Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
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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.
Jesus, the Gospels, and African Christianity: Interpreting Fasting and Prayer
1st Edition
By John Arierhi Ottuh
June 24, 2026
This book considers how teaching in the Gospels and the practice of prayer and fasting can be interpreted in an African context. It highlights African understandings of key aspects of Christology, analysing Jesus’s identity and embodiment of prayer. The author engages with a New African Biblical ...
God as the Event of Being: A Hermeneutical Onto-Theology
1st Edition
By Hartmut von Sass
June 19, 2026
This book focuses on conceptualizing ‘God’ not as a static entity but as an ephemeral event or, more precisely, an atmospheric reality. It presents, discusses, and elaborates on the claim that God is identical with the divine effects, i.e., God’s existence is God’s effective essence. The thesis of ...
Changing Climate, Changing Religion
1st Edition
By Peter Manley Scott, Celia Deane-Drummond, Gemma Edwards, Finlay Malcolm
April 08, 2026
This book analyses the wide-ranging changes occurring across Christian theology as religious environmental activists and advocates understand their part in ‘saving the planet’. As the planet’s climate changes, so are the theologies of the Christians working to address it. Amongst the Christian ...
Dialectic as Dialogue: Theology After Brunner
1st Edition
By Taylor D. Holleyman
February 09, 2026
Dialectic as Dialogue: Theology After Brunner is an examination of Emil Brunner’s theological epistemology with special focus on his reception of dialogical philosophy, its implications for the nature and task of theology, and Brunner’s contemporary significance. This book helps readers better ...
Working and Caring for Creation: Linking Theology of Work and Ecotheology Based on Escrivá's Christian Materialism
1st Edition
By Emilio Chuvieco
February 05, 2026
This book presents an innovative approach that connects ecotheology and theology of work. It expands on the concept of Christian materialism proposed by Saint Josemaría Escrivá (1902–1975) to overcome dualisms that ignore the spiritual value of material realities. The author broadens Escrivá's ...
Anglican Confirmation 1820-1945: From ‘Renewing the Baptismal Covenant’ to ‘The Sacramental Principle’
1st Edition
By Phillip Tovey
December 26, 2025
This book focuses on Anglican Confirmation in theology, liturgy, and practice from 1820 to 1945. This was a period of great change in the ways Anglicans approached Confirmation. The Tractarian movement transformed the Communion, and its ideas were carried overseas with the missionary movement. The ...
Divine Presence as Activity and the Incarnation: Revisiting Chalcedonian Christology
1st Edition
By Alexander S. Jensen
December 26, 2025
This book offers an original perspective on the doctrine of incarnation through a discussion of divine presence and action, arguing for the plausibility of Chalcedonian Christology. It draws on a range of theological and philosophical sources, from St. Athanasius of Alexandria’s approach regarding ...
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 ...