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Author: William Carl Placher
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780664240578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses Gnosticism, the School of Alexandria, the Trinitarian controversies, Eastern theology, Saint Augustine, and theologians of the Middle Ages
Author: William Carl Placher
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0664239331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Placher and Derek Nelson compile significant passages written by the most important Christian thinkers, from the Reformers of the sixteenth century through the major participants in the contemporary theological conversation. Illustrating the major theologians, controversies, and schools of thought, Readings in the History of Christian Theology is an essential companion to the study of church history and historical theology. Excerpts are preceded by the editors' introductions, allowing the book to stand alone as a coherent history. This revised edition expands the work's scope, drawing throughout on more female voices and expanding to include the most important twenty-first-century theological contributions. This valuable resource brings together the writings of major theologians from the church's history for a new generation of students.
Author: William C. Placher
Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Published: 2015-08-19
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1611646138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam C. Placher and Derek Nelson compile significant passages written by the most important Christian thinkers, from the early church through the Middle Ages, and up to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Illustrating the major theologians, controversies, and schools of thought, Readings in the History of Christian Theology is an essential companion to the study of church history and historical theology. Excerpts are preceded by the editors' introductions, allowing the book to stand alone as a coherent history. This revised edition expands the work's scope with the addition of many new texts, especially those from the voices of women and others who have been marginalized from the theological tradition. This valuable resource brings together the writings of major theologians from the church's history for a new generation of students.
Author: William C. Placher
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2017-02-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1611647835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Placher and Derek Nelson compile significant passages written by the most important Christian thinkers, from the Reformers of the sixteenth century through the major participants in the contemporary theological conversation. Illustrating the major theologians, controversies, and schools of thought, Readings in the History of Christian Theology is an essential companion to the study of church history and historical theology. Excerpts are preceded by the editors' introductions, allowing the book to stand alone as a coherent history. This revised edition expands the work's scope, drawing throughout on more female voices and expanding to include the most important twenty-first-century theological contributions. This valuable resource brings together the writings of major theologians from the church's history for a new generation of students.
Author: William Carl Placher
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780664250645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Unapologetic Theology, William Placher examines religion and the search for truth in a pluralistic society. Among the issues he considers are science and its relation to belief, dialogue among various religions, and the theological method.
Author: Daryl Aaron
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1441261567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompelling Accounts of Key People Who Have Formed Christian Belief through the Ages All Christians' beliefs are shaped by those who went before them. Now these giants of Christian history are presented chronologically and in a format that helps readers get to know them. In addition to a biographical sketch, readers will discover each person's primary contributions to the Christian faith along with a brief quotation from their work. Students, history buffs, and curious readers will be fascinated as their faith is strengthened. Included are Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Karl Barth, Carl F. H. Henry, and more.
Author: Graham Ward
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 0470998342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion provides a definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a distinctive contribution to the field, and whose work will be significant for the theologies written in the new millennium. The definitive collection of essays on postmodern theology, drawing on the work of those individuals who have made a distinctive contribution to the field. Each essay is introduced with a short account of the writer's previous work, enabling the reader to view it in context. Discusses the following desciplines: Aesthetics, Ethics, Gender, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Heideggerians, and Derrideans. Edited by Graham Ward, one of the most outstanding and original theologians working in the field today.
Author: William Carl Placher
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780664255343
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is a book we urgently need!...Those who cling to the notion that theology is dull and remote must be warned away form Placher's lively prose"......Beverly R. Gaventa, Associate Professor of New Testament, Prinction Theological Seminary
Author: William Carl Placher
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780664244965
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This intellectual history, a story of people and their ideas, is a delight to read. I predict it will be widely used not only in colleges and seminaries but also in lay institutes and study groups"........John D. Godsey in The Christian Century
Author: Rosalene Bradbury
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 0227900294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn astute and thought-provoking analysis of the theologia crucis and the significance of Karl Barth as a modern exponent of this theological tradition. In this volume New Zealand theologian Rosalene Bradbury argues convincingly that tethered to the tradition that gave rise to it, the term theologia crucis references a theological system centered around notions of false and true glory, and an ancient conviction that from the cross of Jesus Christ comes a revelatory and a saving Word.
