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by Rev Dr Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Elisabeth Behr-Sigel (1907-2005), a convert to Orthodoxy in her early twenties and a central figure of Orthodox theology among Russian émigrés in Paris, first began to reflect on the question of women in the priesthood in 1976. Initially supporting the general consensus that priesthood would be...
by St. Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
The Summa Theologiae (Latin: Compendium of Theology or Theological Compendium; also subsequently called the Summa Theologica or simply the Summa, written 1265-1274) is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-1274), and although unfinished, "one of the classics of the history of philosophy...
by St. Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
The Summa Theologiae (Latin: Compendium of Theology or Theological Compendium; also subsequently called the Summa Theologica or simply the Summa, written 1265-1274) is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-1274), and although unfinished, "one of the classics of the history of philosophy...
Luther's Theology of the Cross
Martin Luther's Theological Breakthrough
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Luther's Theology of the Cross represents a fully revised and updated edition of the classic 1985 text that expands on the author's ongoing research and reflects 25 years of Luther scholarship.
Rewritten and expanded edition of a highly-acclaimed classic text
Incorporates primary and secondary...
Reformed Dogmatics : Volume 1
Prolegomena
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
In partnership with the Dutch Reformed Translation Society, Baker Academic is proud to offer the first volume of Herman Bavinck's complete Reformed Dogmatics in English for the very first time.
Bavinck's approach throughout is meticulous. As he discusses the standard topics of dogmatic theology, he...
Calvin's Tormentors
Understanding the Conflicts That Shaped the Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This book offers a unique approach to Calvin by introducing the individuals and groups who, through their opposition to Calvin's theology and politics, helped shape the Reformer, his theology, and his historical and religious legacy. Respected church historian Gary Jenkins shows how Calvin had to...
Chosen in Christ to be saints
Fundamental Moral Theology
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
This book is designed as a manual for the study of fundamental moral theology. It is addressed primarily to those who are undertaking a required course of study in Catholic theology at seminaries or ecclesiastical colleges. The editorial and typographical style, the choice of topics, and the extent...
Finding God among Our Neighbors
An Interfaith Systematic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Students of theology live in a world defined by interreligious dialogue. This supplemental theology text prepares students for the real task of understanding and articulating their Christian beliefs in a religiously and culturally diverse world.
Concentrating on the anchoring subjects of God,...
Reformation Theology
A Systematic Summary
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Five hundred years ago, the Reformers were defending doctrines such as justification by faith alone, the authority of Scripture, and God's grace in salvation—some to the point of death. Many of these same essential doctrines are still being challenged today, and there has never been a more crucial...
Calvin vs. Wesley
Bringing Belief in Line with Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Congregations are made up of people with all sorts of theologies. Pastor Mike Slaughter even says that these can stand in the way of the church’s mission of social and personal holiness. But most people do not adopt a theology on purpose, mostly they merely breathe in the prevailing cultural air....
John Wesley's Teachings, Volume 3
Pastoral Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
John Wesley’s Teachings is the first systematic exposition of John Wesley's theology that is also faithful to Wesley's own writings. Wesley was a prolific writer and commentator on Scripture—his collected works fill eighteen volumes—and yet it is commonly held that he was not systematic or consistent...
Joy and Human Flourishing
Essays on Theology, Culture, and the Good Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Joy is crucial to human life and central to God’s relationship to the world, yet it is remarkably absent from contemporary theology and, increasingly, from our own lives! This collection remedies this situation by considering the import of joy on human flourishing. These essays—written by experts...
Principalities in Particular
A Practical Theology of the Powers That Be
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
If the 1960s were a watershed in American politics, they were no less formative a period in political theology, as figures like Jacques Ellul, Karl Barth, Walter Wink, Daniel and Philip Berrigan, and William Stringfellow shed new light on the biblical language of "the powers." In these essays,...
Scripture, Metaphysics, and Poetry
Austin Farrer's The Glass of Vision With Critical Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book offers a critical edition of arguably the greatest work of English theology in the 20th century: Austin Farrer's Bampton Lectures published as The Glass of Vision in 1948. Farrer was an interdisciplinary genius who made original contributions to philosophy, theology, and biblical studies,...