Christianity
Hindu Mission, Christian Mission
Offers a new, interreligious approach to questions of mission and conversion, grounded in a close study of the Chinmaya Mission, Ramakrishna Mission and other movements associated with the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta.
The Writing of Innocence
An original reading of Blanchot's thought with far-reaching philosophical and literary implications.
Unruly Catholic Feminists
Third- and fourth-wave feminists write about their experiences with Catholicism and their visions for the future of women in the Church.
Thinking Faith after Christianity
Examines theological motifs in the work of Jan Patočka, drawing out their implications for contemporary theology and philosophy of religion.
The Split God
Offers a critical Pentecostal philosophy of God that challenges orthodox Christianity.
Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora
Captures how Indian Protestant Christians negotiate their religious and cultural identities within the Indian diaspora.
The Sufi and the Friar
An investigation of the spiritual encounter between a twentieth-century Dominican friar and an eleventh-century Afghani Sufi master.
Beyond Memory
Uncovers an overlooked aspect of the Italian American experience.
The Divine Quest, East and West
Looks at the concept of Ultimate Reality in Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity.
Fetishizing Tradition
Describes how religious tradition is established as available within a text, free from ritual and observance, in Buddhism and Christianity.
Preaching in My Yes Dress
The frank and funny story of a church-geek girl who spent twenty years in the ecclesiastical trenches as a Lutheran pastor, preaching weekly words of hope she wasn’t sure she even believed.
Women, Ritual, and Power
Reveals the triumphs and struggles of contemporary Christian congregations to express female imagery of God in worship.
Resurrecting the Death of God
Considers the legacy and future of radical theology.
Christianity without God
Argues that Christianity does not require its supernatural aspects.
From Every Mountainside
Essays on the civil rights movement outside the South and since the 1960s.
In the Company of Friends
Buddhist-Christian reflection that uses friendship as a model for interreligious understanding.
The Call to Radical Theology
The major death-of-God theologian explores the meaning and purpose of radical theology.
Theology within the Bounds of Language
Explores the use of language in Christian theology.
An Endless Trace
An impressionistic history of the Western spiritual tradition.
The Perfect Rule of the Christian Religion
A history of the Sandemanians, a little-known but ultimately influential Christian sect in colonial America.
Reform and Resistance
Explores the relationship between gender and identity in early medieval Germanic societies.
Freedom, Faith, and Dogma
A collection of works by nineteenth-century Russian religious philosopher V. S. Soloviev, critic of secularization, anti-Semitism, and the religious life of his time.
The Trinity and Creation in Augustine
Looks at Augustine’s theology in light of environmental concerns.
Mystery of The Night Café
Explores the spiritual vision of Van Gogh’s painting The Night Café.
In Deference to the Other
Explores the work of Bernard Lonergan in light of contemporary continental thought.
God, Evil, and Human Learning
Revises the traditional free will defense regarding the existence of evil in the world of a loving God.
The Structure of Religious Knowing
Provides a critical exploration of Mircea Eliade's notion of the sacred by referencing the work of Bernard Lonergan.
Bernard Lonergan's Philosophy of Religion
Explicates the philosophy of religion emerging from the work of Bernard Lonergan, the esteemed theologian who reinvigorated Catholic thought in the twentieth century.
Faith, Truth, and Freedom
Examines the expulsion of Professor Gerd Lüdemann from the Theology Faculty at the University of Göttingen.
The Church as Counterculture
Explores a new Christian identity in which churches reclaim their roles as communities of disciples to constitute a countercultural reality and challenge to secular society and existing power relations.
Jesus' Teaching on Repentance
Based on a close reading of New Testament passages, Choi counters the theses on repentance and restitution proposed by New Testament scholar E. P. Sanders.
The Place of the Psalms in the Intellectual Culture of the Middle Ages
Surveys the influence of the Psalms in the Middle Ages, giving a unique window into the intellectual, spiritual, and emotional culture of the period.
Trithemius and Magical Theology
An examination of Trithemius's "magical theology," which argued for the compatibility of magic and Christian doctrines, and its influence during the Renaissance and Reformation.
Fidelity with Plausibility
The task of interpreting the religious significance of Jesus Christ takes shape in this book with the tension determined by two goals: fidelity to the classical Christological tradition, which draws our ...
Guide to the Bible
An accessible introduction to the Bible.
The Contemporary Jesus
Integrates a contemporary understanding of Jesus with the most powerful, imaginative visions of Jesus in philosophy, literature, and religion.
The Brotherhood of the Common Life and Its Influence
This book presents a lost tradition of inner work, the way of the householder, which was believed by the Brotherhood of Common Life to have been the teaching of the Apostles. It focuses on the emergence, ...
All Things to All People
This book examines the Roman Catholic Church in the United States as it responds to the AIDS crisis and persons with AIDS from a critical sociological perspective using organizational theory.
Religion, Theology, and American Public Life
In this book, Linell Cady analyzes the role of religion and theology in American public life.
The Protestant Presence in Twentieth-Century America
Protestantism has undergone a shift in its relationship with American culture and politics. This book analyzes and evaluates that shift. The author shows how Protestantism began in America as a vibrant ...
The Path to No-Self
This book shows how, once we have adjusted to the unitive state, the spiritual journey moves on to yet another more final ending.
In our major religious traditions, the outstanding milestone in the spiritual ...
World Order and Religion
This book looks at religion from a global perspective and examines how religion is shaped by the larger set of political and economic relationships that make up today's world. Focusing mainly on Western ...
Knights of Faith and Resignation
Knights of Faith and Resignation brings out the richness of Kierkegaard's creative invention, the contemporary relevance of his contrasts between resignation and faith, and his probing conceptual analysis ...