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Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte first began publication in 1925 and
can claim to be one of the most tradition-rich historical book
series. It presents research on the history of Christian churches
and dogmas through the ages but also publishes papers on related
disciplines such as archeology, history of art and literary
studies. One of the series' leading features is its consistent
striving to combine historical-methodical precision with systematic
contextualization of each examined topic. In recent years the
series has increasingly publishedstudies on themes relating to the
history of Christian culture and ideas, viewed within a
methodically open perspective on the history of Christianity.
Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and
Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories,
theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the
study of religion. Topics include (among others) category
formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology,
myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism,
structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the
series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the
history of the discipline.
This book collates selective outputs from the 1st International
Conference on Contemporary Islamic Studies, focusing on
interdisciplinary research that is relevant and timely. One of the
most vital areas for national development in Malaysia, and other
parts of the Muslim world, is the field of Islamic studies. With a
selection of regional and international contributions, the volume
covers several topics, including Zakat, Wakaf, Islamic
philanthropy, Islamic Turath, Islamic astronomy, Islamic texts -
both ancient and modern - Halal, the Muslim family, fiqh, and
Islamic finance. Cutting across both academia and religious
practice, the book seeks to demarcate various aspects within
Islamic law and culture, in the context of the IR 4.0 era. It is
relevant to students and researchers working within the
interdisciplinary landscape of Islamic studies, from Asia to
beyond.
Chaplaincy highlights the need for faith and society to re-engage
with vital moral questions. Military chaplains continue to operate
within the dynamic tension between faith communities, the armed
services and society, offering a distinct moral presence and
contribution. Drawing the reader into the world of the military
chaplain, this book explores insights into the complex moral issues
that arise in combat (especially in Afghanistan), and in everyday
military life, These include the the increasing significance of the
Law of Armed Conflict and the moral significance of drones. Through
the unique chaplain's eye view of the significance of their
experience for understanding the ethics of war, this book offers
clearer understanding of chaplaincy in the context of the changing
nature of international conflict (shaped around insurgency and
non-state forces) and explores the response of faith communities to
the role of the armed services. It makes the case for relocating
understandings of just war within a theological framework and for a
clear understanding of the relationship between the mission of
chaplaincy and that of the military.
Tragedy plays a central role in Hegel's early writings on
theology and politics. Hegel s overarching aim in these texts is to
determine the kind of mythology that would best complement
religious and political freedom in modernity. Peter Wake claims
that, for Hegel at this early stage, ancient Greek tragedy provided
the model for such a mythology and suggested a way to oppose the
rigid hierarchies and authoritarianism that characterized Europe of
his day. Wake follows Hegel as he develops his idea of the essence
of Christianity and its relation to the distinctly tragic
expression of beauty found in Greek mythology."
Faith, Rationality and the Passions presents a fresh and original
examination of the relation of religious faith, philosophical
rationality and the passions. Contributions see leading scholars
refute the widely-held belief that religious Enlightenment forced
passion and reason apart. * Leading Philosophical experts offer new
research on the relation of faith, reason and the passions in
classic and Enlightenment figures * Overturns the widely-held
presumption that the Enlightenment was responsible for creating a
gulf between reason and passion * Presents original and innovative
research on the importance of the late-19th century creation of the
category of emotion , and its striking difference from classic
ideas of passion * Brings together secular science and philosophy
of emotion with philosophical theology to seek a new integration of
belief, emotion and reason
God is unbounded. God became flesh. While these two assertions are
equally viable parts of Western Christian religious heritage, they
stand in tension with one another. Fearful of reducing God's
majesty with shallow anthropomorphisms, philosophy and religion
affirm that God, as an eternal being, stands wholly apart from
creation. Yet the legacy of the incarnation complicates this view
of the incorporeal divine, affirming a very different image of God
in physical embodiment. While for many today the idea of an
embodied God seems simplisticaeven pedestrianaChristoph Markschies
reveals that in antiquity, the educated and uneducated alike
subscribed to this very idea. More surprisingly, the idea that God
had a body was held by both polytheists and monotheists. Platonic
misgivings about divine corporeality entered the church early on,
but it was only with the advent of medieval scholasticism that the
idea that God has a body became scandalous, an idea still lingering
today. In God's Body Markschies traces the shape of the divine form
in late antiquity. This exploration follows the development of
ideas of God's corporeality in Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions.
