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Boundaries of Monotheism
Interdisciplinary Explorations into the Foundations of Western Monotheism
Inbunden, 2008
2309 kr
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What is the significance of monotheism in modern western culture, taking into account both its problematic and promising aspects? Biblical texts and the biblical faith traditions bear a continuous, polemical tension between exclusive and inclusive perceptions and interpretations of monotheism. …
Orthodoxy, Liberalism, and Adaptation
Essays on Ways of Worldmaking in Times of Change from Biblical, Historical and Systematic Perspectives
Inbunden, 2011
2374 kr
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How does religion cope with changing situations? Are orthodoxy and liberalism really competing strategies? The essays in this volume argue three views. (1)Orthodoxy is not to be seen as the real and original form of a given religion, but as an idealized original form that should be construed as a …
Coping with Violence in the New Testament
Av Pieter de Villiers, Jan Willem van Henten
Inbunden, 2012
2296 kr
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Violence is present in the very heart of religion and its sacred traditions – also of Christianity and the Bible. The problem, however, is not only that violence is ingrained in the mere existence of religions with their sacred traditions. It is equally problematic to realise that the icy grip of …
Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts
Av Jan Willem van Henten, Joseph Verheyden
Inbunden, 2012
2296 kr
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Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts focuses upon the nexus of early Christian Ethics and its contexts as a dynamic process. The ongoing interaction with Jewish, Greco-Roman or early Christian traditions as well as with the social-historical context at large …
Everyday Life and the Sacred
Re/configuring Gender Studies in Religion
Inbunden, 2017
2596 kr
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An interdisciplinary gender-sensitive approach toward perspectives on the everyday and the sacred are the hallmark of this volume. Looking beyond the dualistic status-quo, the authors probe the categories, textures, powers, and practices that define how we experience, embody, and understand …
Present-Day Spiritualities
Contrasts and Overlaps
Inbunden, 2013
2247 kr
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Many forms of present-day Western spirituality contribute to people’s well-being, whereas others have raised criticism. The study of these different forms is, however, complicated by their continuously diverging practices and ideas. By bringing to bear a multidisciplinary approach, the ten …
Religious Stories We Live By
Narrative Approaches in Theology and Religious Studies
Av R. Ruard Ganzevoort, Maaike de Haardt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2557 kr
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Stories have always been important in religion, but systematic explorations of the narrative dimensions of religion are more recent and interdisciplinary explorations of narrative approaches in theology and religious studies are scarce. Religious Stories We Live By paves the ground for these much …
Religious Experience Revisited
Expressing the Inexpressible?
Inbunden, 2016
2234 kr
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Religious Experience Revisited explores a dilemma which has haunted the study of religion since William James. Is religion rooted in experiences? Is religion rooted in expressions? How are experiences and expressions related? The contributors to this international and interdisciplinary compilation …
Apostles’ Creed ‘He Descended Into Hell’
Av Marcel Sarot
Inbunden, 2018
2362 kr
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Though the number of Christians in Western societies is declining, many areas of our daily life are still influenced by Christian thoughts, expressions and images, sometimes without people being aware of it. This volume is about Christ's descent into hell as it appears in The Apostles' Creed 'He …
Parrhesia
Ancient and Modern Perspectives on Freedom of Speech
Inbunden, 2018
1933 kr
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Freedom of speech is a fundamental right in many societies, yet also highly contested. As a right, it can only be appreciated if its historical development is taken into account. Parrhesia offers case studies in freedom of speech, its understanding and exercise throughout history. They enable …
Mysticism and the Inner Light in the Thought of Rufus Jones, Quaker
Av Helen Holt
Inbunden, 2021
2158 kr
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Rufus Jones’ promotion of mysticism and his novel formulation of the Inner Light, which saw God as an inherent part of human nature, were sweepingly influential within liberal Quakerism in the early 20th century and have had long-lasting effects on Quaker faith and practice. In spite of the …
Queen Berenice
A Jewish Female Icon of the First Century CE
Av Tal Ilan
Inbunden, 2022
1877 kr
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This is a biography of Queen Berenice, the daughter of King Agrippa I, sister of King Agrippa II, wife of two kings and lover of the emperor designate Flavius Titus. A Jew of the 1st century, she witnessed some of the foundational events of her time like the emergence of Christianity and the …
Salvation is from the Jews
The Image of Jews and Judaism in Biblical Interpretation, from Anti-Jewish Exegesis to Eliminationist Antisemitism
Inbunden, 2024
2818 kr
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“Unheil,” curse, disaster: according to German scholar Gerhard Kittel, this is the Jewish destiny attested to in scripture. Such interpretations of biblical texts provided Adolf Hitler with the theological legitimatization necessary to realizing his “final solution.” But theological antisemitism …
Jacob Boehme and the Spiritual Roots of Psychotherapy
Dreams, Ecstasy, and Wisdom
Inbunden, 2025
2629 kr
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Jacob Boehme (1574-1624) was a wildly creative mystical writer whose extraordinary revelations have often been consigned to obscurity. In this original book, professor and therapist Glenn McCullough shows that Boehme is the source of one of modernity’s most influential movements: …
State of Theological Education in Central and East European Universities
Challenges and Prospects in View of Secularization and Globalization
Inbunden, 2024
2244 kr
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Through a geographic spread that surveys theological education in Central and East Europe, this volume provides a local glimpse into the state of theological education but also global reflection on the state and scope of theological education as a type of Christian mission and witness in light of …
Apostles' Creed
Born of the Virgin Mary
Av Marcel Sarot, Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen
Inbunden, 2024
2088 kr
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What does it mean when Christians confess that Jesus was ‘born of the Virgin Mary’? This volume of essays, written by an international group of scholars, approaches this question from various perspectives. From examining the Old Testament backgrounds to exploring the Virgin Birth in various …
Process of Maturing
Human Childhood and Adulthood in a Theological Perspective
Av Zdenko Sirka
Inbunden, 2025
2119 kr
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The authors explore theological anthropology through the different phases of human life. Beginning with birth and continuing through childhood to adulthood, to growing old and facing the closeness of death, the book looks into the roles of family, education, friendships, the religious community and …
Who Is the Human Being? An Ecumenical Approach to Theological Anthropology
Inbunden, 2025
2119 kr
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Is being human a given, or is it something one grows into throughout one’s life? Is possible to be and to become human without freedom, other people, nature, God? Offering interdisciplinary insights into such questions, this volume draws on the Bible and the classics of Christian traditions, as …
World as Sacrament
The Eucharistic Cosmology of St Maximus Confessor
Av Daniel Heide
Inbunden, 2026
1784 kr
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In The World as Sacrament, Daniel Heide offers a bold new interpretation of Maximus Confessor’s ontology and cosmology. Approaching Maximus through the hermeneutic lens of Neoplatonism, the author argues for a doctrine of creation ex deo joined with the cosmic incarnation of the One Logos as the …
Tyrants, Heroes, Prophets, and Martyrs
Shifting Images from the Past to the Present
Inbunden, 2026
2061 kr
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This interdisciplinary Festschrift for Jan Willem van Henten contains nineteen essays that deal with literature from antiquity to the present, covering Second Temple Judaism, Early Christianity, Hellenism as well as the reception of the Bible in medieval and modern culture. The contributions to …
