Theology category: 9608 books
A Politics of Grace
Hope for Redemption in a Post-Christendom Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Christiane Alpers discusses the contribution and role Christian theology plays in developing of the democratic life in post-Christendom societies. She discusses the three major approaches to this debate – public theology, Radical Orthodoxy, and post-liberal Protestantism – in order to illustrate...
Theology in the Public Square
Church, Academy, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
This imaginative study rethinks the nature of theology and its role in universities.
The author sketches out a fascinating project using examples from US and UK institutions, whereby theology becomes a transformative force within universities.
Imagines what a Christian university, in which all...
by Robert W. Yarbrough, Walter C. Kaiser Jr., Daniel G. McCartney
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Suffering and the Goodness of God presents biblical truths concerning suffering and challenges believers to promote justice and to emulate God's grace as they minister to others.
Famine. Sickness. Terrorist Attacks. Natural disasters.
Each day horrific scenes of suffering are streamed...
The Freedom of God
A Study in the Pneumatology of Robert Jenson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
The Freedom of God wrangles with the unfolding legacy of Christian theologian Robert Jenson and presents the first in-depth study of his teaching on the Holy Spirit. It is a specialist monograph that will entice those with interest in academic theology, systematics, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century...
A Theology of the Third Article
Karl Barth and the Spirit of the Word
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Toward the end of his career, Karl Barth made the provocative statement that perhaps what Schleiermacher was up to was a “theology of the third-article” and that he anticipated in the future that a true third-article theology would appear. Many interpreters, of course, took that to indicate not...
How to Read Theology
Engaging Doctrine Critically and Charitably
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
This handy, accessible introduction to reading theology helps readers engage doctrine critically and charitably. It serves as a primer to theological texts, offering practical guidelines for assessing theology and equipping the next generation of pastors and theologians to read theological literature...
Understanding Pannenberg
Landmark Theologian of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Wolfhart Pannenberg has forever changed the face of twentieth-century theology. His book on Christology constituted a turning-point away from Bultmann's existentialist theology, and convincingly vindicated belief in the bodily resurrection of Jesus and its importance for theology. His numerous other...
Jesus the Everlasting Hope of Humankind
Biblical Theology Prompted by Visions and Dreams from the Holy Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Jesus the Everlasting Hope of Humankind: Biblical Theology Prompted by Visions and Dreams from the Holy Spirit begins with a vision that came to Don Eckhart of two persons: one a Spirit-filled Christian and the other in the lake of fire. The vision depicts Jesus saving the desperate one crying out...
Christ and Analogy
The Christocentric Metaphysics of Hans Urs von Balthasar
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
As one of the pillars of the nouvelle theologie movement, a main influence upon the Second Vatican Council, and one of the few figures to complete a full-scale multi-volume systematics, Hans Urs von Balthasar is undoubtedly one of the towering figures of twentieth-century theology. Until now, the...
Power and Purpose
Paul Ramsey and Contemporary Christian Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Not long ago, Paul Ramsey (1913-1988) was a leading voice in North American Christian ethics. Today, however, his intellectual legacy is in question, and his work is largely ignored by current scholars in the field. Against the tide of that neglect, Adam Edward Hollowell argues in Power and Purpose...
Salt, Light, and a City, Second Edition
Ecclesiology for the Global Missional Community: Volume 1, Western Voices
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Graham Hill's pioneering classic remains the seminal work on missional ecclesiology. The bestselling first edition redefined theology for the missional church. Hill builds biblical foundations in conversation with major theologians, including Sarah Coakley, John Zizioulas, Stanley Hauerwas, Miroslav...
The Postmodern Life Cycle
Challenges for Church and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Schweitzer’s goal in this book is to explore what postmodernity actually means for theology and how theology and the church may respond to its challenges. He focuses on the life cycle as it is changing with the advent of postmodernity, looking sequentially at segments of the life cycle using different...
Kingdom through Covenant
A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Many theological discussions come to an impasse when parties align behind either covenant theology or dispensationalism. But Peter Gentry and Stephen Wellum now propose a significant biblical theology of the covenants that avoids the extremes of both classical systems and holds the potential to break...
by Brian Rosner
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Students of theology can find themselves strengthened and renewed while they study, but it can also be a time of trial. This reader shows how to navigate such trials as we study for and then engage in Christian ministry. It includes wisdom from voices past: Augustine; Martin Luther; C. H. Spurgeon; B....