Theology category: 9608 books

Since childhood, I have experienced several very unusual, unnatural events, a couple bordering on the supernatural. “Supernatural” being the natural as yet discovered and explained by modern science. This book will also summarize some very funny events during our days with the circus and while...

Beauty’s Vineyard: A Theological Aesthetic of Anguish and Anticipation, part spiritual memoir, part systematic theology, opens with an interpretation of the parable of the tenants and concludes with the parable of the workers in the vineyard. In between unfolds a systematic theology of anguish and...

The Christian Bible serves as the sacred scripture of the Christian community. It is read regularly by many people around the world today, as it has been for centuries. But how should one interpret this text? This reader presents a variety of perspective on how to relate historical and theological...

Drawing on cultural studies scholar Kuan-Hsing Chen's threefold notion of decolonization, deimperialization, and de-cold-war, this book provides analyses of the interrelated issues concerning the relationship between Christianity and the United States' imperialist militarism in the Asia Pacific. Contributors...

Is knowing a purely passive reception of something concrete outside the mind, or when we know something, are we creating something too? Spanning more than 500 years of philosophical enquiry from the Middle Ages to the present day, Robert Miner clarifies modern philosophical conceptions of knowing...

His Hiding Place is Darkness explores the uncertainties of faith and love in a pluralistic age. In keeping with his conviction that studying multiple religious traditions intensifies rather than attenuates religious devotion, Francis Clooney's latest work of comparative theology seeks a way beyond...

We are experiencing God always. The experience of God, however, transcends our capacity to comprehend it. We will never fully grasp what God is, but this does not mean we should stop trying. Our ideas about God set the tone for our spiritual development. The further we are willing to journey into...

• first study of its kind in over 70 years • addresses response of faith communities to personal and social ethical concerns; Christian involvement in social justice work; interaction between churches and First Nations; churches and immigration

Healings and miracles play a prominent role in the New Testament accounts of Jesus’ life and ministry. In the Western Christian tradition, however, Jesus’ works of healing tend to be downplayed and understood as little more than a demonstration of his divine power. In this book Jan-Olav...

Aunque el término «Teología infantil» es una invención del siglo XXI, la sustancia de la teología infantil es tan antigua como las Buenas Nuevas de Jesús. Cuando sus discípulos cometieron una serie de errores en su argumento teológico acerca de la grandeza en el reino de Dios, Jesús colocó...

This book has three major themes: the nature of the universe, what the nature of the universe tells us about God, and in using our understanding of the universe and the nature of God, we conjecture a life after death or immortality.

In this contribution the author examines the interpretation of 1 Timothy 2:12 and of the Acts 18,26 in the patristic tradition. From an analytical reading of the patristic texts, where the aforementioned scriptural passages recur, the author deduces the essential traits, through which the role of the woman in the church and in the family is expressed.

Angels: Servants of Christ for the Sake of the Church is a careful biblical study of angelic beings and their purpose. Angels are supernatural creatures, made by God for a particular purpose. Angels are first of all servants of Christ. Angels do not exist for their own sake but for the sake of the...

A daily Luther breviary for pastors and laity, for use in college, seminary, and university, and for reading at home; the book is suitable for Christian believers, inquirers, as well as for those interested in studying Reformation history. Martin Luther did not bequeath to us a system of theological...