of dialogues between two friends, a believer and a nonbeliever.

What does it mean to believe in the church?

What does the evangelical church in Palestine think about the land, the end times, the Holocaust, peace in the Middle East, loving enemies, Christian Zionism, the State of Israel, and the possibilities of a Palestinian state?

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The contemporary trinitarian paradigm in systematic theology has been internationally well-known since the time of Karl Barth and Karl Rahner and, particularly, since the contribution of their famous successors.

Evangelicals often give little thought to the morality of contraception, but when they do, serious studies of the subject are scarce if not non-existent.

Open Theology offers an advantageous framework for engaging the sciences.

The book is about showing different ways of doing ethics, highlighting a kind of methodological pluralism.

The connections between religion and violence are complex and multifaceted.

The 9/11 al-Qaeda attacks on the U.

Pentecostals and Nonviolence explores how a distinctly Pentecostal-charismatic peace witness might be reinvigorated and sustained in the twenty-first century.

This book is a vital resource for intervention programs, educators, social workers, counselors, psychotherapists, pastoral counselors, and survivors of intimate violence and their families.

In this engrossing memoir, Christine Berghoef takes us on a journey exploring the simplicity and complexity of faith.

The field of the theology of mission has developed variously across Christian traditions in the last century.

The quest to escape authority has been a persistent feature of the modern world, animating liberals and Marxists, Westerners and non-Westerners alike.

In Soft Shepherd or Almighty Pastor?

This book records a set of dialogues between scientists, theologians, and philosophers on what can be done to prevent a global slide into ecological collapse.

Here's a guide for English grammar that reads as easily as a story.

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

For those who are called to it, pastoral ministry can be a source of deep joy.

Although preachers often question their effectiveness, no task of the church is more important than proclamation.

University is a major way that our society prepares professionals and leaders in education, health, government, business, arts, church--all components of our communal lives.

Principles-based biomedical ethics has been a dominant paradigm for the teaching and practice of biomedical ethics for over three decades.

Therapeutic preaching is badly in need of rehabilitation.

Black women are strong.

Christianity is simple.

The Interpreting Spirit is both a consideration of the Spirit's role in the interpretation of Scripture and a celebration of renewal scholarship.

Although many people today reject Christianity for intellectual reasons, greater numbers of people are rejecting Christianity because it does not engage their imagination.

There is a big gap between the orthodox Christian understanding of reality, and that of the default materialism of the culture.

Many spiritual caregivers, including chaplains, spiritual directors and clergy, are unaware of how they can support people with chronic health conditions.

Sandra Bihlmaier constitutes a historical and philosophical analysis of Philipp Melanchthon's concept of method and philosophy.

This book is the next volume in Levering's Engaging Doctrine series.

The kingdom of God functions as a key theme that clarifies the direction of redemptive history.

This book reveals the need to understand the workings of the Holy Spirit in the believer's life.

Abraham Joshua Heschel remains one of the most creative Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century.

A transformative exploration of queer theology and the debate around same-sex marriage within the Church.

This book presents a new paradigm for assurance of salvation.

When a scrappy small-town pastor refuses to perform a gay wedding, he doesn't expect the decision to send his sister to prison.

Across the world, grassroots movements for change are growing in number, skill, and impact on society.

Liberating Inner Eve: From Constraints of Historic Conditioning to Boundless Personal Power--A Christian Woman's Guidebook addresses the most commonly encountered social and historic challenges that constrain women's experience of personal power, against the background of an empowering exploration of the Genesis account of Adam and Eve.

We live in a time when many view the church as a relic of ancient traditions and cosmologies, often reactionary, mean-spirited, nationalist, and racist.

Do you doubt the truth of your Christian faith?

When the organization and structure of the church in America was altered in the early 1900s to meet modern demands, the role of the pastorate became more specialized to adapt to the burdens of the new, "e;efficient"e; structure.

Through a rich variety of case studies, this book provides insight into the patient's needs and the chaplain's perspective, as well as discussions of spiritual assessments and spiritual care interventions.

For a denomination like Roman Catholicism that is canonically difficult to leave, many American Catholics are migrating beyond the institution's immediate influence.

A womanist church has great power to transform church and society, primarily because womanist theology centers the experiences of Black women while working for the survival and wholeness of all people and all creation.