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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
If only we could do a better job of helping students at "connecting the dots," theological educators commonly lament. Integration, often proposed as a solution to the woes of professional education for ministry, would help students integrate knowledge, skills, spirituality, and integrity....
Theology and Human Flourishing
Essays in Honor of Timothy J. Gorringe
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
This collection of essays is a celebration of the work of Timothy Gorringe. Like his theology, it is animated by a delighted and critical engagement with the diverse facets of human social life, and by a passionate concern to wrestle with the Bible and the Christian tradition in pursuit of human flourishing....
Religion and Doctor Who
Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Doctor Who has always contained a rich current of religious themes and ideas. In its very first episode it asked how humans rationalize the seemingly supernatural, as two snooping schoolteachers refused to accept that the TARDIS was real. More recently it has toyed with the mystery of Doctor's real...
The Unknown God
Sermons Responding to the New Atheists
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
What is the so-called New Atheism? The first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a cluster of authors who have attained public notoriety through their mockery of religion and their popularizing of atheism. How should Christians and other believers understand and respond to this aggressive...
Wagner’s Parsifal
An Appreciation in the Light of His Theological Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Parsifal, Wagner's final opera, is considered by many to be one of the greatest religious musical works ever composed; but it is also one of the most difficult to understand and many have questioned whether it can be considered a Christian work at all. Added to this is the furious debate that has...
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
A New Edition of William Harvey’s Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
William Harvey's On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals is a classic work of the scientific revolution and of modern medicine, for in it he famously argued, with extensive evidence based on dissections and vivisections, for the circulation of the blood. It also overturned the longstanding...
Procreative Ethics
Philosophical and Christian Approaches to Questions at the Beginning of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Procreative Ethics addresses questions at the beginning of life from a point of view that is alternatively philosophical and Christian. The author seeks to defend philosophically some positions taken partly on Christian grounds while also trying to make the implications of Christian convictions intelligible...
The Muslim Midwest in Modern China
The Tale of the Hui Communities in Gansu (Lanzhou, Linxia, and Lintan) and in Yunnan (Kunming and Dali)
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
For several centuries now the Muslim Midwest, notably the Northwest and the Southwest, had been the "Muslim country" of China. Although Muslims only sporadically constituted local majorities in some towns, villages, counties, and neighborhoods, they remained overall a minority in the overwhelming...
God the Spirit
Introducing Pneumatology in Wesleyan and Ecumenical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Who is the mysterious Holy Spirit, and why does it matter for the Christian life? How do we know when the Spirit is working? This book introduces the doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Wesleyan theological tradition and within the greater church. It covers key biblical bases for thinking about the Spirit, and it seeks to inspire confidence in the Spirit's power.
Le Capitaine Micah Clarke
Les recrues de Monmouth - Le Capitaine Micah Clarke - La Bataille de Sedgemoor ( Edition intégrale ) 3 Tomes - annoté
Language: French
Release Date: December 16, 2018
Micah Clarke est un roman d’aventures de l’auteur britannique Arthur Conan Doyle , publié en 1889 et se déroulant pendant la rébellion de Monmouth en 1685 en Angleterre. Le livre est un roman dont le protagoniste, Micah Clarke, commence comme un garçon cherchant l’aventure d’une manière...
by George Pattison, Helle Møller Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Kierkegaard's Pastoral Dialogues takes a selection of Kierkegaard's most insightful spiritual writings and transforms them into a series of dialogues between two friends, a believer and a nonbeliever. In this way, some of Kierkegaard's complex religious thought is made accessible to a wider readership,...
Christmas Eve Celebration
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
This book is about the meanings of Christmas. It makes for a fine Christmas present--written in popular, poetic style--and is a literary classic. This little dialogue shared by women, men and children on Christmas Eve is the jewel in the crown of Schleiermacher's theological writings. It features...
C. S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil
An Investigation of a Pervasive Theme
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
C. S. Lewis was concerned about an aspect of the problem of evil he called subjectivism: the tendency of one's perspective to move towards self-referentialism and utilitarianism. In C. S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil, Jerry Root provides a holistic reading of Lewis by walking the reader through all...
Aquinas on Israel and the Church
The Question of Supersessionism in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
The question of whether or not Thomas Aquinas's theology is supersessionist has elicited deep disagreement among scholars. Some maintain that Aquinas is the standard-bearer of a supersessionist church that undermines Judaism, while others hold that Aquinas avoids supersessionism altogether. Yet the...