This book explores the historical relations between science and religion and discusses contemporary issues with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biology and bioethics.
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Deze serie biedt inzichtelijke verkenningen van belangrijke onderwerpen en invloedrijke figuren binnen theologie en religiewetenschap. Elk deel bevat opdrachten essays van vooraanstaande internationale wetenschappers, die een toegankelijke maar stimulerende introductie bieden. Het is speciaal ontworpen om nieuwe lezers en niet-specialisten wegwijs te maken in complexe onderwerpen. Deze metgezellen dienen als uitstekende bronnen voor studenten en iedereen die op zoek is naar een dieper begrip van religieus denken en praktijk.
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The Cambridge Companion to the Problem of Evil
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This Companion offers a state-of-the-art contribution by providing critical analyses of and creative insights on the problem of evil.
For students, teachers, lecturers, clergy and lay people who are curious about the gospels: why are there four gospels, not just one or more than four?; what is a gospel anyway?; what is the distinctive flavour of each gospel?; why have the gospels had such an impact down through history?; and what do scholars make of the gospels today?
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Political Theology
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This volume explores contemporary Christian political theology, discussing its traditional sources, its emergence as a discipline, and its key issues.
The Cambridge Companion to Augustine
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This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.
Written by international experts, this Companion provides an authoritative and comparative study of miracles in the major world religions, as well as older, indigenous religions. The authors promote a discussion of the problems of miracles in our diverse and secular culture, and of the value of miracles in religious belief.
The Cambridge Companion to Reformed Theology
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This volume provides an authoritative and detailed introduction to the doctrinal positions, central figures, and historic contexts of Reformed theology.
The Cambridge Companion to John Henry Newman
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John Henry Newman (1801–90) was a major figure in nineteenth-century religious history. He was one of the major protagonists of the Oxford or Tractarian Movement within the Church of England whose influence continues to be felt within Anglicanism. A high-profile convert to Catholicism, he was an important commentator on Vatican I and is often called 'the Father' of the Second Vatican Council. Newman's thinking highlights and anticipates the central themes of modern theology including hermeneutics, the importance of historical-critical research, the relationship between theology and literature, and the reinterpretation of the nature of faith. His work is characterised by two elements that have come especially to the fore in post-modern theology, namely, the importance of the religious imagination and the fiduciary character of all knowledge. This Companion fills a need for an accessible, comprehensive and systematic presentation of the major themes in Newman's work.
The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience
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The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience offers a state-of-the-art contribution by providing critical analyses of and creative insights to the nature of religious experience. Written by leading scholars in clear and accessible prose, this book is ideal for students, teachers, and scholars across many disciplines.
A book for undergraduate and graduate students and for those seeking to deepen their understanding of black theology. Its interdisciplinary approach puts theological themes in conversation with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, social analysis, the study of religion, politics, cultural studies, class/economics, history and globalization.
The Cambridge Companion to Sufism
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This book traces the evolution of Sufism from the formative period to the present.
A collection of essays by some of the most accomplished scholars in the field exploring the life and legacy of the Prophet.
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology
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This Companion is for students, lay people, and scholars who want a one volume review of the tradition of Jewish Theology from the Bible to the present. Established world scholars present up to date and accessible essays on all aspects of Jewish Theology.
The Cambridge Companion to St Paul provides an important assessment of the apostle Paul and a fresh appreciation of his continuing significance today. With eighteen chapters written by a team of leading international Pauline specialists, this Companion will have wide appeal and provide an invaluable starting point for subsequent studies. schovat popis
The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law
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The Cambridge Companion to Judaism and Law provides a conceptual and historical account of the Jewish understanding of law.
The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an
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The Qur'an (Koran) is the primary religious text for more than a billion people. Understood by Muslims to contain God's own words, it has been an object of reverence and intense study for centuries. This unique guide will help students clarify the complexities of text and commentary of the Qur'an.
This Companion volume offers a sweeping survey of the Bible as a work of literature and its impact on Western writing. Individual essays explore topics which unravel the complex and subtle character of biblical stories, ethical injunctions, and legal texts, and examine how Western authors such as Milton and Shelley were inspired by them.
An up-to-date, innovative, highly accessible introduction to Quaker studies, the first that is explicitly global in its authorship and giving full coverage of the different branches of Quakerism. Includes major sections on the history of Quaker faith and practice, expressions of Quaker faith, regional studies, and emerging spiritualities.
The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible and Ethics
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Drawing connections between ancient and contemporary ethical problems, this Companion addresses a variety of topics, including student loan debt, criminal justice reform, ethnicity and inclusion, family systems, and military violence. It is important reading for a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate level courses in ethics.
This volume addresses the key features of new religions, such as Scientology, the Moonies and Jihadist movements, from a systematic, comparative perspective.
The Cambridge Companion to the Summa Theologiae
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This Companion offers an accessible, comprehensive guide to the contents, context, and enduring influence of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae.
The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions'
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An authoritative guide to Augustine's Confessions - a literary classic and one of the most important theological/philosophical works of Late Antiquity. This Cambridge Companion demonstrate how each generation reads the Confessions in light of current questions and circumstances, and how the text continues to remain relevant and raise new questions.
The Cambridge Companion to Religion and Terrorism
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Does religion cause terrorism? This volume presents a range of theories and case studies that address this important issue.
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism is a multi-authored interdisciplinary guide to the study of Christian mysticism, with an emphasis on the third through the seventeenth centuries. This volume both provides a clear introduction to the Christian mystical life and articulates a bold new approach to the study of mysticism.
Orthodox Christianity, building on its patristic foundations, has blossomed in the modern period. This volume focuses on the way Orthodox theological tradition is understood and lived today. As well as discussing aspects of doctrine, the book portrays the main figures, themes and developments that have helped to shape Orthodox thought.
This book is a comprehensive single-volume study written by an international team of scholars to survey C. S. Lewis's career as a literary historian, popular theologian, and creative writer. Original in its approach and unique in its scope, it shows that Lewis was much more than merely the man behind Narnia.
The Cambridge Companion to Jesus
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This Companion's starting point is the realization that Jesus of Nazareth cannot be studied purely as a subject of ancient history, or as "a man like any other man". History, literature, theology and the dynamic of a living, worldwide religious reality appropriately impinge on the study of Jesus. This book therefore incorporates the most up-to-date historical work on Jesus with the "larger issues" of critical method--the story of Christian faith and study, as well as Jesus in a global church and in the encounter with Judaism and Islam.
The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
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Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature has captivated theologians, writers, artists, and the general public for centuries, and has had a profound influence on world history since its initial production by persecuted Jews during the second century BCE. This Companion brings together leading experts for a comprehensive overview of the subject.
The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
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This introduction focuses not only on historical questions - authorship, date, historical setting and literary genre - but also considers the gospels as texts of Christian scripture which have inspired the faith and worship of the church down the ages. The contributors include theologians and ethicists as well as New Testament scholars.
The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul
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The New Cambridge Companion to St Paul provides an invaluable entryway into the study of Paul and his letters. Composed of sixteen essays by an international team of scholars, it explores some of the key issues in the current study of his dynamic and demanding theological discourse.
The Cambridge Companion to the Trinity
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This Companion explores how the Christian doctrine of the Trinity has been understood and articulated in the last two thousand years.
