Practice and Profile
by Johan Hegeman, Margaret Edgell, and Henk Jochemsen
[Originally publ. Mouton 1973 (Religion and Reason, 3)]
De l'Humanisme aux Lumieres, Bayle et le Protestantisme
Between Sheol and Temple (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Serie)
by Martin Ravndal Hauge
This work deals with the role of the Petrine ministry in the ecumenical relationship between the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and the Catholic Church. The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church traces her origin to the Church of St Thomas Christians, founded by St Thomas, the Apostle who reached the south Indian state of Kerala in 52 AD. The book explores the Ecclesiologies of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, the St Thomas Christians of India and the Catholic Church from a dogmatic-juridical-...
Fundamentalism Today
Mennonites and Baptists (Perspectives on Mennonite Life and Thought, #7)
Efforts to construct a Christian theology of religions have inevitably stumbled on the Christian scandal of particularity-the historical Jesus of Nazareth. What, however, if we began by focusing on the universal presence and activity of God in the world as symbolized by the Holy Spirit? Yong develops just such a pneumatological approach to religions, drawing, by way of resource, on the Pentecostal-charismatic experience of the Spirit. This book thus invites Pentecostals, charismatics and other C...
Moses, Jesus and the Trickster in the Evangelical South (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures)
by Paul Harvey
Paul Harvey uses four characters that are important symbols of religious expression in the American South to survey major themes of religion, race, and southern history. The figure of Moses helps us better understand how whites saw themselves as a chosen people in situations of suffering and war and how Africans and African Americans reworked certain stories in the Bible to suit their own purposes. By applying the figure of Jesus to the central concerns of life, Harvey argues, southern evangel...
C. S. Lewis is one of the best loved and most engaging Christian writers and he continues to be a powerful defender of the faith. It is in his imaginative fiction that his genius finds its fullest expression and makes its most lasting theological contribution. Famously, Lewis had friends - smart, creative people, who, like him, employed powerful imaginations to explore the profundities of Christian faith and their struggles with their faith.