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Theology & Biblical Studies New Books Catalogue July-September 2021
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T H E O L O G Y – Political & Philosophical Theology / Contemporary Philosophy
T&T Clark Reader in Political Creation and Transcendence
Theology Theological Essays on the Divine Sublime
Edited by Elizabeth Phillips, Margaret Beaufort Paul J. DeHart, Vanderbilt University, USA
Institute, UK, Anna Rowlands, Durham This book explores the substance, understanding,
University, UK & Amy Daughton, University of and implications of the doctrine of creation from
Birmingham, UK nothing (ex nihilo) for contemporary theology and
How can theology and theological method apply philosophy. Paul J. DeHart tackles the challenging
to politics and society? This introductory reader questions at the heart of the tension between
presents a careful selection of readings from key thinkers to enable the idea of God's infinity, radical notions of transcendence, and the
the inquisitive student to think more deeply about political theology. concept of the creator's mind. By engaging with a broad range of
By presenting a range of pedagogical features – introductions, thinkers, DeHart examines the key ideas central to this resurgent
suggestions for further readings and discussion questions – this text debate in contemporary Christian theology.
will not only allow students to gain an understanding of the history of
the subject, but also the ability to read interpret and critically engage UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 304 pages
HB 9780567698704 • £95.00 / $130.00
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ePdf 9780567698711 • £85.50 / $105.94
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 736 pages T&T Clark
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The Challenge of God Freedom, Redemption and
Continental Philosophy and the Catholic Communion: Studies in Christian
Intellectual Tradition Doctrine
Edited by Colby Dickinson, Loyola University Oliver D. Crisp, University of St Andrews, UK
Chicago, USA, Hugh Miller, Loyola University
Deeply engaged with the Christian tradition, and
Chicago, USA & Kathleen McNutt, Loyola
exemplifying a generous orthodoxy, this work
University Chicago, USA makes a constructive theological case for the
The contributors in this volume examine the vitality and importance of Reformed theology
complicated relationship of God to Being, the meaning of Revelation, today. By examining the topics of human freedom, redemption, and
as well as highlighting the context and role of the Spiritual Exercises. communion with one another and God, Oliver D. Crisp takes forward
They explore the Catholic Principle and its relevance in contemporary a constructive theological agenda in analytic theology. Crisp covers a
times, through discussing Christian epic visionaries, such as Dante, wide range of thinkers and topics, from issues concerning human free
Milton, Blake and Joyce, debating on their theological identity and will and sin, to studies on the person of Christ in recent theology, and
meaning for future studies. human redemption.
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 184 pages • 1 bw illus UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 224 pages
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The Accountable Animal: Sport and Christianity
Justice, Justification, and Practices for the Twenty-First Century
Judgment Edited by Matt Hoven, University of Alberta,
Brendan Case, Harvard University, USA Canada, Andrew Parker, University of
Gloucestershire, UK & Nick J. Watson, Youth
In this theological meditation on the human being Trust, UK
as an accountable animal, Brendan Case argues that
accountability is not just a structural feature of human This book explores the importance of sports and
institutions: it is also a disposition to submit to challenges readers to consider how it relates to
rightly-constituted authority, whether divine or human. He relates this their deepest passions, behaviours and actions. This accessible
innovative conception of accountability to the key themes of justice, and stimulating collection provides newcomers to the field with a
justification, and judgment. Offering a fresh and ecumenically minded framework around which to think seriously about the way that sports
perspective on justification, purgatory and hell, the book also engages participation and faith-based values connect.
with developments in contemporary philosophy and moral theology.
UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 216 pages
PB 9780567698889 • £28.99 / $39.95
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HB 9780567697660 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567678621 • £76.50 / $94.85
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T&T Clark Studies in Edward Schillebeeckx
T H E O L O G Y – Catholic Theology / Reference
The Anglican Patrimony in Frederiek Depoortere, KU Leuven, Belgium, Stephan van Erp,
Catholic Communion Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Kathleen
McManus OP, University of Portland, Oregon
The Gift of the Ordinariates
Edited by Tracey Rowland, University of Notre
Dame, Australia
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Anglicanorum
Religious Epistemology through
Coetibus, Tracey Rowland gathers together Schillebeeckx and Tibetan
leading voices to examine the issue of the Anglican Patrimony and Buddhism
its relevance for Christians today. The Anglicanorum Coetibus is the
2009 papal decree which established the Anglican Ordinariate within Reimagining Authority Amidst Modern
the Catholic Church, and this volume examines the longstanding Uncertainty
effects of this cultural decree. Rowland introduces different aspects Jason M. VonWachenfeldt, Lawrenceville School,
of the culture of Anglicanism, explains the concept of an Ordinariate USA
within the context of ecumenical theory, and examines aspects of
This study investigates how a comparison between Edward
Anglican liturgical theology and pastoral life.
Schillebeeckx's controversial reading of Thomist philosophy and the
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 208 pages Tibetan Buddhist Gendun Chopel's challenge to the standard Geluk
PB 9780567700247 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9780567700131 • £65.00 / $90.00 teaching of Tsongkhapa's Madhyamaka philosophy enables us to
ePub 9780567700155 • £19.79 / $24.63 rethink conceptions of religious knowledge.
ePdf 9780567700148 • £19.79 / $24.63
T&T Clark
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 264 pages
HB 9780567698636 • £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9780567698667 • £81.00 / $101.01
ePdf 9780567698643 • £81.00 / $101.01
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Karl Rahner’s Writings on
Literature, Music and the Visual Metaphysics of Mystery
Arts Revisiting the Question of Universality
Edited by Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen, Trinity through Rahner and Schillebeeckx
College, Ireland Marijn de Jong, Catholic University of Leuven,
Karl Rahner's Writings on Literature, Music and the Belgium
Visual Arts offers a collection of texts unavailable
This study argues that contemporary theology
in one volume until now, including six previously
needs a reconceptualised form of metaphysical
untranslated essays, from a major theologian of the 20th century.
theology to readdress the question of universality.
Rahner’s writings focus on the revelation of God as mystery in the
In order to develop such a new metaphysical theology, de Jong turns
world and on the human being who has an essential openness
to the work of Karl Rahner and Edward Schillebeeckx. Presenting a
towards the transcendent. His articles reveal an empathy and a depth
new perspective on their theological methods, he demonstrates that
of insight into the relationship between theology, faith and the arts
these theologians employ a dialectical interplay of hermeneutical and
which are remarkable and may take the reader by surprise.
metaphysical arguments, yielding a modest theological metaphysics.
UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 224 pages
UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 328 pages
HB 9780567700544 • £90.00 / $120.00
PB 9780567698971 • £28.99 / $39.95
ePub 9780567700575 • £81.00 / $101.01
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Bloomsbury Companions
T&T Clark Companion to Henri T&T Clark Companion to Liturgy
de Lubac Edited by Alcuin Reid, Monastère Saint-Benoît,
Edited by Jordan Hillebert, Cardiff University, France
UK Catholic liturgy is currently an area of considerable
interest and debate, if not controversy, in Catholic
Henri de Lubac's work has left an indelible mark on
scholarship. This companion provides a sound
modern Christian thought. This volume, including
grounding in the study of Catholic liturgy as well
contributions from leading Catholic, Protestant and
as scholarly input into the current debate about
Anglican scholars of de Lubac's work, introduces
its nature and future by bringing together reputable historical and
readers to the key features of his theology. By placing de Lubac's
theological scholarship from varying perspectives.
