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Richard Norton, Julian of Norwich and the Problem of Evil Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Emma Pennington
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James F. McGrath, The A to Z of the New Testament: Things Experts Know that Everyone Else Should Too Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Stephen Laird
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Difficult texts: Matthew 6.12b – ‘as we forgive’ Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Robert Morgan
This article compares the Matthean and Lukan versions of the Lord’s Prayer in view of what Jesus may have intended. It considers the difficulties some have found in Matthew’s ‘as we forgive’ and suggests that Luke altered his source to avoid them, but – against the weight of scholarly opinion – in a way that some today may find shocking.
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Eugene R. Schlesinger, Salvation in Henri de Lubac: Divine Grace, Human Nature, and the Mystery of the Cross Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jeremy Worthen
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Gregory E. Sterling, Shaping the Past to Define the Present: Luke-Acts and Apologetic Historiography Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Stephen Laird
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Lester L. Grabbe, The Dawn of Israel: A History of Canaan in the Second Millennium BCE Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 C. A. Strine
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Overcoming othering through agape Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Rebecca Stevens
This article explores the theological concept of othering. It investigates how society categorizes those different to the norm in historical, contemporary and biblical narratives. It does not offer solutions as such but finds hope in overcoming the othering in the message of agape that Christian love is unconditional.
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Transcendence, faith and poetry: towards an ontology of the Spirit Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Michael Keeling
Our current understanding of the evolution of the cosmos and the place in it of Homo sapiens requires a reassessment of transcendence and in particular of the Christian faith and the importance of the Spirit of God, leading to a revised view of theology as being primarily a form of poetry about human experience of transcendence, open to ambiguity, contradiction and imagination, rather than credal certainty
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Michael Fuller (ed.), Science and Religion in Western Literature: Critical and Theological Studies Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Roger Trigg
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Stephen N. Williams, A Thinking Reed: Pascal’s Voice, Yesterday and Today Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Keith Ward
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Alistair C. Stewart, Breaking Bread: The Emergence of Eucharist and Agape in Early Christian Communities Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Alan Le Grys
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Anne C. Holmes, Creative Repair: Pastoral Care and Creativity Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Stephen Platten
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Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian J. Walsh, Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement. 15th Anniversary Edition Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Elaine Graham
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Kenosis or sovereignty? Christ Jesus and the disclosure of the divine mind Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Roger Haydon Mitchell
This article is the fruit of engagement with Bruce McCormack’s comprehensive The Humility of the Eternal Son: reformed kenoticism and the repair of Chalcedon (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and with Christoph Schwӧbel’s essay ‘The generosity of the Triune God and the humility of the Son’ in Paul Nimmo and Keith Johnson’s Kenosis: the self-emptying of Christ in Scripture and theology (Eerdmans, 2022)
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Gill K. Goulding, CJ, Pope Francis and Mercy: A Dynamic Theological Hermeneutic Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Stephen Platten
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Mark Vasey-Saunders, Defusing the Sexuality Debate: The Anglican Evangelical Culture War Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Stephen C. Barton
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David Jasper and Jeremy J. Smith, Reinventing Medieval Liturgy in Victorian England: Thomas Frederick Simmons and The Lay Folks’ Mass Book Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Paul F. Bradshaw
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Eric A. Seibert, Redeeming Violent Verses: A Guide for Using Troublesome Texts in Church and Ministry Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Stephen Platten
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Gillian Warson and Janet Wootton (eds), First Flight Feathers: The Best of Worship Live Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 John Pymm
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Christopher Dawson, with a new introduction by Kenneth L. Parker, The Spirit of the Oxford Movement Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Mark D. Chapman
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Promised land? Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Tim Gorringe
The conflict between the State of Israel and Hamas in Gaza calls into question the Deuteronomic command to ‘utterly destroy’ the existing nations in Palestine, in order to realize God’s promise of the land. It raises questions about how we understand Scripture as God’s word, about what constitute rights as regards occupation of land, and about how we understand cultural difference.
