Books in the American University Studies series

In God and Human Freedom: A Kierkegaardian Perspective Tony Kim discusses Soren Kierkegaard's concept of historical unity between the divine and human without disparaging their absolute distinction.

While Spinoza is often interpreted as an early secular or liberal thinker, this book argues that such interpretations neglect the senses of order and authority that are at the heart of Spinoza's idea of God. For Spinoza, God is an organized and directed totality of all that exists. God is entirely immanent to this totality, to such an extent that all things are fundamentally of God.

Division, Diversity, and Unity argues that the theology of ecclesial charisms can account for legitimately diverse specialized vocational movements in the Church but cannot account for a legitimate diversity of separated churches.

This book offers multiethnic congregations a homiletical paradigm under the title "positive marginality". The paradigm includes the five principles of positive marginality: Embrace, Engage, Establish, Embody, and Exhibit. Seven preachers of multiethnic churches in six different countries offer valuable insights.

Ellen G. White was a major figure of nineteenth-century American Christianity. This volume is a historical examination of the process through which early Seventh-day Adventists justified and accepted White's prophetic claims between 1844 and 1889. It evaluates and analyzes the development of their understanding of the doctrine of the gift of prophesy in general, and White's gift in particular.

The 1959 purge of the Latvian national communists has long been cast in black-and-white terms: Russification and resistance; victimizers and victims. For the student of Soviet and Latvian history alike, this volume provides more than just the story of a purge - it is a unique snapshot into the political machinations of the Soviet Union and one of its republics.

Deals with the field of postcolonial and Third World feminist studies. This title reevaluates the ways in which Third World women writers interrogate the relationship between woman and nation in the postcolonial context. It brings forth the concept of postnational feminism.

This book sets out to explore an ethic of suffering; that is, learning how to locate the suffering on an ethical grid and, if possible, learning how to take steps to conspire with God who always desires our healing and freedom.

The Future of Church Planting in North America looks to Jesus as the model for life and ministry as he said, "As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you". Examining the life and ministry of Jesus as found in the Gospel of John as well as the New Testament church plants, the author makes a strong case for a multicultural church planting as a model for the future.

Confessions of Love

Aquinas's Notion of Pure Nature and the Christian Integralism of Henri de Lubac

Confessions of Love

A collection of thirty-eight stories about Korean mountain wizards, Taoist hermits with supernatural powers, divine Taoists, and divine beings, who enjoy perennial youth, longevity, and immortality, and sometimes ascend to heaven. It presents the idea as an inherent traditional form of Korean spirituality that later merged with Taoist thought.

An Ecofeminist Perspective on Ash Wednesday and Lent

Conjugal Chastity in Pope Wojtyla

Raises a crucial question whether the Vatican would separate the political management from religious leadership in order that new hope for reconciling the Vatican to the CCC through religious communion can be prospected.

The Quicksands of Belief: The Need for Skepticism draws on history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and the cognitive sciences in an accessible, non-academic style in order to argue that humans don't question enough. The claim of this book is that humans need to question everything they think they know.

An exposition of Aquinas' theology of God the Father as a coherent whole. Surprising as it might be, there has not been an extended treatment of Aquinas' theology of God the Father. This book becomes clear that St Thomas places forceful emphasis on the Son's equality to the Father and on the radical difference between the creator and the creature.

The Evangelicals and the Synoptic Problem aims to investigate how evangelical Christians and their Protestant forebears, labeled early orthodox Protestants, have dealt with the classic puzzle of New Testament criticism known as the Synoptic Problem.

Traces the history of the idea of 'grace' from ancient times to the 1700s. This book examines the Middle Ages, when the concept acquires a more specifically religious meaning (divine mercy, thanks), and the Renaissance, when the terms 'gracefulness' and 'elegance' come to dominate in the treatises of the time.

"Yin-Yang" Interplay: A Renewed Formation Program for the Catholic Seminary in China puts the spotlight on the design of a renewed formation program for the Catholic seminary in China.

Prelude to Disaster is the most comprehensive account of the fateful decision to tax American colonists.

La primera introduccion completa y sistematica en lengua espanola a Evagrio Pontico, "el monje mas culto del siglo IV", esta obra se concentra sobre todo en el tratamiento de la acedia.

In this theoretical investigation, Panikkar's remark on the unknown Christ of Christians is reevaluated and deepened in order to deploy it for rethinking Panikkar's ideas on the Church and its understanding of Christ.

Suitable for seminary classes in pastoral theology and pastoral counseling, and for graduate courses in psychology dealing with the relationship between psychological models and religious worldviews, this book details a journey deep into two seemingly disparate worlds united by a common insight into the way our thinking influences our emotions.