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.
Misusing Scripture: What are Evangelicals Doing with the Bible?
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By Mark Elliott, Kenneth Atkinson, Robert Rezetko
October 08, 2024
Misusing Scripture offers a thorough and critical evaluation of American evangelical scholarship on the Bible. This strand of scholarship exerts enormous influence on the religious beliefs and practices, and even cultural and political perspectives, of millions of evangelical Christians in the ...
Activist Hermeneutics of Liberation and the Bible: A Global Intersectional Perspective
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By Jin Young Choi, Gregory L. Cuéllar
August 26, 2024
Inspired by the current political moment around the globe in which uprisings, protests, revolutions, and movements are on the rise, this book examines the intersections between the Bible and activism. It does this by showcasing intersectional readings of the Bible as an activist act and a tool for ...
Fittingness and Environmental Ethics: Philosophical, Theological and Applied Perspectives
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By Michael S. Northcott, Steven C. van den Heuvel
August 26, 2024
This volume focuses on ‘fittingness’ as an ethical-aesthetical idea, and in particular examines how the concept is beneficial for environmental ethics. It brings together an innovative set of contributions to argue that fittingness is a significant but under-investigated facet of human ethical ...
The Theological Imperative to Authenticity
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By Christy Capper
August 26, 2024
From a theological viewpoint, this book explores the junction between the philosophical existential idea of the authentic self and its cultural appropriation. The text builds on the theology of John Macquarrie and the narrative formation of identity to construct a theological definition of ...
Natural Final Causality and Scholastic Thought
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By Corey Barnes
August 13, 2024
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 ...
Divine Presence as Activity and the Incarnation: Revisiting Chalcedonian Christology
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By Alexander S. Jensen
July 22, 2024
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 ...
Anglican Confirmation 1820-1945: From ‘Renewing the Baptismal Covenant’ to ‘The Sacramental Principle’
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By Phillip Tovey
June 03, 2024
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 ...
African Churches Ministering 'to and with' Persons with Disabilities: Perspectives from Zimbabwe
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By Nomatter Sande
May 27, 2024
This book engages with Christian church traditions and disability issues in Africa, focusing on Zimbabwe in particular. It critically reflects on how the church has not done much to intentionally minister ‘to and with’ persons with disabilities. In the context of this volume, ‘ministering to’ is ...
Exploring Theological Paradoxes
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By Cyril Orji
May 27, 2024
This book focuses on the question of theological paradox, exploring what it means and its place in theological method from a Christian perspective. Just as paradoxes are unavoidable in logic and mathematics, paradoxes are inevitable in religious and theological discourses. The chapters in this ...
Religion and Intersex: Perspectives from Science, Law, Culture, and Theology
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By Stephanie A. Budwey
May 27, 2024
This book considers the situation of intersex people who have faced erasure in the areas of science, law, culture, and theology due to the assumption that all humans are either ‘female’ or ‘male.’ Centered in interviews conducted with German intersex Christians, this book argues that moving from ...
Religion in Reason: Metaphysics, Ethics, and Politics in Hent de Vries
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By Tarek R. Dika, Martin Shuster
May 27, 2024
This book presents critical engagements with the work of Hent de Vries, widely regarded as one of the most important living philosophers of religion. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars discuss the role played by religion in philosophy; the emergence and possibilities of the category...
The Fathers on the Bible
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By Nicu Dumitraşcu
May 27, 2024
This book offers an overview of how the Church Fathers used and intepretated biblical texts. It brings together a range of different Christian confessional and social perspectives to explore the biblical basis and impact of their thinking. The contributors cover different ages and traditions, with ...