In antiquity, gods were often like humans, which proved to be
important for philosophical reflection and for worship. Markschies
considers how a cultic environment nurtured, and transformed,
Jewish and Christian descriptions of the divine, as well as how
philosophical debates over the connection of body and soul in
humanity provided a conceptual framework for imagining God.
Markschies probes the connections between this lively culture of
religious practice and philosophical speculation and the
christological formulations of the church to discover how the
dichotomy of an incarnate God and a fleshless God came to be. By
studying the religious and cultural past, Markschies reveals a
Jewish and Christian heritage alien to modern sensibilities, as
well as a God who is less alien to the human experience than much
of Western thought has imagined. Since the almighty God who made
all creation has also lived in that creation, the biblical idea of
humankind as image of God should be taken seriously and not
restricted to the conceptual world but rather applied to the whole
person.
The triple aim of Hamadhani in this work, first translated into
English in 1915, appears to have been to amuse, to interest and to
instruct; and this explains why, in spite of the inherent
difficulty of a work of this kind composed primarily with a view to
the rhetorical effect upon the learned and the great, there is
scarcely a dull chapter in the fifty-one maqamat or discourses. The
author essayed, throughout these dramatic discourses, to illustrate
the life and language both of the denizens of the desert and the
dwellers in towns, and to give examples of the jargon and slang of
thieves and robbers as well as the lucubrations of the learned and
the conversations of the cultured.
Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology provides the first
broad encounter between modern Jewish thought and recent
developments in political theology. In opposition to impetuous
associations of Judaism and liberalism and charges that Judaism
cannot engender a universal political order, the essays in this
volume propose a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism
and the political. The vexed status of liberalism in Jewish thought
and Judaism in political theology is interrogated with recourse to
thinking from across the Continental tradition.
Changes in the American religious landscape enabled the rise of
mass incarceration. Religious ideas and practices also offer a key
for ending mass incarceration. These are the bold claims advanced
by Break Every Yoke, the joint work of two activist-scholars of
American religion. Once, in an era not too long past, Americans,
both incarcerated and free, spoke a language of social liberation
animated by religion. In the era of mass incarceration, we have
largely forgotten how to dream-and organize-this way. To end mass
incarceration we must reclaim this lost tradition. Properly
conceived, the movement we need must demand not prison reform but
prison abolition. Break Every Yoke weaves religion into the stories
about race, politics, and economics that conventionally account for
America's grotesque prison expansion of the last half century, and
in so doing it sheds new light on one of our era's biggest human
catastrophes. By foregrounding the role of religion in the way
political elites, religious institutions, and incarcerated
activists talk about incarceration, Break Every Yoke is an effort
to stretch the American moral imagination and contribute resources
toward envisioning alternative ways of doing justice. By looking
back to nineteenth century abolitionism, and by turning to today's
grassroots activists, it argues for reclaiming the abolition
"spirit."
Religion, Emotion, Sensation asks what affect theory has to say
about God or gods, religion or religions, scriptures, theologies,
and liturgies. Contributors explore the crossings and
crisscrossings between affect theory and theology and the study of
religion more broadly, as well as the political and social import
of such work. Bringing together affect theorists, theologians,
biblical scholars, and scholars of religion, this volume enacts
creative transdisciplinary interventions in the study of affect and
religion through exploring such topics as biblical literature,
Christology, animism, Rastafarianism, the women’s Mosque
Movement, the unending Korean War, the Sewol ferry disaster, trans
and gender queer identities, YA fiction, queer historiography, the
prison industrial complex, debt and neoliberalism, and death and
poetry. Contributors: Mathew Arthur, Amy Hollywood, Wonhee Anne
Joh, Dong Sung Kim, A. Paige Rawson, Erin Runions, Donovan O.
