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Ambrose's Patriarchs: Ethics for the Common Man by Marcia L. Colish 9780268023645
RRP: $161.85$140.61In this welcome new book Marcia L. Colish offers the only monograph-length study of the patriarch treatises of Ambrose of Milan (c. 340-397), in which he develops, for the first time in the patristic period, an ethics for the laity. Ambrose the ethicist... -
Institution of a Christian Man by Gerald Bray 9780227176689
RRP: $167.21$161.89Compiled during the early years of the Reformation, Institution of a Christian Man lays out the principles of the nascent Church of England. In his definitive new edition, Gerald Bray charts the development of this text from the first version introduced... -
Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions by Karla Pollmann 9780199230044
$69.69Augustine and the Disciplines takes its cue from Augustine's theory of the liberal arts to explore the larger question of how the Bible became the focus of medieval culture in the West. Augustine himself became increasingly aware that an ambivalent... -
John Wyclif by Stephen Edmund Lahey 9780195183313
$140.17John Wyclif (d. 1384) has too frequently been described as "Morning Star of the Reformation" and only recently begun to be studied as a fourteenth-century English philosopher and theologian. This work draws on recent scholarship situating... -
Sacred Power, Sacred Space: An Introduction to Christian Architecture and Worship by Jeanne Halgren Kilde 9780195314694
RRP: $156.00$155.84Jeanne Halgren Kildes survey of church architecture is unlike any other. Her main concern is not the buildings themselves, but rather the dynamic character of Christianity and how church buildings shape and influence the religion. Kilde argues that a... -
The Great Dissent: John Henry Newman and the Liberal Heresy by Robert Pattison 9780195067309
$113.69This is a striking and lively reading of John Henry Newman in light, not of his role as autobiographer and prose stylist, but of his beliefs. As Pattison writes, Newman was `an uncontaminated antagonist of everything modern', and his philosophy developed... -
Kneeling Theology by Anton Strukelj 9780813235776
RRP: $68.15$59.90Anton Štrukelj, in this English edition of his book Kneeling Theology, which was published in German, Italian, Polish, Russian and Slovenian, based his theme on the concept first developed by Hans Urs von Balthasar. This Swiss intellectual is considered... -
Syriac Encounters: Papers from the Sixth North American Syriac Symposium, Duke University, 26-29 June 2011 by E. Fiano 9789042930469
RRP: $208.65$194.38The Sixth North American Syriac Symposium brought together scholars from across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and India. Syriac Encounters offers twenty-four papers that were originally delivered at the Symposium, and represents... -
Aldhelm of Malmesbury and the Ending of Late Antiquity by Gt Dempsey 9782503554907
RRP: $220.35$205.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503554907Author Gt DempseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 155mm * 25mm -
The Church in the Latin Fathers: Unity in Charity by James K. Lee 9781978706897
RRP: $68.25$60.35What is the church? What does it mean to be a member of the church? This book examines how the earliest Christian theologians in the Latin West understood the nature, ends, and boundaries of the church. By analyzing the thought and practices of figures... -
An Explorer's Guide to Karl Barth by David Guretzki 9780830851379
RRP: $38.98$30.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830851379Author David GuretzkiFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 285gDimensions(mm)... -
The Garb of Being: Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity by Dr. Georgia Frank 9780823287024
RRP: $117.00$106.86This collection explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique religious practice and imagination. When we read the stories and testimonies of late ancient Christians, what different types of bodies stand before us? How do we understand the... -
Material Mystery: The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies by Karmen Mackendrick 9780823294541
RRP: $169.65$147.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823294541Author Karmen MackendrickFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
The Wayfarer's End: Bonaventure and Aquinas on Divine Rewards in Scripture and Sacred Doctrine by Shawn M. Colberg 9780813232911
