Theology
Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the supernatural, but also deals with religious epistemology, asks and seeks to answer the question of revelation. Revelation pertains to the acceptance of God, gods, or deities, as not only transcendent or above the natural world, but also willing and able to interact with the natural world and, in particular, to reveal themselves to humankind. While theology has turned into a secular …
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CPRC: University of Regina Press · 5 November 2024 English
Uncut explores the significance of the foreskin in contemporary culture The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents …
Karl Deenick, Righteous by Promise: A Biblical Theology of Circumcision (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Approaching the novels of early Quebec through the counterintuitive lens of the sacred, Lisa Gasbarrone challenges negative views of these novels as dated and even unreadable for the contemporary reader. …
reading is not. My field is literary studies, not theology, history, religious studies, sociology, or anthropology …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Vancouver, British Columbia, now reports “no religion” as its leading religious identity, putting it in the vanguard of a trend happening across North America. What does this mean for the …
colleagues across the street at Vancouver School of Theology, where I teach Mission Studies, who have been … technique (what we might call “tips and tricks” theology) to “tap into” the unending demand of things … perspective, engage in mission, understand their theology and spirituality within this context, and organize … (theological constructions of the city, missional theology, and spirituality), and which cultural and organizational … Christian communities in Vancouver. Ethnographic theology is a rela- tively recent development in academia …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost …
Reformation eliminated purgatory from Protestant theology in favour of a soul’s direct route to FIGURE …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 October 2024 English
“Coren tells us the stories of his fascinating life with clarity, self-deprecating wit, and page-turning verve.” — STEPHEN FRY From England’s working class to high profile media personality, Michael Coren …
could, therefore, have given me all sorts of theology and philosophy, little of which I would have …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Across cultures, democracies struggle with intolerant groups, misinformation, social media conspiracies, and extreme populists. Egalitarian cultures cannot always withstand this swing towards the irrational. In Irrational Publics and the Fate …
posit ideals and turns it into a metaphysics or theology. In matters of knowledge, per- fectionists want … consolation from perfectionist philosophy or theology. It sees significance in the obscene and comic … Perfectionism in Greco-Christian philosophy and theology stressed how life on earth is temporary, chaotic …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English
Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles …
(111–12), “Answer to H.J. Nelson” (138–40), “The Theology of Mr. S. on Sunday Labor, Paraphrased with a …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2024 English
Ireland’s Great Famine produced Europe’s worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly …
James G. Greenlee and Charles M. Johnston 9 The Theology of the Oral Torah Revealing the Justice of …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2024 English
Without Beginning or End is Jacqueline Bourque’s final testament to a life well lived, written in the wake of a terminal cancer diagnosis. Deeply inspired by her Acadian upbringing along …
then take wing.27 Père chaBert’S Legacy His theology was poetry, with its own rhyme and its own reason …
RSC: Royal Society of Canada · 11 September 2024 English
The RSC and its Academies ensure that selection committees are populated in a manner that reflects the diversity of the relevant scholarly community, and the spread of disciplines within the …
Musicology ➢ Philosophy/Ethics ➢ Religious Studies ➢ Theology Academy of Science: (Academy III) ➢ Animal biology …