writings in both their immediate context and in conversation with
contemporary theological debates, these essays shed light on the
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 584 pages • 15 illus b/w
theological ingenuity and continuing relevance of this important PB 9780567701121 • £28.99 / $39.95
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UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 512 pages
Series: Bloomsbury Companions • T&T Clark
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Series: Bloomsbury Companions • T&T Clark
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T H E O L O G Y – Reference / Systematic Theology
T&T Clark Companion to T&T Clark Handbook of Colin
Atonement Gunton
Edited by Adam J. Johnson, Torrey Honors Edited by Andrew Picard, Carey Baptist College,
Institute, Biola University, USA New Zealand, Murray Rae, University of Otago,
This reference work establishes a vision for New Zealand & Myk Habets, Laidlaw College,
the doctrine of the atonement as a unified yet Auckland, New Zealand
extraordinarily rich event, calling for the church's A theological companion to the study of Gunton's
full appropriation. The essays are divided into theology, as well as a resource for thinking about
four main sections: 1) dogmatic location, 2) chapters on the Old Gunton's importance in modern theology. Each of the essays applies
and New Testaments, 3) major theologians and 4) contemporary Gunton's depth to a broad range of contemporary theological
developments. The book is comprised of 18 major essays, and an concerns. The volume unveils cutting-edge Gunton scholarship for
A-Z section containing shorter dictionary-length entries on a much a new generation, while also enabling readers to see the timely
broader range of topics. The result is a combination of in-depth significance of Gunton for today. This handbook not only introduces
analysis and breadth of scope, making this a benchmark work for readers to key themes in the Gunton corpus but also provides them
further studies in the doctrine. with fresh interpretations that are fully conversant with theological
problems facing the church in our world today.
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 874 pages
PB 9780567701114 • £28.99 / $39.95 UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 448 pages
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T&T Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics
Jennifer McBride, University of Virginia, USA, Michael Mawson, University of Aberdeen, UK and Philip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, UK
Reading in the Presence of Being and Action Coram Deo:
Christ: A Study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Retrieval of
Bonhoeffer's Bibliology and Justification’s Social Import
Exegesis Koert Verhagen, University of St Andrews, UK
Joel Banman, Independent Scholar, Canada This first book-length study of the doctrine of
justification as the framework of the theology of
What is Scripture, and how should we read it?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer argues that God's gracious
And what might 20th-century theologian, Dietrich
justification of human beings in Christ has direct
Bonhoeffer, have to teach us about these important questions?
anthropological and ethical implications for the Church today.
This study reassesses some of Bonhoeffer's key exegetical writings
Drawing Bonhoeffer’s thinking into conversation with Luther, German
in light of his theology of revelation and bibliology, unfolding the
idealism, the Nazi Weltanschauung, and contemporary Pauline
ways in which his reading of the Bible is determined by his theology
scholarship, it demonstrates the social relevance of Bonhoeffer's
of Scripture. Accordingly, the guiding question of this study is how
thinking.
Bonhoeffer's bibliology informs his exegesis.
UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 224 pages
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 240 pages
HB 9780567700193 • £85.00 / $115.00
HB 9780567698599 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9780567700216 • £76.50 / $94.85
ePub 9780567698629 • £76.50 / $94.85
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Series: T&T Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics • T&T Clark
Series: T&T Clark New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics • T&T Clark
Suffering and the Christian Life Love, Divine and Human:
Edited by Rachel Davies, Australian Catholic Contemporary Essays in
University, Australia & Karen Kilby, Durham
University, UK
Systematic and Philosophical
This volume approaches questions of the status and Theology
meaning of suffering in Christian life and Christian Edited by Oliver D. Crisp, University of
theology through the lens of a variety of theological St Andrews, UK, James M. Arcadi, Fuller
disciplines: biblical, historical, practical, political and Theological Seminary, USA & Jordan Wessling,
systematic theology. The contributing essays touch on concrete issues Fuller Theological Seminary, USA
such as depression, cancer, mental health, and refugees, and discuss This volume draws together a range of theologians and philosophers
broad themes like vulnerability, kenosis, and tragedy. They examine to contribute to current debates within the theology of love. The
classic texts, from Paul’s letters, Romans, and Galatians, to Aquinas, essays are written from the perspective of or in conversation with
Bonaventure, and John of the Cross. analytic theology.
UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 224 pages
UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 272 pages
PB 9780567698957 • £28.99 / $39.95
PB 9780567698896 • £28.99 / $39.95
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ePub 9780567687241 • £76.50 / $94.85
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T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology
T H E O L O G Y – Systematic Theology
Ian A. McFarland, University of Aberdeen, UK, Ivor J. Davidson, University of Aberdeen, UK, John Webster, University of Aberdeen, UK
and Phlip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, UK
Human Subjectivity 'in Christ' in
God and Knowledge
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Theology
Herman Bavinck's Theological
Epistemology Integrating Simplicity and Wisdom
Jacob Phillips, St Mary's University, UK
Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, Reformed Theological
Seminary, USA Self-mediation is an ever-increasing feature
of contemporary life, where one’s identity is
Does theology belong within the academy or the
frequently represented to oneself though digital
church? How do Christian teachings – on God,
technology. Dietrich Bonhoeffer presents a radical challenge by
revelation, and humanity – contribute to the
maintaining that – from the perspective of Christian theology – there
activity of knowing? This volume offers a fresh reading of Bavinck’s
is something deeply negative about beholding representations of
theological epistemology and argues that his Trinitarian and organic
oneself. He holds that discipleship means adopting a posture of
worldview utilizes an eclectic range of sources. Sutanto unfolds
radical agnosticism toward one’s own identity, by focusing on the
Bavinck’s understanding of what he considered to be the two most
interrelation of ‘simplicity’ and ‘reflection’ in theological cognition
important aspects of epistemology: the character of the sciences and
and ethical deliberation, demonstrating a wider significance in
the correspondence between subjects and objects.
contemporary theological anthropology, soteriology and ethics.
UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 208 pages
PB 9780567698988 • £28.99 / $39.95 UK March 2021 • US March 2021 • 224 pages
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T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology
Wolfgang Vondey, University of Birmingham, UK and Daniela C. Augustine, University of Birmingham, UK
The Spirit of Atonement Pentecostal Theology and
Pentecostal Contributions and Jonathan Edwards
Challenges to the Christian Traditions Edited by Amos Yong, Fuller Theological
Steven M. Studebaker, McMaster Divinity Seminary, USA & Steven M. Studebaker,
College, Canada McMaster Divinity College, Canada
The book presents a Pentecostal systematic The first volume that provides Pentecostal readings
theology of the atonement that integrates creation, of Jonathan Edwards’ theology. This book is a new
Christology, and eschatology from the perspective contribution to both Pentecostal theology and
of the Spirit of Pentecost. Studebaker contributes to the move away Edwards scholarship, bringing ‘America’s theologian’ and one of the
from the compartmentalized understanding of Christ and the Holy fastest growing forms of Christianity into dialogue.
Spirit in Classical Pentecostalism, making a significant contribution to
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 288 pages
the development of the Pentecostal theological tradition.
PB 9780567698902 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9780567687876
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 224 pages ePub 9780567687890 • £81.00 / $101.01
HB 9780567682369 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePdf 9780567687883 • £81.00 / $101.01
ePub 9780567682406 • £81.00 / $101.01 Series: T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology • T&T Clark
ePdf 9780567682376 • £81.00 / $101.01
Series: T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology • T&T Clark
Pentecostal Rationality
Epistemology and Theological
Evangelical Theology
Uche Anizor, Biola University, USA, Robert B.
Hermeneutics in the Foursquare Tradition
Price, Biola University, USA & Hank Voss, Taylor
Simo Frestadius, Regents Theological College, UK University, USA
Offers the theological methodology of Pentecostal This book introduces the foundations and key
rationality from a Foursquare perspective. Simo themes of evangelical theological reflection.
Frestadius first analyses and evaluates some of the Focusing on Scripture and mission as its
main contemporary Pentecostal rationalities and methodological centres, on the key themes of
epistemologies to date, with a particular emphasis on the works of atonement, conversion, justification, and sanctification, Evangelical
Amos Yong and James K.A. Smith, before proposing that Alasdair Theology also explores recent developments with respect to
MacIntyre’s tradition-focused and historically-minded narrative Trinitarian theology and pneumatology. With evangelicalism
approach is conducive in providing a more tradition-constituted now being a global movement, this volume is also attentive to
Pentecostal rationality. Frestadius provides the first intellectual history contributions from the majority world, providing a lively orientation of
of a major British classical Pentecostal denomination. the exciting discipline of evangelical theology.
