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 Theology Reconfigured: Confucian Axiology and American Pragmatism
1st Edition
By Zhiqiu Xu
June 30, 2020
Classic natural theology in its logical, rational, Aristotelian presentation has encountered an impasse. Since the Enlightenment, nature has ceased to be a vital topic in theological discussions until a recent revival of interest stemming from ecological and feminist concerns. Provocatively ...
On the Resurrection of the Dead: A New Metaphysics of Afterlife for Christian Thought
1st Edition
By Jr. Turner
June 30, 2020
Christian tradition has largely held three theological affirmations on the resurrection of the physical body. Firstly, that bodily resurrection is not a superfluous hope of afterlife. Secondly, there is immediate post-mortem existence in Paradise. Finally, there is numerical identity between ...
Myth and Solidarity in the Modern World: Beyond Religious and Political Division
1st Edition
By Timothy Stacey
December 17, 2019
In the context of the rise of reactionary politics across the globe, this book seeks new ways of developing solidarity across religious, political and economic differences. Drawing on an increasingly influential Christian theological movement, postliberalism, it claims that the dominance of liberal...
Biblical Portraits of Exile: A philosophical reading
1st Edition
By Abi Doukhan
December 12, 2019
Exile constitutes one of the most central experiences in the Bible, notably in the book of Genesis. The question has rarely been asked however as to why exile plays such an important role in the lives of Biblical characters. Biblical Portraits of Exile proposes a philosophical reading largely ...
Feminist Eschatology: Embodied Futures
1st Edition
By Emily Pennington
December 12, 2019
Many feminist theologians have made timely and valuable contributions to rethinking the eschaton by framing it as cyclical and by embracing endings as they are experienced by present relational, fluid, and sensuous bodies. However, any sense of eschatological finality or ultimacy has either been ...
Israel, the Church, and Millenarianism: A Way beyond Replacement Theology
1st Edition
By Steven D. Aguzzi
December 12, 2019
Since the calls of the Second Vatican Council, Roman Catholic theologians have sought to overcome an overarching problem facing Jewish–Christian relations, the concept of "supersessionism"; the idea that God has revoked the spiritual and historical promises made to the Jewish people in favour of ...
John's Gospel as Witness: The Development of the Early Christian Language of Faith
1st Edition
By Alexander S. Jensen
June 07, 2019
This book defends the claims of historical-critical research into the New Testament as necessary for theological interpretation. Presenting an interdisciplinary study about the nature of theological language, this book considers the modern debate in theological hermeneutics beginning with the ...
In Search of New Age Spiritualities
1st Edition
By Adam Possamai
June 04, 2019
The search for an adequate understanding of the New Age phenomenon is fraught with difficulties when examined within the perspectives of sociology of religion which have shed light on religion in modernity. New Agers cannot be located easily in the secularisation narrative; they move through ...
The Soul of Theological Anthropology: A Cartesian Exploration
1st Edition
By Joshua R. Farris
May 23, 2019
Recent research in the philosophy of religion, anthropology, and philosophy of mind has prompted the need for a more integrated, comprehensive, and systematic theology of human nature. This project constructively develops a theological accounting of human persons by drawing from a Cartesian (as a ...
Debate and Dialogue: Christian and Pagan Cultures c. 360-430
1st Edition
By Maijastina Kahlos
December 19, 2018
This book explores the construction of Christian identity in fourth and fifth centuries through inventing, fabricating and sharpening binary oppositions. Such oppositions, for example Christians - pagans; truth - falsehood; the one true god - the multitude of demons; the right religion - ...
The Politics of Praise: Naming God and Friendship in Aquinas and Derrida
1st Edition
By William W. Young Iii
December 19, 2018
While the revelation of God's name is a central theological topic, its ethical and political significance are often overlooked. In a world filled with violence committed 'in the name of God', how might invoking God's name enable peace, community, and hope? The Politics of Praise argues that the ...
The Church, Authority, and Foucault: Imagining the Church as an Open Space of Freedom
1st Edition
By Steven G. Ogden
September 18, 2018
The Church, Authority, and Foucault addresses the problem of the Church’s enmeshment with sovereign power, which can lead to marginalization. Breaking new ground, Ogden uses Foucault’s approach to power and knowledge to interpret the church leader’s significance as the guardian of knowledge. This ...