The moral theology of Hans G. Ulrich is presented here in English for the first time. These collected essays represent the culmination of a lifetime of reflection on Christian living from this German theologian in conversation with Luther, Bonhoeffer, and contemporary philosophers and theologians. Ulrich's ethics affirm the lively presence of the living work of God in orienting the daily life of Christians. This presence enables members of the Church to live as creatures trusting in God's promises, bearing witness in political and economic spheres, and trusting in life as a gift in response to bioethical issues. Ulrich's fresh take on living out of the promise of God yields further guidance on issues in international relations, economics, parenting, disability, and more.

Este valioso libro viene a llenar un hueco enorme en la Teolog a Cristiana en lengua castellana: La falta de informaci n confiable sobre los or genes jud os de la fe cristiana. Para aquellos que buscan la sencillez, el libro expresa muchas verdades fundamentales que permanecieron ocultas en los antiguos tratados de la historia de la Iglesia en un lenguaje simple y ameno. En cambio, para aquellos que aman la seriedad acad mica el tratado est lleno de referencias cuidadosamente documentadas, frutos de la erudici n moderna y la antiqu sima tradici n de Israel. El inicio de esta obra provee al lector de la perspectiva hist rica del origen jud o de la Iglesia y su posterior separaci n de Israel. Luego, expone las fallas de las hip tesis aramea y griega como idiomas originales del Nuevo Testamento, y demuestra el origen hebreo de los Evangelios y las ense anzas de los ap stoles. Los siguientes cap tulos se enfocan en la judaidad de Jesucristo, y por qu nunca abandon su fe ancestral para fundar una religi n separada del tronco tradicional del juda smo del Segundo Templo. Explican, adem s, por qu las ense anzas de Jesucristo o Yahush a ha Mash aj son todas ellas jud as e interpretarlas fuera de ese marco religioso inevitablemente lleva a graves errores en la doctrina y la pr ctica de la fe. Por ltimo, explora con integridad teol gica c mo los Padres de la Iglesia y los Reformadores Protestantes forjaron con su antisemitismo los cap tulos m?'s vergonzosos de la historia humana: Las Cruzadas, la Santa Inquisici n y el Holocausto. Sin duda alguna, su consistente punto de vista jud o nazareno lo hace un libro sumamente interesante, informativo y conmovedor que debe ser le do por cada pastor, seminarista, misionero y estudiante sincero de la Biblia; tanto cristiano como jud o por igual.

Recent critical studies of late modernism have explored the changing sense of both history and artistic possibility that emerged in the years surrounding World War II. However, relatively little attention has been devoted to the impact of poets' theological deliberations on their visions of history and their poetic strategies. Divine Cartographies: God, History, and Poiesis in W. B. Yeats, David Jones, and T. S. Eliot triangulates key texts as attempts to map theologically driven visions of the relation between history and eternity. W. David Soud considers several poems of Yeats's final and most fruitful engagement with Indic traditions, Jones's The Anathemata, and Eliot's Four Quartets. For these three poets, working at the height of their powers, that project was inseparable from reflection on the relation between the individual self and God; it was also bound up with questions of theodicy, subjectivity, and the task of the poet in the midst of historical trauma. Drawing on the fields of Indology, theology, and history of religions as well as literary criticism, Soud explores in depth and detail how, in these texts, theology is poetics.

This title presents an analysis of 'messianism' in Continental philosophy, using a case study of Levinas to uncover its underlying philosophical intelligibility. There is no greater testament to Emmanuel Levinas' reputation as an enigmatic thinker than in his mediations on eschatology and its relevance for contemporary thought. Levinas has come to be seen as a principle representative in Continental philosophy - alongside the likes of Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno and Zizek - of a certain philosophical messianism, differing from its religious counterpart in being formulated apparently without appeal to any dogmatic content. To date, however, Levinas' messianism has not received the same detailed attention as other aspects of his wide ranging ethical vision. Terence Holden attempts to redress this imbalance, tracing the evolution of the messianic idea across Levinas' career, emphasising the transformations or indeed displacements which this idea undergoes in taking on philosophical intelligibility. He suggests that, in order to crack the enigma which this idea represents, we must consider not only the Jewish tradition from which Levinas draws inspiration, but also Nietzsche, who ostensibly would represent the greatest rival to the messianic idea in the history of philosophy, with his notion of the 'parody' of messianism. This groundbreaking series offers original reflections on theory and method in the study of religions, and demonstrates new approaches to the way religious traditions are studied and presented. Studies published under its auspices look to clarify the role and place of Religious Studies in the academy, but not in a purely theoretical manner. Each study will demonstrate its theoretical aspects by applying them to the actual study of religions, often in the form of frontier research.

Challenging Bruce McCormack's paradigm of post-Kantian Barth scholarship, this book builds on the interpretative model that Sigurd Baark developed in 2018. This model interprets Barth's innovative adoption of an Anselmian mode of theological speculation, against the intellectual-historical background of the idealist tradition of speculative metaphysics that culminated in Hegel. This book argues that Barth adopted the Anselmian mode of speculation in which immediate self-identity between subject, object, and act is found in the triune God alone, while the speculative identity that enables human knowledge of God is none other than the identity between God-in-and-for-Godself and God-for-us. Exploring the nationalistic dimension of speculative metaphysics in 19th-century Germany, Tseng identifies this as an important aspect of the context of Barth's development of a Christocentric form of speculative theology.