General Christianity category: 9124 books

In THE MIND'S ROAD TO GOD, St. Bonaventure maintains that one does not have to be a great rationalist, an erudite theologian, or a doctor of the church to know religious truth. One has only to look about one and observe that certain laws obtain, that there is order - and when it is seen, one has glimpsed...

During the year after its first publication in Russian in 1885, "God, Man and the Church" rapidly established a reputation as a seminal work of Russian theology. It is a penetrating examination of man's relationship - both as an individual and in society - with God. For Solovyev, personal...

In this book, Michael W. Higgins and Peter Kavanagh - respected for their impeccable research as well as their knowledge of all things Catholic - have produced the definitive critical look at how clerical abuse has wreaked havoc on the credibility of the Catholic Church in Canada. The authors go well...

Methodism has played a major role in all areas of public life in Australia but has been particularly significant for its influence on education, social welfare, missions to Aboriginal people and the Pacific Islands and the role of women. Drawing together a team of historical experts, Methodism in...

Carol Newsom illuminates the relation between the aesthetic forms of Job and the claims made by its various characters. Her innovative approach makes possible a new understanding of the unity of the book that rejects its dismantling in historical criticism and the flattening of the text that characterizes...

Could a work of revelation be justified as a viable theological project today, especially in light of some modern sceptics questioning its validity as a doctrinal discipline? Engaging with the work of theologians such as Karl Barth, Paul Tillich and Colin Gunton, Chung explores and justifies revelation...

Beyond the Problem of Evil tackles the reinventing the philosophy of religion by way of a topic familiar to anyone who has encountered the field. By considering how “the problem of evil” is historically structured by commitments to theism alongside the recent calls for cross-cultural relevance...

This ebook is one in a series of reviews that has been extracted in its entirety from M. James Ziccardi’s The Essence of Medieval Philosophy. It is intended to serve as a primer for students of medieval philosophy with an emphasis on some of the more important philosophical aspects of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae.

Das Christentum ist zwar die größte unter den Weltreligionen, es ist jedoch keine homogene Religionsgemeinschaft. Vielmehr ist das Christentum in rund 20.000 Konfessionen, Kirchen und Gruppierungen unterteilt, die teils sehr ähnliche, teils aber auch ganz konträre Glaubens- und Lebensvorstellungen...

Quel riche peut être sauvé est une œuvre de Saint Clément d'Alexandrie, Père de l'Église et lettré grec chrétien (150 - 220).   C'est en acquiesçant à la bonté essentielle de la création que Clément d'Alexandrie...

«J'adresse une invitation urgente à un nouveau dialogue sur la façon dont nous construisons l'avenir de la planète. Nous avons besoin d'une conversion qui nous unisse tous, parce que le défi environnemental que nous vivons, et ses racines humaines, nous concernent et nous touchent tous.»«J'espère...

Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preacher, abbess and scientist who used symbolic theology to explore the meaning of her gender within the...

Les deux traités traduits et commentés ici témoignent des évolutions du grand Réformateur en même temps que des principaux enjeux de sa controverse avec l'Eglise traditionnelle. Au printemps 1521, la réfutation latine dirigée contre Jacques Latomus, théologien de Louvain, se concentre sur...

Comment Luther, père de la Réforme, voyait-il Marie ? Écrit à une des époques les plus tourmentées de la vie de Luther, ce commentaire du Magnificat (paroles de Marie à sa cousine Élisabeth) est précieux à plusieurs titres. Il permet d’abord une initiation globale et pourtant profonde...