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Biblical Wisdom and the Hermeneutics of Nostalgia
Rereading the Poetics of the Familiar
Av Hans Decker
Inbunden, 2026
1713 kr
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Biblical Wisdom and the Hermeneutics of Nostalgia explores the literary features and function of wisdom sayings both as individual proverbs and in their context in discourse and anthology. Wisdom is as an expression of traditional culture, meaning it relies on an appropriation of the past to form …
Ottoman Puritanism and its Discontents
Ahmad al-Rumi al-Aqhisari and the Qadizadelis
Inbunden, 2016
2169 kr
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This book is about the emergence of a new activist Sufism in the Muslim world from the sixteenth century onwards, which emphasized personal responsibility for putting Godâs guidance into practice. It focuses specifically on developments at the centre of the Ottoman Empire, but also considers both …
Non-Identity Theodicy
A Grace-Based Response to the Problem of Evil
Häftad, 2023
398 kr
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Questions as personal as those about suffering require a very personal response. However, the most popular responses to 'the problem of evil' revolve around abstract discussions of greater goods, maximization of value, and best possible worlds, depicting God as at best an impartial bureaucrat and …
Origen and Prophecy
Fate, Authority, Allegory, and the Structure of Scripture
Av Claire Hall
Inbunden, 2021
1682 kr
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Origen is frequently hailed as the most important Christian writer of his period (c.185-c.255 AD), and the first systematic theologian. Origen and Prophecy: Fate, Authority, Allegory, and the Structure of Scripture examines whether there was a system to Origen's thinking about prophecy. How were …
Anti-Methodism and Theological Controversy in Eighteenth-Century England
The Struggle for True Religion
Av Simon Lewis
Inbunden, 2021
1333 kr
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John Wesley and George Whitefield are remembered as founders of Methodism, one of the most influential movements in the history of modern Christianity. Characterized by open-air and itinerant preaching, eighteenth-century Methodism was a divisive phenomenon, which attracted a torrent of printed …
Pastor Tillich
The Justification of the Doubter
Inbunden, 2022
1419 kr
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Pastor Tillich: The Justification of the Doubter tells the story of Paul Tillich's early theological development from his student days until the end of the First World War, set against the backdrop of church politics in Wilhelmine Germany and with particular reference to his early sermons. The …
Original Sin and the Evolution of Sexual Difference
Inbunden, 2022
1319 kr
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Original Sin and the Evolution of Sexual Difference develops an interdisciplinary conversation between evolutionary biology, feminist philosophy, and theology in order to illuminate the entanglement of Christian thinking about original sin with theologies of sexual difference. It then assesses the …
Reframing Providence
New Perspectives from Aquinas on the Divine Action Debate
Inbunden, 2023
1540 kr
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The doctrine of providence, which states that God guides his creation, has been widely conceived in action terms in recent theological scholarship. A telling example is the so-called divine action debate, which is largely based on two principles: (i) providence is best conceptualised in terms of …
Corporeal Theology
Accommodating Theological Understanding to Embodied Thinkers
Inbunden, 2023
1540 kr
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Appropriating insights from empirical findings and theoretical constructs of 'embodied cognition', this study explores how theological understanding is accommodated to the bodily nature of human cognition. The principle of divine accommodation provides a theological framework for considering the …
Quakers, Christ, and the Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2021
2047 kr
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The Quakers were by far the most successful of the radical religious groups to emerge from the turbulence of the mid-seventeenth century--and their survival into the present day was largely facilitated by the transformation of the movement during its first fifty years. What began as a loose network …
Scriptural Aesthetics and the Infant Christ
How the New Testament Infancy Narratives Formed the Senses of Early Christian Readers
Inbunden, 2027
1576 kr
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Scriptural Aesthetics and the Infant Christ provides a fresh reading of the Matthean and Lukan accounts of Christ's infancy through an examination of their dynamic appeals to the visual and aural senses of their readers. In this study, Evangeline Kozitza Dean shows that the strikingly early and …
The Salvation of the Involuntarily Ignorant in Medieval Theology
From Augustine to Aquinas
Inbunden, 2026
1490 kr
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This book examines how Latin theologians from Augustine to Aquinas addressed the thorny question of whether those in involuntary ignorance of Christianity can be saved; a dilemma which seemed to imperil either the justice and loving benevolence of God, or the unique status of Christ as the mediator …
Theology and Economic Ethics
Martin Luther and Arthur Rich in Dialogue
Av Sean Doherty
Inbunden, 2014
2100 kr
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In the wake of the economic crisis, few questions are more pressing than those around the ethics of finance and economics. Theology and Economic Ethics seeks to expand the self-critical resources of contemporary theological economic ethics by bringing the method of a pre-modern thinker, Martin …
Hindu Theology in Early Modern South Asia
The Rise of Devotionalism and the Politics of Genealogy
Inbunden, 2014
2352 kr
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Focusing on the idea of genealogical affiliation (sampradāya), Kiyokazu Okita explores the interactions between the royal power and the priestly authority in eighteenth-century north India. He examines how the religious policies of Jaisingh II (1688-1743) of Jaipur influenced the …
Ricoeur on Moral Religion
A Hermeneutics of Ethical Life
Av James Carter
Inbunden, 2014
1576 kr
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In Ricoeur on Moral Religion, James Carter argues that Paul Ricoeur's later philosophical writings provide a highly instructive interpretive key with which to assess his philosophical project as a whole. This first systematic study of the 'later Ricoeur' offers a critical yet sympathetic …
