Category: Theology

By John M. Frame

ISBN-10: 0875522637

ISBN-13: 9780875522630

The second one quantity of Frame's Theology of Lordship sequence; right here he examines the attributes and names of God in reference to a whole spectrum of suitable theological and moral truths.

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Review

"A excellent remedy that might be a regular paintings for many years. body stands within the nice Reformed culture . . . but in his remedy of the doctrine of God he surpasses all of them with an grand breadth of data and intensity of knowing. In each part body brings clean perception to outdated doctrines." --Wayne Grudem

"A meticulusly biblical, remarkably cogent, and powerfully remodeling presentation." --Richard L. Pratt Jr

"A pleasure to learn. it's an highbrow deal with. . . . Preachers and educational theologians will quickly count number it an critical tool." --Donald Macleod

From the Publisher

Readers conversant in Frame’s research of ancient doctrines and present questions will welcome this long-awaited moment installment within the Theology of Lordship sequence. right here he examines the attributes, acts, and names of God in reference to a whole spectrum of appropriate theological, moral, non secular truths.

The Doctrine of God obtained the 2003 ECPA Gold Medallion Award within the Theology and Doctrine class. Congratulations, Dr. body, for this award reflecting a long time of analysis concerning God's attributes and personality.

By John Hick (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0230510671

ISBN-13: 9780230510678

ISBN-10: 1403944458

ISBN-13: 9781403944450

An up to date re-creation of the groundbreaking research which takes complete account of the discovering of the social and ancient sciences when supplying a non secular interpretation of the religions as diverse culturally conditioned responses to a transcendent Divine fact. Written with nice readability and strength, and with a wealth of clean insights, this significant paintings (based at the author's Gifford Lectures of 1896-7) treats the vital themes within the philosophy of faith and establishes either a foundation for spiritual confirmation this present day and a framework for the constructing world-wide inter-faith discussion. contains a new advent to the second one edition.

By David Chilton

ISBN-10: 0930462521

ISBN-13: 9780930462529

Does the Bible train Christians to count on victory or defeat during this international? during this strong e-book, David Chilton units forth large biblical facts for the old Christian view be aware of as postmillennialism - the instructing that, sooner than the second one Coming of Christ, the realm could be effectively evangelized and discipled to Christianity. the writer emphasised that our view of the longer term is inescapably sure up with our view of Jesus Christ. the truth that Jesus is now King of kings and Lord of lords signifies that His Gospel needs to be positive: The Holy Spirit will convey the water of existence to the ends of the earth. The Christian message is certainly one of wish: Pentecost was once only the start.

By Kelley Raab Mayo

ISBN-10: 0754664589

ISBN-13: 9780754664581

This booklet emphasizes the fundamental connections among mind's eye, creativity, and spirituality and their position in therapeutic. half One highlights the paintings of a overlooked but vital psychoanalyst, Marion Milner - a painter and undeclared mystic - increasing her paintings on creativity, mysticism, and psychological overall healthiness. half explores mind's eye and creativity as expressed in fostering wish and in spiritually-oriented treatments, fairly for temper, anxiousness, and consuming issues - providing functional program of reports in mind's eye and the humanities. Raab Mayo concludes that either creativity and the opportunity of transcendence are inherent within the human psyche and will paintings as allies within the means of therapeutic from psychological disorder.

By Robert A. Segal

ISBN-10: 0631232168

ISBN-13: 9780631232162

This prestigious significant other deals the main complete survey so far of the research of faith. that includes a crew of overseas individuals, and edited through essentially the most generally revered students within the box, The Blackwell spouse to the learn of Religion presents an interdisciplinary and authoritative consultant to the topic.

• Examines the most ways to the examine of faith: anthropology, the comparative approach, economics, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology.
• additionally covers a various variety of topical concerns, comparable to the physique, fundamentalism, magic, and new spiritual activities
• includes 24 essays written via an exceptional crew of foreign students
• stories, inside of each one bankruptcy, an summary of a selected subfield and lines its improvement as much as the current day
• Debates how the self-discipline could glance sooner or later
• Represents the entire significant matters, equipment and positions within the box

By Gary Willis

ISBN-10: 1400838029

ISBN-13: 9781400838028

During this short and incisive booklet, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the tale of the Confessions--what influenced Augustine to dictate it, the way it asks to be learn, and the various methods it's been misinterpret within the one-and-a-half millennia because it was once composed. Following Wills's biography of Augustine and his translation of the Confessions, this can be an exceptional advent to 1 of an important books within the Christian and Western traditions.

Understandably fascinated about the tale of Augustine's lifestyles, smooth readers have mostly succumbed to the temptation to learn the Confessions as autobiography. yet, Wills argues, this can be a mistake. The e-book isn't autobiography yet relatively a protracted prayer, suffused with the language of Scripture and addressed to God, now not guy. Augustine tells the tale of his existence now not for its personal value yet so that it will figure how, as a drama of sin and salvation resulting in God, it suits into sacred historical past. "We need to learn Augustine as we do Dante," Wills writes, "alert to wealthy layer upon layer of Scriptural and theological symbolism." Wills additionally addresses the lengthy afterlife of the e-book, from controversy in its personal time and relative forget throughout the center a long time to a renewed prominence starting within the fourteenth century and persisting to at the present time, whilst the Confessions has develop into an item of curiosity not only for Christians but in addition historians, philosophers, psychiatrists, and literary critics.

