Doctrine & Theology - General

Before his conversion to Christianity, A E Orobator was raised in the practice of traditional African religion - animism. This repository of Africa...

Arguably the most influential American theologian since Jonathan Edwards, Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was the one American who found a comfortable...

The aim of systematic theology is to engage not only the head, but also the heart and hands. Only recently has the church compartmentalized these a...

This book is comprised of the 2001 Sprunt Lectures at Union Theological Seminary and the Presbyterian School of Christian Education. The pieces add...

What is Reformed theology? For some, it's all about the covenants. Others think of the Five Points of Calvinism or doctrines such as election and p...

This book introduces Reformed theology by surveying the doctrinal concerns that have shaped its historical development. The book sketches the diver...

Reformed Confessions of the Sixteenth Century makes available a number of confessional documents that are not easily accessible elsewhere. Arthur C...

An important contribution to both philosophy of religion and Christian apologetics, defending Alvin Plantinga's central principle in Warranted Chri...

Herman Bavinck's four-volume  Reformed Dogmatics  is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century. The recently completed E...

Reformation Thought, 4th edition offers an ideal introduction to the central ideas of the European reformations for students of theology and histor...

This book grew out of years of reflections on real women's experiences. From them, Ann Ulanov states, "a common voice emerged speaking about each w...

Oliphint sets forth a Christian approach to thinking philosophically. Arguments against Christianity are increasingly taking place on a worldview o...

Reading the New Testament as Christian Scripture is designed to meet the needs of contemporary evangelical undergraduates. This survey textbook eff...

Every PhD student in biblical studies is expected to read German, but there are surprisingly few resources to help students learn to read and trans...

Leading Barth interpreter Kimlyn Bender provides an introduction to the essence of Barth's theology, emphasizing themes that speak to the concerns ...

In this special collection, the second of two volumes, Hans Frei (1922û1988) reflects on such thinkers as Emmanuel Kant, Karl Barth and Richard Nie...

Hans Frei (1922û1988) was perhaps the leading Anselmian theologian of his generation. His influence is extensive in contemporary theology, and his ...

Luke-Acts contains many and diverse female characters, many of whom play significant roles in the unfolding drama of God's plan of salvation throug...

In ancient societies and religion, the concept of purity was of central importance; in many modern societies it is either irrelevant or, when it is...

Too often scholars impose on the past modern terms and theories. This is particularly evident concerning discussions of divine sovereignty and huma...

'What we believe about God is the single most important thing about us." This is a call to all Christians-but especially to Christian women-to enga...

The rift between black theology, with its social and political concerns, and black churches, with their emphases on pastoral care and piety, has be...

Practical Theology used to be a subject where students were left to fend for themselves, using what they had learnt from their scholarly studies in...

In this collection, six leading theologians on political theology explore the contemporary states and potential future of the discipline. Offering ...

In this collection, six leading theologians on political theology explore the contemporary states and potential future of the discipline. Offering ...

In this exploration of John Calvin's political thought, Roland Boer treats Calvin as a biblical scholar and political philosopher, showing us elusi...

Power corrupts―as we've seen time and time again. People too often abuse their power and play god in the lives of others. Shady politicians, corru...

In this book, William May considers the images that shape the convictions and daily practice of the physician--images that can order experience and...

Philosophy for Understanding Theology has become the classic text for exploring the relationship between philosophy and Christian theology. This ne...

Two experienced educators offer an up-to-date introduction to philosophy from a Christian perspective that covers the four major areas of philosoph...

What is the philosophy of religion? How can we distinguish it from theology on the one hand and the psychology/sociology of religious belief on the...

Philosophical Theology and Christian Doctrine surveys and comments on recent work by philosophers of religion in the analytic tradition on the doct...

Henry D. Rack is one of the most profound historians of the Methodist movement in modern times. He has spent a lifetime researching and writing abo...

Pentecostalism is the most rapidly growing branch of Christianity since the 20th century, yet it does not lend itself well to a singular doctrine a...

Pentecostals (traditionally) do not think theologically so much as do it practically. This book will present Pentecostal theology as well as the pa...

In Participating in God, Paul Fiddes seeks to develop an image of God that is both appropriate to the demands of pastoral care and firmly grounded ...

Pete Ward argues that to make sense of the contemporary nature of the Church we must understand the way that encounter with God is mediated by cult...

A two-volume study in the strategy of Christian evangelism as developed by two of its greatest exponents, set in the framework of biographical stud...

The atonement is at the heart of Christian doctrine. But how does it relate to the life of the church? And what difference does it make for worship...

What does the Trinity have to do with missions? As it turns out . . . everything. Too often, we put theology in one part of the Christian life and...

GOD IS SOVEREIGN OVER ALL. This truth has been especially precious to Christians in times past, and for good reason. When it comes to knowing and s...

In his epistles, Paul at various points uses maternal imagery to talk about his apostolic labors, sometimes actually referring to himself as a moth...