Theology category: 9608 books
God Is Not a Story
Realism Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2007
A challenging critique of narrative theologies, including the works of George Lindbeck, Robert Jenson, and Herbert McCabe. Francesca Aran Murphy argues that the use of the concept of story or narrative in theology is circular and self-referential, and that the widespread notion that the role of the...
by Douglas Clyde Macintosh
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Investigating the question ‘can theology, description of the divine reality, be made truly scientific?’, this book addresses logic and human knowledge alongside experimental religion. An important philosophic work by a prolific theologian also known for his later court case regarding conscientious...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
The Oxford Handbook of Christology brings together 40 authoritative essays considering the theological study of the nature and role of Jesus Christ. This collection offers dynamic perspectives within the study of Christology and provides rigorous discussion of inter-confessional theology, which would...
Christ Crucified in a Suffering World
The Unity of Atonement and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
What is the connection between Christian doctrine and concrete social action? This question marks the often unarticulated divide between systematic theology and liberation theology, each often emphasizing one primarily or formally over the other. Examining the work of Karl Barth, T. F. Torrance, and...
Christian Ethics and the Church
Ecclesial Foundations for Moral Thought and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This book introduces Christian ethics from a theological perspective. Philip Turner, widely recognized as a leading expert in the field, explores the intersection of moral theology and ecclesiology, arguing that the focus of Christian ethics should not be personal holiness or social reform but the...
Progressive Covenantalism
Charting a Course between Dispensational and Covenantal Theologies
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Building on the foundation of Kingdom through Covenant (Crossway, 2012), Stephen J. Wellum and Brent E. Parker have assembled a team of scholars who offer a fresh perspective regarding the interrelationship between the biblical covenants. Each chapter seeks to demonstrate how the covenants serve as...
Building up the Church of Christ
Missiological Essays from the Namibia Evangelical Theological Seminary
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Document from the year 2010 in the subject Theology - Miscellaneous, grade: keine, , language: English, abstract: Established in 1991, the mission of the Namibia Evangelical Theological Seminary (NETS) is to equip Christians with knowledge and skills to live godly lives and serve the Church and the...
Death Liturgy and Ritual
Volume I: A Pastoral and Liturgical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This title was first published in 2003: Death Liturgy and Ritual is a two-volume study of Christian funerary theology and practice, presenting an invaluable account of funeral rites and the central issues involved for compilers and users. Paul Sheppy writes from direct experience of conducting funerals...
Ecclesia Reformata, Semper Reformanda
Proceedings of the European Theology Teachers' Convention Newbold College of Higher Education 25-28 March 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The European Theology Teachers’ Convention (ETTC), held every second year, attracts Adventist scholars from all over Europe, including Russia and Lebanon. This meeting held at Newbold College of Higher Education (Binfield, UK) 25-29 March 2015, centred around one of the leading thoughts of the Reformers:...
by Grace Communion International
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
In this collection of articles, we present an outline of Trinitarian theology. It begins with Jesus Christ. As God in the flesh, he reveals to us what God is; he teaches us that the Father is in character just like Jesus.
Other doctrines flow from that point. Jesus reveals that there was, even before...
by David Lowery, Darrell Bock, W Hall Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 1994
A Biblical Theology of the New Testament gives fresh insight and understanding to theological discipline. Scholars from Dallas Theological Seminary combine to create this important volume edited by Roy B. Zuck. Each contributor looks at divine revelation as it appears chronologically in the New Testament canon, allowing you to witness God's truth as it has unfolded through the decades.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
This book imagines new modes of religious response to trauma, moving beyond simple answers to the ‘why’ of human suffering toward discussions of profound expressions of faith in the aftermath of trauma. Engaging current realities such as war, race, and climate change, chapters feature specific...
Quivering Families
The Quiverfull Movement and Evangelical Theology of the Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
American evangelicals are known for focusing on the family, but the Quiverfull movement intensifies that focus in a significant way. Often called "Quiverfull" due to an emphasis on filling their "quivers" with as many children as possible (Psalm 127:5), such families are distinguishable by their practices...
Sensing Sacred
Exploring the Human Senses in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Sensing Sacred is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of “religion” and “body” through the religious lens of practical theology, with an emphasis on sensation as the embodied means in which human beings know themselves, others, and the divine in the world. The manuscript...