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.
John's Gospel as Witness: The Development of the Early Christian Language of Faith
1st Edition
By Alexander S. Jensen
June 07, 2019
This book defends the claims of historical-critical research into the New Testament as necessary for theological interpretation. Presenting an interdisciplinary study about the nature of theological language, this book considers the modern debate in theological hermeneutics beginning with the ...
In Search of New Age Spiritualities
1st Edition
By Adam Possamai
June 04, 2019
The search for an adequate understanding of the New Age phenomenon is fraught with difficulties when examined within the perspectives of sociology of religion which have shed light on religion in modernity. New Agers cannot be located easily in the secularisation narrative; they move through ...
Debate and Dialogue: Christian and Pagan Cultures c. 360-430
1st Edition
By Maijastina Kahlos
December 19, 2018
This book explores the construction of Christian identity in fourth and fifth centuries through inventing, fabricating and sharpening binary oppositions. Such oppositions, for example Christians - pagans; truth - falsehood; the one true god - the multitude of demons; the right religion - ...
The Politics of Praise: Naming God and Friendship in Aquinas and Derrida
1st Edition
By William W. Young Iii
December 19, 2018
While the revelation of God's name is a central theological topic, its ethical and political significance are often overlooked. In a world filled with violence committed 'in the name of God', how might invoking God's name enable peace, community, and hope? The Politics of Praise argues that the ...
Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture: Women and Silence
1st Edition
By Georgina L. Jardim
February 12, 2018
Protest is an activity not associated with the pious and collectively-minded, but more often seen as an activity of the liberal and rebellious. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are commonly understood as paragons of submission and obedience following Abraham’s example. Yet, the scriptures of all ...
Sacrifice and the Body: Biblical Anthropology and Christian Self-Understanding
1st Edition
By John Dunnill
February 12, 2018
What is sacrifice? For many people today the word has negative overtones, suggesting loss, or death, or violence. But in religions, ancient and modern, the word is linked primarily to joyous feasting which puts people in touch with the deepest realities. How has that change of meaning come about...
Shi'i Reformation in Iran: The Life and Theology of Shari’at Sangelaji
1st Edition
By Ali Rahnema
February 12, 2018
Shi 'ism caught the attention of the world as Iran experienced her revolution in 1979 and was subsequently cast in the mold of a monolithic discourse of radical political Islam. The spokespersons of Shi'i Islam, in or out of power, have not been the sole representatives of the faith. Nonconformist ...
The Nature of the Soul: The Soul as Narrative
1st Edition
By Terrance W. Klein
May 25, 2017
This book offers a contemporary Christian explication of the word 'soul' that uses Wittgenstein and his interpreters to suggest that human intelligence and desire cannot be 'mapped into the world' that is described by science and metaphysics. It examines the Aristotelian notion of the soul as one ...
A Kryptic Model of the Incarnation
1st Edition
By Andrew Ter Ern Loke
May 16, 2017
The Incarnation, traditionally understood as the metaphysical union between true divinity and true humanity in the one person of Jesus Christ, is one of the central doctrines for Christians over the centuries. Nevertheless, many scholars have objected that the Scriptural account of the Incarnation ...
Piety and Responsibility: Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika
1st Edition
By John N. Sheveland
May 16, 2017
This book analyzes the writings of Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika to disclose how each construes "piety" and "responsibility" as integral to each other. It explores a fundamental unity of love of God and love of neighbour in ecumenical and interreligious frameworks....
The Ecclesiology of Stanley Hauerwas: A Christian Theology of Liberation
1st Edition
By John B. Thomson
February 27, 2017
This book presents the theological work of Stanley Hauerwas as a distinctive kind of 'liberation theology'. John Thomson offers an original construal of this diffuse, controversial, yet highly significant modern theologian and ethicist. Organising Hauerwas' corpus in terms of the focal concept of ...
Evagrius Ponticus: The Making of a Gnostic
1st Edition
By Julia Konstantinovsky
November 28, 2016
A revered instructor of the eremitic monks of Nitria, Sketis and Kellia, Evagrius Ponticus is a fascinating yet enigmatic figure in the history of fourth-century mystical thought. This historical and theological re-evaluation of the teaching of Evagrius brings to bear evidence from the Greek and ...