RRP: $146.25$126.96The Wayfarer's End follows the human person's journey to union with God in the theologies of Saint Bonaventure and Saint Thomas Aquinas. It argues that these seminal thinkers of the 13th Century emphasize scriptural notions of divine rewards as ordering... -
Religious Experience in the Work of Richard Wagner by Marcel Hebert 9780813227412
RRP: $126.75$107.78Enthusiasm for the operas of composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) flourished in fin-de-siecle France, fed by fascination for the medieval history and literature that inspired his work. By the 1890s, ""pilgrimages"" to Wagner's burial... -
Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity by Eric Rebillard 9780813227436
RRP: $126.75$110.92To understand the past, we necessarily group people together and, consequently, frequently assume that all of its members share the same attributes. In this ground-breaking volume, Eric Rebillard and Joerg Rupke bring renowned scholars together to... -
Tradition and the Rule of Faith in the Early Church by Ronnie J. Rombs 9780813217932
RRP: $107.25$95.51The meaning of "tradition" is broad. It can refer to the deposit of faith or the "Apostolic Tradition," to Scripture as the most perfect expression of what is handed over from Christ, or to the disciplinary and liturgical practices of... -
To Be Perfect Is to Have Changed Often: The Development of John Henry Newman's Ecclesiological Outlook, 1845-1877 by Ryan J. Marr 9781978700574
RRP: $185.25$162.08This study approaches John Henry Newman's writings on the church from a fresh perspective by examining the development of Newman's ecclesiological outlook over time. It demonstrates that it can be misleading to refer to Newman's "Catholic... -
Theology Compromised: Schleiermacher, Troeltsch, and the Possibility of a Sociological Theology by Matthew Ryan Robinson 9781978704084
RRP: $165.75$145.29Theological work, whatever else it may be, is always reflection on social transformations. Not only pastors but also theologians work with the sources of the Christian traditions in one hand and a newspaper in the other. But how are we to understand the... -
Biblical and Theological Studies on the Trinity by Paul Peterson 9781921511394
RRP: $48.73$39.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921511394Author Paul PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 396g -
Kierkegaard and Luther by David Lawrence Coe 9781978710832
RRP: $185.25$169.88Søren Kierkegaard denounced nineteenth-century Danish Lutheranism for exploiting Martin Luther's doctrine of justification "without works" as justification for an antinomian easy life. Kierkegaard saw his own writing as a corrective: “I have wanted to... -
The Bonhoeffer Legacy: An International Journal (5.2) by Atf Press 9781925872705
RRP: $72.05$63.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925872705Author Atf PressFormat HardbackPage Count 85Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 966g -
Reassessing Reform: A Historical Investigation into Church Renewal by Christopher M. Bellitto 9780813219998
RRP: $146.25$126.03At the conclusion of his definitive study The Idea of Reform, which carved out reform as a distinct field of intellectual history, Gerhart Ladner stated that the idea of reform was “to remain the self-perpetuating core, the inner life spring of Christian... -
The Human Factor: 'Deification' as Transformation in the Theology of Hilary of Poitiers by J. Sidaway 9789042933699
RRP: $159.90$150.48This study focuses on two significant but overlooked aspects of Hilary of Poitiers' theology: his interpretation of how we 'become God' as individuals, and the originality of his twelve volume De trinitate in expressing it. Janet... -
Bonhoeffer Legacy: An International Journal - Volume 8 Issue 2 by Atf Press 9781922737700
RRP: $97.40$93.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922737700Author Atf PressFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 2259g -
Archa Verbi. Yearbook for the Study of Medieval Theology. Band 8/2011 by Internationale Gesellschaft Fur Theologische Mediavistik 9783402102244
RRP: $74.10$73.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783402102244Author Internationale Gesellschaft Fur Theologische MediavistikFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Aschendorff VerlagPublisher Aschendorff... -
Versions of Election: From Langland and Aquinas to Calvin and Milton by David Aers 9780268108656
RRP: $200.85$173.82Concepts of predestination and reprobation were central issues in the Protestant Reformation, especially within Calvinist churches, and thus have often been studied primarily in the historical context of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In... -
