Author: Cunningham,Lawrence S. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Vatican. The Inquisition. Contraception. Celibacy. Apparitions and miracles. Plots and scandals. The Catholic Church is seldom out of the news. But what do its one billion adherents really believe...
Description: Note: This book includes an audio CD, which is not available with the digital ebook edition.Today, practicing shamanism doesn’t mean you have to live in a rain forest or a desert. Thanks to a modern...
Author: Vainio, Olli-Pekka Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: After the postmodern turn, every tradition seeks the right to have their own rules of rational discourse. The crucial question is: are there ways to communicate between the traditions so that the trad...
Author: N/A Publisher: T & T Clark International Format: Adobe PDF
Description: C.S. Lewis, himself a layperson in the Church of England, has exercised an unprecedentedly wide influence on the faithful of Anglican, Roman Catholic, Evangelical and other churches, all of whom tend ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Liberation theology is widely referred to in discussions of politics and religion but not always adequately understood. This Companion offers an introduction to the history and characteristics of libe...
Author: Adams, Graham Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How should we relate to 'others' - those within a particular tradition, those of different traditions, and those who are oppressed? In the light of these anxieties, this book offers a vision, rooted i...
Author: Tanner, Kathryn Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Through the intensely intimate relationship that arises between God and humans in the incarnation of the Word in Christ, God gives us the gift of GodÃs own life. This simple claim provides the basis ...
Description: Drawing together leading scholars from both theological and literary backgrounds, Christian Theology and Tragedy explores the rich variety of conversations between theology and tragedy. Encompassing a...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Creatio ex nihilo is a foundational doctrine in the Abrahamic faiths. It states that God created the world freely out of nothing - from no pre-existent matter, space or time. This teaching is central ...
Author: Arnauld, Antoine Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Où il est traité de la veritable intelligence des passages de l'escriture, et des peres que cét auteur allegue pour la frequente communion. Des conditions d'un bon directeur pour ...
Author: Rose, Matthew Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Matthew Rose offers the first treatment of Barth's ethics from a Roman Catholic perspective, focusing particularly on Barth's "ethics of creation" in Church Dogmatics III/4. Among the topics treated a...
Author: Freston, Paul Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The global expansion of evangelical Christianity is one of the most important religious developments in recent decades, but its political dimension is little studied by the comparative literature on r...
Author: Lazier, Benjamin Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed that they lived in a world made derelict by God's absence and the inte...
Author: Janz, Paul D. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book reconfigures the basic problem of Christian thinking - 'How can human discourse refer meaningfully to a transcendent God?' - as a twofold demand for integrity: integrity of reason and integr...
Author: James, Lee Beall Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This is a catechism for Christians who realize the need to become more thoroughly grounded in their faith. It's a serious attempt to achieve a biblical foundation without trying to defend any particul...
Author: Purcell, Michael Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Emmanuel Levinas was a significant contributor to the field of philosophy, phenomenology and religion. A key interpreter of Husserl, he stressed the importance of attitudes to other people in any phil...
Author: Friedman, Russell L. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How can the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit be distinct and yet identical? Prompted by the doctrine of the divine Trinity, this question sparked centuries of lively debate. In the current context...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The social and intellectual vitality of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity was in large part a function of their ability to articulate a viably transcendent hope for the human condition. Narratives...
Author: Zachman, Randall C. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Randall C. Zachman places Calvin in conversation with theologians such as Pascal, Kierkegaard, Ezra the Scribe, Julian of Norwich and Karl Barth, and attends to themes in Calvin's theology which are o...
Author: Vanhoozer, Kevin J. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The rise of modern science and the proclaimed 'death' of God in the nineteenth century led to a radical questioning of divine action and authorship - Bultmann's celebrated 'demythologizing'. Remytholo...
Author: Crisp, Oliver D. Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Constructive contemporary theology requires serious engagement with the theologians of the past. This book offers a series of studies in the Christology of key representatives in the Reformed traditio...
Author: Cobb, John B Jr Publisher: Abingdon Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The Balancing Act is written to inspire prayer, conversation, questions, and change. Feel free to use it as a personal daily devotional or in small groups.
Author: Johnston, Mark Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this extraordinary book, Mark Johnston sets out a new understanding of personal identity and the self, thereby providing a purely naturalistic account of surviving death. Death threatens our sense ...
Author: Sutton, William Josiah Publisher: TEACH Services, Inc. Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: From the time of our first parents, Satan has sought to turn men from the worship of the true God to the worship of created things, by his invention of a counterfeit system of worship. From the garden...
Author: Moberly, R. W. L. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How can academic biblical interpretation fruitfully contribute to Christian belief and living in today's world? This book offers a synthesis of some of the best in pre-modern, modern and post-modern a...
Author: Cobb, Kelton Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Blackwell Guide to Theology of Popular Culture outlines various general theories of popular culture, identifies theologians and theological concepts that are conducive to analyzing popular culture...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With over 550 entries ranging from Abba to Zwingli composed by leading contemporary theologians from around the world, The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology represents a fresh, ecumenical app...
Author: Remsberg, John E. Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume on "The Christ" was written by one who recognizes in the Jesus of Strauss and Renan a transitional step, but not the ultimate step, between orthodox Christianity and radical Freethought. B...
Author: Hunsinger,George Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The theology of the Eucharist has long been the subject of heated debate, particularly since the Reformation. George Hunsinger’s book explores ways in which Christians might resolve their differe...
Author: Martin, David Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers a mature assessment of themes preoccupying David Martin over some fifty years, complementing his book On Secularization. Deploying secularisation as an omnibus word bringing many dime...
Author: Méndez-Montoya, Angel F. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The links between religion and food have been known for centuries, and yet we rarely examine or understand the nature of the relationship between food and spirituality, or food and sin. Drawing on lit...
Author: Reade, W. Winwood Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: THERE is no study so saddening, and none so sublime as that of the early religions of mankind. To trace back the worship of God to its simple origin, and to mark the gradual process of those degrading...
Author: Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Anna Lindsay was the first female Doctorial candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Her numerous books on theology were written in the early 1900's. Lindsay says that for too long we have thoug...
Author: N/A Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Rising calls in both the United States and abroad for theologizing national agendas have renewed examinations about whether liberal states can accommodate such programs without either endangering citi...
Author: Miner, Robert Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Summa Theologiae is Thomas Aquinas' undisputed masterwork, and it includes his thoughts on the elemental forces in human life. Feelings such as love, hatred, pleasure, pain, hope and despair were ...
Author: Barolini, Helen Publisher: Fordham University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: What does theology have to say about the place of eroticism in the salvific transformation of men and women, even of the cosmos itself? How, in turn, does eros infuse theological practice and transfig...
Description: This book poses new questions about the religious, the secular and the implications of each for the process known as secularization. Looking carefully at the gendered nature of care, they ask why wome...
Author: Smullyan, Raymond M. Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Is there really a God, and if so, what is God actually like? Is there an afterlife, and if so, is there such a thing as eternal punishment for unrepentant sinners, as many orthodox Christians and Mus...
Author: Morrow, Rowe Publisher: Glass House Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The 2011 James Backhouse lecture is concerned with developing a theological response to the need to adopt more sustainable practices such as permaculture to ensure that all people have a reliable supp...
Author: Ayres, Lewis Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Augustine of Hippo (354ñ430) strongly influenced western theology, but he has often been accused of over-emphasizing the unity of God to the detriment of the Trinity. In Augustine and the Trinity, Le...
