Theology category: 9608 books
Family Theology
Finding God in Very Human Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The author blends spiritual narratives and biblical stories with behavioral theory to explain modern family life and its unique contributions to faith formation. This book offers hope and encouragement for people who have thought that God could not possibly bless them in their peculiar relationships...
An Agnostic in the Fellowship of Christ
The Ethical Mysticism of Albert Schweitzer
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
An Agnostic in the Fellowship of Christ: The Ethical Mysticism of Albert Schweitzer details the theology, ethics, and philosophy of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965). It surveys his entire corpus of religious writings, including his unfinished estate works, and explores...
A Man of Many Parts
Essays in Honour of John Bowker on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
A Man of Many Parts is an inspired homage to the life and thought of John Bowker, cleric, lecturer and broadcaster. Author of The Sense of God, Is God a Virus? and The Sacred Neuron, Bowker is an independent thinker of profound erudition with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and understanding....
Antoine de Chandieu
The Silver Horn of Geneva's Reformed Triumvirate
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Offering the first study in any language dedicated to the influential publications of the French Reformed theologian Antoine de Chandieu (1534-1591), Theodore Van Raalte begins by recalling Chandieu's reputation as it stood at the death of Theodore Beza in 1605. Poets in Geneva mourned the end of...
The Cappadocian Mothers
Deification Exemplified in the Writings of Basil, Gregory, and Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The Cappadocian Fathers had great influence on the church of the fourth century, having brought their passion for Christ and theological expertise to life in their ministry. Their work was not devoid of influence, including that of their immediate family members. Within their writings we uncover the...
Signs and Wonders
Theology After Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
We are told modernity's end will destabilize familiar ways of knowing, doing, and being, but are these changes we should dread—or celebrate? Four significant events (and the iconic images that represent them) catalyze this question: the consecration of openly gay Episcopalian bishop Gene Robinson,...
Kierkegaard and the Staging of Desire
Rhetoric and Performance in a Theology of Eros
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Theology in the modern era often assumes that the consummate form of theological discourse is objective prose—ignoring or condemning apophatic traditions and the spiritual eros that drives them. For too long, Kierkegaard has been read along these lines as a progenitor of twentieth-century neo-orthodoxy...
The Collected Works of Edward Schillebeeckx Volume 1
Christ the Sacrament of the Encounter with God
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This is a new edition of the 1963 classic which gave Christological thought a new direction. As far back as his first major book Schillebeeckx propounded an anthropological approach to the sacraments. In Christ the Sacrament of the Encounter with God , he draws on theologically fruitful work by phenomenological...
by Emmanuel Falque
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Properly original, the new version of this essay intends both to nourish debate and differentiate points of view. In its new articulation, the book justifies work that has been carried out since. It justifies the sense of Franciscan rootedness that has never been denied and at the same time opens...
The Loving Struggle
Phenomenological and Theological Debates
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
It has been 25 years since Dominique Janicaud derisively proclaimed the “theological turn” in French phenomenology due to the return of God to philosophy through the influence of “religious” thinkers such as Lévinas, Ricoeur, and Marion. Since then, the “theological turn” has flowered...
Divine Action and Providence
Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2019
The claim that God acts in the world is surely a basic theological claim, but it is one that has been construed in a wide variety of ways in the Christian theological tradition. In some accounts, God appears as the largest, first, and most powerful agent. In others, God is portrayed as the transcendent...
by T. R. Halvorson
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
This book offers a new kind of critique of The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity. It views The Shack from a confessional Lutheran perspective. Its primary concern is the chief article upon which the church stands or falls, namely, justification and the redemption we have in Jesus.Looking...
The End Is Music
A Companion to Robert W. Jenson’s Theology
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Robert Jenson has been praised by Stanley Hauerwas, David Bentley Hart, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and others as one of the most creative and important contemporary theologians. But his work is daunting for many, both because of its conceptual demands and because of Jenson's unusual prose style. This book...
Theologies of the Gospel in Context
The Crux of Homiletical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Many preachers and teachers of preaching talk about the gospel; few name it. Theologies of the Gospel in Context assembles a gifted group of homileticians who think that preachers need to be able to articulate the gospel not "in general," but in a certain time and place, in context. They...