{"id":11708,"count":9,"description":"Welcome to the Five Books recommendations on theology. We have interviews with a distinguished range of experts including biblical scholars, literary critics, church historians, and philosophers of religion recommending their top theology books on questions of biblical interpretation, the historical development of religions, and specific matters of doctrine.\r\n\r\nProfessor Diarmaid MacCulloch discusses the history of Christianity<\/a>. Edward Feser, associate professor of philosophy at Pasadena City College, talks about arguments for the existence of God<\/a>. Peter Adamson, professor of late ancient and Arabic philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, looks at Islamic theology and chooses his best books on philosophy in the Islamic world<\/a>. Professor Stephen Greenblatt of Harvard talks about Adam and Eve<\/a>, Paula Fredriksen, historian of ancient Christianity, tackles sin<\/a> and academic and Anglican clergyman, Robert Morgan, chooses his best books on Jesus<\/a>. Timothy Beale, professor of religion at Case Western Reserve Univeristy, looks at versions of the Bible<\/a>.\r\n\r\nWhile a new part of Five Books, we aim to develop it and engage further with theological questions raised by the most influential religious traditions.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/religion\/theology\/","name":"Theology","slug":"theology","taxonomy":"category","parent":6413,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/6413"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=11708"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=11708"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=11708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}