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.
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...
Ecoflourishing and Virtue: Christian Perspectives Across the Disciplines
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven Bouma-Prediger, Nathan Carson
April 14, 2025
This book brings together the interdisciplinary reflections of Christian scholars and poets, to explore how ecological virtues can foster the flourishing of our home planet in the face of unprecedented environmental change and devastation. Its central questions are: What virtues are needed for us ...
Barth and Ecotheology: The Electing God and the Community of Creation
1st Edition
By Adrian Langdon
March 31, 2025
Barth and Ecotheology offers a critical and constructive reading of Karl Barth’s theology in the context of the Anthropocene. It reflects on how a contemporary doctrine of creation must be broad enough to address issues such as climate change, colonialism and racism, sexism, as well as integrating ...
Infinite Risk Theology: "Remember that Christ Risked All" (Ellen G. White)
1st Edition
By Stefano Salemi
March 19, 2025
Could God’s Son incarnate sin? Could the tomb have remained closed? Could the story have gone differently? More precisely, could God’s Son be eternally separated from the Father’s communion and eventually die and go out of existence? Mainstream theology often argued for Christ’s impossibility to ...
Tuvalu, Theology, and the Geopolitics of Climate Change: Am I Not Your Tuakoi (Neighbour)?
1st Edition
By Maina Vakafua Talia
February 19, 2025
This book examines the threat posed by climate change to the low-lying islands of Tuvalu through a lens of what it means to be a neighbour. Those who live on Tuvalu are among the most vulnerable in the world to threats of rising sea levels and global climate change. Their carbon emissions are ...
Desire and Mental Health in Christianity and the Arts
1st Edition
By David Torevell
December 18, 2024
This book considers the connection between the world of mental health in the twenty-first century and the traditional concept of desire in Christianity and the Arts. It draws parallels between the desire for rest from anxiety among mental health sufferers with the longing for peace and happiness in...