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Christianity and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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This Element provides a state-of-the-art overview of the most significant studies on Christian peacebuilding in Northern Ireland, identifying lessons for monotheistic and religious peacebuilding more generally. It considers whether the Northern Ireland conflict was religious, including an …
Monotheism in Christian Liturgy
Häftad, 2023
308 kr
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In line with a profound theological understanding of liturgy as the Church at prayer (ecclesia orans), the focus of this Element is the variegated ways in which Christians address, turn to, and worship God in their central rituals and celebrations. Surveying a representative sample of official …
God and Being
Av Nathan Lyons
Häftad, 2023
308 kr
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This Element examines how the Western philosophical-theological tradition between Plato and Aquinas understands the relation between God and being. It gives a historical survey of the two major positions in the period: (a) that the divine first principle is 'beyond being' (e.g. Plato, Plotinus, and …
Monotheism and Divine Aggression
Häftad, 2024
302 kr
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The aggression of the biblical God is notorious. The phrase 'Old Testament God' conjures up images of jealousy and wrath, smiting and judging. But is it only an accident that this god became capital-G God, the unique creator and sustainer of three world religions? Or is there a more substantive …
Music and Monotheism
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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What connects the phenomenon of music as an art with the belief in one indivisible God? What has music, a non-linguistic medium, to say about the personal, loving, communicative God of Scripture and the Prophets, or the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, transcendent God of the Philosophers and …
Seeking Monotheism in Chinese Religions
Av Huaiyu Chen
Häftad, 2025
302 kr
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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, numerous Western missionaries were involved in debating the existence of God in various religious texts and practices in ancient China. Drawing on both the rising philological scholarship in Europe and their own field experience in China, the Western …
Monotheism and Social Justice
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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The rise of monotheistic religious faith in ancient Israel and post-exilic Judaism inspired the imperative for social justice on behalf of the poor and the oppressed. Though some authors have maintained that monotheism inspires tyranny, this author maintains that real monotheistic faith affirms …
Monotheism and Narrative Development of the Divine Character in the Hebrew Bible
Häftad, 2023
308 kr
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The preeminent example of monotheism, the God of the Hebrew Bible, is the end product of a long process. The world from which this literature emerged was polytheistic. The nature and arrangement of the literature diminishes polytheistic realities and enhances the effort to portray a single divine …
Jewish Monotheism and Slavery
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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Biblical monotheism imagines God as a slave master who owns and has total control over humans as his slaves, who are expected to show obedience to him. The theological use of slavery metaphors has a limited value, however, and is deeply problematic from the perspective of real-life slave practices. …
Monotheism and Pluralism
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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Can monotheistic traditions affirm the comparable value of diverse religions? Can they celebrate our world's multiple spiritual paths? This Element explores historical foundations and contemporary paradigms for pluralism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Recognizing that there are other ways to …
The Abrahamic Vernacular
Av Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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Contemporary thought typically places a strong emphasis on the exclusive and competitive nature of Abrahamic monotheisms. This instinct is certainly borne out by the histories of religious wars, theological polemic, and social exclusion involving Jews, Christians, and Muslims. But there is also …
Monotheism and Fundamentalism
Prevalence, Potential, and Resilience
Av Rik Peels
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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This Element explores the relation between monotheism and fundamentalism. It does so from both an empirical perspective and a more theoretical one that combines theological and philosophical insights. The empirical part addresses how as a matter of fact, particularly quantitively, monotheism and …
Monotheism and Peacebuilding
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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This Element addresses the opportunities and constraints operating on monotheistic peacebuilding, focusing on the three Abrahamic faiths, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, which share a common origin. These opportunities and constraints are approached through what the volume calls 'the paradox of …
The Politics of Monotheism
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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Monotheism, the belief in the One True God, seems to have an ambiguous role in political life: On the one hand, monotheism may foster the inclusion of everybody, regardless of identity or background. On the other, monotheistic religions demand submission to a singular revealed truth, distinguish …
Open Theism
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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This Element shows Open theism as a monotheist model of God according to which the future is objectively open-ended, not just from the finite perspective of creation, but from God's perspective as well. This Element has three main sections. The first carefully defines open theism, distinguishes its …
Monotheism and Creation
Häftad, 2025
282 kr
