The phrase 'works of the law' occurs only in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in Paul, but it has a different connotation in each corpus. At Qumran, the 'works of...
Somewhere in the mid-seventies women were declared innocent. All charges against them were to be dropped. Feminist theology took upon itself the task of reversing the verdict of patriarchal religion....
Somewhere in the mid-seventies women were declared innocent. All charges against them were to be dropped. Feminist theology took upon itself the task of reversing the verdict of patriarchal religion....
These seven essays by noted historian Caroline Walker Bynum exemplify her argument that historians must write in a "comic" mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, and incompletion.
Man Without Tears: Soundings for a Christian Anthropology
John Calvin's Rhetorical Doctrine of Sin
Gifford Lectures series, 2007 Seeing Things is a highly original book that will have appeal across humanity departments including visual studies, theology, art history, sociology, anthropology and ethics. The book...
Cover title: Liberation theology. Bibliography: p. 401-402.
It is very important for Christians to balance divinity and humanity in faith practice in daily life though it is easier to slide to either extreme unfortunately.
That the title of this book will attract some, startle others, and shock manyis the best proof of how important a work Joan Timmerman has written. It is amajor exploration...
The human hunger for transcendence permeates every page of this exploration of the human condition. A systematic look at the present state of spiritual anthropology, it calls for a truly...
In ordinary conversation, including among the "educated", the word "sin" rarely gets mentioned except when one is trying to be coy or facetious. As Thomas Mann once said, "sin" is...
What is Man?: Contemporary Anthropology in Theological Perspective
Robert Kraynak and Glenn Tinder contend that the major challenge of our time is to recover a true and authentic understanding of human dignity and to defend it against threats...
Peter Cresswell's revolutionary theory about the life of Jesus and the origins of Christianity reads like a thriller but draws on the most up to date scholarship. He describes Jesus'...