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Psychological Type and the life of faith Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 John B. Lloyd
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTITM) is widely used in Christian churches as an aid to deeper understanding of one’s own personality and that of one’s fellow believers. It is also presented as a guide to those practices that will be most helpful in developing a Christian’s spiritual life and discipleship. The article examines and critiques the latter notion, concluding that it is unwise to displace
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Rosemarie Davidson and E. P. Louis (eds), The Sam Sharpe Lectures: History, Rebellion and Reform Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Angela Tilby
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Khaled Anatolios, Feasts for the Kingdom: Sermons for the Liturgical Year Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Ted Harrison
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Leah Robinson, Bad Theology: Oppression in the Name of God Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jonathan W. Chappell
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Don Cupitt: theological pioneer? Theology Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Elaine Graham, Graeme Smith
This final article in a three-part series exploring the contemporary significance of the theologian and philosopher of religion Don Cupitt examines the extent to which he might be considered a ‘theological pioneer’. There are three possible areas of innovation: Cupitt’s work on non-realism, his adoption of postmodern philosophy and his advocacy of a religion of everyday speech. In each of these, Cupitt
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Making sense of God incarnate: a neglected biblical resource Theology Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Mark Philps
The doctrine of the Incarnation raises important questions about the person of Christ and the nature of God. The John 5 discourse where Jesus speaks about what it means to be ‘the Son’ is a neglected source of insight into these questions. The article presents a case for reading this discourse as a statement about the eternal dependence of the Son. This interpretation is backed up by reference to the
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‘Faith working through love’: a new food law for a new world Theology Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Marcello Newall
In this article, I argue that in regard to dietary choices, the New Testament, while moving beyond the ritual purity found in the Mosaic dispensation, does not replace it with a libertarian freedom – a kind of antinomian indifference – or even a harsh asceticism, but with what the Apostle Paul calls ‘faith working through love’ (Gal. 5.6). The faith talked of is based on the death and resurrection
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The role of religious experience: a review article Theology Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Jeff Astley
A review article of two contrasting books on the role of religious experience within New Testament studies and practical theology respectively.
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John the Baptist: desert and diet Theology Pub Date : 2024-02-01 John Binns
The rise of the monastic movement in the fourth century led many monks to settle in the Judaean desert. They described how they lived in an inhospitable environment. This gives fresh insights into the life of John the Baptist, including his diet. He would have foraged for food, including the melagria plant, widely eaten by desert dwellers. Later scribes, who were unfamiliar with the desert, changed
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Difficult texts: the author and content of the commandment in 1 John 3.23 Theology Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Rob James
Three interpretative problems with 1 John 3.23 are addressed. First, it is suggested that the subject of the verse changes halfway through, from ‘God’ to ‘Jesus Christ’. Second, belief ‘in the name’ of Jesus is taken to mean the acknowledgement of Jesus’ ultimate significance. Third, the single command both to believe and to love one another is suggested to be a way of opening up the life of the disciple
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The theological role of biography Theology Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Stephen J. Plant
This article explores the role of biography in Christian theology. For the greater part of Christian history, biography has played a key devotional and apologetic role by providing models of how th...
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Don Cupitt: prophet, public intellectual and pioneer Public intellectual Theology Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Elaine Graham, Graeme Smith
The 1984 BBC TV series The Sea of Faith offered Don Cupitt an exceptional degree of public recognition and notoriety. His advancement of a non-realist and social constructivist theology had a stron...
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Apocalypses now and then: a review article Theology Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Michael S. Northcott
A review of two recent books that tackle environmental catastrophe through a secular reading of theological concepts and from the perspectives of faith-based and secular ecological justice movements.
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The theology of education and religious education in schools Theology Pub Date : 2022-11-14 L. Philip Barnes
In a recent article in Theology (Vol. 125, no. 1, pp. 3–11), Professors Trevor Cooling and Robert A. Bowie discussed the Final Report of the Commission on Religious Education (CoRE) and identified ...
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Difficult texts: who is the Shulammite? (Song of Songs 6.13 [MT 7.1]) Theology Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Jeanette Mathews
This contribution to Difficult Texts focuses on the identity, depiction and experience of the Shulammite woman in the Song of Songs (6.13).
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Editorial Theology Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Robin Gill
This special issue of Theology celebrates the eightieth anniversary of the publication of William Temple’s wartime Penguin paperback Christianity and Social Order. It was published in the year that he became Archbishop of Canterbury, having been Archbishop of York for the previous 13 years, and just two years before his death in 1944, aged just 63. This extraordinary little book is written in pellucid
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Christianity and Social Order as a model of collaborative leadership in the public arena Theology Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Stephen Spencer
Placing Christianity and Social Order within a wider movement that began with the Malvern Conference in 1941 and continued with a series of mass meetings after it was published, and noting the way its content drew together and promoted various strands of Christian social reflection, this article highlights the ecumenical and collaborative nature of the leadership it provided.
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A Balliol quartet and the welfare state: Temple, Beveridge, Tawney and Toynbee Theology Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Simon Lee
This article sets Christianity and Social Order into the context of William Temple’s contemporaries at Balliol College, with a focus on Beveridge and Tawney, and Arnold Toynbee in a previous generation. It explores who first developed the concept of the ‘welfare state’.
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Temple, sex, gender and society Theology Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Elaine Graham
This article gives an overview of the main economic, legal and cultural changes around the role of women, debates about gender identity and patterns of marriage and the family that have taken place over the past 80 years since Christianity and Social Order was first published.
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‘The land question’: William Temple and environmentalism Theology Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Jeremy Carrette
This article explores Temple’s understanding of the ethics of land in Christianity and Social Order. It explores Temple’s engagement with contemporary issues of land in relation to profit, ownership and invasion. It is relevant to the contemporary invasion of Ukraine and environmentalism.
