Theology category: 9608 books
The Beauty of the Lord
Theology as Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Why is God's beauty often absent from our theology?
Rarely do theologians take up the theme of God's beauty—even more rarely do they consider how God's beauty should shape the task of theology itself. But the psalmist says that the heart of the believer's desire is to behold the beauty of...
Patristic and Medieval Atonement Theory
A Guide to Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The notion of atonement, a process by which humans are made right before God, is central to the logic of Christian theology. In spite of this, major thinkers in the Christian traditions have held vastly different understandings of both the way atonement works and what it means. These differing accounts...
Uncertainty in Post-Reformation Catholicism
A History of Probabilism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Uncertainty in Post-Reformation Catholicism provides a historical account of early modern probabilism and its theological, intellectual, and cultural implications. First developed in the second half of the sixteenth century, probabilism represented a significant and controversial novelty in Catholic...
Historical Development of Fundamental Moral Theology in the United States, The
Readings in Moral Theology No. 11
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Sketches the development of fundamental moral theology in the U.S. and then uses original sources to document the significant changes that have occurred in the discipline, as well as the primary issues in Catholic moral theology today.
Saving Face
Enfacement, Shame, Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Faces are all around us and fundamentally shape both everyday experience and our understanding of people. To lose face is to be alienated and experience shame, to be enfaced is to enjoy the fullness of life. In theology as in many other disciplines faces, as both physical phenomena and symbols, have...
God in a Single Vision
Integrating Philosophy and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
In the ancient conversation between Western philosophy and Christian theology, powerful contemporary voices are arguing for monologue rather than dialogue. Instead of these two disciplines learning from and mutually informing each other, both philosophers and theologians are increasingly disconnected...
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
This volume explores how early Christian understandings of apocalyptic writings and teachings are reflected in the theology, social practices, and institutions of the early church. It enables pastors and serious students of the Bible--particularly those interested in patristics and church history--to...
Re-Imagining Nature
The Promise of a Christian Natural Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Reimagining Nature is a new introduction to the fast developing area of natural theology, written by one of the world’s leading theologians. The text engages in serious theological dialogue whilst looking at how past developments might illuminate and inform theory and practice in the present.
This...
Theology and the Experience of Disability
Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Voices Down Under
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
The Christian gospel compels humanity to embrace deeper ways of being human together that will overcome false divisions and exclusions in search of flourishing and graced communities. Presenting both short narratives emerging out of theological reflection on experience and analytical essays arising...
Introducing Practical Theology
Mission, Ministry, and the Life of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This introduction to the field of practical theology reclaims a theological vision for the life and work of the church. Pete Ward dispels the myth that practical theology is a distraction from the "real" tasks of ministry or from serious academic theological work. He argues that practical...
La Vida Sacra
Contemporary Hispanic Sacramental Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
La Vida Sacra: Contemporary Hispanic Sacramental Theology is an original, insightful approach to the sacraments from the perspective and actual practice of Latinos over the centuries. It offers a distinctive take on the actual belief and enculturation of the sacraments in the Latino experience and...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
As a multi-faceted introduction to sacramental theology, the purposes of this Handbook are threefold: historical, ecumenical, and missional. The forty-four chapters are organized into the following parts five parts: Sacramental Roots in Scripture, Patristic Sacramental Theology, Medieval Sacramental...
The Theology of Louis-Marie Chauvet
Overcoming Onto-Theology with the Sacramental Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
The Theology of Louis-Marie Chauvet provides a much needed accessible introduction to the philosophical and theological foundations of Chauvet's sacramental theology. Particular attention is given to his appropriation of Heidegger and use of the Social Sciences to elucidate the nature of the symbolic...
by Robert Doran, S.J.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1990
In this challenging work Robert M. Doran explores the basis of systematic theology in consciousness, and goes on to consider the practical role of such theology in establishing and fostering communities with an authentic way of life. This way of life would counteract the distortions and deformations...