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  • - The Canons of Antioch and Serdica
    af Christopher W. B. (Head of Southlands College and Director of the Susanna Wesley Foundation Stephens
    1.697,95 kr.

    This book begins with a close study of the canons of Antioch and proposes a new chronology for their composition. It then works from that conclusion to demonstrate the significance of canon law as a resource for understanding the early Church. Finally, it explores the nature and status of canon law in its early developmental period.

  • - The Justification of the Doubter
    af Samuel Andrew (Researcher and Lecturer in Systematic Theology Shearn
    1.044,95 kr.

    This book tells the story of Paul Tillich's early theological development from his student days until the end of the First World War, set against the backdrop of church politics in Wilhelmine Germany and with particular reference to his early sermons.

  • af Zachary (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Purvis
    1.599,95 kr.

    This study considers the growth of the genre of 'theological encyclopedia' as part of the scientific approach to theology that emerged during the eighteenth century with the reform of the German universities. The work focuses on Friedrich Schleiermacher and Karl Hagenbach in particular.

  • af Richard (Lecturer in Early Medieval Insular History Sowerby
    1.338,95 kr.

    This study examines the place of angels in the religious culture of Anglo-Saxon England with particular attention to individual devotion.

  • - Between Being and Nothingness
    af St Peter's College, Lecturer in Philosophy, Oxford) Kirkpatrick, mfl.
    488,95 - 1.408,95 kr.

    This work argues that Jean-Paul Sartre's early philosophy had a notable inheritance from the Christian doctrine of original sin. With particular attention to Being and Nothingness, Kirkpatrick connects Sartre to an Augustinian tradition of Christian thought according to which nothingness enters the world with the creation of the human.

  • af Serenhedd (Honarary Research Fellow of St Stephen's House James
    1.534,95 kr.

    This study examines the life and work of George Errington, the Victorian Archbishop of Trebizond, who was one of the most prominent figures of nineteenth-century English Roman Catholicism. Dr James provides comprehensive investigation of some of the most divisive controversies in English Catholic history.

  • af Julia T. (Postdoctoral Fellow Meszaros
    1.787,95 kr.

    The book provides detailed analyses of Tillich's and Murdoch's accounts of love and the self, as well as of their respective interlocutors, with a special emphasis on their engagement with existentialism.

  • af Brandon (Lecturer of Systematic and Comparative Theology Gallaher
    1.599,95 kr.

    A study of concepts of freedom and necessity in relation to the Trinity in the work of three theologians: the Russian Orthodox Sergii Bulgakov (1871-1944), the Swiss Protestant Karl Barth (1886-1968), and the Swiss Roman Catholic Hans Urs von Balthasar (1908-1988).

  • - A Fourth-Century Virtue-Origenism
    af Grant D. (Lecturer in Liturgy and Patristics Bayliss
    1.683,95 kr.

    The work offers a comprehensive exploration of the moral vision of Didymus the Blind and concludes that it cannot easily be categorized as 'Alexandrian' theology.

  • - The Elohistae
    af Benjamin R. (Fellow of Theology and Classical Languages Merkle
    1.615,95 kr.

    This study centres on Girolamo Zanchi's De Tribus Elohim (1572), placing it in its political and theological setting. De Tribus Elohim focussed on the grammatical peculiarity of the Hebrew word Elohim (God).

  • af Mette (Postdoctoral researcher Bundvad
    1.683,95 kr.

    This is a study of the book of Qohelet (or Ecclesiastes), principally on concepts of past, present, and future, but also on other key themes in relation to time.

  • - Moral Rigorism across the Confessions
    af Thomas (independent scholar) Palmer
    1.370,95 kr.

    This study examines the impact in mid- to late seventeenth-century England of the major contemporary religious controversy in France, which revolved around the formal condemnation of a heresy popularly called Jansenism.

  • af Ian (Senior Tutor and Tutorial Fellow in New Testament Boxall
    1.924,95 kr.

    This monograph explores the significance accorded to John's island of Patmos (Rev. 1:9) within the wider reception history of the Apocalypse. Ian Boxall brings together for the first time in a coherent narrative a wide range of interpretations of Patmos, reflecting different chronological periods, cultural contexts, and Christian traditions.

  • - Forming the System of Identity
    af Daniel (Lecturer in Philosophy Whistler
    1.893,95 kr.

    A reconstruction of F.W.J. Schelling's philosophy of language based on a detailed reading of 73 of Schelling's lectures on the Philosophy of Art.

  • - Eastern Asceticism and the Framing of the Christian Life c.400-650 CE
    af Alexis C. (Hannah Seeger Davis Postdoctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies Torrance
    1.566,95 kr.

    This study provides a fresh perspective on the concept of repentance in early Christianity. Alexis Torrance focuses on writings by several ascetic theologians of the fifth to seventh centuries, and also examines texts from Scripture, early Christian treatises and homilies, apocalyptic material, and canonical literature.

  • af Philip Y. (Jack Miller Postdoctoral Fellow Yoo
    1.408,95 kr.

