Religion: general Books

This volume focuses on Schleiermacher's anthropology and aesthetics. It offers contributions from the Wittenberg Schleiermacher Symposia of 2019 and 2020 as well as other thematically relevant texts in a concentrated form and spans an arc between...

This interdisciplinary study introduces readers to Friedrich Schleiermacher's diverse pathways of reflection and creative practice that are related to the field of translation. By drawing attention to Schleiermacher's various writings on a range of...

Is there a language of transcendence which does not fall under the well-worn categories of monism, theism, pantheism, biblical or pagan monotheism, personal or tripersonal God, or an impersonal absolute, conceived as immanent and/or transcendent? The...

The formation of the European nation states was deeply affected by the Reformation processes during the 16th century. In order to understand today's Europe, it is necessary to come to terms with the historical processes that shaped these emerging nation...

Das umfangreiche Briefkorpus, das unter dem Namen Isidors von Pelusium überliefert ist und sich in der ersten Hälfte des fünften Jahrhunderts verorten lässt, ist bis heute wenig erforscht. Die Arbeit geht von den Einleitungsfragen zur Textüberlieferung,...

The complex matter of Orphism has so far been addressed by scholars through studies focusing on one of its components each time, primarily the Derveni Papyrus and the Gold Tablets while the text of the Orphic Rhapsodies has remained under-examined mostly...

In seiner Unterscheidung von Lüge und Wahrheit summiert Theodoret von Kyros, der wichtigste theologische Opponent Kyrills von Alexandrien während der christologischen Streitigkeiten des fünften Jahrhunderts, seine theologische Lebensleistung in doppelter...

Transregional and regional elites of various backgrounds were essential for the integration of diverse regions into the early Islamic Empire, from Central Asia to North Africa. This volume is an important contribution to the conceptualization of the...

Das Neue Testament, meistkommentierter Text der Welt, steckt voller Rechtsfälle und -begriffe, die wider Erwarten noch keine fachkundige Behandlung erfahren haben. Die letzten Gelehrten, die sowohl zum Recht wie im Neuen Testament publizierten, schrieben...

Konon von Bidana ist der Apostel der rauhen Landschaft Isaurien: Nachdem Paulus gescheitert ist, kommt das Evangelium Christi durch Konon, einen Dorfbewohner aus dem Taurosgebirge, der kaum Griechisch spricht, dafür aber die einheimische Sprache, zu den...

Literature, images, and metaphor are often where most of a nation's history are embedded. A study of modern Kurdish literature highlights a fealty to a rich literary past and a rich source of historiography. The articles in this volume address many...

Throughout history, the study of sacred texts has focused almost exclusively on the content and meaning of these writings. Such a focus obscures the fact that sacred texts are always embodied in particular material forms-from ancient scrolls to...

So far religion has been seen as cause for dramatic developments in the history of cities, it has contributed to the monumentalisation of centres and or has given importance to ex-centric places. Very recently, anthropologists have been discovering...

Den Kern des Buches bilden Beiträge des 3. internationalen Wortkshops „Coptica - Gnostica - Mandaica", der im Herbst 2017 in Prag stattfand. In ihnen werden mit Blick auf Wirkung und Rezeption biblischer Texte in außerbiblischem Kontext jüngste...

The study of the growth of early Christian intellectual life is of perennial interest to scholars. This volume advances discussion by exploring ways in which Christian writers in the second century did not so much draw on Hellenistic intellectual...

The Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies mirrors the annual activities of visiting fellows, staff, and affiliates of the Maimonides Centre of Advanced Studies-Jewish Scepticism, Universität Hamburg. Its main section contains scholarly...

The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The...

This exploration of the Judean priesthood's role in agricultural cultivation demonstrates that the institutional reach of Second Temple Judaism (516 BCE-70 CE) went far beyond the confines of its houses of worship, while exposing an unfamiliar aspect of...

Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) was a pastor whose ministry coincided with the revitalization of the English Calvinistic Baptist denomination of which he was a distinguished member. He was a pathbreaking theologian, apologist, and spiritual biographer, who...

To date, scholars have skilfully discussed aspects of Polqar's thought, and yet none of the existing studies offers a comprehensive examination that covers Polqar's thought in its entirety. This book aims to fill this lacuna by tracing and...

