The devil—styled by Calvin as "God’s adversary and ours"—is ubiquitous in the witness of the New Testament. Yet contemporary Christian doctrine generally remains dumbfounded about what to do with...
Edited by Jason E. Vickers, Steven T. Hoskins and Laura Dahl
Price: $74.99
ISBN: 9781481324236
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-02-15
Imprint: 1845 Books
338 Pages
As a living tradition, Wesleyan-Methodism has continued to grow and develop through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Since their establishment in 1965, the Wesleyan Theological Society and...
The reformer Martin Luther is one of the most influential and controversial theologians in the history of the church. While his ideas are rooted in the currents of medieval theology, he frequently seems...
The Anglican Communion currently finds itself at an inflection point as it weighs its future prospects in light of discordant social, political, ecclesiological, and theological commitments. In this...
In modern times, evangelical Protestants have advocated for the belief that the Bible is the only real standard of truth and true Christian praxis for the church. But is this how the early Jews and...
Throughout the history of Christianity, the concept of the "kingdom of God" has been constructed and understood in a multiplicity of ways. From direct identifications of the kingdom with the church...
From the writings of Jingjing, a monk in the eighth century, to essays from contemporary church leaders and academics, Chinese theology offers distinct perspectives within the world church on matters...
The Use of the Church Fathers in Reformation Debates over the Eucharist
by Esther Chung-Kim
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781602584709
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2022-09-23
Imprint: Baylor University Press
208 Pages
Adding great historical insight to the events of the sixteenth century, Inventing Authority uncovers how and why the Protestant reformers came, in their dissent from the Catholic church, to turn to...
The body of the mother is both everywhere and nowhere in the Christian imagination. Western Christianity has long viewed the mother's body as a vessel. Through her, nothing less than the sin and...
Communicating Faith throughout the Christian Tradition
by Paul A. Soukup, S.J.
Price: $39.99
ISBN: 9781481317757
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2022-09-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
240 Pages
In the Christian tradition, the faithful do theology--defined in Anselm’s phrase as "faith seeking understanding"--in different media. The contemporary emphasis on written or academic theology obscures...
Across lines of tradition and denomination, many Christians express a purely propositional sense of belief, focused primarily on the existence of God and facts about Christ, contributing to a transactional...
The Reformation was the single most important event of the early modern period of Western civilization. What started out as a pastoral conflict about the sale of grace for money ultimately became a...
What is fashion? Where does it come from? Why has it come to permeate modern life?In the last half century, questions like these have drawn serious academic reflection, resulting in a new field of...
Modern Pneumatology and Its Anti-modern Redemption
by Ephraim Radner
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481310796
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2019
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2019-10-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
463 Pages
In the march of modernity and the opening of global boundaries, the face of the world changed. How we understood the world, and our place in it, changed. And with that great shift, our concept of the...
The consideration of the person of Christ is often disentangled from his 'work.' But this doctrinal tidying can be misleading and theologically dangerous. Christians contend that humans need to be...
In Analyzing Doctrine Oliver Crisp carefully considers the relationship of systematic theology to analytic philosophy, arguing that the tools of analytic philosophy can be fruitfully applied to traditional...
