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How do we make sense of who and what we are in this secular, 21st century context of incredible - and often disorienting - change in so many areas of life? That is the central question which this text sets out to answer.

Through a combination of story, personal reflection and philosophical analysis, the author attempts to get under the skin of wellbeing, and show how the concept is evolving in contemporary culture. She argues that the Christian tradition still has much to offer in today's society.

The theology of the Gospel of John and the Johannine Epistles, and the development of the church.

These 16 sermons contain in concentrated form some of Tillich's most lambent themes. He discusses, among other topics, wisdom; salvation; loneliness and solitude; creation in relation to the creator; inequality and spiritual presence.

Lancel's authoritative study places St Augustine against the colourful background of the Mediterranean world of antiquity, exploring the major influences, events and competing philosophies which were formative for his thought and theology.

The problems which Professor Barr examines have been borne in upon him over the years as a teacher of Old Testament to theological students, but more recently by active participation in a variety of international and ecumenical colloquia where the Bible as a whole has been under discussion.

Key Points: A unique collection of the widest variety of authoritative views, pulled together here in one easily accessible resource - available for the first time. Authors include the leading authoritative voices of Hans Kung, Perry Schmidt Leukel and Lloyd Ridgeon.

Working with primary evidence, describes the Judaism of this period as a functioning religion and discusses the religious practice and daily life of ordinary people. Pagan parallels to Jewish practice are noted and common theological ground discussed.

Why was Jesus crucified? Precisely how did his teaching differ from other contemporary strands of Judaism? Sanders offers his answers in this provocative and illuminating study.

This book has arisen out of a consuming interest in the ecumenical movement in England over a period of years. Written in an open and attractive way, it describes the history of relations between churches since their earlier divisions, and focusses particularly on the situation at the present time.

The ongoing ecological crisis keeps raising important questions for traditional Christian theology. If belief in God as creator means not only that God created the world in the first place but is involved in all that goes on in it, valuing creation and desiring its good, what form does divine action take in the world of today? Surely, for Christian belief, God cannot just be a distressed but helpless onlooker while human beings are exhorted to get on with what has to be done? Furthermore, what in the light of God's relation to the world, is the relation of human beings to non-human creation? Central to Dr Page's book is the view that there is too much antropocentricity in doctrines of the creation, so that the world of nature is too often seen as it relates to human beings and not in its own right. She argues that a rethinking of fundamental doctrine is needed, if only as penance for what Christian doctrine has allowed human beings to get away with. Her new approach begins with the view that what God created was possibility, a more important characteristic of the world than has ever been acknowledged. All creation, not just the human world, is by its very being a response to the divine gift of possibility. Every creature, from the tree frog to the cheetah, lives in God's presence and has it own relationship with God, to whom it is all valuable and intimately known. Against this background, not only the doctrine of creation but the whole question of human ethical conduct takes on a new form, and any vision of eternity must be kaleidoscopic enough to include the whole web of creation.

This book is for people who love music and have a religious faith. It explores ways in which each of these dimensions of life can illuminate and strengthen the other.

Brisk, easy-to-read and never dull, the strengths of this history lie in a concern for all aspects of the history of Israel and Judah, political and economic factors, religious and theological interpretation, methodology, geography and topography.

Concilium has long been a household-name for cutting-edge critical and constructive theological thinking. Past contributors include leading Catholic scholars such as Hans Küng, Gregory Baum and Edward Schillebeeckx, and the editors of the review belong to the international "who's who" in the world of contemporary theology.

The book has a genuine unity, and I can think of no better introduction for theological students to the variety of problems about language which confront the contemporary theologian. Analytical philosophy, existentialism, the problems of biblical criticism and those of continental neo-Protestant theology are allowed to contribute to a single argument in which Macquarrie is able to pose the problems of man's likeness to God and of anthropomorphism with a welcome degree of precision. Macquarrie's strength is that he is straightforwardly writing from within theology. His exposition of Saint Athanasius on the Incarnation propounds squarely the claim that Christianity entails empirical judgments, that in principle at least it is refutable by the facts, if they are of one kind rather than another' (Alasdair MacIntyre in The Guardian). 'He lucidly explains the issues raised for Christian belief both by empiricist analytical philosophy and by existentialist hermeneutics. The hermeneutical question is brilliantly illuminated by an exposition of Athanasius's De Incamatione, and all the problems of mythology, symbolic language, analogy and paradox are carefully sorted out' (Alan Richardson in Theology). 'Following the lead of the later Wittgenstein, Macquarrie holds that we must allow each linguistic form to disclose its own logic. The dominant characteristic of all religious and theological language is its obliqueness. It speaks in terms of myth, symbol and analogy. Macquarrie makes it plain that existentialist interpretation cannot exhaust the meaning of theological language. He clearly sees that if theology can be totally interpreted in this way, then it is reduced to anthropology. We must progress through existential interpretation to ontology--to talk about the transcendent Being of God.... The book does not finally solve the problems which it raises and does not claim to. But it develops a very promising manner of tackling them. Above all it is a very timely counter-poise to those over-facile analyses of the logic of theology which result in a kind of Christian atheism. John Macquarrie seems to me to grow in both spiritual and intellectual stature with every book he writes' (The Expository Times).

An accessible introduction to the life and thought of one of the most influential theologians of our time.

This book is a classic account of inter-religous encounter from a German monk who lived in a holy city of India.

An expanded & revised version of "Religion in an Age of Science". Three new chapters on physics & metaphysics in the 18th century and biology & theology in the 19th century. Other new sections included.

Moltmann considers the interrelation of Christian concepts and doctrines with the aim of overcoming schism both within the churches and with Judaism. Offers profound insight into the relationship between suffering and God.

Beginning from the philosophical and theological legacies of the 19th century, this book traces the renewal first of Protestant then of Catholic theology during the 20th century. It ends with a discussion of recent movements such as liberation theology.

Welcomed on first publication as the best one-volume dictionary of theology available, here is an indispensable resource for students and clergy.