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.
Natural Final Causality and Scholastic Thought
1st Edition
By Corey Barnes
December 26, 2025
This book examines scholastic conceptions of final causality through the methods and concerns of historical theology. It argues the history of final causality is most profitably understood according to the interplay of regularity, order, and intentionality as interpretive categories. Within this ...
Hope from a Body in Pain: Theology, Psychology and Medical Narratives
1st Edition
By Lena Maria Lorenz
December 03, 2025
This book explores the phenomenon of hope in the context of long-term ill-health. It brings medicine, psychology and theology in dialogue with the voices of those with first-hand experience of chronic pain. The chapters reflect on existing psychological literature on hope, the theological ...
Theological Dissent in Post-Vatican II Catholicism
1st Edition
By Anthony Devlin
December 03, 2025
This book examines the reality of theological dissent in the Catholic Church in the decades since the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) and its relation to the problematic search for certainty and doctrinal consistency in addressing the complexities of moral decision-making in the contemporary ...
Apocalyptic Phenomenology: Essays in the Philosophy of Divine Revelation
1st Edition
By Balázs M. Mezei
November 28, 2025
This book provides a detailed view of the author’s conception of ‘apocalyptic phenomenology’, referring to the revelatory and self-disclosing nature of phenomenological thinking, a thinking that is central to our philosophical traditions today. The concept of ‘apocalyptic phenomenology’, i.e., a ...
How Children's Worship Changed the Church: Ritualism, Liturgy and Children in the Late Nineteenth Century Church of England
1st Edition
By Catherine M. Haynes
November 18, 2025
This book charts nineteenth-century ceremonial and liturgical change through Ritualists’ involvement of children in Church of England services. It draws on previously unresearched records of how children participated in services and considers the way in which their influence as adults subsequently ...
Resurrection Remembered: A Memory Approach to Jesus’ Resurrection in First Corinthians
1st Edition
By David Graieg
October 27, 2025
This book is the first major study to investigate Jesus’ resurrection using a memory approach. It develops the logic for and the methodology of a memory approach, including that there were about two decades between the events surrounding Jesus’ resurrection and the recording of those events in ...
Structural Sin and the Death of Institutions
1st Edition
By Susannah Cornwall
October 14, 2025
Structural Sin and the Death of Institutions explores how Christian understandings of sin map onto institutional failures. It argues that institutions frequently create conditions in which individuals are disempowered and disposed to sin, and that uncritical appeals to redemption, reconciliation ...
Natural Theology: A Reassessment
1st Edition
By Andrew Ter Ern Loke
September 09, 2025
Natural Theology: A Reassessment offers corrections to widespread misinterpretations of the authoritative sources of Christian theology and shows that these sources affirm a traditional view of natural theology that refers to what can be rationally believed about God without using religious ...
Anglican Confirmation 1945–2000: From ‘The Sacramental Principle’ to ‘The Challenge of Baptismal Unity’
1st Edition
By Phillip Tovey
June 27, 2025
The focus of this book is the theology, liturgy and practice of Anglican Confirmation from 1945 to 2000. It is the third book in a series on Anglican Confirmation. The first chapters look at confirmation on a global and ecumenical level. How have questions about the place and performance of ...
The Music of Theology: Language – Space – Silence
1st Edition
By Andrew Hass, Mattias Martinson, Laurens ten Kate
June 27, 2025
This book reconceives theology as a musical endeavour in critical tension with language, space and silence. An Overture first moves us from music to religion, and then from theology back to music – a circularity that, drawing upon history, sociology, phenomenology, and philosophy, disclaims any ...
The Origin of the Soul: A Conversation
1st Edition
Edited
By Joshua Farris, Joanna Leidenhag
June 27, 2025
The Origin of the Soul is a contemporary retrieval of an important theological discussion throughout history. The origin of the soul is thought by many to be an outdated discussion that is theologically antiquated. And, yet, in recent years, there has been a renewed and growing interest not only in...
Eating God: A History of the Eucharist
1st Edition
By Matteo Al Kalak
May 06, 2025
Eating God examines the history of the Eucharist as a means for understanding transformations in society from the late Middle Ages onwards. After an introduction on the sacrament from its origins to the Protestant Reformation, this book considers how it changed the customs and habits of society, on...