Theology category: 9608 books
John Owen
Trajectories in Reformed Orthodox Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This book is a thorough study of John Owen. Owen has become recognized as one of the greatest Reformed theologians Great Britain ever produced, as well as one of the most significant theologians of the Reformed orthodox period. His theological interests were eclectic, exegetically based, and he sought...
Korean Women, Self-Esteem, and Practical Theology
Transformative Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book offers a critical-constructive study of Korean women’s self-esteem from a feminist practical theological perspective. Jaeyeon Lucy Chung recognizes two different and yet related problems: the absence of scholarly work on women’s self-esteem from non-white, non-Western groups in the field...
Covenant and Commandment
Works, Obedience and Faithfulness in the Christian Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
From a close study of key Old and New Testament texts and interaction with historical and contemporary theologians, Bradley Green shows how different aspects of the Christian life are each God-elicited, real and necessary. Reaffirming the best Reformed voices, this New Studies in Biblical Theology...
by Boyd Taylor Coolman
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus provides the first full study of Thomas Gallus (d. 1246) in English and represents a significant advance in his distinctive theology. Boyd Taylor Coolman argues that Gallus distinguishes, but never separates and intimately relates two international...
Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty
Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle-earth
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
In this book, Lisa Coutras explores the structure and complexity of J.R.R. Tolkien’s narrative theology, synthesizing his Christian worldview with his creative imagination. She illustrates how, within the framework of a theological aesthetics, transcendental beauty is the unifying principle that...
Theology and Existentialism in Aeschylus
Written in the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Theology and Existentialism in Aeschylus revivifies the complex question of fate and freedom in the tragedies of the famous Greek playwright. Starting with Sartre’s insights about radical existential freedom, this book shows that Aeschylus is concerned with the ethical ramifications of surrendering...
by John J. Elmendorf
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The Reverend John J. Elmendorf was one of the leading theologians of the Episcopal church, and an important thinker and writer as well. In Elements of Moral Theology, which he based off Thomas Aquinass famous Summa Theologica, Elmendorf discusses concepts like sin, vice, justice, hope, duty, and more....
Parenting as Spiritual Practice and Source for Theology
Mothering Matters
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
This volume investigates how mothers can understand parenting as spiritual practice, and what this practice means for theological scholarship. An intergenerational and intercultural group of mother-scholars explores these questions that arise at the intersection of motherhood studies, religious practice,...
Seven Biblical Mysteries Unveiled!
(Revisiting Theology You Thought Was Settled)
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
In the development of Christian theology through the centuries, it has been generally believed that the theology of the Bible has been settled. That would be possible if there was only one true church and everyone in it believed and practiced Pauls description in Ephesians 4:316in effect, the unity...
by Mark Pryce
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
This groundbreaking study offers an innovative critical analysis of poetry as a resource for reflective practice in the context of continuing professional development. In the contemporary drive in all professions for greater rigour in education, training, and development, little attention is paid...
Theology and Ecology Across the Disciplines
On Care for Our Common Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
The threat of ecological collapse is increasingly becoming a reality for the world's populations, both human and nonhuman; addressing this global challenge requires enormous cultural creativity and demands a diversity of perspectives, especially from the humanities. Theology and Ecology Across the...
A Theology for a Mediated God
How Media Shapes Our Notions About Divinity
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
A Theology for a Mediated God introduces a new way to examine the shaping effects of media on our notions of God and divinity. In contrast to more conventional social-scientific methodologies and conversations about the relationship between religion and media, Dennis Ford argues that the characteristics...
Theology for Liberal Protestants
God the Creator
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
A two-volume work by Douglas Ottati, Theology for Liberal Protestants presents a comprehensive theology for Christians who are willing to rethink and revise traditional doctrines in face of contemporary challenges. It is Augustinian, claiming that we belong to the God of grace who creates, judges,...
John Howard Yoder
Radical Theologian
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
John Howard Yoder: Radical Theologian' shows that for John Howard Yoder both theology (in particular Christology) and ethics are expressions of the meaning of the narrative of Jesus. All such statements are relative to a particular context, so that theology and ethics are subject to reaching back...