Religion: general

This study places Paul''s epistle in the context of ancient theories and literary practices of ''consolation''.

A Story of YHWH investigates the ancient Israelite expression of their deity, and tracks why variation occurred in that expression, from the early Iron Age to the Persian period.

The author of Christ at the Checkpoint analyzes the appeal of Pentecostalism, from the belief in miracles to tongue-talking to the prosperity gospel.

The "e;Great Whore"e; of the Book of Revelationthe hostile symbolization used to illustrate the authors critique of empirehas attracted considerable attention in Revelation scholarship.

First published in 1972 Death in the Secular City grapples with questions like is resurrection and immortality a meaningful concept in the age of lunar expedition, what are the appropriate symbols for renewed belief in heaven etc.

In recent years religion has resurfaced amongst academics, in many ways replacing class as the key to understanding Europe's historical development.

In diesem Buch wird versucht, Leserinnen und Lesern eine Hilfe anzubieten, mit Hilfe des kontemplativen Betens den christlichen Glauben zu verinnerlichen und dem Ziel näher zu kommen, das JESUS CHRISTUS folgendermaßen formuliert hat: "Ich habe die Herrlichkeit, die du mir gegeben hast, ihnen gegeben, damit sie eins seien, gleichwie wir eins sind.

The enduring importance of his book The Golden Bough keeps J.

This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbis' new purity discourse generated a unique notion of a bodily self.

Toward a Postmodern Ethic of Radical Freedom is one of the first, if not the first, to bring Cornel West and Michel Foucault together in a meaningful dialogue to formulate "e;a postmodern ethic of radical freedom.

Right from the beginning of humankind, God has never deprived a people of his grace and revelation.

Discusses the speeches in which the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI reflected most explicitly on law, justice, democracy, and reason.

The Fourfold Gospel, most often associated with Albert B.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Islamist organizations' conceptions of political order based on a comparative case study of the Shiite Lebanese Hezbollah and the Sunni Palestinian Hamas.

Comparing the spread of Christianity to the East to its more successful spread to the West, Montgomery illustrates the uneven diffusion of one of the world's most influential and successful religions.

In this book, Peter Hartl offers a novel and comprehensive interpretation of David Hume's philosophy of religion focusing on various notions of 'true religion' in Hume's overall philosophy and how these ideas relate to various early modern positions on religion, society and philosophy.

A bioethic of obligations and responsibilities, based on the Jewish traditionThe Jewish tradition has important perspectives, history, and wisdom that can contribute significantly to crucial contemporary healthcare deliberations.

In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, 'selfless love' can appear as a threat to the lover's personal well-being.

Davies outlines the composition and date of Numbers, and the various attempts that have been made to establish a coherent and meaningful structure in its arrangement.

Southwestern Journal of Theology 2022 Book Award (Honorable Mention, Biblical Studies)This survey textbook is grounded in the view that the prophetic books of the Old Testament should be read as Christian Scripture.

This volume explores how the visual arts are presenting and responding to Christian theology and demonstrates how modern and contemporary artists and artworks have actively engaged in conversation with Christianity.

A companion series to the acclaimed Word Biblical CommentaryFinding the great themes of the books of the Bible is essential to the study of God's Word and to the preaching and teaching of its truths.

An impressive interdisciplinary effort by Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and Western Sinologists and Judaic Studies specialists, these books scrutinize patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation, and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately A.

Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) lived an active, demanding academic and ecclesiastical life that ended while he was still comparatively young.

Psychoanalysis and Ethics: The Necessity of Perspective is an attempt to look deeply into the relationship between psychoanalysis and ethics, and in particular into the failure of traditional psychoanalytic thinking to recognise the foundational character of ethical values.

"Dekoloniales Denken" aus Lateinamerika bietet neue programmatische Impulse für die Religionswissenschaft und Interkulturelle Theologie.

Rabbi Evan Moffic has a passion for sharing Judaism and its traditions with Christian audiences.

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1651-1695) was the most significant literary figure of the colonial period in Spanish America.

Dan Taylor was a leading English eighteenth-century General Baptist minister and founder of the New Connexion of General Baptists--a revival movement.

In recent years, resilience has become a near ubiquitous cultural phenomenon whose influence extends into many fields of academic enquiry.

Dramatic changes have taken place in the last decade with respect to the views of the American Jewish community toward Israel and Zionism.

In popular tradition witches were either practitioners of magic or people who were objectionable in some way, but for early European courts witches were heretics and worshippers of the Devil.

When a fire severely burned a small boy and displaced his family, it left lingering marks on the entire neighborhood.

The study of emotions and emotional displays has achieved a deserved prominence in recent classical scholarship.

Originally published in 1972, Medieval Monarchy in Action covers a period extending from the reign of Henry I to the early years of Henry IV.

Humanity: Texts and Contexts is a record of the 2007 Singapore Building Bridges seminar, an annual dialogue between Muslim and Christian scholars cosponsored by Georgetown University and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Recent Developments in Trinitarian Theology explores the major renaissance that Trinitarian theology has undergone in recent decades.

Addresses the problem of the disruption of peace with war against Jerusalem in the Gospel of Luke.

This book covers the theological, philosophical, mystical, topographical, architectural and ritual aspects of the Muslim belief in paradise and hell.

This ground-breaking and eye-opening book examines the intersections of religion and same-sex desire, from St.

What vision for our political life does Christian faith affirm and how might its principles be applied to specific political issues?

The Liturgies of Quakerism explores the nature of liturgy within a form of worship based in silence.

Christianity has been accused of being misogynistic, pro-slavery, and anti-science, and some say it is finally beginning its long decline.

A contribution to the field of theological aesthetics, this book explores the arts in and around the Pentecostal and charismatic renewal movements.

This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe.

A stimulating inquiry into one of the great religious mysteries - and what theologians, artists, writers, psychologists, priests, historians and people from all religions and walks of life have thought of heaven, where many of us still hope to go one day.

Die Heilige Schrift Israels - in christlicher Leseweise das Alte Testament - ist der Horizont der neutestamentlichen Christusverkündigung.