This book argues that the subjective and the objective are crucially dependent on one another and neither is intelligible apart from the other. There is no such thing as a purely external, in-itself world. This book is not intended as a defense of epistemological relativism but as a strong recommendation for modest fallibilism and pluralism.
This book investigates how human-induced global warming will influence the bodily practice, performance, and production of religion in various geographic locations in the years and decades to come.
Reflecting the Third Article of the Nicene Creed, The Lord, The Giver of Life describes God and creation according to the redeeming work of the Holy Spirit. Aaron T. Smith shows that it is not immateriality and materiality, which define "God" and "world," but reflexive capacity for otherness realized in covenantal history.
Inspired by Philip Hefner's The Human Factor (1993), Simon R. Watson engages Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871), William Paley's Natural Theology (1802), and the twenty-first century Wisdom Christologies of Denis Edwards and Elizabeth Johnson to argue for a liberative theology of nature grounded in a compassionate Christ and an existential fall.
This book examines and clarifies the nature, meaning, significance, richness and vitality of the sacred (and the profane), and several key theories of the sacred, in the context of theological and philosophical ontology.
The Material Image contends that the historic Christian faith can be understood as fully at home with the naturalistic implications of contemporary science. Donald H. Wacome explores the materialist account of the human mind and freedom, evolutionary explanations of morality a...
Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts: Religion and Science as Political Theology is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of religion, science, and politics. Contributors reflect on the role of interdisciplinary scholarship for the health of a society threatened by post-truth and alternative facts.
In 2007, Antje Jackelen adopted the motto "God is greater" from the First Letter of John 3:18-20 for her consecration as the bishop of the Diocese of Lund. Today, as the Lutheran archbishop of Sweden, Jackelen ministers by the same, ever-expanding belief: Of all the suffering, divisiveness, and hostility in the modern world's social and political ......
