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  • The Christocentric Cosmology of St Maximus the Confessor

    by Torstein Tollefsen ...
    Series series Oxford Early Christian Studies
    St. Maximus the Confessor (580-662), was a major Byzantine thinker, a theologian and philosopher. He developed a philosophical theology in which the doctrine of God, creation, the cosmic order, and salvation is integrated in a unified conception of reality. Christ, the divine Logos, is the centre of the principles (the logoi ) according to which the cosmos is created, and in accordance with which ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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    A Contemporary Recapitulation of Early Christianity

    by Frances Young ...
    Series Book 12 - Current Issues in Theology
    In 2011, Frances Young delivered the Bampton Lectures in Oxford to great acclaim. She offered a systematic theology with contemporary coherence, by engaging in conversation with the fathers of the church - those who laid down the parameters of Christian theology and enshrined key concepts in the creeds - and exploring how their teachings can be applied today, despite the differences in our ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism

    Edited by John Coffey, Paul C. H. Lim ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    'Puritan' was originally a term of contempt, and 'Puritanism' has often been stereotyped by critics and admirers alike. As a distinctive and particularly intense variety of early modern Reformed Protestantism, it was a product of acute tensions within the post-Reformation Church of England. But it was never monolithic or purely oppositional, and its impact reverberated far beyond seventeenth ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Saint Augustine on the Resurrection of Christ

    Teaching, Rhetoric, and Reception

    by Gerald O'Collins, SJ ...
    Despite an enormous amount of literature on St Augustine of Hippo, this work provides the first examination of what he taught about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Augustine expounded Christ's resurrection in his sermons, letters, Answer to Faustus the Manichean, the City of God, Expositions of the Psalms, and the Trinity. Saint Augustine on the Resurrection of Christ: Teaching, Rhetoric, and ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Religion and Identity in Porphyry of Tyre

    The Limits of Hellenism in Late Antiquity

    by Aaron P. Johnson ...
    Series series Greek Culture in the Roman World
    Porphyry, a native of Phoenicia educated in Athens and Rome during the third century AD, was one of the most important Platonic philosophers of his age. In this book, Professor Johnson rejects the prevailing modern approach to his thought, which has posited an early stage dominated by 'Oriental' superstition and irrationality followed by a second rationalizing or Hellenizing phase consequent upon ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • When Paul Met Jesus

    How an Idea Got Lost in History

    by Stanley E. Porter ...
    Did Paul ever meet Jesus and hear him teach? A century ago, a curious assortment of scholars - William Ramsay, Johannes Weiss, and James Hope Moulton - thought that he had. Since then, their idea has virtually disappeared from New Testament scholarship, to be revived in this monograph. When Paul Met Jesus is an exercise in both biblical exegesis and intellectual history. After examining the ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • The Evil That Men Do

    Faith, Injustice and the Church

    by Marcus Paul ...
    At a time when barbarous acts of terrorism are being committed globally and society ponders whether the perpetrators are legitimate religious adherents, Marcus Paul makes an unflinching and counter-cultural examination of some of the worst periods in the Church's history.Were the crusades entirely inexcusable religious wars? Was the Inquisition the bloody and sadistic "Black Legend" of popular ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Early Quakers and Their Theological Thought

    1647–1723

    Edited by Stephen W. Angell, Pink Dandelion ...
    This book provides the most comprehensive theological analysis to date of the work of early Quaker leaders. Spanning the first seventy years of the Quaker movement to the beginning of its formalization, Early Quakers and their Theological Thought examines in depth the lives and writings of sixteen prominent figures. These include not only recognized authors such as George Fox, William Penn, ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature

    by Rosemary Marangoly George ...
    During the twentieth century, at the height of the independence movement and after, Indian literary writing in English was entrusted with the task of consolidating the image of a unified, seemingly caste-free, modernising India for consumption both at home and abroad. This led to a critical insistence on the proximity of the national and the literary, which in turn, led to the canonisation of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Theological Radicalism and Tradition

    The Limits of Radicalism' with Appendices

    by Howard E. Root ...
    ‘The limits of radicalism are those which end not in chaos but in the breaking of fresh ground.’Howard E. RootPreviously unpublished––and only recently rediscovered by Dr Christopher R. Brewer in an uncatalogued box in the archives of Lambeth Palace Library––Canon Howard E. Root’s 1972 Bampton Lectures, ‘The Limits of Radicalism’, have to do with nothing less than ‘what theology is’, a topic no ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context

    Causes, Events, and Consequences

    Edited by Jeffrey D. Burson, Jonathan Wright ...
    In 1773, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus, a dramatic, puzzling act that had a profound impact. This volume traces the causes of the attack on the Jesuits, the national expulsions that preceded universal suppression, and the consequences of these extraordinary developments. The Suppression occurred at a unique historical juncture, at the high-water mark of the Enlightenment and on ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • From Logos to Trinity

    The Evolution of Religious Beliefs from Pythagoras to Tertullian

    by Marian Hillar ...
    This book presents a critical evaluation of the doctrine of the Trinity, tracing its development and investigating the intellectual, philosophical and theological background that shaped this influential doctrine of Christianity. Despite the centrality of Trinitarian thought to Christianity and its importance as one of the fundamental tenets that differentiates Christianity from Judaism and Islam, ... Read more

    $109.09 USD