Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Jeder beginnt die Woche anders: Die einen springen montags putzmunter aus dem Bett. Die anderen drücken schlaftrunken die Schlummer-Taste am Wecker und sehnen sich nach dem nächsten Wochenende. Egal, welcher Typ Sie sind: Dieses Buch bietet kurze inspirierende Andachten für jeden Montag des Jahres. So können Sie die neue Woche mit ermutigenden Worten beginnen. Der tägliche Bibelvers hilft, die Gedanken auf Gott auszurichten und sich mit Freude...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding." -Proverbs 4:7 (NIV) When a man's life embodies the pursuit of wisdom, it bears among its fruits the deep love and respect of his family, friends, and colleagues. Bruce K. Waltke is such a man. Wisdom has defined Dr. Waltke, both as one of his personal qualities and as the core of his many years of biblical study, invoking the highest efforts of his formidable...
Author
Language
Español
Description
"La corrupción ronda hoy con mucha fuerza en los laberintos de la sociedad latinoamericana y constituye una seria amenaza para el desarrollo sostenible, la ética, el buen gobierno y el imperio de la justicia. La gravedad del problema es tal que distorsiona y erosiona la eficiencia y el principio de equidad en la asignación de recursos en el gasto público, revela una profunda crisis de valores, justifica la tolerancia de los actos corruptos, promueve...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this straightforward and authoritative collection of fifteen essays-each by a different, specialized expert in the field-readers will encounter all the major elements of Islam, including its history, its beliefs, its practices, and its interactions, notably with Christianity, Judaism, and the modern world. Islam: A Short Guide to the Faith will inform and enlighten all who wish to better understand this increasingly influential world religion.
Contributors:
•...
Author
Language
English
Description
Editors Mary Elizabeth Moore and Almeda M. Wright address the harsh, challenging, and delicate realities of children and youth-who live as spiritual beings within a beautiful yet destructive world. Providing a practical theological analysis of the spiritual yearnings, expressions, and challenges of children and youth in a world of rapid change, dislocation, violence, and competing loyalties, Children, Youth, and Spirituality in a Troubling World provides...
Author
Language
English
Description
This provocative collection of papers from an international array of theologians explores the Christian doctrine of the Trinity in the context of twentieth-century cultural and religious pluralism.
How should Christians think about their faith in relation to other faiths and in relation to culture in general? Can the Trinity fit into a global religion? These essays - originally presented at the Fifth Edinburgh Dogmatic Conference - show how a...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary was established in admiration of Kuyper, whose life as pastor, theologian, journalist, and politician remarkably exemplifies how confidence in the truth of a Christian worldview can be expressed in both theory and practice. The chapters in this book were originally presented at the annual Kuyper Conferences of 2009 and 2010 and are inspired by the themes of those conferences:...
Author
Language
English
Description
God's Rottweiler or shepherd of the faithful?
There's no doubt about Benedict XVI's theological legacy. He's been at the center of every major theological controversy in the Catholic Church over the last fifty years. But he remains a polarizing figure, misunderstood by supporters and opponents alike.
A deeper understanding of Benedict's theology reveals a man dedicated to the life and faith of the church. In this collection of essays, prominent...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Second volume of an exciting new series exploring global theology. Though the global center of Christianity has been shifting south and east over the past few decades, very few theological resources have dealt with the seismic changes afoot. The Majority World Theology series seeks to remedy that lack by gathering well-regarded Christian thinkers from around the world to discuss the significance of Christian teaching in their respective contexts.
The...
Author
Language
English
Description
This volume offers constructive and contextual theological discussions that uphold Christian teaching and beliefs to promote a life with dignity in the African continent, based on practical theological beliefs. The authors discuss different thematic topics among which issues of health and healing that are pertinent in Africa and have perpetuated misleading theologies. The book also addresses issues of wealth and poverty in the context of faith, which...
