John Cassian and the Creation of Monastic Subjectivity

Joshua Daniel Schachterle

John Cassian (360-435 CE) started his monastic career in Bethlehem. He later traveled to the Egyptian desert, living there as a monk, meeting the venerated Desert Fathers, and learning from them for about fifteen years. Much later, he would go to the region of Gaul to help establish a monastery ther...

Critical Theory and Early Christianity

Matthew G. Whitlock

This volume aims to create--in Walter Benjamin's terms--dialectical images from early Christian texts and the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It blasts the past and the present into one another, creating new constellations of thought, ones connected with tensions and mediated by theory (mediat...

The Holy in a Pluralistic World

Ulrich Rosenhagen, Gregory D. Alles

Rudolf Otto (1869-1937) is widely recognized as one of the most important contributors to the study of religions at the beginning of the 20th century. His book, The Idea of the Holy, became something of a sensation in its time, and his account of numinous experience as a mysterium tremendum et fasci...

Knowing God, Knowing Emptiness

John N. C. Robinson

Knowing God, Knowing Emptiness examines the viability of the epistemology proposed by Bernard Lonergan in his seminal work Insight, particularly with regard to its possible application in the field of interreligious dialogue. This enquiry is prompted by an awareness of the epistemological questions...

Spectres of John Ball

James Crossley

For centuries, the priest John Ball was one of the most infamous or famous figures in the history of English rebels, best known for his saying 'When Adam delved and Eve Span, Who was then the gentleman'. But over the past hundred years his memory has faded dramatically. Along with Wat Tyler, Ball wa...

Jesus and Addiction to Origins

Willi Braun

Russell T. McCutcheon

This collection of essays constitute an extended argument for an anthropocentric, human-focused, study of religious practices. The basic premise of the argument, offered in the opening section, is that there is nothing special or extraordinary about human behaviors and constructs that are claimed to...

Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love

David L. Johnston

This book seeks to elucidate the concept of justice, not so much as it is expressed in law courts (retributive and procedural justice) or in state budgets (distributive justice), but as primary justice--what it means and how it can be grounded in the inalienable rights that each human being possesse...

Religions of a Single God

Zeba A. Crook

In some ways, this book fits into the long tradition of textbooks on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It seeks to teach the basics both of the study of religion and the study of the religions themselves. For each religion, it presents the trajectories of development over time, the main theological...

Pentecostal Migration in Secular Sweden

Victoria Enkvist, Katarina Westerlund

Around the globe, migrant communities are being established in modern, Western societies where they are creating new, vital Pentecostal churches, worship groups, and religious communities. Among other locations, this mainly cosmopolitan movement is visible in the Norden part of E...

If I Forget You, Jerusalem!

Niels Peter Lemche

This selection of articles – never before published in English – reflects the author’s position that the basic realization of minimalism has always been evident: that the Old Testament is not, exclusively, a book about history but is dominated by interests in theology both as literature and as an...