Does morality need God?Everyone, it seems, struggles with moral and ethical issues. On a daily basis, newspapers, television, radio and magazines feature the moral scandals of political, religious and business leaders--not to mention entertainers. Moral failure has become so common that it no...
Author(s): Adela Collins, with Hans Dieter Betz and Margaret Mary Mitchell
This volume pays tribute to the remarkable scholarship of Hans Dieter Betz, which has combined amazing range with consistency of vision. Defying the traditional boundaries of the academy, Hans Dieter Betz, Shailer Mathews Professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has made...
Author(s): Stephen J. Davis (author), W. Lyster (author), C. Hulsman (author), Gawdat Gabra (editor)
In this collaborative publication, I analyze ancient and early medieval evidence related to the story of Jesus, Mary,
and Joseph’s flight into Egypt. Examining a range of sources—from the Gospel of Matthew to medieval Arabic
homilies and vision narratives—I show how the practices of biblical...
There has been a debate between modern ethicists who see moral judgments as objectively corresponding to a moral reality independent of human opinion and those who insist that moral judgments are essentially expressions of our will. In this excellent philosophical work John Hare outlines a theory...
Author(s): Edited by Dwight F. Reynolds; Coauthors: Kristen E. Brustad, Michael Cooperson, Jamal J. Elias, Nuha N. N. Khoury, Joseph E. Lowry, Nasser Rabbat, Devin J. Stewart and Shawkat M. Toorawa
Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. Interpreting the Self ...
Author(s): Kathryn Tanner
With simplicity and elegance, Tanner sketches a historically informed vision of the faith. Chapter 1 recovers strands of early Christian accounts of Jesus and his significance for a very different age. Chapter 2 situates Christology in a religious vision of the whole cosmos, while Chapter 3 lays...
Author(s): Miroslav Volf (Editor), Dorothy C. Bass (Editor)
In a time when academic theology often neglects the lived practices of the Christian community, this volume seeks to bring balance to the situation by showing the dynamic link between the task of theology and the practices of the Christian life.
The work of thirteen first-rate theologians from...
Originally published: Harvard Dissertations in Religion 9.Missoula: Scholars Press, 1976
Author(s): Stephen J. Davis
My first book investigates the devotional practices, social institutions, and material artifacts connected with a
popular, but controversial, female saint in early Christianity. Marshalling literary, artistic, archaeological,
papyrological, and epigraphic evidence from Asia Minor and Egypt, I...
Author(s): K.C. Das, translated by Phyllis Granoff
K. C. Das is deservedly one of the most celebrated writers in India today. He writes primarily in Oriya, the language of his native state of Orissa, where he was born in 1924. A civil servant by profession, Das pursued a second career as a writer of stories, poems, and essays.The stories in this...
