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Right Practical Reason - Aristotle, Action, And Prudence In Aquinas

by Daniel Westberg

125,86€ + 10% CARD

 Thomas Aquinas's interpretation of Aristotle has formed the backbone of Catholic theology and teaching to this day. This book is an original new study of Aquinas's ideas in two key areas of ethical thought: the will and human action, with important new insights on a range of theological topics as well - including love, sin, and the moral virtues.
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The Salvation Of Atheists And Catholic Dogmatic Theology

by Stephen (Lecturer In Theology And Ethics, St Mary'S University College) Bullivant

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 The first full-length study exploring the possibility of salvation for athiests in Catholic dogmatic theology since Vatican II. It discusses crucial foundational issues in the decades preceding the Council, looks at the conciliar teaching itself, explores solutions proposed by Rahner and others, and suggests a new approach.
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Karl Barth On Theology And Philosophy

by Kenneth (, Research Fellow, Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen) Oakes

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 This book is an analysis of Karl Barth's understanding of the relationship between theology and philosophy. Kenneth Oakes shows the complexity and variability of Barth's thoughts on theology and philosophy and challenges the typical views that Barth was either too hostile towards philosophy or too indebted to it.
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Zadok'S Heirs - The Role And Development Of The High Priesthood In Ancient Israel

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 This unique study is the first systematic examination to be undertaken of the high priesthood in ancient Israel, from the earliest local chief priests in the pre-monarchic period down to the Hasmonaean priest-kings in the first century BCE.
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Visionary Religion And Radicalism In Early Industrial England - From Southcott To Socialism

by Philip (Postdoctoral Research Fellow In The Faculty Of Theology, University Of Oxford) Lockley

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 Early industrial England witnessed significant interactions between millenarianism and traditions of radical popular politics, including the first English socialisms. This book provides a detailed archive-based study of Southcottianism from 1815 to 1840 that revises many previous assumptions about this popular millenarian movement.
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Visionary Religion And Radicalism In Early Industrial England - From Southcott To Socialism

by Philip Lockley

82,14€ + 10% CARD

 Early industrial England witnessed significant interactions between millenarianism and traditions of radical popular politics, including the first English socialisms. This book provides a detailed archive-based study of Southcottianism from 1815 to 1840 that revises many previous assumptions about this popular millenarian movement.
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Anti-Pelagian Christology Of Augustine Of Hippo, 396-430

by Dominic Keech

124,54€ + 10% CARD

 A new study which engages with some of the most controversial questions in recent scholarship on Augustine of Hippo, the Origenist controversy and the development of Christology through the history of the ecumenical councils.
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Comedy And Feminist Interpretation Of The Hebrew Bible - A Subversive Collaboration

by Melissa Jackson

124,54€ + 10% CARD

 This book explores the Hebrew Bible for evidence of comedy and further asks how reading the Hebrew Bible through a comic "lens" might positively inform feminist interpretation. The exploration is conducted with a number of Hebrew Bible narratives, all of which prominently involve female characters.
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Evangelical Free Will - Phillipp Melanchthon''S Doctrinal Journey On The Origins Of Faith

by Gregory Graybill

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 Gregory Graybill charts the progression of Phillipp Melanchthon's position on free will and divine predestination as he shifts from agreement to an important innovation upon Martin Luther's thought and demonstrates how he came to believe that the human will does play a key role in the origins of a saving faith in Jesus Christ.
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Salvation Of Atheists And Catholic Dogmatic Theology

by Stephen Bullivant

124,54€ + 10% CARD

 The first full-length study exploring the possibility of salvation for athiests in Catholic dogmatic theology since Vatican II. It discusses crucial foundational issues in the decades preceding the Council, looks at the conciliar teaching itself, explores solutions proposed by Rahner and others, and suggests a new approach.
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Out-Of-Body And Near-Death Experiences - Brain-State Phenomena Or Glimpses Of Immortality?

by Michael N. Marsh

80,81€ + 10% CARD

 Discrediting 'mystical' or 'psychical' interpretations of out-of-body and near-death experiences, Michael Marsh demonstrates how these phenomena are explicable in terms of brain neurophysiology and its neuropathological disturbances, and discusses the theological and philosophical implications of his hypotheses.
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Anti-Arminians - The Anglican Reformed Tradition From Charles Ii To George I

by Stephen Hampton

103,34€ + 10% CARD

 This unique study of the Church of England between the 1660s and 1720s addresses the neglected research area of the Reformed school of thought and its powerful influence on the later eighteenth century church and evangelical revival. Hampton also explores consequences for understanding Anglican identity today.
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Eusebians - The Polemic Of Athanasius Of Alexandria And The Construction Of The `Arian Controversy''

by David M. Gwynn

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 A historical and theological re-evaluation of the polemical writings of Athanasius of Alexandria (bishop 328-73), who would become known to later Christian generations as a saint and a champion of orthodoxy, and as the defender of the original Nicene Creed of 325 against the `Arian heresy'.
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Durandus Of St Pourcain - A Dominican Theologian In The Shadow Of Aquinas

by Isabel (Junior Research Fellow In Theology, St John'S College, Oxford) Iribarren

