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Publication Date
2009
Physical Desc
ix, 226 p.
Description
Drawing on the irregularity of God's speech event, and based on the profound knowledge of philosophy and religious tradition in East Asia, an attempt is creatively undertaken to construct Asian irregular and systematic theology which means a new paradigm shift proposing cross-cultural theology of inculturation and emancipation.
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Publication Date
2009
Physical Desc
xvi, 442 p.
Description
At the beginning of the new millennium, the Christian Churches are in a process of renewal. The Roman Catholic Church, since Vatican II, has been in a major stage of renewal. Contemporary globalization, multi-cultural interrelationships, and inter-religious dialogues have presented serious challenges to these renewal efforts. In this volume, I want to offer to the Catholic Renewal and from there to other denominational renewals, a view of the church...
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Publication Date
2010
Physical Desc
xii, 358 p.
Description
Migration has long been associated with the social sciences. However, as a phenomenon that provides windows into possibly new forms of oppression and, at the same time, paths toward human liberation a systematic theological look at contemporary migration is long overdue. Building on the emerging interest on migration in theology this book presents an intercultural theology of migration drawn from the experience of Filipino women domestic workers in...
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Publication Date
2011
Physical Desc
xx, 426 p.
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Drawing on Nietzsche's challenge to the western tradition, this book is a theological exploration of cruelty in its personal, communal and institutional encounters in human life. Cruelty undermines care, trust, respect and justice, and its study opens a window into the theological possibility of reconciliation today.
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Publication Date
2012
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vii, 345 p.
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This book argues that an approach to Buddhist-Christian dialogue where biblical texts are analyzed by placing Christian and Buddhist perspectives side by side is a method which provides a good platform for further in-depth dialogue.
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Publication Date
2012
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xx, 301 p.
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This project at the interface of Buddhist-Christian studies, comparative theology, and Christian systematic theology proceeds by way of exploring questions related to the presence and activity of the Holy Spirit in a 21st century world of many faiths.
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Publication Date
2013.
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1 online resource (275 pages)
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In A New Apophaticism Susannah Ticciati draws on Augustine to develop an apophatic theology for the twenty-first century. The central hypothesis is that God-language has the purpose of transforming human beings into better signs of God.
12) Proverbs and the African tree of life: grafting Biblical proverbs on to Ghanaian Eve folk proverbs
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Publication Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (214 pages).
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Studies in systematic theology (Leiden Netherlands) volume Volume 15
Publication Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (433 pages).
Description
In Ubuntu, Migration and Ministry Elina Hankela engages with the socio-moral meanings of ubuntu (Nguni: humanness/humanity) in contemporary Johannesburg drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at the Central Methodist Mission, a Johannesburg inner-city church that has been re-shaped in the face of international migration.
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Studies in systematic theology (Leiden Netherlands) volume 20
Studies in systematic theology (Leiden Netherlands) volume Volume 20
Studies in systematic theology (Leiden Netherlands) volume Volume 20
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (224 pages).
Description
Aquinas' theology can be understood only if one comes to grips with his metaphysics of being. The relevance of this perspective is exhibited in his treatment of topics like creation, goodness, happiness, truth, freedom of the will, the unity of the human being, prayer and providence, God's personhood, divine love, God and violence, God's unknowablility, the Incarnation, the Trinity, God's existence, theological language and even laughter. This book...
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Studies in systematic theology volume Volume 21
Studies in systematic theology (Leiden Netherlands) volume 21
Studies in systematic theology (Leiden Netherlands) volume 21
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (248 pages).
Description
"In From Laws to Liturgy, Edward Epsen offers a constructive account of what God produces in the act of creation and how it is ontologically ordered and governed. Inspired by the philosophy of Bishop Berkeley (18th century), Epsen proposes that the physical world is produced by the way God ordains the course of possible human sensations, with angels executing the divine ordinances. Idealism is here re-attached to a tradition of Christian Platonism,...
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Publication Date
[2021]
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1 online resource (353 pages).
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"In Learning the Language of Scripture, Mark Randall James offers a new account of theological interpretation as a sapiential practice of learning the language of Scripture, drawing on recently discovered Homilies on the Psalms by the influential early theologian Origen of Alexandria (2nd-3rd c. C.E). Widely regarded as one of the most arbitrary interpreters, James shows that Origen's appearance of arbitrariness is a result of the modern tendency...
