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This work offers insight into the diversity, breadth, and complexity of the cultural influences that shaped Baptist identity.

Noted Washington, D.

Beauty, bodily knowledge, and desire have emerged in late modern Christian theology as candidates to reorient and reinvigorate reflection.

Band II: Christusglaube und Rechtfertigung (verantwortl.

Today a variety of theological approaches offer fresh and enriching insights, yet much of contemporary religious thought can be disorienting for the beginning student of theology.

Since being elected to the Chair of St.

Esta Vida de Cristo está considerada una de las más completas y atrayentes biografías sobre Jesucristo.

Die Anazazi, einstige Bewohner des amerikanischen Südwestens, hinterließen ein beeindruckendes Erbe aus grandiosen Felsbehausungen, geheimnisvollen Zeremonialbauten und faszinierenden Petroglyphen.

This book sociologically investigates the contemporary Catholic Church's stance on gender diversity and "e;gender ideology"e; and explores ways to adapt the social science perspectives on sex, gender, and gender fluidity in the Church's moral teachings, applying Pope Francis's inductive synodal theology.

If Christian hope is reduced to the salvation of the soul in a heaven beyond death, wrote Jurgen Moltmann, it loses its power to renew life and change the world, and its flame is quenched.

The moment the pager rings, all hell breaks loose.

Johann Sebastian Bach krönte sein Schaffen geistlicher Musik mit dem Weihnachts-, dem Oster- und dem Himmelfahrtsoratorium sowie mit fünf Messvertonungen – gipfelnd in der monumentalen h-Moll-Messe, die als Vermächtnis angesehen werden kann.

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.

In der christlichen Theologie geht es grundlegend um Relationalität.

To Dr.

'If you need daily wisdom, this is a great source.

Exploring the distinctive nature and role of local pilgrimage traditions among Muslims and Catholics, Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices draws particularly on south central Java, Indonesia.

In the first book written specifically for the 11 million divorced Catholics in the United States, Lisa DuffyCatholicMatch.

This book approaches Ulster Protestantism through its theatrical and cultural intersection with politics, re-establishing a forgotten history and engaging with contemporary debates.

Klaus Bockmuehl (1931-1989), former Professor for Systematic Theology at Regent College, Vancouver, published outstanding theological ethical works.

One of the first books of its kind addressing how young adults are living in an intentional community in the Episcopal Church.

Starting a new organization is risky business.

This stimulating volume explores how the memory of the Reformation has been remembered, forgotten, contested, and reinvented between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries.

Are Eastern Orthodoxy and evangelicalism at all compatible?

Much discussion of Protestant Christianity and its missions in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is focused on the work of English missionary William Carey and American Missionaries Adoniram and Ann Judson, who travelled to India in 1793 and 1813.

A Living Light explores some of the major events in the life of Hildegard of Bingen: mystic, physician, composer, and one of the foremost intellectuals of the Middle Ages.

A classic since 1949, Gospel Parallels presents Matthew, Mark, and Luke printed side-by-side for easy and enlightening comparative study.

Many Pentecostal groups have forgotten their legacy of war resistance and doctrinal history opposing killing.

The classic Weight of Glory by C.

Examines the sins and confessions in church disciplinary records to argue that daily practices created a gendered Puritanism.

Why did ancient philosophers consult oracles, write about them, and consider them to be an important part of philosophical thought and practice?

Mainline Protestant congregations face a profound adaptive challenge.

The mixture of hostility and fascination with which native-born Protestants viewed the foreign practices of the immigrant church is the focus of Jenny Franchots cultural, literary, and religious history of Protestant attitudes toward Roman Catholicism in nineteenth-century America.

Su-un and His World of Symbols explores the image which Choe Che-u (Su-un), the founder of Donghak (Eastern Learning) Korea's first indigenous religion, had of himself as a religious leader and human being.

Spirituality: An Art of Living was born out of a generous impulse: to pass on lessons from the monastic tradition to lay people so as to help them achieve a more ardent and fulfilling spiritual life.

The Radical Mind is a groundbreaking analysis of the origins of the Christian Right, whose political victories are radically reshaping the landscape of American society.

Das Abenteuer beginnt vor der Haustür!

Homiletics is taking a theological turn.

Nearly twenty-five percent of the world's Christians count themselves among the Charismatic and Pentecostal family of Christian Movements, yet few know how Pentecostalism began.

A comprehensive, two-volume reassessment of the quests for the historical Jesus that details their origins and underlying presuppositions as well as their ongoing influence on today's biblical and theological scholarship.

Is confession obsolete?

In contrast to the popular notion that the doctrine of the Trinity hinders Christians from engaging with the reality of religious diversity, this book argues that the doctrine is the best way of constructing contemporary theology of religions.

Spiritualism is a religious movement based on the belief that spirits of the deceased exist and are able to communicate with living people.