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Life Under the Baobab Tree

Life Under the Baobab Tree

Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age

Edited by Kenneth N. Ngwa, Aliou Cissé Niang and Arthur Pressley

Afterword by Catherine Keller

Contributor(s): Shola Adegbite, Desmond D. Coleman, Salim Faraji, Rachel E. Harding, Minenhle Nomalungelo Khumalo, Althea Spencer Miller, Hugh R. Page Jr., A. Paige Rawson, Nimi Wariboko, Sharon Kimberly Williams and An Yountae

Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent....

ISBN: 9781531502973

Earthly Things

Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking

Edited by Karen Bray, Heather Eaton and Whitney Bauman

Contributor(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Philip Clayton, John Grim, Matthew Hartman, Graham Harvey, Christopher Ives, Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Catherine Keller, Kimerer L. LaMothe, Sam Mickey, Kevin Minister, Sarah Pike, Joerg Rieger, Terra S. Rowe, Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Kevin Schilbrack, Mary Evelyn Tucker, O'neil Van Horn and Carol Wayne White

Globalization and climate weirding are two of the leading phenomena that challenge and change the way we need to think and act within the planetary community. Modern Western understandings of human...

ISBN: 9781531503062

Faith, Reason, and Theosis

Faith, Reason, and Theosis

Edited by Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos

Contributor(s): William J. Abraham, Peter C. Bouteneff, Carolyn Chau, Robert Glenn Davis, Stephen J. Davis, David Bentley Hart, Philip Kariatlis, Jean Porter, Andrew Prevot, Ashley M. Purpura, Kirsi Stjerna, Michele Watkins and Rowan Williams

Theosis shapes contemporary Orthodox theology in two ways, positively and negatively. In the positive sense, contemporary Orthodox theologians made theosis the thread that bound...

ISBN: 9781531503024

The World and God Are Not-Two

The World and God Are Not-Two

A Hindu–Christian Conversation

Daniel Soars

The World and God Are Not-Two is a book about how the God in whom Christians believe ought to be understood. The key conceptual argument that runs throughout is that the distinctive relation...

ISBN: 9781531502058

Sufi Deleuze

Secretions of Islamic Atheism

Michael Muhammad Knight

“There is always an atheism to be extracted from a religion,” Deleuze and Guattari write in their final collaboration, What Is Philosophy? Their claim that Christianity “secretes”...

ISBN: 9781531501815

People Get Ready

People Get Ready

Ritual, Solidarity, and Lived Ecclesiology in Catholic Roxbury

Susan Bigelow Reynolds

What does it mean to be a community of difference?St. Mary of the Angels is a tiny underground Catholic parish in the heart of Boston’s Egleston Square. More than a century of local,...

ISBN: 9781531502010

The Beauty of the Trinity

The Beauty of the Trinity

A Reading of the Summa Halensis

Justin Coyle

In this book Justin Shaun Coyle remembers the theology of beauty of the forgotten Summa Halensis, an early-thirteenth-century text written by Franciscan friars at the University of Paris....

ISBN: 9781531500030

Spirituality of Creation, Evolution, and Work

Spirituality of Creation, Evolution, and Work

Catherine Keller and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Edited by Roger Haight S.J., Alfred Pach and Amanda Avila Kaminski

Two developments that occurred over the course of the nineteenth century had a strong impact on Christian theology: the first was a deepening of the implications of historical consciousness and the...

ISBN: 9781531503833

Spiritualities of Social Engagement

Spiritualities of Social Engagement

Walter Rauschenbusch and Dorothy Day

Edited by Roger Haight S.J., Alfred Pach and Amanda Avila Kaminski

This volume considers two authors who represent different but complementary responses to social injustice and human degradation. The writings of Walter Rauschenbusch and Dorothy Day respond to an American...

ISBN: 9781531503826

Queer God de Amor

Queer God de Amor

Miguel H. Díaz

Queer God de Amor explores the mystery of God and the relationship between divine and human persons. It does so by turning to the sixteenth-century writings of John of the Cross on mystical...

ISBN: 9781531502485

Western Monastic Spirituality

Western Monastic Spirituality

Cassian, Caesarius of Arles, and Benedict

Edited by Roger Haight S.J., Alfred Pach and Amanda Avila Kaminski

Western Monastic Spirituality presents three authors as individuals, certainly, but also as textual informants who, like road markers, represent a line of the development of a Western monastic...

ISBN: 9781531502164

On the Medieval Structure of Spirituality

On the Medieval Structure of Spirituality

Thomas Aquinas

Edited by Roger Haight S.J., Alfred Pach and Amanda Avila Kaminski

If Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225, as is commonly thought, then he died before reaching the age of fifty after producing the single most influential systematic theology of the Western Christian tradition....

ISBN: 9781531502195

Grace and Gratitude

Grace and Gratitude

Spirituality in Martin Luther

Edited by Roger Haight S.J., Alfred Pach and Amanda Avila Kaminski

Martin Luther (1483–1546) is a classic Christian author who spearheaded the Reformation and whose witness has relevance for life in the present-day world. Grace and Gratitude presents two texts...

