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
March 26, 2024
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 ...
Augustine and Contemporary Social Issues
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
By Jan-Olav Henriksen, Pal 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...
Evil, Sin, and Christian Theism
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By Andrew Ter Ern Loke
September 25, 2023
This book offers a compelling examination of the problem of evil and the doctrine of sin. It engages with and advances extant discussions on the topic by drawing together philosophical arguments, theological reflections, scientific evidence, Biblical exegesis, and real-life stories. The chapters ...
Phenomenology and the Horizon of Experience: Spiritual Themes in Henry, Marion, and Lacoste
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By Joseph Rivera
September 25, 2023
This book explores the threshold between phenomenology and lived religion in dialogue with three French luminaries: Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, and Jean-Yves Lacoste. Through close reading and critical analysis, each chapter touches on how a liturgical and ritual setting or a spiritual vision of...
Christological Paradigm Shifts in Prophetic Pentecostalism in South Africa
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By Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, Marius Nel, Collium Banda
May 31, 2023
This book explores recent developments in South African Pentecostalism, focusing on new prophetic churches. The chapters engage with a number of paradigm shifts in Christology, identified as complementing Christ, competing with Christ, removing Christ and replacing Christ. What are the implications...
Developing Animal Theology: An Engagement with Leonardo Boff
1st Edition
By Clair Linzey
May 31, 2023
This book offers an up-to-date examination of the nature and development of animal theology. It considers what animal theology is and how it challenges, and is challenged by, liberation and ecological theology. At the heart of the work is a critical engagement with the Brazilian ecotheologian ...
Violence, Entitlement, and Politics: A Theology on Transforming the Subject
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By Steven G. Ogden
May 31, 2023
This book is an exercise in political theology, exploring the problem of gender- based violence by focusing on violent male subjects and the issue of entitlement. It addresses gender-based violence in familial and military settings before engaging with a wider political context. The chapters draw ...
Multilateral Theology: A 21st Century Theological Methodology
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By Timothy T.N Lim
January 09, 2023
This book introduces a new "multilateral" methodology for the contemporary study of theology. It bases this methodology on the idea that there are too many materials contributing as sources for theologizing to sustain the "one method fits all" approach found in many systematic theologies within ...