History of religion

Gail Ramshaw frames this new introduction to Christianity around the basic questions that students ask.

The Study Companion is a valuable additional resource for introductory courses in church history that use Tim Dowley's popular Introduction to the History of Christianity.

At the origin of the Watchers tradition is the single enigmatic reference in Genesis 6 to the sons of God who had intercourse with human women, producing a race of giants upon the earth.

Volume 4 of The Annotated Luther series presents an array of Luthers writings related to pastoral work.

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Scholars are now at work not only rethinking Schleiermachers relation to the modern and contemporary theological tradition, but re-examining the dogmatic intricacies and commitments within his texts.

This broadly adopted textbook weds literary and historical approaches to focus on the New Testaments structure and meaning.

The story of Abraham and Isaac is a story of near universal importance.

Volume 2 of The Annotated Luther series contains a number of the writings categorized under the theme Word and Faith.

For the first time the essential theological writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer have been drawn together in a helpful one-volume format.

Theologians in Their Own Words is a volume of 23 brief, straight-forward autobiographical statements from many of the most important theologians and scholars of religion of recent decades.

Noting that Israel's earliest responses to earth-shaking changes were cast in the powerfully expressive language of poetry, Hugh R.

The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light.

What difference would it make for Old Testament theology if we turned our attention from the more dramatic, forceful "e;mighty acts of God"e; to the more subdued, but more realistic themes of later writings in the Hebrew Bible?

The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light.

Does Martin Luther have anything to say to us today?

1 Enoch was an important and popular text in ancient Judaism, well attested among the manuscripts at Qumran, and a key piece of the puzzle of the development of early Judaism and Christian origins.

No one can read far in the Old Testament without encountering numerous acts of violence that are sanctioned in the text and attributed to both God and humans.

Preaching, according to Bonhoeffer, is like offering an apple to a child.

No question has been as persistently nettling as the proper relationship of Christians and the Christian church to political power, and the results have often been calamitous.

The place and significance of Martin Luther in the long history of Christian anti-Jewish polemic has been and continues to be a contested issue.

This paperback edition of Walter Brueggemann's monumental work makes his important volume available at a lower price.

Walter Brueggemann declares that the necessary character of truly prophetic preaching today is "e;a contestation between narratives.

Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings has become the gold standard for use in seminary and college environments.

Luther's transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation.

The classic history of healing in the Christian church from biblical times to the present.

Jane Barter Moulaison's remarkable book engages contemporary critical understandings of Jesus Christincluding postcolonial, feminist, pluralist, ecological, and socialistto argue that the core convictions of traditional Christology remain a viable, valuable, and even indispensable witness to the gospel in an imperiled world.

For thirty years, Mark as Story has introduced readers to the rhetorical and narrative skill that makes Mark so arresting and compelling a story.

From their formulation in the sixteenth century through the present day, every generation of Lutheran leadership has grappled with the centrality and importance of the Lutheran confessional writings.

The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light.

The development of Martin Luther''s thought was both a symptom and moving force in the transformation of the Middle Ages into the modern world.

Relations between China and India underwent a dramatic transformation from Buddhist-dominated to commerce-centered exchanges in the seventh to fifteenth centuries.

The Dream of Zion tells the story of the Jewish political effort to restore their ancient nation.

The Book of Revelation has fired the imaginations of theologians, preachers, artists, and ordinary Christians across the centuries.

In 2008 a media firestorm erupted when snippets of Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr.

With the vote to bless same-sex marriages, the Episcopal Church becomes the largest U.

Latino Protestantism is growing rapidly in the United States.

Among Buddhist traditions, Zen has been remarkably successful in garnering and sustaining interest outside the Buddhist homelands of Asia, and "e;zen"e; is now part of the global cultural lexicon.

So you have a problem with evangelical Christians?

With the arrival of Clement V in 1309, seven popes ruled the Western Church from Avignon until 1378.

From disagreement over an Islamic Center in New York to clashes between Christians and Muslims in Egypt, tension between the three Abrahamic faiths often runs high.

The New Testament is filled with stories of Jesus eating with people-from extravagant wedding banquets to simple meals of loaves and fishes.

Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time.

Men of God, Men of War tells the stories of chaplains who have served in America's wars.

   In this fascinating account of the search for the remains of the world''s first pope, none other than Peter, the chief apostle of Jesus, Thomas J.

Tomáš Halík is a wise guide for the post-Christian era, and never more so than in his latest work, a thought-provoking and powerful reflection on the relationship between faith, paradox, change, and resurrection.

The most comprehensive work on labyrinths yet written.

Eight generations of the greatest and worst kings and queens that this country has ever seen - from the White Ship to the Lionheart, bad King John to the Black Prince and John of Gaunt - this is the dynasty that invented England as we still know it today - great history to appeal to readers of Ken Follet, Bernard Cornwell, Tom HollandEngland's greatest royal dynasty, the Plantagenets, ruled over England through eight generations of kings.

A modern interpretation of the classic erotic text.