This book reconstructs the legacy of Korean minjung theology by reformulating its essential ideas in a dialogue with process thought. In a minimal sense, this study is a theological reinterpretation of the doctrine of the minjung messiah, an idea which...

This book analyses T. F. Torrance's theology of incarnation. His theology is built upon several crucial presuppositions. This book examines these presuppositions and their role within the framework of Torrance's theology. It explores its unitary...

This is a book for anyone seeking a way out of deadlock in Church conflict situations. In employing a contemplative approach to the conflict in the Anglican Communion, it shows how relationships can be rebuilt with affection leading to trust. The author...

This book demonstrates a number of approaches made by biblical scholars to find a theology of the Christian Scripture. It then considers attempts to bridge the gap between exegesis and dogmatics by appeal to the discipline of 'fundamental theology' and...

If a plant grows with shallow roots, the storms of a season will wither away and uproot it; like a house built on sand, a poor foundation will doom its fate. But this isn't a book on botany, nor on architecture; foundations, good roots, are essential to...

In an interview that he gave in 2011, historian Mark Noll related how an African scholar had once told him that Western historians needed "to get the Holy Spirit back" into their writing of history. Western historians have been so focused on a multitude...

The name of the eighteenth-century Baptist minister James Hinton (1761-1823) is not one that is well-known by any standard, even to those who specialize in the study of English Baptist history. Yet, along with his friends Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) and...

The Journal of Andrew Fuller Studies is an open access, peer-reviewed, scholarly biannual journal. It contains articles that deal with the life, ministry, and thought of the Baptist pastor-theologian Andrew Fuller. You will also find many...

The very different meanings of the rainbow symbol in our world reflect a fundamental worldview divide. Understanding how our view of homosexuality is linked to our view of spirituality and to our view of God will help us see the deep theological...

In a day when the polar opposite world views are endlessly hostile, confrontational and seemingly intent on eliminating each other from public dialogue and discourse of each's particular views of life, this is a book on how we Christians should respond...

People have reported encounters with God since the beginning of recorded history. Visitations gave rise to every major religion, influencing the hearts and minds of billions of believers. These powerful events are part of the human record, but it is...

St. Anselm in the twelfth Century said, "I do not seek understanding in order to have faith, but faith leads me to seek understanding." The same was true for many of the Old Testament writers such as Joshua, Samuel, Jeremiah, Daniel and Ezra. And the...

The Bible and politics unite in a new non-fiction book which discovers that finding the answers to the Biblical mysteries leads to understanding that politics and the Bible must come together for our country of freedom to survive.Hidden within the Bible...

In 2015, two convicted murderers escaped from maximum security Clinton Prison in Dannemora, New York.  After three weeks on the run, one inmate was apprehended - - the other shot dead.Gaining nation-wide attention, Ben Stiller pitches the idea to...

This book attempts to explain why Christianity, as a movement, never tolerated dissent, either externally or internally, making it one of the bloodiest forces for totalitarianism in history. Much of the book’s 540,000 words, in two volumes, are...

Over the millennia, much of the Judeo-Christian population has fallen into a comfortable, familiar relationship with the Creator of the Universe. We have come a very long way from the time when He gave Moses very specific instructions that His name was...

Because of one verse in the Holy Bible that God says, many people find themselves embroiled in conflict over this verse and the image of Jesus they have formed in their mind. I never knew one verse could cause so much controversy. I believe to be a true...

For over 2,000 years, Christian women have struggled with inequities between the genders. This certainly has been true in matters religious. Christian women have shown ethical, moral and spiritual strength, while being deprived of leadership or power...

Many people the world over are vexed at the alleged blatant and unbridled corrupt practices engaged in by Politicians and other public officials in their respective governments. Many are lamenting over these corrupt practices with mixed feelings of...

The Old Testament Poem Book has fifty poems that are each accompanied by an illustration that people of all ages can enjoy. So this book tells the story of the old testament in a way that's never been done before and it's perfect for bible study classes...

Western civilization is coming to an end. There is a hunger for catastrophe in the air. What this coming catastrophe looks like depends on your cultural conditioning. In Conundrums of the End, author Albert Krueger offers a spiritual guidebook examining...

In his book, Considering Wisdom, author Michael Copple gently and lovingly reveals the beginning of wisdom and the Source of wisdom as he delves into controversial subjects with great anticipation of joining and reasoning together with those who've been...