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  • Apostolic and Prophetic

    Ecclesiological Perspectives

    by Gesa E. Thiessen ...
    Apostolic and Prophetic promotes a vision of the church as apostolic, ecumenical, and radical. It explores the meaning of each of these ecclesial marks and their intrinsic connections. The volume thus draws a wide span between the apostolic past (tradition) and a radical perspective on the present and future ecumenical church. The book considers the concept of apostolicity emerging in patristic ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Love with Islam, Believing in Jesus

    by Richard Kimball, Marie Salaün, Masha Refka, Norbert Hintersteiner, Declan Marmion, Gesa Thiessen, Judith Gruber ...
    Series Book 17 - Studies in Theology, Society and Culture
    «At long last, English-speaking readers now have access to the most comprehensive and insightful account of the vision that inspires the rapprochement and lived interreligious dialogue between Christians and Muslims inaugurated in the life and thought of the late Paolo Dall’Oglio S.J., and the interreligious community of al-Khalil in the monastery of Mar Musa in Syria. This book is «must reading» ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Status and Stigma

    A Comparative History of Christians in China and in Korea

    by Declan Marmion, Gesa Thiessen, Norbert Hintersteiner, Judith Gruber, Leopold Leeb ...
    Series Book 20 - Studies in Theology, Society and Culture
    This comparative study of the history of Christianity in China and in Korea opens up new perspectives for the understanding of the presence of the Christian faith in East Asia. Following the historical sequence throughout the last four centuries the author narrates the biographies of several outstanding Christians from China and Korea and attempts to understand them in their respective cultural ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Karl Rahner’s Writings on Literature, Music and the Visual Arts

    by Dr Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen ...
    This book is made up of a collection of texts unavailable in one volume until now, including six previously untranslated essays, from a major theologian of the twentieth century.Rahner's numerous writings focused on the revelation of God as mystery in the world and on the human being who has an essential openness towards the transcendent. His articles reveal an empathy and a depth of insight into ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • One Dragon, Two Doves

    A Comparative History of the Catholic Church in China and in Vietnam

    by Leopold Leeb, Declan Marmion, Gesa Thiessen, Norbert Hintersteiner, Judith Gruber ...
    Series Book 16 - Studies in Theology, Society and Culture
    This comparative study of the history of the Catholic Church in China and Vietnam from the seventeenth to the twentieth century opens up new perspectives for the understanding of the presence of Christianity in Asia. The author narrates the biographies of a number of outstanding missionaries and Christians from China and Vietnam and tries to understand them in their respective historical ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Critical Questions in Contemporary Theology: Essays in Honour of Dermot A. Lane

    by Norbert Hintersteiner, Declan Marmion, Gesa Thiessen, Judith Gruber ...
    Series Book 18 - Studies in Theology, Society and Culture
    «What an extraordinarily strong and beautiful collection of essays! Ranging from studies of the Bible and liturgy through various facets of theology and philosophy to political and interreligious dialogue, not one piece fails to deliver some new insight to the reader. It speaks well to the significance of Dermot Lane’s life and work that such an excellent medley has been assembled. In paying this ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Performing Christ

    South African Protest Theatre and the Theological Dramatic Theory of Hans Urs von Balthasar

    by Marthinus Havenga, Norbert Hintersteiner, Declan Marmion, Gesa Thiessen ...
    Series Book 15 - Studies in Theology, Society and Culture
    In the latter part of the twentieth century, against the backdrop of the Sharpeville Massacre and the Soweto Uprising, theatre became a central means of artistic resistance in apartheid South Africa. One of the most significant plays from this time was Woza Albert!, which was created and staged by the actor-duo Percy Mtwa and Mbongeni Ngema, with the help and creative input of the renowned theatre ... Read more

    $60.19 USD

  • «Succeed Here and in Eternity»

    The Prosperity Gospel in Ghana

    by Wilfred Asampambila Agana, Norbert Hintersteiner, Declan Marmion, Gesa Thiessen ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Theology, Society and Culture
    This book presents a qualitative study of the «Gospel of Prosperity» preached by the Charismatic and Neo-Pentecostal churches in Ghana, with a particular focus on its soteriological significance. The author explores the concept of the Gospel of Prosperity from a number of different angles, surveying its historical and ideological background, analysing its specific context in a Ghanaian environment ... Read more

    $91.49 USD

  • Remembering the Reformation

    Martin Luther and Catholic Theology

    Edited by Declan Marmion, Salvador Ryan, Gesa E. Thiessen ...
    The dramatic unfolding of events after Martin Luther’s revolutionary act led to the ultimate, and seemingly irreparable, fissure with Roman Catholicism: excommunication and schism. From the point of that rupture, up to and including most of the 20th century, the history of theological and ecclesial readings of Luther has been controlled largely by a rubric assuming the inevitability of fracture ... Read more

    $71.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vatican II in Ireland, Fifty Years On

    Essays in Honour of Pádraic Conway

    by Norbert Hintersteiner, Declan Marmion, Gesa Thiessen ...
    Series Book 12 - Studies in Theology, Society and Culture
    This book commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, which concluded in 1965. A selection of essays by distinguished Irish theologians offers an objective assessment of the historical reception and pastoral implementation of Vatican II in Ireland with the benefit of half a century’s hindsight. The authors discuss from a variety of different perspectives the theological ... Read more

    $61.69 USD

  • Embodied Peacebuilding

    Reconciliation as Practical Theology

    by Leah Robinson, Norbert Hintersteiner, Declan Marmion, Gesa Thiessen ...
    Series Book 11 - Studies in Theology, Society and Culture
    In the areas of peacebuilding and conflict resolution, the word ‘reconciliation’ has often been branded a negative term because it implies a resolution agreed upon by all parties in a given society, which for many seems an unachievable ideal. This book looks at the concept of reconciliation from a theological point of view, analysing its use historically within theology and presenting a new model ... Read more

    $77.09 USD

  • The Beauty of Holiness

    Giotto’s Passion Frescoes as a Prelude to the Artistic Afterlife of the Supper at Emmaus

    by Brian Leslie Bishop ...
    In this book, Brian Bishop simply pauses to look at fifty-seven beautiful images that feature the life and death of Jesus and the supper at which he appeared three days after his burial to two broken-hearted disciples. He finds the visual approach to the gospel stories rewarding and attempts to place the paintings in some historical context as an aid to understanding, but, essentially offers ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus