Christianity

2 Baruch is one of the more important apocalyptic writings among the Jewish Pseudepigrapha (written at the end of the 1st century AD and so contemporary with the New Testament).

This book explores the themes of identity, suffering, and hope in the stories of Puerto Rican people to surface the anthropology, soteriology, and eschatology of a Puerto Rican decolonial theology.

Barna research suggests just over half of Americans who profess to be transformed by Christ believe God expects them to be holy and only a third consider themselves to be holy.

In this 2001 volume, sixteen specially-commissioned essays discuss major areas of the philosophy and theology of Augustine of Hippo.

Most pastors pray for a healthy and vibrant church, a prosperous organization and transformative change among those they disciple, but many find themselves frustrated because they lack direction and feel as though they are spinning their wheels.

If you could add a book to the Bible, what would it contain?

Es gibt Sätze, die nehmen einen Menschen geradezu an die Hand.

The experience of Wollom Jensen's distinguished career in military service and James Childs's long and productive career in the fields of theology and ethics combine to bring Christian ethics into dialogue with the harsh realities of military service in today's world of war.

Auch in säkularen Gesellschaften verschwindet das humane Bedürfnis nach Vergebung und Versöhnung nicht.

In 1934, Anglican priest H.

Too often the biblical passages governing sexual morality are interpreted in simplistic, proof texting ways that take no account of the cultural gap between ancient Israel and the modern world.

Christians get confused about exactly what to do with the commands in the Bible.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

This is a book about four Roman Catholic pioneers--explorers and developers--whose lives crossed each other's paths in Old Mines, Missouri, in the middle of the 1800s.

A crisis of faith confronted many Canadian Protestants in the late nineteenth century.

Few Christian writings have had the world-changing impact of St Paul's epistles to the churches, and yet from the very beginning these works proved themselves to be tricky texts.

Throughout his years as a leader of the Reformation, John Calvin had a special interest in the proprieties of prayer.

The volume approaches the relations between China and the Catholic Church in a quite comprehensive and unprejudiced way.

Früh schon hat Wolfhart Pannenberg das Programm von »Offenbarung als Geschichte« zu einer Theologie der Religionsgeschichte ausgestaltet.

Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and National Humanities Medalist Krista Tippett has interviewed the most extraordinary voices examining the great questions of meaning for our time.

Odile Atthalin was a young woman from a prominent, bourgeois family in Paris when she decided to leave home in search of meaning.

Few books in theology have faced the twentieth century with all its horrors and yet convincingly revoiced the redemptive Christian antidote that compels us to reawaken to our true identity as beloved children of God.

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In this varied collection of essays, Walter Brueggemann provides a lens into biblical teachings concerning the present age of fake news, lies, and alternate realities.

Immigration is a key concern in British society; however, the ethical implications of the issue are often overlooked.

Follow the Healer provides those in ministry with a practical theology of healinghelping you understand how Jesus heals and why we still need to participate.

WISSENSCHAFTLICHER RELIGION

Cognitive linguists and biblical and patristic scholars have recently given more attention to the presence of conceptual blends in early Christian texts, yet there has been so far no comprehensive study of the general role of conceptual blending as a generator of novel meanings in early Christianity as a religious system with its own identity.

This systematic theology textbook introduces students to the complexity and beauty of theology as a pursuit of the global church today.

This scholarly synthesis of biblical studies and Christian social ethics is designed to provide a biblical argument for intentional institutional change on behalf of social justice.

The scientific debates on border crossings and cultural exchange between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have much increased over the last decades.

This vintage book contains an extensive anthology of historical drinking songs.

This reader samples a wide range of modern theological, religious and philosophical discussion on the problem of evil, understood both in terms of the practical or spiritual problem of coping with evil, and the theological problem of explaining its presence in God's world.

In the first comprehensive proposal for revisionist theology's deployment of historical Jesus research, Inventing Christic Jesuses rejects positions that insulate theology from Jesus research.

How can preachers ensure that their sermons continue to engage listeners in a world defined by visual media and the short, segmented delivery of information?

Reminding us that the Genevan Reformation does not begin and end with John Calvin, this book provides an introduction to Guillaume Farel (1489-1565), one of several important yet often overlooked French-speaking reformers.

Between May and October of 1917, three young shepherds were reportedly visited six times by an apparition of the Virgin Mary near the town of Fatima in Portugal.

From the author of the national bestseller Fault Lines comes a book that tackles the next big threat to the church from the social justice movement.

The confessing church in our time treats lightly the doctrinal deposit of its theological inheritance.

In The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England, Holly Crawford Pickett reconceptualizes early modern religious identity by exploring the astonishing stories of serial converts: historical figures such as William Alabaster, Kenelm Digby, William Chillingworth, and Marc Antonio De Dominis, along with fictional ones, who changed their religious affiliations between Catholicism and Protestantism multiple times.