Theology

Jesus' crucifixion was a traumatic event. After Jesus' resurrection, the disciples were both astonished and terrified-Jesus was no longer dead, but the wounds from the crucifixion were still etched in his body. The return of Jesus was supposed to be a...

The Goldilocks God: Searching for the via media explores the fertile middle ground between toxic Christianity and militant atheism. Can Christianity be intellectually credible? Why do our past failures and breakages offer comfort and hope? How does the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535950244Author Brandon D. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Broadman & Holman PublishersPublisher Broadman & Holman Publishers

This book provides a creative and highly imaginative critical theological genealogy of modern secular reason and the nature of modernity more generally. Francesca Murphy offers a critical perspective that shapes the exploration of modernity, driven by...

This ground-breaking book provides fascinating insights into the fast-emerging body of research that explores the relationship between sport, theology and disability within a social justice framework. In the shadow of two major sport-faith events that...

The author claims to be neither a scholar nor a theologian, but this book demonstrates that, in spite of their erudition, many scholarly theologians have not really understood what they were at. What we believe matters and and should be firmly supported...

A theological history of consequentialism and a fresh agenda for teleological ethics.   Consequentialism—the notion that we can judge an action by its effects alone—has been among the most influential approaches to ethics and public policy in the...

A theological history of consequentialism and a fresh agenda for teleological ethics.   Consequentialism—the notion that we can judge an action by its effects alone—has been among the most influential approaches to ethics and public policy in the...

In "Creating a Human World", Trappist monk and scholar Ernest Daniel Carrere explores what it means to be fully human, to live in a shared world, and to resist the easy tendency to flee reality and seek pleasure in material pursuits. To do so...

In Political Theology on Edge, the discourse of political theology is seen as situated on an edge, that is, on the edge of a world that is grappling with global warming, a brutal form of neoliberal capitalism, protests against racism and police...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783643914651Author Jeremy OttenFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Lit VerlagPublisher Lit VerlagWeight(grams) 114g

In Hell and Damnation , bestselling author Marq de Villiers takes readers on a journey into the strange richness of the human imaginings of hell, deep into time and across many faiths, back into early Egypt and the 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian epic of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580237130Author Rabbi Bradley Shavit ArtsonFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Jewish Lights PublishingPublisher Jewish Lights PublishingWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921817106Author Stephen PickardFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 412g

Incarnation has always been an important concept within Christian theology. For centuries theologians have wrestled with how best to conceptualize the vexing problem of what it means that Jesus the Christ is fully God and fully human. In this book, Adam...

Graham Ward argues that the study of theology and religion, as a single academic discipline, plays a vital role in helping us to understand politics, world affairs, and the nature of humanity itself. Religion can be used to justify inhumane actions, but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835602280Author H. P. BlavatskyFormat HardbackPage Count 859Imprint Theosophical Publishing House (division of TheosopPublisher Theosophical Publishing...

"The 'Galileo affair' has been the object of innumerable studies, which (taken as a whole) have spread nearly as much fog as they have sunshine. The studies in this volume, many of them based at least in part on newly discovered or released sources, have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920691356Author Jose Mario FranciscoFormat PaperbackPage Count 161Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 222g

This collection of eleven essays, written jointly by the authors, argues that science and religion should be seen as mutually enriching worldviews with no need of reconciliation. The essays are organised in three parts, which deal with the definition and...

MAN: The Perennial Question brings together essays that document a lifetime of reflection on the significance of man as cast in God's world starting with those written in the sixties and ending with the author's recent writing. The focus surrounds the...

This book gathers the European reception of John. D. 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...

This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Highlighting the complex relationships between religious ideologies, practices and organizations on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925679298Author Peter MaloneFormat HardbackImprint ATF PressPublisher ATF Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925232981Author Andrew MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 314g

The ambiguity concerning the interpretation of the ‘physical body’ in religious thought is not peculiar to any given religion, but is discernible in the scriptures, practices, and disciplines in most of the world’s major religious traditions. This book...

Preparing to Hear the Gospel proposes a natural theology that prepares the way for Christian faith, so is neither apologetic for Christianity, nor a natural substitution for it. It draws on philosophical insights from Wittgenstein to argue for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925612080Author Ted PetersFormat HardbackPage Count 145Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 322g

This book collection is a celebration of women who speak truth to power in the public square. A perfect fit for undergraduate students of rhetoric, gender, religion and history, Women's Voices of Duty and Destiny showcases the speech texts of 14 women...

Wagner's Ring is one of the greatest of all artworks of Western civilization, but what is it all about? The power and mystery of Wagner's creation was such that he himself felt he stood before his work "as though before some puzzle." A clue to...

Doing theology requires dissension and tenacity. Dissension is required when scriptural texts, and the colonial bodies and traditions (read: Babylon) that capitalize upon those, inhibit or prohibit "rising to life." With "nerves" to...

The revival of Calvinism in the nineteenth-century Netherlands entailed the neo-Calvinist movement. With Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck became a brand name of neo-Calvinism. Nonetheless, not until the first decade of the twenty-first century was...

Classic natural theology in its logical, rational, Aristotelian presentation has encountered an impasse. Since the Enlightenment, nature has ceased to be a vital topic in theological discussions until a recent revival of interest stemming from ecological...

With great foresight and vision for the Church, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI carefully integrated theological, catechetical and pastoral themes in the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Africae Munus. Maurice A. Agbaw-Ebai and Matthew Levering, in the...

Theology and Breaking Bad explores the brutal and seemingly nihilistic moral landscape of the AMC neo-Western crime drama Breaking Bad (2008-2013) with insights into the characters, their struggles, and the moral consequences resulting from their actions...

This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living philosophers of religion. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars discuss the role played by religion in philosophy;...

El Jazim: Say YES! begins by explaining the end time in which we live today and shares direct knowledge that restores the common foundations of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, which involve the first and last names of God, the nature of God, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506431598Author Anna MercedesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 127g

New Voices in Greek Orthodox Thought brings to the light and discusses a strand in contemporary Greek public debate that is often overlooked, namely progressive religious actors of a western orientation. International - and Greek - media tend to focus on...

What is Ecumenism? Is Christian unity a legitimate hope or just a pious illusion? The aim of this book is to analyze the real obstacles that stand in the path to unity and to propose solutions, where these are possible. Distinguished authors from the...