2nd edition. — Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. — 787 p. — ISBN: 978-0-664-23180-4. Introduction: The Foundation of Christian Theology: The World Was Created Plato: The World is Handiwork of Mind Plato: This World Is Not Our Home The Platonic Tradition: The Stoics, Plotinus and Pseudo — Dionysius Aristotle: His Categories and the Mystery of God Aristotle and the Creation of...
T&T Clark International, 2010. — 132 p. — ISBN: 0567034143, 0567034151, 9780567034144 This title presents an introduction to the influence of Kant's though on theology and the response from theology. The philosophy of Kant is widely acknowledged to have had a major impact on theology. However, due to the vastness and complexity of Kant's philosophical system, contemporary...
Herald, 2008. — 368 p. Atunci cand mesajul crestin face referire la numele lui Isus Christos, aceasta nu trebuie interpretata ca un simplu act de respect fata de El. Nu face referire la acest nume ca la un simbol, ca la un semn caruia, pe considerente istorice, i se poate asocia ceva real sau caruia, pe considerente psihologice sau pedagogice, i se poate conferi o anumita...
Catholic University of America Press , 2016. — 345 p. Angels occupy a significant space in contemporary popular spirituality. Yet, today more than ever, the belief in the existence of intermediary spirits between the human and divine realms needs to be evangelized and Christianized. Angels and Demons offers a detailed synthesis of the givens of the Christian tradition...
South Africa.: Stellenbosch. University of Stellenbosch, 2006. — 67 p. English. Interactive menu. [Assignment presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Divinity at the University of Stellenbosch. Simon P. LeSieur (Ed). Supervisor: Dr. Robert R. Vosloo. December 2006]. I argue within the following pages for a synthesis of the contemporary...
Routledge, 1995. — 1120 p. The Companion Encyclopedia of Theology provides a comprehensive guide to modern theological thought. An international team of theologians and practitioners of both the Christian and Jewish faiths investigate and consider aspects of theology in 48 self-contained articles. Neither partisan and denominational, nor detached and abstract, this Companion...
Emerald House Group, 2003. — 528 p. In this dictionary, you will explore the great doctrines of the Christian faith and find what the Bible teaches on the issues that are important to all Christians. It is an excellent resource for Christians at all levels of study. Pastors will find it a compact and dependable source of help for pulpit preparation, students will discover a...
Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1946. (The file contains 156 p.). William J. Carl III is copastor of First Presbyterian Church, Dallas, Texas and earlier, Associate Professor of Homiletics and Worship and Instructor of New Testament Greek at Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia. To a greater or lesser degree in all the great classical prophets, one sees the phenomenon...
Abingdon Press, 1972. (In file 211 p.). Howard J. Clinebell, Jr. Is Professor of Pastoral Counseling at the School of Theology at Claremont, California (1977). He is a member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, and the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. He is a licensed marriage, child and family counselor in the State of California. Mental...
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1965. (The file contains 232 p.). John B. Cobb, Jr., Ph.D. is Professor of Theology Emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, California, and Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies there. His many books currently in print include: Reclaiming the Church (1997); with Herman Daly, For the Common Good; Becoming a Thinking...
Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1975. (In file 205 p.). John B. Cobb, Jr., Ph.D. is Professor of Theology Emeritus at the Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, California, and Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies there. His many books currently in print include: Reclaiming the Church (1997); with Herman Daly, For the Common Good; Becoming a Thinking Christian...
Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1984. (The file contains 226 p.). John B. Cobb, Jr. is Ingraham Professor of Theology, School of Theology at Claremont, California, and Avery Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate School. Franklin I. Gamwell. is Dean and Associate Professor of Ethics and Society at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. These...
Oxford University Press, USA (March 31, 2011) Language: English ISBN10: 0199600422 ISBN13: 978-0199600427 Philosophy in the English-speaking world is dominated by analytic approaches to its problems and projects; but theology has been dominated by alternative approaches. Many would say that the current state in theology is not mere historical accident, but is, rather, how...
2nd Edition. — IVP Academic, 2016. — 1049 p. — ISBN: 0830824553. This classic one-volume reference work has been appreciated for decades. It is now substantially expanded and revised to focus on a variety of theological themes, thinkers and movements. From African Christian Theology to Zionism, this volume of historical and systematic theology offers a wealth of information and...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. — 2008. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 0521067391; ISBN13: 978-0521067393. Negative theology or apophasis--the idea that God is best identified in terms of what we cannot know about him, in terms of "absence", "otherness", "difference"--has been influentiual in modern Christian thought, resonating as it does with secular notions of absence, otherness...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 251 p. ISBN: 978-0-8028-6645-5. This compact theological primer from a widely respected scholar offers a well-integrated and illuminating approach to a variety of basic issues in the study of the New Testament: Where, why, and how the Gospels were written and what we should expect from them The reliability and historicity of the Gospel...
