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Young Hegel and Religion
Inbunden, 2017
1066 kr
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This edited collection of essays aims to acquaint the reader with different aspects and readings of Hegel’s Early Theological Writings. These writings consist of five essays plus some unfinished manuscripts, unpublished by Hegel himself during his lifetime and compiled by Herman Nohl as Hegels …
Freedom From Passions in Augustine
Av Yuan Gao
Häftad, 2017
972 kr
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This book presents the first systematic study of Augustine’s insights into passions as well as his approach to the therapy of emotions and their sanctification. Analysing various phases of Augustine’s writings, this work explores the systematic structure of Augustine’s tenets on emotions and on …
Telling Hands and Teaching Feet
Nonverbal Communication in Two of the Narratives of Acts
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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This book represents an extensive examination of human hands and feet and their functions as media of nonverbal communication in the transmission of the mission and message of Jesus by the early church. Research sources for the task include the Greek text of Acts and the Gospel of Luke as well as …
Power-Knowledge in Tabari’s «Histoire» of Islam
Politicizing the past in Medieval Islamic Historiography
Av Amir Moghadam, Terence Lovat
Häftad, 2019
1257 kr
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Muhammad al-Tabari’s History, written about 300 years after the establishment of Islam, is one of the religion’s most important commentaries. It offers important insights into the early development of Islam, not so much for its history as for the ways it was interpreted and understood. Through …
Similes in the Bible (A Compendium)
Inbunden, 2021
1239 kr
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This book lists all the similes in the Bible in three different versions (Greek, Latin and English), noting especially the variation in the use of introductory words (protheses). There are over 1000 examples, not counting the predicate and genitive versions, a significant collection.The …
Shepherd Metaphor in the Old Testament, and Its Use in Pastoral and Leadership Models
Av Jonathan Gan
Häftad, 2022
785 kr
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This book sets out to review the shepherd metaphor and raise the question whether the metaphor should be the basis of the pastoral and leadership models that are derived from the image of the shepherd, and whether such models can be enriched by the analysis of the said metaphor as applied to the …
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Kingdom of God
An Exploration of the Eschatological Dimension of Bonhoeffer’s Theology
Av Arthur L. Wong, James M. M. Francis
Häftad, 2025
585 kr
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Eschatology is an understudied theological topic in Dietrich Bonhoeffer studies. It is a doctrine that is either acknowledged in passing or ignored altogether. This is primarily due to the apparent drastic shift in the theological posture, language, and terminologies used by Bonhoeffer later in …
Henry Fielding: Literary and Theological Misplacement
Literary and Theological Misplacement
Av Scott Robertson, James M. M. Francis
Häftad, 2010
669 kr
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Literature and theology have long been conversation partners. The great themes of human existence form the subject matter of their shared discussion. However, comedic literature has often been overlooked as a serious means to fostering such theological engagement. This book seeks to rectify this …
Challenging the Stereotype
The Theology of Karl Barth as a Resource for Inter-religious Encounter in a European Context
Häftad, 2010
777 kr
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Karl Barth never paid particular attention to the religions of the world. In fact he has often been stereotyped as the prime exponent of an exclusivist attitude toward other religions because of his belief that salvation comes through Christ alone. However a close analysis of his work suggests that …
«Word», Words, and World
How a Wittgensteinian Perspective on Metaphor-Making Reveals the Theo-logic of Reality
Häftad, 2013
802 kr
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The question this book aims to address is: how do we take on board post-modern insights regarding the relationship between language and world without losing our grip on theological truth? Employing the linguistic philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as ‘philosophical hand-maid’ (as opposed to …
Dancing to the Post-Modern Tune
The Future of the Sacrament of Reconciliation among the Igbo People
Av Tobias Okoro
Häftad, 2010
1002 kr
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Is post-modern society devoid of sacramentality or a sense of the sacred? This question is central to the challenges posed by revolutionary post-modern sensibilities that tend to render the rites for the celebration of the sacraments obsolete and irrelevant. To address this issue, the author …
Words Matter
Hermeneutics in the Study of Religions
Av René Gothóni
Häftad, 2011
709 kr
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The challenge of methodic quality has haunted scholars in the human and social sciences since the end of the nineteenth century with the explosive and public success of the natural sciences and their precision and aim of controlling nature. The discussion has been dominated by the quest for proper …
Introducing Ordinary African Readers’ Hermeneutics
A Case Study of the Agĩkũyũ Encounter with the Bible
Häftad, 2011
895 kr
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This book introduces the concept «ordinary African readers’ hermeneutics» in a study of the reception of the Bible in postcolonial Africa. It looks beyond the scholarly and official church-based material to the way in which the Bible, and discourses on or from the Bible, are utilized within a wide …
Religious Discourse, Social Cohesion and Conflict
Studying Muslim–Christian Relations
Av Frans Wijsen
Häftad, 2013
651 kr
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This book analyses religious identity transformations through inter-religious relations. It aims to highlight the link between religious discourse and social cohesion, or the lack of such a link, and ultimately seeks to contribute to the dominant discourse on Muslim–Christian relations. The book is …
Beyond RastafarI
An Historical and Theological Introduction
Häftad, 2015
788 kr
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This book is an invitation to reflect on how a minority culture emerged from within «Third World» liberation movements. It considers not only the historical and cultural journey between Ethiopia and Jamaica, but also the psychological dynamics of subalterns between the East and the West.In this …
Incurious Seeker’s Quest for Meaning
