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.
Evil, Sin, and Christian Theism
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
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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 ...
Queer Soul and Queer Theology: Ethics and Redemption in Real Life
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By Laurel C. Schneider, Thelathia Nikki Young
January 09, 2023
This book takes up the question of Christian queer theology and ethics through the contested lens of "redemption." Starting from the root infinitive "to deem," the authors argue that queer lives and struggles can illuminate and re-value the richness of embodied experience that is implied in ...
The Political Theology of Pope Francis: Understanding the Latin American Pope
1st Edition
By Ole Jakob Løland
December 30, 2022
This book explores the political dimension of Pope Francis’ theology from a variety of perspectives and makes a unique contribution to the ongoing historiography of his pontificate. It defines the concept of political theology when applied to Pope Francis’ discourse and reflects on the portrayal of...
Active Hermeneutics: Seeking Understanding in an Age of Objectivism
1st Edition
By Stanley E. Porter, Jason C. Robinson
August 01, 2022
Hermeneutics, as a discipline of the humanities, is often assumed to be in thrall to the same subjectivity of every interpretive method, in direct contrast to the objectivity prized by the natural sciences. This book argues that there is a false dichotomy here, and that ancient and modern ideas of ...
Proclaiming Holy Scriptures: A Study of Place and Ritual
1st Edition
By David H. Pereyra
August 01, 2022
This book provides a comprehensive study on the proclamation of Holy Scriptures as an enacted celebration, as well as its function as a performance within sacralized theatrical spaces. Scripture is integral to religious life within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and these traditions have ...
Multi-Religious Perspectives on a Global Ethic: In Search of a Common Morality
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By Myriam Renaud, William Schweiker
May 30, 2022
Ratified by the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 1993 and expanded in 2018, "Towards a Global Ethic (An Initial Declaration)," or the Global Ethic, expresses the minimal set of principles shared by people—religious or not. Though it is a secular document, the Global Ethic emerged after months...
Sustainable Development Goals and the Catholic Church: Catholic Social Teaching and the UN’s Agenda 2030
1st Edition
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By Katarzyna Cichos, Jarosław A. Sobkowiak, Ryszard F. Sadowski, Beata Zbarachewicz, Radosław Zenderowski, Stanisław Dziekoński
May 30, 2022
This book identifies both the consistencies and disparities between Catholic Social Teaching and the United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With Pope Francis’ Laudato si’ encyclical, Catholicism seems to be engaging more than ever with environmental and developmental concerns. ...