Christianity

The first major study of the relationship between liturgy and historiography in early medieval Rus.

A pioneering study of Greek religion and cults at a key colonial frontier, with major consequences for antiquity at large.

A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

How 10 Church Fathers Interpreted, Taught, and Preached the Bible· Explore the lives and writings of those who shaped the practices of Christianity as we know it today· Discover a spiritual legacy that still resonates today· A unique look at shared vision and purpose amidst remarkable diversity of perspectiveBy AD 100, all the original disciples had died and a new generation of preachers, teachers, and scholars had taken on the responsibility to preach, teach, and interpret the Scriptures.

This book examines how Gustav Radbruch, H.

Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.

Reframes gender variance and transition in positive, non-oppositional terms, informed by Christian constructive theologies of creation and personhood.

Investigates papal government in the later-twelfth century, focusing on the decrees issued at papal councils, and their reception.

Examines the complex relationship between Roman Catholicism and the global Irish diaspora in the nineteenth century for the first time.

The first systematic global study of how Christians respond to persecution, presenting new research by leading scholars of global Christianity.

Examines the social, legal and cultural challenges navigating the boundaries of ''normal''-''problematic''-''risky'' sexual behaviours among peers.

Explores the hidden history of unbelief in the early modern era through the lens of Momus, the Greek god of criticism and mockery.

Examines how early German Romanticism combined post-Kantian idealism and Platonic-Christian realism to develop a new aesthetics of religion.

Updates a neglected incarnational motif with contemporary conceptual resources to propose a novel model of Christ''s presence in the Eucharist.

Detailed study of the ICC''s practice in prosecuting gender-based crimes, current up to the ICC Statute''s twentieth anniversary in 2018.

An exploration of the theology of divine providence that is both critical and constructive in its outcomes.

Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.

Few treatments of Catholic Social Teaching are as comprehensive as this, and none is nearly so devoted to a critical scholarly presentation and analysis of the whole corpus.

Explores the profession of singing, operatic culture, and the representation of female performers on the nineteenth century French stage.

This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women''s literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.

Inventing Hebrews uncovers a template of arrangement ubiquitous in antiquity as the key to the conundrum of Hebrews'' structure and purpose.

Examines the first theory of consciousness in Western philosophy, dispelling the dogma that consciousness studies begins with Descartes.

Explores the aesthetic dimensions of biblical poetry, offering close readings of poems across the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

Examines the idea that new atheism and Protestant fundamentalism have the same historical origin, and share a range of surprising beliefs.

Explains how weakly institutionalized and male-dominant parties undermine descriptive representation in Brazil''s OLPR legislative elections.

Challenges the divide between political and literary history, in an analysis of a major polemical text from mid-ninth century Europe.

God''s simplicity and perfection shapes both God''s distinctive relation to creation and how theologians properly acknowledge this distinctiveness in thought.

Are You Leading on Empty?

Applies cutting-edge research and in-depth critical analysis to Aquinas'' most influential work, engaging with ethics, metaphysics, theology, and law.

This book shows how Paul''s tight link between resurrection and salvation both raised problems for and profoundly shaped Early Christian theology.

The first systematic study of the financing and management of parish church construction in England in the Middle Ages.

Take your place in God's plan for the finale of the agesNow updated and expanded, with several brand-new chapters and reflection questions following every chapter, this landmark text offers the most important and practical guidance Derek Prince imparted to believers in his last years: how to prepare for and take their places in the ultimate, ongoing spiritual battle.

Focusing on philosophical method in Augustine''s early dialogues, explains their pedagogical program and its relevance to current debates.

It is a comprehensive and critical study of the normative status of human nature in biotechnology from a Christian perspective.

This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.

Analyzes the labor experience of Israeli Palestinian women, arguing that state policies and widespread discrimination hinder their labor force participation and success.

The angels feature prominently in Augustine''s works.

How a distinctive approach to social policy led democracy to flourish in the Federal Republic of Germany despite its past.

Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.

A major illustrated collection offering a fresh interdisciplinary reading of Chinese women''s periodicals and history in the long twentieth century.

A wide-ranging analysis of grass-roots activism, migration, legal, political and religious changes as basis for social transformation.

Explores the social interactions and pathways that enabled Christianity to travel across Asia and to India.

The first book-length study of the outsider designations that early Christians used and what they reveal about the movement''s identity, self-understanding and character.

Women and Microfinance in the Global South is a grounded exploration of the intersections of neoliberal ideology and feminism.

This book challenges our assumptions about morality by explaining how industrialized philanthropy and universalized goodness came to dominate Chinese religious engagement.

This is study of the lived experience of monastic reform within the troubled and violent landscape of twelfth-century Germany.

This book applies and explores Catholic social thought, focusing on the relevance of the encyclical Laudato Si'' in an era of climate crises.

Examines how thirteenth-century clergymen used pastoral care - preaching, sacraments and confession - to increase their parishioners'' religious knowledge, devotion and expectations.

An original interpretation of the lives and social interactions of Quaker women in the British Atlantic between 1650 and 1750.

A major re-assessment of the Frankish historian Flodoard of Rheims, one of the tenth century''s most intriguing but neglected narrators.