For the medieval mystical tradition, the Christian soul meets God in a 'cloud of unknowing', a divine darkness of ignorance. This meeting with God is beyond all knowing and beyond all experiencing. Mysticisms of the modern period, on the contrary, place 'mystical experience' at the centre, and contemporary readers are inclined to misunderstand the medieval tradition in 'experie...(展开全部)

For the medieval mystical tradition, the Christian soul meets God in a 'cloud of unknowing', a divine darkness of ignorance. This meeting with God is beyond all knowing and beyond all experiencing. Mysticisms of the modern period, on the contrary, place 'mystical experience' at the centre, and contemporary readers are inclined to misunderstand the medieval tradition in 'experie...(展开全部)

中译本导言前言第一章 来临的上帝：终末论现况一 终末论的时间化二 终末论的永恒化三 来临的上帝的终末论四 犹太教弥赛亚思想的再生第二章 永恒的生命：个人的终末论一 生命和死亡二 灵魂不灭或身体复活? 三 死亡是罪的后果，还是生命自然的终点? 四 死人在哪里? 五 死亡、哀悼和安慰第三章 上帝国：历史的终末论一 历史的恐怖末日论二 弥赛亚式终末论：“千年国度” 三 政治的弥赛亚主义：“神圣国度” 四 政治的千禧年主义：“救赎者国家” 五 教会的千禧年主义：“万民的母亲和教师” 六 划时代的千禧年主义：“近代”的诞生源自弥赛亚盼望的精神七 千禧年式的终末论是必要的吗? 八 人类历史的末时：灭绝主义九 “历史的终结”：后历史的先知十 恐怖末日的终末论是必要的吗? 十一 万有的回归第四章 新天新地：宇宙的终末论一 受造的将来：安息和舍金纳二 世界的毁灭或圆满...(展开全部)

Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller “a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century” in a feature on his first book, The Reason for God . In that book, he offered a rational explanation of why we should believe in God. Now, in The Prodigal God , he uses one of the best-known Christian parables to reveal an unexpected message of hope and salvation. Taking his trade...(展开全部)

Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller “a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century” in a feature on his first book, The Reason for God . In that book, he offered a rational explanation of why we should believe in God. Now, in The Prodigal God , he uses one of the best-known Christian parables to reveal an unexpected message of hope and salvation. Taking his trade...(展开全部)

In this eloquent introduction to early Christian thought, eminent religious historian Robert Louis Wilken examines the tradition that such figures as St. Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, and others set in place. Wilken shows how these early thinkers constructed a new intellectual and spiritual world and can still be heard as living voices in the modern world. "Magnificently learned...(展开全部)

Satisfaction…Happiness…Joy. According to John Piper, the pursuit of pleasure in God is not only permissible, it’s essential. Desiring God is a paradigm-shattering work that dramatically alters common perspectives on relating to God. Piper reveals that there really is no need to choose between duty and delight in the Christian life. In fact, for the follower of Jesus, delight i...(展开全部)

This book argues that the rediscovery of mystical theology in nineteenth-century Germany not only helped inspire idealism and romanticism, but also planted the seeds of their overcoming by way of critical materialism. Thanks in part to the Neoplatonic turn in the works of J. G. Fichte, as well as the enthusiasm of mining engineer Franz X. von Baader, mystical themes gained a cr...(展开全部)

How did the New Testament writers and the earliest Christians come to adopt the Jewish scriptures as their first Old Testament? And why are our modern Bibles related more to the rabbinic Hebrew Bible than to the Greek Bible of the early Church? The Septuagint, the name given to the translation of the Hebrew scriptures between the third century BC and the second century AD, play...(展开全部)

How did the New Testament writers and the earliest Christians come to adopt the Jewish scriptures as their first Old Testament? And why are our modern Bibles related more to the rabbinic Hebrew Bible than to the Greek Bible of the early Church? The Septuagint, the name given to the translation of the Hebrew scriptures between the third century BC and the second century AD, play...(展开全部)