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 240 pages • 2 bw illus
UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 248 pages
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PB 9780567677129 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9780567677136 • £65.00 / $90.00
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Series: Doing Theology • T&T Clark
Series: T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology • T&T Clark
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T H E O L O G Y – Historical Theology / Anglican Theology / Church History
The Europe of the Spirit Priests of Creation
Bridget of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, John Zizioulas on Discerning an
and Edith Stein, spiritual guides for the Ecological Ethos
21st century Edited by Nikolaos Asproulis, Volos Academy for
Elodie Boublil, University of Paris XII, France Theological Studies, Greece, John Chryssavgis,
Office of Ecumenical and Inter-Faith Affairs of
In 1999, Saint John Paul II proclaimed Saint Bridget
of Sweden, Saint Catherine of Siena and Edith
the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America,
Stein (Saint Teresa Benedict of the Cross) to be
USA
the co-patronesses of Europe. 20 years later, The Europe of the This book brings together Zizioulas' vision, and the result is an
Spirit provides, for the first time in English, historical, biographical articulate and promising vision that inspires a new ethos, or way of
and theological understandings of the saints’ lives and teachings. life, to overcome our alienation from the rest of creation.
Philosopher Elodie Boublil reflects on the feminine theology of these
saints to show its relevance for today’s world and the Church. UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 224 pages
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Mike Higton, Durham University, UK, Karen Kilby, Durham University, UK and Stephen R. Holmes, University of St. Andrews, UK
Donald MacKinnon's Theology Richard Hooker
To Perceive Tragedy Without the Loss of The Architecture of Participation
Hope Paul Anthony Dominiak, University of
Andrew Bowyer, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK Cambridge, UK
Bowyer outlines MacKinnon’s contribution to This book explores how the metaphysical concept
Anglican theology, as well as characterising his work of participation informs and holds together
as a form of “therapeutic” moral philosophy that Hooker’s major work. Dominiak analyses how
combines a call for intense self-awareness together Hooker uses the architectural framework of
with a commitment to realist notions of moral “factuality”. Bowyer ‘participation in God’, setting the stage for Hooker’s understanding
examines the key influences on MacKinnon’s thought, his focus on of the concept and how it is used in the Lawes. The book investigates
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well as his response to Wittgenstein’s later philosophy. This volume participation and the politics of the subject, demonstrating how
offers an appreciation of his contribution and a critique of his legacy. Hooker provides a salutary resource for modern ecumenical dialogue
and contemporary political retrievals of participation.
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The T&T Clark History of Christian Solar Symbolism and
Monasticism Jesus the Sun of Justice
The Eastern Tradition Kevin Duffy, The Church of Notre Dame de
France, UK
John Binns, Institute of Orthodox Christian
Studies, UK Kevin Duffy suggests that we rebalance a spiritual
symbolism that has over-emphasised darkness and
This volume explores the Eastern tradition of
cloud at the expense of light and sun. He proposes
monasticism, ranging from its rise in the third
a creative retrieval of the traditional title of Christ
century to its influence on Orthodox and Benedictine communities,
as the Sun of Justice. This book blends the personal, the social and
and its modern day revival. As one of the first introductory histories to
the cosmic-ecological, and speaks powerfully to a secularising era
a fascinating and venerable tradition, this book is a useful resource for
that contemporaries Friedrich Nietzsche and Thérèse of Lisieux both
cross-disciplinary students of religion, history, and spirituality.
described as one where the sun does not shine.
