Theology category: 9608 books
The End of God-Talk
An African American Humanist Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
In this groundbreaking study, Anthony B. Pinn challenges the long held assumption that African American theology is solely theist, arguing that this assumption has stunted African American theological discourse and excluded a rapidly growing segment of the African American population - non-theists....
Sharing Friendship
Exploring Anglican Character, Vocation, Witness and Mission
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Sharing Friendship represents a post-liberal approach to ecclesiology and theology generated out of the history, practices and traditions of the Anglican Church. Drawing on the theological ethics of Stanley Hauerwas, this book explores the way friendship for the stranger emerges from contextually...
Mapping Exile and Return
Palestinian Dispossession and a Political Theology for a Shared Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
One of the most persistent, if vexing, issues is the state of affairs in the ancient land of Palestine. Palestinian Christians bear the enormous brunt of suffering and dispossession in the current situation, and are burdened even more by Christian political appropriation of Zionism. Through an analysis...
Theology and the Mirror of Scripture
A Mere Evangelical Account
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
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God's Time For Us
Barth's Reconciliation of Eternity and Time in Jesus Christ
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
The relationship between eternity and time is a common subject for theologians and philosophers. What difference does it make for this discussion that God became man and inhabited time in Jesus Christ?
In God's Time for Us, James J. Cassidy examines the theology of Karl Barth to show that God...
Between Magisterium and Marketplace
A Constructive Account of Theology and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
What is the relationship of the church to theology? How does the church relate to the work of creative theological authorship, particularly when authors propose novel claims? Even more, how do ecclesial models, particularly of ecclesial authority, underwrite or authorize how theology is done? Saler...
Creation Is Groaning
Biblical and Theological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
If, as some scholars attest, Christianity has been complicit in the destruction of the environment, then Christianity can and must also have a role in changing human behavior in a way that helps to solve this massive problem. In Creation is Groaning, a set of highly regarded theologians and Scripture...
Divine Freedom and the Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity
In Dialogue with Karl Barth and Contemporary Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Divine Freedom and the Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity is widely acclaimed by scholars in the field of Christian systematic theology. Molnar's quest to place the doctrine of the immanent Trinity on the agenda of the Christian doctrine of God has proven to be a signal contribution to the debate in...
The Spirit of God and the Christian Life
Reconstructing Karl Barth's Pneumatology
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
Theologian Robert Jenson once titled an essay on Karl Barth’s doctrine of the Holy Spirit, “You Wonder Where the Spirit Went,” claiming that, for all the talk of the Spirit, Barth’s theology was more nearly binitarian than Trinitarian. That assessment has largely carried the day and set the...
Innovation within Tradition
Joseph Ratzinger and Reading the Women of Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Innovation within Tradition explores Joseph Ratzinger’s biblical interpretation of women and salvation history. Arguing that Ratzinger’s concept of a “female line in the Bible” brings the female characters of Scripture to the fore, Mary Frances McKenna shows how this illustrates his creative...
by John C. Cavadini
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
The definitive compendium of Cavadini’s essays on Augustine
Visioning Augustine offers readers an expertly selected collection of essays exploring the text and history of the theology of Saint Augustine. Prominent scholar and essayist, John Cavadini, offers modern audiences an innovative...
The Voice of God in the Text of Scripture
Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Scholars from biblical studies and theology have recently been engaged in various ways in the project of theological interpretation of Scripture. This literature has raised issues about the theological content of the biblical material, authorial intention, the reception and formation of the Bible...
Found in the Middle!
Theology and Ethics for Christians Who Are Both Liberal and Evangelical
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
There exists a deep and broad population of Christians who feel the labels of 'liberal' and 'evangelical' both describe their faith and limit their expression of it. By working to reclaim the traditional, historical meanings of these terms, and showing how they complement rather than oppose each other,...
Divine Covenants and Moral Order
A Biblical Theology of Natural Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
This book addresses the old question of natural law in its contemporary context. David VanDrunen draws on both his Reformed theological heritage and the broader Christian natural law tradition to develop a constructive theology of natural law through a thorough study of Scripture.
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