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This Companion serves as an essential guide to wisdom texts, a body of biblical literature with ancient origins that continue to have universal and timeless appeal. The twenty-two contributions provide a wide-ranging overview of biblical and non-biblical wisdom literature.

For students, teachers, lecturers, clergy and lay people who are curious about the gospels: why are there four gospels, not just one or more than four?; what is a gospel anyway?; what is the distinctive flavour of each gospel?; why have the gospels had such an impact down through history?; and what do scholars make of the gospels today?

This volume features an impressive array of leading biblical scholars and presents an illuminating and lively cross-section of this traditional field of study. Treating core topics and changing methodologies within twenty-three comprehensive chapters, this Companion provides an outstanding introduction to the historical origins and literary character of the canonical literature.

This Companion offers an overview of the beliefs, doctrines, and practices of the key philosophical concepts at the heart of Christian theology. Written in non-technical, accessible language, the chapters not only offer a synthesis of scholarship on these topics but also suggest questions and topics for further investigation.

This volume offers reliable information on new religions such as Scientology, the Moonies and Jihadist movements, including current theories regarding their status as complex cultural phenomena involving myths, rituals and canonical texts. An essential resource for students of religious studies, the history of religion, sociology and the psychology of religion.

This work is unique in treating Augustine's The City of God book by book in depth with expertise commentary. It will prove valuable to any student interested in Augustine and to any advanced scholar working with issues of theology, philosophy, cultural studies and political theory in the ancient world and today.

This work is unique in treating Augustine's The City of God book by book in depth with expertise commentary. It will prove valuable to any student interested in Augustine and to any advanced scholar working with issues of theology, philosophy, cultural studies and political theory in the ancient world and today.

An up-to-date, innovative, highly accessible introduction to Quaker studies, the first that is explicitly global in its authorship and giving full coverage of the different branches of Quakerism. Includes major sections on the history of Quaker faith and practice, expressions of Quaker faith, regional studies, and emerging spiritualities.

This accessible volume provides a concise overview of the development of contemporary Christian political theology and its key issues while making important critical and constructive contributions to the field. An invaluable resource for students and scholars in theology, it will also be beneficial to those in history, philosophy, and politics.

Devoting especial attention to questions of rationality, scriptural fidelity, and the construction of 'orthodoxy', this volume introduces key Muslim theories of revelation, creation, ethics, scriptural interpretation, law, mysticism, and eschatology. The treatment is firmly set in the historical, social and political context in which Islam's distinctive understanding of God evolved.

This collection of essays by historians, philosophers, scientists and theologians explores the impact of religion on the origins and development of science, religious reactions to Darwinism, and the link between science and secularization. It also offers in-depth discussions of contemporary issues, with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biology, psychology, and bioethics.

The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies is both informative and provocative, introducing readers to key debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggesting future research possibilities. Written by a group of distinguished scholars, the volume's essays should prove valuable and interesting to scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences.

This book provides the first complete guide to the present state of biblical studies. Intended for students and non specialists, this collection of twenty-one specially commissioned chapters covers all the methods and approaches currently practised in the academic study of the Bible, as well as examining the major categories of books in the Bible from the perspective of recent scholarship.

This Companion explores how the Christian doctrine of the Trinity has been understood and articulated in the last two thousand years. The Trinitarian theologies of key theologians are carefully examined, and the doctrine of the Trinity is brought into dialogue with different religions as well as with other Christian beliefs.

This Companion explores how the Christian doctrine of the Trinity has been understood and articulated in the last two thousand years. The Trinitarian theologies of key theologians are carefully examined, and the doctrine of the Trinity is brought into dialogue with different religions as well as with other Christian beliefs.

For students, teachers, lecturers, clergy and lay people who are curious about the gospels: why are there four gospels, not just one or more than four?; what is a gospel anyway?; what is the distinctive flavour of each gospel?; why have the gospels had such an impact down through history?; and what do scholars make of the gospels today?

Written by international experts, this Companion provides an authoritative and comparative study of miracles in the major world religions, as well as older, indigenous religions. The authors promote a discussion of the problems of miracles in our diverse and secular culture, and of the value of miracles in religious belief.

The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the theology and theologians of the Reformation period. Each chapter is written by a leading authority in the field and provides an up-to-date account and analysis of the thought associated with a major figure or movement.

This Companion incorporates the most up-to-date historical work on Jesus the Jew with the 'bigger issues' of critical method, the story of Christian faith and study, and Jesus in a global church and in the encounter with Judaism and Islam.

Dr McKim gathers an international array of major Calvin scholars, both historians and theologians, to present a full picture of Calvin's contexts, the major themes in Calvin's writings, and the ways in which his thought spread and has increasing importance today. This is an accessible introduction for specialists and non-specialists.

This authoritative Companion to the theologian Paul Tillich provides an accessible account of the major themes in his diverse theological writings. It embodies and develops recent renewed interest in Tillich's theology and reaffirms him as a major figure in today's theological landscape.

This book is a critical guide to the scholarly exploration of feminist theology. Firstly, it describes its main features and examines what its major concerns and questions have been. Secondly, it presents analyses of the essential matters of Christian doctrine written by those who have learned from feminist theology.

Known as the 'Father of modern theology' Friedrich Schleiermacher is without a doubt one of the most important theologians in the history of Christianity. This is the first book in English introducing readers to all the important aspects of Schleiermacher's thought in a systematic way.

This collection of essays by an internationally prominent group of scholars addresses themes central to the tradition of modern Jewish philosophy from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Included are essays on Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, Fackenheim, Soloveitchik, Strauss, and Levinas.

Following the same formula as other Cambridge Companions, this book is written by leading international experts in Christian ethics and is aimed at students on upper-level undergraduate courses, and at graduate students and teachers. Its eighteen chapters provide a comprehensive introduction to Christian ethics which is both authoritative and up-to-date.

This book provides an accessible yet stimulating introduction for new readers and non-specialists to the main themes of Christian doctrine. The fourteen specially commissioned essays from leading theologians in Britain and America document the variety, coherence and intellectual vitality of contemporary Christian thought.

This Companion serves as a guide for readers wanting to explore the thought and legacy of the great German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45). Its chapters, written by authors from differing national, theological and church contexts, provide an introduction to, and commentary on, Bonhoeffer's life, work and writing.

This Companion brings together a wide range of theologians both to outline and to assess the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988), one of the most prolific and creative theologians of the twentieth century who is just now coming to prominence.

Karl Rahner (1904-84) was one of the most significant theological voices of the twentieth century. This Cambridge Companion provides an accessible introduction to the main themes of Rahner's work and will be of interest to both students and scholars alike.

The collection offers a set of specially commissioned essays on the leading twentieth-century Protestant theologian Karl Barth, whose work is enjoying renewed attention. The essays introduce the major features of Barth's work and offer evaluations of his significance for contemporary Christian theology.