Law, Religion and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism

John Witte, Jr

John Calvin developed arresting new teachings on rights and liberties, church and state that shaped the law of early modern ...

A History

Justo González, Ondina Esther González

Christianity has had an undeniable impact on Latin America, which has in turn transformed Christianity itself. Focusing on this mutually constitutive relationship, Christianity ...

Edited by Frances Young, Lewis Ayres, Andrew Louth, Assisted by Augustine Casiday

Christian literature in the period c. 100 - c. 400 constitutes one of the most influential textual oeuvres of any religion. Written ...

Pink Dandelion

This is the first comprehensive introduction to Quakerism which balances a history of the theology of the Quakers or Friends ...

Edited by Timothy Larsen, Daniel J. Treier

Evangelicalism, a vibrant and growing expression of historic Christian orthodoxy, is one of the largest and most geographically diverse global ...

The Incarnation Reconsidered

Oliver D. Crisp

The Incarnation is a fundamental Christian doctrine. In this study Oliver Crisp addresses six key issues in the Incarnation, in ...

Michael P. Hornsby-Smith

Michael Hornsby-Smith offers a critical introduction to Catholic social thought. While drawing on official papal and episcopal teaching, he takes ...

The Coherence of Christology

Marilyn McCord Adams

Who would the Saviour have to be, what would the Saviour have to do to rescue human beings from the ...

A Biography

Henry Ansgar Kelly

Contrary to the standard Christian view of Satan as the rebel angel Lucifer, the Devil of the New Testament is ...

Nicholas Adams

How can the world's religious traditions engage in debate with each other within the public sphere? In this book Nicholas ...

Edited by Donald K. McKim

During the past several decades more attention has been focused upon John Calvin's (1509-1564) biblical interpretation as found in his ...

Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science

John F. Haught

The belief that nature is all there is and that no overall purpose exists in the universe is known broadly ...

Nancey Murphy

Are humans composed of a body and a nonmaterial mind or soul, or are we purely physical beings? In this ...

Michael Purcell

Emmanuel Levinas was a significant twentieth century thinker in the fields of philosophy, phenomenology, and religion. He wrote about the ...

Celia Deane-Drummond

In the immediate future we are likely to witness significant developments in human genetic science. It is therefore of critical ...

Edited by Jacqueline Mariña

Known as the 'Father of modern theology' Friedrich Schleiermacher is without a doubt one of the most important theologians in ...

Edited by Declan Marmion, Mary E. Hines

Karl Rahner (1904 - 1984) was one of the most significant theological voices of the twentieth century. Part of his enduring appeal ...

A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification

Alister E. McGrath

The doctrine of justification is of major importance to Christian theologians and played a central role in the Reformation. This ...

David Fergusson

At a time when secular liberalism is in crisis and when the civic contribution of religion is being re-assessed, the ...

Graham Ward

What is the relationship between Christian theology as a set of various practices - liturgies, Bible readings, academic research, doctrinal ...

Edited by David Bagchi, David C. Steinmetz

The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology is a comprehensive guide to the theology and theologians of the Reformation period. Each ...

Denys Turner

The proposition that the existence of God is demonstrable by rational argument is doubted by nearly all philosophical opinion today ...

Edited by Edward T. Oakes, S. J., David Moss

Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905 - 1988) is one of the most prolific, creative and wide-ranging theologians of the twentieth century who ...

World, Eucharist, Reason

Oliver Davies

Theological tradition has lost the sense of the createdness of the world, leading to a complete disjunction between the way ...

Global Charismatic Christianity

Allan Anderson

Pentecostalism is the fastest expanding religious movement in the world today. In an innovative approach, Allan Anderson aims to make ...

Edited by John Parratt

This book provides the first overview of the main trends and contributions to Christian thought of Third World theologies. Gathering ...

Edited by Donald K. McKim

Dr Donald K. McKim gathers together an international array of major Calvin scholars to consider phases of Calvin's theological thought ...

Douglas J. Davies

Highly visible, yet a mystery in terms of its core beliefs and theological structure, the Church of Jesus Christ of ...

Pluralism, Spirituality, Leadership

Douglas A. Hicks

How can company leaders and employees negotiate their different religious and spiritual commitments in the workplace? At a time of ...

A Dogmatic Sketch

John Webster

May we speak, in the present age, of holy scripture? John Webster argues that while any understanding of scripture must ...

Oliver O'Donovan

Leading political theologian Oliver O’Donovan takes a fresh look at some traditional moral arguments about war. Christians differ widely on ...

A Liturgical Theology for Late Modernity

Graham Hughes

How, in this age of belief, can we make sense of the act of Christian worship? Convinced that people shape ...

Edited by Kevin J. Vanhoozer

Theologians have responded in many different ways to the challenges posed by theories of postmodernity. In this introductory guide to ...

Peter Scott

This book offers a Christian response to ecological crisis, arguing that our present-day ecological problems are due to the displacement ...

God, Grammar, and Meaning

Andrew Moore

The question of realism - that is, whether God exists independently of human beings - is central to much contemporary ...

Nicholas Saunders

Divine Action and Modern Science considers the relationship between the natural sciences and the concept of God acting in the ...

Darlene Fozard Weaver

Our contemporary moral climate urges self-realization and suggests that we determine for ourselves what sorts of acts and relations make ...

John Binns

This clear and accessible introduction describes the life of the Orthodox Churches of the Christian East from the accession of ...

The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation

John Witte, Foreword by Martin E. Marty

The Lutheran Reformation of the early sixteenth century brought about immense and far-reaching change in the structures of both church ...

S. J. Michael Barnes

Michael Barnes SJ contributes to the debate about the place of inter-religious relations in the life of the Church by ...

Adrian Thatcher

Living Together and Christian Ethics is the first positive, in-depth study of cohabitation outside marriage from a mainstream Christian theological ...

A Christology of Symbolic Engagement

Robert Cummings Neville

This is a systematic theology focusing on what makes Jesus important in Christianity. Robert Cummings Neville, a leading philosophical theologian, ...

Richard H. Roberts

Religion, Theology and the Human Sciences explores the religious consequences of the so-called "end of history" and "triumph of capitalism" ...

Edited by Markus Bockmuehl

This Companion takes as its starting point the realization that Jesus of Nazareth cannot be studied purely as a subject ...

Edited by Robin Gill

Following the same formula as other Cambridge Companions, this book is written by leading international experts in Christian ethics and ...

Gordon Graham

Genocide in Rwanda, multiple murder at Denver or Dunblane, the gruesome activities of serial killers - what makes these great ...

Edited by John Webster

This authoritative book introducing Karl Barth offers challenging yet accessible accounts of the major features of Barth’s theological work, especially ...

Stephen R. L. Clark

This stimulating and wide-ranging book mounts a profound enquiry into some of the most pressing questions of our age, by ...

Practical-Prophetic Ecclesiology

Nicholas M. Healy

Modern ecclesiology is too concerned with the ideal church, and pays too little attention to its sinful everyday life. Pluralism ...

Douglas A. Hicks

Are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer? Inequality and Christian Ethics addresses this question at an international ...

A Study of Abraham and Jesus

R. W. L. Moberly

R.W.L. Moberly's aim is to "read the Bible for all it is worth", by connecting the minutiae of biblical scholarship ...

Jeremy S. Begbie

Theology, Music and Time shows ways in which music can deepen our understanding of the Christian God and his involvement ...