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Kierkegaard as Negative Theologian
Av David R. Law
Inbunden, 1993
2948 kr
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This book is concerned with Kierkegaard's `apophaticism', i.e. with those elements of Kierkegaard's thought which emphasize the incapacity of human reason and the hiddenness of God. Apophaticism is an important underlying strand in Kierkegaard's thought and colours many of his key concepts. Despite …
The Muratorian Fragment and the Development of the Canon
Inbunden, 1992
2044 kr
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The Muratorian Fragment, traditionally dated at the end of the second century, is by far the earliest known list of the books of the New Testament. It is therefore an important milestone in understanding the formation of the Christian canon of scriptures. The traditional date of the fragment, …
Beauty and Revelation in the Thought of Saint Augustine
Inbunden, 1992
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Carol Harrison places Saint Augustine's theology in a new and illuminating context by considering what he has to say about beauty. She demonstrates how a theological understanding of beauty revealed in the created, temporal realm enabled Augustine to form a positive appreciation of this realm and …
The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion
A Sect in Action in Eighteenth-Century England
Av Alan Harding
Inbunden, 2003
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This is the first detailed study of the operation of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, an important group in early Methodism. Alan Harding explores how the Connexion developed locally; the identity of its preachers and their training; the religious and social origins of those who joined its …
Theory and Theology in George Herbert's Poetry
`Divinitie, and Poesie, Met'
Inbunden, 1997
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In seventeenth-century England the poet George Herbert became known as `Divine Herbert', his poetry a model for those aspiring to the status of inspired Christian poet. This book explores the relationship between the poetry of George Herbert and the concept of divine inspiration rooted in …
The Hidden God
The Hiding of the Face of God in the Old Testament
Inbunden, 1983
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The Hidden God The Hiding of the Face of God in the Old Testament
Protestant Reformers in Elizabethan Oxford
Av C. M. Dent
Inbunden, 1983
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Protestant Reformers in Elizabethan Oxford
God in Himself
Aquinas' Doctrine of God as Expounded in the Summa Theologiae
Av W. J. Hankey
Inbunden, 1987
3864 kr
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Until recently, more scholarly careers were being devoted to the study of the teaching of St Thomas Aquinas than to any other philosophical or theological doctrine, with the possible exception of Marxism. Roman Catholic scholars have tended, however, to isolate his philosophical theology from its …
Revelatory Positivism?
Barth's Earliest Theology and the Marburg School
Av Simon Fisher
Inbunden, 1988
2490 kr
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This volume fills the gap in British and American knowledge about the liberal phase of Barth's theology, and also that phase in the literature dealing with nineteenth- and twentieth-century religious thought. It opens with a critical exposition of the philosophy and religious thought of the Marburg …
The Communion of Saints
Radical Puritan and Separatist Ecclesiology 1570-1625
Inbunden, 1988
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This study of left-wing puritan and separatist ecclesiology in Elizabethan and Jacobean England explores several major ecclesial motifs, including the relationship of soteriology, eschatology, and puritan covenant thought to ecclesiology; radical puritan and separatist ideals about the government …
Verbal Aspect in New Testament Greek
Inbunden, 1990
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Verbal aspect is a significant element to be considered when interpreting a number of New Testament texts. This book surveys ways in which verbal aspect has been treated in the past century, and discusses what aspect is and how it functions in New Testament Greek. It provides a comprehensive, …
Right Practical Reason
Aristotle, Action, and Prudence in Aquinas
Inbunden, 1994
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This book is a study of the role of intellect in human action as described by Thomas Aquinas. One of its primary aims is to compare the interpretation of Aristotle by Aquinas with the lines of interpretation offered in contemporary Aristotelian scholarship. The book seeks to clarify the problems …
Gregory of Nazianzus: Poemata Arcana
Av St Gregory of Nazianzus, C. Moreschini
Inbunden, 1997
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Known as "the Theologian", St Gregory of Nazianzus (in the eastern part of Turkey) is, with St Basil and St Gregory of Nyssa, one of the celebrated Cappadocian Fathers of the fourth-century Christian Church. Highly educated in both Christian theology and classical Greek literature, he found himself …
Probability and Theistic Explanation
Inbunden, 1990
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The past twenty years have seen a revival of interest in the epistemic of religious belief. Two philosophers who have led the way are Basil Mitchell and Richard Swinburne. Both believe that religious belief can be justified using inductive `best explanation' arguments. However, their similarity …
'Working the Earth of the Heart'
The Messalian Controversy in History, Texts, and Language to AD 431
Inbunden, 1991
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This study provides a complete reassessment of the Messalian controversy of the fourth and fifth centuries AD. The Messalians were an ascetic group, their name (of Syriac derivation) meaning `praying people'. Their extraordinary claims and graphic spiritual vocabulary were considered heretical by …
The Lordship of Christ
Ernst Käsemann's Interpretation of Paul's Theology
Av David Way
Inbunden, 1991
