What is a "biblical scholar"? Stephen D. Moore and Yvonne Sherwood provide a thoroughly defamiliarizing and frequently entertaining redescription of this peculiar academic species and its odd disciplinary habitat. The modernand biblical scholar, they argue, is a product of the Enlightenment. Even when a biblical scholar imagines that she is doing ......
Examines Jesus as an idea of salvation, and not as an individual, gradually constituted and modified over a considerable timespan. This study shows that we know next to nothing about the actual existence of Jesus, all efforts to recover the history of this individual ending in failure.
This book opens a window into the lives and extraordinary witness of a Christian couple whose faithful life of service has earned the moniker of Ethopia's Bonhoeffer. Part One introduces the reader to the extant writings of Gudina Tumsa. Part Two is a highly personal account of Gudina and Tsehay's life, witness, and sufferings.
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.
This new release of Martin E. Marty's classic book on Holy Communion features a new study guide to help individual readers and study groups ponder the meaning of this Christian sacrament. In his personal and inviting voice, Marty describes the origins of Holy Communion and the important role this sacrament has played throughout the history of ......
An introduction to the contemporary debate between science and religion. The author describes her journey as a preacher who is trying to learn what the insights of quantum physics, the new biology, and chaos theory can teach the believer.
Offers an historical account of theology's modern institutional origins in the United Kingdom. This book explores how Oxford theology, from the beginnings of the Tractarian movement until the end of the Second World War, both influenced and responded to the reform of the university.
Creation as Participation in Augustine and Aquinas
Ge argues that by transforming participatory ontology in light of creatio ex nihilo, Augustine and Aquinas have developed a distinctively Christian metaphysics that offers a promising solution to the modern dialectic of the One and the Many.
