Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
About the Book Series
The Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies series brings high quality research monograph publishing back into focus for authors, international libraries, and student, academic and research readers. This open-ended monograph series presents cutting-edge research from both established and new authors in the field. With specialist focus yet clear contextual presentation of contemporary research, books in the series take research into important new directions and open the field to new critical debate within the discipline, in areas of related study, and in key areas for contemporary society.
In Search of New Age Spiritualities
1st Edition
By Adam Possamai
June 05, 2019
The search for an adequate understanding of the New Age phenomenon is fraught with difficulties when examined within the perspectives of sociology of religion which have shed light on religion in modernity. New Agers cannot be located easily in the secularisation narrative; they move through ...
The Soul of Theological Anthropology: A Cartesian Exploration
1st Edition
By Joshua R. Farris
May 23, 2019
Recent research in the philosophy of religion, anthropology, and philosophy of mind has prompted the need for a more integrated, comprehensive, and systematic theology of human nature. This project constructively develops a theological accounting of human persons by drawing from a Cartesian (as a ...
Debate and Dialogue: Christian and Pagan Cultures c. 360-430
1st Edition
By Maijastina Kahlos
December 19, 2018
This book explores the construction of Christian identity in fourth and fifth centuries through inventing, fabricating and sharpening binary oppositions. Such oppositions, for example Christians - pagans; truth - falsehood; the one true god - the multitude of demons; the right religion - ...
The Politics of Praise: Naming God and Friendship in Aquinas and Derrida
1st Edition
By William W. Young Iii
December 19, 2018
While the revelation of God's name is a central theological topic, its ethical and political significance are often overlooked. In a world filled with violence committed 'in the name of God', how might invoking God's name enable peace, community, and hope? The Politics of Praise argues that the ...
The Church, Authority, and Foucault: Imagining the Church as an Open Space of Freedom
1st Edition
By Steven G. Ogden
September 18, 2018
The Church, Authority, and Foucault addresses the problem of the Church’s enmeshment with sovereign power, which can lead to marginalization. Breaking new ground, Ogden uses Foucault’s approach to power and knowledge to interpret the church leader’s significance as the guardian of knowledge. This ...
Revelation, Scripture and Church: Theological Hermeneutic Thought of James Barr, Paul Ricoeur and Hans Frei
1st Edition
By Richard R. Topping
May 11, 2018
How does God's involvement with the generation of Holy Scripture and its use in the life of the Christian church figure into the human work of Scripture interpretation? This is the central question that this book seeks to address. In critical conversation with the influential hermeneutic programs ...
Leaving Christian Fundamentalism and the Reconstruction of Identity
1st Edition
By Josie McSkimming
March 12, 2018
There is an increasing interest in the influence of religious fundamentalism upon people’s motivation, identity and decision-making. Leaving Christian Fundamentalism and the Re-construction of Identity details the stories of those who have left Christian fundamentalist churches and how they change ...
Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture: Women and Silence
1st Edition
By Georgina L. Jardim
February 12, 2018
Protest is an activity not associated with the pious and collectively-minded, but more often seen as an activity of the liberal and rebellious. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are commonly understood as paragons of submission and obedience following Abraham’s example. Yet, the scriptures of all ...
Sacrifice and the Body: Biblical Anthropology and Christian Self-Understanding
1st Edition
By John Dunnill
February 12, 2018
What is sacrifice? For many people today the word has negative overtones, suggesting loss, or death, or violence. But in religions, ancient and modern, the word is linked primarily to joyous feasting which puts people in touch with the deepest realities. How has that change of meaning come about...
Shi'i Reformation in Iran: The Life and Theology of Shari’at Sangelaji
1st Edition
By Ali Rahnema
February 12, 2018
Shi 'ism caught the attention of the world as Iran experienced her revolution in 1979 and was subsequently cast in the mold of a monolithic discourse of radical political Islam. The spokespersons of Shi'i Islam, in or out of power, have not been the sole representatives of the faith. Nonconformist ...
The Nature of the Soul: The Soul as Narrative
1st Edition
By Terrance W. Klein
May 25, 2017
This book offers a contemporary Christian explication of the word 'soul' that uses Wittgenstein and his interpreters to suggest that human intelligence and desire cannot be 'mapped into the world' that is described by science and metaphysics. It examines the Aristotelian notion of the soul as one ...
A Kryptic Model of the Incarnation
1st Edition
By Andrew Ter Ern Loke
May 16, 2017
The Incarnation, traditionally understood as the metaphysical union between true divinity and true humanity in the one person of Jesus Christ, is one of the central doctrines for Christians over the centuries. Nevertheless, many scholars have objected that the Scriptural account of the Incarnation ...