Het Werkboek bij Christelijke dogmatiek biedt een handreiking bij het lezen en verwerken van het veelgelezen handboek Christelijke dogmatiek van dr. G. van den Brink en dr. C. van der Kooi. Dit handboek geeft een overzicht van het boeiende landschap van de christelijke geloofsleer. Wat is nu precies de inhoud van wat christenen geloven en waarop baseren zij hun overtuigingen? Het Werkboek bij Christelijke dogmatiek is een welkome gids tijdens de trektocht door dit landschap: het biedt een sam...

Op een toegankelijke wijze wordt een beschrijving gegeven van de joodse godsdienst, zoals die zich in een lange geschiedenis heeft ontwikkeld

en in de huidige tijd wordt beleefd en geleefd.

Na de geschiedenis van het joodse volk volgt een overzicht van de belangrijkste joodse geschriften (Bijbel, Talmud, Midrash, Zohar) en

de belangrijkste godsdienstige voorstellingen (Halacha, Kabbala, Messianisme). Een apart hoofdstuk is gewijd aan joodse feesten, rituelen en gebruiken.

Today's religious violence challenges our understanding of religion. Do we need special notions such as 'cult' and 'fundamentalism' to come to terms with it? Does monotheism, with its claim to exclusivity, necessarily generate intolerance? Kippenberg rejects the idea that violence and religion are inherently connected and instead considers the actions, motives, and self-perceptions of real people. He shows that the violent outcomes of the American tragedies of Jonestown and Waco were not inev...

Keeping Faith in Practice is an addition to SCM's growing Practical and Pastoral Theology list. Most books in this field are written by authors from various Protestant backgrounds. Catholic teachers in this field are frequently asked by colleagues for suggestions of Catholic resources, and find themselves at a loss.

The central subject of this book is an exploration of how theology engages with the dimension of practice in the life of the Church and contemporary society and culture. The book ...

Happiness comes from within. Can these 'truths' hold the key to a happier, more fulfilled life?In The Happiness Hypothesis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines ten Great Ideas which have been championed across centuries and civilisations and asks: how can we apply these ideas to our twenty-first century lives?

How can we reconcile the ideal church described by theology with the broken church that we see in the world? In this book Joseph Small argues that the church's true identity is known somewhere in the tension between the two.

Small revisits familiar ecclesiological concepts--people of God, the body of Christ, the communion of the Holy Spirit--but rather than focusing on theological abstractions or worldly cynicism, he carefully evaluates the church in its scriptural, historical, theological, ...

Sociology of Religion is an increasingly popular component of courses in religious studies at undergraduate level. While most textbooks on the Sociology of Religion are written from a sociological background, this new student-friendly textbook aims to introduce the field and the subjects studied by sociologists of religion to students with a background in theology and religious studies.

With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the events of Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as conventional, anthropological, historical, and as an exercise of imagination. In his analyses, religion emerges as the product of ...

David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. No philosopher is more important for his careful, critical, and deeply perceptive examination of the grounds for belief in divine powers and for his sceptical accounts of the causes and consequences of religious belief, expressed most powerfully in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion. The Dialogues ask if belief in God can be inferred ...