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In this book, John A. McGuckin reviews and assesses the monumental influence that Origen of Alexandria has exercised over the shape and content of the Christian tradition over seventeen hundred years...

This book brings together essays on Orthodoxy and anarchism by prominent Orthodox theologians and scholars.Author: Davor D?altoPublisher: Fortress AcademicPublication Date: Mar 26, 2024Number of...

Paul and Seneca Among the Condemned explores the sites and images of spectacle that littered the landscapes of the ancient world. By examining archaeological remains alongside the letters of Paul and...

Post-Christian Religion in Popular Culture offers exegetical analyses of the post-Christian theological and religious messages found within twenty-first century popular culture. The author argues how...

Questing through the Riordanverse explores how Religion is embedded in Rick Riordan's works and how his works have impacted fan-made religious and spiritual practices. With contributions from diverse...

Re-embodying Pastoral Theology uses the problem of moral injury in veterans to propose a pastoral theology that recognizes ritual as the means by which the Christian community addresses the body in...

Religion has power structures that require and justify its existence, spread its influence, and mask its collaboration with other power structures. Power, like religion, is in collaboration. Along...

This book argues that rights complete rather than undermine the ethical and political vision of Alasdair MacIntyre. It does so through bringing MacIntyre into conversation with medieval historians,...

For Christians, memories of God given in the Christian Bible are juxtaposed, echoed, and expanded within and outside Christian communities of faith. In Saving Memory and the Body of Christ, Sedgwick...

Scripture, Texts, and Tracings in Galatians and 1 Thessalonians advances the interpretation of these letters by exploring how the Apostle Paul quotes, alludes to or "echoes" the Jewish Scriptures and...

The Anglican Church in Singapore examines the church from multiple perspectives, expositing its unique place within world Christianity. This book documents the Church's two-hundred-year history, from...

The Colonization of Land in Matthew's Gospel proposes a reading of Matthew's Gospel that constructs geographical land as a colonized subject that will be released from Roman control and reasserted...

The Crux of Theology puts Luther's teachings concerning the cross in dialogue with the preamble of the United Declaration's Declaration of Human Rights, which advances a vision of the common good...

The Goldilocks God explores the fertile middle ground between toxic Christianity and militant atheism. Illuminating ancient Christian practice with cutting-edge philosophy and theology, Guy Collins...

This book analyses how Evangelical Anglicans study the Bible. It explores the relationship between the doctrine of Scripture and hermeneutics as it happens 'on the ground', asking how Bible beliefs...

In The Last of Us and Theology: Violence, Ethics, Redemption? global academics probe theological and moral themes in the acclaimed video game franchise and series. Follow the plight of Joel, Ellie,...

This book considers how music can transport listeners beyond themselves. Both music and the Spirit operate between languages and cultures, between desires and longings, between the visible and...

The Theology of Ethnocultural Empathic Turn uncovers the roots of present-day ethnoreligious conflict, proposing an "ethnocultural empathy turn" inspired by ethnocultural empathy as a branch of...

Nancy L. Graham unveils the extraordinary life of the churchman and musician, Erik Routley, the most significant hymnologist of the twentieth century. Using anecdotes from his personal...

This book examines the use of Israel's Scriptures in the Fourth Gospel's account of Jesus' death. It pays particular attention to John's concept of scriptural fulfilment, and particularly the...

How might the Christian church effectively engage today's politically charged, profit-motivated world while remaining faithful to its biblical and theological roots? The contributors in this book...

Theology and Game of Thrones explores themes of religion, institutional norms, and power, Christian ecclesiology, Augustinian thought, religious pluralism and representation, and theology's...

J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epics are imbued with a deep sense of the spiritual from which readers discern aspects of his beliefs about God, life, good, and evil. In this book, an international group of...

Theology of the Soul examines the possibility of a concept of the soul in modern theology. This study contains clear and carefully detailed overviews of concepts of the soul in Theology, Philosophy,...

Whether intentional or not, the power of a moment in popular culture like The Witcher can illuminate and question what might be taken for granted or left unseen in our world. Theology, Religion and...

Ancient and modern readers alike turn to dystopian tales and topics in order to make sense of experiences of reality that are increasing negative and outside their control. This volume takes...

Theology, Religion, and The Office: Beauty in Ordinary Things explores the enduring impact of the hit NBC series The Office, which, seven years after its official end, remained the number one...

That God is the perfection of all-blessed abundance, and the source and context for creation's well-being, tends merely to be assumed in theology. Yet, how does God enact all-blessedness and...

Understanding Judaism and the Jews in the Gospel of John: Polemic, Tradition, and Johannine Self-Identity reopens the perennial question of the Fourth Gospel's perplexing characterization of "the...

In this book, Roger Whittall argues that Luther's teaching on the common priesthood (the "priesthood of believers") was a persistent element of Luther's ecclesiology and closely related to his...