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This book offers a philosophical investigation into the systematic coherence of the Christology developed by the first seven Ecumenical Councils (from the First Council of Nicaea in ad 325 to the Second Council of Nicaea in ad 787).

This two-volume collection showcases Michael C. Rea's ground-breaking work in analytic theology. TThe first volume considers the nature of God and our ability to talk and discover truths about God, whereas the second volume focuses on theological questions about humanity and the human condition.

This book opens with defenses of the philosophy of pessimism, first on secular grounds and then again on distinctively Christian grounds with reference to the fallenness of human beings. It then details traditional Christian reasons for optimism with which this philosophy of pessimism can be qualified.

This study draws upon the resources of both contemporary analytic theology and the theological interpretation of the New Testament in order to investigate a set of important issues in Christology.

Leading scholar Jc Beall advances a contradictory Christology by addressing the apparent contradiction of Christ's being fully human and fully divine.

This innovative study defends the view that God's holiness amounts to God's being so great that it is unfitting for limited and imperfect non divine beings to be intimately related to the unlimitedly great God.

This book is the second of two volumes collecting together Michael C. Rea's most substantial work in analytic theology. The first volume contains essays focused on the nature of God; this second volume contains essays focused more on doctrines about humanity, the human condition, and how human beings relate to God.

This book is the first of two volumes collecting together Michael C. Rea's most substantial work in analytic theology. This volume considers the nature of God and our ability to talk and discover truths about God, whereas the companion volume focuses on theological questions about humanity and the human condition.

This study considers the philosophical arguments against that Extended Conciliar Christology and argues that none of them succeed in showing the doctrine to be false, or incoherent, or inconsistent.

Grounded in the canonical gospels and other New Testament passages, especially Philippians 2:1-11, this study offers an account of humility from a Christian perspective.

In this book, Samuel Lebens takes the three principles of Jewish faith, as they were proposed in the fifteenth century by Rabbi Joseph Albo, and seeks to scrutinise and refine them with the tool-kit of contemporary analytic philosophy.

This book considers two approaches to the philosophy of time, presentism and eternalism.

This book offers clear, careful readings of modernism's key figures-including Kant, Hegel, and Schleiermacher-in order to explain their relevance to practical concerns and to contemporary understandings of faith.

This book proposes an account of humility that relies on the most radical Christian sayings about humility, especially those found in Augustine and the early monastic tradition. It argues that this was the view of humility that put Christian moral thought into decisive conflict with the best Greco-Roman moral thought.

Analytic theology is a legitimate form of theology, and a legitimate form of academic inquiry, and it can be a valuable conversation partner within the wider religious studies academy. William Wood defends analytic theology from some common criticisms, but also argues that analytic theologians have much to learn from other forms of inquiry.

This book addresses the various ways in which key social identities-for example, race, gender, and disability-intersect with, shape, and are shaped by traditional questions in analytic theology and philosophy of religion. The book both breaks new ground and encourages further analytic-theological work in these important areas of research.

This work argues that Christ's atonement disarms human resistance to God's love and so brings about acceptance of divine forgiveness.

Love Divine provides a systematic account of the deep and rich love that God has for humans, clarifying and defending conclusions concerning how the doctrine of divine love should be approached. It presents a unified theological account of divine love, punitive wrath, and redemption.

This is the first full-length study of the doctrine of the Trinity from the standpoint of analytic philosophical theology.

A volume of collected essays on the philosophy of liturgy.