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A Light to the Nations
Explorations in Ecumenism, Missions, and Pentecostalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The essays in this volume, which are written by friends, colleagues, and former students, are dedicated to Gary B. McGee as a memorial to his life, work, and service. As a professor with a clear calling to teach, he modeled this passion at the Open Bible College (Des Moines, Iowa), Central Bible College...
Giving the Devil His Due
Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Flannery O'Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky shared a deep faith in Christ, which compelled them to tell stories that force readers to choose between eternal life and demonic possession. Their either-or extremism has not become more popular in the last fifty to a hundred years since these stories were...
The Role of Death in Life
A Multidisciplinary Examination of the Relationship between Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The relation between life and death is a subject of perennial relevance for all human beings--and indeed, the whole world and the entire universe, in as much as, according to the saying of ancient Greek philosophy, all things that come into being pass away. Yet it is also a topic of increasing complexity,...
Spirit of Liberality
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
The themes covered in this collection of essays span a wide area, from Christology and the doctrine of God to human rights and Christian spirituality, and they were written and delivered in a variety of contexts, from colleges to churches, on both sides of the Atlantic. Some have been published previously,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Dante, Mercy, and the Beauty of the Human Person is a pilgrimage to rediscover the spiritual and humanizing benefit of the Commedia. Treating each cantica of the poem, this volume offers profound meditations on the intertwined themes of memory, prayer, sainthood, the irony of sin, theological and...
Reading Karl Barth
A Companion to Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Karl Barth's 1922 The Epistle to the Romans is one of the most famous, notorious, and influential works in twentieth-century theology and biblical studies. It is also a famously and notoriously difficult and enigmatic work, especially as its historical context becomes more and more foreign. In this...
Thinking in Public
Faith, Secular Humanism, and Development in Jacques Roumain
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Thinking in Public provides a probing and provocative meditation on the intellectual life and legacy of Jacques Roumain. As a work of intellectual history, the book investigates the intersections of religious ideas, secular humanism, and development within the framework of Roumain's public intellectualism...
Nouveaux mystères et aventures
( Edition intégrale )
Language: French
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Différentes histoires policières ou fictives ne faisant pas intervenir Sherlock Holmes....
NOTRE DAME DE LA MORT
Mon existence a été accidentée et la destinée y a fait entrer maintes aventures peu ordinaires. Mais parmi ces incidents, il en est un d’une étrangeté telle que,...
Practices of Wonder
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Wonder has often occupied a place of unique importance across a variety of human practices and intellectual activities. At different times and historical periods, it has been hailed as the beginning of philosophy and as the end that philosophy should aspire to pursue; as the motive force of scientific...
Finding Salvation in Christ
Essays on Christology and Soteriology in Honor of William P. Loewe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Finding Salvation in Christ brings together some of the most important figures in contemporary theology to honor the work of William Loewe, systematic theologian and specialist in the theology of Bernard Lonergan, SJ. For over three decades Loewe's writings have sought to make classic christological...
Theology, University, Humanities
Initium Sapientiae Timor Domini
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
This book discusses the relationship between theology and the humanities and their shared significance within contemporary universities. Taking up this complex question, twelve scholarly authors analyze the connections between theology and philosophy, history, scholarly literature, sociology, and...
Echoes of a Voice
We Are Not Alone
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Early evening, a young boy alone on his pony on the rim of the Nebraska Sandhills. Three darkening thunderclouds rising higher and higher on the horizon. An electric atmosphere, a quickening, light cooling breeze. A slight shiver and the boy wonders, Am I being pursued by the Father, the Son, and...
Being Human, Becoming Human
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Social Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Who are we? What does it mean to be human? What is the purpose of our existence? In our time these continue to be urgent questions. The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer thought deeply about these questions out of a desire to understand the importance of Christ and the incarnation for modern culture....
Twelve Great Books that Changed the University
And Why Christians Should Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Twelve scholars take us on a journey through twelve books that have defined the methodologies and orthodoxies of key disciplines within the university curriculum. These books have not only been formative for their respective disciplines, but have reshaped the university and continue to reframe our...