In the globalized twenty-first century, there is greater need than ever for intercultural approaches to advancing the gospel in multicultural urban contexts.
Karl Barth was one of the most important Christian theologians of the twentieth century, but his political views have often not been taken sufficiently into account.
Salomon Glassius hat wie kein zweiter die lutherische Bibelhermeneutik systematisiert und die Frage nach dem Verhältnis von sensus literalis und sensus mysticus einer präzisen Klärung zugeführt.
In these times of increasingly contentious politics and uncivil discourse in the United States, the ongoing encounter of adherents of the Abrahamic faiths in the American heartland offers a model of positive interfaith relations.
Drawing on recent philosophical developments in hermeneutics and poststructuralism, The Fragility of Language and the Encounter with God offers a theological account of the contingency of language and perception and of how acknowledging that contingency transforms the perennial theological question of the development of doctrine.
The 'Q source' that served as a source for the Gospels of Matthew and Luke represents a double connecting link: on the one hand, the text needs to be situated between early Judaism and the beginnings of the Jesus movement - a document that focuses less on 'Christian' expectations than on eschatological hopes for salvation among Jewish disciples of Jesus.
Were slavery and social injustice leading to dire poverty in antiquity and late antiquity only regarded as normal, 'natural' (Aristotle), or at best something morally 'indifferent' (the Stoics), or, in the Christian milieu, a sad but inevitable consequence of the Fall, or even an expression of God's unquestionable will?
The authors of this volume examine theory and practice regarding past and present roles of Jewish, Christian and Islamic religious education in nurturing tolerance, interpreted as mutual respect for and recognition of other groups, in Eastern (Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro and Romania) and Western (Finland, Germany, Italy, Latvia and Spain) Europe, Israel, Nigeria and Uzbekistan.
Das Diskursfeld »Theologie(n) Afrika« ist geprägt durch Begriffe, die nicht nur Theologien generieren und Theologiegeschichte gemacht haben, sondern auch Wissen und Bedeutung konstruieren, Erfahrung strukturieren sowie Verstehen und Denken organisieren und steuern.
Im Dialog mit neuen Entwürfen der Psychoanalyse, mit ausgewählten Beispielen aus Mythos und Oper sowie mit gegenwärtigen Beiträgen zur Trinitarischen Theologie entwickelt der Seelsorger und Psychoanalytiker Wolfgang Reuter das Konzept "Relationale Seelsorge", das sich der ambivalenten Dynamik von Bindung und Trennung bewusst ist und diese Dynamik im Hinblick auf die Seelsorgetheorie und Seelsorgepraxis thematisiert und weiterführt.
This text introduces the most important Jewish philosophers of contemporary times from the point of view of their original approach to both Judaism and philosophy and include: Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenweig, Martin Buber, Leo Strauss, Emmanuel Levinas.
The Demonic in the Political Thought of Eusebius of Caesarea explores how Eusebius of Caesarea's ideas about demons interacted with and helped to shape his thought on other topics, particularly political topics Hazel Johannessen builds on and complements recent work on early Christian and early modern demonology.
Die Reihe "Theologische Bibliothek" richtet sich nicht nur an professionelle Theologinnen und Theologen, sondern an alle, die an theologischen Fragen interessiert sind.
For people who never thought they would read a book of theology-let alone understand it, enjoy it, savor it and have it affect the way they think about their lives.
Gabriel Vahanian's final work, Theopoetics of the Word weaves together Christian theology, continental philosophy and cultural studies to present a new theology of language and technology for the 21st century.
El surco trazado por la figura y la obra de Joan Calví (1509-1564) ha marcado profundamente la formación y el desarrollo de la modernidad occidental y, a través de la expansión colonial y la globalización, ha dejado su impronta sobre el conjunto del mundo contemporáneo.
Michael Herbst legt eine Einführung in den missionarischen Gemeindeaufbau vor und behandelt unter Berücksichtigung von Gegenwartsanalyse, theologischer Urteilsbildung und praktischen Handlungsperspektiven die vier Themenfelder: Grundlegendes, Geistliche Leitung, Ökumenische Impulse sowie Konversion und Gemeindeaufbau.
Tracing the powerful motif of the "e;coming of the Son of man"e; from Daniel through to Revelation, Andrew Perriman provides thought-provoking ideas about eschatological narrative.
Gospel of the Absurd is a project that originates in the anarchic experiences of a crack cocaine addict who was knocked off his high horse by an experience of Jesus.
Despite the fact that the theological gains of Latin American Liberation Theology (LALT) have been incorporated into several theologies around the world, many North Atlantic evangelicals still consider LALT a heresy.