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In the English-speaking world Ernst Käsemann's name is associated primarily with the renewed quest for the historical Jesus which he helped to initiate in the mid-1950s. In addition he is well known for his passionate theological commitment, and for the highly polemical character and sheer …
Christology and Cosmology
Models of Divine Activity in Origen, Eusebius, and Athanasius
Inbunden, 1993
1920 kr
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This book offers a fresh interpretation of the relation between Greek thought and ancient Christian theology through an analysis of three foundational and controversial thinkers: Origen, Eusebius of Caesarea, and Athanasius. Rather than opposing certain cagegories such as philosophy besides …
Nineteenth-Century Anglican Theological Training
The Redbrick Challenge
Inbunden, 1997
2737 kr
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David Dowland presents one of the first analytical accounts of Anglican theological training during its formative period, the nineteenth century. Until this time Oxford and Cambridge had been recognized as the most desirable sources of Anglican clergymen, but there was to be an upsurgence of …
Environmental Ethics and Process Thinking
Av Clare Palmer
Inbunden, 1998
748 kr
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In this study, Clare Palmer challenges the popular conception that process thinking offers an unambiguously positive contribution to the philosophical debate on environmental ethics. She critically examines the approach to ethics which may be derived from the work of process thinkers such as A. N. …
Word Order and Time in Biblical Hebrew Narrative
Av Tal Goldfajn
Inbunden, 1998
3040 kr
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This book addresses the problem of temporal interpretation within narrative of the biblical Hebrew verb, thus exploring the broader issue of the expression of time in language and the ways in which we can attempt to understand and represent it. Tal Goldfajn offers a summary of this controversy, …
Fundamentalism and Evangelicals
Inbunden, 1998
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This study examines the contentious claim that much evangelicalism is fundamentalist in character. Within Protestantism, the term `fundamentalism' denotes not only a movement but also a mentality which has greatly affected evangelicals, and which involves preserving as factual a reading of …
Peter Martyr Vermigli and Predestination
The Augustinian Inheritance of an Italian Reformer
Inbunden, 1998
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This study is in its broadest sense an inquiry into the intellectual origins of the Reformed branch of Protestantism generally, but inaccurately, designated Calvinism. More specifically, it concerns one of the early theologians who gave formative shape to Reformed theology, Peter Martyr Vermigli …
Zadok's Heirs
The Role and Development of the High Priesthood in Ancient Israel
Av Deborah W. Rooke, Deborah W. Rooke
Inbunden, 2000
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This unique study is the first systematic examination to be undertaken of the high priesthood in ancient Israel, from the earliest local chief priests in the pre-monarchic period down to the Hasmonaean priest-kings in the first century BCE. Dr Rooke argues that, contrary to received scholarly …
Early Israelite Wisdom
Av Stuart Weeks
Häftad, 2000
986 kr
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This is a new and ground-breaking study of the nature and origins of the earliest material in the book of Proverbs, drawing on evidence from Israel and neighbouring countries in the ancient Near East. This literature has widely been believed to have originated as pedagogical material, designed for …
Anglican Evangelicals
Protestant Secessions from the Via Media, c. 1800-1850
Inbunden, 2001
4643 kr
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This study examines, within a chronological framework, the major themes and personalities which influenced the outbreak of a number of Evangelical clerical and lay secessions from the Church of England and Ireland during the first half of the nineteenth century. Though the number of secessions was …
Christian Moral Realism
Natural Law, Narrative, Virtue, and the Gospel
Av Rufus Black
Inbunden, 2001
3452 kr
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Christian Moral Realism describes the shape of a Christian ethic that arises from a conversation between contemporary accounts of natural law theory, narrative and virtue ethics; and an insistence that any Christian ethic begin with a distinctively Christian description of reality. The key partners …
Universal Salvation
Eschatology in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner
Inbunden, 2000
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For nearly two thousand years Paul's suggestion at the end of 1 Corinthians 15 that God will be 'all in all' has appealed to those who hold a 'wider hope' that eventually no person will be lost from God's love. Clearly, such hope for universal salvation is at variance with most Christian tradition, …
Karl Rahner and Ignatian Spirituality
Inbunden, 2001
3452 kr
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Karl Rahner SJ, (1904-1984), perhaps the most influential figure in twentieth-century Roman Catholic theology, believed that the most significant influence on his work was Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual Exercises. This book casts significant new light on Rahner's achievement by presenting it against …
Ezekiel and the Ethics of Exile
Av Andrew Mein
Inbunden, 2001
1445 kr
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Whereas much recent work on the ethics of the Hebrew Bible addresses the theological task of using the Bible as a moral resource for today, this book aims to set Ezekiel's ethics firmly in the social and historical context of the Babylonian Exile. The two 'moral worlds' of Jerusalem and Babylonia …
The Eusebians
The Polemic of Athanasius of Alexandria and the Construction of the `Arian Controversy'
Inbunden, 2006
2490 kr
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A historical and theological re-evaluation of the polemical writings of Athanasius of Alexandria (bishop 328-73), who would become known to later Christian generations as a saint and a champion of orthodoxy, and as the defender of the original Nicene Creed of 325 against the `Arian heresy'. For …