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 Traces the medieval controversy between the Dominican order and its most notorious member, Durandus of St Pourcain (c1275-1336), as he openly challenged the order's promotion of Thomas Aquinas. This work reveals how the Dominican intellectual tradition was in fact constructed on the achievements of the rival mendicant order, the Franciscans.
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Blake'S 'Jerusalem' As Visionary Theatre - Entering The Divine Body

by Susanne M. (Assistant Professor, Carthage College, Kenosha, Wi; Cumnor Fellowship, Oxford) Sklar

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 Susanne Sklar engages with the interpretive challenges of William Blake's illuminated epic poem Jerusalem by considering it as a piece of visionary theatre - an imaginative performance in which characters, settings, and imagery are not confined by mundane space and time - allowing readers to find coherence within its complexities.
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Contrasting Images Of The Book Of Revelation In Late Medieval And Early Modern Art - A Case Study In Visual Exegesis

by Natasha F. H. (Formerly Junior Research Fellow, Worcester College, University Of Oxford) O'Hear

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 A contribution to the history of interpretation of the Book of Revelation in the Late Medieval and Early Modern period in the form of seven visual case studies ranging from 1250-1522. O'Hear uses visual exegesis as a way of exploring both the content as well as the character of a biblical text.
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Specification Of Human Actions In St Thomas Aquinas

by Joseph Pilsner

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 Human actions can be identified by species, such as murder, theft, or almsgiving. But how does one determine to which kind an action belongs? Joseph Pilsner explores Thomas Aquinas's answer to this philosophical question.
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Divine Production In Late Medieval Trinitarian Theology - Henry Of Ghent, Duns Scotus, And William Ockham

by Jt (Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University) Paasch

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 This book examines the central ideas that defined the debate about divine production in the Trinity in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, namely those of Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, and William Ockham. Their discussions are significant for the history of trinitarian theology and the history of philosophy.
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Paul Tillich And The Possibility Of Revelation Through Film

by Jonathan (Oxford Pastorate Chaplain) Brant

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 This study explores the possibility that even films lacking religious subject matter might have a religious impact upon their viewers. It begins with a reading of Paul Tillich's theology of revelation through culture and continues with a qualitative research project assessing the experiences of filmgoers in Latin America.
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Out-Of-Body And Near-Death Experiences - Brain-State Phenomena Or Glimpses Of Immortality?

by Michael N. (Wolfson College, University Of Oxford) Marsh

145,33€ + 10% CARD

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 Discrediting 'mystical' or 'psychical' interpretations of out-of-body and near-death experiences, Michael Marsh demonstrates how these phenomena are explicable in terms of brain neurophysiology and its neuropathological disturbances, and discusses the theological and philosophical implications of his hypotheses.
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Ezekiel And The Ethics Of Exile

by Andrew (Tutor In The Old Testament, Westcott House, Cambridge) Mein

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 The two 'moral worlds' of Jerusalem and exile provide the key to Ezekiel's ethics. The prophet both offers an explanation of the disaster in terms familiar to his hearers' past experience, and provides ethical strategies for coping with the far more limited possibilities of life in Babylonia.
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Sexual And Marital Metaphors In Hosea, Jeremiah, Isaiah, And Ezekiel

by Sharon Moughtin-Mumby

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 Sharon Moughtin-Mumby explores metaphor as a tool of persuasion in the prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible. She emphasises the importance of context and challenges previous scholarship which has read such language in terms of the concept of 'the marriage metaphor' and the hypothetical background of cultic prostitution.
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Universal Salvation - Eschatology In The Thought Of Gregory Of Nyssa And Karl Rahner

by Morwenna (Lecturer In Patristics, University Of Exeter) Ludlow

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 In this book Dr Ludlow compares and assesses two advocates of the belief that in the end God will save all people. She asks whether this idea of 'universal salvation' is a truly Christian concept. If it is a 'second tradition' in Christian theology, how has that tradition developed and what difficulties with the idea still remain?
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Theodore The Stoudite - The Ordering Of Holiness

by Roman Cholij

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 The first modern study in English of the life and thought of the ninth-century Byzantine theologian and monastic reformer, Theodore the Stoudite. Cholij analyses Theodore's letters and religious writings in context, providing new conclusions about the issues which engaged him in controversy and the origins of the Orthodox sacramental tradition.
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