Schaefer, Gregory J. Seigworth, Max Thornton, Alexis G. Waller
The discussion landscape between Christians and Muslims is
constantly changing and developing. Increasingly subtle and
sophisticated Muslim positions on Jesus emerge regularly. The
latest Muslim thinker to rise to prominence in the wider public
arena is Mustafa Akyol. His ideas about Jesus, while largely
derivative, are crafted into novel and appealing arguments. To
date, there has been no satisfactory Christian engagement with his
ideas. Written by a specialist in Muslim thought, Jesus through
Muslim Eyes offers a unique apologetic that combines history,
theology and critical thinking in a way that cuts across both
traditional and contemporary debates. "With Christians, we
(Muslims) agree that Jesus was born of a virgin, that he was the
Messiah, and that he is the Word of God. Surely, we do not worship
Jesus, like Christians do. Yet still, we can follow him. In fact,
given our grim malaise and his shining wisdom, we need to follow
him." - Mustafa Akyol (The Islamic Jesus, St Martin's Press) Can
Muslims, like Akyol, meaningfully claim Jesus as the Messiah and
the Word of God? And how can Christians respond to such claims?
Richard Schumach considers what Muslims believe about Jesus; what
history can tell us about Jesus; where Muslims (and Christians) get
their beliefs from; and why Jesus makes sense in Christianity, but
not in Islam.
"What are we to say of a theology which has so proceeded on the
basis of a moral neglet of God's creatures?" asks Andrew Linzey. In
Animal Theology, he seeks ways in which doctrine can help morally
motivated Christians to perceive meaning in animal suffering. In
Linzey's view, animal rights is synonymous with animal theology.
Linzey argues that historical theology, creatively defined, must
reject humanocentricity. Questioning the assumption that if
theology is to speak on this issue, "it must only do so on the side
of the oppressors," Linzey investigates not only the abstractions
of theory, but also the realities of hunting, animal
experimentation, and genetic engineering. His is a pioneering,
vital, and unequivocally Christian voice advocating on behalf of
the countless creatures who share our world and our lives but
cannot speak for themselves.
What is the essence of the gospel as Jesus Himself proclaimed it?
How people answer that question is crucial to their understanding
of what it means to be a Christian. Only Jesus explores what the
Bible says about who Jesus is, what is saving grace, and what it
means for Jesus to be both Savior and Lord of a person's life.
Based on his classic bestseller, The Gospel According to Jesus,
John MacArthur answers the age-old question: What did Jesus mean
when He said, "Follow me"? In Only Jesus, author and teacher John
MacArthur makes it clear that the gospel Jesus preached was a call
to self-denial, radical changes, and serving Him. Difficult
demands? Impossible in human terms? Yes, but attainable when we
understand that the gospel is a call to faith, and genuine faith
produces a heart that voluntarily responds to the ever-awakening
reality of Christ's lordship. Only Jesus examines the gospel that
Jesus himself preached-with an eye toward gaining a thorough and
proper understanding of the true way of salvation. He is the only
One to whom we must turn for words of eternal life. This book is
compulsory reading for Christians who want a deeper relationship
with Jesus Christ and seekers who want to know who Jesus is and
what he taught.
To go beyond is to move into a higher state of consciousness, to a
place of bliss, greater understanding, love, and deep
connectedness, a realm where we finally find life's meaning -
experiences for which all spiritual seekers seek. Dr Rupert
Sheldrake, writing as both a scientist and a spiritual explorer,
looks at seven spiritual practices that are personally
transformative and have scientifically measurable effects. He
combines the latest scientific research with his extensive
knowledge of mystical traditions around the world to show how we
may tune into more-than-human realms of consciousness through
psychedelics, such as ayahuasca, and by taking cannabis. He also
shows how everyday activities can have mystical dimensions,
including sports and learning from animals. He discusses
traditional religious practices such as fasting, prayer, and the
celebration of festivals and holy days. Why do these practices
work? Are their effects all inside brains and essentially illusory?
Or can we really make contact with forms of consciousness greater
than our own? We are in the midst of a spiritual revival. This book
is an essential guide.
For millennia, messianic visions of redemption have inspired men
and women to turn against unjust and oppressive orders. Yet these
very same traditions are regularly decried as antecedents to the
violent and authoritarian ideologies of modernity. Informed in
equal parts by theology and historical theory, this book offers a
provocative exploration of this double-edged legacy. Author Jayne
Svenungsson rigorously pursues a middle path between utopian
arrogance and an enervated postmodernism, assessing the impact of
Jewish and Christian theologies of history on subsequent thinkers,
and in the process identifying a web of spiritual and intellectual
motifs extending from ancient Jewish prophets to contemporary
radicals such as Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Zizek.
