New Creation in Paul's Letters (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe, #272)
by T. Ryan Jackson
Ryan Jackson explores the apostle Paul's conception of new creation in the light of a fresh consideration of its historical and social contexts. This work seeks to understand how Paul innovatively applied his theological convictions in his letters to three communities - in Galatia, in Corinth, and in Rome. The discussion contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the degree to which Paul's soteriology should be viewed in continuity or discontinuity with the Old Testament. It also offers a furt...
John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom (Early American Studies)
by Geoffrey Plank
The abolitionist John Woolman (1720-72) has been described as a "Quaker saint," an isolated mystic, singular even among a singular people. But as historian Geoffrey Plank recounts, this tailor, hog producer, shopkeeper, schoolteacher, and prominent Quaker minister was very much enmeshed in his local community in colonial New Jersey and was alert as well to events throughout the British Empire. Responding to the situation as he saw it, Woolman developed a comprehensive critique of his fellow Quak...
Etienne Pasquier (1529-1615) was a lawyer, royal official, man of letters, and historian. He represented the University of Paris in its 1565 suit to dislodge a Jesuit school from Paris. Despite royal support, the Jesuits remained in conflict with many institutions, which in 1595 led to their expulsion from much of the realm. With ever-increasing polemics, Pasquier continued to oppose the Jesuits. To further his aims, he published a dialog between a Jesuit (almost certainly Louis Richeome) and a...
Koranforschung Eine Politische Philologie? (Litterae Et Theologia, #4)
by Angelika Neuwirth
Der Koran ist noch immer nicht Teil des europaischen Wissenskanons, obwohl er tief in der biblischen Tradition verwurzelt ist. Er gilt weithin noch als exklusiv islamischer Text. Die kritische Bewertung seiner Beziehung zur Bibel und damit zur europaischen Tradition setzt seine Einbettung in die - auch fur das spatere Europa formative - spatantike Kultur voraus, in die er sich theologisch innovativ einbrachte. Die grossen Fragen der Zeit wurden nicht nur von Rabbinen und Kirchenvatern, sondern a...
The History of the Society of Friends in America, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
by James Bowden
Especially in times of war Americans have claimed for their nation a unique world mission, often defining it in religious terms. James Moorhead analyzes a crucial episode of this patriotic piety through the behavior of four major Northern Protestant denominations in the 1860s. After examining the antebellum origins of the concept of America as a redeemer nation, he investigates the churches' use of familiar dogmas-principally that of millennialism-to interpret the experience of the Civil War a...
2020 Vision for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
by Richard L Hamm
An Overview of the Pre-suppression Society of Jesus in Spain (Brill Research Perspectives)
by Patricia W. Manning
In An Overview of the Pre-suppression Society of Jesus in Spain, Patricia W. Manning offers a survey of the Society of Jesus in Spain from its origins in Ignatius of Loyola's early preaching to the aftereffects of its expulsion. Rather than nurture the nascent order, Loyola's homeland was often ambivalent. His pre-Jesuit freelance sermonizing prompted investigations. The young Society confronted indifference and interference from the Spanish monarchy and outright opposition from other religious...
Dict. Des Ordres Religieux, Ou Histoire Des Ordres Monastiques. T. 2 (Ed.1847-1863) (Religion)
by Helyot P