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.
Paradoxical Virtue: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Virtue Tradition
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By Kevin Carnahan, David True
September 30, 2021
After the re-emergence of the tradition of virtue ethics in the early 1980s Reinhold Niebuhr has often served as a foil for authors who locate themselves in that tradition. However, this exercise has often proved controversial. This collection of essays continues this work, across a wide range of ...
Racism and the Weakness of Christian Identity: Religious Autoimmunity
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By David Kline
September 30, 2021
Despite the command from Christ to love your neighbour, Western Christianity has continued to be afflicted by the evil of racism and the acts of violence that accompany it. Through a systems theoretical and deconstructive account of religion and the political theology of St. Paul, this book traces ...
The Identity of Christian Morality
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By Ann Marie Mealey
September 30, 2021
This book argues that moral theology has yet to embrace the recommendations of the Second Vatican Council concerning the ways in which it is to be renewed. One of the reasons for this is the lack of consensus between theologians regarding the nature, content and uniqueness of Christian morality. ...
Theology and Evolutionary Anthropology: Dialogues in Wisdom, Humility and Grace
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By Celia Deane-Drummond, Agustín Fuentes
September 30, 2021
This book sets out some of the latest scientific findings around the evolutionary development of religion and faith and then explores their theological implications. This unique combination of perspectives raises fascinating questions about the characteristics that are considered integral for a ...
Trusting Others, Trusting God: Concepts of Belief, Faith and Rationality
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By Sheela Pawar
September 30, 2021
Trusting Others, Trusting God is an investigation of the concepts of moral and religious trust. The question of why or how it is rational to trust anyone has been the typical focus of philosophers, with an underlying assumption that trust must be justified. In most cases, trust (even - or perhaps ...
What's Right with the Trinity?: Conversations in Feminist Theology
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By Hannah Bacon
September 30, 2021
The doctrine of the Trinity poses a series of problems for feminist theology. At a basic level, the androcentric nature of trinitarian language serves to promote the male as more fully in the image of God and as the archetype of humanity, pushing women to the margins of personhood. It is no ...
Wolfhart Pannenberg on Human Destiny
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By Kam Ming Wong
September 30, 2021
Based on one of the greatest living theologians, Wolfhart Pannenberg, this book is the first comprehensive study of 'human destiny'. Mapping out the movement of humanity over the course of its history to its common destiny from creation through sin and ethics to eschatology, the book also examines ...
Biblical and Theological Visions of Resilience: Pastoral and Clinical Insights
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By Christopher C. H. Cook, Nathan H. White
August 02, 2021
In recent years, resilience has become a near ubiquitous cultural phenomenon whose influence extends into many fields of academic enquiry. Though research suggests that religion and spirituality are significant factors in engendering resilient adaptation, comparatively little biblical and ...
A New Theist Response to the New Atheists
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By Kevin Vallier, Joshua Rasmussen
June 30, 2021
In response to the intellectual movement of New Atheism, this volume articulates a "New Theist" response that has at its core a desire to engage in productive and depolarizing dialogue. To ensure this book is of interest to atheists and theists alike, a team of experts in the field of philosophy of...
Anamnesis and the Eucharist: Contemporary Anglican Approaches
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By Julie Gittoes
June 30, 2021
Engaging with contemporary Anglican theology of the Eucharist through the concept of anamnesis, this book seeks to enrich the Church's understanding of transformation and mission. Eucharistic theology finds its place in the midst of much contemporary Anglican theology but little attention has been ...
Divine Faith
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By John R.T. Lamont
June 30, 2021
Using philosophical and theological reflection, this book explores the rational grounding for Christian faith, inquiring into the basis for believing the Christian revelation, and using the answers to give an account of Christian faith itself. Setting the discussion in the context of the history of...
Engaging Deconstructive Theology
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By Ronald T. Michener
June 30, 2021
Engaging Deconstructive Theology presents an evangelical approach for theological conversation with postmodern thinkers. Themes are considered from Derrida, Foucault, Mark C. Taylor, Rorty, and Cupitt, developing dialogue from an open-minded evangelical perspective. Ron Michener draws upon insights...