An Introduction to African American Religious History
This book provides an overview of African American religious history from the African traditional religions, slavery, the development of black churches, new black religious movements, and the Civil Rights movement to the emergence of black megachurches. It also examines issues and challenges facing the study of African American religion today.
Foundational Theology grounds foundational theology in the normative drive towards meaning, truth, goodness, and beauty, appropriated through religious, moral, intellectual, and psychic conversions. This work maps out the implications of those fundamental orientations to the specific questions and topics of the Catholic theological tradition.
Joshua W. Jipp is assistant professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. His recent publications include Divine Visitations and Hospitality to Strangers in Luke - Acts. Jipp also received the Paul J. Achtemeier Award for New Testament Scholarship for an earlier version of the second chapter from Christ is King.
John D. Caputo has a long career as one of the preeminent postmodern philosophers in America. Caputo now reflects on his spiritual journey from a Catholic altar boy in 1950s Philadelphia to a philosopher after the death of God. Part spiritual autobiography, part homily on what he calls the nihilism of grace, Hoping against Hope calls believers and ......
This book introduces the Pseudo-Dionysian "mystical theology," with glimpses at key stages in its interpretation and critical reception through the centuries. Part one provides commentary on the elusive Areopagite's own miniature essay, The Mystical Theology, while stages in the reception of this Greek corpus and theme are sketched in part two.
Understanding the Unique Perspective of the Fourth Gospel
Brian Neil Peterson offers a remarkable explanation for some of the most unusual features of John, including the early placement of Jesus' "cleansing" of the temple, the emphasis on "signs" confirming Jesus' identity, the prominence of Jesus' "I Am" sayings, and a number of others.
McRandal argues that the doctrinal narrative of creation, fall, and redemption provides resources to resolve the theological impasse of difference in contemporary feminist theology. The divine economy reveals a God who enters into history and destabilizes fixed binaries and oppressive categories.
Deals with the particular ways that the theological disciplines invite students to think but also the ways in which thinking theologically shapes a student's sense of self and his or her role in a wider community of belief and thought.
Restoring the First-Century Context to the Apostle
Features a group of renowned international scholars who seek to describe Paul and his work from "within Judaism," rather than on the assumption, still current after thirty years of the "New Perspective," that in practice Paul left behind aspects of Jewish living after his discovery of Jesus as Christ (Messiah).