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Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen, UK and Susan F. Parsons, Editor at the journal of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics
Church and Society: Opened by Every Good Path
the Kingdom of God Wisdom and Practical Reason in Christian
Edited by Ben Haupt, Concordia Seminary, USA, Ethics and the Book of Proverbs
Christian Neddens, Lutherische Theologische Andrew Errington, Charles Sturt University,
Hochschule, Germany & Michael Basse, TU Australia
Dortmund, Germany
David Errington brings the Book of Proverbs
Translated by Christian Einertson into discussion with two significant accounts of
This volume introduces English speakers to the the nature and foundation of practical reason
writings of Hans Joachim Iwand, once heralded as the best Lutheran in Christian ethics: Thomas Aquinas and Oliver O’Donovan. The
theologian of the 20th century. Bringing together his reflections on volume’s central thesis is that the way in which the Book of Proverbs
the intersection of church and society, it sets out his critique of the conceives of wisdom presents an important challenge to how
typical Lutheran understanding of the two kingdoms, charting a new practical reason has been understood in the Western theological and
way forward for understanding Luther’s theology. philosophical tradition. Errington argues that in the Book of Proverbs,
rather than being a perfection of speculative knowledge, wisdom is a
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The Use of Force and the Problem of
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Therese Feiler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
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Therese Feiler approaches the field of modern
ethics of war from the borderline area between
Schleiermacher's Theology
philosophical theology and religious studies, testing Shelli M. Poe, Iliff School of Theology, USA
whether they offer a meaningful, practical logic of reconciliation. This volume shows how Friedrich Schleiermacher’s
With reference to Hegel’s and others’ ‘theo–logic’ that negotiates thought can be used to address contemporary
Christ’s mediation and immanent dialectics, the logic of mediation doctrinal refinement and development. Taking
is identified as the core concern of political ethics. Feiler unites five a constructive approach, Shelli M. Poe weaves
representative authors from now disparate strands of contemporary Schleiermacher’s theology together with current
just war ethics, testing their conceptual logic of mediation: a scholarship in feminism, womanism, ecotheology, and queer
sovereign realist and a cosmopolitan idealist; a rationalist individualist theology. While Schleiermacher is widely acclaimed as the progenitor
defending terrorism, and a Hegelian Christian ethicist. of modern theology, Poe is one of the first to use his work as a
springboard to refine contemporary doctrine. This book demonstrates
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Sexual Difference, Gender, and
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Dogmatics
Faye Bodley-Dangelo, Harvard Theological
Review, USA
A critical and constructive analysis of the sexually
differentiated self in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics,
securing, in his Christocentric pattern of human
agency, an untapped resource for unsettling and reimagining the
heteropatriarchal structure of human fellowship at the heart of his
theological anthropology. Moving through Barth’s doctrines of
revelation, creation, theological anthropology, and special ethics,
Faye Bodley-Dangelo locates the human agent in Barth's broader
project aimed at re-habilitating the subject of modern protestant
theology.
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Adrian H. Curtis, University of Manchester, UK
Lamentations Leviticus: An Introduction and
An Introduction and Study Guide Study Guide
Jill Middlemas, University of Zurich, Switzerland The Priestly Vision of Holiness
"This beautifully written work bristles with Philip Peter Jenson, Cambridge University, UK
theological insight and exegetical acuity. Students
Philip Peter Jenson introduces students to the
and teachers will appreciate Jill Middlemas’s
Book of Leviticus in the Old Testament. Anyone
attention to the text’s poetic artistry, cultural setting
approaching Leviticus for the first time is likely to
and reception history, along with her focus on
find it a difficult book to read and understand, yet this book is at the
feminist and post-colonial criticism. A perfect primer for university
heart of the Pentateuch, the foundation of the Jewish and Christian
and seminary classes!" Louis Stulman, University of Findlay, USA
scriptures. Jenson guides students through Leviticus by examining
This guide provides students with an introduction to Hebrew poetry the book's structure and characteristics, covering the latest biblical
as it relates to Lamentations and includes insights from the field of scholarship, including historical and interpretive issues.
trauma and post-colonial studies.
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1 & 2 Chronicles: An T&T Clark Handbook of Food in
Introduction and Study Guide the Hebrew Bible and Ancient
A Message for Yehud Israel
Leslie Allen, Fuller Seminary, USA
Edited by Janling Fu, Harvard University, USA,
This study guide introduces students to 1 & 2 Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, William Jessup University,
Chronicles in the Old Testament. Leslie Allen urges USA & Carol Meyers, Duke University, USA
readers to go beyond the necessary historical
This handbook draws on a multitude of disciplines,
and exegetical details of the text by appreciating its organizational
regions, and time periods to provide an overview of
clarity and theological message. Allen examines the texts' structure
the study of food in the ancient context of the Bible. The contributors
and characteristics; covers the latest biblical scholarship, including
examine not only the textual materials of the Hebrew Bible and
historical and interpretive issues; and considers a range of scholarly
related epigraphic works, but also engage in a wider archaeological,
approaches. With suggestions of further reading at the end of each
environmental, and historical understanding of ancient Israel as it
chapter, this guide will be a useful accompaniment to study of 1 & 2
pertains to food.
Chronicles.
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Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra-
Nehemiah
Volume 2
Edited by Athalya Brenner-Idan, University of
Amsterdam, the Netherlands & Gale A. Yee,
Episcopal Divinity School, USA
This volume brings together numerous contrasting
views about biblical texts in the books of Samuel, Chronicles
and Ezra-Nehemiah, and examines their influence in the life of
contemporary communities, demonstrating how today’s environments
and disorders help readers to acquire new insights into such texts.
The contributors stem from diverse international contexts and the
volume as a whole offers readers a better understanding of how
politics and faith can be melded, both in ancient and contemporary
contexts, to serve the interests of certain classes and societies, often
at the expense of others.
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Approaching Biblical Reading Exodus
Archaeology Journeys
Anthony J. Frendo, University of Malta, Malta Edited by Beth Kissileff, Independent Scholar,
A concise introduction to the discipline of USA
archaeology for biblical students and scholars Beth Kissileff draws together academics, experts
alike. Anthony J. Frendo explains how the mind and practitioners from different and varied fields
of professional archaeologists works, by analysing to examine the text of Exodus through a series
what archaeologists seek, how they go about of new lenses. This volume covers the diversity
doing so, and how they interpret their data. Frendo demonstrates of Exodus, offering specialist views from outside biblical studies on
how biblical research can be properly integrated with archaeological topics such as midwives, iconography, and the immigrant experience.
discoveries in a way that allows the bible and archaeology to be Anthropologists, computer scientists, poets, lawyers, novelists and
viewed and kept as distinct disciplines, the respective results of artists join biblical scholars. Each writer offers a different prism
which, where relevant, may be integrated in productive discussion through which to see a core aspect of this ancient text, displaying the
and history. wide variety of possibilities that the biblical text can yield in diverse
hands.
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Jeremiah Under the Shadow of Sacrifice in Pagan and Christian
Duhm Antiquity
A Critique of the Use of Poetic Form as a Robert J. Daly, Boston College, USA
Criterion of Authenticity Robert J. Daly examines sacrifice in the ancient
Mediterranean world, showing how the rise
Joseph M. Henderson, Biola University, USA
of Christian sacrifice, and the use of sacrificial
Henderson argues against a basic assumption of language in reference to highly spiritualized
modern Jeremiah scholarship: that poetic form Christian lives, would have seemed radically
indicates authenticity. Henderson shows how this assumption, challenging to the pagan mind. Offering a robust yet sympathetic
introduced by Bernhard Duhm (1901) is shown to be founded on challenge to stereotypical ideas about sacrifice, Daly outlines both
the Romantic identification of prophecy and poetry pioneered by the pagan and Jewish-Christian trajectories, covering the concept
Robert Lowth (1753). Henderson outlines how Duhm’s assumption of sacrifice in relation to prayer, ethics and morality, the rhetoric and
allowed him to create a biography of Jeremiah that closely resembles economics of sacrificial ceremonies, and heroes and saints. Daly
a Romantic Bildungsroman, bringing the book into conformity with finishes with an estimation of how this study might inform further
a reconstruction of Israel’s religious history rooted in Romantic study of sacrifice.
historicism.
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The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Laura Quick, University of Oxford, UK and Jacqueline Vayntrub,
Yale University, USA
Psalms Book 2: An Earth Bible
Commentary Hebrew Wordplay and
“As a Doe Groans” Septuagint Translation Technique
Arthur Walker-Jones, University of Winnipeg, in the Fourth Book of the Psalter
Canada Elizabeth H. P. Backfish, William Jessup
Arthur Walker-Jones presents an earth-focused University, USA
reading of the second book of Psalms by focusing This volume examines numerous Hebrew wordplays
upon the many non-human animals that appear repeatedly in the not identified and discussed in previous research,
Psalms, taking into account that many of these animals co-evolved and the technique of the Masoretic translators, by
with humans and created the particular ecological niche of the offering another criterion of evaluation – essentially, their concern
highlands east of the Mediterranean. In the first commentary to focus about the style of translating Hebrew into Greek. Elizabeth Backfish’s
on ecological issues and explore the implications of the natural and study analyzes seventy-four wordplays employed by the Hebrew
cultural history of animals for the interpretation of Psalms, Walker- poets of Psalms 90-106, and how the Septuagint renders Hebrew
Jones examines the intersections between ecological exploitation wordplay in Greek.
and the oppression and liberation of humans and other animals.
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Laura Quick, University of Oxford, UK and Jacqueline Vayntrub,
Yale University, USA Theodicy and Hope in the Book
of the Twelve
Edited by George Athas, Moore College,
Reading Lamentations Australia, Beth M. Stovell, Daniel Timmer,
Intertextually Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, USA &
Colin M. Toffelmire, Ambrose University, Canada
Edited by Heath A. Thomas, Oklahoma Baptist
University, USA & Brittany N. Melton, Palm This volume explores the themes of theodicy and
Beach Atlantic University, USA hope in both individual portions of the Twelve
(books and sub-sections) and in the Book of the Twelve as a whole.
The contributors of this volume address intertextual
The contributors use a diversity of approaches to the text(s) with a
connections between Lamentations and texts in
particular interest in synchronic perspectives. While these essays
each division of the Hebrew Bible, along with texts
engage the mostly redactional scholarship surrounding the Book
throughout history. Sources examined range from the Dead Sea
of Twelve, there is also an examination of various forms of literary
Scrolls to modern Shoah literature, allowing the volume’s impact to
analysis of final text forms, and engagement in descriptions of the
reach beyond Lamentations to each of the ‘intertexts’ the chapters
thematic and theological perspectives of the collection.
address.
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Transgression and The Land Without Promise
Transformation The Roots and Afterlife of One Biblical
Feminist, Postcolonial and Queer Biblical Allusion
Interpretation as Creative Interventions Katerina Koci, Institute of Human Sciences,
Edited by L. Juliana Claassens, University of Austria
Stellenbosch, South Africa, Christl M. Maier, Katerina Koci charts the development of the
Philipps-University Marburg, Germany & Funlola O. Promised Land motif, starting from its biblical roots
Olojede, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and examining its reception over the centuries until
the present day. Koci uses as her cornerstone Hans-Georg Gadamer's
This volume on feminist, postcolonial and queer biblical interpretation
claim that there are two complementary paths towards understanding
gathers perspectives from a global body of researchers. In offering
and knowledge: science and art. Thus, to be faithful to the creed of
innovative interpretations of key texts from the Hebrew Bible, a
the great hermeneutist, Koci ventures into both topics, arguing that
diverse range of biblical scholars consider the question of how
while science sets out historical-critical analysis of the Promised Land
commonplace interpretative practices may be considered to be
motif in the Hebrew Bible and its later receptions, art enriches the
transgressive in nature. Utilizing innovative strategies, the contributors
interpretation with its literary illustrations.
read against the grain of the text in support of the marginalized or
subordinated, both in the text and in our world today.
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Imagined Worlds and Art as Biblical Commentary
Constructed Differences in the Visual Criticism from Hagar the Wife of
Hebrew Bible Abraham to Mary the Mother of Jesus
Edited by Jeremiah W. Cataldo, Grand Valley J. Cheryl Exum, Sheffield University, UK
State University, USA In a study that deals equally with biblical art and
This volume introduces readers to the study biblical exegesis, J. Cheryl Exum demonstrates the
of cultural memory and identity in relation to contributions visual criticism can make to biblical
the Hebrew Bible, setting up strategies for interpretation. Using a range of texts and over 40
connecting studies of the historical contexts and literature of the images, Exum asks what works of art can teach us about the biblical
Bible to parallel issues in the present day. Each contribution focuses text. ‘Visual criticism’ is her term for an approach that addresses this
on social, economic, or political issues that have significantly question by focusing on the narrativity of images—reading them as if,
shaped or influenced dominant elements of cultural memory like texts, they have a story to tell—inviting discussion on what light
and the construction of identity in the biblical texts. Together the an image can shed on the biblical narrator’s story.
contributions show how the biblical texts as a whole present a
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collective desire to reshape the social-political world.
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