While the gospel is static, cultures of the world vary. The Bible exhorts the believer to present the gospel to all nations (ethnos). One Gospel, Many Cultures addresses the theories and practices involved in presenting the gospel to different cultures from biblical, theological, and missiological perspectives.
Digital technologies and the advance of artificial intelligence are changing human nature. This book explores implications for pastoral and spiritual care providers, religious faith communities, clinical practitioners, and educators and asserts the need for theological reflection about both the existential risk and the opportunities of this ......
In our day, which is characterized by a great misunderstanding of Islam, this work outlines the ideal of an Islamic society at the time of the Prophet Muhammad.
In Paul and the Image of God, Chris Kugler argues that Paul adapted the Jewish wisdom and Middle Platonic traditions regarding divine intermediaries so as to present the preexistent Jesus as the cosmogonical image of God, according to which Adam himself was made and toward which the whole of humanity was destined.
The topic of revelation is fundamental to any account of religious experience, playing a special role in the Judeo-Christian tradition where the texts of Scripture are regarded as revealed. Yet, any reflection on the revealed status of a given message or text requires interpretation. Paul Ricoeur, one of the most important hermeneutic philosophers ......
This book addresses the impacts of the strikes by empires upon land and people, the traditions that fund and sanctify those ventures, and the spinoffs that they inspire. The contributors engage and interrogate these assaults on the land and people, and oblige theologians and biblical studies scholars to confront modern empires.
In Pilgrim Letters, Curtis Freeman takes disciples on a contemporary journey into an ancient faith. The book is a series of letters written by "Interpreter" to "Pilgrim" that provide "instruction in the basic teaching of Christ" for candidates preparing to be baptized. The letters are framed by a short catechism based on the six principles ......
Dorothy Day, The Catholic Worker Movement, and Overcoming Otherness
This book is a revisitation of the radical communalism present at the heart of the Catholic Worker Movement as it intersects with ongoing trends in the field of political theology in search of a functional ethical praxis.
This book provides biblical evidence of the structural and systemic factors that have long been part of the story of poverty. The people of God have often denied such structural claims in favor of the belief that individuals are poor because of personal choice. This absolves the social institutions of society, including the church, from ......
This collection of special prayers is a wonderful companion for parents and caregivers and will help guide children on their journey to adulthood. It includes verses for every occasion?for parents to recite as the incarnating soul prepares for birth, for the baby after birth, and for children of all ages. Also included are prayers for morning and ......
Questing through the Riordanverse: Studying Religion with the Works of Rick Riordan examines the works of Rick Riordan and explores how these works relate to Religion and Theology. Despite the success and popularity of the works, scholars have not given the Riordanverse as much attention as other Young Adult and Middle Grade fantasy books ......
Reasons Inquisition: On Doubtful Ground is an exploration in the literature of political philosophy before and after Alfarabi and ranging from Thucydides to Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. These studies, most of them previously unpublished, open inquiries into theory and practice, reason and revelation, and the relation between thinkers ancient and ......
Refiguring the Sacred: Conversations with Paul Ricoeur offers perspectives on the twenty-one papers collected by Mark I. Wallace in Paul Ricoeur's Figuring the Sacred, translated by David Pellauer; this new collection by Joseph A. Edelheit, James Moore, and Mark I. Wallace gives Ricoeur scholars an opportunity to reflect and engage on critical ......
Presenting an evaluation of reincarnation and Karma in any language, this book reveals the many flaws in the arguments supporting the belief in reincarnation and the so-called Law of Karma. It covers the alleged evidence in support of reincarnation, including child prodigies, deja vu experiences, hypnotic regressions, and 'reincarnation memories'.
Offers an evaluation of reincarnation and Karma in any language. This book exposes the many flaws in the arguments supporting the belief in reincarnation and the so-called Law of Karma. It covers the alleged evidence in support of reincarnation, including child prodigies, deja vu experiences, hypnotic regressions, and 'reincarnation memories'.
