Theology category: 9608 books
God--The World's Future
Systematic Theology for a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
God—The World’s Future has been a proven and comprehensive textbook in systematic theology for over twenty years. Explicitly crafted to address our postmodern context, Peters explains the whole body of Christian historical doctrine from within a “proleptic” framework, “whereby the gospel...
by John Joshva Raja
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
"This book is holding an excellent dialogue between theology and media disciplines. It provides challenges to theologians to think about their perspectives, attitudes and practices of media and technology while it also challenges those media personnel who are involved in religious broadcasting with nuance...
by Dr Theodore Vial
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher stands in the very first rank of Christian systematic theologians with Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, and Karl Barth and has been dubbed as the 'Father of Modern Theology'. The beginning of the era of liberal theology that dominated Protestant thought at least until...
The Revelatory Body
Theology as Inductive Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Argues that theology can respond faithfully to the living God only by paying due attention to human bodily experience
Scripture points to the human body and lived experience as the preeminent arena of God's continuing revelation in the world, says Luke Timothy Johnson. Attentively discerning...
Seeking the Lord of Middle Earth
Theological Essays on J. R. R. Tolkien
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
J. R. R. Tolkien, the beloved author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, brings to his work a great treasure--his Christian faith. Tolkien's literary works are so popular in part because, in some sense, they pertain to the real world. This present volume is an attempt to understand better the...
Theology and New Materialism
Spaces of Faithful Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This book argues that identified weaknesses in recent theological engagement with New Materialism can be successfully addressed by incorporating insights from Relational Christian Realism. Central themes are those of the relational and the apophatic as they represent different but essential strands...
Philosophy, Theology and the Jesuit Tradition
'The Eye of Love'
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
What does it mean to do theology and philosophy in our contemporary academia? What is the notion of good life in the 21st century university? One distinctive tradition of philosophical and theological investigation has been working since early modernity to offer answers to these questions, the Society...
Lectures on New Testament Theology
by Ferdinand Christian Baur
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860), one of the great innovators in the study of the New Testament, argued that each of its books reflects the interests and tendencies of its author in a particular religio-historical milieu. A critique of the writings must precede any judgments about the historical...
Sing of Mary
Giving Voice to Marian Theology and Devotion
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Throughout the history of Christianity, Mary has been a beacon of hope to many who look to her. While Christians have always prayed to Mary, they have also sung to her in times of joy and sorrow. Sing of Mary analyzes Marian hymnody throughout Christianity—and particularly in the Roman Catholic...
by Stephen Burns
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
What does it means to be engaged in Christian ministry in a shifting spiritual and religious landscape? Given the divergence of types and contexts of Christian ministry today, this book invites readers to think anew about the distinctiveness of public practices of pastoral presence. Rather than narrowly...
by Joshua Hopping
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Life is messy and rarely simple.
There are times of victory when things seem to be going really well and times of struggle when things seem to be falling apart. The way we process these ups and downs of life is extremely important as it sets the tone for everything in our lives.
Kingdom...
Revelation
Toward a Christian Theology of God's Self-Revelation in Jesus Christ
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Since the late 1980s the theme of God's self-revelation has been treated only briefly in Christian theology, at times simply ignored, and often confused with biblical inspiration. Revelation: Towards a Christian Theology of God's Self-Revelation lays out its basic characteristics, and begins by distinguishing...
Righteous By Promise
A Biblical Theology of Circumcision
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Given the foundational importance of circumcision in the Old Testament and its prevalence in numerous debates in the New Testament, it is surprising that so little detailed work has been done on establishing a biblical theology of circumcision. This lack is even more surprising given that circumcision...
Systematic Theology
The Doctrine of God
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The mystery of Almighty God is most properly an explication of the oneness of God, tying the faith of the church to the bedrock of Israel’s confession of the lord of the covenant, the lord of our Lord Jesus Christ. The doctrine of divine attributes, then, is set out as a reflection on Holy Scripture:...