Shows how major Christian thinkers Irenaeus Origen Luther and others pursued theological understanding and then reviews the directions given by Vatican Council II for working out a beneficial and well-grounded Christian theology.... Lees meer.

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CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY The genius of Alister E. McGrath is his remarkable ability to write in a clear concise and lucid manner that draws both teachers and students to participate with the great thinkers of the Christian tradition past and present. Education and illu... Lees meer.

What Do the Five Points of Calvinism Really Mean. Many have heard of Reformed theology but may not be certain what it is. Some references to it have been positive some negative. It appears to be important and they d like to know more about it. But they want a ful... Lees meer.

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This introduction to the field of practical theology reclaims a theological vision for the life and work of the church. Pete Ward dispels the myth that practical theology is a distraction from the real tasks of ministry or from serious academic theological work. He ar... Lees meer.

Robert Barron is one of the Catholic Church s premier theologians and author of the influential The Priority of Christ. In this volume Barron sets forth a thoroughgoing vision for an evangelical catholic theology that is steeped in the tradition and engaged with the co... Lees meer.

Towards the end of his life St. Thomas Aquinas produced a brief non-technical work summarizing some of the main points of his massive Summa Theologiae. This compendium was intended as an introductory handbook for students and scholars who might not have access to th... Lees meer.

Christianity Today 2020 Book Award Award of Merit Theology Ethics Outreach 2020 Recommended Resource of the Year Theology and Biblical Studies The question of what makes life worth living is more vital now than ever. In today s pluralistic postsecular world u... Lees meer.

A comprehensive study of Muslim thinker al-Ghazali s life and his understanding of cosmology-how God creates things and events in the world how human acts relate to God s power and how the universe is structured. The Muslim thinker al-Ghazali d. 1111 was one of t... Lees meer.

In this Very Short Introduction David Ford provides a balanced survey for both believers and non-believers to the central questions of contemporary theology. In this new edition Ford includes updates to a number of areas including theology between faiths theologic... Lees meer.

At the beginning of his gospel John refers to Jesus Christ as the Logos--the Word. John Ronning makes a case that the Jewish Targums--interpretive translations of the Old Testament into Aramaic that were read in synagogues--hold the key to understanding John s Logos... Lees meer.

Comparing Averroes and Hegel s positions on the relation between philosophy and religion this book explores the theme of the authorities of faith and reason and the origin of truth in a medieval Islamic and a modern Christian context respectively. Through an in-dept... Lees meer.

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In Dialectical Theology and Jacques Ellul Jacob E. Van Vleet argues that the work of Jacques Ellul is frequently - and deleteriously - misread on account of inattention to the theological underpinning that governs Ellul s thought. In a penetrating analysis the first o... Lees meer.