De info-technologische revolutie beheerst steeds meer ons leven. Het belang ervan zal verder toenemen nu kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) alomtegenwoordig is geworden. Wat betekent de informatietechnologie voor ons denken over God?

In God in bits & bytes probeert theoloog Marcel Barnard de ontwikkelingen te begrijpen, zonder zich meteen te richten op de tekorten en gevaren ervan. Hij doordenkt het werk van filosofen en theologen, van cyberexperts en science fiction, en laat hun werelden dichter...

Why do human beings believe in divinities? Why do some seek eternal life, while others seek escape from recurring lives? Why do the beliefs and behaviors we typically call "religious" so deeply affect the human personality and so subtly weave their way through human society?Ideal as a supplementary text in introductory religion courses or as the main text in theory and method in religious studies or in sociology of religion courses, Ten Theories of Religion, Fourth Edition, offers an illumina...

Ibn Sina - Avicenna in Latin - (980-1037) played a considerable role in the development of both eastern and western philosophy and science. His contributions to the fields of logic, natural science, psychology, metaphysics and theology and even medicine are difficult to overstate. The great Islamic philosopher al-Ghazali thought that if one could show the incoherence of Avicenna's thought, then one would have shown the incoherence of philosophy in general.

No other author is directly cited by...

Studies in religion are flourishing internationally, and one of the central topics discussed in the field today-perhaps the most discussed topic-is religious diversity. With the influx of religious traditions in the West and the growing diversity of religious adherents and practitioners worldwide, people across the globe are currently nterested in exploring issues in religious diversity. The present work is a response to this ubiquitous interest.

It is a substantial volume of thirty-three ori...

This book is aimed at those training for ministry, those in ministry and lay people wishing to reflect upon their work. It seeks to enable those in pastoral ministry to reflect upon their institutional encounters and to enable lay people who work in institutions as professionals or managers to reflect upon their pastoral encounters. By generating shared encounters of theological reflection between these two groups the authors identify points of solidarity and tension between them.The book see...

Brian Tracy, one of the top professional speakers and sales trainers in the world today, found that his most important breakthrough in selling was the discovery that it is the "Psychology of Selling" that is more important than the techniques and methods of selling.

How can we reconcile the ideal church described by theology with the broken church that we see in the world? In this book Joseph Small argues that the church's true identity is known somewhere in the tension between the two.

Small revisits familiar ecclesiological concepts--people of God, the body of Christ, the communion of the Holy Spirit--but rather than focusing on theological abstractions or worldly cynicism, he carefully evaluates the church in its scriptural, historical, theological, ...

Discover the historical and social context of one of the most influential works ever written with this authoritative new resource The newly revised second edition of The Hebrew Bible: A Contemporary Introduction to the Christian Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh delivers a brief and up-to-date introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the broader context of world history. Its treatment of the formation of the Bible amidst different historical periods allows readers to understand the bib...

Beautifully designed with four-color illustrations, this bestselling evangelical survey of the Old Testament has been updated throughout.

Dit boek laat een sterke verbinding zien tussen twee heel belangrijke gezichtspunten van het kerkelijk leven: Kleine Diensten Groepen en het Priesterschap van Alle Gelovigen. Deze twee elementen samen vormen een zeer effectief ''instrument", door de Heilige Geest gebruikt om plaatselijke kerken, momenteel stagnerend en in ledental sterk achteruitgaand, tot boeiende en groeiende kerken om te buigen. Het verklaart waarom de institutionele kerk eeuwen lang de groei en opdracht van de kerk heeft ...