Religion and Lust or the Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire
by James Weir
Joel and Amos (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries, #25)
by Tchavdar Hadjiev
This book is a comparative study of basic themes in Christian and Islamic fundamentalist discourses, analyzing and comparing texts from a wide variety of fundamentalist leaders and movements, looking for "family resemblances" and significant differences in order to better understand the contemporary phenomenon of religious resurgence. After placing fundamentalisms in a theoretical framework, the study looks at selected themes important to fundamentalists, noting resemblances and differences. The...
This book aims to create a Christian theology of wisdom for the present day, in discussion with two sets of conversation-partners. The first are writers of the 'wisdom literature' in ancient Israel and the Jewish community in Alexandria. Here, special attention is given to the biblical books of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes. The second conversation-partners are philosophers and thinkers of the late-modern age, among them Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, Julia Kristeva, Paul Ricoeur, and Hann...
In this book, Ilana Pardes explores the tense dialogues between dominant patriarchal discourses of the Bible and counter female voices. Her findings lead to reassessments of patriarchal traditions and of current feminist critiques. Pardes studies women's plots and subplots, dreams, and pursuits, uncovering the diverse and at times conflicting figurations of feminity in biblical texts. She also sketches the ways in which antipatriarchal elements intermingle with other repressed elements in the Bi...
If the origin of human beings can be explained by a biological evolution, does that mean that we are no more than robots following a predetermined course? How can human beings be free and responsible? How can we still talk in terms of the action of a Creator where everything seems to be determined by biological and chemical mechanisms? Here a group of scientists who are also Christians presents the result of several years' reflections on the origins of life, the increasing autonomy of living bei...
Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils
This monumental two-volume publication brings together in the original languages and an English translation, all the decrees of all the ecumenical councils from Nicaea I to Vatican II. As such it represents an indispensable reference work for theologians and historians, as well as for anyone interested in the development of Christian thought and doctrine. Indeed, these decrees represent the authoritative distillation of Christian tradition which itself is bound together with scripture "in a clos...
The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors or Christianity Before Christ
by Kersey Graves
From the author of the twenty million plus copy bestselling novel The Shack and the New York Times bestsellers Cross Roads and Eve comes a compelling, conversational exploration of the wrong-headed ideas we sometimes have and share about God. Wm. Paul Young has been called a heretic for the ways he vividly portrays God's love through his novels. Here he shares twenty-eight commonly uttered and sometimes seemingly innocuous things we say about God. Paul exposes these as lies that keep us from hav...
