This book shares the poignant, captivating, and hard-to-believe true tales of four teachers in Indonesia. Described as modern dervishes, they sowed the seeds of successful education through altruism and teamwork, even rescuing three orphans from the aftermath of a tsunami.
The design of the human body is a marvelous mystery. The brain has a unique creative ability, but what is truly amazing is the integrated function of the body’s different systems. This book explores these unique features, revealing the wisdom behind such a well-designed creature.
This book presents a combination of Christian faith and scientific knowledge as an answer to human suffering. Addressing individual and collective pain, it offers therapeutic models and deepens understanding of the value of spiritual insight in therapy.
The warrior Messiah of the Old Testament matches Jesus in the New, fighting cosmic evil. This struggle takes place in a heavenly dimension, using the word from his mouth as the only weapon, revealing a strong continuity between the Testaments.
The Word of Light
This book is a treatise on the genesis of the world, the birth of God, and the role of man. Was the cosmos an intelligent design? Is man the crown of creation, or will evolution relegate us to fossils? The book examines human norms, values, and morals.
The World of the Axial Sages
This book analyzes the “Age of Awakening” in the first millennium BCE. It argues that earthshattering spiritual encounters led prophets and sages to redirect people away from stagnant traditions towards new forms of dynamic, personal spirituality.
Theologically Reading Metropolitan of Pergamon John Zizioulas
This book examines one of Eastern Orthodoxy’s most significant contemporary thinkers. It fosters a dialogue between his theological vision and the challenges of (post)modernity, presenting a novel approach to the climate crisis, pluralism, and gender issues.
This book traces the literary expression of religious fear from the New Testament to scholasticism. It reveals how Franciscan preachers, using the power of community language, forged a confident and peace-seeking theology to counter this legacy.
Thomas and Charity Rotch
This study of Quakers Charity and Thomas Rotch explores their role in transforming the Ohio frontier from wilderness to a prosperous town. The letters of Charity Rotch suggest how Quaker women forged relationships crucial to building their faith communities.
“God became man that man might become God.” This book shows how Hegel fleshes this thought out, stripping away false materialist interpretations of his philosophy to reveal its continuity with the Biblical belief in “the power to become the sons of God.”
Towards Ethnic Liberation Theology in Nigeria
This book argues that Nigeria’s structures inflict injustice on its minority groups, fueling division. Drawing on liberation theology and an exegesis of Galatians, it forges a powerful and necessary Biblical theology of ethnic liberation.
This collection of essays clarifies Paul’s letters to the Corinthians, exploring how he adapted Graeco-Roman ideas to defend himself and persuade his readers. The analyses produce new and surprising results for scholars, students, and all interested in the apostle Paul.
Transformation of Political Islam in Turkey
Köni scrutinizes the causes and the nature of the major changes that Turkish political Islam witnessed from its emergence in the 1970s until the middle of 2012. He focuses on two particular aspects, specifically Turkish state elites and globalization.
This publication discusses the main dynamics of political and social change in Muslim societies using specific examples from each country, offering the reader a practical understanding of the historical turning points in the Muslim world in recent years.
Transforming From Christianity to Islam
Why would a Western woman convert to Islam and embrace the hijab? These personal accounts explore the complex reality where devotion collides with the immense influence of peer, social, and male pressure on one of life’s biggest decisions.
Trauma and Survival in the Contemporary Church
At an uncertain moment for the Anglican Communion, this volume addresses ongoing experiences of trauma within the church. Shedding light for the first time on significant traumatic episodes, these narratives examine a variety of traumas and the responses, official and otherwise.
A modern take on the tribal societies of the whole of Pakistan–their origins, history, and social profile. It promotes an understanding of the disruptive effects of external factors and reforms which failed to take into account their deep-seated cultural sensitivities.
Triune God
The contributions to this collection discuss the importance of the ideas of St Gregory Palamas and his followers in understanding of God in terms of divine energies, and for contemporary approaches to solving perennial problems in science, metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics.
Trúc Lâm Buddhism in Vietnam
In the 13th century, the Trúc Lâm Zen sect flourished, then faded into obscurity for centuries. How and why was it revived in the 20th century? This book analyzes the history of this forgotten sect and examines its modern revival, reform, and traditions.
Under the Veil
In an era of new restrictions, women found a radical source of freedom in their faith. This collection unveils the surprising link between religion and emergent feminism, from European mystics to Iroquois leaders and Quaker missionaries.