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.
Postmodernism and the Ethics of Theological Knowledge
1st Edition
By Justin Thacker
November 15, 2016
This book establishes the necessary integration of theological knowledge with theological ethics. It does this as a response to the postmodern critique of Christianity, as exemplified in Rorty and Lyotard. They argue that any claim to know God is necessarily tyrannical. Contemporary responses to ...
Theosis in the Theology of Thomas Torrance
1st Edition
By Myk Habets
November 15, 2016
Torrance's vision of Theosis (deification/divinisation) is explored through his doctrine of creation and anthropology, his characterisation of the incarnation, his accounts of reconciliation and union with Christ, and his theology of church and sacraments. Myk Habets' study distinguishes Torrance's...
Beyond Evangelicalism: The Theological Methodology of Stanley J. Grenz
1st Edition
By Steven Knowles
November 10, 2016
A prolific author and thinker, Stanley J. Grenz was a respected and influential figure, not only within evangelicalism but in the wider theological world. Amongst the many issues tackled by him it is perhaps his revisioning of evangelical theology in the light of the postmodern challenge that has ...
Creativity, Spirituality, and Mental Health: Exploring Connections
1st Edition
By Kelley Raab Mayo
November 10, 2016
This book emphasizes the integral connections between imagination, creativity, and spirituality and their role in healing. First, the author highlights the work of a neglected yet important psychoanalyst, Marion Milner - a painter and undeclared mystic - expanding her work on creativity, mysticism,...
Ancient Taboos and Gender Prejudice: Challenges for Orthodox Women and the Church
1st Edition
By Leonie B. Liveris
October 31, 2016
This book explores the struggling genesis of a women's movement in the Orthodox Church through the ecumenical movement of the twentieth century at a time when militant conservatism is emerging in Orthodox countries and fundamentalism in the diaspora. Offering an understanding of the participation ...
Speaking of God in Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart: Beyond Analogy
1st Edition
By Anastasia Wendlinder
October 19, 2016
Medieval masters Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart considered problems inherent to speaking of God, exploring how religious language might compromise God's transcendence or God's immanence ultimately hindering believers in their journey of faith seeking understanding. Going beyond ordinary ...
The Trinity and Ecumenical Church Thought: The Church-Event
1st Edition
By William C. Ingle-Gillis
October 19, 2016
Some hundred years from inception, the ecumenical movement is stagnating. William C. Ingle-Gillis argues that the problem lies in modern ecumenism’s treatment of denominational Churches as provisional entities requiring reunion to be more fully Christ’s Body. In a work unique both to ecumenical ...
Twentieth Century Christian Responses to Religious Pluralism: Difference is Everything
1st Edition
By David Pitman
October 19, 2016
Twentieth Century Christian Responses to Religious Pluralism begins with the recognition that the traditional three-fold typology adopted by Christians in responding to other living world religions is no longer adequate and offers a much more sophisticated and developed approach. This is ...
Averroes and Hegel on Philosophy and Religion
1st Edition
By Catarina Belo
October 10, 2016
Comparing Averroes’ and Hegel’s positions on the relation between philosophy and religion, this book explores the theme of the authorities of faith and reason, and the origin of truth, in a medieval Islamic and a modern Christian context respectively. Through an in-depth analysis of Averroes’ and ...
Cassian's Conferences: Scriptural Interpretation and the Monastic Ideal
1st Edition
By Christopher J. Kelly
September 19, 2016
This book explores Cassian's use of scripture in the Conferences, especially its biblical models to convey his understanding of the desert ideal to the monastic communities of Gaul. Cassian intended the scriptures and, implicitly, the Conferences to be the voices of authority and orthodoxy in the ...
Pentecostal Theology for the Twenty-First Century: Engaging with Multi-Faith Singapore
1st Edition
By May Ling Tan-Chow
September 12, 2016
In our post 9/11 world where there is a growing religious fundamentalism, and when both exclusion and easy tolerance are inadequate options, this book offers a creative alternative arguing that Pentecostalism has the potential to be a peaceful harbinger of plurality. The potential lies in its ...
Tantric Buddhism and Altered States of Consciousness: Durkheim, Emotional Energy and Visions of the Consort
1st Edition
By Louise Child
September 12, 2016
This book explores the role of altered states of consciousness in the communication of social and emotional energies, both on a societal level and between individual persons. Drawing from an original reading of Durkheimian social theorists (including Mauss, Hertz, and Hubert) and Jungian psychology...