Gespaltener christlicher Glaube

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Lee Strobel

"There's little question that he actually lived. But miracles? Rising from the dead? Some of the stories you hear about him sound like just that - stories. A reasonable person would never believe them, let alone the claim that he's the only way to God! But a reasonable person would also make sure that he or she understood the facts before jumping to conclusions. That's why Lee Strobel - an award-winning legal journalist with a knack for asking tough questions - decided to investigate Jesus for himself. An atheist, Strobel felt certain his findings would bring Christianity's claims about Jesus tumbling down like a house of cards. He was in for the surprise of his life. Join him as he retraces his journey from skepticism to faith. You'll consult expert testimony as you sift through the truths that history, science, psychiatry, literature, and religion reveal. Like Strobel, you'll be amazed at the evidence - how much there is, how strong it is, and what it says. The facts are in. What will your verdict be in The Case for Christ?"

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Amanda Apthorpe

"With the death of his identical twin brother, Ross, Catholic Priest Rupert Brown loses a part of himself while gaining guardianship of his fifteen-year-old niece, Neti. Burdened with grief and questioning his faith, Rupert attempts to recreate a family home for Neti, made more difficult by the sudden return of her mother after a ten year absence. When he is invited by Athena Nevis, a neuroscientist and atheist, to take part in her research on the nature of heightened religious experiences, he questions the whispers in his wiring that drove him to his life-long vocational choice of the priesthood. Both Athena and Rupert's interest begins to extend beyond their professional relationship, bringing his spiritual crisis to an unexpected conclusion."--Page 4 of cover.

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Marc Cortez

The book explores the relationship between Christology and theological anthropology through the lens provided by the theology of Karl Barth and the mind/body discussion in contemporary philosophy of mind. It thus comprises two major sections. The first develops an understanding of Karl Barth's theological anthropology focusing on three major facets: (1) the centrality of Jesus Christ for any real understanding of human persons; (2) the resources that such a christologically determined view of human nature has for engaging in interdisciplinary discourse; and (3) the ontological implications of this approach for understanding the mind/body relationship. The second part draws on this theological foundation to consider the implications that Christological anthropology has for analyzing and assessing several prominent ways of explaining the mind/body relationship. Specifically, it interacts with two broad categories of theories: 'nonreductive' forms of physicalism and 'holistic' forms of dualism. After providing a basic summary of each, the book applies the insights gained from Barth's anthropology to ascertain the extent to which the two approaches may be considered christologically adequate

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Dennis F. Kinlaw

How would our understanding be affected if we instead took Jesus as our starting point for doing theology? In Let's Start with Jesus, biblical scholar Dennis Kinlaw explores this question. In seeking to describe the nature of the relationship God desires with us, he explores three metaphors--royal/legal, familial, and nuptial--which serve as motifs for his reflection. Taking familiar theological categories, Kinlaw views them through the primary lens of the person and work of Jesus, and finds that Jesus reveals rich pictures of the nature of God, the nature of personhood, the problem of sin, the way of salvation, and finally, the means of sanctification via perfect love.