Christianity

In a highly-connected global village, the flow of worldviews from East to West (and vice versa) has great potential for good, but also some dangerous pitfalls.

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing.

Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) was one of the world's last great polymaths and one of the most important Christian thinkers of his time, engaging the world with a simplicity, sincerity, courage, and passion that few have matched.

Heresy is a central concept in the formation of Orthodox Christianity.

In Light of the World: A Beginner's Guide to Advent, author, professor, and biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine explores the biblical texts surrounding the story of the birth of Jesus.

'No better way could have been found to mark the end of the long unchallenged reign of Cranmer's Prayer Book than Dr Cuming's superb charting of its history.

Understanding Religious Conversion begins with emphasis on the value of respecting religious/theological interpretations of conversion while coordinating social scientific studies of how personal, social, and cultural issues are relevant to the human transformational process.

James Crossley holds a mirror up to English politics, examining how Christianity is often used to legitimise ideological positions and parties.

In The Audacity of Peace, Scot McKnight sketches a peace ethic, or a peace witness, that embraces the embodied self-denial of Jesus to the point of the cross, which through the resurrection is vindicated by God.

This book revisits the tradition of Western religious cinema in light of scholarship on St.

Readers seeking spiritual insight to begin and end their days will treasure this twice-daily devotional featuring Scripture verses from the King James Version of the Bible.

Die Studie über die ""Hymnen an die Kirche" der Gertrud von le Fort" ist eine Dissertation, die während des II.

Understanding Folk Islam to Plant Churches that LastMuslims, Magic and the Kingdom of God combines a description of folk Islam, biblical perspectives, and strategies for church planting among Muslims.

From the trues of nature, man reasons his truths, the sum of which is TRUITY.

-What does healing mean for Christians and others in an age of science?

Have you ever been puzzled by contradictions in the Bible?

Raised in a broken family and emotionally overlooked, Sherry Gore grew up without a solid foundation, a prisoner of her own poor choices, and at times without hope.

Tracing the magico-religious beliefs surrounding birds as far back in time as is possible, to the cultures in which these beliefs arose.

In 1853, Abigail Scott was a 19-year-old school teacher in Oregon Territory when she married Ben Duniway.

As a global religion with growing numbers of expressions, Christianity calls for deepening relationships across traditions while also formulating collaborative visions.

Church Slavonic, one of the world's historic sacred languages, has experienced a revival in post-Soviet Russia.

The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas provides a comprehensive survey of Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant philosophical and theological reception of Thomas Aquinas over the past 750 years.

Who was Paul; what did he do, what did he write?

Political Islam, Citizenship, and Minorities discusses the relationship between religion and politics in the Middle East and the future of political Christianity.

The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism offers an extensive survey of the history, doctrine, practices, and global circumstances of Roman Catholicism, written by a range of distinguished and experienced Catholic writers.

Sex, Sin, and Our Selves brings together readings in feminist theological thought and the literature of the acclaimed contemporary writers Michele Roberts and Sara Maitland.

An all-in-one resource that helps both the music director and pastor plan the worship services for each Sunday and holy day of the year, the 2018-2019 edition Prepare!

Women have played significant roles in ministry and leadership throughout the history of the church and the pages of the Bible.

Holiness is a topic that is rarely discussed in Christian colleges and seminaries, yet the rationale for the existence of these institutions is that they provide environments where people can grow into the image of Christ.

Endlessly cunning, elusive, and playful--the Bible consistently unsettles even as it assures.

Despite a plurality of doctrinal statements on war, peace, and nonviolence, some United Methodists sustain a commitment to nonviolence.

When Socinianism was at the height of its power, Andrew Fuller challenged it in its self-professed point of greatest strength --the virtue encouraged by its principles of theistic rationality.

We live in a century in which we must either change our way of regarding and acting toward nature or else imperil our survival as a species and jeopardize as well the fate of the planet itself.

The Christian doctrine of God has traditionally been presented in two parts: an account of the existence and attributes of God on the one hand, and an account of God's triunity on the other.

Restorative practice (RP) has been successfully implemented in schools for decades and is primarily associated with improving behaviour and relationships, by changing the culture of problem solving in the school.

Scholar Richard Smoley reveals the secret history of the religious doctrines of Gnosticism in Forbidden Faith.

Our known world, the world of twenty-first century Americans, is shaped and defined by consumer choice.

An award-winning sociologist's "e;fascinating and excellent"e; history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age (Newsweek).

The scientific reproducibility crisis is a crisis of character.

In the last decades, many countries in Latin America underwent a transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Prophetic ministry in the Bible has long been perceived as the exclusive domain of individuals who were powerful, authoritative, argumentative, and, almost always, male.

Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) sets out to reunite Truth and holiness by returning the saints to their proper place at the heart of philosophy, theology, and metaphysics.

If you enjoy a book of substance, beautifully packaged, youll love The Wonderful Names of Our Wonderful Lordthe classic daily devotional now updated for readability.