Theology category: 9608 books
Sacramentality Renewed
Contemporary Conversations in Saramental Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Tracing developments in sacramental theology over the past twenty-five years, this study explores a growing ecumenical dynamism in both the academic study of sacramentality and its centrality in pastoral applications. But how does ecumenical excitement in a renewed discovery of sacramental theology...
Understanding Theology in 15 Minutes a Day
How can I know God? How can Jesus be both God and man? What will heaven be like? And many more
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Short, Friendly Beginner's Guide to Theology
Theology can be intimidating with its unfamiliar words and seemingly difficult concepts. Many Christians would like to know the basics of theology but are unsure where to begin. These short, easy-to understand readings answer some of the most perplexing...
by James T. Murphy Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
An initial introduction to the study of Christian theology is both exciting and invigorating for students of its discipline. One can become enameled in the classic perspectives of theology without any consideration of a possible alternative. Defining Salvation in the Context of Black Theology is an...
No Quick Fix
Where Higher Life Theology Came From, What It Is, and Why It's Harmful
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Every Christian struggles with sin and wants to be victorious in the fight.
Higher life theology--also known as Keswick theology--offers a quick fix for this struggle. It teaches that there are two categories of Christians: those who are merely saved, and those who have really surrendered to...
The Whole Truth About God
Biblical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Only right theology can lead to right worship and right obedience. Every church should strive to believe and confess and live in light of a truly biblical theology and sound doctrine. This study looks at why biblical theology is important, and then shows participants how biblical theology can fuel...
Theologie im Spannungsfeld von Kirche und Politik - Theology in Engagement with Church and Politics
Hans Schwarz zum 75. Geburtstag- Hans Schwarz on the Occasion of his 75 th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Die 39 Beiträge dieses Sonderbandes beleuchten das Thema Theologie im Spannungsfeld von Kirche und Politik aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Neben historischen Aspekten werden sowohl politisch-zeitgeschichtliche Fragen als auch ethische Problemstellungen bedacht. Weitere Aufsätze widmen sich der...
Reading Barth with Charity
A Hermeneutical Proposal
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Karl Barth and his legacy have dominated theology circles for over a decade. In this volume George Hunsinger, a world-renowned expert on Barth's theology, makes an authoritative contribution to the debate concerning Barth's trinitarian theology and doctrine of election. Hunsinger challenges a popular...
America's God
From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2002
Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the Protestant Reformation,...
by James E. Faulconer, Joseph M. Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
The essays making up this collection reflect attentiveness to both ways of understanding the phrase “theology of scripture.” Each essay takes up the relatively un-self-conscious work of reading a scriptural text but then—at some point or another—asks the self-conscious question of exactly...
Rupturing Eschatology
Divine Glory and the Silence of the Cross
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The modern and contemporary legacy of Luther's theology is a vital topic of continuing investigation, assessment, and construction. Rupturing Eschatology is Eric Trozzo's constructive retrieval of Luther's theology of the cross for the purpose of establishing a contemporary Lutheran and "emerging"...
The Theology of Food
Eating and the Eucharist
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
The links between religion and food have been known for centuries, and yet we rarely examine or understand the nature of the relationship between food and spirituality, or food and sin. Drawing on literature, politics, and philosophy as well as theology, this book unlocks the role food has played...
Brother Roger's Contribution to Theological Thought
Acts of the International Colloquium, Taizé, August 31 - September 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
The year 2015 was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Brother Roger and the tenth anniversary of his death. As part of the celebrations during that year, an international colloquium brought together theologians and theology students to Taizé to address the issue: did Brother Roger have a theology?
Brother...
Militant Grace
The Apocalyptic Turn and the Future of Christian Theology
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
This clear and comprehensive introduction to apocalyptic theology demonstrates the significance of apocalyptic readings of the New Testament for systematic theology and highlights the ethical implications of the apocalyptic turn in biblical and theological studies. Written by a leading theologian...
Waiting and Being
Creation, Freedom, and Grace in Western Theology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Joshua B. Davis is assistant professor of systematic theology at The General Theological Seminary in New York. He earned a Ph.D. in theology at Vanderbilt University. Davis co-founded the Theology and Apocalyptic working group at AAR and is co-editing a forthcoming volume, Apocalyptic and the Future...