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.
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 ...
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 ...
Augustine and Contemporary Social Issues
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By Paul L. Allen
January 29, 2024
This book focuses on applying the thought of Saint Augustine to address a number of persistent 21st-century socio-political issues. Drawing together Augustinian ideas such as concupiscence, virtue, vice, habit, and sin through social and textual analysis, it provides fresh Augustinian perspectives ...
God After the Church Lost Control: Sociological Analysis and Critical-Constructive Theology
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By Jan-Olav Henriksen, Pål Repstad
January 29, 2024
This book combines insights from sociology of religion and theology to consider the fundamental changes that have taken place in how people think about God in contemporary Western society. It can be said that God has become irrelevant for many people, often as a result of well-grounded ethical ...
T. F. Torrance’s Christological Anthropology: Discerning Humanity in Christ
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By Christopher G. Woznicki
January 29, 2024
This book demonstrates the promise of Christology for developing Scottish theologian T. F. Torrance’s theological anthropology. T. F. Torrance’s Christological Anthropology: Discerning Humanity in Christ engages with several key themes in Torrance’s theological anthropology and considers how each ...
Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand of God
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By Brendan Long
September 25, 2023
This book contributes to the ‘new view’ reading of Adam Smith, providing a historically and contextually rich interpretation of Smith’s thought. Smith built a moral philosophy on the foundations of a natural theology of human sociality. Examination of his life, relationship with David Hume and use ...
Christianity and COVID-19: Pathways for Faith
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By Chammah J. Kaunda, Atola Longkumer, Kenneth R. Ross, Esther Mombo
September 25, 2023
This volume explores current understandings of the global meaning of faith and suffering in the context of COVID-19 and interrogates responses to the pandemic that have emerged from World Christianity. It includes chapters by a range of international contributors approached from a variety of angles...