Tag: Theology

Free Download Scott N. Callaham, "World Mission: Theology, Strategy, and Current Issues"
English | ISBN: 1683593030 | 2019 | 376 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
World mission needs a fully biblical ethos.

Free Download Yiftach Fehige, "Thought Experiments, Science, and Theology "
English | ISBN: 9004540334 | 2023 | 256 pages | PDF | 17 MB
This book offers the first study of theological thought experiments. It advances the discussion about the religious significance of the imagination and presents a tightly argued response to debates over pluralism in the history and philosophy of science.

Free Download Jione Havea, "Theology as Threshold: Invitations from Aotearoa New Zealand "
English | ISBN: 1978714793 | 2022 | 286 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 6 MB
What thresholds of theology would we cross if we engage the aches and despairs, wisdoms, and hopes in and of Aotearoa New Zealand and the neighboring sea of islands? What thresholds need to be jarred or moved (threshold as opening), probed and raised (threshold as limit)? This book engages these questions in two parts: "(re)Locating Theological Studies" contains essays that interrogate the purposes of theological studies (locally and globally), identify gaps due to the Western heritage and blind spots of "traditional theology," and provide examples of how those gaps may be bridged when local concerns are engaged; "Nativizing Theological Studies" contains essays that present and engage the heritage and wisdom of tangata whenua (indigenous, native people) of Aotearoa and Pasifika. These essays reaffirm the "native" rhetoric with pride. This collection of essays affirms that theological studies have a future, and that there is a role for theologians in and from Aotearoa New Zealand and Pasifika to play in navigating (into) that future.

Free Download Juli Gittinger, "Theology and Westworld "
English | ISBN: 1978707959 | 2020 | 176 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
In the first two seasons of the HBO series Westworld, human guests pay exorbitant fees to spend time among cybernetic Hosts-partially sentient AI robots-and live out often violent fantasies. In Theology and Westworld, scholars from a range of disciplines within religious studies examine the profound questions that arise when the narrative of Westworld interacts with the study of religion. From transhumanism and personhood to morality and divinity, this book contributes to, confounds, and challenges ideas that are found in the study of religion and philosophy. Taken together, the chapters further our understanding of what it means to live in a world where the hard questions of human existence are explored through the medium of popular culture.

Free Download David K. Goodin, "Theology and Wes Craven "
English | ISBN: 197871470X | 2023 | 206 pages | EPUB, PDF | 664 KB + 2 MB
Theology and Wes Craven explores the religious themes in the movies, television shows, and other works of the man who redefined the horror genre with such landmark and notorious films as The Last House on the Left (1972), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), The People Under the Stairs (1991), and Scream (1996). This volume provides a retrospective for his entire career, and then spotlights his most theologically intriguing works in chapters devoted to revealing Craven’s narrative intent. This collection brings together established scholars and new emergent voices in academia, including feminist and LGBTQ+ perspectives, who explore Craven’s vision in relation to contemporary political, social, and economic issues, especially as they related to children, visible minorities, the excluded, and the disenfranchised. This volume is sure to be appreciated both by academics and horror enthusiasts everywhere.

Free Download Matthew Brake, "Theology and Game of Thrones "
English | ISBN: 1978707622 | 2022 | 342 pages | EPUB, PDF | 536 KB + 3 MB
This book explores many of the theological and religious themes present in the Game of Thrones HBO television series and George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels. Written for academics yet accessible for the layperson, the chapters explore themes of power, religion, and sacred institutions in Westeros; Christian ecclesiology in the Night’s Watch and the religion of the Iron Islands; Augustinian notions of evil in the Night King and anthropology in the Seven; Orientalism, Hinduism, and the many worldviews in the World of Ice and Fire, and the series more controversial and disturbing themes of rape and death. Theology and Game of Thrones will appeal to theology and religious studies scholars and fans alike as it explores these elements in Martin’s complex fantasy epic.

Free Download Charles Andrews, "The English Modernist Novel as Political Theology: Challenging the Nation "
English | ISBN: 1350362034 | 2024 | 216 pages | EPUB, PDF | 719 KB + 3 MB
Exploring novels by Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Sylvia Townsend Warner as political theology – works that imagine a resistance to the fusion of Christianity and patriotism which fuelled and supported the First World War – this book shows how we can gain valuable insights from their works for anti-militarist, anti-statist, and anti-nationalist efforts today.

Free Download Ryan Hemmer, "The Death and Life of Speculative Theology: A Lonergan Idea"
English | ISBN: 1978715277 | 2023 | 196 pages | EPUB, PDF | 306 KB + 1394 KB
The Death and Life of Speculative Theology argues that speculative theology can be decoupled from classicism, transformed through modern science, philosophy, and culture, and made useful for addressing intellectual problems in this cosmopolitan age. Speculative theology can provoke, organize, regulate, and invigorate intellectual pluralism and thereby contribute to making the world a home for the human spirit. Drawing on the thought of Bernard Lonergan, Ryan Hemmer narrates the rise and fall of speculative theology, anticipates how it might be renewed, and repurposes some of its forgotten achievements to show that modern theology can be a modern science for a modern culture.

Free Download Meir Seidler, "Rabbinic Theology and Jewish Intellectual History: The Great Rabbi Loew of Prague"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138109479, 0415503604 | PDF | pages: 237 | 1.9 mb
Rabbi Loew (the Maharal) of Prague remains one of the most influential and prolific Jewish thinkers of his time. Widely considered one of the fathers of Hassidic thought and a harbinger of Modern Jewish philosophy, his life and work have retained their influence and remain prevalent today.

Free Download Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics by Diarmuid O’Murchu
English | August 5th, 2021 | ISBN: 082452263X | 256 pages | True EPUB | 2.24 MB
Here, best-selling author Diarmuid O’Murchu presents a vision of the intersection of quantum physics and spirituality. It is now revised to reflect the most recent advances in physics. From black holes to holograms, from relativity theory to the discovery of quarks, this book is an original and rich exposition of quantum theory and the way it unravels profound theological questions.