104 pagini Popularitatea Codului lui Da Vinci a depasit deja limitele fictiunii. Cartea a suscitat polemici nenumarate, din perspective mai mult sau mai putin ortodoxe. Adevar si fictiune in Codul lui Da Vinci este companionul ideal al romanului, pentru ca reuseste cu succes sa clarifice erorile de natura istorica din spatele misterului lui Dan Brown. Dar miza cartii lui Bart...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 334 p. There have been few books on Divine Providence. For centuries the topic was filed under 'Divine Properties', 'Theodicy', 'Creation', 'Predestination'. This book foregrounds Providence as a doctrine, showing how it emerges from a consideration of human life's redemptive possibilities: a second wind or breath, as well as a 'second chance'. It will...
Baker Books, 2002. — 368 p. Answering Islam evaluates the claims of orthodox Islam from a Christian point of view, appealing especially to the Qur'an and the Bible. The authors, a Christian apologist and a former Muslim, provide apologetic answers to prepare Christians for ministry in the Islamic context. This second edition contains two new appendices, a new preface written in...
Crossway, 2004. — 449 p. To some, the concept of having faith in a higher power or a set of religious beliefs is nonsensical. Indeed, many view religion in general, and Christianity in particular, as unfounded and unreasonable. Norman Geisler and Frank Turek argue, however, that Christianity is not only more reasonable than all other belief systems, but is indeed more rational...
Baker Books, 2015. — 964 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4934-0140-6 This book was adapted from The Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, published in 1999 by Baker Academic. The Big Book of Christian Apologetics is a comprehensive resource designed to equip motivated believers with information to help defend and explain their faith. Examining nearly every key issue, person, and...
Eerdmans, 1988. — 374 p. A fusion of biblical hermeneutics and homiletics, this thorough and well-researched book offers a holistic contemporary approach to the interpretation and preaching of biblical texts, using all the scholarly tools available and focusing especially on literary features. Greidanus develops hermeneutical and homiletical principles and then applies them to...
Eerdmans, 1988. — 374 p. A fusion of biblical hermeneutics and homiletics, this thorough and well-researched book offers a holistic contemporary approach to the interpretation and preaching of biblical texts, using all the scholarly tools available and focusing especially on literary features. Greidanus develops hermeneutical and homiletical principles and then applies them to...
Little Brown and Company, 1898. — 380 p. Harnack’s multi-volume work is considered a monument of liberal Christian historiography. For Harnack, applying the methods of historical criticism to the Bible signified a return to true Christianity, which had become mired in unnecessary and even damaging creeds and dogmas. Seeking out what “actually happened,” for him, was one way to...
Little Brown and Company, 1899. — 362 p. Harnack’s multi-volume work is considered a monument of liberal Christian historiography. For Harnack, applying the methods of historical criticism to the Bible signified a return to true Christianity, which had become mired in unnecessary and even damaging creeds and dogmas. Seeking out what “actually happened,” for him, was one way to...
Luzern: Edition Exodus, 2001. — 411 p. Hinkelammert J. Franz. The Cry of the Subject: From the World Stage of the Gospel of John to the Timelessness of Globalization (in German) Franz Josef Hinkelammert (born 1931) is a German-born theologian and economist, an influential theorist of liberation theology who writes theological critiques of capitalism. He has written extensively...
Publication details not specified. — 7 p. English. The role of the Holy Spirit in relationships with God. Main part. Word study. Ruah as wind. Ruah as compass point. Ruah as breath. Ruah as disposition. Ruah as seat of cognition and volition. Ruah as Spirit. Holy Spirit in Pantitutes and Historical Books of the Old Testament. The Holy Spirit related to creation (Genesis 1:2,...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 280 p. Eusebius' magisterial Praeparatio Evangelica (written sometime between AD 313 and 324) offers an apologetic defence of Christianity in the face of Greek accusations of irrationality and impiety. Though brimming with the quotations of other (often lost) Greek authors, the work is dominated by a clear and sustained argument. Against the...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 224 p. The Book of Genesis depicts them as doing strange things-mating with the daughters of men to spawn giants, for example, and wrestling with Jacob for no apparent reason. In It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra spun a tale of one as a bumbling helper of humans; in Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders told of one who wished to be human. They are...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 222 p. The works of Ambrosiaster, a Christian writing in Rome in the late fourth century, were influential on his near contemporaries and throughout the Middle Ages. In the first half of her study, Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe addresses the problem of the author's mysterious identity (which scholars have puzzled over for centuries) and places him in a...
