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Rorty and Lyotard argue that any claim to know God is necessarily tyrannical. This book suggests that our knowedge of God and love of the Other are so intimately connected that we cannot have one without the other. It also proposes that an effective theological response to postmodernity must address knowledge and ethics in an integrated fashion.

Explores the role of altered states of consciousness in the communication of social and emotional energies, both on a societal level and between individual persons. Drawing from an original reading of Durkheimian social theorists and Jungian psychology, this work applies this analysis to tantric Buddhist ritual and biographical material.

Outlines a model for incorporating Nietzschean thought within the structures of a wholly traditional Christological anthropology. This book culminates in a doctrine of reconciliation which is given urgency and coherence through such reinvigoration of traditional accounts using Nietzschean thought.

Explores the recurrent tension between scholarly approaches to the translation and interpretation of the Bible, and the authority of the Church and the place of the Bible in the life of the Church.

Headed by an international editorial advisory board of acclaimed scholars spanning the breadth of religious studies, theology and biblical studies, this open-ended monograph series presents cutting- edge research from both established and new authors in the field.

A writer of essays and sermons, Hauerwas is a maverick, more of a preacher than an academic, but his belief in differentiating between sanctification and justification sets him apart from many thinkers in the field of Christian liberation theology apologetics.

Despite the nature worship in India, its natural resources are under heavy pressure with its growing economy and exploding population. Does nature worship inspire Hindus to act in an environmentally conscious way? This book explores the above questions with three communities, the Swadhyaya movement, the Bishnoi, and the Bhil communities.

Explores the construction of Christian identity in fourth and fifth centuries through inventing, fabricating and sharpening binary oppositions. Discussing the relations and interaction between pagan and Christian cultures, this book examines how the Christian argumentation against pagans was intertwined with self-perception and self-affirmation.

Analyzes the writings of Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Deshika to disclose how each construes 'piety' and 'responsibility' as integral to each other. This book explores the unity in ecumenical and interreligious frameworks, showing how these authors privilege theology as practice, enactment, or simply as ethical.

What is sacrifice? For many people today the word has negative overtones, suggesting loss, or death, or violence. But in religions, ancient and modern, the word is linked primarily to joyous feasting which puts people in touch with the deepest realities. John Dunnill's study brings together insights from social anthropology, biblical studies.

Being divine seems to entail being omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent, but the New Testament portrays Jesus as having human properties. It seems logically impossible that any single individual could possess such mutually exclusive sets of properties.

T F Torrance's vision of theosis (deification/divinization) is explored through his doctrine of creation and anthropology, his characterization of the incarnation, his accounts of reconciliation and union with Christ, and his theology of church and sacraments. This book presents a critique of the theology of Torrance to focus on theosis.

Anselm's "Proslogion" has sparked controversy from the time it was written (c 1077) to the present day. This title goes back to basics, to the Latin text of the "Proslogion" with an original parallel English translation, tracing the twists and turns of this controversy.

Advances our understanding of the so-called New Age phenomenon by analysing accounts of insiders' religious experience and orientations. This approach is brought to bear not only on the study of written documents relating to New Age and its putative antecedents, but on the analysis of in-depth interviews with thirty-five spiritual actors.

Explores the Pentecostal and charismatic movements, tracing their development and their variety. This book shows how these movements of the Holy Spirit, both outside the mainline churches and as renewal currents within the churches, can be understood as mutually challenging and as complementary.

This book demonstrates how discussions of Political Theology have been a constant feature throughout philosophical modernity and that they continue to impact contemporary political debates.

The central thesis of this book is that putting the work of Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian realism in dialogue with contemporary virtue theory is a profitable undertaking. .

This book seeks to remedy this deficiency through a breadth of reflection upon human resilience from canonical biblical and Christian theological sources.

This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living philosophers of religion.

This book offers a critical evaluation of the prospects and boundaries of an updated metaphor of the Body of Christ, especially in its cosmic dimension. The body motif in particular contains starting points for current body discourses of gender-sensitive and ecological theologies, especially in their mutual overlaps.

This book takes a multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary approach to religion, religiosity and theology from their earliest beginnings to the present day.

This volume is a response to Pope Francis¿s environmental encyclical Laudato Si¿.

This book deals with the intellectual aspects of having diverse religious expressions in proximity and the socio-political consequences. It provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on this complex subject.

This book focuses on recognition and its relation to religion and theology, in both systematic and historical dimensions. Exploring early Christian and Medieval sources on recognition and religion, it also offers contemporary applications of this underexplored combination.

The growth of the "nones" and those who describe themselves as "spiritual but not religious" creates a pressing need for theological thinking not bound by prescribed doctrines and fixed rituals. This book responds to this vital need.