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Publication year: 2023

Why the Cross? Divine Friendship and the Power of Justice

In this book, Ligita Ryliskyte addresses what is arguably the most important and profound question in systematic theology: What does it mean for humankind to be saved by the cross? Offering a constructive account of the atonement that avoids pitting God's saving love against divine justice, she provides a biblically-grounded and philosophically disciplined theology of the cross that responds to the exigencies of postmodern secular culture. Ryliskyte draws on Bernard J. F. Lonergan's development of the Augustinian-Thomist tradition to argue that the justice of the cross concerns the orderly communication and diffusion of divine friendship. It becomes efficacious in the dynamic order of the emergent universe through the transformation of evil into good out of love. Showing how inherited theological traditions can be transposed in new contexts, Ryliskyte's book reveals a Christology of fundamental significance for contemporary systematic theology, as well as the fields of theological ethics and Christian spirituality.

eBook ISBN: 9781009202787

Author: Daniel C. Timmer

Publication year: 2024

The Theology of the Books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah

The books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah address problems in and around ancient Judah in ways that are as incisive and critical as they are optimistic and constructive. Daniel C. Timmer's The Theology of the Books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah situates these books in their social and political contexts, examining the unique theology of each as it engages thorny problems in Judah and beyond. In dialogue with recent scholarship, this study focuses on these books' analysis and evaluation of the world as it is, focusing on both human beings and their actions, and God's commitment to purify, restore, and perfect the world. Timmer also surveys these books' later theological use and cultural reception. His study brings their theology into dialogue with concerns as varied as ecology, nationalism, and widespread injustice. It highlights the enduring significance of divine justice and grace for solid hope and effective service in our world.

eBook ISBN: 9781108651943

Author: Christina M. Gschwandtner

Publication year: 2024

Ways of Living Religion: Philosophical Investigations into Religious Experience

Ways of Living Religion provides a philosophical analysis of different types of religious experience - ascetic, liturgical, monastic, mystical, devotional, compassionate, fundamentalist - that focuses on the lived experience of religion rather than reducing it to mere statements of belief or doctrine. Using phenomenology, Christina M. Gschwandtner distinguishes between different kinds of religious experiences by examining their central characteristics and defining features, as well as showing their continuity with human experience more broadly. The book is the first philosophical examination of several of these types, thus breaking new ground in philosophical thinking about religion. It is neither a confessional treatment nor a reduction of the lived experience to psychological or sociological phenomena. While Gschwandtner's treatment focuses on Christian forms of expression of these different types, it opens the path to broader examinations of ways of living religion that might enable scholars to give a more nuanced account of their similarities and differences.

eBook ISBN: 9781009476812

Cambridge University Press

Muslim Women and Misogyny by Samia Rahman
ISBN: 9781911723011

Publication Date: 2024-09-15

Muslim women are among the most fetishized and objectified groups in society today. Much is assumed and imagined about their lives, and it is all too easy to succumb to orientalist myths. For too long, Muslim women have been reduced to two-dimensional stereotypes: empowered heroines rejecting patriarchal religious teachings, or victims of a misogyny believed to run deep within Islam. But why is this neatly packaged view so pervasive? Are oppression and subjugation actually so central to Muslim women's lives? How is this misogyny influenced by white supremacy and Islamophobia? And where do the biggest threats to Muslim women's freedom and safety really come from?In this bold new book, Samia Rahman explores the relationships between misogyny and Muslim women's experiences in Britain today, untangling complex issues such as Muslim feminism, representation, toxic masculinity, marriage and sexuality. Based on extensive interviews with both women and men from Islamic communities, she offers a powerful, much-needed response to the misappropriation of female Muslim voices, revealing the many faces of Muslim womanhood within the UK.

Restoring Africa's Spiritual Identity
Restoring Africa’s Spiritual Identity, authored by African Hidden Voices and inspired by the revelations of Inkosi Yomoya Imboni Dr. Uzwi-Lezwe Radebe, delivers a powerful critique of the spiritual displacement caused by colonialism and religious imposition. The book reveals how the forced introduction of foreign religions severed Africa’s access to the masculine energy—the upward spiritual dimensions—disconnecting the continent from its highest spiritual authority and divine guidance.
African Hidden Voices argues that African Indigenous Spirituality (AIS), once centered on direct knowledge through revelations, was systematically replaced by belief-based systems that undermined Africa’s spiritual sovereignty. This disconnection resulted in the erosion of indigenous institutions that once guided African societies. The book also seeks to illuminate the role played by African Initiated Churches (AICs) in asserting their attempts to merge Christianity with African practices. They failed to restore the continent’s true spiritual identity, as they remained bound by the very religious frameworks that displaced them. Politics through the rise of Pan Africanism also failed to restore Africa to its authentic spirituality as it was fused with religious dogmas. ISBN:9781037019647
BEYOND BELIEF
A fascinating exposé of the global revolution you’ve never heard of: a deep-pocketed, tech-savvy Christian movement reshaping our societies from within. How has a Christian movement, founded at the turn of the twentieth century by the son of freed slaves, become the fastest-growing religion on Earth? Pentecostalism has 600 million followers; by 2050, they’ll be one in ten people worldwide. This is the religion of the Holy Spirit, with believers directly experiencing God and His blessings: success for the mind, body, spirit and wallet. Pentecostalism is a social movement. It serves impoverished people in Africa and Latin America, and inspires anti-establishment leaders from Trump to Bolsonaro. In Australia, Europe and Korea, it throws itself into culture wars and social media, offering meaning and community to the rootless and marginalized in a fragmenting world. Reporting this revolution from twelve countries and six US states, Elle Hardy weaves a timeless tale of miracles, money and power, set in our volatile age of extremes. By turns troubling and entertaining, Beyond Belief exposes the Pentecostal agenda: not just saving souls, but transforming societies and controlling politics. These modern prophets, embedded in our institutions, have the cash and the influence to wage their holy war. ISBN:9781787385894

