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Due to the critical thinking of enlightenment and political changes, Christianity in Europe has lost the central position in society. This title analyses the interaction of mission and individual, the construction of Self and Other in the context of mission.

Thanks to the recent return to religion, the holy has become a relevant issue in public debate as concepts such as re-sacralization and re-enchantment suggest. This situation calls for a reassessment of both classical and new theories about the holy. This book deals with this topic.

Emergentism, as a metaphysical option between Reductive Physicalism and Substance Dualism, provides a space for free will to be both experientially balanced and evidentially accurate. With Emergentism, the author believes Philip Hefner's model of human being (the created co-creator) to be a valuable place to look for dialogue.

Brings together insights from religion (represented by Buddhism and Christianity) and science to address the question, What can we know about reality? In this book, science and religion engage each other in the human endeavour to understand a reality tantalizingly beyond our ability to understand fully.

Science deeply challenges classical descriptions of the human person as free and as spirit. This survey of contemporary neuroscience and evolutionary biology explores why these challenges have arisen.

Are religious spiritual experiences merely the product of the human nervous system? The author investigates the potential of contemporary neuroscience to explain religious experiences.

Includes the individual-soteric-microcosmic level or ordo salutis unfolding analogous to the redemptive-historical-macrocosmic level or historia salutis.

Explores the ecclesiology of John Calvin based upon his commentary on the Minor Prophets (1557-1559). This title takes a historical-systematic approach in presenting Calvin's view of the church.

For centuries prior to the Reformation, Christian theologians identified Adam's natural relationship to humankind as the basis for its participation in his own guilt and corruption. The Dominican theologian Ambrogio Catarino challenged the validity of this traditional dogma. This book exposits Catarino's doctrine of covenantal solidarity.

Can wars catalyse religious change? This study examines the impact of the Thirty Years War through analysis of four preachers and twenty-five historiographers from Erfurt, in Central Germany.

Contains contributions by scholars from many countries, mostly European. This book includes four chapters: Transformations and historical turning points in the twentieth century; The world wars and their repercussions for the churches; The post-war period; and, Christian Europe - Globalization - internationalization.

Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Helsinki, 2012.

Analyzes the language (poetics) of ancient Jewish historical apocalypses. This title investigates how the dramatis personae, that is, deities, angels/demons, and humans are described in the "Book of Daniel", the "Animal Apocalypse", 4QFourKingdoms(a-b) ar, the "Book of the Words of Noah", the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C, and 4QPseudo-Daniel(a-b) ar.

Argues that the narratives from "Genesis" to "Second Kings" present a sophisticated argument for political obligation and for limited monarchy as the best form of government.

Die judische Literatur aus der Zeit des Zweiten Tempels zeichnet sich durch extensiven Gebrauch autoritativer Schriften aus. Die Textfunde von Qumran haben dieses Charakteristikum antik-judischer Literatur besonders deutlich gemacht.

Presents the proceedings of an international and interdisciplinary symposium on the intertextuality of ancient literature and its medieval and modern receptions.

In Lutheran Germany of the post-Reformation era (ca 1580-1750), a genre of pastoral, ethical writings arose that consisted in casuistry and in topically or thematically related theological counsels. This title shows that this casuistry literature was intended to instruct and comfort the consciences of Christians.

Der vorliegende Band beinhaltet 15, zT noch unveroffentlichte Aufsatze von Saul M. Olyan. Der Autor beschaftigt sich mit Klassifikationen in biblischen Texten und ihren sozialen Auswirkungen. Besonders widmet er sich den Klassifizierungen die Ungleichheiten in der Umwelt des Textes hervorrufen.

Contains the proceedings of the conference entitled Halakhah in Light of Epigraphy held on 29 May, 2008 under the auspices of the David and Jemima Jeselsohn Center for Epigraphy at Bar-Ilan University.

A study that is concerned with working out the interests brought to bear on each film project by their initiators and the impact each has made on the image of Luther in film in its historical context.