Philosophy of religion

Dante and the Other brings together noted and emerging Dante scholars with theologians, philosophers, psychoanalysts, and psychotherapists, bridging the Florentine's premodern world to today's postmodern context.

At first sight the lives of hermits, living in solitude and committed to a life of prayer and contemplation seems to be a world apart of the active practice of interfaith dialogue.

This book introduces Christian readers of the Bible to the otherworldly way in which the rabbis of ancient times interpreted sacred texts.

Leading New Testament scholar Craig Keener, one of the most trusted exegetes working today, is widely respected for his thorough research, sound judgments, and knowledge of ancient sources.

The natural world has been "e;humanized"e;: even areas thought to be wilderness bear the marks of human impact.

This book applies Bernard Lonergan's thought to current issues in philosophy and in moral and other areas of theology.

Explore how the roots of the ancient Christian tradition inform and shape faithfulness todayThe Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible enlists leading theologians to read and interpret scripture creedally for the twenty-first century, just as the church fathers, the Reformers, and other orthodox Christians did for their times and places.

The Social-Science Commentary series pioneers an alternative commentary genre, providing in this volume the text of the deutero-Pauline letters and cultural notes on them.

Iulius Africanus ist mit Recht als der Vater der christlichen Chronographie"e; bezeichnet worden.

Der Kampf zwischen David und Goliat, Absalom, der sich beim Aufstand gegen David im Geäst eines Baums verfängt, David und Batseba: Das Erste und Zweite Buch Samuel stammen nicht von einem Autor, sondern sind Traditionsliteratur.

Meistens wird vermutet, dass die biblischen Hiskija-Erzählungen im 6.

Theologie als Zeit-Ansage: Welcher Zeit geht die Christenheit entgegen?

The Early Text of the New Testament aims to examine and assess from our earliest extant sources the most primitive state of the New Testament text now known.

Accessible and comprehensive, Contemporary Theology: An Introduction by professor and author Kirk R.

Examining contemporary films, sculptures, and graphic novels influenced by the Gospel of Mark, Hal Taussig and Maia Kotrosits break new ground in ways of understanding traditional religious texts.

Models of Time and Space from Astrophysics and World Cultures explores how our conceptions of time, space, and the physical universe have evolved across cultures throughout the centuries.

In seinen einschlägigen Vorträgen im Rahmen der ökumenischen Bewegung in den frühen 1930er Jahren entfaltet Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) angesichts der brennenden Frage nach Wesen und Auftrag internationaler ökumenischer Gemeinschaft Ansätze einer ökumenischen Theologie, die als Fundament, Ausgangspunkt und Orientierung kirchlichen Handelns dienen soll.

This book newly articulates the international and interdisciplinary reach of Whitehead's organic process cosmology for a variety of topics across science and philosophy, and in dialogue with a variety historical and contemporary voices.

Mind and Body in Early China critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, "e;holistic"e; other.

From the Preface:"e;Get real"e; was a slang term that became popular in the 1960's when Michael Hickey was growing up in East Boston.

The Handbook of Religion and Health has become the seminal research text on religion, spirituality, and health, outlining a rational argument for the connection between religion and health.

Philosophers of religion and theologians have long wrestled with the concept of revelation.

When you look at the world, what do you see?

Pauline- and Gospel-centred readings have too long provided the normative understanding of Christian identity.

The Fire and the Cloud is a non-supersessionist biblical Christology developed from close readings of Israel's Scriptures.

There exists a general lack of biblical understanding for the idea of ';testing' that emerges in the Old Testament as a significant theological theme.

In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology.

A primer on the current "e;Niebuhr revival"e; of the political left and right, this book traces the significance of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought for secular as well as deeply Christian minds.

Lavishly illustrated with over 100 color photographs, Places of Faith takes readers on a fascinating religious road trip.

This book, first published in 1981, provides a penetrating and lucid introduction to the philosophy of education.

Richard J.

A pastor walks out of the church and into the woods, in pursuit of the God he's lost.

Embedded within the Bible lies a largely unknown story of the founding of early Israel and its religion, interwoven with tales documenting the creation of the Torah.