Aspects of religion

Jeremiah in History and Tradition examines aspects of the Book of Jeremiah from a variety of perspectives including historical, textual, redaction, and feminist criticism, as well as the history of its reception.

This toolkit of intentional and compassionate strategies takes an encouraging, incremental approach to help even small groups get started quickly.

The authors in this volume explore a wide variety of the contemporary approaches to mystical and religious experience to elucidate what religious experience is, in its own terms, and how its practitioners understand it.

Leben und Wirken der Jüngerinnen Christi.

"e;Walter Brueggemann is the master of finding fresh and compelling dimensions of meaning in texts so familiar they barely scratch the surface of our consciousness.

In this compact, fluently written survey of logical fallacies, Adam Murrell provides myriad examples of ways we go about being illogical--how we deceive ourselves and others, how we think and argue in ways that are uncritical, disorganized, or irrelevant.

This book aims to understand God's interactions with Abraham in relation to God's command that Abraham "e;be a blessing"e; (Gen 12:2d), which is directly tied to God's goal that "e;in you all the families of the earth will be blessed"e; (Gen 12:3b).

Hope is a central topic in spiritual care.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a new set of beliefs to replace the failed Leftism of the thirties.

Bewegter Religionsunterricht – das ist Lernen mit Kopf, Herz, Hand und Fuß.

The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology is the definitive guide to radical theology and the commencement for new directions in that field.

Just as the commercial market is full of lofty promises and glossed over particulars, so it is with the marketplace of ideas.

Science is an aspect of modern culture that carries a huge weight of prestige.

The "e;Unchurched"e; are Christians who do not attend regular church services.

This volume argues that Bonhoeffer’s early work, particularly his Christocentric anthropology, grounds his later expressed commitments to responsibility and faithfulness in a "world come of age.

This is the first study to compare the philosophical systems of secular scientific philosopher Mario Bunge (1919-2020), and Moroccan Islamic philosopher Taha Abd al-Rahman (b.

The Gospel of John is often found at the center of discussions about the Bible and its relation to Christian theology.

Can the Desert Be Green?

Revised and updated edition of the classic astrology text on predicting and navigating life crises *; Provides charts for the transits of Saturn, Uranus, and Chiron--now updated through 2050--to predict your personal growth cycles and timing of kundalini rising *; Shares tools to cope with the intensity of spiritual emergency and direct the kundalini energy released during planetary passages *; Includes a new preface by the author reflecting on 20 years of success stories since the book's initial publication *; No astrological chart needed to use this book In this updated edition of Liquid Light of Sex, renowned astrologer and spiritual teacher Barbara Hand Clow explores the connection between life crises in your 30s, 40s, and 50s and the key astrological passages of Saturn, Uranus, and Chiron in your birth chart.

This book introduces Christian readers of the Bible to the otherworldly way in which the rabbis of ancient times interpreted sacred texts.

Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998) was one of the seminal theologians of mission in the twentieth century, and perhaps the most important in the English-speaking world.

When Walt Larimore, MD, moved his young family to Kissimmee, Florida, to start a small-town medical practice in 1985, he had no idea he was embarking on an enterprise that would change his life in ways both large and small.

Research scholars have lamented the fact that most of the extant studies on religious responses to the COVID-19 pandemic focus on a particular religious group, typically Christian.

In the late fourth and early fifth centuries, during a fifty-year stretch sometimes dubbed a Pauline "e;renaissance"e; of the western church, six different authors produced over four dozen commentaries in Latin on Paul's epistles.

Oedipus in Jerusalem begins with the unexpected meeting of the blinded Oedipus and the biblical prophet Nathan outside of Thebes.

Martin Luther is one of the most studied theologians in the history of the Christian church, so it is difficult to find areas that have been neglected when it comes to this great reformer.

Spirituality without God is the first global survey of godless spirituality.

One of the most striking features of contemporary psychology is the return of language of the 'soul' in contemporary discourse.

Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction considers the way in which contemporaryAmerican authors address the subject of belief in the post-9/11 Age of Terror.

Shed your surnames of Doubt, Fear, and Shame.

"e;Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying of hands by the council of elders"e; (1Tim.

This book is a distillation of reading Acts for over fifty years, preaching it for twenty-five years, and studying it in-depth for five years.

In life there are a few major questions.

Compassionate missions constitutes a growing focus among evangelical denominations and agencies.

Born Again and Beyond identifies and interacts with various theological blind spots in Evangelicalism--such as its naive rationality, its faulty understanding of the nature of both Scripture and the gospel, and its emphasis on salvation as an event rather than a process.

Presenting a rich account of women's faith lives and, mapping women's meanings in their own right, this book offers an alternative to dominant accounts of faith development which failed to account for women's experience.

The first comprehensive study of rape – its images and its politics – at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance.