RLG203H5: Introduction to Christianity

Part I: On the Discipline, Part II: Languages, Translation, and Textual Transmission of the Bible, Part III: Historical and Social Study of the Bible, Part IV: The Composition of the Bible, Part V: Methods in Biblical Scholarship, Part VI: The Interpretation of the Bible, Part VII: The Authority of the Bible

Part I: Overtures, Part II: Biblical Narratives, Part III: The Bible and Bodies, Part IV: The Natural, Social, and Conceptual Landscapes of Biblical Story Worlds, Part V: On Reading

This volume addresses issues and themes that arise in the study of early Christian apocryphal literature. Part I consists of authoritative surveys of the main branches of apocryphal literature (gospels, acts, epistles, apocalypses, and related literature) and Part II considers key issues that they raise. These include their contribution to our understanding of developing interpretations of Jesus, the apostles, and other important figures such as Mary.

Part I: The Literary and Phenomenological Context, Part II: The Social Function of Apocalyptic Literature, Part III: Literary Features of Apocalyptic Literature, Part IV: Apocalyptic Theology, Part V: Apocalypse Now

Part I: Catholic Teaching ― The Enterprise of Catholic Theology, God, the Creation, and the History of Salvation, The Sacramental Life, Catholic Moral Theology
Part II: Modern Catholic Theology ― Sources in Catholic Theology up to Vatican I, Catholic Theology Since 1870

Part I: The Trinity in Scripture, Part II: Patristic Witnesses to the Trinitarian Faith, Part III: Medieval Appropriations of the Trinitarian Faith, Part IV: The Reformation to the Twentieth Century, Part V: Trinitarian Dogmatics, Part VI: The Trinity and Christian Life, Part VII: Dialogues

Part I: The Bible, Part II: Patristic Christology, Part III: Mediaeval Christology, Part IV: Reformation and Christology, Part V: Modern and Postmodern Christology, Part VI: Imagining the Son of God in Modernity, Part VII: The Grammar of Christology: Christological Norms

Part I: Biblical Foundations, Part II: Resources from the Tradition, Part III: Major Modern Ecclesiologists, Part IV: Contemporary Movements in Ecclesiology

Part I: Sacramental Roots in Scripture, Part II: Patristic Sacramental Theology, Part III: Medieval Sacramental Theology, Part IV: From the Reformation through Today, Part V: Dogmatic Approaches, Part VI: Philosophical and Theological Issues in Sacramental Doctrine

The Oxford Handbook of Mary includes chapters on textual, literary, and media analysis; theology; Church history; art history; studies on devotion in a variety of forms: liturgy, hymns, homilies, prayer, pilgrimage, lived belief and practice; also cultural history; folk tradition; gender analysis; apparitions; and apocalypticism. These have been contributed by a range of scholars, established names in Marian Studies, writing about Mary the mother of Jesus from within their own expertise.

This volume explores historical, literary, and ideological dimensions of the books of the Latter Prophets of the Hebrew Bible—Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Book of the Twelve—along with Daniel. The prophetic books comprise oracles, narratives, and vision reports from ancient Israel and Judah spanning several centuries.

Part I: Historical Eschatology [A: Biblical and Patristic Eschatology, B: Eschatology in World Religions], Part II: Eschatology in Distinct Christian Traditions and Theological Movements, Part III: Issues in Eschatology [A: Theological Issues, B: Philosophical and Cultural Issues]

I Asceticism and Monasticism in Early Christianity, II Eastern Medieval Monasticism and the Orthodox Churches, III A. Western Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Monastic and Religious Life, III B. Western Medieval Monasticism: Approaches to Monastic Life and Culture, IV Europe and the Wider World: From the Early Modern Era to the Twenty-First Century, V Contemporary Perspectives

Part I Text, Part II Canon, Part IIIScripture within Tradition, Part IV Toward an Orthodox Hermeneutics, Part V Looking to the Future

Part I: Prolegomena, Part II: Evidence: Material And Textual, Part III: Identities, Part IV: Regions, Part V: Structures and Authorities, Part VI: Expressions of Christian Culture, Part VII: Ritual, Piety, and Practice, Part VIII: Theological Themes

Part I: Ritual Theory, Part II: Ritual in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Part III: Ritual in Nascent Christianity, Part IV: Ritual in the Ancient Church

Part I: Luther’s Life, Part II: The Medieval Background and Origins of Luther’s Thought, Part III: The Hermeneutical Principles that Guided Luther’s Teaching and Preaching, Part IV: Luther’s Treatment of the Traditional Topics of Western Christian Theology, Part V: Luther’s View of Sanctified Living, Part VI: The Genre in which Luther Shaped his Theology, Part VII: The Impact and Reception of Luther’s Thought in History and in the Twenty-First Century

The volume focuses on key aspects of Calvin’s thought and its diverse reception in Europe, the transatlantic world, Africa, South America, and Asia

Part I: Theology—Context and Form, Part II: Theological Topics, Part III: Theology and the Others

Part I: Mission Studies as a Discipline, Part II: Mission Studies and Theology, Part III: Studies of Mission Practice, Part IV: Christian Mission and History, Part V: Christian Mission and Cultures, Part VI: Christian Mission and Religions, Part VII: Christian Mission and Society

Section I: Feminist Theology at the Crossroads, Section II: Changing Contexts, Section III: Changing Contents

I History, II Traditions [Orthodox, Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptist, Pentecostal and Charismatic], III Achievements and Issues [Christology, Baptism, Eucharist, Ministry, Liturgy, Justification, Morals, Mission and Evangelism, Ecology], IV Instruments, V The Global Scene, VI Debate and Prospects

Figures and major schools studied for their reception (whether critical or appreciative) of Aquinas’ theology include Scotus and Ockham, the Byzantine scholastics, Meister Eckhart, Durandus, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Cardinal Cajetan, the Council of Trent, the leading theologians of the Spanish ‘Golden Age’, the Reformed and Lutheran scholastics, the combatants in the de auxiliis controversy, the Catholic Thomistic commentatorial tradition, early modern and modern Orthodox readers of Aquinas, Joseph Kleutgen and the First Vatican Council, the Catholic neo-scholastics, Jacques Maritain, Étienne Gilson, Josef Pieper, the transcendental Thomists, the main figures of the nouvelle théologie, Karl Barth, Elizabeth Anscombe and Peter Geach, analytic Thomism, and postliberal Thomism.