Theology category: 9608 books
Language, Desire and Theology
A Genealogy of the Will to Speak
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This interesting and provocative work develops a new theological approach to language in the light of contemporary critical theory.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1999
This Companion serves as a guide for readers wanting to explore the thought and legacy of the great German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–45). The book shows why Bonhoeffer remains such an attractive figure to so many people of diverse backgrounds. Its chapters, written by authors from differing...
To Share in the Body
A Theology of Martyrdom for Today's Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
In modern-day America, it is hard for Christians to imagine ever dying for their faith. And yet in To Share in the Body, author Craig Hovey challenges Christians to view martyrdom not as relegated to the past or to remote parts of the world but rather as having profound implications for Christian...
Gregory the Great
Ascetic, Pastor, and First Man of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Gregory the Great (bishop of Rome from 590 to 604) is one of the most significant figures in the history of Christianity. His theological works framed medieval Christian attitudes toward mysticism, exegesis, and the role of the saints in the life of the church. The scale of Gregory's administrative...
by St. Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
St. Thomas is not only the king of theologians, but the prince of moralists, and it has seemed a pity that his own words on matters of daily practice should have been so long inaccessible to the English reader. Technical Latin is not attractive to those who are unversed in it, and the student of ethics...
by Anthony J. Godzieba
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
In a consumer-driven and technologized world, can we still experience the mystery of God? This book answers yes by exploring the rich resources of the Christian tradition of thinking and speaking about God. Focusing on God’s dialectical character—divine availability (“presence”) and divine...
20th-Century Theology
God & the World in a Transitional Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
Christianity Today
Hegel and the Infinite
Religion, Politics, and Dialectic
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Zizek join seven others—including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis—to apply Hegel's thought to twenty-first-century philosophy, politics, and religion....
Culture and the Thomist Tradition
After Vatican II
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Thomism's influence upon the development of Catholicism is difficult to overestimate - but how secure is its grip on the challenges that face contemporary society? Culture and the Thomist Tradition examines the crisis of Thomism today as thrown into relief by Vatican II, the twenty-first ecumenical...
Revelation as Testimony
A Philosophical-Theological Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2014
According to the pre-modern Christian tradition, knowledge of God is mainly testimonial: we know certain important truths about God and divine things because God himself has told them to us. In academic theology of late this view is often summarily dismissed. But to do so is a mistake, claims Mats...
Pannenberg on Evil, Love and God
The Realisation of Divine Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Pannenberg on Evil, Love and God examines a much-neglected aspect of the theological thought of one of the most original contemporary German theologians, Wolfhart Pannenberg: his theological and philosophical understanding of evil and its relationship to the love of God. The book seeks to correct...
Corpus Mysticum
The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1990
One of the major figures of twentieth-century Catholic theology, Henri Cardinal de Lubac was known for his attention to the doctrine of the church and its life within the contemporary world. In Corpus Mysticum de Lubac investigates a particular understanding of the relation of the church to the eucharist....
Thomas and the Thomists
The Achievement of Thomas Aquinas and his Interpreters
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Thomas Aquinas (1224–1274) is one of the most important thinkers in the history of western civilization. A philosopher and theologian, a priest and preacher, Aquinas bequeathed to the world an enduring synthesis of philosophy, theology, and Christian spirituality. Aquinas championed the integration...
Douglas John Hall
Collected Readings
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Hall's work takes the measure of Christian belief and doctrine explicitly in light of North American cultural and historical experience. Hall's theological insights challenge churches to embrace change and develop genuine community, uncompromised theology, and honest engagement with the larger culture....