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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
This book opens a window into the lives and extraordinary witness of a Christian couple whose faithful life of service has earned the moniker of Ethopia’s Bonhoeffer.
In Part One, the reader encounters the extant writings of Gudina Tumsa. Gudina’s ideas were by no means silenced by his murder....
Christian Understandings of Creation
The Historical Trajectory
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world. How do we, as we examine the vast and varied output of those who came before us, understand the unity and the diversity of their...
Thinking Christ
Christology and Contemporary Critics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Twenty-first century theology often makes a virtue of deconstructing traditional claims about the person and work of Christ. Claims about the central significance of Jesus Christ appear to be oppressive, intolerant and even violent. Jane Moulaison’s strategic work engages several contemporary Christological...
Fugitive Saints
Catholicism and the Politics of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
How should the Catholic church remember the sins of its saints? This question proves particularly urgent in the case of those saints who were canonized due to their relation to black slavery. Today, many of their racial virtues seem like racial vices. This book proposes black fugitivity, as both a...
Divine Eloquence and Human Transformation
Rethinking Scripture and History through Gregory of Nazianzus and Hans Frei
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Key to a theology of scripture are the important issues of history, consciousness, rhetoric, and how theology functions in relation to interpretation of Christianity’s religious texts. Seeking to address a critical problem in theology and the interpretation of scripture raised by modern historical...
Waiting and Being
Creation, Freedom, and Grace in Western Theology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Joshua B. Davis is assistant professor of systematic theology at The General Theological Seminary in New York. He earned a Ph.D. in theology at Vanderbilt University. Davis co-founded the Theology and Apocalyptic working group at AAR and is co-editing a forthcoming volume, Apocalyptic and the Future...
Paul the Jew
Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The decades-long effort to understand the apostle Paul within his Jewish context is now firmly established in scholarship on early Judaism, as well as on Paul. The latest fruit of sustained analysis appears in the essays gathered here, from leading international scholars who take account of the latest...
"You Made Us for Yourself"
Creation in St. Augustine's Confessions
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Augustine’s Confessions is probably the most commented-upon text of early Christianity. Yet, there is a general consensus that this justly famous work is neither well composed nor structurally unified. “You Made Us for Yourself” aims to challenge this common notion by approaching the Confessions...
by Jason M. H. Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Applying criteria for the identification of biblical Hebrew poetry, Jason M. H. Gaines distinguishes a nearly complete poetic Priestly stratum in the Pentateuch (“Poetic P”), coherent in literary, narrative, and ideological terms, from a later prose redaction (“Prosaic P”), which is fragmentary,...
From Despair to Faith
The Spirituality of Søren Kierkegaard
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In From Despair to Faith: The Spirituality of Søren Kierkegaard, Christopher B. Barnett endeavors to remedy this problem. He does so in two overarching ways. First, he orients the reader to Kierkegaard’s grounding in the Christian spiritual tradition, as well as to the Dane’s own authorial stress...
Christian Understandings of the Trinity
The Historical Trajectory
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
In this creative approach to the doctrine of the Trinity, author Veli-Matti Karkkainen focuses on keeping a dynamic balance between the intellectual-doctrinal and spiritual-charismatic approaches as parallel avenues towards theological understanding. His narrative approach draws on direct quotations...
Healing the Schism
Barth, Rosenzweig, and the New Jewish-Christian Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Two paradigm shifts hallmark Jewish-Christian relations in the twentieth century: the collapse of “Christendom” and the Holocaust. From within these shifts, reassessment of the Jewish-Christian relationship emerged. Over the second half of the twentieth century, a new theological account of that...
Being Salvation
Atonement and Soteriology in the Theology of Karl Rahner
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Karl Rahner's theory of how Jesus saves has garnered criticism. Rahner's portrayal of Jesus has been described by Hans Urs von Balthasar as merely notifying the world of God's salvific will. Others have doubted whether Rahner thinks Jesus “causes” salvation at all. Even Rahner's advocates style...
Luther on Faith and Love
Christ and the Law in the 1535 Galatians Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
There has been a distinct tendency in modern scholarship to underestimate Luther’s teaching on love by overemphasizing his teaching on justification. Calling this tendency into question, this volume advances the thesis that Luther’s teaching on faith and love operates as the overriding thematic...