Tag: Theology

Free Download Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty by Carl Schmitt, translated by George Schwab
English | January 15, 2006 | ISBN: 0226738892 | True EPUB | 70 pages | 1.2 MB
Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century.

Free Download D. A. Carson, "Now Choose Life: Theology and Ethics in Deuteronomy, Volume 6 (New Studies in Biblical Theology)"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0830826068 | PDF | pages: 221 | 74.9 mb
Though written thousands of years ago, the book of Deuteronomy is unmatched in its relevance for the affluent Western church of today. Moses’ words were meant to equip God’s people for living godly lives in a prosperous, pluralistic world. The cultural changes now taking place in our own social setting make the parallel between Israel and the church―and what Deuteronomy has to say―both pertinent and instructive. This New Studies in Biblical Theology volume offers a significant study of Deuteronomy that recovers this Scripture’s vibrant message for the contemporary Christian community. Showing the major contribution that Deuteronomy makes to our understanding of the Bible as a whole, J. Gary Millar explores Deuteronomy’s ethical teaching in the light of its most important theological themes: covenant, journey, law, the nations and human nature. His perceptive analysis reveals the power with which Deuteronomy calls God’s covenant people, from ancient Israelites to modern-day Christians, to hear God’s voice and do his will.Whether read for its critical study of Scripture or for its practical insights into living faithfully today, this book will be a valuable resource for school, church and home.Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.

Free Download Lejla Demiri, Philip Dorroll, Dale J. Correa, "Maturidi Theology: A Bilingual Reader"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3161610970 | PDF | pages: 259 | 2.1 mb
Despite its status as one of the great traditions of Sunni Islamic systematic theology, the Maturidi school and its major texts have remained largely inaccessible to a Western audience. As the first reader of Maturidi theology ever produced in a Western language, this volume meets an urgent need among scholars and general readers. It features selections ranging from the founder, Abu Man?ur al-Maturidi, to key texts from the broader Maturidi tradition up to the 18th century. Each selection includes the original Arabic text and an annotated English translation, preceded by a short introduction. The volume’s structure mirrors the classical compendia of Islamic systematic theology, known as kalam , exploring questions of Epistemology and Ontology; Metaphysics; Prophethood; Faith, Knowledge and Acts; and Free Will, Predestination, and the Problem of Evil.

Free Download Miguel Vatter, "Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt"
English | ISBN: 0197546501 | 2021 | 360 pages | PDF | 2 MB
It is often assumed that modern democratic government has a special link with Christianity or was made possible due to Christianity. As a challenge to this belief and echoing a long-held assumption in the republican tradition, Hannah Arendt once remarked that "Washington’s and Napoleon’s heroes were named Moses and David." In this book, Miguel Vatter reconstructs the political theology of German Jewish philosophers during the twentieth century and their attempts to bring together the Biblical teachings on politics with the Greek and Roman traditions of political philosophy.

Free Download George Hunsinger, "Karl Barth’s Infralapsarian Theology: Origins and Development, 1920-1953"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0830851321 | PDF | pages: 324 | 4.0 mb
Theologians have long assumed that Karl Barth’s doctrine of election is supralapsarian.

Free Download Richard J. Barry IV, "Jewish Temple Theology and the Mystery of the Cross: Atonement and the Two Goats of Yom Kippur"
English | ISBN: 0813237173 | 2024 | 450 pages | PDF | 6 MB
How a deeper understanding of the theology of Yom Kippur unlocks the paradox at the heart of Christian soteriology.

Free Download Simon Chan, "Grassroots Asian Theology: Thinking the Faith from the Ground Up"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0830840486 | PDF | pages: 221 | 1.9 mb
A dynamic chapter of church history is now being written in Asia. But the theological inflections at its heart are not well understood by outsiders. The published voices of elite academic theologians have drowned out the cadences of Christian faith as it is spoken, lived and prayed in the homes and churches of Tokyo or Shanghai or Madras. Now, in Grassroots Asian Theology, Simon Chan examines Asian Christianity at its daily, sustaining level. There he uncovers a vibrant theology that is authentically Asian and truly engaging. More than a mere survey, Grassroots Asian Theology makes a serious and constructive contribution to Asian theology. Organizing his discussion under leading themes of Christian theology, Chan looks at how Christians have grappled with their living faith in the context of Asian cultures and societies. Then, drawing on the church’s broader tradition, he points the way forward. Chan not only probes and informs, he leads and challenges readers across cultures to receive, live and communicate an authentic Christian faith. This is a significant book for both outsiders and insiders to Asian Christianity, as well as those interested in the broader horizons of global theology. Chan reminds us that authentic theologies are grounded in particular peoples, places and cultures.

Free Download Andrew Root, "Christopraxis: A Practical Theology of the Cross"
English | ISBN: 1451478151 | 2014 | 260 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Finding practical theology not always able to present frameworks for understanding concrete and lived experience with divine action, Andrew Root seeks to reset the edifice of practical theology on a new foundation. While not minimizing its commitment to the lived and concrete, Root argues that practical theology has neglected deeper theological underpinnings.

Free Download Christianity as a Way of Life: A Systematic Theology by Kevin W. Hector
English | September 5, 2023 | ISBN: 0300244096 | True EPUB | 328 pages | 1.7 MB
Focusing on Christianity’s core practices, a leading theologian imagines Christianity as a way of life oriented toward wisdom

Free Download Brendan Moran, "Walter Benjamin and Political Theology "
English | ISBN: 1350284343 | 2024 | 262 pages | PDF | 23 MB
Tracing Walter Benjamin’s convergences with, and divergences from, influential German legal theorist Carl Schmitt, this edited collection contextualizes Benjamin’s thinking in the intellectual currents of his time, while also placing him in dialogue with traditions and thinkers from antiquity to the present. At stake is whether Benjamin presents the possibility of a distinctive political theology-a question which the collection addresses without collapsing the tensions internal to Benjamin’s thought. Benjamin’s thought has been a touchstone, explicitly or implicitly, in numerous efforts to conceive of a ‘new’ political theology that is not anchored in legitimizing and preserving power, but in justice and liberation. Benjamin interrogates the political-theological complex from what may be construed as a vantage point opposed to Schmitt. Whereas Schmitt excavates the theological elements in modernity in order to shore up liberalism’s illiberal inheritance, Benjamin roots out these latent structures in order to dissolve them and liberate us from their oppressive legacy. This volume’s multifaceted contributions explore why Benjamin has been such a fertile source for thinking about political theology beyond – and often against – Schmitt. Benjamin indicates how existing political theologies can be challenged or expanded. This book accordingly makes a wide range of relevant work available for study whilst also opening new perspectives on Benjamin’s œuvre.