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.
Envisioning the Cosmic Body of Christ: Embodiment, Plurality and Incarnation
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By Aurica Jax, Saskia Wendel
March 31, 2021
The metaphor of the cosmos as the Body of Christ offers an opportunity to escape the aporias of standard Body of Christ imagery, which has often proved anthropocentric, exclusivist, triumphalist and/or sexist in the analyses of classical theologies. The body motif in particular contains starting ...
Gaming and the Divine: A New Systematic Theology of Video Games
1st Edition
By Frank G. Bosman
March 31, 2021
This book formulates a new theological approach to the study of religion in gaming. Video games have become one of the most important cultural artifacts of modern society, both as mediators of cultural, social, and religious values and in terms of commercial success. This has led to a significant ...
Religious Truth and Identity in an Age of Plurality
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By Peter Jonkers, Oliver J. Wiertz
March 31, 2021
This book deals with the intellectual aspects of having diverse religious expressions in proximity and the socio-political consequences. It provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on this complex subject, cross-fertilizing work on religious plurality with truth-claims from theologians as well as ...
Theologising Brexit: A Liberationist and Postcolonial Critique
1st Edition
By Anthony G. Reddie
March 31, 2021
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the theological challenge presented by the new post-Brexit epoch. The referendum vote for Britain to leave the European Union has led to a seismic shift in the ways in which parts of the British population view and judge their compatriots. The subsequent...
Vision, Mental Imagery and the Christian Life: Insights from Science and Scripture
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By Zoltán Dörnyei
March 31, 2021
This book uniquely explores how the notion of vision is presented in modern science and the Bible, and how it can be applied to contemporary Christian contexts. The word "vision", our ability to see, has been described by an increasing body of scholarship in the social sciences as our capacity for ...
Recognition and Religion: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
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By Maijastina Kahlos, Heikki J. Koskinen, Ritva Palmén
December 18, 2020
This book focuses on recognition and its relation to religion and theology, in both systematic and historical dimensions. While existing research literature on recognition and contemporary recognition theory has been gradually growing since the early 1990s, certain gaps remain in the field covered ...
The Liquidation of the Church
1st Edition
By Kees de Groot
December 18, 2020
Is religion dying out in Western societies? Is personal spirituality taking its place? Both stories are inadequate. Institutional religion is not simply coming to an end in Western societies. Rather, its assets and properties are redistributed: large parts of the church have gone into liquidation. ...
Eschatology as Imagining the End: Faith between Hope and Despair
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By Sigurd Bergmann
August 14, 2020
As society becomes more concerned with the future of our planet, the study of apocalypse and eschatology become increasingly pertinent. Whether religious or not, peoples’ views on this topic can have a profound effect on their attitudes to issues such as climate change and social justice and so it ...
Faith and Freedom: Contexts, Choices, and Crises in Religious Commitments
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By Donald A. Crosby
August 14, 2020
It is sometimes thought that individual religious faith should be firmly fixed in the traditions of the past. That once it is established in someone’s life, it should remain steadfast and unchanging throughout personal, cultural, or any other changes. This book subverts that idea by showing how it ...
Pacifism and Pentecostals in South Africa: A new hermeneutic for nonviolence
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By Marius Nel
August 14, 2020
Most of the early twentieth-century Pentecostal denominations were peace churches that encouraged a stance of conscientious objection. However, since the Second World War Pentecostals have largely abandoned their pacifist viewpoint as they have taken on a more literal Biblical hermeneutic from ...
Divine Power and Evil: A Reply to Process Theodicy
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By Kenneth K. Pak
June 30, 2020
Evil perplexes us all and threatens to undermine the meaningfulness of our existence. How can we reconcile the reality of evil with the notion of a God who is perfectly good and powerful? Process theodicy, whose foremost proponent is David Griffin, suggests one answer: because every being possesses...
Foucault, Art, and Radical Theology: The Mystery of Things
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By Petra Carlsson Redell
June 30, 2020
Michel Foucault wrote prolifically on many topics including, art, religion, and politics. He also eloquently articulated how power structures are formed and how they also might assist resistance and emancipation. This book uses the hermeneutical lens of Foucault’s writings on art to examine the ...