This book explores how the themes and insights of official Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and broader Catholic social thought might illuminate, and be illuminated by, a deeper engagement with the context of prisons.
This new and revised edition of Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300 expands its survey of medieval Christian-Jewish relations in England, Spain, France and Germany with new material on canon law, biblical exegesis and Christian-Jewish polemics, along with an updated Further Reading section.
Cases of ex-Muslims in Europe being punished by their former fellow Muslims constitute an unacceptable practice from the standpoint of democratic societies in which human rights are respected and individuals have the freedom to choose their religion, or none at all.
Drawing from philosophy, religion, biology, behavioral and social sciences, and the arts, The Routledge International Handbooks of Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Character Development, Volumes I and II, present cutting-edge scholarship about the concept of character across the life span, the developmental and contextual bases of character, and the key organizations of societal sectors, within and across nations, that promote character development in individuals, families, and communities.
This book offers an account of religious schooling committed to 'queer-thriving' and envisions how queer staff and students can live their lives without being 'accommodated' within heteronormative religious traditions.
This book offers a comprehensive, biography-led examination of queenship in England between 850 and 1000, tracing the development of the queen's role from bed companion to institutional office.
This book offers an account of religious schooling committed to 'queer-thriving' and envisions how queer staff and students can live their lives without being 'accommodated' within heteronormative religious traditions.
Missiological calls for self-theologizing among faith communities present the field of practical theology with a challenge to develop methodological approaches that address the complexities of cross-cultural, practical theological research.
Suk Yu Chan provides a revisit of John Calvin's interpretation of the doctrine of divine providence and builds upon a vast repository of quality research conducted by previous Reformation scholars.
The emergence of urbanism in Iraq occurred under the distinctive climatic conditions of the Mesopotamian plain; rainy winters and extremely hot summers profoundly affected the formation and development of these early cities.
Eine in den letzten Jahrzehnten zunehmend verbreitete, reduktiv-naturalistische Vorstellung von der Natur, die ihre Plausibilität aus den Erfolgen der Naturwissenschaften, der Medizin und der Technik der Moderne und jüngst besonders aus den Erfolgen der Hirnforschung zieht, stellt ein christliches ebenso wie ein humanistisches Bild vom Menschen, zu dem (Willens-)Freiheit und Verantwortung gehören, in Frage.
Although Gershom Scholem presented his life in his autobiography as a one way movement from Berlin to Jerusalem, a closer look in mainly unpublished documents reveals a different picture.
Wer das Vaterunser seinen Aussagen und seiner Intention nach verstehen will, muss es innerhalb der antiken Zusammenhänge betrachten, in denen es entstand, überliefert wurde und ein ums andere Mal ausgelegt worden ist.
In January 2011, the David and Jemima Jeselsohn Epigraphic Center for Jewish History held its second international conference at Bar-Ilan University, dedicated to the memory of Professor Hanan Eshel, the founding academic director of the center who passed away on April 8th, 2010.
Edwards Amasa Park (1808-1900) of Andover championed Edwardsean Calvinism in the United States from the Jacksonian era until the very close of the nineteenth century by employing rhetorical strategies that lent his New England theology fresh apologetic usefulness.
Die so genannte »Freiburger Schule« innerhalb der Bibelwissenschaft gehört nach Gerd Theißen zu den »bedeutendsten Impulsen« aus katholischer Feder, die in die biblische Exegese in jüngster Zeit hineinwirken.
Der textkritische Wert der nur in Fragmenten erhaltenen Vetus Latina ist in der Exegese umstritten oder wird kaum wahrgenommen, da die Textzeugen relativ jung sind und häufig keine Einheitlichkeit aufweisen.
The biblical story of paradise sits deeply in the collective memory of the human race – at least within the three large monotheistic religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam – and is today one of best known texts in all of literature.
Die Hebräische Bibel der Juden, das Alte Testament der Christen ist seit dem Beinn der Neuzeit Gegenstand vielfältiger historisch-kritischer Bemühung gewesen, an der sich eine große Zahl bedeutender Gelehrter aus verschiedenen Nationen und Konfessionen beteiligt hat.
Im Kontext der aktuellen Debatten um ein angemessenes Verstehen des Apostels Paulus bietet Florian Wilk eine allgemeinverständliche Auslegung des ersten Korintherbriefes.
