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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Handbook of Latino/a Theologies explores the varied theological, ecclesiastical, spiritual, and cultural expressions associated with the term 'Latino/a or Hispanic theology.' There is no single definition of Hispanic/Latino theology, but rather a multiplicity of perspectives within the diverse Latino/a...
Liberation Theology
The Essential Facts About the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Liberation theology has become an essential component of almost every major debate over Latin America today. It has changed the face of political life in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Haiti; contributed to the rise of “people power” in the Philippines; even played a role in the growing discontent...
Marks of His Wounds
Gender Politics and Bodily Resurrection
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
It is a central tenet of Christian theology that we will be resurrected in our bodies at the last day. But we have been conditioned, writes Beth Felker Jones, to think of salvation as being about anything but the body. We think that what God wants for us has to do with our thoughts, our hearts, or...
A World Upside Down
Four Essays on the Life and Theology of Martin Luther
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A simple, uncluttered faith in Christ to the glory of God alone: what Luther discovered in Scripture changed the world. It can change you, too.
As he approached the final decade of his life, Martin Luther observed that the beginning and end of all his theology was simple faith in Christ. This...
Genius of Luther's Theology, The
A Wittenberg Way of Thinking for the Contemporary Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
This volume offers a unique approach to the study of the great German reformer, Martin Luther. Robert Kolb and Charles Arand offer an introduction to two significant themes that form the heart of Luther's theology.
The first theme concerns what it means to be truly human. For Luther, "passive...
Martin Luther
Confessor of the Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
Martin Luther's thought continues to challenge people throughout the world in the twenty-first century. His paradigmatic shift in defining God and what it means to be human left behind a foundation for viewing human creatures that was anchored in Aristotle's anthropology. Luther defined the Revealed...
Introducing Moral Theology
True Happiness and the Virtues
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Whether in the cafeteria, classroom, or dorm lounge, questions abound on college campuses. Not only do students grapple with existential issues but they also struggle with ethical ones such as "Why be moral?" In Introducing Moral Theology, William Mattison addresses this question as well...
by Bloesch, Donald G.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
For more than forty years, beloved American evangelical theologian Donald Bloesch published scholarly yet accessible works on Protestant beliefs and practices, while remaining in the mainstream of modern Protestant theological thought. Within these pages are his last two previously unpublished works....
Welcoming Children
A Practical Theology of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
This book develops a theology of childhood both from a theoretical basis in biblical theology (especially the gospel of Mark) and practical experience in children and youth ministry. Mercer builds on classical theologians such as Augustine, Calvin, Barth, and Rahner as well as modern feminist theologians...
Grassroots Asian Theology
Thinking the Faith from the Ground Up
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
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Seditious Theology
Punk and the Ministry of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Seditious Theology explores the much analysed British punk movement of the 1970s from a theological perspective. Imaginatively engaging with subjects such as subversion, deconstruction, confrontation and sedition, this book highlights the stark contrasts between the punk genre and the ministry of...
Finding and Seeking
Ethics as Theology, vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
This is the second of three volumes in Oliver O’Donovan’s masterful “Ethics as Theology” project. In his first volume -- Self, World, and Time -- O’Donovan discusses Christian ethics as an intellectual discipline in relation to the humanities, especially philosophy, theology, and behavioral...
Wading Through Many Voices
Toward a Theology of Public Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Wading through Many Voices brings together the voices of Latino/a, African American, Asian American, Native American, and Euro-American scholars to produce a dialogue of public theology: how faith-communities, divided by race, class, ethnicity, and gender, can find a common ground for life together....
Across Borders
Latin Perspectives in the Americas Reshaping Religion, Theology, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
While work in theology and religious studies by scholars in Latin America and by Latino/a scholars in the United States has made substantial contributions to the current scholarship in the field, there are few projects where scholars from these various contexts are working together. *Across Borders:*Latin...