A Guide to Christian Art
A one-volume introduction to and overview of Christian art, from its earliest history to the present day. Diane Apostolos-Cappadona begins by examining how art and Christianity have intersected throughout history, and charts this tumultuous relationship that has yielded some of the greatest outpourings of human creativity.
To introduce readers to the way a painting can be read Apostolos-Cappadona begins with an analysis of a painting of the Adoration of the Magi, helping readers to see how they can interpret for themselves the signs, symbols and figures that the book covers.
Borderless Spirituality: An Intercultural Inquiry into the Appropriation of Faiths in South Indian Religious Context
Rev. Dr. Vinod S. Sailus’s Book Borderless Spirituality: An Intercultural Inquiry into the Appropriation of Faiths in South Indian Religious Context demonstrates powerfully how a sincere Christ centered religious experience can be understood in a culturally and religiously pluralistic society. With the support of the reliable and legitimate research the author explores the origin and growth of Mission Studies in India and advocates the importance of gaining insights from faith communities of all living religions for a legitimate practice and propagation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Rev. Prof. Dr. C. I. David Joy Principal, KUT Seminary.
Culture, Communication, and Christianity: A Selection of Writings
Charles Kraft is a well-known author, educator, linguist, anthropologist, and missiologist. This book consists of his selected writings compiled over more than three decades. Subjects including anthropology, communication, worldview, ethnolinguistics, hermeneutics, and contextualization are dealt with as they relate to Christianity and Kraft’s unique perspective. Kraft’s personal story and an exhaustive bibliography of his personal writings (from 1961-2000) are included. This book is of extraodrinary value to those who desire to study Christianity, culture and communication, and the interplay between all three.
Did God Kill Jesus?: Searching for Love in History’s Most Famous Execution
The popular Patheos blogger wants to restore the cross as primarily a symbol of God’s overwhelming love for us and
Found Christianities: Remaking the World of the Second Century CE
M. David Litwa tells the stories of the early Christians whose religious identity was either challenged or outright denied. In the second century many different groups and sects claimed to be the only Orthodox or authentic version of Christianity, and Litwa shows how those groups and figures on the side of developing Christian Orthodoxy often dismissed other versions of Christianity by refusing to call them “Christian”. However, the writings and treatises against these groups contain fascinating hints of what they believed, and why they called themselves Christian.
Knowing Our Triune God: A Historical and Global Survey of Development in Trinitarian Theology
Knowing our Triune God sketches the historical development of Trinitarian theology from the New Testament to contemporary global Christianity. Designed
Readings in Historical Theology: Primary Sources of the Christian Faith
Readings in Historical Theology provides direct interaction with sixty-six primary sources that have shaped the theological landscape of Christianity. Robert
Salvation and Humanisation: Some Crucial Issues of the Theology of Mission in Contemporary India.
MM Thomas’ book Salvation and Humanisation grapples with the issue of humanisation at depth and suggests a way forward for Churches in the Global South and beyond.
This classic is a must-read for anyone interested in the theology of Mission.
Science and Theology Since Copernicus: The Search for Understanding
A textbook surveying the key developments in the natural sciences over the past 450 years and all the main associated theological questions. It provides an outline of the present science and theology discourse and suggests how a scientific description of the world may be placed within a broad theistic scheme.
