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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Who Killed Jesus?	John Dominic Crossan	The death of Jesus is one of the most hotly debated questions in Christianity today. In his massive and highly publicized The Death of the Messiah, Raymond Brown -- while clearly rejecting anti-Semit…	OL102022W
The End of the Modern World	Romano Guardini	This expanded edition of Guardini's classic work includes the original text of The End of the Modern World, as well as the entirety of its explicit sequel, Power and Responsibility, in which Guardini…	OL1239314W
Incarnation anyway	Edwin Chr. van Driel	This book raises in a new way a central question of Christology: what is the divine motive for the incarnation? Throughout Christian history a majority of Western theologians have agreed that God's d…	OL13613487W
Angelomorphic pneumatology	Bogdan Gabriel Bucur	This book discusses the occurrence of angelic imagery in early Christian discourse about the Holy Spirit. Taking as its entry-point Clement of Alexandria's less explored writings Excerpta ex Theodota…	OL13764971W
The real history of the end of the world	Sharan Newman	Explores the various theories of world destruction from ancient times to present day-- theories that reveal as much about human nature as they do about the predominant historical, scientific, and rel…	OL14927756W
Jesus Wars	Philip Jenkins,John Philip Jenkins	Jesus Wars reveals how official, orthodox teaching about Jesus was the product of political maneuvers by a handful of key characters in the fifth century. Jenkins argues that were it not for these co…	OL15188596W
Den Frieden verantworten. Politische Ethik bei Francisco Suárez (1548-1617)	Markus Kremer	Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) steht an der Schwelle zwischen mittelalterlicher Scholastik und moderner Rechtsphilosophie. Dies erlaubt es, in ihm einen Theologen zu sehen, der - Bewährtes bewahrend - …	OL15267234W
Summa Theologica	Thomas Aquinas,Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930	Thomas's magnum opus, comprising a systematic integration of Aristotelian philosophy with Christianity. Covers topics such as the nature and existence of God, human nature, law and morality and the r…	OL15314568W
Enlightened evangelicalism	Jonathan M. Yeager	John Erskine was the leading evangelical in the Church of Scotland in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Educated at Edinburgh University, he learned to appreciate the epistemology of John Lo…	OL15587981W
Religious law and ethics	Zeʹev W. Falk	221 p. ; 24 cm	OL1576836W
Was There a Lutheran Metaphysics?	Joar Haga	Joar Haga traces the Lutheran doctrine of communicatio idiomatum, the exchange of properties between the natures of Christ, as it developed in the 16th and the early 17th Century. Regarding it as the…	OL16815455W
A History of the End of the World	Jonathan Kirsch	"[The Book of] Revelation has served as a "language arsenal" in a great many of the social, cultural, and political conflicts in Western history. Again and again, Revelation has stirred some dangerou…	OL1907988W
The Joy of the Gospel	Pope Francis	This special edition of Pope Francis's popular message of hope explores themes that are important for believers in the 21st century. Examining the many obstacles to faith and what can be done to over…	OL19337910W
Jesus under fire	James Porter Moreland,Michael J. Wilkins	Jesus Under Fire questions the findings of the Jesus Seminar that have challenged the biblical record of Jesus and his life and ministry, and presents rationally grounded affirmations of the traditio…	OL19811106W
Jesus	Thomas G. Weinandy	Acknowledged as one of the leading contemporary Catholic Christologists, Thomas G. Weinandy has collected in one volume his most important contributions to our understanding of Jesus as the incarnate…	OL20646158W
Karl Barth, a future for postmodern theology?	Christian Mostert,Geoff Thompson	xvi, 306 pages ; 21 cm	OL20945141W
The Holy Spirit and Christian origins	James D. G. Dunn,Graham Stanton,Stephen C. Barton,Bruce W. Longenecker	"The Holy Spirit and Christian Origins comprises a selection of original essays that explore a topic that has held a prominent and distinctive place in the majority of Professor Dunn's publications. …	OL20947536W
Slandering the Jew	Susanna Drake	As Christian leaders in the first through fifth centuries embraced ascetic interpretations of the Bible and practices of sexual renunciation, sexual slander--such as the accusations Paul leveled agai…	OL20956126W
Isaac of Nineveh's ascetical eschatology	Scully, Jason (Assistant professor)	"Isaac of Nineveh's Ascetical Eschatology demonstrates that Isaac's eschatology is an original synthesis based on ideas garnered from a distinctively Syriac cultural milieu. Jason Scully investigates…	OL20975155W
Verus sacerdos	Pellegrino, Michele.	144 p. : 22 cm	OL2260351W