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.
Concepts of Power in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
1st Edition
By J. Keith Hyde
November 15, 2016
The name Friedrich Nietzsche has become synonymous with studies in political power. The application of his theory that the vast array of human activities comprises manifestations of the will to power continues to influence fields as diverse as international relations, political studies, literary ...
Jürgen Moltmann's Ethics of Hope: Eschatological Possibilities For Moral Action
1st Edition
By Timothy Harvie
November 15, 2016
This book develops a thorough account of the sphere of human moral action in sustained dialogue with Jürgen Moltmann. By examining God's role as promise-giver, particularly in the Christian understanding of resurrection, this work describes the occupancy of both history and space in moral terms....
Nietzsche and Theology: Nietzschean Thought in Christological Anthropology
1st Edition
By David Deane
November 15, 2016
Theology has always viewed Nietzschean thought with a sideways glance, never quite sure what to make of it. Where serious engagement has occurred it has tended to either reject such thought outright or to accept it to such an extent that it loses its identity as Christian theology. This book ...
Postmodernism and the Ethics of Theological Knowledge
1st Edition
By Justin Thacker
November 15, 2016
This book establishes the necessary integration of theological knowledge with theological ethics. It does this as a response to the postmodern critique of Christianity, as exemplified in Rorty and Lyotard. They argue that any claim to know God is necessarily tyrannical. Contemporary responses to ...
Theosis in the Theology of Thomas Torrance
1st Edition
By Myk Habets
November 15, 2016
Torrance's vision of Theosis (deification/divinisation) is explored through his doctrine of creation and anthropology, his characterisation of the incarnation, his accounts of reconciliation and union with Christ, and his theology of church and sacraments. Myk Habets' study distinguishes Torrance's...
Beyond Evangelicalism: The Theological Methodology of Stanley J. Grenz
1st Edition
By Steven Knowles
November 10, 2016
A prolific author and thinker, Stanley J. Grenz was a respected and influential figure, not only within evangelicalism but in the wider theological world. Amongst the many issues tackled by him it is perhaps his revisioning of evangelical theology in the light of the postmodern challenge that has ...
Creativity, Spirituality, and Mental Health: Exploring Connections
1st Edition
By Kelley Raab Mayo
November 10, 2016
This book emphasizes the integral connections between imagination, creativity, and spirituality and their role in healing. First, the author highlights the work of a neglected yet important psychoanalyst, Marion Milner - a painter and undeclared mystic - expanding her work on creativity, mysticism,...
Ancient Taboos and Gender Prejudice: Challenges for Orthodox Women and the Church
1st Edition
By Leonie B. Liveris
October 31, 2016
This book explores the struggling genesis of a women's movement in the Orthodox Church through the ecumenical movement of the twentieth century at a time when militant conservatism is emerging in Orthodox countries and fundamentalism in the diaspora. Offering an understanding of the participation ...
Speaking of God in Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart: Beyond Analogy
1st Edition
By Anastasia Wendlinder
October 19, 2016
Medieval masters Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart considered problems inherent to speaking of God, exploring how religious language might compromise God's transcendence or God's immanence ultimately hindering believers in their journey of faith seeking understanding. Going beyond ordinary ...
The Trinity and Ecumenical Church Thought: The Church-Event
1st Edition
By William C. Ingle-Gillis
October 19, 2016
Some hundred years from inception, the ecumenical movement is stagnating. William C. Ingle-Gillis argues that the problem lies in modern ecumenism’s treatment of denominational Churches as provisional entities requiring reunion to be more fully Christ’s Body. In a work unique both to ecumenical ...
Twentieth Century Christian Responses to Religious Pluralism: Difference is Everything
1st Edition
By David Pitman
October 19, 2016
Twentieth Century Christian Responses to Religious Pluralism begins with the recognition that the traditional three-fold typology adopted by Christians in responding to other living world religions is no longer adequate and offers a much more sophisticated and developed approach. This is ...
Averroes and Hegel on Philosophy and Religion
1st Edition
By Catarina Belo
October 10, 2016
Comparing Averroes’ and Hegel’s positions on the relation between philosophy and religion, this book explores the theme of the authorities of faith and reason, and the origin of truth, in a medieval Islamic and a modern Christian context respectively. Through an in-depth analysis of Averroes’ and ...