Religion: general

This book provides a view of the work of philosopher Giorgio Agamben in relation to his own most basic theological premises and the discipline of theology.

We are haunted, Samuel Kimbriel suggests, by a habit of isolation buried, often imperceptibly, within our practices of understanding and relating to the world.

Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday TimesWhat is it about Adam and Eve s story that fascinates us?

This collection of essays and thoughts covers such areas as basic Christian thought, which includes traditional family morality and a great concern for alleviating poverty and promoting social justice, political thought comparing the need for a system which includes both socialist and capitalist elements, and the need for values in our society, which has come to emphasize money, power, and greed as philosophical goals and values, though they are not.

Exploring a range of subjects from the human genome project to Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, the poetry of Jorie Graham to feminist Christian art, the contributors pose questions around the theme 'Body and Voice'.

Sometimes it is easy to view the Old Testament as difficult to apply to our day-to-day lives.

This volume advances our understanding of early Christianity as a lived religion by approaching it through its rites, the emotions and affects surrounding those rites, and the material setting for the practice of them.

Bjorn Krondorfer, one of the leading scholars in this field, has collected 35 key texts that have shaped this field within the wider area of the study of gender, religion and culture.

Originally published in 1994, The Earth, Humanity and God discusses the relationship between science and religion.

The emergence of the state of Israel has fundamentally changed the conditions of Jewish existence.

This book sets out a Christological framework for developing and delivering pastoral supervision.

This book presents an original understanding of Arendt in the context of comparative political theory.

The two-volume work The New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers offers a comparative study of two collections of early Christian texts: the New Testament; and the texts, from immediately after the New Testament period, which are conventionally referred to as the Apostolic Fathers.

Across Africa, Christianity is thriving in all shapes and sizes.

The role of business in American politics has provoked much controversy and attention over recent years.

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As the global marketplace grows and becomes more complex, increasing stress is placed upon employees.

The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings.

Preachers often feel stuck when met with quickly shifting and dense media topics that flood the headlines.

The workplace is a key forum in which the issue of religion and its position in the public sphere is under debate.

This volume offers the most comprehensive survey available of the philosophical background to the works of early Christian writers and the development of early Christian doctrine.

Focuses on potential threats to human free will from two divine attributes: God''s foreknowledge and God''s providential control of creation.

A compelling book that casts the Qur'anic encounter with Jews in an entirely new lightIn this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted in the Qur'an and later Islamic literature, providing needed context to those passages critical of Jews that are most often invoked to divide Muslims and Jews or to promote Islamophobia.

It is widely recognised that the provision of an inclusive education is critical to maintaining high standards of learning and teaching for all students in higher education - a fact that is backed up by recent introduction of legislation and best practice guidelines around the world.

Reflecting the focus but also range of their honorand's work in medieval canon law in the era before Gratian, the essays in this volume explore the creation and transmission of canonical texts and the motives of their compilers but also address the issues of how the law was interpreted and used by diverse audiences in the earlier middle ages, with especial focus on the eleventh and early twelfth centuries.

The question of God's relationship to abstract objects touches on a number of perennial concerns related to the nature of God.

Adam Smith wrote in a Scotland where Calvinism, Continental natural law theory, Stoic philosophy, and the Newtonian tradition of scientific natural theology were key to the intellectual lives of his contemporaries.

The career of the French saint Vincent de Paul has attracted the attention of hundreds of authors since his death in 1660, but the fate of his legacy - entrusted to the body of priests called the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists) - remains vastly neglected.

What did Mao Zedong bring to China?

The issue of Christian Zionism is one that is fiercely debated within theology, the church, politics, and society.

This book develops creative imagining of traditional doctrines.

This book focuses on the long history of what is arguably the most prestigious and influential festival in Japan Kyoto's Gion festival.

Kenosis Creativity Architecture locates and explores creativity's grounding in the ancient concept of kenosis, the "e;emptying"e; that allows creativity to happen; that makes appearance possible.

The tensions between Calvinism and Arminianism have perpetuated Christian thought for some 500 years.

This collection of essays is an exercise in comparative philosophy of religion that explores the different ways in which humans express the inexpressible.

Just turning on the news lets us know we are living in uncertain times.

In Black Suffering, James Henry Harris explores the nexus of injustices, privations, and pains that contribute to the daily suffering seen and felt in the lives of Black folks.

Increasingly, the modern neo-liberal world marginalises any notion of religion or spirituality, leaving little or no room for the sacred in the public sphere.

This is the story of a Englishman who gave up a job in journalism to spend fourteen years with the controversial Indian mystic Osho, also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and frequently referred to as 'the sex guru'.

Natural theology is a philosophical site that is hotly debated and controversialit is claimed by Roman Catholics, Protestants, and Evangelicals as a crucial vantage point for the intersection of theology, philosophy, science, and politics, while it is, simultaneously, strongly contested by some theologians, such as those influenced by Karl Barth, as well as some philosophers and scientists, especially of the new atheist variety.

In many of the world's religions, both polytheistic and monotheistic, a seemingly enigmatic and paradoxical image is found--that of the god who worships.

Douglas Farrow seldom shies from controversy.

Indian Muslims form the largest ethnic minority within Singapore's otherwise largely Malay Muslim community.

In order to preserve contemporary understandings of the sciences, many figures of the Divine Action Project (DAP) held that God could never violate or suspend a law of nature, causing the marginalization of miracles from scholarly theology-science dialogue.

This lively and highly original study explores the link between visual culture and religion in terms of tales, memory and character.

Koheleth's powerful guidebook for living without certainty and security in a world of constant change can become a companion for your own spiritual journey.