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A shadowy and mysterious figure from the earliest history of the church who presents problems for the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary and the apostolic succession. This investigation into his life and role makes fascinating reading.

During two extended visits to India, Professor Pohlmann became fascinated with Hindu life and set out to discover more, not through books but by meeting and talking with Hindus, particulary Hindu priests. He interviewed more than one hundred of them in and around Bangalore, making sure that the conversations included discussions of a series of key questions including, Are there many gods or one God? What is the difference between Hinduism and Christianity? What is the meaning and goal of life? Are your afraid of death? He also has long conversations with two gurus and vigorous discussions with the students and staff of United Theological College, Bangalore.

John Hick has long argued that the widespread realization that Christianity is only one among several great world religions calls for a need to rethink Christian doctrine. He sees the great world faiths as very different and (so far as we can tell) equally valid ways of conceiving, experiencing and responding to the ultimate reality we call God.

A uniquely fascinating and memorable introduction to Paul's correspondence with the church at Corinth, which includes a highy plausible reconstruction of the other side of the conversation.

Many adults in the churches find learning difficult. They may not be able to understand, for example, how the church has developed through history and in a time of rapid social change will continue to develop. They may find intellectual formulations of belief difficult to comprehend, attitudes difficult to accept, and behaviours difficult to adopt.

A very distinctive and important new option for Christian theology. McFague proposes in a clear and challenging way a theological program based on what she calls 'the organic model' for conceiving God.

This "fresh look" gives an answer to the question how to become a Christian without being a fundamentalist.

This collection of provocative essays by one of the twentieth century's most distinguished theologians deals with topics as diverse as the right to work, nuclear war, the Olympic Games, and Judaism and Christianity--all within the framework of human rights.

This 3rd volume in his systematic contributions to theology is devoted to christology. Biblical and narrative in character rather than patristic and dogmatic it looks at the ecological significance of Christ, developing Teilhard de Chardin's views.

All pilgrimages should be stopped.' This blunt assertion by Martin Luther, echoed unanimously by the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformers, is the pivot of Professor Davies's fascinating and original study. Why were pilgrimages condemned? To answer the question he gathers together material to illustrate the nature of pilgrimages and the motives behind them, extending from patristic times to the Middle Ages. Then he studies the effects of the condemnation on the flourishing pilgrimage trade. During the nineteenth century, the Holy Land again attracted visitors, even among Protestants; here is another change which needs to be explained. Pilgrimages may have been resurrected in our day, but there has been little examination in depth of the criticisms previously levelled against them among Protestants. A substantial chapter attempts to fill this gap, at the same time supplying a modern theology of pilgrimage. The book ends with a review of the devotional aspects of modern pilgrimages, and with suggestions about possible services, use of the Bible, meditations and soon. J. G. Davies was Professor and former Head of the Department of Theology in the University of Birmingham.

A readable and illuminating survey of synchronic and diachronic approaches. The synchronic appoaches look at the limits of a text, structural and narrative analysis. Diachronic approaches deal with historical, form and redaction criticism.

The Veritas Series brings to market original volumes all engaging in critical questions of pressing concern to both philosophers, theologians, biologists, economists and more.

An historical survey of the role of the Lord's prayer throughout the history of the Church's thought and its worship. This study surveys the contributions of biblical scholars and theologians from the Early Fathers to the modern day, from Eastern and Western traditions and from Catholic and Reformed, Enlightenment and Modernist sources.

'...a companion to the author's survey of the main lines of discussion concerning Old Testament theology in the twentieth century. It deals with the wider issues of the relationship between the two Testaments and of the search to establish a distinctive biblical theology which will relate as a whole to... the ongoing life of the church.'

A classic introduction to the life-world of Israel, unmissable f or all studying the Hebrew Scriptures.

Aquinas' "Summa Theologica" was intended as a manual for beginners as a compilation of all of the main theological teachings of that time. Providing a summary of his work, this resource deals with questions of God and with man's striving for the highest end. It is useful for students being introduced to philosophical texts and to philosophy.