Theology category: 9608 books
The Mystery of God
Theology for Knowing the Unknowable
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
How can I know God if he is incomprehensible? Is it possible to know God in a way that takes seriously the fact that he is beyond knowledge? Steven Boyer and Christopher Hall argue that the "mystery of God" has a rightful place in theological discourse. They contend that considering divine...
"Without Ceasing to be a Christian"
A Catholic and Protestant Assess the Christological Contribution of Raimon Panikkar
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Since his death in 2010, there has been continuing and growing interest in the life, vision, and thought of the late Spanish-Indian mystical theologian Raimon Panikkar. This volume offers a descriptive and critical assessment of Panikkar‘s life and extensive writings about Christ. The chapters by...
All Things New
Revelation as Canonical Capstone
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
For many readers of the Bible, the book of Revelation is a riddle that fascinates and frustrates. Scholars and teachers have proposed different keys to its interpretation, including the "futurist" and historical-critical approaches. However, none of these adequately demonstrates the continuing,...
by Paul Helm, Roger Olson, John Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Perspectives on the Doctrine of God presents in counterpoint form four basic common beliefs on the doctrine of God that have developed over the course of church history with a goal of determining which view is most faithful to Scripture.
Contributors to this fifth book in the PERSPECTIVES series...
Crazy Talk
A Not-So-Stuffy Dictionary of Theological Terms
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
So much theology is confusing and intimidating. The concepts themselves are given weighty-sounding names, such as incarnation and justification, and the explanations of the concepts sometimes can be more confusing than the names.
Captivating, entertaining, and highly informative, Crazy Talk helps...
by William E. May
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
"In this revision of his already classic text, William May shows us once again the wisdom of the Catholic Church's moral tradition in its application to contemporary bioethics. Illuminating and engaging - and with the attention to nuance that marks all of May's writing." - Edward J. Furton,...
Broken Hallelujahs
Why Popular Music Matters to Those Seeking God
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Building on the success of One Step Closer: Why U2 Matters to Those Seeking God, Christian Scharen shows how to engage faith and culture through a wide range of popular music, including the blues, hip-hop, and rock. He examines artists such as Arcade Fire, Kanye West, Leonard Cohen, and Billie Holiday,...
Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies)
Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans--as Augustine noted--are "desiring agents," full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love.
James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy...
by Nicholas Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
How can the world's religious traditions debate within the public sphere? In this book, Nicholas Adams shows the importance of Habermas' approaches to this question. The full range of Habermas' work is considered, with detailed commentary on the more difficult texts. Adams energetically rebuts some...
by St. Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
St. Thomas is not only the king of theologians, but the prince of moralists, and it has seemed a pity that his own words on matters of daily practice should have been so long inaccessible to the English reader. Technical Latin is not attractive to those who are unversed in it, and the student of ethics...
God's Grace and Human Action
Merit' in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Offering a fresh approach to one significant aspect of the soteriology of Thomas Aquinas, God's Grace and Human Action brings new scholarship and insights to the issue of merit in Aquinas's theology. Through a careful historical analysis, Joseph P. Wawrykow delineates the precise function of merit...
by Athanasius
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
On the Incarnation with an introduction by C.S. Lewis
By any standard, this is a classic of Christian theology. Composed by St. Athanasius in the fourth century, it expounds with simplicity the theological vision defended at the councils of Nicaea and Constantinople: that the Son of God himself...
Monstrous Fictions
Reflections on John Calvin in a Time of Culture War
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
The Reformer John Calvin has influenced America in a formative way. Calvin remains respected as a theologian to whose work intellectuals on both the right and left appeal. In the nineteen-nineties, Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT) formed a politically influential ecumenical coalition to oppose...
The Pretenses of Loyalty
Locke, Liberal Theory, and American Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
In the face of ongoing religious conflicts and unending culture wars, what are we to make of liberalism's promise that it alone can arbitrate between church and state? In this wide-ranging study, John Perry examines the roots of our thinking on religion and politics, placing the early-modern founders...