This book argues that religious experiences can contribute to the justification of religious belief in God. Religious experiences can contribute to justificatory cases in several distinct ways, and this is best explained by the diversity and development of religious believers in a religious tradition.
Rene Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture provides a fresh and engaging introduction to and the application of Rene Girard's mimetic theory. From movies to social media, television to graphic novels, the contributors explore popular culture's theological depths and challenge readers to consider what culture reveals about them.
Science and Religion: Perspectives Across Disciplines interweaves STEM perspectives with the arts, humanities, theology, and psychology to cultivate discussion on science and religion alongside biblical interpretation. Taken together, this anthology allows for connections between disciplines that create community amid differing perspectives.
Although he is one of the most influential Catholic theologians in Europe, very few of Klaus Demmer's writings are available in English. This title presents a translation of his well-known work on moral theology introducing Demmer's thought to English-speaking audiences.
For more than a century, scholars have debated whether Paul the apostle was a faithful follower of Jesus or a corruptor of Jesus’s message and the true founder of Christianity. Signs of Continuity intervenes in this debate by exploring a largely overlooked element of similarity between the two men: the place of miracles in their ......
Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a collection of essays and scripture-study passages from the 2014 Building Bridges seminar that explores questions Christians and Muslims have often put to each other on the ideas of sin, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
Written in order to further practice and understanding about what it means to work with the spiritual dimension of being human, this book explores the theoretical and practice knowledge that can be shared and exchanged between counselling and psychotherapy on one side, and Spiritual Accompaniment and Spiritual Direction on the other.The ......
These diverse case studies make a compelling case for the importance of effective spiritual care in healthcare and provide unprecedented insight into the essential role of the chaplain within the healthcare team. Presented alongside critical reflections and responses from professionals within chaplaincy, psychology, psychiatry and nursing, ......
The Theology of Yesterday for Spiritual Help Today
The author turns to the great teachers of the past-Augustine, Maximus the Confessor, Bonaventure, Hugh of St. Victor, Calvin and Luther, George Herbert-to recover a spirituality that is rich with the doctrines and disciplines of theology.
Black women in America have carved out a distinctive and instructive faith stance that is influential well beyond the historic black church. Diana L. Hayes, a leading commentator and forger of womanist thought, especially in the black Catholic setting, here offers strong brew for what ails the church, the Christian tradition, and the world. ......
A Narrative Approach to the Spiritual Care of the Aged
The Storied Self introduces new insights from narrative gerontology into the spiritual care of the aged. We are multistoried with the challenge of authoring a deep story from our hidden story, lazy story, trauma story, messy story, body story, problem story and dark story.
The structure of society--whether political, social, economic, religious, or familial--can be described as built upon structures of acceptable blame. But what happens when we can no longer persuade each other about where blame for particular actions should land? What happens when the expected scapegoats refuse that role and bystanders question ......
Bringing in a unique historical and critical analysis to the study of Catholic moral theology, the authors focuses on differentiating Catholic moral theology from other forms of Christian ethics, include sin and the manuals of moral theology. He also shed light on how strands have developed and changed our understanding of moral theology.
This book explores Caputo's proposal for a radical theology of our time. Philosophers and theologians from within Europe respond to Caputo's attempt to configure a less rigid, less dogmatic form of religion. These scholars, in turn, receive responses by Caputo, therebystrengthening the development of radical theology in Europe and abroad.
This new edition of The Eye of the Heart, one of perennialist author Frithjof Schuon's earliest works, features a fully revised translation from the French original as well as over 50 pages of new material, including previously unpublished selections from the author's letters and other private writings. Also featured is a foreword by renowned ......
A wide-ranging anthology on feminist sexual theology. Noting that Jesus, while being declared divine, took human form, this volume questions what happens when the flesh, rather than the word, is placed at the centre of theological reflection.
A wide-ranging anthology on feminist sexual theology. Noting that Jesus, while being declared divine, took human form, this volume questions what happens when the flesh, rather than the word, is placed at the centre of theological reflection.
