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Philosophical theology is aimed primarily at theoretical understanding of the nature and attributes of God and of God's relationship to the world and its inhabitants. During the twentieth century, much of the philosophical community (both in the Anglo-American analytic...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-02-26
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This text, written by Jean Calvin in defence of the execution of Michael Servetus in October 1553, provoked widespread controversy and reaction. It was published in Geneva by Robert Etienne in 1554. It is a composite text. Calvin reproduces many original documents...
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Librairie Droz
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2009-01-01
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Ioannis Calvini Opera Omnia
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On the publication of Orthodoxy in 1908, Wilfrid Ward hailed G. K. Chesterton as a prophetic figure whose thought was to be classed with that Burke, Butler, Coleridge, and John Henry Newman. When Chesterton died in 1936, T. S. Eliot pronounced that 'Chesterton's social...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-11-07
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St. Maximus the Confessor (580-662), was a major Byzantine thinker, a theologian and philosopher. He developed a philosophical theology in which the doctrine of God, creation, the cosmic order, and salvation is integrated in a unified conception of reality. Christ, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-08-07
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St. Maximus the Confessor (580-662), was a major Byzantine thinker, a theologian and philosopher. He developed a philosophical theology in which the doctrine of God, creation, the cosmic order, and salvation is integrated in a unified conception of reality. Christ, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-08-07
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The World Council of Churches has called for renewed theological reflection on the biblical roots of ordination to strengthen the vocational identity of the ordained and to provide a framework for ecumenical dialogue. This book is a response to that call. It is grounded...
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Oxford University Press
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2008-07-10
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Calvin encouraged female education and, with other reformers, positively reevaluated marriage. This study focuses on the place of women in his exegesis, both Old and New Testament, comparing it with that of his predecessors, especially Augustine, Chrysostom and the...
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Librairie Droz
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2008-06-01
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Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance
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David Brown explores the ways in which the symbolic associations of the body and what we do with it have helped shape religious experience and continue to do so. A Church narrowly focused on Christ's body wracked in pain needs to be reminded that the body as beautiful...
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OUP Oxford
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2007-11-09
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The primary aim of this book is to explore the contradiction between widely shared beliefs in the USA about racial inclusiveness and equal opportunity for all and the fact that most churches are racially homogeneous and do not include people with disabilities. To...
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OUP Oxford
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2007-08-10
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Since first Thomas Aquinas defined theology as revelation, or the rational elucidation of revealed truth, the idea of revelation has played a fundamental role in the history of western theology. This book provides a new and detailed investigation of the concept,...
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Clarendon Press
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1994-09-30
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Reinhold Niebuhr was a twentieth-century American theologian who was known for his commentary on public affairs. One of his most influential ideas was the relating of his Christian faith to realism rather than idealism in foreign affairs. His perspective influenced...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2013-09-03
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Editions SR
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Written in tribute to one of the foremost Catholic theologians in the English-speaking world, the essays in The Promise of Critical Theology address the question: Can critical theology secure its critical operation without undermining its foundation in religious...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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2006-01-01
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Editions SR
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"It would be possible to argue," writes William Nicholls, "that the pivotal subject of debate among theologians for the past two hundred years has been the relationship between modernity and the Christian tradition."
What is modernity—a philosophical outlook or a set...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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1988-02-08
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SR Supplements
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