Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Theology - Systematic

This book brings a variety of theological resources to bear on the now widespread effort to put humility in its proper place. In recent years, an assortment of thinkers have offered competing evaluations of humility, so that its moral status is now more contentious than ever. Like all accounts of humility, the one advanced in this study has to do with the proper handling of human limits.

What early Christian resources offer, and what discussions of the issue since the eighteenth century have often overlooked, is an account of the ways in which human limits are permeable, superable...

Popular author F. Belton Joyner has revised his best-selling resource for introducing the United Methodist Church. In a humorous yet respectful style, Joyner takes the reader through illuminating questions and answers on United Methodist terms and beliefs on God, Jesus, the Bible, the church, salvation, and more. Examples of Joyner's questions include "Why did Jesus have to die?" "Who was John Wesley, and who were all those other figures?" "Is the Bible infallible?" "What is The Book of Discipline?" This revised edition includes new sections on United Methodism as a global church, United...

Although Heidegger was aware of On Trinity, the claim is not that he writes under its influence. Rather, Manchester moves from the temporal problematic of Being and Time to the psychological explication of the human image of God in On Trinity, schematized as memory, understanding, and will. Formal and phenomenological parallels allow interpretation of that psychological triad as a temporal problematic in the manner of Being and...

Hans Urs von Balthasar is an important figure on the landscape of 20th-century theology. While much has been written on his later work, less attention has been given to his early work. In this study Balthasar is presented in relation to the features of his time, to his cultural, sociopolitical, ecclesial and theological contexts.

With the dawn of the new millennium, the traditional understanding of Who God is and the historic understanding of how He is experienced are being shaped, reshaped, and shifted devastatingly by tumultuous theological and philosophical winds as truth is cast about in spiritual chaos. In the storm center of swirling spiritual confusion stands the post-modern church and, under her umbrella, the people who will shape both the ontological and existential truth for the next generation. With the destructive uprooting of once carefully sown biblical understandings that were planted by pious hands,...