Heidegger, Mood and Christianity
Av Kevin Sludds
Häftad, 2014
788 kr
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The paradox within the title of this book refers to its principal theme, that of elucidating our innate capacity to transform/convert from an inauthentic everyday mode of being to an authentic one. This study provides an analysis of affect as a means of highlighting a number of key points of …
Church as Hermeneutical Community and the Place of Embodied Faith in Joseph Ratzinger and Lewis S. Mudge
Häftad, 2015
1175 kr
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This book adds new impetus to ecumenical theology by focusing on embodied faith or the contextual interpretation of Revelation. It does so through an exploration of the insights of Lewis S. Mudge and Joseph Ratzinger. Mudge advocates catholicity as a hermeneutic which embraces the contextuality of …
Economic Theory and Christian Belief
Av Andrew Britton, Peter Sedgwick m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
1046 kr
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Any attempt to use the Bible as a basis for addressing contemporary economic issues needs to recognise the fundamental differences in underlying philosophy between economic theory and Christian belief. Neo-classical economic theory embodies a view of the world and of human nature, derived from the …
Grace Overwhelming
John Bunyan, "The Pilgrim’s Progress" and the Extremes of the Baptist Mind
Av Anne Dunan-Page, James M. M. Francis
Häftad, 2006
1141 kr
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Awarded the 2007 National Research Prize SAES/AEFA.This study is a reappraisal of John Bunyan in the light of the dissenting religious culture of the late-seventeenth century. Charges of schism and fanaticism were repeatedly levelled against Bunyan, both from within the dissenting community and …
Believing in the Text
Essays from the Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts, University of Glasgow
Av Darlene Bird, George Newlands
Häftad, 2004
877 kr
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The essays in this book represent ten years of the work of the Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts in the University of Glasgow. Seemingly diverse, they are bound together by a common belief that theology flourishes in an interdisciplinary and transcultural environment. It …
Evangelical Theological Perspectives on post-Vatican II Roman Catholicism
Av Leonardo De Chirico, James M. M. Francis
Häftad, 2003
1065 kr
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The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) has forced Evangelical theology to rethink its own perception and analysis of Roman Catholicism. Many Evangelical theologians have attempted to grapple with the new Roman Catholic outlook and the ecumenical challenges it brings. After describing the …
Dogmatics among the Ruins
German Expressionism and the Enlightenment as Contexts for Karl Barth’s Theological Development
Av Ian Boyd, James M. M. Francis
Häftad, 2004
1146 kr
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In the second decade of the twentieth century the cultural life of Germany was transformed by the emergence of Expressionism, a series of vigorous, youthful artistic movements which were to exert a lasting influence on modern culture. In the same decade a young Swiss pastor called Karl Barth began …
Women’s Spirituality in the Twentieth Century
An Exploration through Fiction
Av Heather Ingman, James M. M. Francis
Häftad, 2003
911 kr
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This book applies insights from feminist theology to highlight spiritual themes in twentieth-century fiction by women writers. The author traces the way women writers of the twentieth century have not only challenged religious discourse but employed spiritual themes in order to explore more fluid …
After the Market
Economics, Moral Agreement and the Churches’ Mission
Av Malcolm Brown, James M. M. Francis
Häftad, 2004
1005 kr
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How are the churches to say anything useful about the market economy which is so dominant in everybody’s life today? Too often, Christian responses have failed to take the moral arguments for markets seriously enough. The market’s assertions of liberal individualism and the impossibility of …
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Simone Weil: A Study in Christian Responsiveness
Av Vivienne Blackburn, James M. M. Francis
Häftad, 2004
859 kr
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The book is the first major study to bring together the two early twentieth-century theologians Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran pastor, and Simone Weil, French philosopher and convert to Christianity. Both were victims of Nazi oppression, and neither survived the war. The book explores the two …
Traces of Liberality
Collected Essays
Av George Newlands, James M. M. Francis
Häftad, 2005
1009 kr
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This collection of essays reflects constructive engagement with a liberal and progressive programme of Christian theology over a number of years. The themes are diverse – from the renewal of Christology and the ecumenical dimensions of ecclesiology to human rights and emancipatory theology. …
Laity and Participation
A Theology of Being the Church
Häftad, 2006
1087 kr
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Right across denominational boundaries lay theology is dominated by negatives: the laity simply defined as the non-ordained, the alleged exclusion of the laity from full participation, the sole focus on what they cannot or should not do, and, above all, the total absence of an ecumenical lay …
Theology for Europe
The Churches and the European Institutions
Häftad, 2005
932 kr
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This volume is about the partnership of the Christian churches in their dialogue with the European Institutions. In a context of plurality the discourse between religion, society and political institutions requires a descriptive and reflective theology that is both informed by the received …
Discernment of Revelation in the Gospel of Matthew
Av Frances Shaw
Häftad, 2007
1084 kr
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In the biblical tradition revelation from God is frequently mediated through certain gifted individuals. Disclosure and hiddenness are both integral to revelation and this study explores how Matthew presents Jesus as a true discerner of revelation and how he seeks to persuade his readers to accept …
Transformation
James Loder, Mystical Spirituality, and James Hillman
Häftad, 2006
1009 kr
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Transformation is a desired outcome of Christian spirituality. Christians pray, trust, and hope that their responsive embrace of God will transform them. Interdisciplinary study of this process, as journey and as significant movements, hits upon key philosophical, theological, and psychological …
