In this helpful survey Pheme Perkins addresses: The origins of Gnosticism The search for pre-Christian Gnosticism Gnosticism and Judaism Gnostic materials and the sayings of Jesus Gnosis and the Pauline tradition Redeemer myths and New Testament hymns Gnostic understandings of Jesus as heavenly revealer The place of ......
In this important contribution to the scholarly study of Egyptian Gnosticism, Pearson situates Gnosticism in its historical context and describes its manifold relationships to Judaism, early Christianity, and ancient Platonism. Birger Pearson gives special attention to the controversial issue of the impact of Gnosticism on early Egyptian ......
This brief tour through three thousand years of religious history shows how the Christian doctrine of God evolved in response to tensions within the insights of monotheism.
God-The World's Future has been a proven textbook in systematic theology for over twenty years. This third edition is explicitly crafted to address our postmodern context and explains the whole body of Christian historical doctrine from within a "proleptic" framework.
The God of the Past and the God of the Future as Seen in the Work of K
Karl Barth is recognized throughout the world as the twentieth century's leading Protestant theologian. His thought has determined much of the shape of today's Christian thinking, yet it is thoroughly misunderstood. He is a systematic theologian who writes with great complexity and in a scholastic vein. This fine and lucid study isolates ......
Pope Francis has stated that his own vocation as a Christian came to him as an awareness that "God is ahead of us," that God thinks about us and looks after us before we even realize it. This book is an introduction and exploration of that story - of the Christian life as not about humans looking for God, but God seeking us out.
The question of God and Cosmology raises the deepest questions of human existence: "Why is there something rather than nothing?" Or, to put it more personally, "Why am I here?"
Professor Hall has written a major work on an agonizing subject, at once brilliant, comprehensive, and thought provoking. In contrast to many writers who gloss over one or the other, Dr. Hall is true both to the reality of suffering and to the affirmation that God creates, sustains, and redeems. Creative is his view that certain aspects of ......
Paul O'Callaghan is professor of Christian anthropology and director of the Department of Dogmatic Theology and of the Center for Priestly Training at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, as well as a member of the Governing Board of the Pontifical Academy of Theology.