Canon Law and Episcopal Authority
The Canons of Antioch and Serdica
Inbunden, 2015
2075 kr
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Christopher Stephens focuses on canon law as the starting point for a new interpretation of divisions between East and West in the Church after the death of Constantine the Great. He challenges the common assumption that bishops split between 'Nicenes' and 'non-Nicenes', 'Arians' or 'Eusebians'. …
Time in the Book of Ecclesiastes
Inbunden, 2015
1932 kr
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Time in the Book of Ecclesiastes offers a detailed analysis of the theme of time in Ecclesiastes. The book of Ecclesiastes engages at length with this theme and presents a sophisticated exploration of humanity's temporal situation. Ecclesiastes depicts the temporal reality as extremely problematic …
Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology
Inbunden, 2016
2490 kr
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Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology examines the tension between God and the world through a constructive reading of the Trinitarian theologies and Christologies of Sergii Bulgakov (1871-1944), Karl Barth (1886-1968), and Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988). It focuses on what is …
Heidegger's Eschatology
Theological Horizons in Martin Heidegger's Early Work
Av Judith Wolfe
Häftad, 2015
535 kr
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Heidegger's Eschatology is a ground-breaking account of Heidegger's early engagement with theology, from his beginnings as an anti-Modernist Catholic to his turn towards an undogmatic Protestantism and finally to a resolutely a-theistic philosophical method. The book centres on Heidegger's …
Bede's Temple
An Image and its Interpretation
Inbunden, 2015
2673 kr
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This volume examines the use of the image of the Jewish temple in the writings of the Anglo-Saxon theologian and historian, Bede (d. 735). The various Jewish holy sites described in the Bible possessed multiple different meanings for Bede and therefore this imagery provides an excellent window into …
The Vision of Didymus the Blind
A Fourth-Century Virtue-Origenism
Inbunden, 2015
2629 kr
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An independent teacher, based in Alexandria throughout the second half of the fourth century, Didymus appealed to many within the broadly Origenist currents of Egyptian asceticism, including Jerome, Rufinus, and Evagrius. His commentaries, lecture-notes, and theological treatises show him …
Defending the Trinity in the Reformed Palatinate
The Elohistae
Inbunden, 2015
2411 kr
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This study begins with an examination of Girolamo Zanchi's De Tribus Elohim (1572), setting this important defense of the doctrine of the Trinity in the immediate context of the recent rise of antitrinitarianism within the Reformed Palatinate. De Tribus Elohim focused on the grammatical peculiarity …
C.S. Peirce and the Nested Continua Model of Religious Interpretation
Av Gary Slater
Inbunden, 2015
2673 kr
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This study develops resources in the work of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) for the purposes of contemporary philosophy. It contextualizes Peirce's prevailing influences and provides greater context in relation to the currents of nineteenth-century thought. Dr Gary Slater articulates 'a nested …
Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch
Inbunden, 2016
2075 kr
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In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, 'selfless love' can appear as a threat to the lover's personal well-being. This perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it and therefore calls for a theological response. In conversation with the Protestant …
George Errington and Roman Catholic Identity in Nineteenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2016
1825 kr
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The Victorian Archbishop of Trebizond, George Errington (1804-1886) was one of the most prominent figures of nineteenth-century English Roman Catholicism. He was involved in the resurgence of the English Catholic Church, and would have achieved the highest offices himself had not a dispute between …
The Theological Epistemology of Augustine's De Trinitate
Häftad, 2016
663 kr
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Luigi Gioia provides a fresh description and analysis of Augustine's monumental treatise, De Trinitate, working on a supposition of its unity and its coherence from structural, rhetorical, and theological points of view. The main arguments of the treatise are reviewed first: Scripture and the …
Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Inbunden, 2016
2490 kr
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Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany examines the dual transformation of institutions and ideas that led to the emergence of theology as science, the paradigmatic project of modern theology associated with Friedrich Schleiermacher. Beginning with earlier educational reforms …
Angels in Early Medieval England
Inbunden, 2016
2077 kr
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In the modern world, angels can often seem to be no more than a symbol, but in the Middle Ages men and women thought differently. Some offered prayers intended to secure the angelic assistance for the living and the dead; others erected stone monuments carved with images of winged figures; and …
Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi
The Making of a Counter-Reformation Saint
Inbunden, 2016
1754 kr
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This work offers a detailed reconstruction of the campaigns for and trials resulting in the beatification (in 1626) and subsequent canonization in 1169 of the Florentine mystic nun, Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607). Clare Copeland places her findings in the wide context of the politics of …
Intercessory Prayer and the Monastic Ideal in the Time of the Carolingian Reforms
Inbunden, 2016
1754 kr
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In early medieval Europe, monasticism constituted a significant force in society because the prayers of the religious on behalf of others featured as powerful currency. The study of this phenomenon is at once full of potential and peril, rightly drawing attention to the wider social involvement of …
