Joseph Bobik offers a translation of Aquinas's De Principiis Naturae (circa 1252) and De Mixtione Elementorum (1273) accompanied by a continuous commentary, followed by two essays: "e;Elements in the Composition of Physical Substances"e; and "e;The Elements in Aquinas and the Elements Today.
Introducing readers to the contemporary field of sacramental theology, this volume covers the biblical and historical foundations, a survey of the state of the discipline, and a collection of constructive essays representing major themes, practices and approaches to sacraments and sacramentality in the contemporary world.
The theology of Karl Barth is an important resource for theological reflection on the complicated problem of Gods relationship to time; yet much of what Barth says is difficult to unravel.
The global halal industry is likely to grow to between three and four trillion US dollars in the next five years, from the current estimated two trillion, backed by a continued demand from both Muslims and non-Muslims for halal products.
This collection includes groundbreaking essays, and interviews with scholars and writers which reveal that despite pressures of assimilation, personal goals, and in some cases, anti-Semitism, they have never been able to divorce their lives or literature from their heritage.
Champion of martyrs, scourge of heretics, erudite theologian, shrewd politician–no account of early Christianity is complete without careful consideration of Irenaeus of Lyons.
This project engages with scholarship on Paul by philosophers, psychoanalysts, and historians to reveal the assumptions and prejudices that determine the messiah in secularism and its association with the exception.
Das Subsidiaritätsprinzip im kanonischen Recht so zu verankern, dass es zu einem verbindlichen Strukturgeber für die Gesetzgebung in der Kirche wird, ist das Ziel dieser Dissertation.
Jesuits have contributed to the life and theological development of the Church for many generations - culminating in Pope Francis, the first Jesuit Pope.
Filme können im Religionsunterricht viel mehr sein als nur thematische Aufhänger: Sie helfen, wenn man sich thematisch auf sie einlässt, Dinge, Menschen und Themen neu zu sehen und zu bewerten.
In the companion volume to this, The Resurrection in Retrospect, Peter Carnley focuses on the inadequacies for faith in Jesus Christ of an approach to his resurrection purely as an event of past historical time.
The essays presented here represent over twenty-five years of thinking about the theology and life of the Apostle Paul who, as a "e;slave of Jesus Christ"e; (Rom 1:1), was a "e;servant of the new covenant"e; with a "e;ministry of the Spirit"e; (2 Cor 3:6, 8).
Der Band versammelt zwölf Aufsätze, die aus einem breiten Spektrum an Perspektiven den Begründungsmöglichkeiten eines protestantischen Familienbegriffs nachgehen.
The essays in this volume examine some of the fundamental doctrinal convictions of Martin Luther and the Reformation legacy, as well as the maturation and development of these convictions in the theology of Karl Barth.
This volume gathers selected, peer-reviewed works presented at the 7th International Conference on Optimization, Simulation and Control, ICOSC 2022, held at the National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, June 20-22, 2022.
David Emerton argues that Dietrich Bonhoeffer's ecclesial thought breaks open a necessary 'third way' in ecclesiological description between the Scylla of 'ethnographic' ecclesiology and the Charybdis of 'dogmatic' ecclesiology.
Rarely do theological thinkers have the opportunity to present their own self-understanding of both their context and their methodology and the inter-relation of the two.
First published in 1986, Jewish Jurisprudence is the second volume of an important series analysing and setting forth the substantive principles of Jewish jurisprudence.
Learning to Form Judgements" is a continuation of reflections on the foundations and contexts of learning to form judgements discussed in the first volume ("Urteilen lernen – Learning to Form Judgements") and seeks out the perspectives of moral judgement formation that manifest themselves in the scholarly analysis of judgement.