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by Alister E. McGrath
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Marking the 50th anniversary of Lewis’ death, The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis sees leading Christian thinker Alister McGrath offering a fresh approach to understanding the key themes at the centre of Lewis’ theological work and intellectual development.
Brings together a collection...
Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh
A Secular Theology for the Global City
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Drawing on philosophical reflection, spiritual and religious values, and somatic practice, Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh offers guidance for moving amidst the affective dynamics that animate the streets of the global cities now amassing around our planet.
Here theology turns decidedly...
In Search of Authority
Anglican Theological Method from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Anglican theology has been a hotbed of debate about the
issue of authority since the Reformation. What do we really appeal to when
attempting to decide matters of doctrine, worship, ministry or ethics? The
debate is very much alive today, between Evangelical, Liberal and Catholic
Anglicans around...
Grace in Auschwitz
A Holocaust Christology
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The postmodern human condition and relationship to God were forged in response to Auschwitz. Christian theology must now address the challenge posed by the Shoah. Grace in Auschwitz offers a constructive theology of grace that enables twenty-first-century Westerners to relate meaningfully to the Christian...
Retrieving Nicaea
The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Khaled Anatolios, a noted expert on the development of Nicene theology, offers a historically informed theological study of the development of the doctrine of the Trinity, showing its relevance to Christian life and thought today. According to Anatolios, the development of trinitarian doctrine involved...
Calvin and the Reformed Tradition
On the Work of Christ and the Order of Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Richard Muller, a world-class scholar of the Reformation era, examines the relationship of Calvin's theology to the Reformed tradition, indicating Calvin's place in the tradition as one of several significant second-generation formulators. Muller argues that the Reformed tradition is a diverse and...
Mañana
Christian Theology from a Hispanic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
An in-depth look at Christian theology through Hispanic eyes. It weaves the doctrinal formulations of the early church on creation, the Trinity, and Christology into contemporary theological reflection on the Hispanic struggle for liberation.
This volume offers a major theological statement...
Reading Scripture as a Political Act
Essays on the Theopolitical Interpretation of the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Although scholars increasingly understand Scripture to contain political dimensions and implications, the interpretation of Scripture is often marginalized in most scholarly discussions of political theology. Reading Scripture as a Political Act takes a step toward remedying this situation by exploring...
Liturgical Power
Between Economic and Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Is Christianity exclusively a religious phenomenon, which must separate itself from all things political, or do its concepts actually underpin secular politics? To this question, which animated the twentieth-century debate on political theology, Liturgical Power advances a third alternative. Christian...
by Romanus Cessario, O.P.
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Since it was first published in 1991, The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics has received praise from a wide range of commentators, both Catholic and Protestant. This second edition includes discussion of works that have appeared since the early 1990s, especially the first papal document to address...
A More Radical Gospel
Essays on Eschatology, Authority, Atonement, and Ecumenism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Gerhard O. Forde has stood at the forefront of Lutheran thought for most of his career. This new collection of essays and sermons—many previously unpublished— makes Forde's powerful theological vision more widely available.
The book aptly captures Forde's deep Lutheran commitment. Here...
Three Wise Men from the East
The Cappadocian Fathers and the Struggle for Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Includes a foreword by Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Cappadocian fathers of the fourth century—Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory Nazianzen—produced thoughts on the Trinity, the creation, the incarnation, the holistic reading of scripture and the discipline...
by St. Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Since the dawn of the fifth century, theology students, religious scholars, and Christian readers have turned to this volume for instruction. Written by one of the foremost leaders in the development of Christian thought, it offers practical as well as theoretical guidance on how to read the Bible and...
A Second Collection
Volume 13
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
For the edition of A Second Collection prepared for the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, editors Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky have added archival materials directly related to almost every one of the papers, bringing the reader closer to the original compositions. The papers date from 1966...