History of religion

For two decades, Eugene Kennedy was one of the church's fiercest critics in the sexual abuse crisis, with frequent articles in National Catholic Reporter.

The Ecumenical Work of the Icon is an invitation to the students and faculties of Catholic seminaries to be a part of the tradition of the icon through the lens of ecumenis.

How does liturgy impact the formation of faith?

Although much has been written about P-12 teaching from a biblical perspective, this study focuses on Christ's relationships with a diverse group of individuals: wealthy and poor, women and men, unschooled and well-educated, loud and quiet, influential and powerless, those whom Jesus knew well and those who were strangers to him, those of his own faith and culture as well as those outside of it.

This volume looks at how mid-seventeenth-century debates on the government and order of the Church related to the political crisis of the time.

South Asians make up one of the largest diasporas in the world and Christians form a relatively large share of it.

Each Other's Angels: Practicing Personalism in the Catholic Worker Tradition introduces readers to author Toni Flynn's vision of justice and compassion, informed by the Scriptures and inspired by the Catholic Worker Movement of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin.

Satan's transformation from opaque functionary to chief antagonist is one of the most striking features of the development of Jewish theology in the Second Temple Period and beyond.

In the wake of the 2003 General Convention approval of the consecration of Gene Robinson, an openly gay and partnered man, to be a bishop, the Convention of the Diocese of Pittsburgh took steps to secede from the Episcopal Church.

Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805-1880) was a pastoral counselor and theologian of hope.

All signs point to Christian education having lost its theological location and prominence in the life of the Western Protestant church.

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Judith tells the story of a beautiful Jewish woman who enters the tent of an invading general, gets him drunk, and then slices off his head, thus saving her village and Jerusalem.

Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945.

The Augsburg Confession is the single most-important confession of faith among Lutherans today.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most influential Christian martyrs in history, bequeathed to humanity a legacy of theological creativity and spirituality that continues to intrigue people from a variety of backgrounds.

Introduce your child to the practice of ending the day with a prayer with this calming bedtime book.

Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church is part of Ad Fontes: Early Christian Sources, a series designed to present ancient Christian texts essential to an understanding of Christian theology, ecclesiology, and practice.

This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.

Although scholars increasingly understand Scripture to contain political dimensions and implications, the interpretation of Scripture is often marginalized in most scholarly discussions of political theology.

Women in the Bible aren't shy or retiring; they're fierce and funny and demanding and relevant to 21st-century people.

A new, definitive atlas of the European Reformations has been needed for many years.

The love of God crosses all boundaries.

Christ in Our Home is a quarterly Christian devotional that brings you a daily message of God's amazing grace.

Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000-1250), relating medieval gossip, marital woes, and the voices of men and women of a world long gone.

Very many people, including not a few Christians, do not find the Christian tradition very helpful for making sense of sex.

Gift and Promise shows how the theology of the Augsburg Confession is a gift for the world today.

Our Hope and Expectation explores the Advent season and celebrates the joy of the twelve days of Christmas and the day of Epiphany.

The postmodern human condition and relationship to God were forged in response to Auschwitz.

This book explores why the metaphor of the church as a family is insufficient.

In this significant book Mark C.

Hans Urs von Balthasar, one of the preeminent theologians of Roman Catholic theology in the modern era, constructed a theological world suffused by the literary, a vision carried across over 16 volumes of his magnum opus.

The Word in Season is a quarterly Christian devotional that connects faith and life in a timely reflection for each day.

Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world.

Helmut Gollwitzer was a direct heir of the theological legacy of the great Protestant theologian Karl Barth.

Monastic experience in twelfth-century Germany provides a rare window on to monastery life in the tumultuous world of twelfth-century Swabia.

Making Sense of Martin Luther uses a conversational format to explore how Luther’s dynamic understanding of God’s life-changing gospel informs day-to-day faith and life in the world today.

As profound as Martin Luther's ideas are, this giant of church history was concerned above all with practical instruction for daily Christian living.

From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience, to nineteenth-century decadent literature, and to early-twentieth century essayistic forms of writing and film, Niklaus Largier shows that mystical practices have been reinvented across the centuries, generating a notion of possibility with unexpected critical potential.

Resuscitate your relationship with the BibleA lot of us have tried to read the Bible.

Christ in Our Home is a quarterly Christian devotional that brings you a daily message of God's amazing grace.

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Martin Luther‘s effort to put God at the very center of human life hinged on five principles: sola gratia, sola fide, sola Scriptura, solus Christus, and ecclesia semper reformanda.

Mother of the Lamb tells the remarkable story of a Byzantine image that emerged from the losing side of the Crusades.

Green Mass is a meditation on-and with-twelfth-century Christian mystic and polymath Saint Hildegard of Bingen.

This book opens a window into the lives and extraordinary witness of a Christian couple whose faithful life of service has earned them the moniker of Ethiopias Bonhoeffer.

Few scholars have so shaped the contemporary debate on the relation of early Christianity to early Judaism as E.

This book reconsiders the question of Martin Luther's relationship with Rome in all its sixteenth-century manifestations: the early-modern city he visited as a young man, the ancient republic and empire whose language and literature he loved, the Holy Roman Empire of which he was a subject, and the sacred seat of the papacy.