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Students of Anselm labour under considerable disadvantages. There is no one book which gathers together the 1 major texts in English, and some of the existing translations of Anselm's works are either in clumsy English, predate the modern critical edition of the Latin texts or even contain serious errors which distort the argument. For some time a modern critical edition which collects together all the treatises of Anselm has been badly needed. The present volume is planned as the first of a series of three which will make available translations of the complete treatises of Anselm. The text is based on modern critical editions of the original Latin and is in clear and intelligible English with a short preface and explanatory footnotes. It will be welcomed by teachers and students engaged in studying the works of one of the greatest of medieval theologians.

Concilium has long been a household-name for cutting-edge critical and constructive theological thinking. Past contributors include leading Catholic scholars such as Hans Küng, Gregory Baum and Edward Schillebeeckx, and the editors of the review belong to the international "who's who" in the world of contemporary theology.

A key reference work for a all who are studying Christian ethics.

Based on lectures given in predominantly secular institutions. Issues discussed include: political theology, liberation theology, ecology and human rights, globalism and individualism, the market and human dignity.

A popular, questioning book, confident that we cannot lose God if we seek truth. Touches on all the main areas of Christian belief: God and creation, revelation, the Bible, the person of Jesus and traditional doctrine.

This book offers a selection of representative texts which should enable readers to perceive the whole breadth and depth of Gutierrez's challenge to late twentieth-century Christians.

In this collection of short pieces based on broadcasts the author carried out for German radio, the selected biblical passage for each week becomes a springboard for exploring issues ranging from political leadership to spiritual journeys.

Jack Burton is an unabashed patriot. He longs for England to be known throughout the world for its compassion and integrity. A controversial read.

Karl Barth, one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, offers a concise and comprehensive theological reading of Paul's Letter to the Romans.

he latest book in the Faith in Reason series addresses the fraught and topical issue of the relationship between political liberalism and theology. Political liberalism is frequently denounced by theologians as individualist, relativist and hubristic. In response, there has been a tendency in recent political theology to attempt the overcoming of political liberalism, with the hope of building a more ecclesiastical, virtuous or community-orientated space. In an original and well-documented argument, Insole demonstrates that this negative characterisation of political liberalism is inadequate, both conceptually and historically. By attending to thinkers such as Richard Hooker, Edmund Burke, Lord Acton and John Rawls, Insole shows that a passion to protect the individual within liberal institutions can arise not from an illusory sense of self-sufficiency, but from an insight into our fallen condition, characterised by frailty, sin and complexity. This strand of political liberalism arises from a sense of our solidarity in sin with others, and the hubris of judging our fellow citizens, when judgement belongs to God alone. Such a position would be at odds with theologically over-zealous appropriations of the theme of "liberty" that emanate, for instance, from American presidents such as George W.Bush. Insole carefully uncovers the eschatological premises behind such appropriations, and shows that they are at fault theologically, in their failure to reckon with our fallenness, frailty and complexity. The book concludes by showing that the proposed alternatives to political liberalism - such as can be found in the influential Radical Orthodoxy movement- are naïve, utopian and dangerous, and in certain respects theologically impoverished. The Politics of Haman Frailty is an important contribution to the contemporary debate, in that it offers a genuinely theological and historically aware defence of political liberalism, both against its critics and in its own terms.

Women rabbis give new meaning to old liturgical forms by using prayer and biblical verse in new contexts creating rituals for those many circumstances in life where women need and long for prayer.

A companion to The Religion of Being which deserves to become a classic of modern spirituality. The analysis of a violent religious experience becomes a postmodern vision of the world and a secular version of the doctrine of the Trinity.

Argues that many of the stereotyped ways of relating theology to science are overly simplistic generalizations. Finds a productive are for interdisciplinary discussion in evolutionary epistemology.

Argues that the new historical consciousness of the relativity of all cultures profoundly affects our view of scripture.