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Eastern and Reformed
A Theological Enquiry into the Doctrine of Atonement and the Holy Spirit of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The book looks into the liturgy of the Mar Thoma Church. The Mar Thoma Church claims to be eastern and reformed. An enquiry is made into the liturgy of the passion week and the Eucharist to look into the theology of Atonement (work of Christ) and the nature of the Holy Spirit respectively. The measuring...
Testing the Gospel in the Book of Romans
The Letter to the Romans and the Supersession Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Supersessionism is deeply rooted in both Roman Catholic and Protestant theology and is as old as the church. It is the belief that the church is the new Israel, the true Israel, and as such has displaced or superseded ethnic Israel. Throughout the history of the church it has been commonly held that...
One Layman’S Contemporary Theology
Announcing the ‘Good News’
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The credential of the author is based upon the fact that he is a trained psychologist, a biologist and a scientist; and has been in management/business fields for many years, having been exposed in all aspects of commerce and finance. He has a Master degree in Industrial Psychology from the University...
Christ Our Passover Has Been Sacrificed
A Guide through Paschal Mystery Spirituality: Mystical Theology in The Roman Missal
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Christ Our Passover Has Been Sacrificed examines the paschal mystery as it is presented throughout the liturgical year in The Roman Missal. After offering an in-depth definition of the paschal mystery the author guides the reader through Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Pentecost, and more, mining the riches...
Hauerwas
A (Very) Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Stanley Hauerwas is one of the most important and robustly creative theologians of our time, and his work is well known and much admired. But Nicholas Healy -- himself an admirer of Hauerwas’s thought -- believes that it has not yet been subjected to the kind of sustained critical analysis that...
Theology in the Age of Global AIDS & HIV
Complicity and Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Trentaz proposes an inclusive, complex framework for understanding the creation and maintenance of risk of contracting HIV & AIDS, takes a hard look at dominant theologies and proposes a new way of approaching a theo-ethical response to the pandemic within a communal ethic of 'risk-sharing,' privileging the voices of the marginalized.
The Interruptive Word
Eberhard Jüngel on the Sacramental Structure of God's Relation to the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
While German Lutheran theologian Eberhard Jüngel (1934-) has made a number of significant contributions to contemporaneous discussions of sacramental theology, this topic has largely been ignored by interpreters of his thought. This study summarizes and evaluates, through a close reading of primary...
The Collected Works of Edward Schillebeeckx Volume 5
The Understanding of Faith. Interpretation and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The Understanding of Faith (1974) is certainly Schillebeeckx's most incisive English publication on theological hermeneutics. It contains his principal ideas on this subject, in which he progressively evolved the hermeneutic thinking that he was to apply in due course in his famous Jesus books. The...
A John Haught Reader
Essential Writings on Science and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Classical Christian theologies came to expression at a time when the universe seemed relatively fixed and unchanging. The otherworldly spiritual instincts of many religions reflected a static, vertical, and hierarchical understanding of the natural world. Today, however, especially because of developments...
Recognition and Religion
Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
This book focuses on recognition and its relation to religion and theology, in both systematic and historical dimensions. While existing research literature on recognition and contemporary recognition theory has been gradually growing since the early 1990s, certain gaps remain in the field covered...
A Legacy of Saint John Paul II
The reception of John Paul II's theology of the body in the Catholic church in the United States of America (1984-2012)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
"Fr. Marczewski's contribution offers us an illuminating resource for better understanding the theological and pastoral treasures pregnant in John Paul's theology of the body." - Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An Apocalypse of Love
Essays in Honor of Cyril J. O'Regan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
An Apocalypse of Love is a collection of essays on the many facets of Cyril O'Regan's work to date written by both prominent and rising scholars in the fields of philosophy and theology. Essay topics included in this volume range over his entire corpus, including appreciatively critical analyses of...
by Rev'd Nigel Zimmermann
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
The thought of Emmanuel Levinas is of increasing importance for those working in the diverse fields of phenomenology and continental philosophy, French studies, Jewish studies, ethics, politics and religious studies. In this book, Nigel Zimmermann gives proper attention to the 'incarnate' aspect of...
Theology as Doxology and Dialogue
The Essential Writings of Nikos Nissiotis
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Nikos Nissiotis (1924-1986) was one of the foremost and formative intellectuals of the ecumenical movement in the twentieth century. As professor of philosophy and psychology of religion at the University of Athens, director of the Bossey Institute, and Chairman of the Faith and Order Commission of...