With unrivaled readability and talent, Wills strips away the centuries of bewilderment that experience accrued round Augustine's religious vintage.

By Stephen J. Stein

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ISBN-10: 9004183493

ISBN-13: 9789004183490

The amount addresses the ancient context of Henry, e.g. his writings and his participation within the occasions of 1277; examines Henrys theology, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics; and reports Henrys effect on John Duns Scotus and Pico della Mirandola.

By Bernard McGinn

ISBN-10: 1400850061

ISBN-13: 9781400850068

This concise booklet tells the tale of crucial theological paintings of the center a while, the gigantic Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, which holds a special position in Western faith and philosophy. Written among 1266 and 1273, the Summa used to be conceived via Aquinas as an academic advisor for lecturers and newbies and a compendium of all of the licensed teachings of the Catholic Church. It synthesizes an impressive variety of scholarship, overlaying countless numbers of subject matters and containing greater than 1000000 and a part words-and used to be nonetheless unfinished on the time of Aquinas’s death.

Here, Bernard McGinn, one in every of today’s so much acclaimed students of medieval Christianity, vividly describes the area that formed Aquinas, then turns to the Dominican friar’s lifestyles and occupation, interpreting Aquinas’s purposes for writing his masterpiece, its material, and the radical method he prepared it. McGinn supplies readers a quick travel of the Summa itself, after which discusses its reception over the last seven-hundred years. He appears on the impression of the Summa on such giants of medieval Christendom as Meister Eckhart, its ridicule through the Enlightenment, the increase and fall of Neothomism within the 19th and 20th centuries, the function of the Summa within the post-Vatican II church, and the book’s enduring relevance today.

Tracing the striking lifetime of this iconic paintings, McGinn’s wide-ranging account offers perception into Aquinas’s personal realizing of the Summa as a verbal exchange of the theological knowledge that has been given to humanity in revelation.

By Ryan N.S. Topping

ISBN-10: 0813219736

ISBN-13: 9780813219738

Immediately after his baptism Augustine got down to produce a Christianized model of the traditional liberal arts curriculum. via an ordered series of contemplation, relocating from linguistic to mathematically established disciplines, Augustine steered that examine within the liberal arts might render the brain and middle docile ahead of God. although Augustine later could shift his concentration extra at once towards biblical research, his early reflections on secular studying stay an enticing and robust version for Christian brooding about the arts.

Happiness and Wisdom contributes to ongoing debates in regards to the nature of Augustine's early improvement, and argues that Augustine's imaginative and prescient of the soul's ascent throughout the liberal arts is an enticing and essentially coherent view of studying, which, whereas no longer fully novel, surpasses either classical and past patristic renderings of the goals of education.

Ryan N. S. Topping starts off by way of embedding Augustine's academic works in the old and philosophical context of Christian and pagan past due antiquity. He then indicates how Augustine's writings on schooling, faraway from being inappropriate to the trajectory of his mature idea, supply a key to reading a lot of his different explorations in ethics and epistemology. Augustine's Christianized liberal arts curriculum is vindicated as an outgrowth of his ethical theology, an expression of his abiding conviction that happiness is the tip of human aspiration, and that—against either Ciceronian skepticism and Manichean dualism—the created order speaks to males of the brain of God.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Ryan N. S. Topping earned a doctorate in theology from the college of Oxford, is Pope John XXIII Chair of reports in Catholic Theology at St. Thomas college in Canada, and is writer of St. Augustine within the Continuum Library of academic suggestion series.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:

"This is without doubt one of the best experiences of the early Augustine to emerge lately, admirable for its stability, the standard of study, and its sage judgment. even though it has implications for the way we see the connection among Augustine's paintings pre-391and his later paintings, this learn asks us to pause, and to take heavily, the beliefs of a interval in Augustine's existence while his outlook as a layman desiring to give a contribution to the academic undertaking of the Church was once his major predicament. The learn asks us to pass judgement on this era by itself advantages, no longer just by the way it compares to what got here later. within the method, although, we do stumble upon to boot a really accurately balanced evaluate of continuities and discontinuities, in addition to intimations of Augustine's attainable relevance to our personal academic dilemmas. an excellent study."—John Cavadini, collage of Notre Dame

"Topping's publication occupies a safe area of interest of its personal . . . His designated research has allowed him to give a contribution to debates over the translation of Augustine's early thought."—Raymond Canning, professor of theology, Australian Catholic collage and translator of Augustine's teaching newbies in Faith

"Happiness and Wisdom is a truly available paintings on Augustine's early theology of schooling. it really is useful to quite a lot of readership, from philosophers and theologians to educators of each kind. He emphasizes the ethical element of schooling, bargains a textually wealthy argument for the mandatory position of Christ's illuminating task to ensure that schooling to be attainable, and attests to the ongoing price of a liberal arts education." —Bibliographia