Theology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557000262Author Sylvia CranstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 620Imprint Theosophical University PressPublisher Theosophical University PressWeight(grams)...

Using everyday stories and case histories the authors explore pastoral situations and reflect on them theologically. This new edition has been extensively revised to take into account the changes of the past ten years. The first part of the book (The...

How do Christians reconcile their belief in one God with the concept of three divine 'persons'? This Companion provides an overview of how the Christian doctrine of the Trinity has been understood and articulated in the last two thousand years. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883685846Author Smith WigglesworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Whitaker House,U.S.Publisher Whitaker House,U.S.Weight(grams) 771g

A short and remarkably accessible book, which draws striking parallels between quantum mechanics and the search for an understanding of the nature of Jesus, in order to make the similarities discernible. Professor Polkinghorne's profound understanding...

The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology is the first collection to consider the full breadth of natural theology from both historical and contemporary perspectives and to bring together leading scholars to offer accessible high-level accounts of the...

This book offers a sustained reflection by leading Roman Catholic and Anglican writers on Mary's great song of praise and transformation, the "Magnificat", in the context of contemporary struggles across the world and global inequalities. The different...

"In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast," observes John Updike in his foreword to Soren...

When tragedy strikes a community, it is often unexpected with long-lasting effects on the people left in its wake. Too often, there aren't adequate systems in place to aid those affected in processing what has happened. This study uniquely combines...

Felker Jones' purpose is to devise a theology of the body that is compatible with the feminist program. She argues that the doctrine of the resurrection of the body is central to this undertaking. She offers close readings of Augustine and Calvin in aid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807015032Author Mary DalyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 136mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594733024Author Mary C. EarleFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint SkyLight Paths Publishing,USPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 227g

Although he has earned a reputation as a profound theologian, the author demonstrates in this small collection of sermons his ability to simplify the Christian message for the common reader.-BooklistThese twenty-three meditations on key passages from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941447932Author Fr Thomas J LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Emmaus Road PublishingPublisher Emmaus Road PublishingWeight(grams)...

Pentecostals (traditionally) do not think theologically so much as do it practically. This book will present Pentecostal theology as well as the particular style of Pentecostal thinking and praxis that makes it different. Pentecostalism is not just...

Martin Buber's I and Thou argues that humans engage with the world in two ways. One is with the attitude of an 'I' towards an 'It', where the self stands apart from objects as items of experience or use. The other is with the attitude of an 'I' towards a...

In this award-winning text, theologian Sallie McFague challenges Christians' usual speech about God as a kind of monarch. She probes instead three other possible metaphors for God--as mother, lover, and friend.Book InformationISBN 9780800620516Author...

A constructive study of Trinitarian theology that aims to clarify our knowledge of the triune God by rightly ordering the theological language we use to praise him.The Triune God reaches its conclusions about how this doctrine should be handled on the...

This book aims to highlight the distinctive and unfamiliar ways in which diverse religious traditions understand the 'body', and also, in doing this, to raise to greater consciousness some of the assumptions and problems of contemporary attitudes to it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825429835Author Robert M. Bowman Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830839759Author Kelly M. KapicFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557259219Author Frederica Mathewes-GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

Lisa D. Powell strengthens and amplifies the claim that God is disabled, made by Nancy Eiesland in her ground breaking book The Disabled God (1994). She offers an alternative understanding of the doctrine of God and the Trinity, resulting in a God who is...

Now fully revised and updated The Book of Saints is a comprehensive biographical dictionary of saints canonised by the Roman Catholic Church. It contains the names of over 10,000 saints, including all modern ones, with significant information about their...

From a world-renowned painter, an exploration of creativity's quintessential-and often overlooked-role in the spiritual life "Makoto Fujimura's art and writings have been a true inspiration to me. In this luminous book, he addresses the question of art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907845171Author Anthony FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint SocietasPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200g

This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian transformation of the Mediterranean area and Europe, and the rise and diffusion of...

Jungel sets out to establish a basis for a theology of God the crucified while avoiding the shoals of theism and atheism. He warns of the danger, rooted in the fact that modernity no longer dares to think God, of talking God to death, of silencing God...

God, Sexuality and the Self is a new venture in systematic theology. Sarah Coakley invites the reader to re-conceive the relation of sexual desire and the desire for God and - through the lens of prayer practice - to chart the intrinsic connection of...

The cross of Christ has proven to be no less of a "stumbling blockfor Christians living in the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, than it was in the first century, when the newly established community of friends and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506469843Author Maria FeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943243648Author Paul MurrayFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Word on FirePublisher Word on FireWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm * 20mm

How does the gospel relate to a pluralist society? What is the Christian message in a society marked by religious pluralism, ethnic diversity and cultural relativism? Should Christians concentrate on evangelism or dialogue? The Gospel in a Pluralist...

Moral decisions present the individual with a maze of possibilities which can be overwhelming. The increasing complexity of modern life makes it difficult for Christians to know what is ethically right and how to make the right choices.About the AuthorDr...

'The consciousness of knowing little, need not beget a distrust of that which he does not know.' In Natural Theology William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world. Famously beginning...

Only the most naive or tendentious among us would deny the extent and intensity of suffering in the world. Can one hold, consistently with the common view of suffering in the world, that there is an omniscient, omnipotent, perfectly good God? This book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532657016Author Oscar CullmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

This volume contains a critical edition and translation of the Coptic texts on Abraham of Farshut, the last Coptic orthodox archimandrite of the Pachomian federation in Upper Egypt. While past studies have focused on the origins and early years of this,...

The Cross is the universal symbol of the Christian faith. But what does the Cross mean? Why did Jesus have to die? In this magisterial and best-selling book, John Stott unpacks the significance of Christ's cross and answers objections commonly brought...