Biblical faith is passionately and relentlessly material in its accent. This claim is rooted in the conviction that the creator God loves and cares for the creation and summons creation to be in sync
Philosophy: Dissent and Nonconformity forms part of the Doctrine and Devotion trilogy. The book represents the first attempt to tell the story of those who taught and wrote philosophy outside the Angl
What is post-colonial theology? How does it relate to theology that emerged in historically colonial situations? These are two questions that get to the heart of Robert S. Heaney's work as he consider
For Thomas F. Torrance, the doctrine of the Trinity is always soteriological and soteriology is always Trinitarian. To isolate one from the other means to separate the Being of God from his Act, and v
Donald Allchin was an ordained priest in the Church of England, a historian, ecumenist, and contemplative theologian. The essays, poems, and memoires in this book represent what his Christian vision h
Liu Zhi (c.1662-c.1730), a well-known Muslim scholar in China, published in Chinese outstanding theological works, short treatises, and easy-to-memorize short poems on Islam. He encountered various ch
During the year after its first publication in Russian in 1885, "God, Man and the Church" rapidly established a reputation as a seminal work of Russian theology. It is a penetrating examination of man
The secret to inner harmony can be uncovered in Quietism, Dynamic Passivity, and the Void, yet what is the essential difference between these three concepts? Within a highly original and wide-ranging
This is the first intellectual history to study the ideal-type of model-building methodology of Otto Hintze (1861-1940) to Western historical thought and to suggest that Martin Luther also held to a w
Dorothee Soelle once wrote, Dietrich Bonhoeffer is the one German theologian who will lead us into the third millennium." As we near the end of the first decade of this third millennium, Bonhoeffer co
This volume discusses Lesslie Newbigin's theological convictions and how they factored into both his critique of and his solution for Western culture's spiritual and worldview problems.
A leading scholar of ascetical studies, Richard Valantasis explores a variety of ascetical traditions in late Antiquity developing a theory of asceticism informing the analysis of historical texts an
A popular writer on Christian spirituality, Underhill (1875-1941) looks at the nature and principles of worship and the chief forms they take in Christianity. She has no liturgical training, she admit
Religion is central to Durkheim's theory of society, and his work laid most of the foundations of the sociology of religion.Daring and brilliant though his analysis was, its bold claims and questionab
A historical work of a very high level. Times Literary SupplementBrink's assessment of Housman's classical work and the analysis of his scholarship in relation to his views on poetry and literature pr
'Deification' refers to the transformation of believers into the likeness of God. Of course, Christian monotheism goes against any literal 'god making' of believers. Rather, the New Testament speaks o
An acrimonious divorce is underway between evangelical theology and foundationalism - especially among younger evangelical scholars not directly connected with the modernist-fundamentalist controversy
An examination of how the early English Reformers understood the doctrine of justification by faith, including a survey of the history of English Reformation theology throughout this important format
A collection of specialised essays by leading theologians on the relationship between law and religion in the Old and New Testaments, focusing on the traditions of the Israelites, the actions and tea
An exhaustive guide to every significant Christian theologian from the first century through to the death of John Duns Scotus in 1308, the Dictionary of Theologians is an invaluable window into the c
