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Free Download Charles T. Mathewes, "A Theology of Public Life"
English | 2007 | pages: 382 | ISBN: 0521832268, 0521539900 | PDF | 1,2 mb
What has Washington to do with Jerusalem? In the raging debates about the relationship between religion and politics, no one has explored the religious benefits and challenges of public engagement for Christian believers – until now. This book defends and details Christian believers’ engagement in contemporary pluralistic public life not from the perspective of some neutral ‘public’, but from the particular perspective of Christian faith, arguing that such engagement enriches both public life and Christian citizens’ faith themselves. As such it offers not a ‘public theology’, but a ‘theology of public life’, analysing the promise and perils of Christian public engagement, discussing the nature of civic commitment and prophetic critique, and the relation of a loving faith to a liberal politics of justice. Theologically rich, philosophically rigorous, politically, historically and sociologically informed, this book advances contemporary discussion of ‘religion and public life’ in fundamental ways.

Free Download Bad Theology in a Time of COVID
by Leah Robinson
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031752937 | 148 Pages | True PDF | 3.2 MB

Free Download Theology and the Mythic Sensibility: Human Myth-Making and Divine Creativity by Andrew Shamel
English | November 21, 2024 | ISBN: 1009542605 | True PDF | 232 pages | 2.9 MB
How do stories change the way we see both ourselves and the world? That question is the starting-point of this accomplished new contribution to narrative theology. Dr Shamel addresses what he calls mythopoieic fantasy: the fictionalised myth-making occupying those twilight borderlands between contemporary secularity and a religious worldview. Exploring key writers such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, and J. K. Rowling, the author argues that the mythic turn of popular culture signals an ongoing hunger for something ‘more’: more dense, more present, more ‘real’. For Dr Shamel, mythopoieic fantasy and Christian theology represent the same human impulse: a desire to participate in the divine. Despite the avowed secularity of many authors of fantasy literature, the creativity of their mythic fictions reveals something of the theological character of all human making. The stories we tell in order to encounter the world as meaningful, argues Dr Shamel, in fact emerge within a theological horizon.

Free Download Alina N Feld, "Unfinished God: The Speculative Philosophical Theology of Ray L. Hart "
English | ISBN: 1399532219 | 2024 | 368 pages | PDF | 16 MB
Ray L. Hart is one of the most radical and creative theologians active in contemporary speculative philosophical theology. Breaking on the scene with his immensely influential Unfinished Man in 1968, he published his magnum opus, God Being Nothing, in 2015.

Free Download Monte Lee Rice, "Pentecostal Liturgical Theology: On the Altar, Willed to Pentecost "
English | ISBN: 0567717402 | 2025 | 264 pages | PDF | 28 MB
This book explores how Pentecostal meaning-full worship frees people into a cosmic liturgy that wills humanity to Pentecost. A liturgical turn has marked recent Pentecostal studies, producing a growing body of liturgical theologies. This cutting edge work analyses four theologians at its forefront: Tanya Riches, Daniela Augustine, Chris E.W. Green, and Wolfgang Vondey. It does so through a "liturgy as primary theology" approach, which defines liturgy as "the church at prayer". Here, Rice shows how Pentecostal experience clarifies liturgy as the church at prayer on the altar.

Free Download Sidney H. Griffith, "The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic: Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period "
English | ISBN: 086078889X | 2002 | 345 pages | PDF | 24 MB
The articles in this collection complement those in Professor Griffith’s previous volume, Arabic Christianity in the Monasteries of 9th-Century Palestine, studying the first efforts of Christians living in the early Islamic world to respond to the religious challenges of Islam. In particular, the author shows how Christian apologists who wrote in Arabic adopted in defense of Christian doctrines the modes of discourse (kalam) then employed by Muslim controversialists (mutakallimun) to advance the claims of Islam. The writers whose works are studied here developed a truly Christian ‘ilm al-kalam, that is to say a science of defending Christianity in an Arabic idiom borrowed largely from Muslims.

Free Download Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, "Reconciliation and Just Peace: Impulses of the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer for the European and African Context (9) "
English | ISBN: 3643905572 | 2016 | 242 pages | PDF | 1469 KB
The book marks the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. The churches play a central role in the process of reconciliation in Rwanda. The theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer offers fresh impulses, generating intensive discussions in Rwanda, especially in view of the many parallels to his context in the Nazi period. Moreover, the underlying conflict ultimately remains unresolved, especially in Eastern Congo in the region of Lake Kivu, where fighting continues between former Hutu units, other militia groups and government troops. In such a context, the search for a "just peace" is central, and Bonhoeffer’s peace ethics offer important orientational points of reference. The volume documents the Bonhoeffer conference "Reconciliation and a just peace – impulses for the African and European contexts", held in Kibuye, Rwanda, in February 2014. Some contributions are in French. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm is the head of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. Pasal Bataringaya is Vice President of the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda. Traugott Jahnichen is Professor for Christian social ethics at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum. (Series: Theology in the Public Square / Theologie in der Offentlichkeit, Vol. 9) [Subject: Peace Studies, Religious Studies, African Studies]

Free Download Negative Natural Theology: God and the Limits of Reason
by Christopher J. Insole
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0198932979 | 200 Pages | PDF | 2.26 MB

Free Download Namsoon Kang, "Cosmopolitan Theology: Reconstituting Planetary Hospitality, Neighbor-Love, and Solidarity in an Uneven World"
English | ISBN: 0827205341 | 2013 | 272 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In Cosmopolitan Theology, author Namsoon Kang proposes a theology that embraces and at the same time moves beyond collective identity position and group-based allegiances. It crosses borders of gender, race, nationality, religion, ethnicity, sexuality, and ability. Kang offers a vision of a global community of radical inclusion, solidarity, and deep compassion and justice for others. Blending theology with philosophy, she crosses borders of academism and activism, and the discursive borders of modernism, postmodernism, feminism, and postcolonialism. Cosmopolitan Theology sheds a new light both in academia and the community of Christian believers by providing a public relevance of Jesus’ teaching of neighbor-love, hospitality, and solidarity in our world today.

Free Download Sovereignty in the 21st Century: Political Theology in an Age of Neoliberalism and Populism
by Carl Raschke
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1350446793 | 235 Pages | True PDF | 4.37 MB