This book focuses on the Pentecostal experience of African Caribbean women in Britain, paying attention to the influence of Pentecostalism as it is expressed in everyday life. Foregrounding the voices of Black British Pentecostal women, it presents...Loe edasi...
This comprehensive reference work brings together a diverse cross-section of established and emerging historians to explore the broad and deep history of Bible-believing, born-again Protestantism, and its dynamic impact on American life and society....Loe edasi...
This book provides a fresh interpretation of Karl Barths doctrine of providence in Church Dogmatics III/3, emphasizing concursusthe cooperation between divine and human action....Loe edasi...
This book explores how Gen Z narrates faith amid shifting religious practice and influencer culture. Grounded in pioneering research begun at the University of Oxford, it is the first study to use story completion and participatory co-analysis to pl...Loe edasi...
This book analyses the role of religion in social justice from the perspectives of Traditional African Religion, Christianity, and Islam, by bringing different disciplines into play, including medicine and health, humanities, Indigenous knowledge sy...Loe edasi...
This book examines how Christian teachings on love and enmity shape group identity and conflict, with scripture and theology used both to justify violence and call for reconciliation. It explores interdisciplinary perspectives that combine socio-sci...Loe edasi...
Ancient Bible Interpretation and its Legacies: Politics, Literature, and Heresy offers a sweeping exploration of the evolving role of Bible interpretation from ancient times to modernity, revealing its profound impact on religious, political, litera...Loe edasi...
Many oppose dogma fearing that heresy accusations lead to violence; similarly, opposition to claims of infallible church authority stems from fears of fanaticism, closed-mindedness, and blind obedience. The book justifies dogma while firmly opposing...Loe edasi...
The book explores the reception of the German theologian Jürgen Moltmanns theology within the general framework of a budding Chinese academic theology....Loe edasi...
This book engages some of the most important and controversial issues of our time, from the roles of women in society to sexuality, abortion, gender identity, and the environment, and is an ideal starting point for anyone seeking a full introduction...Loe edasi...
Spirituality for Leaders delves into the integration of spirituality within leadership practices and highlights how spiritual beliefs and practices can enhance ethical decision-making, organizational culture, and well-being. The book appeals to busi...Loe edasi...
This book explores how late antique miracle collections depict Christian saints as subversive, theatrical tricksters who blur the boundaries between sacred and profane, human and divine. Suitable for scholars and students of late antique Christianit...Loe edasi...
This book critically examines the relationship between prophetic practices in the Bible and contemporary prophetism in African Christianity....Loe edasi...
Elements of Faith explores the rich, complex terrain of faith through the lenses of psychoanalysis, existential phenomenology, and lived clinical experience. It offers both theoretical reflections and a compelling case study of a therapeutic journey...Loe edasi...
Should our beliefs be proportioned to our evidence? Are we doing something wrong in believing with little or no evidence? And may our beliefs be based partly or wholly on moral considerations? These questions are harder than you think....Loe edasi...
This book explores the phenomenon of hope in the context of long-term ill-health. It brings medicine, psychology and theology in dialogue with the voices of those with first-hand experience of chronic pain....Loe edasi...
This book examines the reality of theological dissent in the Catholic Church in the decades since the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and its relation to the problematic search for certainty and doctrinal consistency in addressing the complexitie...Loe edasi...
When Paul III was elected in 1534, hopes arose across Christendom that this pope would at last reform and reunite the Church. During his fifteen-year reign, though, Pauls engagement with reform was complex and contentious. This study makes a provoc...Loe edasi...
This book is an early medieval social history based on the early penitentials, with up-to-date translations of these often-ignored or misunderstood texts....Loe edasi...
This book brings together scholars to consider the links among the roles of popes, saints, and crusaders and the ways that understanding them can help us build a more complete picture of the working of the church and Christianity in the Middle Ages....Loe edasi...
First published in 1967, Faith in a Changing Culture examines the relationship between religious faith and cultural transformation during a period of significant social change. The author recognizes the need for the church to adapt to stay relevant...Loe edasi...
In the Florentine basilica of San Miniato al Monte is a thirteenth-century marble zodiac. Over many years Fred Gettings unravelled the mysteries of its construction. In this book, originally published in 1987, he shows that the church was designed a...Loe edasi...
This book investigates how early modern actors managed not to succumb to postmodern relativism, despite the increasing uncertainties and blatant disagreements about the nature of God, Man, and the Universe. It focuses on practices of negotiating cre...Loe edasi...
