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Christians and War
A Brief History Of The Church's Teachings And Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
James Reimer offers a fair presentation of the three classical Christian attitudes toward war: crusading or holy war, just war, and pacifism. His thoughtful survey of Christian teachings and practices on issues of war, violence, and the state takes readers from classical Greco-Roman times to the present....
Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses
With Introduction, Commentary, and Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
By almost any reckoning, the Ninety-Five Theses ranks as the most important text of the Reformation, if not in substance at least in impact. As the anniversary of their posting on the church door in Wittenberg approaches, what better way to remember and recognize the occasion than to make this important...
The Wittenberg Concord
Creating Space for Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Rethinking the Wittenberg Concord for Today
One of the mostly forgotten gems of the sixteenth century Reformations is the Wittenberg Concord. Signed in 1536 by representatives of evangelical southern German imperial cities and territories and the Lutherans, the dialogue that led to the concord...
Between Apocalypse and Eschaton
History and Eternity in Henri de Lubac
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Between Apocalypse and Eschaton examines the systematic theology of Henri de Lubac, SJ, one of the most significant Catholic theologians of the twentieth century. While much of the recent work on de Lubac centers on the controversies surrounding his theology of the supernatural, Between Apocalypse...
Christian Understandings of Evil
The Historical Trajectory
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
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...
Correlating Sobornost
Conversations between Karl Barth and the Russian Orthodox Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The diaspora of scholars exiled from Russia in 1922 offered something vital for both Russian Orthodoxy and for ecumenical dialogue. Liberated from scholastic academic discourse, and living and writing in new languages, the scholars set out to reinterpret their traditions and to introduce Russian Orthodoxy...
Naturally Human, Supernaturally God
Deification in Pre-Conciliar Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Naturally Human, Supernaturally God focuses upon a theological subject matter whose provenance not only spans both periods of the twentieth century, but the whole history of Christianity. It seeks to open a small window upon an odd case of theological convergence between three of the most diverse...
The Vision of Catholic Social Thought
The Virtue of Solidarity and the Praxis of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The Vision of Catholic Social Thought traces the emergence of solidarity and human rights as critical theological and philosophical pillars of the anthropology and ethics foundational to the development of Catholic social teaching. Meghan J. Clark argues that the integration of human rights and the...
Christopraxis
A Practical Theology of the Cross
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Since the late 1970’s practical theology has had a significant voice and influence in the academy. While many have seen great hope and potential in this work, not everyone has agreed. Some, for instance, have examined the conversation and found by focusing on the concrete and lived experiences of...
Persons in Relation
An Essay on the Trinity and Ontology
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The recent 'turn to the Trinity' in modern and contemporary systematic theology has been inundated with models and proposals for construing the concepts of personhood, persons, and relations in connection to a proper understanding of the Trinity. These proposals have at the same time involved borrowing...
Theology in Transposition
A Constructive Appraisal of T.F. Torrance
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
T. F. Torrance was one of the most significant English-language theologians of the 20th century known extensively for his curatorship of the English translation of Barth’s Church Dogmatics but also for his own prodigious theological scholarship. The complexity and astonishing breadth of Torrance’s...
The Unity of Theology
The Contribution of Wolfhart Pannenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Wolfhart Pannenberg is one of the most important theologians of the second half of the twentieth century. This volume offers the first full historical and thematic survey of Pannenberg‘s corpus, from his early work on the theology of revelation and Christology, to his writings on anthropology, theology...
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...
by Jurgen Moltmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A creative and programmatic work, Ethics of Hope is a realistic assessment of the human prospect, as well as its imperatives, from one who stakes everything on God’s promise to rescue life from the jaws of death.