While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity-categories that define the saint.
Although Martin Heidegger is nearly as notorious as Friedrich Nietzsche for embracing the death of God, the philosopher himself acknowledged that Christianity accompanied him at every stage of his career.
God Owes Us Nothing reflects on the centuries-long debate in Christianity: how do we reconcile the existence of evil in the world with the goodness of an omnipotent God, and how does God's omnipotence relate to people's responsibility for their own salvation or damnation.
To lack a basic knowledge of the Old Testament is a great hindrance to fully grasping how Jesus Christ fulfills ideals and expectations that were set in motion hundreds and thousands of years ago.
Nicht erst im Zuge der CoVid19-Pandemie und ihrer Auswirkungen auf die Lebens- und Arbeitswirklichkeit vieler Menschen wird in der Öffentlichkeit die Idee eines bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens diskutiert.
Exile and the disruptioon of the exilic period are prominent features in scholarly reconstructions of what influenced the shaping of biblical books and the development of theological thinking.
Whereas Victorian optimists imagined that armed conflict would gradually disappear as the world continued to head for universal peace and prosperity, the 20th century wiped out any such illusions.
In this book Klaus Fiedler offers a candid critique of religious faith healing claims - a critique that extents to the Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision Campaign (VMMCC).
Science and Spirituality is an attempt to highlight the spiritual potential within the recent and on-going discoveries in both the science of the quantum world and the science of the larger cosmos.
El presente libro de Alonso Chamorro, que lleva por título Los mejores mensajes de sabiduría de la Biblia es el quinto volumen de una serie de publicaciones sapienciales del mismo autor y se coloca en el ámbito de la sabiduría.
Unity of knowledge is not easily achieved in today,s Africa where often there is little conscious interaction between traditional beliefs, Christian faith and modern secularity.
Estas guias han sido preparadas como recursos pastorales para el trabajo de las iglesias, grupos de estudiantes universitarios y trabajadores de organizaciones cristianas que buscan discernir cuál es su rol como testigos de Jesucristo en el actual contexto de violencia que vivimos.
Um dos trabalhos filosóficos mais lidos e influentes de todos os tempos, "Assim falou Zaratustra" talvez deva sua extraordinária fortuna ao seu caráter híbrido: filosofia, religião e literatura nele se juntam de maneira complexa e atraente.
El origen de este libro es un importante acontecimiento en el cual el entonces cardenal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, hoy papa Francisco, tuvo un rol fundamental: la V Conferencia General del Episcopado Latinoamericano que se llevó a cabo en el santuario de Aparecida, Brasil, en mayo de 2007.
¿Por qué, en pleno siglo XXI, seguimos creyendo en algo o alguien superior, llámese Dios, meditación trascendental, espiritualidad o sentido de la vida?
This book is the first scholarly study of the famous Jesuit Chinese children's primer, the Four Character Classic, written by Giulio Aleni (1582-1649) while living in Fujian, China.
This book presents the building blocks of Islamic economics as meso-science, offering an in-depth study of the Qur'anic worldview of the monotheistic unity of knowledge, which is the universal and unique message of Tawhid in the Qur'an.