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 ......
In this book, Peter Hooton explores Bonhoeffer's response to the challenge of a future "religionless age" in Western civilization and its place in his theology.
Drawing on tools from linguistics and theology, this book argues that Biblical reflexes in the Qur'an are not inherited, but repurposed to serve the Qur'an's own distinctive theological vision.
Working at the intersections of gender studies and Christian theology--particularly diverse feminist and queer theologies--this book points to the real ways churches foster violence around gender. This volume discusses this violent reality while also exploring church as a nexus for resistance to gender-based violence.
In this book, theologians and scholars of religion grapple with the political, philosophical, and ethical implications of a climate crisis provoked by one species, our own, serving its needs at the increasingly intolerable cost of all life on the planet.
Many critiques of consumerism inadequately consider the complex interactions between individuals, their desires, and their social practices. Christine Darr provides an analysis of desire within consumer culture by integrating insights from moral theology and sociology and offers intellectual resources for more deliberate decision-making.
Theology and Batman examines theological themes such as theodicy and evil, ethics and morality, justice and vengeance, and the Divine in various stories featuring The Dark Knight from across different mediums, including comics, movies, and video games.
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 ......
Providing a bridge between research in healthcare and spirituality and practitioner perspectives, these essays on chaplaincy in healthcare continue dialogue around constructing, negotiating and researching spiritual care and discuss the critical issues in chaplaincy work, including assisted suicide and care in children's hospices. Each section of ......
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.
This book argues that all theologies are public measures - they disclose as well as gauge the publics (near and far) on which they stand, sit, lie, or fall. Because publics shift and mingle, theologies require reimagining and relocating, incorporating fresh insights and energies, and troubling.
The English and American deists rejected Christianity, which they believed portrayed God as cruel. In The Spirituality of the English and American Deists, Waligore shows how the deists were the first group of modern thinkers who were spiritual but not religious.
In this book, the contributors cover traditional historical and theological responses to political unrest as a foundation for considering or evaluating attempts to address theologically present-day manifestations of uncivil disobedience.
This volume is a collection of 33 essays, sermons, and contemporaneous addresses by Paul L. Lehmann, some of which are published here for the first time. The material addresses the revolutionary dimension of Protestant thought, the contextual character of theological ethics, and the humanizing power of the gospel.
This assemblage of feminist theologies is written from different cultures, geographies and discourses and brought together around themes as specific and wide-ranging as immigration detention, hate crime, discrimination, rites of marriage and partnership, and artistic and religious imagination.
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.
A study of Catholic perceptions of Jews, Judaism, and Israel, offering an exploration of biographical narratives and reflections on Holocaust trauma, conversion, Zionism, and religious identity.
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.
The question of whether the existence of evil in the world is compatible with the existence of an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good God has been debated for centuries. Many have addressed classical arguments from evil, and while recent scholarship in analytic philosophy of religion has produced newer formulations of the problem, most of these ......
Ancient and modern readers alike turn to dystopian tales and topics in order to make sense of experiences of reality that are increasing negative and outside their control. This volume takes theological and religious approaches to dystopian works and themes as revelatory for human flourishing
Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Marveling Religion: Critical Discourses, Religion, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe explores the intersection of religion and cinema through the lenses of critical discourse.
In this book, Philip Hefner produces his final major work on the topic of the created co-creator, depicting Homo sapiens as a memoirist on an ambiguous journey of self-discovery. Hefner, editors Jason P. Roberts and Mladen Turk, and other contributors each give guidance for that journey in an age of science, technology, and faith.
Christian Theology after Christendom brings together contemporary thinkers to engage and build upon Douglas John Hall's work--and to take up his challenge to reclaim a contextual and de-colonizing theology of the cross as a means to speak of the realities of life and faith today.
Theology and H.P. Lovecraft engages with the work of horror author H.P. Lovecraft from a theological perspective. With responses ranging from admiration to critique, the contributors explore the dark uncharted regions of Lovecraft's dark mythology in the service of theological truth.
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.
Engaging themes of sin, salvation, and creedal theology, the contributors to Theology and Spider-Man create a systematic and constructive theology of one of Marvel's most popular heroes.