London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013. — 896 p. — (Routledge Religion Companions). — ISBN: 978-0-415-78217-3. This Companion provides an unrivalled view of the field of modern Christian thought, from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century and beyond. Written by an outstanding team of theologians and philosophers of religion, it covers the following...
Warszawa: Instytut Wydawniczy Pax, 1984. — 312 s. — ISBN: 83-211-0451-7. Książka Meyendorffa jest doskonałym wprowadzeniem w ducha i świat pojęć teologii bizantyjskiej. W części pierwszej swego dzieła autor przedstawia opis głównych tendencji historycznych w Kościele wschodnim; część druga zaś, będąca zwięzłym zarysem całokształtu problematyki teologii bizantyjskiej, zawiera...
The Catholic University of America Press, 2019. — 329 p. — (Studies In Early Christianity 6) It has become a commonplace to say that the Latin Fathers did not really hold a doctrine of deification. Indeed, it is often asserted that Western theologians have neglected this teaching, that their occasional references to it are borrowed from the Greeks, and that the Latins have...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1992. — 186 p. Establishing the Parameters Definitions The Witness of Scripture Old Testament New Testament A Biblical View of Eternity? A New Doctrine of Eternity God as the Ground of Time God is the Lord of Time God as Relatively Timeless Objections Considered Eternity in Whitehead and Barth Summary and Conclusions The Doctrine of Divine Timelessness: An...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 286 p. Feminist theology is a significantmovement within contemporary theology. The aim of this Cambridge Companion is to give an outline of feminist theology through an analysis of its overall shape and its major themes, so that both its place in and its contributions to the present changing theological landscape may be discerned. The two...
Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006. – 425 p. - (Library of Christian Classics). This carefully translated and edited volume in the Library of Christian Classics contains Philip Melanchthon's famous Loci Communes and Martin Bucer's De Rengo Christi. Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the...
University of Michigan Press, 1998. — 155 p. The debate about evolution and creationism is striking evidence of the tensions between biblical and philosophical-scientific explanations of the origins of the universe. For most of the past twenty centuries, important historical context for the debate has been supplied by the relation (or "Counterpoint") between two monumental...
Wesleyan Heritage Publications, 1998. (The file contains 64 p.). The doctrine of holiness or entire sanctification is a major tenet in the belief and teaching of the Church of the Nazarene. Until Christ returns to earth, the doctrine will be challenged, the experience derided, and those who profess it taunted. But the Word of God supports it and the testimonies and lives of...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 284 p. Divine simplicity is the idea that, as the ultimate principle of the universe, God must be a non-composite unity not made up of parts or diverse attributes. The idea was appropriated by early Christian theologians from non-Christian philosophy and played a pivotal role in the development of Christian thought. Andrew Radde-Gallwitz charts...
N.Y.: Abingdon Press, 1917. — 296 p. Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) was a Christian theologian and Baptist pastor who taught at the Rochester Theological Seminary. Rauschenbusch was a key figure in the Social Gospel and 'Single Tax' movements that flourished in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Rauschenbusch's view of Christianity was that its...
The Macmillan Company, 1920. — 455 p. Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) was a Christian theologian and Baptist pastor who taught at the Rochester Theological Seminary. Rauschenbusch was a key figure in the Social Gospel and 'Single Tax' movements that flourished in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Rauschenbusch's view of Christianity was that its...
Editorial Desafió, 1999. — 210 p. La obra que ahora presentamos en su segunda edición: ¿Para qué sirve la teología? es fruto de muchos años de labor docente en América Latina. Sus contenidos se remontan a apuntes de clases de introducción a la teología que dicté en Bahía Blanca, Argentina, en los años 1980. Tomaron forma final en otros cursos que ofrecí en Buenos Aires y...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 433 p. Deification in the Greek patristic tradition was the fulfillment of the destiny for which humanity was created - not merely salvation from sin but entry into the fullness of the divine life of the Trinity. This book, the first on the subject for over sixty years, traces the history of deification from its birth as a second-century...
