Theology category: 9608 books
Eternal Life: A New Vision
Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Drawing on a lifetime of wisdom, New York Times bestselling author and controversial religious leader John Shelby Spong continues to challenge traditional Christian theology in Eternal Life: A New Vision. In this remarkable spiritual autobiography about his lifelong struggle with the questions of God and death, he reveals how he ultimately came to believe in eternal life.
If God Made the Universe, Who Made God?
130 Arguments for Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Perhaps you remember being in a university class, feeling frustrated when the respected professor dismissed questions from a student because of her religious faith. Or maybe over a business lunch one of your colleagues referred to Christianity as a fairtytale, and you said nothing.
Many Christians...
by Michael Paul Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
In Faith Maps a theologian of great flair and originality ‘translates’ the voices of several leading thinkers into a series of reflections on faith and contemporary life and culture. The result is both a delightful introduction to theology and religion for students and general readers and a thought-provoking...
Hope Sings, So Beautiful
Graced Encounters Across the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In Hope Sings, So Beautiful, award-winning author Christopher Pramuk offers a mosaic of images and sketches for thinking and praying through difficult questions about race. The reader will encounter the perspectives of artists, poets, and theologians from many different ethnic and racial communities.
This...
Theological Reflection across Religious Traditions
The Turn to Reflective Believing
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Theological reflection — connecting real life, ministry, and religious traditions — is a core component of most pastoral training. It is also a hallmark of practical theology and a common spiritual exercise among ordinary Christians trying to discern how their beliefs might influence daily living....
by Francis J. Bremer
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Written by a leading expert on the Puritans, this brief, informative volume offers a wealth of background on this key religious movement. This book traces the shaping, triumph, and decline of the Puritan world, while also examining the role of religion in the shaping of American society and the role...
Early Christian Literature
Christ and Culture in the Second and Third Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
Helen Rhee’s outstanding work is the first book to bring together The Apologies and the semi-fictional Apocryphal Acts and Martyr Acts in a single study. Filling a significant gap in the scholarship, she looks at Christian self definition and self representation in the context of pagan-Christian...
Ecozoic Spirituality
The Symphony of God, Humanity, and the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
This book guides the reader to the emerging Ecozoic Era when humans will be present upon the Earth in a mutually enhancing manner. Indeed, this book calls for an Ecozoic spirituality that is timely and much needed. It also illustrates an important direction for theology and spirituality and for deep...
The Priority of Christ
Toward a Postliberal Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
A Major Statement on Christology from Bishop Robert Barron
For a long time, Christians have tried to bridge the divide between Christianity and secular liberalism with philosophy and theology. Bishop Robert Barron shows that the answer to this debate--and the way to move forward--lies in Jesus....
by Avery Dulles
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
There is today a dramatic reexamination of structure, authority, dogma -- indeed, every aspect of the life of the Church is held up to scrutiny. Welcoming this as a sign of vitality, Avery Dulles has carefully studied the writings of contemporary Protestant and Catholic ecclesiologists and sifted...
Will Many Be Saved
What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The question of whether and how people who have not had the chance to hear the gospel can be saved goes back to the beginnings of Christian reflection. It has also become a much-debated topic in current theology. In Will Many Be Saved? Ralph Martin focuses primarily on the history of debate and the...
by The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Lord Williams of Oystermouth Rowan Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge) Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In this new book he turns his attention to St Augustine.
St Augustine not only shaped the development...
Christ and the Decree
Christology and Predestination in Reformed Theology from Calvin to Perkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
In Christ and the Decree, one of the foremost scholars of Calvinism today expounds the doctrines of Christ and predestination as they were developed by Calvin, Bullinger, Musculus, Vermigli, Beza, Ursinus, Zanchi, Polanus, and Perkins. Muller analyzes the relationship of these two doctrines to each...
Christian Theologies of Salvation
A Comparative Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The ways in which pivotal spiritual figures have attempted to address the complex and various theories of salvation
Salvation – redemption or deliverance from sin – has been a key focus of Christian theology since the first days of the church. Theologians from St. Augustine to Karl Barth...