Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Theology - History

Fifty years after his death in 1965 the essays in this collection return to Paul Tillich to investigate his theology and its legacy, with a focus on contemporary British scholarship. Originating in a conference held in Oxford in 2014, the book contains 16 original contributions from a mixture of junior and more established scholars, most of whom have a connection to Britain.

The contributions are diverse, but four themes emerge throughout the volume. Several essays are concerning with a characterisation of Tillich's theology. In dialogue with recent emphases on the radical Tillich,...

Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buchs stehen drei Redeereignisse auf dem Wormser Reichstag von 1521. Erstmals werden Anklage, Verteidigung und Aburteilung Martin Luthers als rhetorischer Zusammenhang untersucht. Hat Luther seine beruhmte Rede wirklich mit dem Ausruf "Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders " geschlossen? Was hat die "sola scriptura"-Forderung mit Luthers merkwurdigen Nachverhandlungen in Worms zu tun? Gehort das alles zur Renaissance und zum Beginn der Neuzeit?

Es tritt ein Komplex von Kommunikationsmanahmen um Luthers PR-Team und um seine eigenen rhetorischen Interaktionen...

Includes a foreword by Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Cappadocian fathers of the fourth century--Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory Nazianzen--produced thoughts on the Trinity, the creation, the incarnation, the holistic reading of scripture and the discipline of the soul which are playing a more seminal role in Christian theology today that at any time in the last four hundred years. Too often, however, their teachings are appropriated in a piecemeal manner, with no acknowledgement of their mutual interdependence.

In this comprehensive...

The period covered by this book (AD 381–451) is the first in which the church can be said to have exercised a dominant role in political history. For some it is the period in which the church lost its innocence. Yet without the innovations of Constantine and his successors, it is hard for us to imagine what Christianity might have been. Without this time of consolidation and increasing conformity, Europe would not have existed as we now know it—nor, for that matter, would Islam.

It is one of Whitworth’s merits to show that the great doctrinal formulae which we owe...

The period covered by this book (AD 381-451) is the first in which the church can be said to have exercised a dominant role in political history. For some it is the period in which the church lost its innocence. Yet without the innovations of Constantine and his successors, it is hard for us to imagine what Christianity might have been. Without this time of consolidation and increasing conformity, Europe would not have existed as we now know it--nor, for that matter, would Islam.

It is one of Whitworth's merits to show that the great doctrinal formulae which we owe to this epoch...

Theology is perhaps the most serious study in the world. That is, it was. Now I have spoiled everything with this marvelous and unfathomably fantastic little book. In it, you’ll laugh, or at least smirk violently through the crazy history of the Christian way of thinking about things. There are pictures and jokes and awful puns and outrageous facts and truly wonderful things to learn about—things only theology people usually know. But now you can too! Theology has never been so easy!