Theology category: 9608 books
Emil Brunner
A Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In Emil Brunner: A Reappraisal, renowned theologian Alister E. McGrath presents a comprehensive intellectual history of Emil Brunner, the highly influential Swiss theologian who was instrumental in shaping modern Protestant theology.
Explores Brunner’s theological development and offers a critical...
No Longer the Same
Religious Others and the Liberation of Christian Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
This volume addresses what happens to Christian theology when it follows its traditional habit of excluding religious others from the theological conversation. It argues that the exclusion of non-Christian voices blinds Christian theology not only to its own character, but also to the God to whom it seeks to be faithful.
Comparative Theology Among Multiple Modernities
Cultivating Phenomenological Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This book presents a heuristic and critical study of comparative theology in engagement with phenomenological methodology and sociological inquiry. It elucidates a postcolonial study of religion in the context of multiple modernities.
Ethnicity and Tribal Theology
Problems and Prospects for Peaceful Co-existence in Northeast India
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
The Church and wider society in Northeast India have witnessed a number of shifts in ethnic identity and the resultant inter-ethnic conflicts since the 1980s are threatening the peaceful co-existence of various ethnic groups. Caught up in the throes of such ethnic turmoil, people of the region are...
Toward a Theology of Eros
Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
What does theology have to say about the place of eroticism in the salvific transformation of men and women, even of the cosmos itself? How, in turn, does eros infuse theological practice and transfigure doctrinal tropes? Avoiding the well-worn path of sexual moralizing while also departing decisively...
by Paul Tillich
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
In this volume, the second of his three-volume reinterpretation of Christian theology, Paul Tillich comes to grips with the central idea of his system—the doctrine of the Christ. Man's predicament is described as the state of "estrangement" from himself, from his world, and from the divine...
What Are We Doing When We Pray?
On Prayer and the Nature of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Vincent Brümmer's classic book on prayer from 1984 provides a comprehensive philosophical analysis of central issues regarding the nature and practice of prayer. What do we do when we ask things of other people, when we thank them or praise them, when we express penitence for what we have done...
Discovering Trinity in Disability
A Theology for Embracing Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
As parents of three daughters, two of whom are labeled disabled, the authors explore the Scriptures and writings of early Christian thinkers to challenge conventional attitudes – and fears – toward those who are different. Drawing on their respective doctorates in Theology and Literature and their...
What Is Biblical Theology?
A Guide to the Bible's Story, Symbolism, and Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
How Do You Read the Bible?
The Bible recounts a single story—one that began at creation, encompasses our lives today, and will continue till Christ’s return and beyond. In What Is Biblical Theology?, Jim Hamilton introduces us to this narrative, helping us understand the worldview of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Sustained reflection on how Catholic theological formation is necessarily grounded in scriptural exegesis
In Verbum Domini, his 2010 apostolic exhortation, Pope Benedict XVI challenged the church to keep theology firmly rooted in the study of Scripture. The essays collected here respond thoughtfully...
Introducción a Søren Kierkegaard, o la teología patas arriba AETH
Introduction to Soren Kierkegaard Upside Down Theology AETH (Spanish)
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1990
Eliseo Pérez Álvarez presenta en su libro a un Kierkegaard que va más allá de lo que leemos de él en muchas introducciones. Aquí, además, es el profeta, el denunciante de la injusticia social y de la hipocresía eclesiástica y religiosa. Eliseo "nos engancha entreteniéndonos con sus...
The Church in Act
Lutheran Liturgical Theology in Ecumenical Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The Church in Act explores the dynamics of ecclesial and liturgical theology, examining the body of Christ in action. Maxwell E. Johnson, one of the premier liturgical specialists in the field, provides in this volume historical and doctrinal thinking on a diversity of liturgical subjects under the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Understandings of the Church explores the ways imagery is used by biblical writers and early Christian teachers such as Cyprian, Ignatius of Antioch, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen to describe the concept of church. Ad Fontes: Early Christian Sources is a series designed to present...
by David Rylaarsdam
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Contrary to the portrayals of Chrysostom as a theologically impaired, moralizing sophist, this book argues that his thinking is remarkably coherent when it is understood on his own terms and within his culture. Chrysostom depicts God as a teacher of philosophy who adaptably guides people toward salvation....