Istilah “Tuhan” dalam Islam bisa dipahami dari dua sudut pandang. Pertama, kita bisa memandang Tuhan sebagai Dia dalam diri-Nya sendiri, di mana kita mengesampingkan kosmos (al-’alam), yakni “segala sesuatu selain Allah” (ma siwa Allah), tanpa berbagai kualifikasi spasial atau temporal. Ditilik dari sudut pandang ini, hampir semua pemikir Muslim berkesimpulan bahwa Tuhan dalam diri-Ny…
Does God exist? Who is God? And can we ultimately trust in any reality? These questions have been among the greatest subjects of human speculation since history began, but not until modern times has the reality of God been so strongly called into doubt. In this monumental study, written for men and women of all faiths (and of none), Hans Kung, the most renowned and controversial theologian in t…
In the late twentieth century, fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world, contesting the dominance of modern secular values and threatening peace and harmony around the globe. Yet it remains incomprehensible to a large number of people. In The Battle for God, Karen Armstrong brilliantly and sympathetically shows us how and why fundamentalist groups came …
I Believe in the Holy Spirit is a major treatise on the topic by one of the great theologians of the century. Yves Congar's book is one of the few comprehensive treatments of the Church's understanding of the Spirit and the working of the Spirit in the life of the Church by a Roman Catholic theologian.
Maurice Wiles shows that it doesn't require a vast tome to present a penetrating challenge to traditional doctrinal positions . . . The great merit of this important study is that it both highlights the need for massive rethinking of the self-understanding of the Christian faith and challenges those who engage in such rethinking to pay strict attention to what the evidence demands. Doctrine don…