    This work compares the literary development of Ezra 7-10 and Nehemiah 8-10 with that of the Pentateuch. It provides a commentary on the text, with introductory discussions and detailed comparisons between individual verses and numerous passages in the Pentateuch.

  • - Theological Horizons in Martin Heidegger's Early Work
    af Judith (Tutor in Theology at St John's College in the University of Oxford) Wolfe
    435,95 kr.

    Heidegger's Eschatology is a ground-breaking account of Heidegger's early engagement with theology, from his beginnings as an anti-Modernist Catholic to his turn towards an undogmatic Protestantism and finally to a resolutely a-theistic philosophical method.

  • - Human Suffering and Divine Play
    af Gopal K. (Associate Professor of Religious Studies Gupta
    1.334,95 kr.

    This is the first in-depth study to analyse the highly developed theology of Maya throughout the Maya in the Bhagavata Purana. It focuses on Maya's identification with the divine feminine and analyses its relationship with other key concepts in the text, such as human suffering, devotion, and divine play.

  • - Kavikarnapura's Splendour of Speech
    af Rembert (Librarian Lutjeharms
    1.598,95 kr.

    This is the first in-depth study of the literary works of the sixteenth-century Sanskrit poet and theologian Kavikarnapura, one of the most important poets of the Vaisnava devotional tradition inspired by Sri Krsna Caitanya.

  • - The Making of a Counter-Reformation Saint
    af Dr Clare (Independent Scholar) Copeland
    1.546,95 kr.

    This study considers the campaigns for and trials resulting in the beatification and subsequent canonization of the Florentine mystic nun, Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607). It explores the politics of saint-making at a time of particular significance for the history of Roman Catholic canonization.

  • af Luigi & OSB Gioia
    527,95 - 2.247,95 kr.

    Luigi Gioia provides a fresh description and analysis of Augustine's monumental treatise, De Trinitate, working on a supposition of its unity and its coherence from structural, rhetorical, and theological points of view.

  • af Gary (University of Oxford) Slater
    1.697,95 kr.

    The thesis develops resources in the work of Charles S. Pierce (1839-1914) for the purposes of contemporary philosophy.

  • - A Hermeneutics of Ethical Life
    af James (Lecturer of Philosophy and Religion Carter
    1.374,95 kr.

    This book examines the distinctive and significant contribution of the great French philosopher, Paul Ricoeur to contemporary debates in ethics and philosophy of religion. James Carter argues that Ricoeur's later writings in particular offer a vision of ethical life that can be understood as a moral religion.

  • af Malcolm B. (Director of the Center for Theological Research and Professor of Systematic Theology Yarnell III
    1.791,95 kr.

    This book assesses the understandings of the Christian doctrine of royal priesthood, long considered one of the three major Reformation teachings, as held by an array of royal, clerical, and popular theologians during the English Reformation.

  • - Liberation Theology and Gender Justice in Islam
    af University of Edinburgh) Rahemtulla, Shadaab (Lecturer in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations & Lecturer in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
    472,95 - 1.346,95 kr.

    This study analyses the commentaries of four Muslim intellectuals who have turned to scripture as a liberating text to confront an array of problems, from patriarchy, racism, and empire to poverty and interreligious communal violence.

  • af Laura (Assistant Professor Quick
    1.346,95 kr.

    This study considers the relationship of Deuteronomy 28 to the curse traditions of the ancient Near East. It focuses on the linguistic and cultural means of the transmission of these traditions to the book of Deuteronomy.

  • - A Literary and Discourse-Analytical Approach to the Story of Josiah
    af S. Min (Assistant Professor of Worldview and Biblical Studies Chun
    1.795,95 kr.

    S. Min Chun discusses how to read Old Testament narrative from an ethical perspective. He employs a linguistic and literary approach to Biblical interpretation, using close study of the narrative of Josiah in the book of Kings, and argues that such an approach makes the most of the genre-characteristics of Old Testament narrative.

  • - The Rise of Devotionalism and the Politics of Genealogy
    af Kiyokazu (Assistant Professor at The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research and Department of Indological Studies Okita
    1.534,95 kr.

    This book explores the historical development of a Hindu devotional movement in early modern South Asia. Provides a rigorous philological analysis of Sanskrit texts, which is combined with a detailed examination of the specific historical circumstances which led to their formation.

  • - Martin Luther and Arthur Rich in Dialogue
    af Sean (Tutor in Ethics Doherty
    1.763,95 kr.

    This book seeks to expand the self-critical resources of contemporary theological economic ethics by bringing the method of a pre-modern thinker, Martin Luther (1483-1546), into interaction with that of a modern contribution to social ethics, the Swiss theologian Arthur Rich (1910-92).

  • - An Image and its Interpretation
    af Conor (Teaching Associate O'Brien
    1.697,95 kr.

    This is a study of the use of the image of the temple in the writings of the most significant theologian of pre-Conquest England, the Venerable Bede. Using the whole of the surviving corpus of Bede's writings, Dr O'Brien examines Bede as a historian and considers his exegetical methods.