Missions and Media: The Politics of Missionary Periodicals in the Long Nineteenth Century by Hanna Acke 9783515103046
RRP: $148.20$139.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515103046Author Hanna AckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 263Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden... -
The Bible and the Crisis of Modernism: Catholic Criticism in the Twentieth Century by Tomas Petracek 9780268202897
RRP: $200.85$173.82A detailed study of the Catholic Church's acceptance of the historical-critical method and modernization through the pivotal work of European theologians and biblical scholars. One of the few topics in Catholic studies that demonstrates a marked... -
Foundations of Christianity: A Study in Christian Origins by Karl Kautsky 9780415736480
RRP: $105.28$92.18First published in 1925, Karl Kautsky presents a Marxist history of Christianity and Christian society. Divided into four key sections, the book begins by considering the personality of Jesus as portrayed within Pagan and Christian sources and... -
Charlotte von Kirschbaum and Karl Barth: A Study in Biography and the History of Theology by Suzanne Selinger 9780271018249
RRP: $159.80$137.87Charlotte von Kirschbaum and Karl Barth is the first concentrated study of the collaboration of the towering theologian Karl Barth and his secretary and theological assistant for more than three decades, Charlotte von Kirschbaum. Barth always maintained... -
Rethinking the Medieval Legacy for Contemporary Theology by Anselm Kyongsuk Min 9780268035341
RRP: $54.58$47.07In Rethinking the Medieval Legacy for Contemporary Theology, six distinguished theologians bridge medieval and contemporary theologies by developing the theological significance of medieval insights in response to contemporary issues. Their nuanced... -
Gregory of Nazianzus: Images and Reflections by Jostein Bortnes 9788763503860
RRP: $111.13$90.60Gregory of Nazianzus (ca. 330-390) is one of the three Greek church fathers from Cappadocia. This book explores both his theology - which earned him the honorary title "the Theologian" - and his general importance as an independent thinker,... -
A Genetic History of New England Theology by Frank Hugh Foster 9781138815391
RRP: $107.23$93.83First published in 1907, this text provides a scientific treatment of New England theology and American dogmatic history. Frank Hugh Foster analyses the eighteenth-century rise of the school of New England theology, which became the dominant school of... -
Reading Karl Barth for the Church: A Guide and Companion by Kimlyn J. Bender 9780801097584
$37.81Leading Barth interpreter Kimlyn Bender provides an introduction to the essence of Barth's theology, emphasizing themes that speak to the concerns of the church, the pastorate, and Christian ministry. This book serves as a companion to the first volume... -
Tradition, Scripture, and Interpretation: A Sourcebook of the Ancient Church by D. H. Williams 9780801031649
RRP: $33.13$31.22Tradition, Scripture, and Interpretation supplements a valuable series that helps modern church leaders return to the wisdom and insight of the early church fathers in order to apply their ancient understandings of Christian belief and practice to... -
God, Evil, and Human Learning: A Critique and Revision of the Free Will Defense in Theodicy by Fred Berthold 9780791460412
RRP: $140.93$122.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791460412Author Fred BertholdFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Biblical Scholarship in Louvain in the 'Golden' Sixteenth Century by Antonio Gerace 9783525593783
RRP: $185.23$150.66Antonio Gerace dealt with the development of biblical scholarship in Louvain by analysing with seven authors who worked in the first part of the Sixteenth century and who are strictly linked to the Louvain milieu. In chronological order, they include... -
Sacramental Poetics in Richard Hooker and George Herbert: Exploring the Abundance of God by Brian Douglas 9781978714076
RRP: $150.15$131.86This book explores sacramental poetics through the lens of moderate realism in the thought and work of Anglican theologians Richard Hooker (c. 1554-1600) and George Herbert (1593-1648). It does this in relation to the Christian sacraments of baptism and... -
The Disfigured Face: Traditional Natural Law and Its Encounter with Modernity by Luis Cortest 9780823228539
RRP: $113.10$97.83The central argument of this book is that the traditional notion of Natural Law has almost disappeared from the ethical and moral discourse of our time. For Thomas Aquinas, the author whose conception of Natural Law forms the foundation for the book, the...