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This book tells the story of Paul Tillich's early theological development from his student days until the end of the First World War, set against the backdrop of church politics in Wilhelmine Germany and with particular reference to his early sermons.
Eighteenth-century Methodism was a divisive phenomenon which attracted a torrent of printed opposition, especially from Anglican clergymen. Yet, most of these opponents have been virtually forgotten. Anti-Methodism and Theological Controversy in Eighteenth-Century England is the first large-scale examination of the theological ideas of early anti-Methodist authors.
Origen is frequently hailed as the most important Christian writer of his period. This book examines whether there was a system to Origen's thinking about prophecy.
In the first sustained account of the theological changes guiding the development of seventeenth-century Quakerism, Madeleine Pennington explores the Quakers' positive intellectual engagement with those outside the movement to offer a significant reassessment of the causal factors determining the development of early Quakerism.
This is the first in-depth study to analyse the highly developed theology of Maya throughout the Maya in the Bhagavata Purana. It focuses on Maya's identification with the divine feminine and analyses its relationship with other key concepts in the text, such as human suffering, devotion, and divine play.
This study analyses the commentaries of four Muslim intellectuals who have turned to scripture as a liberating text to confront an array of problems, from patriarchy, racism, and empire to poverty and interreligious communal violence.
This work argues that Jean-Paul Sartre's early philosophy had a notable inheritance from the Christian doctrine of original sin. With particular attention to Being and Nothingness, Kirkpatrick connects Sartre to an Augustinian tradition of Christian thought according to which nothingness enters the world with the creation of the human.
Heidegger's Eschatology is a ground-breaking account of Heidegger's early engagement with theology, from his beginnings as an anti-Modernist Catholic to his turn towards an undogmatic Protestantism and finally to a resolutely a-theistic philosophical method.
Luigi Gioia provides a fresh description and analysis of Augustine's monumental treatise, De Trinitate, working on a supposition of its unity and its coherence from structural, rhetorical, and theological points of view.
Encountering Eve's Alternative Afterlives: A New Reception Critical Approach to Genesis 2-4 offers an examination of interpretations and imaginings of Eve that challenge popular perceptions of her as the first femme fatale.
This study reassess how we read Chrysostom's sermons, with a particular focus on the stern language which permeated his preaching, and on which the image of the contrary congregation is largely based. In doing this, it recovers a neglected portrayal of Chrysostom as a pastor and of preaching as a pastoral and liturgical activity.
This innovative study argues that, as a pervasive dimension of human existence with theological implications, rhythm ought to be considered a category of theological significance.
This is the first in-depth study of the literary works of the sixteenth-century Sanskrit poet and theologian Kavikarnapura, one of the most important poets of the Vaisnava devotional tradition inspired by Sri Krsna Caitanya.
This book argues that a series of programmatic additions were made to the oracles concerning the nations in Isa 13-23 during the late-exilic period by the same circle of writers who were responsible for Isa 40-55. These additions were made to create continuity between the ancient oracles against the nations from the Isaiah tradition.
This study examines the Fourviere Jesuits and Le Saulchoir Dominicans, theologians and philosophers who comprised the influential reform movement the nouvelle theologie. Led by Henri de Lubac, Jean Danielou, Yves Congar, and Marie-Dominique Chenu, the movement flourished from the 1930s until its suppression in 1950.
This study examines the impact in mid- to late seventeenth-century England of the major contemporary religious controversy in France, which revolved around the formal condemnation of a heresy popularly called Jansenism.
This study examines the theology of the fourth-century bishop, Hilary of Poitiers, concentrating particularly on two commentaries written at different times in his life. The main focus of the study is on Hilary's anthropological theology.
Drawing on contemporary studies showing that maternal grief can be instrumental in societal change, this volume argues that this is also a facet in biblical studies. It discusses narratives that draw on maternal grief as a model or archetype in Ancient Near Eastern literature.
This study investigates the interpretation of passages involving the concept or practice of herem in the bible, which are identified as more problematic. The texts under consideration contain prima facie divine commands to commit genocide as well as descriptions of genocidal military campaigns commended by God.
This study considers the relationship of Deuteronomy 28 to the curse traditions of the ancient Near East. It focuses on the linguistic and cultural means of the transmission of these traditions to the book of Deuteronomy.
This study focuses on the embodiment theology of the South Indian theologian A. J. Appasamy (1891-1975). It argues for the distinctive theological voice of Appasamy, whose sacramental reading of the Gospel of John, influenced by Ramanuja (1017-1137), opens up new Christological and comparative possibilities.
This study explores the emergence of new activist Sufism in the Muslim world from the seventeenth century onwards.
This study explores how monasteries fulfilled their particular duty of intercessory prayer in the early Middle Ages. Focusing on the period of Carolingian Church reform, it analyses spiritual goals to which Frankish monastic life aspired and considers how these found reflection in contemporary liturgical practice.
This study examines the place of angels in the religious culture of Anglo-Saxon England with particular attention to individual devotion.
The work offers a comprehensive exploration of the moral vision of Didymus the Blind and concludes that it cannot easily be categorized as 'Alexandrian' theology.
This study considers the social and political aspects of Kierkegaard's authorship, building upon work over the last couple of decades. Dr Lappano focuses on Kierkegaard's writing between 1846 and 1852, the period of Kierkegaard's more explicitly politicized writing.
This study examines the life and work of George Errington, the Victorian Archbishop of Trebizond, who was one of the most prominent figures of nineteenth-century English Roman Catholicism. Dr James provides comprehensive investigation of some of the most divisive controversies in English Catholic history.
The book provides detailed analyses of Tillich's and Murdoch's accounts of love and the self, as well as of their respective interlocutors, with a special emphasis on their engagement with existentialism.
A study of concepts of freedom and necessity in relation to the Trinity in the work of three theologians: the Russian Orthodox Sergii Bulgakov (1871-1944), the Swiss Protestant Karl Barth (1886-1968), and the Swiss Roman Catholic Hans Urs von Balthasar (1908-1988).
The thesis develops resources in the work of Charles S. Pierce (1839-1914) for the purposes of contemporary philosophy.
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