Unbolting the Dark, A Memoir traces the author's psychological and spiritual journey at midlife to understand the profound impact of her mother's death.
This text is a comprehensive introduction to mission and ministry in the contemporary Church which enables students to prepare for ministry in a changing church within a changing world.
Rochel Rittger’s book, Radiate: Change Your Frequency, Change Your Life, is based on expertise she has gained as a licensed sports medicine professional and her certified medical Qigong skills as a Qigong Master Healer and Certified instructor.
A deeply personal look at death, mourning, and the afterlife in Jewish traditionAfter One-Hundred-and-Twenty provides a richly nuanced and deeply personal look at Jewish attitudes and practices regarding death, mourning, and the afterlife as they have existed and evolved from biblical times to today.
Als Stadtpfarrer von Wittenberg, Universitätslehrer und theologischer Schriftsteller befasste sich Johannes Bugenhagen 1525 und 1526 besonders mit den Problemen um Abendmahl und Zölibat.
Andreas Osianders Lehre von der Einwohnung Christi im Geist als Form der Rechtfertigung der Sünder stieß auf heftige Ablehnung seitens zahlreicher führender lutherischer Theologen seiner Zeit, die darin eine Abwertung des Kreuzestodes Jesu Christi sahen.
Dieses Buch enthält von der Geistigen Welt übermittelte Informationen über die Missionen, Visionen, Vorlieben, Ernährungsweisen und Eigenheiten der Kristallkinder.
Clergy are more likely than ever to be called on to respond to community trauma, sitting alongside trauma survivors after natural disasters, racial violence, and difficult losses.
It is the first study which comprehensively, systematically and critically examines the role and usefulness of the concept of Maqasid al-Shari'a (higher Objectives of Islamic Law) in contemporary Muslim reformist thought in relation to number of specific issues pertaining to Islamic legal philosophy, law, ethics and the socio-political sphere.
In 2008, the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life initiated an Apostolic Visitation to examine the quality of life of women religious in the United States.
Based on a decade's experience of preparing ministry students to become preachers and his own experience as one of today's most gifted preachers, Doug Gay offers an imaginative, practical and inspiring guide for all who are privileged with the task of preaching.
A decade ago, Walter Brueggemann called the church to journey together for the good of our community through neighborliness, covenanting, and reconstruction.
Die lutherischen Duale "Gesetz und Evangelium", "Glaube und gute Werke", "Alter und Neuer Bund", "Verheißung und Erfüllung" haben eine ambivalente Geschichte: Sie dienten lutherischer Theologie, Frömmigkeit und insbesondere der Predigtkultur über fast fünf Jahrhunderte als Schlüssel zum Verstehen der Vielfalt biblischer Texte.
Although missio Dei--the mission of God--has been a burning theme in missiology since the end of the twentieth century, a key verse, John 3:16, has been widely neglected in missiology until today.
La razón del título de la obra es destacar el puesto central y decisivo de la figura del Señor Jesús tal como Pablo la predica y desarrolla en su correspondencia auténtica.
Walking the tightrope of home and parish life for clergy parents is notoriously difficult in all the mainline Protestant denominations, but most books on ordination and vocation ignore the question of family life.
The joyful premise at the heart of this book is that there is a table lavishly spread for all who hunger for forgiveness--the believer, the doubter, and the famished.
The Oxford Handbook of Mary offers an interdisciplinary guide to Marian Studies, including chapters on textual, literary, and media analysis; theology; Church history; art history; studies on devotion in a variety of forms; cultural history; folk tradition; gender analysis; apparitions and apocalypticism.
