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.
Revelation, Scripture and Church: Theological Hermeneutic Thought of James Barr, Paul Ricoeur and Hans Frei
1st Edition
By Richard R. Topping
May 11, 2018
How does God's involvement with the generation of Holy Scripture and its use in the life of the Christian church figure into the human work of Scripture interpretation? This is the central question that this book seeks to address. In critical conversation with the influential hermeneutic programs ...
Leaving Christian Fundamentalism and the Reconstruction of Identity
1st Edition
By Josie McSkimming
March 12, 2018
There is an increasing interest in the influence of religious fundamentalism upon people’s motivation, identity and decision-making. Leaving Christian Fundamentalism and the Re-construction of Identity details the stories of those who have left Christian fundamentalist churches and how they change ...
Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture: Women and Silence
1st Edition
By Georgina L. Jardim
February 12, 2018
Protest is an activity not associated with the pious and collectively-minded, but more often seen as an activity of the liberal and rebellious. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are commonly understood as paragons of submission and obedience following Abraham’s example. Yet, the scriptures of all ...
Sacrifice and the Body: Biblical Anthropology and Christian Self-Understanding
1st Edition
By John Dunnill
February 12, 2018
What is sacrifice? For many people today the word has negative overtones, suggesting loss, or death, or violence. But in religions, ancient and modern, the word is linked primarily to joyous feasting which puts people in touch with the deepest realities. How has that change of meaning come about...
Shi'i Reformation in Iran: The Life and Theology of Shari’at Sangelaji
1st Edition
By Ali Rahnema
February 12, 2018
Shi 'ism caught the attention of the world as Iran experienced her revolution in 1979 and was subsequently cast in the mold of a monolithic discourse of radical political Islam. The spokespersons of Shi'i Islam, in or out of power, have not been the sole representatives of the faith. Nonconformist ...
The Nature of the Soul: The Soul as Narrative
1st Edition
By Terrance W. Klein
May 25, 2017
This book offers a contemporary Christian explication of the word 'soul' that uses Wittgenstein and his interpreters to suggest that human intelligence and desire cannot be 'mapped into the world' that is described by science and metaphysics. It examines the Aristotelian notion of the soul as one ...
A Kryptic Model of the Incarnation
1st Edition
By Andrew Ter Ern Loke
May 16, 2017
The Incarnation, traditionally understood as the metaphysical union between true divinity and true humanity in the one person of Jesus Christ, is one of the central doctrines for Christians over the centuries. Nevertheless, many scholars have objected that the Scriptural account of the Incarnation ...
Piety and Responsibility: Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika
1st Edition
By John N. Sheveland
May 16, 2017
This book analyzes the writings of Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika to disclose how each construes "piety" and "responsibility" as integral to each other. It explores a fundamental unity of love of God and love of neighbour in ecumenical and interreligious frameworks....
The Ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas: A Christian Theology of Liberation
1st Edition
By John B. Thomson
February 27, 2017
This book presents the theological work of Stanley Hauerwas as a distinctive kind of 'liberation theology'. John Thomson offers an original construal of this diffuse, controversial, yet highly significant modern theologian and ethicist. Organising Hauerwas' corpus in terms of the focal concept of ...
Evagrius Ponticus: The Making of a Gnostic
1st Edition
By Julia Konstantinovsky
November 28, 2016
A revered instructor of the eremitic monks of Nitria, Sketis and Kellia, Evagrius Ponticus is a fascinating yet enigmatic figure in the history of fourth-century mystical thought. This historical and theological re-evaluation of the teaching of Evagrius brings to bear evidence from the Greek and ...
Law, Liberty and Church: Authority and Justice in the Major Churches in England
1st Edition
By Gordon Arthur
November 28, 2016
Law, Liberty and Church examines the presuppositions that underlie authority in the five largest Churches in England - the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church, the Methodist Church, the United Reformed Church and the Baptist Union. Examining what has influenced their development, and how ...
New Voices in Greek Orthodox Thought: Untying the Bond between Nation and Religion
1st Edition
By Trine Stauning Willert
November 28, 2016
New Voices in Greek Orthodox Thought brings to the light and discusses a strand in contemporary Greek public debate that is often overlooked, namely progressive religious actors of a western orientation. International - and Greek - media tend to focus on the extreme views and to categorise ...