This book provides a detailed view of the authors conception of apocalyptic phenomenology, referring to the revelatory and self-disclosing nature of phenomenological thinking, a thinking that is central to our philosophical traditions today....Loe edasi...
This book explores the role of physical bodies, ritual technologies, healing practices, gender, and visual imagery in creating and sustaining religious meaning in antiquity. It is ideal for students and scholars working on the New Testament and earl...Loe edasi...
This accessible yet profound work traces two pivotal movements that defined our modern world: the rise of Puritan ideals that birthed concepts of liberty, equality, and democracy, and the subsequent emergence of secular society that challenged relig...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a multidisciplinary reassessment of womens intellectual, spiritual, and artistic contributions during the Enlightenment, challenging their place in dominant historical, theological, and philosophical narratives....Loe edasi...
This volume looks at key Irish figures, beyond lawyers and judges, whose ideas have impacted on the way law is conceived, conceptualised, and practised. The work consists of four Parts, each corresponding to a distinct historical phase....Loe edasi...
This book charts nineteenth-century ceremonial and liturgical change through ritualists involvement of children in Church of England services....Loe edasi...
Black Religion in America is an introduction to the religious history of African Americans from the period of slavery to the 21st century, and traces the social justice thought and activism of Black Christians, Conjurors, Muslims, Pentecostals, Huma...Loe edasi...
Revised and updated throughout, and includes a new chapter on badness, freedom, providence and responsibility. An ideal introduction to this major figure in Western philosophy, and essential reading for students of ancient philosophy and classics....Loe edasi...
This book explores the social history of the radical religious community of Old Believer-Wanderers during the period of rapid late imperial, early Soviet and Stalinist modernization....Loe edasi...
In the third century C.E. the heretical Greek Father, Origen, proposed a scheme for the eventual salvation of humankind. But no more overt attacks on the eternity of hell appeared until the 17th century. This book, originally published in 1985, expl...Loe edasi...
This book explores the architectural history of Christian universities in China, revealing how quasi-colonial power interaction and cross-cultural communication of meaning were channelled through religious and educational architecture in modern Chin...Loe edasi...
This book examines one of the fundamental phenomena in jurisprudence, Legal Transplants (reception of law), the study of which allows us both to determine the relationships between various legal systems and between civil law and other normative syst...Loe edasi...
This volume focuses on the interplay between metaphor, making and mysticism, and sheds new light on the power of the metaphorical and creative dimensions of the mystical for the 21st century, and highlights the potential of mysticism to push us beyo...Loe edasi...
This volume argues for a classical understanding of leisure within the context of Catholic universities and explores how a critically nuanced reading of the work of philosopher Josef Pieper, theologian St John Henry Newman and cultural historian Chr...Loe edasi...
Exploring the relationship between African Americans, religion and the environment, this book examines how African Americans have understood and related to the environment throughout their history....Loe edasi...
This book examines the different ways that Christian churches perceive and use digital media in their external work. This is explored through three different case studies, with dissimilar approaches to digital media, to understand the prerequisites...Loe edasi...
Christianity in the Indian subcontinent is as old as Christianity itself; this book delves into the encounters between Christianity and the Indian people across various historical periods, highlighting the exchange of knowledge and ideas....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003699378)
By focusing on the construction of various kinds of masculinities in early Christian texts, both biblical and extra-biblical, and by showcasing a number of examples of the reception of such texts in the construction and discussion of masculinities,...Loe edasi...
Structural Sin and the Death of Institutions explores how Christian understandings of sin map onto institutional failures. It argues that institutions frequently create conditions in which individuals are disempowered and disposed to sin, and that u...Loe edasi...
This book examines mid-20th-century Anglican church architecture in Britain, between 1935-1975, exploring how it was shaped by liturgical changes, social shifts and artistic influences. It investigates the theoretical foundations of modern Anglican...Loe edasi...
Bringing together scholars from across the world, this publication shows Christians and Muslims individually or together reading the canonical Gospels of the New Testament in conversation with Islamic texts and contexts....Loe edasi...
This volume considers lived space as a scholarly approach to the past, showing how spatial approaches can present innovative views of the world of Late Antiquity, integrating social, economic, and cultural developments and putting centre-stage this...Loe edasi...
Christian Realism and the Revival of Public Theology analyses Niebuhrs The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness eighty years after publication and argues that it provides pertinent lessons for the contemporary era....Loe edasi...
