Featuring vibrant full color throughout, the seventh edition of Bart D. Ehrman's highly successful introduction approaches the New Testament from a consistently historical and comparative perspective, emphasizing the rich diversity of the earliest Christian literature. Distinctive to this study is its unique focus on the historical, literary, and religious milieux of the Greco-Roman world, including early Judaism.

As part of its historical orientation, the book also discusses other Christian ...

The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science. This unique edition offers an exciting new approach to the most influential of all English biblical texts - the Authorized King James Version, complete with the Apocrypha.

With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the events of Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as conventional, anthropological, historical, and as an exercise of imagination. In his analyses, religion emerges as the product of ...

In this classic work, the author introduced the then revolutionary idea that indigenous practices are indeed rational, when viewed in terms of religious beliefs.

Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations, Third Edition is the ideal textbook for those coming to the study of religion for the first time, as well as for those who wish to keep up-to-date with the latest perspectives in the field. This third edition contains new and upgraded pedagogic features, including chapter summaries, key terms and definitions, and questions for reflection and discussion. The first part of the book considers the history and modern practices of the m...

A new and expanded edition of a highly successful textbook on world religions with a comparative approach which explores how six major religions are lived and expressed through their customs, rituals and everyday practices. A new edition of this major textbook, exploring the world's great religions through their customs, rituals and everyday practices by focusing on the 'lived experience' This comparative study is enriched and broadened with the inclusion of a sixth religion, DaoismTakes a th...

The Inner Chapters are the oldest pieces of the larger collection of writings by several fourth, third, and second century B.C. authors that constitute the classic of Taoism, the Chuang-Tzu (or Zhuangzi). It is this core of ancient writings that is ascribed to Chuang-Tzu himself.

‘Voor de Aartsbisschop is theologie niet een ver verwijderd academisch spel, zoals dat plaatsvindt in de seminaries en in de faculteiten van onze universiteiten; het is een weg van begripsvorming, een weg van leven en een weg van sterven. Het is niet moeilijk om begrip te hebben voor zijn poging om onze oppervlakkige, vaak verstandelijke beschaving wakker te schudden’. Aldus Lord Blanch.

De Weg naar Binnen (School for Prayer) van Metropoliet Anthony is een klassiek werk over het gebed, ge...

Eschatologie als christologie. Het denken over het einde van de wereld heeft mensen telkens weer verleid tot uitgebreide fantasieën. In dit boek wordt de beslissing over de wereld echter samengevat in een enkele zin: God doet recht. Het verrassende van dit boek is dat het oordeel al gekomen is, want eschatologie is christologie. Het koninkrijk van God is het koninkrijk van de koning met de doornenkroon. In dit boek gaat de auteur uitvoerig in op problemen die mensen kunnen hebben met de voor...

De kerk is de plek waar God op aarde is. De gemeenschap van de gelovigen is het lichaam van Christus in Wie we God kennen, en daar woont zijn Geest. Tegen de tendens in de hedendaagse theologie in wordt de goddelijke Geest in dit boek strikt verbonden met de kerk. Daardoor krijgen de klassieke kenmerken van de kerk hun volle gewicht: de kerk is één, heilig, katholiek en apostolisch. Daarvoor behoort zij dan ook te staan en haar samenkomen in de viering moet dat tot uitdrukking brengen. We g...