Theology category: 9608 books
Dialectics of Faith-Culture Integration
Inculturation or Syncretism
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This book navigates the contours of cultural and theological hermeneutics in order to critique, affirm, as well as reconceptualise the vital underpinnings and subtleties of faith-culture intercourse and reciprocation. It questions claims to effective inculturation by theologians and church authorities,...
by James Orr
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
In issuing this little book, which aims at being, within the limits assigned, as objective a presentation of the Ritschlian Theology as is possible to one who, while conscious of having benefited by its teaching, does not share the standpoint of the school, the author desires to express his thanks...
Intercarnations
Exercises in Theological Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Intercarnations is an outstanding collection of provocative, elegantly written essays—many available in print for the first time—by renowned theologian Catherine Keller.
Affirmations of body, flesh, and matter pervade current theology and inevitably echo with the doctrine of the incarnation....
Martin Bucer's Doctrine of Justification
Reformation Theology and Early Modern Irenicism
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Martin Bucer has usually been portrayed as a diplomat who attempted to reconcile divergent theological views, sometimes at any cost, or as a pragmatic pastor who was more concerned with ethics than theology. These representations have led to the view that Bucer was a theological light-weight, rightly...
by Rich Wyld
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Theologygrams is a brilliant introduction to theology presented in the form of easy-to-understand diagrams. Rich Wyld’s runs the popular Theologygrams blog, and here presents 100 original diagrams – in full colour – for the non-specialist reader. Some diagrams come with a small piece of descriptive...
A Generous Symphony
Hans Urs von Balthasar's Literary Revelations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Hans Urs von Balthasar, one of the preeminent theologians of Roman Catholic theology in the modern era, constructed a theological world suffused by the literary, a vision carried across over 16 volumes of his magnum opus. A Generous Symphony offers a balanced appraisal of Balthasar’s literary achievement...
Revelation and Trinity
The Formative Influence of the Revelation of the Triune God in Calvin’S 1559 Institutes and Barth’S Church Dogmatics
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Revelation and Trinity provides a guide for the serious study of the systematic theologies of John Calvin and Karl Barth.
The controversial debate between Karl Barth and Emil Brunner drew attention to John Calvins theology. Each one claims his theology is more faithful to Calvins theology than...
Being With God
Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine-Human Communion
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2006
The central task of Being With God is an analysis of the relation between apophaticism, trinitarian theology, and divine-human communion through a critical comparison of the trinitarian theologies of the Eastern Orthodox theologians Vladimir Lossky (1903–58) and John Zizioulas (1931–), arguably...
Divine Providence and Human Agency
Trinity, Creation and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Divine Providence and Human Agency develops an understanding of God and God's relation to creation that perceives God as sovereign over creation while, at the same time, allowing for a meaningful notion of human freedom. This book provides a bridge between contemporary approaches that emphasise human...
by Mark C. Mattes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The development of Martin Luther's thought has commanded much scholarly attention because of the Reformation and its remarkable effects on the history of Christianity in the West. But much of that scholarship has been so enthralled by certain later debates that it has practically ignored and even...
Beyond Dogmatism and Innocence
Hermeneutics, Critique, and Catholic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Behind every important development in Catholic doctrine and practice since the beginning of the modern period have been debates about the interpretation of Christianity’s classic texts and traditions and their ideological and practical implications.
Over the past century there have been breakthroughs...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The Blessed Virgin Mary is uniquely associated with Catholicism, and the century preceding the Second Vatican Council was arguably the most fertile era for Catholic Marian studies. In 1964, Pope John Paul VI published the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, or Lumen Gentium (LG), the eighth chapter...
The Cross of Reality
Luther's Theologia Crucis and Bonhoeffer's Christology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Cross of Reality investigates Bonhoeffer’s interpretation and use of Luther’s theology in shaping his Christology. In this essay, H. Gaylon Barker uses the “theology of the cross” as a key to understanding the characteristic elements that make up Bonhoeffer’s theology; he also shows...
A Queering of Black Theology
James Baldwin's Blues Project and Gospel Prose
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Kornegay's brilliant and insightful use of James Baldwin's literary genius offers a way forward that promises to overcome the divide between religion and sexuality that is of crucial importance not only for black church and theology but for socio-political-religious and theological discourse generally.