Philosophy and Religion

Artistic representations were of significant value to early Christian communities.

In Dialectical Theology and Jacques Ellul, Jacob E.

There are two philosophical commitments requisite to Christian belief: that God is the ultimate mystery and that God is present and active in the world.

The modern and contemporary legacy of Luther's theology is a vital topic of continuing investigation, assessment, and construction.

One of the most persistent, if vexing, issues is the state of affairs in the ancient land of Palestine.

Did our modern understanding of just war originate with Augustine?

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A brief history of assisting ministers in Christian worship, what makes a good assisting minister, and a step-by-step walk through the role.

Future of the Prophetic argues that in the persistence of the prophetic, the legacy of the ancient Jewish world spread beyond the boundaries of the Jewish community and took root throughout the world.

Light is one of the most ancient and significant metaphors adopted by Christianity by which to understand the significance of Jesus Christ.

Focuses on the formative role of baptism not only for the individual being baptized but the church.

Practical help, encouragement, preparation exercises, and spiritual wisdom for those who serve as readers in worship.

Seng-Kong Tan argues that human participation in the divinea classical theological axiom most notably associated with the Eastern Orthodox traditionis a central theme in the theology of Jonathan Edwards.

The identification of God with beauty is one of the most aesthetically rich notions within Christian thought.

The twentieth century witnessed renewed interest in a Roman Catholic theology of the word.

Was Esther uniquean anomaly in patriarchal society?

In Portraits of a Mature God, Mark McEntire traced the narrative development of the divine character in the Old Testament, placing the God portrayed at the end of that long story at the center of theological discussion.

Important ecclesiastical documents have stressed the urgency of addressing world hunger and put in the foreground its natural and historical causes, from famine to global austerity measures and welfare.

Rebecca Todd Peters argues for an ethic of solidarity as a new model for how people of faith in the first world can live with integrity in the midst of global injustice and shape a more just future.

In the subsistence agricultural social context of the Hebrew Bible, children were necessary for communal survival.

Giving careful exegetical attention to Paul’s letter to the Romans, Kevin W.

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.

Martin Luther did not reform the church by himself.

In contemporary reflection on Christianity and politics, the work of realist, witness, and feminist theologians has been done in isolation—that is, each school has largely pursued its projects without incorporating the insights of the others.

In this volume, prominent scholars take the reader on a journey from New Testament and early church views of incarnation to contemporary understandings of Christology.

It is a commonplace today that Paul was a Jew of the Hellenistic Diaspora, but how does that observation help us to understand his thinking, his self-identification, and his practice?

The pseudo-Clementine writings are one of the most intriguing and valuable sources for early Jewish Christianity.

Melvin traces the emergence and development of the motif of angelic interpretation of visions from late prophetic literature (Ezekiel 4048; Zechariah 16) into early apocalyptic literature (1 Enoch 1736; 7282; Daniel 78).

Arguing for a retrieval of the landmark work, Gods Fierce Whimsy, Stina Busman Jost establishes the critical importance of this volume for the construction of a dialogic theological method.

Key to a theology of scripture are the important issues of history, consciousness, rhetoric, and how theology functions in relation to interpretation of Christianitys religious texts.

Toward the end of his career, Karl Barth made the provocative statement that perhaps what Schleiermacher was up to was a theology of the third article and that he anticipated in the future that a true third-article theology would appear.

Memory and Covenant applies new insights into the meaning and function of social memory to analyze the two major “religions” of the Pentateuch (D and P) and their relationship to one another.

Much of the scholarship on the book of Kings has focused on questions of the historicity of the events described.

We are constantly engaged in processing data and sensory inputs all around us, even when we are not conscious of the many neural pathways our minds are traveling.

Maia Kotrosits challenges the contemporary notion of “early Christian literature,” showing that a number of texts usually so described—New Testament writings including Hebrews, Acts, the Gospel of John, Colossians, and 1 Peter, as well as the letters of Ignatius, the Gospel of Truth, and the Secret Revelation of John—are “not particularly interested” in a distinctive Christian identity or self-definition.

One of the most prominent Sunni clerics in the Muslim world today, Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi influences the discourse around matters central to the Islamic faith and to Islam's relationship with Western culture.

Scott Shauf compares the portrayal of the divine in Acts with portrayals of the divine in other ancient historiographical writings, the latter including Jewish and wider Greco-Roman historiographical traditions.

As one of the pillars of the nouvelle thologie movement, a main influence upon the Second Vatican Council, and one of the few figures to complete a full-scale multi-volume systematics, Hans Urs von Balthasar is undoubtedly one of the towering figures of twentieth-century theology.

Volume 3 of The Annotated Luther series presents five key writings that focus on Martin Luther's understanding of the gospel as it relates to church, sacraments, and worship.

There has been a distinct tendency in modern scholarship to underestimate Luther’s teaching on love by overemphasizing his teaching on justification.

Mary continues to be a source of theological interest and concern for Catholics and Protestants alike.

What is it about human beings that makes us capable and even desirous of inflicting terrible suffering on others (and ourselves)?

The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5‒7) is the best-known repository of the teachings of Jesus and one of the most studied.

Mark A.

Biblical scholars have often contrasted the exegesis of the early church fathers from the eastern region and school of Syrian Antioch against that of the school of Alexandria.

Jonathan Edwards and the Life of God aims to offer a retrieval of Edwards’s theology of participation for contemporary evangelical theology.

Between Apocalypse and Eschaton examines the systematic theology of Henri de Lubac, SJ, one of the most significant Catholic theologians of the twentieth century.

A Free Corrector evaluates Colin Gunton’s controversial treatment of Augustine’s theological legacy.

A fundamental problem in Christian theology has been that of determining whether God can be an object of experience and how we should account for God’s empirical availability to us.

This volume highlights points of agreement and disagreement on the subject of religious pluralism.