Theology category: 9608 books
Remembering the Reformation
Martin Luther and Catholic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The dramatic unfolding of events after Martin Luther’s revolutionary act led to the ultimate, and seemingly irreparable, fissure with Roman Catholicism: excommunication and schism. From the point of that rupture, up to and including most of the 20th century, the history of theological and ecclesial...
Knowing the Love of Christ
An Introduction to the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Knowing the Love of Christ provides a thorough introduction to the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas in accessible language. As a complement to the many short introductions to St. Thomas’s philosophy, this book fills a gap in the literature on Thomas—a comprehensive introduction to his thought written...
Incarnation and Inspiration
John Owen and the Coherence of Christology
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007
Through engagement with the historical debate Incarnation and Inspiration offers a systematic exposition of the person of Jesus that brings together dissonant aspects of the tradition. It serves as an introduction to the theology to John Owen, the most able of the Puritan theologians and provides...
Partaking of God
Trinity, Evolution, and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
The natural world around us is in crisis. We know it has a dynamic, evolutionary character. How might we understand this world in relationship to God?
Partaking of God builds on the foundations of the dynamic trinitarian theology of Athanasius. It develops into a theology of the Word as the...
Beyond Fideism
Negotiable Religious Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
After the postmodern turn, every tradition seeks the right to have their own rules of rational discourse. The crucial question is: are there ways to communicate between the traditions so that the traditions do not need to give up their identities in order to take part in conversation? Vainio examines...
by Paul Rigby
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
This study of the Confessions engages with contemporary philosophers and psychologists antagonistic to religion and demonstrates the enduring value of Augustine's journey for those struggling with theistic incredulity and religious narcissism. Paul Rigby draws on current Augustinian scholarship and...
Bernard Lonergan
The Redemption, Volume 9
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Thematically focused on the theology of redemption or what is called in theology "soteriology," each of the two sections of The Redemption addresses biblical literature and significant moments in the history of Christian theology, and especially the work of Anselm of Canterbury. The second...
Theology and Religion
Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
Graham Ward argues that the study of theology and religion, as a single academic discipline, plays a vital role in helping us to understand politics, world affairs, and the nature of humanity itself. Religion can be used to justify inhumane actions, but it also feeds dreams, inspires hopes, and shapes...
Practical Theology and Pierre-André Liégé
Radical Dominican and Vatican II Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Pierre-André Liégé, one of the foremost French theologians of the 20th century, influenced John XXIII and Paul VI, and sat on Vatican II committees with both the future John Paul II and Benedict VI. Fifty years on from Vatican II is a good time to remember the decade of dramatic struggle and pioneering...
Divinanimality
Animal Theory, Creaturely Theology
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
A turn to the animal is underway in the humanities, most obviously in such fields as philosophy, literary studies, cultural studies, and religious studies. One important catalyst for this development has been the remarkable body of animal theory issuing from such thinkers as Jacques Derrida and Donna...
The Anointed Church
Toward a Third Article Ecclesiology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The phrase Third Article Theology is used in two senses: first, to characterize a methodological approach that intentionally starts with the Spirit, and second, as the theological understanding that emerges from this approach. Over recent decades, Spirit Christology has utilized the approach of Third...
The Nature of Love
A Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
God is love. Consequently, shouldn’t love exist at the center of Christian theology? When love is at the center, theology is understood differently than it has typically been understood. Some theologians have placed faith at the center, others God’s sovereignty, still others-the Church, but Dr....
God Has Spoken
A History of Christian Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Christian theology didn’t develop in a vacuum.
Understanding the story behind the doctrines that have been debated, defined, and defended throughout history is crucial for truly understanding the doctrines themselves.
In this groundbreaking resource, professor Gerald Bray traces the...
by Dr Iain Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2007
This book treats Pannenberg's stated ambition to write 'a theology more thoroughly Trinitarian than any I know of'. It evaluates it by answering two questions: What does Pannenberg mean by his theology being thoroughly Trinitarian? How far has his subsequent work, especially Systematic Theology, been successful in realizing his stated goal?