Nancy L. Graham unveils the extraordinary life of the churchman and musician, Erik Routley, the most significant hymnologist of the twentieth century. Using anecdotes from his personal correspondence, the foundations of his faith, scholarship, and pastoral relationships are made public.
The most vital questions about Judaismpresent and futureare prefigured, says Marc Ellis in the work of Elie Wiesel, Martin Buber, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Hannah Arendt, and Emmanuel Levinas. Ellis encounters each thinker to contemplate biblical, theological, and philosophical insights so to foster Jewish empowerment and to ensure a Jewish future.
The book engages in a multidisciplanary analysis of the Hongwu Emperor's eulogy to Prophet Muhammad and Islam to better illuminate the interaction between China and Islam.
The Encounter of Judaism and Orthodox Christianity
This book contributes to dialogue between Judaism and Orthodox Christianity. Essays by prominent experts, writing within their own tradition, tackle key issues relating to theology and worship as well as the vexed question of anti-Semitism. The book identifies a great deal of common ground as well as points of tension.
Early Islamic Culinary Art focuses on the meals in the time of Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, after 14 centuries. This work presents the culinary culture of the time, methods of cooking, kitchen utensils, and recipes from the early Islamic period. The collection of plates used in the pictures is another distinguishing feature ......
An Introduction to African American Religious History
This book provides an overview of African American religious history from the African traditional religions, slavery, the development of black churches, new black religious movements, and the Civil Rights movement to the emergence of black megachurches. It also examines issues and challenges facing the study of African American religion today.
Paul Hinlicky reads the history of the early church as a genuine, centurieslong theological struggle to make sense of the confession of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. Protesting a recent parting of the ways between systematic theology and the history of early Christianity, Hinlicky relies on the insights of historical criticism to argue in ......
The Rise of Segregated Churches in the Early American North
Uncovers the often overlooked participation of African Americans and Native Americans in early Protestant churches Phillis Wheatley was stolen from her family in Senegambia, and, in 1761, slave traders transported her to Boston, Massachusetts, to be sold. She was purchased by the Wheatley family who treated Phillis far better than most ......
Explores how certain educated northern Europeans in the first half of the sixteenth century increasingly saw their world as disharmonious and inclusive of mutual contradiction. Examines how early modern writers grappled with the problem of cultural, religious, and cosmological difference in relation to notions of universals and the divine.