Na de dood van God toch over God denken en spreken. In 'Boven is onder ons' laat Rick Benjamins zien hoe dat kan, zonder terug te vallen in een ‘God van daarboven’.

God is en blijft een betekenisvolle term, maar waar die naar verwijst is lang niet altijd duidelijk. Dit boek begint bij de theologie van Harry Kuitert, die afscheid nam van oude godsvoorstellingen. Vervolgens legt Benjamins de belangrijke en onmisbare inzichten van Hegel en Heidegger uit, hij presenteert de huidige godsdiens...

De info-technologische revolutie beheerst steeds meer ons leven. Het belang ervan zal verder toenemen nu kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) alomtegenwoordig is geworden. Wat betekent de informatietechnologie voor ons denken over God?

In God in bits & bytes probeert theoloog Marcel Barnard de ontwikkelingen te begrijpen, zonder zich meteen te richten op de tekorten en gevaren ervan. Hij doordenkt het werk van filosofen en theologen, van cyberexperts en science fiction, en laat hun werelden dichter...

Why do human beings believe in divinities? Why do some seek eternal life, while others seek escape from recurring lives? Why do the beliefs and behaviors we typically call "religious" so deeply affect the human personality and so subtly weave their way through human society?Ideal as a supplementary text in introductory religion courses or as the main text in theory and method in religious studies or in sociology of religion courses, Ten Theories of Religion, Fourth Edition, offers an illumina...

Ibn Sina - Avicenna in Latin - (980-1037) played a considerable role in the development of both eastern and western philosophy and science. His contributions to the fields of logic, natural science, psychology, metaphysics and theology and even medicine are difficult to overstate. The great Islamic philosopher al-Ghazali thought that if one could show the incoherence of Avicenna's thought, then one would have shown the incoherence of philosophy in general.

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This book is aimed at those training for ministry, those in ministry and lay people wishing to reflect upon their work. It seeks to enable those in pastoral ministry to reflect upon their institutional encounters and to enable lay people who work in institutions as professionals or managers to reflect upon their pastoral encounters. By generating shared encounters of theological reflection between these two groups the authors identify points of solidarity and tension between them.The book see...

Discover the historical and social context of one of the most influential works ever written with this authoritative new resource The newly revised second edition of The Hebrew Bible: A Contemporary Introduction to the Christian Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh delivers a brief and up-to-date introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the broader context of world history. Its treatment of the formation of the Bible amidst different historical periods allows readers to understand the bib...

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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, ...

The Essential Mengzi offers a representative selection from Bryan Van Norden's acclaimed translation of the full work, including the most frequently studied passages and covering all of the work's major themes. An appendix of selections from the classic commentary of Zhu Xi--one of the most influential and insightful interpreters of Confucianism--keyed to relevant passages, provides access to the text and to its reception and interpretation. Also included are a general Introduction, timeline,...

Dit boek laat een sterke verbinding zien tussen twee heel belangrijke gezichtspunten van het kerkelijk leven: Kleine Diensten Groepen en het Priesterschap van Alle Gelovigen. Deze twee elementen samen vormen een zeer effectief ''instrument", door de Heilige Geest gebruikt om plaatselijke kerken, momenteel stagnerend en in ledental sterk achteruitgaand, tot boeiende en groeiende kerken om te buigen. Het verklaart waarom de institutionele kerk eeuwen lang de groei en opdracht van de kerk heeft ...