Christianity

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

You can find the deep peace you've been longing for--and that God has promised.

This volume looks at the history of the idea of sin as it has influenced and shaped Western culture.

Take the Plunge explores baptism, showing how it touches the deepest dramas of human life.

This book offers a new way for biblical scholars and archaeologists to envision how the Bible''s story relates to history.

An ad man is enlisted to stop a terrorist plot in a contemporary spin on the Bible story of Jonah that “will keep you riveted” (Delaware Today Magazine).

Winner of the 2002 North American Guild of Beer Writers' Quill & Tankard Annual Writing Award The Canadian brewing industry predates Confederation by two hundred years; Canada boasts the oldest, continuously operating brewery in North America.

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffers work has persistently challenged Christian consciousness due to both his death at the hands of the Nazis and his provocative prison musings about Christian faithfulness in late modernity.

How does the Catholic tradition understand the significance of the environment, and what are the implications for our daily lives?

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?

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.

Lutheran tradition has in various ways influenced attitudes to work, the economy, the state, education, and health care.

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.

Religionsunterricht heute findet faktisch in religiöser Vielfalt statt: Schüler*innen verschiedener Religionen und Weltanschauungen nehmen an ihm teil und bringen ihre Fragen, aber auch ihre Traditionen und Einstellungen mit.

Does life feel futile?

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.

Do you belong to the "e;silent community of the broken,"e; hiding your pain under a veneer of busyness and perfection?

Drawing on recent research by established and emerging scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and architecture produced after 1563 across the conventional geographic borders.

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

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle offers one of the most inspiring and influential voices in the global Catholic Church today.

This book gathers a diverse group of leading pastors and preachers and asks them, what is your best advice to colleagues in ministry about preaching and being a pastor?

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.

This book offers a fresh perspective on Paul's use of the Abraham story in Galatians by providing a thorough analysis of its epistolary and rhetorical contexts.

The Hiddenness of God addresses the problem of divine hiddenness which concerns the ambiguity of evidence for God's existence, the elusiveness of God's comforting presence, the palpable and devastating experience of divine absence and abandonment, and more; phenomena which are hard to reconcile with the idea, central to the Jewish and Christian scriptures, that there exists a God who is deeply and lovingly concerned with the lives of humans.

Ernst Troeltsch is widely recognized as having played an important role in the development of modern Protestant theology, but his contribution is usually understood as largely critical of traditional modes of theological inquiry.

Just as in his previous volume, The Secrets of Hebrew Words, Rabbi Blech brings readers into the fascinating world of gematria (the reckoning of numbers) and acronyms to uncover the vast profundity hidden in everyday Hebrew language.

In life there are a few major questions.

Written as the First World War was finally drawing to a close, A.

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

Markus Muhling presents an epistemological theory of revelation as perception and a relational-narrative theological ontology based on the concept of dramatic coherence, in which the triune life is understood not as an anomaly within ontology, but rather as the decisive condition of its possibility.

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.

Nothing is impossible with God.

As one of the greatest presidents of the twentieth century, Ronald Wilson Reagan succeeded in renewing pride in America, strengthening the principles of family, faith, and freedom on which this nation was founded, and restoring our hope in the future.

Where is God when life is filled with so much suffering?

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.

No está todo dicho sobre Pablo de Tarso a pesar de que desde san Agustín, y principalmente desde Martín Lutero y la Reforma, se hayan escrito centenares de libros sobre él.

Real life, encouraging stories embodying the bold, brave, beautiful choice to love.