Product Description: Healings and miracles play a prominent role in the New Testament accounts of Jesus’ life and ministry. In the Western Christian tradition, however, Jesus’ works of healing tend to be downplayed and understood as little more than a demonstration of his divine power...read more

Henriksen (systematic theology, Norwegian Lutheran School of Theology) compares the thought of Lessing, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, particularly in concern to their approach to the conflict between religious traditions and modernity. He offers new interpretations of each philosopher's work, emphasiz

Product Description: As finite humans, we are dependent, limited, situated, and vulnerable, and our understanding of ourselves and the world is constantly facing boundaries and restrictions. This book explores how finitude's different dimensions, and its ambiguities, may be understood within the framework of Christian theological anthropology...read more

Product Description: A major work in the philosophy of religion, this book interprets the Jesus story in terms of postmodern philosophy - particularly using Jacques Derrida?s categories of "desire," "gift," and "recognition." Author Jan-Olav Henriksen also attempts to reformulate Christology without resorting to such metaphysical concepts as substance, transcendence, etc...read more