Natural theology, in the view of many, is in crisis. In this
long-awaited book, Alister McGrath sets out a new vision for
natural theology, re-establishing its legitimacy and utility.* A
timely and innovative resource on natural theology: the exploration
of knowledge of God as it is observed through nature* Written by
internationally regarded theologian and author of numerous
bestselling books, Alister McGrath* Develops an intellectually
rigorous vision of natural theology as a point of convergence
between the Christian faith, the arts and literature, and the
natural sciences, opening up important possibilities for dialogue
and cross-fertilization* Treats natural theology as a cultural
phenomenon, broader than Christianity itself yet always possessing
a distinctively Christian embodiment* Explores topics including
beauty, goodness, truth, and the theological imagination; how
investigating nature gives rise to both theological and scientific
theories; the idea of a distinctively Christian approach to nature;
and how natural theology can function as a bridge between
Christianity and other faiths
Approaching the Bible in an original way-comparing biblical heroes
to heroes in world literature-Elliott Rabin addresses a core
biblical question: What is the Bible telling us about what it means
to be a hero? Focusing on the lives of six major biblical
characters-Moses, Samson, David, Esther, Abraham, and Jacob-Rabin
examines their resemblance to hero types found in (and perhaps
drawn from) other literatures and analyzes why the Bible depicts
its heroes less gloriously than do the texts of other cultures: *
Moses founds the nation of Israel-and is short-tempered and
weak-armed. * Samson, arrogant and unhinged, can kill a thousand
enemies with his bare hands. * David establishes a centralized,
unified, triumphal government-through pretense and self-deception.
* Esther saves her people but marries a murderous, misogynist king.
* Abraham's relationships are wracked with tension. * Jacob fathers
twelve tribes-and wins his inheritance through deceit. In the end,
is God the real hero? Or is God too removed from human constraints
to even be called a "hero"? Ultimately, Rabin excavates how the
Bible's unique perspective on heroism can address our own
deep-seated need for human-scale heroes.
Volume 12 in the edition of the complete Jerusalem Talmud.
Tractates Sanhedrin and Makkot belong together as one tractate,
covering procedural law for panels of arbitration, communal
rabbinic courts (in bare outline) and an elaborate construction of
hypothetical criminal courts supposedly independent of the king's
administration. Tractate Horaiot, an elaboration of Lev. 4:1-26,
defines the roles of High Priest, rabbinate, and prince in a
Commonwealth strictly following biblical rules.
The far-reaching social and intellectual changes in the United
States since the Civil War have had a definite effect upon the
religious thought of American churches. In this volume, a
distinguished scholar and theologian has undertaken an inductive
study of theological issues in one of the major denominations, the
Presbyterian church in the United States of America. Since this
church was in the thick of the social and intellectual ferment that
changed the living and thinking habits of Americans, much that
transpired in it finds broad parallels in other leading American
churches. Thus, the story of the Presbyterian church is, in
essence, a kind of theological barometer of American history.
Avoiding sweeping generalizations, Lefferts A. Loetscher briefly
traces the history of the Presbyterian church from its founding by
New England Puritans on Long Island in the 1640s to the disruption
of 1837 and the "wedding day" of Old School and New School
Presbyterians in 1870, following the reunion of 1869. From this
point, he examines in detail the development of the church,
analyzing the controversies that occurred over the years,
interpreting the various theological issues that led to disputes.
Among Christians, discussions continue about the roles of men and
women in the home, the church and society at large. Although some
of these debates generate more heat than light, the issue directly
affects every member of the Christian community. Our view of the
Bible's teaching on these matters shapes the life and ministry of
our churches in significant ways. Further reflection and dialogue
are required. In this volume twenty-three evangelical scholars,
firmly committed to the authority of Scripture, explore the whole
range of issues relating to gender relations. They offer
historical, biblical, theological, hermeneutical and practical
perspectives to dispel many of the myths surrounding biblical
equality, and to promote discussion. Their sound, reasoned case
affirms the complementarity of the sexes without requiring a
hierarchy of roles.
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