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Pillars in the History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 1
Prevailing Methods before 1980
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
This two-volume set is part of a growing body of literature concerned with the history of biblical interpretation. The ample introduction first sets key players into the story of the development of the major strands of biblical interpretation since the Enlightenment, identifying how different theoretical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
How does a Christian render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God what is God's? This book is the result of the Bingham Colloquium of 2007 that brought scholars from across North America to examine the New Testament's response to the empires of God and Caesar. Two chapters lay the foundation...
Pillars in the History of Biblical Interpretation, Volume 2
Prevailing Methods after 1980
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This two-volume set is part of a growing body of literature concerned with the history of biblical interpretation. The ample introduction first situates key players in the story of the development of the major strands of biblical interpretation since the Enlightenment, identifying how different theoretical...
The Letter to the Romans
Exegesis and Application
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Written at a time when his ideas and practices were provoking opposition even from fellow Christians, the Apostle Paul articulates in his Letter to the Romans his understanding of God's plan for humanity and discusses the implications of this plan for different groups of people. Romans is considered...
The Messenger
Friendship, Faith, and Finding One’s Way
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This is a book about the importance of mentors in the lives of the young. But rather than developing the theme of mentoring theoretically, Douglas John Hall demonstrates its significance quite personally, autobiographically. In his twentieth year and hoping to study music professionally, Hall met...
Deep Church Rising
The Third Schism and the Recovery of Christian Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The major cultural changes in Western societies since the Reformation have created a serious challenge for the church. Modernity in particular has been inhospitable to Christian orthodoxy and many have been tempted to reject classical versions of the faith. This has led to a division within churches...
A Revitalization of Images
Theology and Human Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
The philosopher, theologian, and biblical scholar Austin Farrer (1904-1968) highlighted in his various writings the central role that images play in the interpretation of biblical writings, the construction of theological arguments, and the descriptions of the Christian spiritual life. Theologians...
Understanding Religious Pluralism
Perspectives from Religious Studies and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Our contemporary world is fast becoming religiously diverse in a variety of ways. Thanks to globalization and migration, to mention only two current worldwide trends, people of diverse and sometimes mutually hostile faiths are now sharing neighborhoods and encountering one another's religious traditions...
Learning from All the Faithful
A Contemporary Theology of the Sensus Fidei
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Do various members of the church--regardless of their generation, gender, race, sexual orientation, country of origin, and whatever their doubts are about official church teachings and policies--have any role in determining, safeguarding, and assessing the authentic teaching and praxis of the faith...
Christianity and Religious Plurality
Historical and Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Over the past two centuries the Christian faith has spread to all continents. Although more global than ever, Christians are religious minorities in most societies. Religious freedom is hardly universal. In the past fifty years, millions of people have been uprooted from their traditional homelands...
The God Who Is
The Christian God in a Pluralistic World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Who is the God in whom Christians believe? Is he just a figment of the human mind as critics of religion claimed in the nineteenth century and as crusading atheists assert again today? Since the beginnings of rational thought the brightest minds among humanity have attempted to assert that God does...
The Great Tradition—A Great Labor
Studies in Ancient-Future Faith
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
At a recent conference entitled Ancient Wisdom--Anglican Futures, theologians from across the denominational spectrum considered the question, What does it mean to inhabit the 'Great Tradition' authentically? As an expression of what C. S. Lewis called Deep Church, Anglicanism offers a test case of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Since being elected to the Chair of St. Peter on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis has given unique shape to the meaning of the new evangelization. With his emphasis on the concept of encounter, and his stunning expression of pastoral ministry in Evangelii gaudium, the present pontiff has breathed new...
Drenched in Grace
Essays in Baptismal Ecclesiology Inspired by the Work and Ministry of Louis Weil
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The importance of baptism within Christian history, theology, and practice is of the first order. Rooted in Christian Scripture, baptism is initiation into Jesus Christ and the sacramental beginning of engagement with the church, the body of Christ. In recent decades, the relationship between baptismal...