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The Wisdom and Foolishness of God
First Corinthians 1-2 in Theological Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The first two chapters of Paul’s first epistle to the Christians of Corinth, written in the fifth decade of the first century, have played a significant role in the history of Christian theology. Interpreting the central event in Christianity, namely the crucifixion of Jesus, Paul reflects on the...
Iesus Deus
The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
What does it mean for Jesus to be “deified” in early Christian literature? Although the divinity of Jesus was a topic of profound and contested discussion in Christianity’s early centuries, believers did not simply assert that Jesus was divine; in their literature, they depicted Jesus with the...
Paul and Palestinian Judaism
40th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
This landmark work, which has shaped a generation of scholarship, compares the apostle Paul with contemporary Judaism, both understood on their own terms. E. P. Sanders proposes a methodology for comparing similar but distinct religious patterns, demolishes a flawed view of rabbinic Judaism still...
by Jurgen Moltmann
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
From its English publication in 1973, Jurgen Moltmann’s The Crucified God garnered much attention, and it has become one of the seminal texts of twentieth-century theology. Following up on his groundbreaking Theology of Hope, The Crucified God established the cross as the foundation for Christian...
Reconstructing Theology
The Contribution of Francis Schussler Fiorenza
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Francis Schüssler Fiorenza is one of the pivotal contemporary Roman Catholics working in the field of systematic theology and has made vital contributions to the discipline. This book—the first of its kind—provides an overview of Fiorenza’s theological biography, from early influences and original...
The Resurrected God
Karl Barth's Trinitarian Theology of Easter
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The Resurrected God is an exciting, innovative examination of the resurrection of Christ and its relationship to the doctrine of the Trinity in the mature work of Karl Barth, particularly across the three parts of volume IV of the Church Dogmatics. John Drury argues that, for Barth, the subject and...
Exodus and Resurrection
The God of Israel in the Theology of Robert W. Jenson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Exodus and Resurrection establishes the important place God’s identity as the “God of Israel” has in the systematic theology of Robert W. Jenson. The work demonstrates that the identification of the God of Israel as the agent of Jesus’ resurrection functions as a foundational premise in Jenson’s...
Political Augustinianism
Modern Interpretations of Augustine’s Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Alongside Saint Thomas Aquinas, the thought of Saint Augustine stands as one of the central fountainheads of not only theology but Western social and political theory. In the twentieth century especially, Augustine has been pivotal to the development of modern and contemporary political and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Sarah Coakley is one of the most exciting and creative figures in contemporary theology. Her far-reaching systematic vision of the Christian faith has integrated insights from systematic theology, gender studies, sociology, patristics, analytic philosophy of religion, and evolutionary biology. This...
A Dual Reception
Eusebius and the Gospel of Mark
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The ending of Mark’s Gospel is one of the great unsolved mysteries. However, interest in the Markan conclusion is not a modern phenomenon alone. Comments about the different attested endings date back to Eusebius’ Ad Marinum in the fourth century. Responding to the apparent discrepancy between...
The Perfectly Simple Triune God
Aquinas and His Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
A particularly nettlesome question is that around the relationship of the confession of God as a simple yet threefold being—the treatises of the one God and the Trinity. Although God as simple and Triune was widely accepted for over a millennium, simplicity has been widely critiqued and rejected...
Justin against Marcion
Defining the Christian Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Andrew Hayes takes the measure of Marcion's impact on second-century Christianity through a close examination of the topics and structure of Justin Martyr's writings, especially the Dialogue with Trypho, demonstrating that Justin repeatedly described Christianity in a contra-Marcionite fashion. The...
by James K. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Over the course of the past two centuries, Augustine's ecclesiology has been subject to interpretations that overdraw the distinction between the visible and invisible dimensions of the church, sometimes reducing the church to a purely spiritual, invisible reality, over against the visible church...
God and Mediation
Retrospective Appraisal of Luther the Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Martin Luther‘s effort to put God at the very center of human life hinged on five principles: sola gratia, sola fide, sola Scriptura, solus Christus, and ecclesia semper reformanda. They formed the basis for a much-needed reformation of the Christian church projected by Luther and others. Besides...