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.
Epistemology as Theology: An Evaluation of Alvin Plantinga's Religious Epistemology
1st Edition
By James Beilby
June 30, 2021
Alvin Plantinga is arguably one of the most influential philosophers of our time. Much of his career has been devoted to explaining and defending the intellectual acceptability of Christian belief. Recently he has developed a comprehensive, rigorous, and distinctively Christian religious ...
Ernan McMullin and Critical Realism in the Science-Theology Dialogue
1st Edition
By Paul L. Allen
June 30, 2021
Scientists, philosophers and theologians have wrestled repeatedly with the question of whether knowledge is similar or different in their various understandings of the world and God. Although agreement is still elusive, the epistemology of critical realism, associated with Ian Barbour, John ...
Eucharistic Sacramentality in an Ecumenical Context: The Anglican Epiclesis
1st Edition
By David J. Kennedy
June 30, 2021
This book explores the epiclesis or invocation of the Holy Spirit in the Eucharistic Prayer, using the Anglican tradition as an historical model of a communion of churches in conscious theological and liturgical dialogue with Christian antiquity. Incorporating major studies of England, North ...
Exodus Church and Civil Society: Public Theology and Social Theory in the Work of Jürgen Moltmann
1st Edition
By Scott R. Paeth
June 30, 2021
This book investigates the intersection of theology and social theory in the work of Jürgen Moltmann. In particular, it examines the way in which his concept of the "Exodus Church" can illuminate the importance of the idea of civil society for a Christian public theology. The concept of civil ...
God in the Act of Reference: Debating Religious Realism and Non-Realism
1st Edition
By Erica Appelros
June 30, 2021
To claim to believe in God without accepting that God exists independently of human minds would mean reducing God to merely a human construct, thus not real enough for being the object of religious worship. This book sets out to challenge this common view on existence and religious belief. ...
Metaphysics as Christology: An Odyssey of the Self from Kant and Hegel to Steiner
1st Edition
By Jonael Schickler, Fraser Watts
June 30, 2021
In Metaphysics as Christology, Jonael Schickler presents a major contribution to both philosophy and theology. First he examines the key philosophical problems with which Kant and Hegel grappled, and finds in the work of Rudolf Steiner the essence of a solution to them; he claims that Steiner ...
Resacralizing the Other at the US-Mexico Border: A Borderland Hermeneutic
1st Edition
By Gregory L. Cuéllar
June 30, 2021
This book focuses on the themes of border violence; racial criminalization; competing hermeneutics of the sacred; and State-sponsored modes of desacralizing black and brown-bodied people, all in the context of the US-Mexico borderlands. It provides a much-needed substantive response to the State’s ...
The Fourth Pentecostal Wave in South Africa: A Critical Engagement
1st Edition
By Solomon Kgatle
June 30, 2021
This book critically examines contemporary Pentecostalism in South Africa and its influence on some of the countries that surround it. Pentecostalism plays a significant role in the religious life of this region and so evaluating its impact is key to understanding how religion functions in ...
Theology Without Walls: The Transreligious Imperative
1st Edition
Edited
By Jerry L. Martin
June 30, 2021
Thinking about ultimate reality is becoming increasingly transreligious. This transreligious turn follows inevitably from the discovery of divine truths in multiple traditions. Global communications bring the full range of religious ideas and practices to anyone with access to the internet. ...
Laudato Si’ and the Environment: Pope Francis’ Green Encyclical
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert McKim
April 01, 2021
This volume is a response to Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical Laudato Si’. Published in 2015, the encyclical urges us to face up to the crisis of climate change and to take better care of the Earth, our common home, while also attending to the plight of the poor.In this book the Pope’s ...
The Evolution of Religion, Religiosity and Theology: A Multi-Level and Multi-Disciplinary Approach
1st Edition
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By Jay R. Feierman, Lluis Oviedo
April 01, 2021
This book takes a multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary approach to religion, religiosity and theology from their earliest beginnings to the present day. It uniquely brings together the natural sciences and theology to explore how religious practice emerged and developed through the four ...
Christianity and the Triumph of Humor: From Dante to David Javerbaum
1st Edition
By Bernard Schweizer
March 31, 2021
This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today’s uses of religious humor in all of its manifestations, including irreverent jokes. It argues that regulating humor is futile and counterproductive, illustrating this point with a host of comedic ...