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This Element discusses the idea of creation ex nihilo as an expression of monotheistic belief mainly with reference to Jewish and Christian traditions. It outlines the philosophical and theological discussion about monotheism and creation, considering key historical figures such as Philo, Irenaeus, …
Angels and Monotheism
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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While angels have played a decisive role in all the world's major religions and continue to loom large in the popular religious and creative imagination, modern theology has tended to ignore or trivialize them. The comparatively few scholarly works on angels over the last century have typically …
Monotheism and Relativism
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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This Element explores the relationship between monotheism and relativism. Over the last two decades, emerging relativist theories have been extensively developed and debated within the fields of philosophy. How does monotheistic theology relate to relativism, especially to relativism about truth? …
Monotheism and Miracle
Av Eric Eve
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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Monotheism implies a God who is active in creation. An author writing a novel provides a better analogy for God's creative activity than an artificer constructing a mechanism. A miracle is then not an interruption of the ordinary course of nature so much as a divine decision to do something out of …
Spirit
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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The Element begins by surveying the image of spirit within Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It explores the duality between the experience of spirit 'from beyond' and spirit 'within', and finds a consistency in the idea of spirit as the presence and activity of God in the world. Attention is given …
Monotheism and Divine Aggression
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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The aggression of the biblical God is notorious. The phrase 'Old Testament God' conjures up images of jealousy and wrath, smiting and judging. But is it only an accident that this god became capital-G God, the unique creator and sustainer of three world religions? Or is there a more substantive …
God and Being
Av Nathan Lyons
Inbunden, 2023
911 kr
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This Element examines how the Western philosophical-theological tradition between Plato and Aquinas understands the relation between God and being. It gives a historical survey of the two major positions in the period: (a) that the divine first principle is 'beyond being' (e.g. Plato, Plotinus, and …
Monotheism and Narrative Development of the Divine Character in the Hebrew Bible
Inbunden, 2023
911 kr
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The preeminent example of monotheism, the God of the Hebrew Bible, is the end product of a long process. The world from which this literature emerged was polytheistic. The nature and arrangement of the literature diminishes polytheistic realities and enhances the effort to portray a single divine …
Seeking Monotheism in Chinese Religions
Av Huaiyu Chen
Inbunden, 2025
892 kr
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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, numerous Western missionaries were involved in debating the existence of God in various religious texts and practices in ancient China. Drawing on both the rising philological scholarship in Europe and their own field experience in China, the Western …
Emotions and Monotheism
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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The emotional turn in scholarship has changed the way in which historians of religion think about monotheistic traditions. New histories of religion have adapted and incorporated the totalizing sensibilities of twentieth century annalistes, the granular view of social historians, groundbreaking …
Monotheism and Wisdom in the Hebrew Bible
An Uneasy Pair?
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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Monotheism, belief in only one God, and wisdom, learning to cope by reason alone and teaching others to do so, faced resistance in the polytheistic world of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and lesser states including Israel. Paradoxically, in early biblical wisdom (Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes) the …
Monotheism and Wisdom in the Hebrew Bible
An Uneasy Pair?
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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Monotheism, belief in only one God, and wisdom, learning to cope by reason alone and teaching others to do so, faced resistance in the polytheistic world of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and lesser states including Israel. Paradoxically, in early biblical wisdom (Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes) the …
Open Theism
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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This Element shows Open theism as a monotheist model of God according to which the future is objectively open-ended, not just from the finite perspective of creation, but from God's perspective as well. This Element has three main sections. The first carefully defines open theism, distinguishes its …
Jewish Concepts of Divine Oneness
A Comparative Introduction
Av Job Y. Jindo
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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This book offers a selective, typological overview of Jewish perspectives on the belief in God's oneness. To achieve this, the author divides the history of Judaism into four phases - biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and modern - and presents diverse models for understanding the reality of divine …
Monotheism and Paradise
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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This Element will provide an essential tracing of selected Greek views of the afterlife which engage in dynamic tension with the Christian understanding of Paradise as fulfilled in the Resurrected state. The main three sections in this Element are Ideas of the Afterlife in the Greek Tragedians; …
