Theology category: 9608 books
Lonergan and the Theology of the Future
An Invitation
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Today a variety of theological approaches offer fresh and enriching insights, yet much of contemporary religious thought can be disorienting for the beginning student of theology. This accessible introduction presents aspects of the thought of Fr. Bernard Lonergan SJ, (1904-1984) in a way that makes...
by Francis Kai
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The Catastrophe Theology is a theology learned by Francis Kai throughout the years he was thrown into the Valley of Achor. Although he had been a Catholic from ten years old, Francis did not know to receive grace from God in deep suffering when his wife, Martha, was diagnosed with brain cancer. During...
by Stephen Edmund Lahey
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
John Wyclif (d.1384) has too frequently been described as "Morning Star of the Reformation" and only recently begun to be studied as a fourteenth-century English philosopher and theologian. This work draws on recent scholarship situating Wyclif in his fourteenth-century milieu to present a survey...
Paul's Theology in Context
Creation, Incarnation, Covenant, and Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
This accessible text by James P. Ware provides both a concise guide to Paul’s theology and a general introduction to the key issues and debates in the contemporary study of Paul.
Examining Paul’s message in the context of the ancient world, Ware identifies what would have struck Paul’s...
Unceasing Kindness
A Biblical Theology of Ruth
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
The Old Testament book of Ruth is understandably a firm favorite in the church for small-group study and preaching: a heart-warming story of loyalty and love, a satisfying tale of a journey from famine to fullness. In the academy, the book has been a testing ground for a variety of hermeneutical approaches,...
Interdisciplinary Interpretation
Paul Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Theology and Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
The past fifty years has seen the emergence of an energetic dialogue between religion and the natural sciences that has contributed to a growing desire for interdisciplinarity among many constructive theologians. However, some have also resisted this trend, in part because it seems that the price...
by Prof. M.M. Ninan
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
The subject matter of Physics is matter in motion, and the subject matter of theology is man in motion. Though the realms of interactions and dimensions of space of their existences are different, there are many similarities. While Physics has developed into an exact science, theology is not even...
Wrestling with God in Context
Revisiting the Theology and Social Vision of Shoki Coe
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Shoki Coe was among the first to speak of "contextualization" in theology. Coe argued that theology is not a reiteration of past formulas or doctrines but a response to the self-disclosing initiative of the living God in history and human experience. Yet he remains little known outside his...
In Counterpoint
Diaspora, Postcoloniality, and Sacramental Theology
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
What does postcoloniality have to do with sacramentality? How do diasporic lives and imaginaries shape the course of postcolonial sacramental theology? Neither postcolonial theorists nor sacramental theologians have hitherto sought to engage in a sustained dialogue with one another. In this trailblazing...
Intercultural Theology, Volume Two
Theologies of Mission
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Christianity is not only a global but also an intercultural phenomenon. In this second volume of his three-volume Intercultural Theology, Henning Wrogemann turns to theologies of mission. Mission theologies, he argues, are found in a wide range of implicit as well as explicit forms, from the practice...
by Deborah Beth Creamer
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Attention to embodiment and the religious significance of bodies is one of the most significant shifts in contemporary theology. In the midst of this, however, experiences of disability have received little attention. This book explores possibilities for theological engagement with disability, focusing...
Inventing Christic Jesuses, Volume 1
Rules and Warrants for Theology: Method
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Inventing Christic Jesuses is the first comprehensive proposal for how revisionist theology can deploy historical Jesus research in a methodologically sophisticated way. Rejecting positions that insulate theology from Jesus research, the proposal sets out warrants and rules for a quested Christology...
Luis de Molina
The Life and Theology of the Founder of Middle Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
When Luis de Molina died in Madrid in 1600, he had every reason to believe he was about to be anathametized by Pope Clement VIII. The Protestant Reformation was splitting Europe, tribunals of the Inquisition met regularly in a dozen Spanish cities, and the Pope had launched a commission two years...
Systematic Theology
An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
The Christian church has a long tradition of systematic theology, that is, of studying biblical teaching on centrally important doctrines such as the Word of God, redemption, and Jesus Christ. Wayne Grudem's bestselling Systematic Theology has several distinctive features:
A strong emphasis on...