Theology category: 9608 books
by Hyun-Ah Kim, Ann Loades, Michael Taylor Ross
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Music does not make itself. It is made by people: professionals and amateurs, singers and instrumentalists, composers and publishers, performers and audiences, entrepreneurs and consumers. In turn, making music shapes those who make it—spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, socially, politically,...
Theological Ethics and Moral Value Phenomena
The Experience of Values
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
The experience of moral values is often side-lined in discussions about moral reasoning, and yet our values define a large part of our moral motives, standards and expectations. Theological Ethics and Moral Value Phenomena explores whether the experience of a meeting point of the immanent and the...
Panentheism--The Other God of the Philosophers
From Plato to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Panentheism has gained popularity among contemporary thinkers. This belief system explains that "all is in God"; as a soul is related to a body, so God is related to the world. In Panentheism--The Other God of the Philosophers, philosopher and theologian John Cooper traces the growth and...
John Hick and the Universe of Faiths
A Critical Evaluation of the Life and Thought of John Hick
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
John Hick was one of the twentieth century's most influential and creative philosophers of religion. In this book, Sinkinson charts the development of Hick's thinking over his life and how this shaped his engagement with world religions. Attention is paid to Hick's epistemology and how this was key...
Jesus and the Father
Modern Evangelicals Reinvent the Doctrine of the Trinity
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
The doctrine of the Trinity is one of the cornerstones of Christianity. In Jesus and the Father, Kevin Giles wrestles with questions about the Trinity that are dividing the evangelical community: What is the error called “subordinationism”? Is the Son eternally subordinated to the Father in function?...
The Gospel according to Heretics
Discovering Orthodoxy through Early Christological Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Since what Christian doctrine denies can be as important as what it affirms, it is important to understand teachings about Jesus that the early church rejected. Historians now acknowledge that proponents of alternative teachings were not so much malicious malcontents as they were misguided or even...
The Pastoral Epistles
A Course Study in Practical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
An essential course of study for church leaders and candidates for Christian ministry
*‘*Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching’ (1 Tim. 4:16)
This course is a study of the three New Testament Epistles traditionally attributed to the apostle Paul - The ‘Pastoral Epistles’...
Christina Rossetti
Poetry, Ecology, Faith
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is regarded is one of the greatest Christian poets to write in English. While Rossetti has firmly secured her place in the canon, her religious poetry was for a long time either overlooked or considered evidence of a melancholic disposition burdened by faith. Recent scholarship...
Paraphrases on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Ephesians, Philippans, Colossians, and Thessalonians
Paraphrases on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Ephesians, Philippans, Colossians, and Thessalonians
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2009
As part of his effort to make the Bible an effective instrument of reform in society, church, and everyday life, Erasmus composed the Paraphrases. In these series of texts, the Holy Scripture provides the core of a work that is vastly expanded to embrace the reforming "philosophy of Christ"...
Dynamics of Difference
Christianity and Alterity: A Festschrift for Werner G. Jeanrond
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
This Festschrift in honour of Werner G. Jeanrond, currently Master of St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford, UK, investigates the challenge of alterity for Christianity, exploring and elaborating on this core concern in Jeanrond's hermeneutical theology. Blurring disciplinary boundaries, more than...
by Gabrielle Kelly, Joy Sandefur
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
A literacy training tool for students who are learning theology and for whom English is a second language or for those who are studying theology or scripture at the parish level. The book is a textbook with over 150 words that come with a definition and an exercise. The book is illustrated with art...
by Gerald O'Collins, SJ, and Edward G. Farrugia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Identifies and clarifies a thousand central terms, providing necessary information about their origin, the history of their usage, and their place in the story of Christianity.
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Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
It’s time to open your eyes to the freeing power of authentic grace—grace that releases us from trying to earn God's favor, grace that enables us to rest in the finished work of Christ, grace that liberates from the tyranny of trying to please others.
That's what the theology...
Aspects of Reforming
Theology and Practice in Sixteenth Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The book illustrates the fact that in reforming theology sixteenth century theologians also reformed practice or the imperatives of Christian living.
Experts in reformation studies identify and elucidate areas of sixteenth century reforming activity in Martin Luther, John Calvin and other leading...