Theology category: 9608 books
Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God
The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
**Pastor Brian Zahnd began "to question the theology of a wrathful God who delights in punishing sinners, and has started to explore the real nature of Jesus and His Father. The book isn’t only an interesting look at the context of some modern theological ideas; it’s also offers some profound...
Pro Rege (Volume 1)
Living Under Christ the King
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
How do Christians bridge the divide between our lives inside and outside the church?
Abraham Kuyper believed that a healthy view of Jesus' kingship was essential to closing that gap. In this first volume of Pro Rege, Kuyper discusses how Satan's kingdom opposes, undermines, and obscures Christ's...
The Human Person
According to John Paul II
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
In the 20th Century three social revolutions—the industrial, sexual, and technological revolutions—challenged the religious convictions of many. John Paul II’s teaching on the theology of the body was his response to the resulting societal shifts. Fr. Bransfield explores John Paul II’s response...
The Lutheran Confessions
History and Theology of The Book of Concord
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In this important new volume, Arand, Kolb, and Nestingen bring the fruit of an entire generation of scholarship to bear on these documents, making it an essential and up-to-date class text. The Lutheran Confessions places the documents solidly within their political, social, ecclesiastical and theological...
Acting for Others
Trinitarian Communion and Christological Agency
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book explores why the metaphor of the church as a family is insufficient. In this, Arendt's concept of action and her criticism of privatizing the public political space by viewing it as a family are engaged through Bonhoeffer's ecclesiology and political theology and Staniloae's triadology and...
Passion for Nothing
Kierkegaard's Apophatic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Passion for Nothing offers a reading of Kierkegaard as an apophatic author. As it functions in this book, “apophasis” is a flexible term inclusive of both “negative theology” and “deconstruction.” One of the main points of this volume is that Kierkegaard’s authorship opens pathways between...
Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought)
A Response to the Challenge of Skepticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The concept of God's two kingdoms was foundational to Luther and subsequent Lutheran theology. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, that concept has been understood primarily as a political concept. But is a political reading of the two kingdoms a perversion of Luther's teaching?
Leading...
by Louis Weil
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2001
In this exploration of the foundations of Anglican worship, Louis Weil invites the laity to claim their true baptismal role and serve alongside the ordained as ministers and celebrants of the liturgy. He explains how the contribution of the people of God has steadily diminished over the centuries...
Constantine and the Council of Nicaea
Defining Orthodoxy and Heresy in Christianity, 325 CE
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Constantine and the Council of Nicaea plunges students into the theological debates confronting early Christian church leaders. Emperor Constantine has sanctioned Christianity as a legitimate religion within the Roman Empire but discovers that Christians do not agree on fundamental aspects of their...
by Willie James Jennings
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
by Johnny Bernard Hill
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
In this book Johnny Bernard Hill argues that prophetic rage, or righteous anger, is a necessary response to our present culture of imperialism and nihilism. The most powerful way to resist meaninglessness, he says, is refusing to accept the realities of structural injustice, such as poverty, escalating...
The Only Way is Ethics: Sexual Singleness
Why Singleness is Good, and Practical Thoughts on Being Single and Sexual
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Ever wonder how to handle the tough ethical issues we face?
The Only Way Is Ethics is an accessible, practical series of guides designed to equip both new and mature Christians to think through important and current ethical issues in the light of the Bible and theology. It offers help to Christians...
by Wanderley P. da Rosa, Raimundo Barreto, Ronaldo Cavalcante
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In a context of globalization, socioeconomic disparity, environmental concerns, mass migration, and multiplying political and social upheavals, Christians from different parts of the world are forced to ask complex questions about poverty, migration, race, gender, sexuality, and land-related conflicts....
by Domenic Marbaniang
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Hamartiology is the study of sin. It comes from the Greek word "Hamartia", which means "to miss the mark". The notes in this book are introduce the Biblical concept of sin in dialogue with Eastern and Western philosophy. Hamartiology studies the meaning and concept of Sin, Justice,...