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Clive Marsh offers a contemporary Christian understanding of salvation. He shows how salvation is understood and articulated now, when 'redemption' language is widely used outside of Christianity, and when redemptive experiences are reported in response to the arts, popular culture, media, and through counselling.

Drawing a comparison between religion and cinema-going, this text examines a range of contemporary films in relation to key theological concepts. Cinema as a religion-like activity is explored through cognitive, affective, aesthetic and ethical levels, identifying the religious aspects in the social practice of cinema-going. Written by a leading expert in the field, Theology Goes to the Movies analyzes: the role of cinema and Church in Western...

Unerbittlich führt der radikale Arm der IRA seinen Krieg gegen Großbritannien. Mit zunehmend harten Bandagen wird gekämpft, auch vor Bombenanschlägen gegen unschuldige Zivilisten wird nicht mehr zurückgeschreckt. Nachdem ihr Bruder von britischen Sicherheitskräften getötet wurde, hat sich auch Colette dem Kampf gegen die Besatzer angeschlossen. Selbst als sie Mutter wird, ist sie immer noch in vorderster Front mit dabei. Doch dann wird sie erw...

Unerbittlich führt der radikale Arm der IRA seinen Krieg gegen Großbritannien. Mit zunehmend harten Bandagen wird gekämpft, auch vor Bombenanschlägen gegen unschuldige Zivilisten wird nicht mehr zurückgeschreckt. Nachdem ihr Bruder von britischen Sicherheitskräften getötet wurde, hat sich auch Colette dem Kampf gegen die Besatzer angeschlossen. Selbst als sie Mutter wird, ist sie immer noch in vorderster Front mit dabei. Doch dann wird sie erw...

How Popular Music Shapes Our Souls>Personal Jesus explores the theological significance of the ways pop music is listened to and used today. Popular music is used by religious and nonreligious people alike to make meaning, enabling us to explore human concerns about embodiment, create communities, and tap into transcendence. The authors assess what is happening to Christian faith and theology as a result and explore practical implications for ...

Christ in Focus demonstrates why the figure of Christ is so central for Christian faith and thought. It starts by asking what constitutes the focus or centre of Christian theology? In opposition to the way in which the trinity is being reasserted as the lynchpin of Christianity, this book argues that Christianity loses its soul when it is not Christocentric. Part One examines the way in which Christian theology works methodologically. Christol...

A good business model should describe how an organization creates and delivers value, meaning that financial modelling is a vital tool for business strategy, allowing hypotheses and scenarios to be translated into numbers. It enables a company to experiment with different ideas and scenarios in a safe, low-risk environment, to consider what it is aiming to achieve, and to prioritize accordingly. Business and Financial Models provides an access...

Invites readers to think deeply about their own lives and to examine the religious and theological contexts of Britain today.Offers a bold proposal for a viable form of Christian belief, drawing heavily but not uncritically on liberal protestantism.

Cinema & Sentiment Film's challenge to Theology What do films do to people? What do people do with films? All film-watching happens within a cultural context. Exploring cinema-going as leisure activity and by comparing film-watching with worship, Clive Marsh demonstrates aspects of the religious function of film-watching in Western culture. Through a variety of case-studies, including a look at the films of Robin Williams and the Coen brothe...

Presents the Methodist theology as a resource for the future. This book focuses on the many ways in which Methodism 'carries' its theology and how Methodism's emphasis contributes to British Christianity. It asks challenging questions about how evangelism and social welfare may develop in the complex post-modern secular world.

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Drawing a comparison between religion and cinema-going, this text examines a range of contemporary films in relation to key theological concepts. Cinema as a religion-like activity is explored through cognitive, affective, aesthetic and ethical levels, identifying the religious aspects in the social practice of cinema-going. Written by a leading expert in the field, Theology Goes to the Movies analyzes: the role of cinema and Church in Wester...

Takes Bonhoeffer's question 'Who is Christ for us today?' as the starting point for a practical exploration of a Christology.

A standard introduction to Jesus and the Gospels. This 3rd edition interacts with developments in modern scholarship and includes a new chapter and updated reading lists.