The Talmud's Red Fence explores how rituals and beliefs concerning menstruation in the Babylonian Talmud and neighboring Sasanian religious texts were animated by difference and differentiation.
In the mid- to late-1930s, while he was a student at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan wrote a series of eight essays on the philosophy and theology of history.
An important new study of the life and ministry of the Anglican minister and Evangelical leader Charles Wesley (1707-88) which examines the often-neglected contribution made by John Wesley's younger brother to the early history of the Methodist movement.
Der Band enthält exemplarische Fallstudien zum Gebet, das zu den basalen Artikulationsformen des christlichen Glaubens gehört und von Anbeginn ein intermediales Phänomen war.
Including both theoretical discussions and practical information for congregational use or pastoral use, this rich, accessible book explores biblical text, historical and theological issues of disability, and examples of successful ministry by people with disabilities.
Wholly Citizens addresses the relation between the church and the world in light of the Reformation teaching of the two realmsespecially as presented by Luther.
Auf Initiative des Orient-Instituts Beirut trafen sich in den zurückliegenden Jahren mehrfach deutsche katholische, protestantische und muslimische Theologen mit Theologen der Azhar-Universität in Kairo.
In Augustine's Leaders, Peter Iver Kaufman works from the premise that appropriations of Augustine endorsing contemporary liberal efforts to mix piety and politics are mistaken--that Augustine was skeptical about the prospects for involving Christianity in meaningful political change.
Mit seinem Vorschlag, dem Alten Testament den normativen Rang im Kanon der heiligen Schriften zu nehmen, hat der Berliner Theologe Notger Slenczka eine kontroverse Debatte entfacht.
Mechanistic dehumanization occurs when human beings are objectified and exploited as a means to an end, comparable to expendable components of a machine.
Keith Clements sets out how and why Dietrich Bonhoeffer, more than seventy-five years after his execution by the Nazis, still speaks cogently both to the churches and society.
Seit Aurelius Augustinus (354-430), dem bedeutendsten Denker der Spätantike, ist die Rückbindung der Frage nach der Wahrheit an die Frage nach dem Ich, also an die Selbsterkenntnis, ein Grundthema der Philosophie; nach Platon, dem Begründer der abendländischen Philosophie, war Augustinus der zweite große Denker der Antike von bis heute prägender Kraft.
With contributions from leading theologians and philosophers, "e;Being Saved: Explorations in Human Salvation"e; brings together a series of essays on the major topics relating to the doctrine of salvation.
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.
This book studies Korean American girls between thirteen and nineteen and their formation with regard to self, gender, and God in the context of Korean American protestant congregational life.
