THEOLOGIAN'S TEXTBOOK

If we exclude those parts of the world where the Bible was entirely unknown before the advent of Christian missionaries, there are few aspects of culture, ancient, mediaeval and modern, European and non-European, religious and secular, that ha...

Compare the following two questions, both of which greatly exercised ancient Greek and Roman thinkers:   What is a good human life? Why isn’t the earth falling?   They appear about as different as any tw...

Plato (427-347 B.C.) stands at the head of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon the wide range of topics that are still discussed by philosophers today under such headings...

Christian doctrine focuses upon God and the way in which God grants not just life but also meaning to all other things. To turn to the doctrine of God, therefore, is to consider both a particular item of concern (namely, God or theos) and a sp...

Descartes is perhaps the most widely studied of all the great philosophers. Students in countless introductory courses find that their imagination is captured by the lonely quest for knowledge described in Descartes’ masterpiece, the Meditatio...

What is it like to make a choice? The temptation we easily give way to is to think that it’s always the same kind of thing; or that there’s one kind of decision-making that’s serious and authentic, and all other kinds ought to be like this. In...

Two thousand years have come and gone, but still his remains the unfinished story that refuses to go away. Jesus of Nazareth, a Jew from rural first-century Galilee, is without doubt the most famous and most influential human being who ever walked...

A little over an hour into Ron Howard’s cinematic adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, for the first time in a major Hollywood film we see a portrayal of the Council of Nicaea. The brief scene takes place in an expansive, ornately decorated basili...

Few thinkers in the history of philosophy are more controversial than Hegel. Philosophers are either for or against him. Rarely do they regard him with cool detachment, weighing his merits and faults with strict impartiality. Hegel has been di...

From the outside, Luther’s life passed by simply and steadily. With few exceptions, his whole life took place within the territories of Thuringia and Saxony, mostly in Wittenberg, the electoral capital at the Elbe river, and its surroundings....

Augustine’s Confessions is undoubtedly among the most renowned works of Christian literature ever. In fact, it’s a classic of world literature that keeps generating editions, translations, commentaries, and monographs. In the Confessions, read...

The masterpiece of Sienese painting known as The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise by Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia is a fitting place to begin a consideration of the relationship between Christianity and the environment (Fig...

Quakerism is fascinating in its enduring ability to adapt to new contexts and yet retain a radical witness that has been inherent to its spirituality from the start. The Quakers (or Friends) today are a global faith composed of different branc...

Antisemitism1 is a late 19th-century (1870) term based on pseudoscientific racial theory that was coined to describe in a new way opposition to, and hatred of, the Jewish People and their form of life. Though a relatively recent linguistic and...

Cambridge Companions to Religion: а series of companions to major topics and key figures in theology and religious studies. Each volume contains specially commissioned chapters by international scholars which provide an accessible and stimulating...

The Jегоmе Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century is а one-volume resource on the entire Вiblе produced bу an international team of Catholic scholars. lts purpose is to provide in-depth analysis and interpretation of the Scriptures f...

The expression “philosophy of religion” did not come into general use until the nineteenth century, when it was employed to refer to the articulation and criticism of humanity’s religious consciousness and its cultural expressions in thought,...

Over three hundred years after Peter the Great’s campaign to reinvent Russia as a modern European nation, the opposition between ‘Russia’ and ‘the West’ remains a potent cultural meme that plays out in manifold ways—not least in the dangerous...

Inspired by Pope Francis, The Paulist Biblical Commentary opens the door to the study of Sacred Scriptures for a new generation of believers. This rich resource is the work of women and men who have dedicated themselves to the study of the Scriptu...

Despite distorted understandings of Freud's views and despite periodic waves of Freud-bashing, Auden's assessment remains essentially correct. Freud's influence continues to be enormous and pervasive. He gave us a new and powerful way to think about...

Т. В. Адамова - История богослужебного облачения - Учебное пособиеПод науч. ред. Е. Д. Шеко. - Москва : Изд-во ПСТГУ, 2023. - 124 с.: ил.ISBN 978-5-7429-1534-8 Т. В. Адамова - История богослужебного облачения – СодержаниеВведение  Канон бог...

Когда человек впервые переступает порог храма, его удивляет многое. Иная атмосфера, непривычный язык, сам воздух - тоже другой. И то, что одним будет восприниматься как «благодатный кислород вечности», - для другого может оказаться чуждой, неп...

Предлагаемая вниманию читателей книга родилась в процессе преподавания истории Древней Церкви на факультете теологии Европейского гуманитарного университета, на историческом факультете Белорусского государственного университета, в Институте те...

В книге, посвященной биографии апостола Павла (Иларион (Алфеев), митр. Апостол Павел. Биография. М., 2017.), мы обозрели жизнь великого апостола, насколько ее можно восстановить по книге Деяний и по тем фрагментам Павловых посланий, которые со...