Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Theology

In the final years of his life, Emanuel Swedenborg wrote "True Christianity," an opus that served both to contextualize his theology within contemporary Christianity and to serve as a road map for the new spiritual age that would follow. This second volume covers topics such as freedom of choice, repentance, the transformation of a person s inner being during spiritual awakening, the rites of baptism and the Holy Supper (communion), and the second coming of the Lord.

This new translation is part of the New Century Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg, an ongoing project to...

The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics continues to be an essential resource for students and faculty pursuing the latest developments in Christian and religious ethics, publishing refereed scholarly articles as well as a professional resource section on teaching and scholarship in ethics--a preeminent source for further research. The Journal also contains book reviews of the latest scholarship available.

This book asks thequestion 'what is religion?' from a theological perspective. In an age in whichreligion has reasserted itself on national and international stages, Theology against Religion argues that weshould take seriously the critique of religion, and engage with that critiquetheologically. The book argues that theologizing the critique of religion wascentral to the theological purposes of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, andthat Barth and Bonhoeffer should be seen as traveling along the sametrajectory in terms of their theological approaches to religion. It is thistrajectory...

This book asks thequestion 'what is religion?' from a theological perspective. In an age in whichreligion has reasserted itself on national and international stages, Theology against Religion argues that weshould take seriously the critique of religion, and engage with that critiquetheologically. The book argues that theologizing the critique of religion wascentral to the theological purposes of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, andthat Barth and Bonhoeffer should be seen as traveling along the sametrajectory in terms of their theological approaches to religion. It is thistrajectory...

The concept of human personhood is central to theology and philosophy. It has also become crucial in interdisciplinary fields like bio-ethics and theology and science.

In this book leading European and American scholars explore the dimensions of personhood from scientific and theological perspectives. Contributors include Mary Midgely, Fraser Watts, Philip Hefner, Michael Welker, Dennis Bielfeldt and John A. Teske. This is an important collection and shows the extent to which the current dialogue between science and theology is no longer confined to discussing the relation of...