Theology

In 1861 a young farmer, drafted into the Confederate Army, was wounded in battle and sent home to die.

In 1965, the Second Vatican Council formally issued a historic document titled Nostra Aetate (In Our Time).

His birthday was once celebrated as a national holiday and his portrait once adorned the walls of almost every classroom in the United States.

Pentecostal and charismatic renewal movements have seen great growth over the last century and have engaged with many Christian traditions.

The Bible is a perplexing book.

Using Socratic dialogue to argue the evidence, Fatal Choice makes its case for an orthodox view of hell.

Brazil is a rapidly emerging country.

A Conscious Endeavor is a synopsis of the social teachings and the concept of justice in the Old and New Testament.

How would the image of Jesus appear if it were based only on sayings that scholars generally agreed originated with Jesus?

Christians, the Care of Creation, and Global Climate Change is a wake-up call for Christians and others.

Although the doctrine and work of the Holy Spirit is no longer being ignored in theology (as was often the case in centuries past), the authority of the Spirit remains essentially undefined.

This little book resulted from the conviction that we need to contemplate what it is to be the church in the contemporary world.

The Hermeneutics of Tradition presents the latest scholarship on tradition as a concept and reality in the development of Christian cultures.

These essays emerge from different crucial and complex conflicts: from the memory of a bishop, Bartolome de las Casas, urging the pope of his time to cleanse the church of complicity with violence, oppression, and slavery; from the lament and defiance of so many Middle Eastern women, victims of male domination and too many wars; from the voices bursting out from the colonial margins that dare to question and transgress the norms and laws imposed by colonizers and conquerors; from the emerging and diverse theological disruptions of traditional orthodoxies and rigid dogmatisms; from the denial of human rights to immigrant communities, living in the shadows of opulent societies; from the use of the sacred Hebrew Scriptures to displace and dispossess the indigenous peoples of Palestine.

Will the love of God save us all?

Drinking from the Same Well is designed for those who seek a praxis-oriented theological grounding in the exploration of cross-cultural perspectives in the field of pastoral care and counseling.

Beauty engages fourth-century bishop Gregory of Nyssa to address beauty's place in theology and the broader world.

Jesus' best-known mandate--after perhaps the mandate to love God and neighbor--was given at the Last Supper just before his death: "e;Do this in memory of me.

Colonialism and imperialism continue to impact the personal and social identities of North American preachers and listeners.

The Christian faith has always stood in a place of tension between its transcendent nature and the surrounding culture.

Crossing Boundaries in the Americas, Vietnam, and the Middle East is the personal, yet profoundly political first-person account of one man's unique interracial and interfaith leadership roles over five decades in movements for civil rights, against the Vietnam War, and for Arab-Israeli-Palestinian peace.

Laypersons receiving a divine call to preach in the Roman Catholic Church may feel caught between a rock and a hard place--both figuratively and ecclesiastically.

The Peaceable Kingdom Series is a multivolume series that seeks to challenge the pervasive violence assumed necessary in relation to humans, nonhumans, and the larger environment.

The Old Testament has two great themes: creation and covenant.

This is a book about Jesus of Nazareth.

Armies know all about killing.

Way to Water has two primary intentions: to trace the development of the nascent field of theological inquiry known as theopoetics and to make an argument that theopoetics provides both theological and practical resources for contemporary people of faith who seek to maintain a confessional Christian life that is also intellectually critical.

Believing that study and application of Scripture in the context of Christian community can greatly enhance the transformative power of the preached message, in Bringing Home the Message Robert Perkins aims to help pastors integrate small group ministry with their preaching.

With the subject of the atonement of Christ attracting such a lot of polemical work at this time, it is easy to conclude that the current debate is generating more heat than light.

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam claim to be monotheistic, but none of them actually is; none of the three has yet arrived at the true monotheism the Bible and the Qur'an mandate: that is, belief in there being but One God of All.

This is a detailed examination of the theological innovations of Kevin Vanhoozer and John Franke.

The present volume is the second in a five-volume study of church doctrine.

Theology is inherently theatrical, rooted in God's performance on the world stage and oriented toward faith seeking performative understanding in the theatre of everyday life.

Inner Messiah, Divine Character encourages readers to deploy their imaginations in describing their lives as a confluence of narrative constructs to identify, analyze, and overcome obstacles and destructive patterns in both their personal and professional lives.

In The Games People Play, Robert Ellis constructs a theology around the global cultural phenomenon of modern sport, paying particular attention to its British and American manifestations.

In Resurrection Realism, Patrick Fletcher examines the key role played by Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI (2005-2013), in the lively twentieth-century debates over the resurrection.

At this time of climate crisis, here is a practical Christian ecospirituality.

Freedom is vital both to Karl Barth's theology and to modern religion, politics, and culture.

"e;How can you be a Christian and a philosopher at the same time?

Psychosis has taken over.

What is your hope for your first five years of ministry?

If you are eager to learn how to gain greater awareness and understanding about the layers-of-truth and the often hidden facets of being female and clergy, this is the book for you!

For the past forty years the "e;Knox-Robinson Ecclesiology"e; has been the predominant ecclesiological model in the Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church of Australia, one that emerged out of a series of theological contributions over two decades.

Religious diversity is a persistent theological predicament for Christian thinkers.

A Guide to Worship Ministry centers on four main areas of worship ministry: preparing for worship ministry, leading the worship ministry, preparing for Sunday, and discipling the generations through worship ministry.

All Christian colleges and universities hail the integration of faith and learning as a premier mission objective.

Too often conversations on Science and Christianity skate over much deeper assumptions--or perceptions--on the nature and interpretation of Scripture, and the nature of science and of God.

Marriage is the most demanding and potentially rewarding relationship for many adults.

This is a volume written for persons who live in the mental world of modernity--that is, in a world that cherishes (1) freedom as the core of being human; (2) critical-thinking reason as the arbiter of what to affirm or not; (3) history, process, and dynamism at the heart of human life and society; and (4) dialogue with those who think differently yet who sense that there is somehow more to life, to reality, than meets the eye: that there is a depth or spiritual dimension not captured in our everyday experiences, which is customarily called religion.

As a global religion with growing numbers of expressions, Christianity calls for deepening relationships across traditions while also formulating collaborative visions.