Theology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438471952Author Stefan StofanikFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press

The Stranger's Voice examines some of Julia Kristeva's major psychoanalytic texts which focus on themes of women's depression, feminine identity, motherhood, and the need to believe as these themes relate to the power of religious language in a...

Faith, Flourishing, and Agnosticism uses conceptual and empirical methods to argue that the many individuals who have ambiguous evidence for God can grow in virtue and attain greater flourishing by engaging in practices of faith toward God. The book...

Batman is one of the most recognized and popular pop culture icons. Appearing on the page of Detective Comics #27 in 1939, the character has inspired numerous characters, franchises, and spin-offs over his 80+ year history. The character has displayed...

Martin Luther remains a popular, oft-quoted, referenced, lauded historical figure. He is often seen as the fulcrum upon which the medieval turned into the modern, the last great medieval or the first great modern; or, he is the Protestant hero, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780899422817Author Fr LovasikFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Catholic Book Publishing CoPublisher Catholic Book Publishing Co

This collection of essays is in honor of noted theologian Donald G. Bloesch written by former students and colleagues representing seven countries. Writing from an Asian perspective, the contributors examine the relationship between theology and culture...

Where is the hope? What does it look like? Is the Christian church providing a hope that materializes in the grounding of people's thriving? These questions posed the catalysts of this work where the author sets up a journey that parses the definition of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587318580Author Etienne GilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's Press

In the Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin writes that his work is "related to theology as blotting pad is related to ink. It is saturated with it." For a thinker so decisive to critical literary, cultural, political, and aesthetic writings over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487586867Author Manfred HoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438457369Author Hee An ChoiFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press

Ernst Troeltsch is widely recognized as having played an important role in the development of modern Protestant theology, but his contribution is usually understood as largely critical of traditional modes of theological inquiry. He is best known for his...

In this work of historical theology, Rachel Davies considers the relationship between aesthetics and anthropology in Bonaventure's thought, and shows how bodily diminishment can become a sign and source of the self's renewal. Drawing from texts like the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791475201Author Donald A. CrosbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

The twenty-first century opened with the religiously-inspired attacks of 9/11 and in the years since such attacks have become all too common. Over against the minority who carry out violence at God's direction, however, there are millions of believers...

Smith examines the different ways in which gay men use pop music, both as producers and consumers, and how, in turn, pop uses gay men. He asks what role culture plays in shaping identity and why pop continues to thrill gay men. These 40 essays and...

What has happened to religion in its present manifestations? In recent years, Enlightenment secularization, as it appeared in the global spread of political structures that relegate the sacred to a private sphere, seems suddenly to have foundered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438433707Author Garth L. HallettFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

This book is the first in-depth study of the production and use of Bibles in late medieval and early modern England. Over three and a half centuries, from the nascent universities and Latin Bibles of the thirteenth century to the death of Edward VI in...

Over the last two decades, traditional formulations of the idea of atonement have come under heavy attack from feminist theologians and others. They argue that the traditional view valorizes suffering and encourages people to acquiesce in needless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438470191Author Nimi WaribokoFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press

This book explores the life and ministry of healthcare chaplaincy within the Irish context. At the heart of the text is the "person" of the chaplain - it is their narrative that remains front and centre here at all times. This in turn, provides us with a...

Is original sin compatible with evolution? Many today believe the answer is 'No'. Engaging Aquinas's revolutionary account of the doctrine, Daniel W. Houck argues that there is not necessarily a conflict between this Christian teaching and mainstream...

This book is a political and theological reflection on the violence and injustice that has taken place in Mexico and Central America since 2006 as a result of the drug war, considered through the lens of the cultural and economic aspects of globalization...

Truth informs much of the self-understanding of religious believers. Accordingly, understanding what we mean by 'truth' is a key challenge to interreligious collaboration. The contributors to this volume, all leading scholars, consider what is meant by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830815050Author Roger E OlsonFormat HardbackPage Count 652Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 1243g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800626129Author Marsha Aileen HewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800626860Author Carl E. BraatenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532667275Author Shaun O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Religious dissent has been a persistent feature of English and Welsh history for over four hundred years, influencing the economic, cultural, and political history of the two nations as well as their religious life. The Dissenters is the first of a...

The European Reformation of the sixteenth century was one of the most formative periods in the history of Christian thought and remains one of the most fascinating events in Western history. The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology provides a...

May we speak, in the present age, of holy scripture? And what validation of that claim can be offered, robust enough to hold good for both religious practice and intellectual enquiry? John Webster argues that while any understanding of scripture must...

Evolution has provided a new understanding of reality, with revolutionary consequences for Christianity. In an evolutionary perspective the incarnation involved God entering the evolving human species to help it imitate the trinitarian altruism in whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898701173Author G. K. ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press

In this book, Mark Johnston argues that God needs to be saved not only from the distortions of the "undergraduate atheists" (Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris) but, more importantly, from the idolatrous tendencies of religion itself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935931003Author John Christopher ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint CPT PressPublisher CPT PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

Recording the history of the belief in the existence of Satan, this book draws from the Bible, the poetry of Dante and Milton, the legend of Faust, and from modern novels and plays such as the works of Mark Twain and G.B. Shaw, and the spiritual writing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498201803Author Sarah Withrow KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Encountering theology for the first time is exciting, but it can also be daunting. Some struggle to connect with doctrinal discussion they perceive to be abstract or abstruse. Others may find the scope of theology, and the connections between different...