Being Deified examines the importance of deification to Christian theology and the place of human creativity in deification. This volume utilizes the work of fantasy writers and poets in order to show the importance of these genres for theology in general and for their importance in human deification.

Encountering Reality argues for a new appreciation of T. F. Torrance on epistemology and reality. Torrance emphasizes the distinction between truth and truthfulness, reorienting the discussion from a focus on statements to being. This shift challenges the dichotomy between correspondence and coherence theories of truth.

Most studies of Athanasius on the Holy Spirit have concentrated on his Letters to Serapion on the Holy Spirit. In this book, Kevin Douglas Hill looks at his earlier writing and argues that without that earlier work he would not have been prepared to confess the Holy Spirits divine nature and role in creating the world.

The Gift of Love builds upon recent scholarship and reads Augustines De Trinitate as a rational study of the limits of theological language and the possibility of knowing the Trinity because of those limits

This book explores why the metaphor of the church as a family is insufficient. Taking up Arendt's notions of action and her criticism of privatization, the author examines community, relation, and human subjects through the work of Bonhoeffer and Staniloae.

This study argues that mission as accompaniment has not yet offered an adequate response to mechanistic dehumanization. It argues further that two additional elements-the African concept of Ubuntu, and an Olive Agenda- will better equip church companions to respond more effectively to mechanistic dehumanization.

Karl Barth, particularly his thought on election, Christology, and reconciliation, offers much wisdom and insight for the churches of the majority world and for these ethnic churches. Hence, this study is a contribution to the development of a connection between Barth and contextual theology, to the stimulation and enrichment of both.

Karl N. Jacobson identifies the Psalms of Asaph (Pss. 50, 73-83) as containing cultic historiography, historical narratives written for recitation in worship, and explores them through mnemohistory, attending to how the past is remembered and to the rhetorical function of recitation in the cultic setting.

Two Kingdoms & Two Cities lays out the recent trends in Christian political theology and their connections to past traditions. In particular, the recent emergence of "two kingdoms" and "two cities" approaches to Christian social thinking are shown to have a key-and often unacknowledged-connection to Luther's reshaping of the Augustinian paradigm.

This book's central claim is that a close reading of Augustine's epistemology can assist political theologians in developing affirmative accounts of political liberalism.