Scott Douglas 
Bethlehem, the Year Jesus Was Born: Unwrapping the Theology Behind Christmas [EPUB ebook] 

Towards Liturgies that Reconcile reflects upon Christian worship as it is shaped, and mis-shaped, by human prejudice, specifically by racism. African Americans and European Americans have lived toget …

Near the end of his life, Michel Foucault turned his attention to the early church Fathers. He did so not for anything like a return to God but rather because he found in those sources alternatives f …

Bonaventure was a great pastor and preacher, and also a very effective teacher. His writing shows clarity and conviction, and his authority arose from his profound grasp of Scripture and patristic mo …

This ecological reading of the book of Ruth takes into account the power which this short story holds, speaking to the whole person by engaging each reader”s emotions, imagination, memory, and reaso …

Jeff Morgan argues that both Immanuel Kant and Søren Kierkegaard think of conscience as an individual”s moral self-awareness before God, specifically before the claim God makes on each person. This …

This volume examines the way in which cultural ideas about ’the heavens’ shape religious ideas and are shaped by them in return. Our approaches to cosmology have a profound effect on the way in which …

Orthodoxy has achieved a large scale revival in Russia following the collapse of Communism. However, paradoxically, although there is a high level of identification with Orthodoxy, there is in fact a …

Studying a rural village in northern Syria during a period of tremendous social and political change (1940s to 1970s), this book offers a unique perspective on how agrarian transformations in land di …

This book looks at the triadic relations between faith, the state and political actors, and the ideas that move them. It comprises a set of essays on diverse histories and ideas, ranging from Gandhia …