Aspects of religion

This textbook explores the Lutheran theological tradition.

Die Veröffentlichung gehört zu den wenigen Publikationen zum Reformationsjubiläum 2017, die in ökumenischer Gemeinschaft konzipiert worden sind.

We are not even sure of her name: it might have been Salome; it might have been Herodias, like that of her mother.

In his previous book, The Pastor: A Spirituality, Gordon W.

It is often assumed that the law and religion address different spheres of human life.

Magic, always part of the occult underground in North America, has experienced a resurgence since the 1960s.

Emmanuel Falque, one of the foremost philosophers working in the continental philosophy of religion today, takes us by the hand into the very heart of 12th-century monastic spirituality.

This NoNonsense book aims to answer the questions that people are asking without jargon and in an easy-to-use FAQ format.

Der Band untersucht die Konversion deutsch sozialisierter Frauen zu christlichen und islamischen Strömungen, die sich am Literalsinn der jeweiligen Heiligen Schrift orientieren und in der Gemeindestruktur ähneln, mithilfe qualitativer Methoden.

There has been a marked increase of interest in the art of spiritual direction in recent decades.

The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.

In April 2015, America's last pulpit prince died.

This book synthesizes perspectives on how 'place' is deeply intertwined with our spirituality and well-being.

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.

These essays consider the three traditional theological virtues-faith, hope, and love-alongside their opposites-doubt, despair, and hate, from a scholarly perspective.

This volume deploys theology in a reconstructive approach to contemporary literary criticism, to validate and exemplify theological readings of literary texts as a creative exercise.

In Tough Questions, Honest Answers, Christian theologian Cameron Harder explores pressing contemporary challenges to religion--from religion itself to modern "e;big ideas"e; that often confound thoughtful seekers.

Systemisches Denken und Handeln in der Seelsorge erlaubt es, Menschen in ihren Beziehungen und "Familienbanden" besser zu verstehen und zu begleiten.

‪Menschen warten und Menschen hoffen.

Not only do new church starts in significant numbers bring systemic change and renewal to mainline denominations, but new church development brings similar change to individual aging congregations in their vicinity.

This book asserts that gratitude for God's gift of creation grounds the insight of positive psychology that grateful persons act pro-socially.

From the beginning, God created men and women in his own image, as the objects of his love.

One of the Church of England's central aims is that it should become more diverse.

Stephen Barton has commissioned social scientists, philosophers of religion, feminists, biblical scholars, historians, moral theologians and systematic theologians - international experts from a wide range of theological and related disciplines - to reflect on "holiness.

God has been around for a long time--in fact from the very beginning--but what do we actually know about him?

God is Queer.

Shamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists.

Infertility--a word that catches one's attention because it is used in quiet private moments.

The Epistle of Jesus to the Church is a commentary on the book of Revelation that assumes Jesus was the author and John the reporter of the words and events described.

Reclaiming Men's Spirituality is a study that investigates men's spirituality by exploring three research questions: Can a form of spirituality about men be identified and described, how can this spirituality be examined, and what is it that needs to be reclaimed?

Robert Jenson has been praised by Stanley Hauerwas, David Bentley Hart, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and others as one of the most creative and important contemporary theologians.

Realizing Soul is a uniquely inspiring resource for people of any age feeling Is this all there is?

Al-Junayd (d.

This book explores sex and sexuality in the Babylonian Talmud within the context of competing cultural discourses, for students of comparative religion.

Become inspired, find your voice, and create work that matters.

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume I lays the groundwork for a constructive contribution to the contemporary debate regarding divine action.

Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge) Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy.

Die Wiederbelebung des Stundengebets in den Gemeinden ist seit dem 2.

Noting that Israel's earliest responses to earth-shaking changes were cast in the powerfully expressive language of poetry, Hugh R.

John J.

Contemporary proposals for Christian theology from postliberalism to Radical Orthodoxy and beyond have espoused their own methodological paradigms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) gehört zu den prägenden Figuren der nordamerikanischen Kulturgeschichte.

In volume one of this multi-volume series, Marc Ellis explores the essence of the prophetic by intertwining the context of ordinary life and the explosive reality of Jewish identity, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine.

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