In this book, Hani Hanna argues that Karl Barth and Matta al-Miskin redefine the reality of God and humanity christologically in similar ways. By providing an in-depth analysis of their christologies, Hanna finds that Barth and Matta's christological view of reality has implications for interfaith and intercultural dialogues today.
Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
This volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian-derived celebrations as spaces for autonomous cultural expression, social organization, and political empowerment. Their appropriation of Catholic-based celebrations calls into question the ......
This text critically examines the methodologies and arguments that guide how Black theology specifically affirms Black Christology as the definitive paradigm for authentic Christianity. Significantly, the racialized character of Black theology immediately sets this discourse within the context of philosophy of race.
Preaching in the Purple Zone is a resource for helping the church understand the challenges facing parish pastors, while encouraging and equipping preachers to address the vital justice issues of our time.
Preaching in the Purple Zone is a resource for helping the church understand the challenges facing parish pastors, while encouraging and equipping preachers to address the vital justice issues of our time.
A Simmelian Study of Christian Evangelicals and New Monastics
This book uses an innovative and original theoretical framework for the understanding of Christian consciousness in the age of pluralism, drawing on Georg Simmel's social theory as well as philosophers such as Heidegger, Beauvoir, Sartre, Ferrara, and MacIntyre and classical and contemporary sociologists and anthropologists.
This book assumes an interdisciplinary character, providing a window into the subtle relationship between faith and reason in early patristic thought and its relevance for forging the doctrine of creation ex nihilo. In so doing, it highlights the extent to which early Christian thinkers found a common ground with the Greek philosophical tradition.
Fiddled out of Reason examines Addison's poetic oeuvre in context of the nondevotional hymn, an underexplored genre of eighteenth-century verse. It concentrates on poems such as Addison's Cecilian odes, Rosamond, and five hymnic works for The Spectator, as well as Dryden's "Song for St Cecilia's Day" and "Alexander's Feast" and Pope's "Messiah."
The Lord's Prayer, Catechesis, and Ritual Reform in the Sixteenth Cent
Katharine Mahon follows the functions of the Lord's Prayer in catechesis, liturgy, and private prayer through the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This cross-confessional study explores the transformation of the patterns of ritual formation in the reforms of Martin Luther, Thomas Cranmer, and Roman Catholic authorities.