Fortress Press, 2017. — 233 p. In the last thirty years, books on the Trinity have abounded. There seems to be a fascination with this mysterious topic, especially among systematic theologians. The topic has been mined for many different interests, from liberation theology to feminist interpretations of the Christian heritage and from neo-Reformation theology to interreligious...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 372 p. Richard Swinburne presents a substantially rewritten and updated edition of his most celebrated book. No other work has made a more powerful case for the probability of the existence of God. Swinburne argues compellingly that the existence of the universe, its law-governed nature and fine-tuning, human consciousness and moral awareness,...
Austria, 4-7 July 2002. Geneva, 2003. 115 p. The ecumenical movement and theological education have always been closely related but not always in positive ways! It is in their theological institutions that so much of the confessional identity of the different churches is enshrined, entrusted as they are with the maintenance and handing on from generation to generation of the...
Bloomsbury, 2005. — 108 p. When the Nicene Creed affirms that the eternal Son of God 'for us and for our salvation came down from heaven', it asserts that God Himself is actively present within the space and time of our world. The philosophical problems that this involves are bound up with Christian theology, and form the subject of this book. Professor Torrance begins with a...
Routledge, 1999. — 460 p. As a complex historical phenomenon, asceticism raises the question about ordinary impulses, the orientation and practices, the power dynamics and politics with transcendental religions. The question of the role of asceticism has often been overlooked in examining the New Testament. This book is both comprehensive and comparative in its representation...
USA.: Nazarene Publishing House, 2002. — 346(xl+306) p. English. Interactive menu. Members of the development committeefor the Modular Course of Study were: Michael W. Vail, Ph.D., Series Curriculum Editor Ron Blake, Director, Clergy Development Jerry D. Lambert, Commissioner, International Board of Education Al Truesdale, Ph.D.,Nazarene Theological Seminary (retired) Robert L....
USA.: Nazarene Publishing House, 2003. — 288(xxxviii+250) p. English. Interactive menu. ( Members of the development committeefor the Modular Course of Study were: Michael W. Vail, Ph.D., Series Curriculum Editor Ron Blake, Director, Clergy Development Jerry D. Lambert, Commissioner, International Board of Education Al Truesdale, Ph.D.,Nazarene Theological Seminary (retired)...
Leiden: Brill NV, 2005. — 529 p. Salvation in the New Testament offers an analysis of the soteriological perspectives and language of the different books of the New Testament. Special attention is given to the imagery used in expressing soteriological ideas. Salvation deals with becoming part of the people of God. In Salvation in the New Testament, special attention is given to...
Baker Book House, 2005. — 1752 p. For the pastor or serious layperson, the realm of biblical interpretation can be a confusing maze of personalities, communities, methods, and theories. This maze can often result in obscuring the main goal of interpreting Scripture: hearing and knowing God better. The Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible is a groundbreaking...
American Unitarian Association, 1913. — 135 p. Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) was a Christian theologian and Baptist pastor who taught at the Rochester Theological Seminary. Rauschenbusch was a key figure in the Social Gospel and 'Single Tax' movements that flourished in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Rauschenbusch's view of Christianity was...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. - 254 p. ISBN: 0521880866 C. S. Lewis is one of the most beloved Christian apologists of the twentieth century; David Hume and Bertrand Russell are among Christianity's most important critics. This book puts these three intellectual giants in conversation with one another on various important questions: the existence of God, suffering,...
New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1997. — 269 p. — (Contemporary Greek Theologians Series, No 4). The original edition of the famous book by Metropolitan. Ioanna (Zizioulas) Being as communication. A study on personality and the Church. Foreword (by John Meyendorff) Personhood and Being From Mask to Person: The Birth of an Ontology of Personhood From Biological to...
Αρμός, 2011. — 172 p. ISBN: 978-960-527-597-6 "Orthodox dogmatic theology". T. 1. Orthodox Christian teaching about God. Όσο γνωρίζουμε τον Θεό, επιθυμούμε να Τον γνωρίσουμε ακόμη περισσότερο, και όσο περισσότερο Τον αγαπούμε τόσο περισσότερο μας ενθαρρύνει για βαθύτερη αγάπη. Ο Θεός δεν μπορεί να περιληφθεί σε έννοιες γιατί είναι η Ζωή, ή μάλλον η πηγή της ζωής. Εξάλλου κανένα...
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