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.
Piety and Responsibility: Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika
1st Edition
By John N. Sheveland
May 16, 2017
This book analyzes the writings of Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika to disclose how each construes "piety" and "responsibility" as integral to each other. It explores a fundamental unity of love of God and love of neighbour in ecumenical and interreligious frameworks....
The Ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas: A Christian Theology of Liberation
1st Edition
By John B. Thomson
February 27, 2017
This book presents the theological work of Stanley Hauerwas as a distinctive kind of 'liberation theology'. John Thomson offers an original construal of this diffuse, controversial, yet highly significant modern theologian and ethicist. Organising Hauerwas' corpus in terms of the focal concept of ...
Evagrius Ponticus: The Making of a Gnostic
1st Edition
By Julia Konstantinovsky
November 28, 2016
A revered instructor of the eremitic monks of Nitria, Sketis and Kellia, Evagrius Ponticus is a fascinating yet enigmatic figure in the history of fourth-century mystical thought. This historical and theological re-evaluation of the teaching of Evagrius brings to bear evidence from the Greek and ...
Law, Liberty and Church: Authority and Justice in the Major Churches in England
1st Edition
By Gordon Arthur
November 28, 2016
Law, Liberty and Church examines the presuppositions that underlie authority in the five largest Churches in England - the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church, the Methodist Church, the United Reformed Church and the Baptist Union. Examining what has influenced their development, and how ...
New Voices in Greek Orthodox Thought: Untying the Bond between Nation and Religion
1st Edition
By Trine Stauning Willert
November 28, 2016
New Voices in Greek Orthodox Thought brings to the light and discusses a strand in contemporary Greek public debate that is often overlooked, namely progressive religious actors of a western orientation. International - and Greek - media tend to focus on the extreme views and to categorise ...
Pseudo-Dionysius as Polemicist: The Development and Purpose of the Angelic Hierarchy in Sixth Century Syria
1st Edition
By Rosemary A. Arthur
November 28, 2016
The anonymous theologian known as Pseudo-Dionysius, who was responsible for arranging the angelic hierarchy into nine orders, had a significant influence on mediaeval European mysticism. This book places him in his religious and political context in sixth century Syria, and uncovers the hidden ...
Kierkegaard, Pietism and Holiness
1st Edition
By Christopher B. Barnett
November 23, 2016
Søren Kierkegaard wrote that Pietism is 'the one and only consequence of Christianity'. Praise of this sort - particularly when coupled with Kierkegaard's significant personal connections to the movement in Christian spirituality known as Pietism - would seem to demand thorough investigation. And ...
Thomas Torrance's Mediations and Revelation
1st Edition
By Titus Chung
November 23, 2016
Could a work of revelation be justified as a viable theological project today, especially in light of some modern sceptics questioning its validity as a doctrinal discipline? Engaging with the work of theologians such as Karl Barth, Paul Tillich and Colin Gunton, Chung explores and justifies ...
Reading Anselm's Proslogion: The History of Anselm's Argument and its Significance Today
1st Edition
By Ian Logan
November 17, 2016
Anselm’s Proslogion has sparked controversy from the time it was written (c.1077) to the present day. Attempts to provide definitive accounts of its argument have led to a wide and contradictory variety of interpretations. In this book, Ian Logan goes back to basics, to the Latin text of the ...
The Trinity and Theodicy: The Trinitarian Theology of von Balthasar and the Problem of Evil
1st Edition
By Jacob H. Friesenhahn
November 17, 2016
Why does God permit the great suffering and evil that we see in our world? This basic question of human existence receives a fresh answer in this book as the mystery of evil is explored in the context of the mystery of the Trinity. God's permission of evil and the way in which suffering can lead ...
The Challenges of the Pentecostal, Charismatic and Messianic Jewish Movements: The Tensions of the Spirit
1st Edition
By Peter Hocken
November 16, 2016
This book explores the Pentecostal and charismatic movements, tracing their development and their variety. Hocken shows how these movements of the Holy Spirit, both outside the mainline churches and as renewal currents within the churches, can be understood as mutually challenging and as ...
Biblical Scholarship and the Church: A Sixteenth-Century Crisis of Authority
1st Edition
By Allan K. Jenkins, Patrick Preston
November 15, 2016
Conflicting claims to authority in relation to the translation and interpretation of the Bible have been a recurrent source of tension within the Christian church, and were a key issue in the Reformation debate. This book traces how the authority of the Septuagint and later that of the Vulgate was...