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Listening to the Spirit: The Radical Social Gospel, Sacred Value, and Broad-based Community Organizing
road-based community organizing (BBCO) is perhaps the most successful and most widely used form of political participation supported by American religious institutions. As organizing groups become more religiously diverse, however, so do the conceptions of sacred value that ground organizing in the first place. It may seem that to hold something as sacred—human life, a land, or a natural resource, for example—only serves to further entrench us in our enclaves and threaten the solidarity of any constituency. This book tells a different story. Using auto-ethnography from over a decade of interfaith BBCO experiences, Listening to the Spirit makes a case for the political role of sacred value in BBCO, especially as they show up in two organizing practices: the “listening campaign” and the “relational meeting.” Listening to the Spirit addresses the political limits in organizing by arguing for building deeper solidarity through sacred values and provides Christians with political theological tools to understand the relational meeting and listening campaign as religious practices. Drawing on discussions of racial capitalism, radical democracy, feminist theory, and philosophical theology, Listening to the Spirit advances a Christian social ethics that crafts a political theological framework to interpret these organizing practices in ways that Christians have traditionally understood in terms of the Holy Spirit. ISBN:9780197755556
The Eight Phases of Black Ecclesial Queering
ueering Black Churches explores how open and affirming historically Black churches queered their congregations. Using the lenses of practical theology, ecclesiology, Queer theology, and gender studies, this book examines the heteronormative histories, theologies, morals, values, and structures of Black churches while proposing methods for restructuring, reimagining, and subverting the heterosexist paradigms and binary assumptions that perpetuate oppression in Black ecclesial spaces. The text provides a systematic approach for dismantling heteronormativity within African American congregations by examining how open and affirming Black congregations understand what it means to be the church while paying close attention to the differences and similarities within their approaches to congregational queering. These congregations are described as reimagined Black ecclesial brave spaces where sexuality and gender are redefined to prohibit ecclesial discrimination against Black Queer folk. I contend that a more excellent way of queering Black congregations requires Black churches to move beyond mere security and courageousness toward true structural transformation and ecclesial accountability. The book’s constructive component synthesizes the recurring themes and techniques used by open and affirming Black congregations into a methodology called Black ecclesial queering. ISBN:9780197662656
Brothers Behind Bars
Brothers behind Bars tells the harrowing, yet fascinating, story of the Muslim Brotherhood’s imprisonment in Egypt from the Palestine War in 1948 to the consolidation of President Anwar al-Sādāt’s rule in 1975. Based on hundreds of prison memoirs written by both Muslim Brothers and Sisters, the book takes the reader on a rare journey behind the prison walls to show how radicals and moderates, ministers and intelligence officers, clerics and jailers were embroiled in an epic battle to define Islam in modern Egypt. Brothers behind Bars argues that Egypt’s state institutions played a crucial role in shaping the ideologies within the Muslim Brotherhood, demonstrating how the institution of the prison became a critical site for the formation of a political counter-public in modern Egypt. Likewise, it demonstrates how the Muslim Brothers, amid crushing state repression, established an underground prison society that came to serve as a template for the utopia they envisioned for an Islamic Egypt . ISBN:9780197662762

Oxford University Press

The Concept of Person in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Georges Tamer (Editor)
ISBN: 9783110756715

Publication Date: 2023-11-06

The sixth volume of the series "Key Concepts of Interreligious Discourses" investigates the roots of the concept of "person" in Judaism, Christianity and Islam and its relevance for the present time. The concept of "person" lies at the core of central ideas in the modern world, such as the value and development of personal identity, the sanctity of human person and the human rights based on that. In societies that are shaped by a long Christian tradition, these ideas are associated often with the belief in the creation of man in the image of God. But although Judaism shares with Christianity the same Biblical texts about the creation of man and also the Qurʾān knows Adam as the first human being created by God and his representative on earth, the focus on the concept of "person" is in each one of these religions a different one. So, the crucial question is: how did the concept of "person" evolve in Judaism, Christianity and Islam out of the concept of "human being"? What are the special features of personhood in each one of these traditions? The volume presents the concept of "person" in its different aspects as anchored in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It unfolds commonalities and differences between the three monotheistic religions as well as the manifold discourses about the meaning of "person" within these three religions.
The Many Faces of Job by Choon-Leong Seow (Editor)
ISBN: 9783110569292

Publication Date: 2023-05-08

This handbook analyses in a comparative method and on an interdisciplinary level how the biblical figure of Job and his texts were interpreted from premodern times until today, highlighting continuities and discontinuities. The first volume addresses the premodern period and includes chapters on Second Temple Judaism, Jewish Interpretations, Christian Interpretations, Islam, Literature, Visual Arts and Music.
Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750-1960) by Miguel de Asúa; Miguel de Asúa
ISBN: 9783110488777

Publication Date: 2022-05-09

Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750-1960) is the first comprehensive study on the relationship between science and religion in a Spanish-speaking country with a Catholic majority and a "Latin" pattern of secularisation. The text takes the reader from Jesuit missionary science in colonial times, through the conflict-ridden 19thcentury, to the Catholic revival of the 1930s in Argentina. The diverse interactions between science and religion revealed in this analysis can be organised in terms of their dynamic of secularisation. The indissoluble identification of science and the secular, which operated at rhetorical and institutional levels among the liberal elite and the socialists in the 19thcentury, lost part of its force with the emergence of Catholic scientists in the course of the 20th century. In agreement with current views that deny science the role as the driving force of secularisation, this historical study concludes that it was the process of secularisation that shaped the interplay between religion and science, not the other way around.

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