In this first volume in the Sacra Doctrina series, Miroslav Volf explores the relationship between persons and community in Christian theology. The focus is the community of grace, the Christian church. The point of departure is the thought of the first Baptist, John Smyth, and the notion of church...
Author(s): Edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker & John Berthrong
Confucianism demonstrates a remarkable wealth of resources for rethinking human-earth relations. This second volume in the series on religions of the world and the environment includes sixteen essays that address the ecological crisis and the question of Confucianism from three perspectives: the...
Author(s): Harry S. Stout (Author), D. G. Hart (Author)
The eighteen essays collected in this book originate from a conference of the same title, held at the Wingspread Conference Center in October of 1993. Leading scholars were invited to reflect on their specialties in American religious history in ways that summarized both where the field is and...
Author(s): John Corrigan (Author), Frederick M. Denny (Author), Carlos M.N. Eire (Author), Martin S. Jaffee (Author)
A comparative introduction to significant readings found in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The book covers a wide range of historical periods up to the present day. The readings explore six major themes from the perspective of each tradition. The six major themes includes coverage of: Scripture...
Author(s): Randall M. Miller (Editor), Harry S. Stout (Editor), Charles Reagan Wilson (Editor)
The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War. The authors show that religion, understood in its broadest context as a culture and community of faith, was found wherever the war was...
Author(s): John J. Collins
Apocalyptic literature evokes an imaginative world that is set in deliberate counterpoint to the experiential world of the present. Apocalypticism thrives especially in times of crisis, and it functions by offering a resolution of the relevant crisis, not in practical terms but in terms of...
For the medieval mystical tradition, the Christian soul meets God in a "cloud of unknowing," a divine darkness of ignorance. This meeting with God is beyond all knowing and beyond all experiencing. Mysticisms of the modern period, on the contrary, place "mystical experience" at the center, and...
Author(s): Phyllis Granoff (Translator)
The stories collected in this volume reflect the rich tradition of medieval Jain storytelling between the seventh and fifteenth centuries, from simple folk tales and lives of famous monks to sophisticated narratives of rebirth. They describe they ways in which a path to peace and bliss can be found...
Author(s): Miroslav Volf, with Judith M. Gundry-Volf
A Spacious Heart is a call to people to help heal the world by embracing "others" as they remain true to themselves. Ethnic differences pose a challenge to churches to struggle for a just peace between cultures, and A Spacious Heart addresses this problem by exploring the key aspects of the problem...
Author(s): John J. Collins
Since the photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls were released in 1992, there has been an explosion of interest in them. This volume explores the issue of apocalypticism in the Scrolls; how the notions of the ‘end’, Messianic expectation and eternal life affected the Dead Sea sect, influenced Judaism...