ISBN: 9781531502225

Guides to the Eucharist in Medieval Egypt

Guides to the Eucharist in Medieval Egypt

Three Arabic Commentaries on the Coptic Liturgy

Yūḥannā ibn Sabbā‘, Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar and Gabriel V of Alexandria

Translated and Edited by Arsenius Mikhail

An English translation of three key texts on the Coptic liturgy by Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar, Yūḥannā ibn Sabbā‘, and Pope Gabriel V. With a scholarly introduction to the works, their authors, and the Coptic liturgy, as well as a detailed explanatory apparatus, this volume provides a useful and needed introduction to the worship tradition of Egypt’s Coptic Christians.

ISBN: 9780823298327

The Body of the Cross

The Body of the Cross

Holy Victims and the Invention of the Atonement

Travis E. Ables

The Body of the Cross is a study of holy victims in Western Christian history and how the uses of their bodies in Christian thought led to the idea of the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice....

ISBN: 9780823298006

Political Theology on Edge

Political Theology on Edge

Ruptures of Justice and Belief in the Anthropocene

Edited by Clayton Crockett and Catherine Keller

Contributor(s): Gil Anidjar, Balbinder Singh Bhogal, J. Kameron Carter, William E. Connolly, Clayton Crockett, Kelly Brown Douglas, Seth Gaiters, Lisa Gasson-Gardner, Winfield Goodwin, Lawrence Hillis, Mehmet Karabela, Catherine Keller, Michael Northcott, Austin Roberts, Noëlle Vahanian and L. L. Welborn

In Political Theology on Edge, the discourse of political theology is seen as situated on an edge—that is, on the edge of a world that is grappling with global warming, a brutal form of...

ISBN: 9780823298129

Atonement and Comparative Theology

Atonement and Comparative Theology

The Cross in Dialogue with Other Religions

Edited by Catherine Cornille

Contributor(s): Bede Benjamin Bidlack, Francis X. Clooney, Thierry-Marie Courau, S. Mark Heim, Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Leo D. Lefebure, Daniel A. Madigan, Marianne Moyaert, Joshua Ralston, Elochukwu Uzukwu, Klaus von Stosch and Michelle Voss Roberts

The central Christian belief in salvation through the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ remains one of the most intractable mysteries of Christian faith. Throughout history, it has...

ISBN: 9780823294343

What Is Theology?

What Is Theology?

Christian Thought and Contemporary Life

Adam Kotsko

Adam Kotsko makes the case for the continued relevance of Christian theology for contemporary intellectual life, demonstrating its vibrancy as a creative and constructive pursuit outside the church, rethinking its often rivalrous relationship with philosophy, and tracing the theological roots of modern models of governance and racial oppression.

ISBN: 9780823297825

Material Mystery

Material Mystery

The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies

Karmen MacKendrick

Material Mystery analyzes three anthropomorphic figures from religious myths: the bodies of Adam and Christ and the resurrected or “glorious” body. Using Jewish and Christian Wisdom traditions, the book argues that these myths help us to understand the interaction, interdependence, and divine character of all matter.

ISBN: 9780823294558

Commodified Communion

Commodified Communion

Eucharist, Consumer Culture, and the Practice of Everyday Life

Antonio Eduardo Alonso

WINNER, 2021 HTI BOOK PRIZEResist! This exhortation animates a remarkable range of theological reflection on consumer culture in the United States. And for many theologians, the...

ISBN: 9780823294114

Passing Orders

Demonology and Sovereignty in American Spiritual Warfare

S. Jonathon O'Donnell

Demonization has increasingly become central to the global religious and political landscape. Passing Orders interrogates this centrality through an analysis of evangelical “spiritual warfare”...

ISBN: 9780823289684

Theosemiotic

Religion, Reading, and the Gift of Meaning

Michael L. Raposa

In Theosemiotic, Michael Raposa uses Charles Peirce’s semiotic theory to rethink certain issues in contemporary philosophical theology and the philosophy of religion. He first sketches a...

ISBN: 9780823289523

In Search of Radical Theology

In Search of Radical Theology

Expositions, Explorations, Exhortations

John D. Caputo

This sparkling collection of essays invites readers to join a seasoned scholar on his journey to catch “radical theology” in action, both in the Church and our culture at large.Capturing...

ISBN: 9780823289196

Circling the Elephant

Circling the Elephant

A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity

John J. Thatamanil

This book argues that Christian theology must be done in conversation with other religions. The book integrates theology of religious diversity, comparative theology, and constructive theology by moving beyond reified accounts of “religions” that make interreligious learning impossible. The author proposes a new theory of the religious that celebrates interreligious learning.

ISBN: 9780823287734

Living with Tiny Aliens

Living with Tiny Aliens

The Image of God for the Anthropocene

Adam Pryor

Living with Tiny Aliens imagines in theological terms how an individuals’ meaningful existence persists within a cosmos pregnant with living-possibilities. In doing so, it works to articulate an astrobiological humanities.

ISBN: 9780823287710

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