Bücher der Reihe Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies

Explores the construction of Christian identity in fourth and fifth centuries through inventing, fabricating and sharpening binary oppositions. Discussing the relations and interaction between pagan and Christian cultures, this book examines how the Christian argumentation against pagans was intertwined with self-perception and self-affirmation.

Being divine seems to entail being omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent, but the New Testament portrays Jesus as having human properties. It seems logically impossible that any single individual could possess such mutually exclusive sets of properties.

This book advances that history by exploring stories, images and discourses across a worldwide range of geographical, cultural and confessional contexts. Its twelve authors enrich our understanding of the significance of the contextual method and produce a new range of original ways of doing theology in contemporary situations.

This book demonstrates how discussions of Political Theology have been a constant feature throughout philosophical modernity and that they continue to impact contemporary political debates.

Explores the Pentecostal and charismatic movements, tracing their development and their variety. This book shows how these movements of the Holy Spirit, both outside the mainline churches and as renewal currents within the churches, can be understood as mutually challenging and as complementary.

Examines the presuppositions that underlie authority in the five largest Churches in England - the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church, the Methodist Church, the United Reformed Church and the Baptist Union. This book explores the contributions of Scripture, Roman Legal Theory, and Greek Philosophy.

Explores the recurrent tension between scholarly approaches to the translation and interpretation of the Bible, and the authority of the Church and the place of the Bible in the life of the Church.

Develops an account of the sphere of human moral action in sustained dialogue with Jurgen Moltmann. Examining God's role as promise-giver, particularly in the Christian understanding of resurrection, this work describes the occupancy of both history and space in moral terms.

Soren Kierkegaard wrote that Pietism is 'the one and only consequence of Christianity'. This study of Kierkegaard's relation to the Pietist movement not only establishes Pietism as a formative influence on his life and thinking, but also sheds light on crucial Kierkegaardian concepts, from the importance of 'upbuilding' to the imitation of Christ.

This book provides a comprehensive study on the proclamation of holy scriptures as an enacted celebration, as well as its function as a performance within sacralized theatrical spaces.

The central thesis of this book is that putting the work of Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian realism in dialogue with contemporary virtue theory is a profitable undertaking. .

This book seeks to remedy this deficiency through a breadth of reflection upon human resilience from canonical biblical and Christian theological sources.

This book takes a multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary approach to religion, religiosity and theology from their earliest beginnings to the present day.

This book deals with the intellectual aspects of having diverse religious expressions in proximity and the socio-political consequences. It provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on this complex subject.

This volume is a response to Pope Francis¿s environmental encyclical Laudato Si¿.

The growth of the "nones" and those who describe themselves as "spiritual but not religious" creates a pressing need for theological thinking not bound by prescribed doctrines and fixed rituals. This book responds to this vital need.

This book focuses on recognition and its relation to religion and theology, in both systematic and historical dimensions. Exploring early Christian and Medieval sources on recognition and religion, it also offers contemporary applications of this underexplored combination.

Emphasizes the integral connections between imagination, creativity, and spirituality and their role in healing. This work highlights the work of a neglected yet important psychoanalyst, Marion Milner - a painter and undeclared mystic - expanding her work on creativity, mysticism, and mental health.

Presenting an accessible introduction to the contemporary issues and challenges facing all those engaged in the further development of inter-faith relationships, dialogue and partnership between the world religions, Pitman argues that the future of world peace and prosperity depends on the outcome.

Pannenberg on Evil, Love and God examines a much neglected aspect of the theological thought of one of the most original contemporary German theologians, Wolfhart Pannenberg: his theological and philosophical understanding of evil and its relationship to the love of God. The book seeks to correct a widely held misconception that in his theology.

Offers and explores the synoptic healing stories as a relevant biblical paradigm for Dalit theology in order to help redress the lacuna between Dalit theology and the social practice of the Indian Church.

This book examines the significance of religion in the work of the Twentieth-Century philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin, Exploring Bakhtin's contribution to debates on methodology in the study of religion.

Why does God permit the great suffering and evil that we see in our world? This book intends to answer this basic question of human existence. It explores the mystery of evil in the context of the mystery of the Trinity. It discusses God's permission of evil and the way in which suffering can lead human persons into the life of the Trinity.

Cassian intended the scriptures and, implicitly, the Conferences to be the voices of authority and orthodoxy in the Gallic environment. This book explores Cassian's use of scripture in the Conferences, especially its biblical models to convey his understanding of the desert ideal to the monastic communities of Gaul.

A prolific author and thinker, Stanley J Grenz was a respected and influential figure. This work examines the main traits of postmodern thought that would seem to directly challenge how evangelical theology is traditionally done. It presents an examination of the seminal influences on Grenz.