Author
Language
English
Description
Throughout the last century theologians gave great attention to the doctrine of the Trinity, and succeeded in restoring it to a central place in Christian thought. But as they highlighted the novelty of the revolutionary new trinitarianism, a number of generalizations and simplifications crept into the discussion: a contrast between a supposed "Eastern" view versus a "Western" view; a social and perichoretic foundation for divine unity; and considerable...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
En el contexto de la actualización del espíritu del concilio Vaticano II en este pontificado, nace la experiencia del primer Encuentro iberoamericano de Teología celebrado en Boston en 2017. De la mano de los teólogos Rafael Luciani, Carlos María Galli, Juan Carlos Scannone SJ y Félix Palazzi, más de cuarenta teólogos y pastoralistas han discernido sobre los ejes que caracterizan este momento trascendental: las relaciones de exclusión, la...
Author
Language
Español
Description
¡Quinientos años no se cumplen todos los días! Con la publicación de este libro, la Asociación para la Educación Teológica Hispana (AETH) se une a la conmemoración de los 500 años de la Reforma protestante. En este proyecto ha participado un equipo de reconocidos líderes cristianos de América Latina y el Caribe, con amplia trayectoria docente y, en general, en el quehacer teológico contextual y la tarea pastoral. Pero conmemorar no es...
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Es gibt ein wirksames Mittel gegen den Montagsblues! In diesem Buch finden Sie erfrischende Impulse für jeden Montag des Jahres. So können Sie ermutigt und inspiriert in die neue Woche starten.
Autorinnen wie Valerie Lill, Saskia Barthelmeß, Elisabeth Büchle, Nelli Bangert und Ellen Nieswiodek-Martin laden mit lebensnahen Beispielen dazu ein, den Alltag positiv und abwechslungsreich zu gestalten. Jeder Andacht liegt ein Bibelvers zugrunde, der...
Author
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is widely acknowledged as one of the most brilliant religious thinkers and multifaceted figures in American history. A fountainhead of modern evangelicalism, Edwards wore many hats during his lifetime-theologian, philosopher, pastor and town leader, preacher, missionary, college president, family man, among others.
With nearly four hundred entries, this encyclopedia provides a wide-ranging perspective on Edwards,...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Si queremos que nuestro mensaje cristiano impacte en el entorno social del siglo XXI, necesitamos construir un puente entre los dos milenios que la turbulenta historia del pensamiento cristiano abarca. Urge recuperar las raíces históricas de nuestra fe y exponerlas en el entorno actual como garantía de un futuro esperanzador. Dar a conocer al mundo cristiano actual las obras de los grandes autores cristianos de los siglos i al v es el objeto de...
Author
Language
English
Description
Recent Developments in Trinitarian Theology explores the major renaissance that Trinitarian theology has undergone in recent decades. Remarkably, all the main Christian denominations have participated in this, and contemporary Trinitarian theology is a discussion that often crosses over confessional boundaries.
English-language theology plays an important role in the renewal of Trinitarian theology and that role is the focus of this symposium. Its...
Author
Language
English
Description
Throughout history, Christians have found the summary of their faith in the three ancient creeds. The God We Proclaim explores that faith as it is found in the shortest of them: the Apostles' Creed. The contributors are among Britain's foremost Christian communicators and teachers.
Written with an infectious enthusiasm for theology, The God We Proclaim is ideal for anyone seeking to understand the Christian faith, either individually, or in a church...
Author
Language
English
Description
MLK and the Practice of Spirituality
The scholarship on Martin Luther King Jr. is seriously lacking in terms of richly nuanced and revelatory treatments of his spirituality and spiritual life. This book addresses this neglect by focusing on King's life as a paradigm of a deep, vital, engaging, balanced, and contagious spirituality. It shows that the essence of the person King was lies in the quality of his own spiritual journey and how that translated...
Author
Language
English
Description
The "culture story" of evangelicalism during the second half of the twentieth century has been well told. It is important now to think about the theological mission of the church in an ever-increasing post-Christian and post-partisan context. What is the theologian's calling at the beginning of the third millennium? How do global realities impact the mission of evangelical theology? What sense can be made of the unity of evangelical theology in light...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request