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Temple and Tutu: speaking truth to power Theology Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Robin Gill
A comparison of attempts by Archbishops William Temple and Desmond Tutu to shape values within a pluralist society, with a particular focus on Temple’s Christianity and Social Order.
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William Temple and William Laud Theology Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Kenneth Fincham
A comparison of attempts by Archbishops William Temple and William Laud to shape values within a society, with a particular focus on Temple’s Christianity and Social Order.
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‘Building back better’ and the search for values: critically reclaiming Temple’s social thought for a post-pandemic policy landscape Theology Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Christopher Baker
This article moves beyond William Temple’s Christianity and Social Order and gives an outline of its implications for public policy today in the context of religiously inspired terrorism, the global financial crash, COVID-19 and postsecularity.
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Editorial Theology Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Robin Gill
The first article in this issue of Theology explores how theology can be brought into creative dialogue with the practical and ethical issues raised by adult social care. The author, Dr Stacey Rand, is exceptionally well qualified to make this exploration as she is both a senior research fellow in social care policy and a non-stipendiary Anglican priest. In the following article, Emily Hogg writes
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Exploring theological perspectives on adult social care Theology Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Stacey Rand
A number of theological perspectives on adult social care are considered to illustrate how theology can be brought into creative dialogue with the practical and ethical issues in a way that may inform the ongoing public debate.
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Biblical narratives and the ecological crisis: an argument for hope Theology Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Emily Hogg
As one of the most pressing issues of our time, the ecological crisis has recently attained unprecedented prominence in the public psyche. The significance of the ecological crisis can, however, instil fatalism, reducing the potential for positive, engaged action. This article employs scholarly interpretations of popular Christian biblical narratives to provide an alternative, hopeful path by which
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Sunday morning Eucharists: a defence Theology Pub Date : 2022-05-17 David Grumett
Jesus was resurrected on Sunday morning. Scripture describes both the Last Supper and early Christian gatherings taking place close to the beginning of the day, according to the differing Jewish and Roman understandings of when this was. The resurrection is associated with light and life, and morning celebration with worshippers facing east amplifies this. Against this norm, evening celebration may
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The prodigal climate crisis Theology Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Mark Siddall
The parable of the prodigal son is examined in the context of its physical setting within creation and its scriptural setting within the Lucan Gospel kerygma (Acts 2.38–39), revealing the integral ecology of the parable. Broken relationships among people and the land in the parable correlate with the contemporary human broken relationship with creation, which is causing the climate crisis. The brothers
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Difficult texts: the Christology of the Centurion’s words in Luke 23.47 Theology Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Rob James
The words uttered by the Centurion present at the death of Jesus in Luke’s Gospel represent a deliberate change to Luke’s inherited material. The choice of whether to understand the key word in Luke’s phrasing as ‘innocent’ or ‘righteous’ has huge implications for the weight which we might give to this rephrased exclamation. It is suggested that Luke intended this word to be understood as ‘righteous’
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Notes on the problem of the ‘ban’ Theology Pub Date : 2022-03-23 John Heywood Thomas
This article argues that the biblical critic is obliged to interpret the sacred texts commanding genocide in the light of their historical nature. It demonstrates that this task is not simple. It then argues that the application of that interpretation to the problem of religious ethics is even less simple and that, in particular, nothing can replace the difficult task of moral reasoning.
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A reply to Gerard Loughlin’s ‘Catholic homophobia’ Theology Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Teofilo Pugeda
This article replies to the accusations of homophobia levelled against the Catholic Church by Loughlin in his article in Theology. In it, he critiques the ‘culture of the Catholic Church – as constituted through the Roman magisterium’, without considering a broader ecclesiology of the Church necessary to substantiate his generalized claim that ‘homophobia is … a matter of Christian culture, of Catholic
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Them and us: a reply to Teofilo Pugeda Theology Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Gerard Loughlin
A response to the article ‘A reply to Gerard Loughlin’s “Catholic homophobia”’ by Teofilo Pugeda highlighting the dichotomy between the welcome and rejection of LGBT people within the Catholic Church.
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The formation of the eucharistic prayer in the Apostolic Tradition Theology Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Paul F. Bradshaw
What was thought to be a third-century eucharistic prayer from Rome exercised great influence on twentieth-century liturgical revision, but recent scholarship shows that in its finished form it belongs to West Syria, and its roots are even older, in the second century.
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God as love, in creation Theology Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Roman A. Montero
This article attempts to defend and expand on the claim (put forth by Keith Ward and others) that God is love in his being the Creator against the claim that it is in the relations of the Trinity. Using descriptions of love by various modern philosophers, and using the dialectical logic of Hegel and the ontotheology of Schelling, I put forward a way of viewing God as love in an ontological sense, dialectically