This book challenges us in a time of climate crisis to find more common ground between the dual projects of ecocriticism and ecotheology. It will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers interested in ecotheology, religious studies, envi...Loe edasi...
This book opens a new research field in Balkan contextual theology. By embracing culturally rich traditions of the Western Balkans as its starting point, it explores their existential and theological bearings....Loe edasi...
This collection analyzes the theme of the afterlife as it animated nineteenth-century American womens theology-making and appeals for social justice....Loe edasi...
George Augustus Selwyn (1809-1878) focuses on Selwyns theological formation, which places him in the context of the world of traditional high churchmanship, rather than the Oxford Movement narrowly conceived. It argues that his distinctiveness lay i...Loe edasi...
Examining a period of feminist theory, theology, and culture from about 1965 to 2010, this book shows that secular, as well as Christian, Jewish, and post-Christian feminists drew on ancient and modern tropes of redemption from slavery to idols or f...Loe edasi...
This volume is a collection of essays that explains how literature, philosophy and theology have explored the role of wonder in our lives, particularly through poetry....Loe edasi...
This groundbreaking study offers an innovative critical analysis of poetry as a resource for reflective practice in the context of continuing professional development....Loe edasi...
In contradistinction to the many monographs and edited volumes devoted to historical, cultural, or theological treatments of demonology, this collection features newly written papers by philosophers and other scholars engaged specifically in philoso...Loe edasi...
Religion for a Secular Age provides a transnational history of modern Vednta through a comparative study of two of its most important exponents, Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900) and Swami Vivekananda (18631902). This book explains why Vedntas appea...Loe edasi...
This volume provides a critical overview of key issues and historical developments in the concept of innocence, delving into its ambivalences and exploring within literature and theology. This interdisciplinary collection discusses major symbols and...Loe edasi...
This book dismantles the popular theological view that roots violence and suffering in the animal kingdom in the fall of humanity. It affirms instead that there are multiple reasons to suggest that God and creation can both be good, even with pres...Loe edasi...
This book provides a comparison of the development of theology of religions in Western Christianity and its application in an Islamic context. It also shows the parallels between some specific forms of theology of religions, i.e. exclusivism, inclus...Loe edasi...
Published in 1999. Including perspectives from prestigious contributions, and published with the backing of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), Creation: Law and Probability employs the disciplines of history and philosophy, a...Loe edasi...
This book provides a complete and original research primer in the major theories, approaches and methods at the cutting-edge of research in contemporary practical theology. It represents a reflection on the very practice of the discipline itself, it...Loe edasi...
Theological thinkers are placed into contexts which inform their theological tasks but that context is usually limited to a European or North American centre, usually ignoring minorities and lesser mainstream theologies even in that context...Loe edasi...
The book explores the twentieth-century novel from the perspective that it is more concerned with theological debate than we might like to think. It reads five twentieth-century writers who have written the equivalent of sermons....Loe edasi...
This collection brings together broad perspectives exploring the relationship between theism and the idea that multiple universes exist beyond our own, thoroughly assessing the idea that a multiverse is to be expected if theism is true. This book pr...Loe edasi...
Reimagining Nature is a new introduction to the fast developing area of natural theology, written by one of the world s leading theologians. The text engages in serious theological dialogue whilst looking at how past developments might illuminate...Loe edasi...
This comprehensive survey of religion and its profound effects on history provides a historical context for in-depth analysis of theological, social, and political themes in which religion plays a major role...Loe edasi...
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(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Aug-2014, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110352924)
This comprehensive monograph sees the root of the problem in inadequate methodological reflection, and seeks to provide sensible answers to the source-critical question on the basis of hermeneutic and literary reflection....Loe edasi...
Exploring California as a theological place, this book renders critical engagement with significant Californian religious and theological phenomena and the inherent theological impulses within major Californian cultural icons. Many are picking up on...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jul-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9788376560328)
Analyzes Russian ecclesiastical policy in the diocese of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the period of 1878-1914. This book focuses on unedited materials from the archives of Moscow, St Petersburg, Sofia, Athens, Belgrade and Istanbul....Loe edasi...
The themes of God, Mind and Knowledge are central to the philosophy of religion but they are now being taken up by professional philosophers who have not previously contributed to the field. This book is a collection of original essays by eminent an...Loe edasi...
In this genuinely interdisciplinary work, Clack breaks new ground by using detailed explorations of the phenomena of drug-use, romantic love and the enjoyment of art in order to throw light on the meaning and nature of religion. This book will be v...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2014, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110307313)
Christology and Pneumatology face many challenges today, such as fundamentalism and spiritualism, oppression and pluralism, rampant materialism and anthropocentrism. This title includes eight European and Asian theologians that respond to the challe...Loe edasi...
Issues of race, gender, nationality and religion have been the breeding ground of conflict and oppression throughout history. This book provides an engaging assessment of the dangers of defining the self against the other....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Aug-2013, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9788376560380)
The key to understanding Europe is the paradox of the influence of Christianity and its concurrent abandonment of its message and institutions. This book focuses on the European Christian and other roots, the idea of Europe in the past and prese...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jun-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199769285)
Political Theology for a Plural Age provides historic and contemporary understandings of political engagement in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, engaging political theologies not merely as a set of theoretical concepts but as religious beliefs and...Loe edasi...
Society Shaped by Theology explores the possibility that theological concepts may sometimes still be influential in the modern world. It follows in the tradition of Max Weber, arguing that theological virtues and debates can at times be transposed,...Loe edasi...
This book examines the question of death in the light of Heideggers paradigmatic discussion in Being and Time. Pattison reveals where and how Heidegger and theology part ways but also how Heidegger can helpfully challenge theology to rethink one of...Loe edasi...
Stories from the Street is a theological exploration of interviews with men and women who have experienced homelessness at some stage in their lives. Expanding the existing literature of contextual theology, this book provides an alternative focus t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jan-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199969388)
The book provides an original analysis of the central philosophical differences between liberal and postliberal theology. Knight argues that important developments in philosophy of language reveal serious problems with the central methodological com...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jan-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191750496)
Frequently misunderstood or polemicized, natural theology is an under-studied yet persistent and pervasive presence throughout the history of thought about ultimate reality - from the classical Greek theology of the philosophers to twenty-first cent...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jan-2013, Kirjastus: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9788376560359)
For centuries, science and religion have been on the opposite sides of the debate about the moral nature of humans. Combining research in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and behavioral science, this book focuses on the vision of morality as expressed...Loe edasi...
