Religion & Theologie

Liberia Will Rise Again

Arthur Kulah

Theology: A Very Short Introduction

David Ford

This Very Short Introduction provides both believers and non-believers with a balanced survey of the central questions of contemporary theology. David Ford's interrogative approach draws the r...

Theological Aesthetics

Richard Viladesau

Saffron Wave

Thomas Blom Hansen

The rise of strong nationalist and religious movements in postcolonial and newly democratic countries alarms many Western observers. In The Saffron Wave, Thomas Hansen turns our attention to recen...

Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology

Ostern als Thema der Göttinger Predigtmeditationen

Birgit Weyel

Wie kann der biblische Predigttext mit der gegenwärtigen Wirklichkeit, auf welche die Predigt zielt, in sachgemäßer Weise vermittelt werden? Diese für die Predigtarbeit grundlegende und komple...

Almighty over All

R. C. Jr. Sproul

Shamanism

Merete Demant Jakobsen†

<p> Shamanism has always been of great interest to anthropologists. More recently it has been "discovered" by westerners, especially New Age followers. This book breaks new ground by...

Eschatology

R. H. Charles

The classic study of the history of the development of Jewish and Christian eschatology. Charles superseded all predecessors with a fuller treatment of the Apocalypse and a deeper study of the Mes...

The Christian Ethic of War

P. T. Forsyth

This book turns on the centrality of a real atonement for the Christian revelation of moral redemption and public regeneration. The grace of God in Christ's cross is not a forensic device, but...

The Justification of God

P. T. Forsyth

Theodicy is the attempt to adjust the ways of God to conscience. But to the conscience of God above all. That is the way taken in this book. Its object is not to bring God's ways to the bar ei...

Protestantism and Progress

Ernst Troeltsch

Troeltsch seeks to determine how much the "Modern Spirit" of the early twentieth century actually owed to Protestantism. Troeltsch then proceeds to a comparison between the essential spiri...

A Compendious Syriac Dictionary

In this major reference tool, Jessie Payne Smith has abridged the great two-volume work, 'Thesaurus Syriacus,' by her late father. But her task was not to simply edit down the earlier, mas...

A Private and Public Faith

William Stringfellow

'A Private and Public Faith' is a heartfelt protest against the self-serving religiosity that characterizes so much of religion in contemporary American society, and which affects to such ...

The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible

Donald K. McKim / Jack Rogers

This book is a detailed and comprehensive study of attitudes toward biblical authority and interpretation held from the beginnings of the Christian era to the present day. In clear and readable fa...

Faith Alone

Early Christian Traditions

Rebecca Lyman

In this sixth volume of The New Church's Teaching Series, Rebecca Lyman introduces us to the world of the early church. Beginning with the Jewish, Greek, and Roman cultures in which the first ...

Living With History

Fredrica Harris Thompsett

Fredrica Harris Thompsett, a scholar of the English Reformation, introduces us to the role that history has played in creating and shaping the Episcopal Church as we know it today. In giving us th...

Mending the Heart

John Claypool

In three meditations John Claypool speaks eloquently of the wounds all of us carry through life-the wounds of grievance, guilt, and grief-and how they can be healed. The wound of grievance comes f...

Sabbath Keeping

Donna Schaper

The third in Cowley's Cloister Book series, Sabbath Keeping is a collection of ten meditations, each exploring a different aspect of keeping the sabbath and ending with a prayer. Since it is a...