Theology category: 9608 books
The Freedom to Become a Christian
A Kierkegaardian Account of Human Transformation in Relationship with God
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
The Kierkegaardian account of becoming a Christian has come to be perceived in radically egocentric terms. Torrance challenges this perception by demonstrating that Kierkegaard was devoted to the idea of Christian conversion as a transformative process of becoming. This process is grounded in an active...
The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the End Times
Theology after You've Been Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
People still believe that Jesus is returning to earth . . . and soon! Like Jesus’ the first followers, millions of Christians hold fast to the idea that we are living in the last days, yet here we are, two thousand years later, still waiting. In The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the End Times...
The New Asceticism
Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Each chapter of The New Asceticism concentrates on a contentious issue in contemporary theology - the role of women in the churches, homosexuality and the priesthood, celibacy and the future of Christian asceticism - in an original thesis about the nature of desire which may start to heal many contemporary...
Understanding Christian Mission
Participation in Suffering and Glory
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
This comprehensive introduction helps students, pastors, and mission committees understand contemporary Christian mission historically, biblically, and theologically. Scott Sunquist, a respected scholar and teacher of world Christianity, recovers missiological thinking from the early church for the...
Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy
A Critical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy investigates the encounter of the most vibrant and controversial trend in recent theology with the greatest Christian thinker of the Middle Ages. The book describes Radical Orthodoxy’s orientation and highlights those anti-secular strategies and intellectual influences...
An Introduction to the Heidelberg Catechism (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought)
Sources, History, and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
This work examines key aspects of the development of the Heidelberg Catechism, including historical background, socio-political origins, purpose, authorship, sources, and theology. The book includes the first ever English translations of two major sources of the Heidelberg Catechism--Ursinus's Smaller...
The Pastoral Luther
Essays on Martin Luther's Practical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
The development of Martin Luther's thought has commanded much scholarly attention because of the Reformation and its remarkable effects on the history of Christianity in the West. But much of that scholarship has been so enthralled by certain later debates that it has practically ignored and even...
by Roderick L. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Revised and Updated. How can God exist in three persons? Why do Christians believe in the Tri-une nature of God? In this book, clear and sound responses to these questions are offered. This book provides a practical defense and exposition of the biblical doctrine of the Trinity.
by Joseph J. Kotva Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Despite the growing interest among philosophers and theologians in virtue ethics, its proponents have done little to suggest why Christians in particular find virtue ethics attractive. Joseph J. Kotva, Jr., addresses this question in The Christian Case for Virtue Ethics, showing that virtue theory offers...
The Powers That Be
Theology for a New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
In our fast-paced secular world, God and theology are second-class citizens. Money, politics, sports, and science seem better suited to the hard realities of our world. As the church steeple has been eclipsed by the skyscraper as the centerpiece of the urban landscape, so has the divine realm been...
Renewing the Christian Mind
Essays, Interviews, and Talks
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
From Dallas Willard, one of the most important Christian intellectuals of the twentieth century, comes a collection of readings, interviews, talks, and articles—many previously unpublished.
In his groundbreaking books The Divine Conspiracy, The Great Omission, Knowing Christ Today, Hearing...
Eucharistic Sacramentality in an Ecumenical Context
The Anglican Epiclesis
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book explores the epiclesis or invocation of the Holy Spirit in the Eucharistic Prayer, using the Anglican tradition as an historical model of a communion of churches in conscious theological and liturgical dialogue with Christian antiquity. Incorporating major studies of England, North America...
Classical Christian Doctrine
Introducing the Essentials of the Ancient Faith
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
This clear and concise text helps readers grasp the doctrines of the Christian faith considered basic from the earliest days of Christianity. Ronald Heine, an internationally known expert on early Christian theology, developed this book from a course he teaches that has been refined through many years...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2001
This Companion takes as its starting point the realization that Jesus of Nazareth cannot be studied purely as a subject of ancient history, 'a man like any other man'. History, literature, theology and the dynamic of a living, worldwide religious reality, all appropriately impinge on the study of...