Tag: Theology

Free Download John M. Frame, "On Theology: Explorations and Controversies"
English | ISBN: 1683596390 | 2023 | 460 pages | EPUB | 3 MB

Free Download Byron L. Sherwin, "Mystical Theology and Social Dissent: The Life and Works of Judah Loew of Prague"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1904113508 | PDF | pages: 257 | 21.3 mb
Judah Loew, better known as the Maharal of Prague, was a pivotal personality in late medieval European Judaism. Best known from the popular legend that credited him with the creation of a golem-an artificial human with superhuman powers-his true importance lay in his comprehensive exposition of a unique expression of Jewish mystical theology, his call for a reformation of Jewish communal life, and his influence on subsequent Jewish life and thought. Byron Sherwin’s lucid exposition of the life, legend, works, and ideas developed in Loew’s massive writings ‘reveals the concealed’ by unravelling the often obscure nature of his mystical theology, his polemical jousts against past and contemporary Jewish scholars, and his innovative programme for social and educational reform.

Free Download Byron L. Sherwin, "Mystical Theology and Social Dissent: The Life and Works of Judah Loew of Prague"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1904113508 | PDF | pages: 257 | 21.3 mb
Judah Loew, better known as the Maharal of Prague, was a pivotal personality in late medieval European Judaism. Best known from the popular legend that credited him with the creation of a golem-an artificial human with superhuman powers-his true importance lay in his comprehensive exposition of a unique expression of Jewish mystical theology, his call for a reformation of Jewish communal life, and his influence on subsequent Jewish life and thought. Byron Sherwin’s lucid exposition of the life, legend, works, and ideas developed in Loew’s massive writings ‘reveals the concealed’ by unravelling the often obscure nature of his mystical theology, his polemical jousts against past and contemporary Jewish scholars, and his innovative programme for social and educational reform.

Free Download Chiara Bertoglio, "Musical Scores and the Eternal Present: Theology, Time, and Tolkien"
English | ISBN: 1725295024 | 2021 | 208 pages | EPUB | 1441 KB
Music is played and heard in time, yet it is also embodied in space by musical scores. The observation of a musical score turns time into space and allows musicians to embrace the flow of time in a single glance. This experience constitutes a symbol for the Eternal Present, the simultaneous knowledge of all time outside time. This book analyzes the implications of this view through a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, linking theology, philosophy, literature, and music. It also studies how this theme has been foreshadowed in the writings of Dante and J. R. R. Tolkien, demonstrating the connections between their masterpieces and the aesthetics of their times. The result is a fascinating itinerary through the history of culture, thought, and music, but also a deeply theological and spiritual experience.

Free Download Julia Feder, "Incarnating Grace: A Theology of Healing from Sexual Trauma"
English | ISBN: 1531504728 | 2023 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Prioritizes survivors of abuse by reexamining Christian ideals about suffering and salvation

Free Download Zhao Ng, "Djuna Barnes and Theology: Melancholy, Body, Theodicy "
English | ISBN: 1350256021 | 2022 | 218 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Modernism, religion, and queer bodies come together in this study of Djuna Barnes’s writings and art. Examining the role of Barnes’s theological imagination in relation to a phenomenology of suffering, joy, and sexed embodiment, this book unfolds an intricate synthesis of theology, psychoanalysis, and narrative theory to interrogate how queerness informs her art. Providing an original contribution to religious and literary theory, Ng develops a neo-ontological account of melancholy in relation to the myth of the Fall and provides a novel framework for understanding comedy and tragedy in relation to the question of theodicy. Presented in light of a large body of new archival evidence, Barnes’s works are also examined for the first time in relation to a wide range of intertextual and intermedial encounters, including the medieval mysticism of Marguerite Porete, Stravinsky’s music, 16th- and 18th-century engravings by Albrecht Dürer and Joseph Ottinger, and French and Russian literature from Baudelaire and Lautréamont to Proust and Dostoevsky.

Free Download Cole Jodon, "Discipleship and Unity: Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Theology"
English | ISBN: 1978711948 | 2022 | 200 pages | EPUB, PDF | 585 KB + 3 MB
Discipleship and Unity: Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Theology presents a fresh approach to church unity and discipleship from a familiar voice. Building constructively from the thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cole Jodon offers an account of ecumenism in which the church is understood to be united as the person of Christ – a unity that is concrete today through active obedient discipleship. To develop this theology, Jodon draws from Bonhoeffer’s ecumenical engagement, which is deepened through the theology of Bonhoeffer’s wider corpus. Jodon illumines Bonhoeffer’s dynamic understanding of the church, its unity, and the manner in which that unity is made concrete in the world. At its heart, this book serves to advance an ecumenical theology enlivened by the living and present Christ who calls his church to follow after him together.

Free Download Lori Hale, "Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theology, and Political Resistance "
English | ISBN: 149859106X | 2020 | 228 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1498 KB + 1290 KB
In 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer-a theologian and pastor-was executed by the Nazis for his resistance to their unspeakable crimes against humanity. He was only 39 years old when he died, but Bonhoeffer left behind volumes of work exploring theological and ethical themes that have now inspired multiple generations of scholars, students, pastors, and activists. This book highlights the ways Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s work informs political theology and examines Bonhoeffer’s contributions in three ways: historical-critical interpretation, critical-constructive engagement, and constructive-practical application. With contributions from a broad array of scholars from around the world, chapters range from historical analysis of Bonhoeffer’s early political resistance language to accounts of Bonhoeffer-inspired, front-line resistance to white supremacists in Charlottesville, VA. This volume speaks to the ongoing relevance of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s work and life in and out of the academy.

Free Download Thomas S. Hibbs, "A Theology of Creation: Ecology, Art, and Laudato Si’ "
English | ISBN: 0268205620 | 2023 | 208 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
This book provides the first sustained philosophical treatment of Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’ and articulates a theology of creation to recover our place within the cosmos.

Free Download Michael Niebauer, "Virtuous Persuasion: A Theology of Christian Mission "
English | ISBN: 168359505X | 2022 | 320 pages | EPUB | 5 MB