Sound of Silence: A festchrift in honour of Bishop Dhirendra Kumar Sahu at his Shashti-Purti
Edited by Ravi Tiwari, Bibhudutta Sahu
T&T Clark Companion to Atonement
Adam J. Johnson (Anthology Editor)
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Atonement: The State of the Doctrine, Adam Johnson (Biola University, USA)
2. These Three Atone: Trinity and Atonement, Fred Sanders (Biola University, USA)
3. Atonement and Incarnation, Ivor J. Davidson (formerly St Andrews University, UK
Dogmatic Location )
4. Resurrection and Atonement in the Theology of Thomas T.F. Torrance, Paul D. Molnar (St John’s University in New York, USA)
5. The Atonement and the Holy Spirit, Christopher R.J. Holmes (University of Otago, New Zealand)
6. God’s Reconciling Work: Atonement in the Old Testament, Stephen B. Chapman (Duke Divinity School, USA)
7. Theologies of the Atonement in the New Testament, Joel B. Green (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA)
8. Athanasius’s Incarnational Soteriology, Thomas G. Weinandy (St Paul Center for Biblical Theology, USA)
9. St Gregory of Nyssa on the Dynamics of Salvation, John A. McGuckin (Colombia University, USA)
10. Anselmian Atonement, Katherine Sonderegger (Virginia Theological Seminary, USA)
11. Love and the Atonement in Aquinas’ Pauline Commentaries, Charles Raith II (John Brown University, USA)
12. The Fury of Love: Calvin on the Atonement, Paul Dafydd Jones (University of Virginia, USA)
13. Karl Barth, Shannon Smythe (Seattle Pacific University, USA)
14. Christ’s Descent Into Hell, Rodney Howsare (DeSales University, USA)
15. The Persistence of the Ransom Theory of the Atonement, Adam Kotsko (Shimer College, USA)
16. Penal Substitution, Stephen R. Holmes (University of St Andrews, UK)
17. Methodological Issues in Approaching the Atonement, Oliver Crisp (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA)
18. Crucified -So What? Feminist Re-Readings of the Cross-Event, Arnfriour Guomundsdottir (University of Iceland, Iceland)
19. 1st, 2nd and 3rd John by Matthew Jensen
20. Peter Abelard by Adam Johnson
21. Angels by Adam Johnson
22. Animals by David Clough
23. Apostolic Fathers by Harry Maier
24. Ascension by Andrew Burgess
25. Augustine by David Meconi
26. Aulén, Gustaf by Roland Spjuth
27. Baptism by Travis McMaken
28. Bernard of Clairvaux by Tony Lane
29. Blood by Eugene Rogers
30. Bonaventure by Andrew Salzmann
31. Bultmann by David Congdon
32. Campbell, John by Peter Stevenson
33. Catherine of Siena by Adam Eitel
34. Covenant by Jeremy Treat
35. Cranmer, Thomas by Scott Harrower
36. Creeds by Ash Cocksworth
37. Culture by Paul Metzger
38. Cyril of Alexandria by Donald Fairbairn
39. Ecclesiology by Joseph Mangina
40. Edwards, Jonathan by Gary Williams
41. Eschatology by Graham Cole
42. Eucharist by Scott Harrower
43. Exemplarism by Adam Kotsko
44. Expiation/Propitiation by Graham Cole
45. Forgiveness by Cynthia Rigsby
46. P.T. Forsyth by Jason Goroncy
47. Girard, Rene by Adam Johnson
48. Global Theology by Mark Baker
49. Gospel of John by Edward Klink
50. Grotius, Hugo by Gert Van den Brink
50. Gunton, Colin by Andrew Picard
51. Hebrews by David Moffitt
52. Hegel and FC Baure by Peter C. Hodgson
53. Historical Books by Richard Briggs
54. Ignatius of Antioch by Harry Maier
55. Imagination, the Arts and the Atonement by Trevor Hart
56. Imago Dei by Ryan Peterson
57. Impassibility by Daniel Castelo
58. Irenaeus by John Behr
59. James by Robert Wall
60. Justification by Allan Spence
61. Kant by Nathan Jacobs
62. Soren Kierkegaard by Murray Rae
63. Kingdom of God by Cynthia Rigby
64. Liberation Theology by Jules Martinex
65. Lombard, Peter by Gill Evans
66. Luke and Acts by Howard Marshall
67. Luther, Martin by Robert Kolb
68. Major Prophets by Mark Gignilliat
69. Matthew and Mark by Jonathan Pennington
70. Minor Prophets by Don Collett
71. Missions, Divine by Adonis Vidu
72. Moltmann, Jürgen by Matthias Grebe
73. Munus Triplex by Adam Johnson
74. Owen, John by Kelly Kapic
75. Pannenberg by Kent Eilers
76. Pastoral Ministry by Andrew Root
77. Pauline Epistles by Tim Gombis
78. Pentateuch by Alexander Desmond
79. Petrine Epistles by David Nienhius
80. Political Theology by Peter Leithart
81. Prayer by Ash Cocksworth
82. Problem of Evil by Matthias Grebe
83. Reconciliation by Tom Bennett
84. Reformed Scholastics by Brannon Ellis
85. Religious Pluralism by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
86. Representation by Jeanine Graham
87. Revelation by Joe Mangina
88. Ritschl by Matt Bruce
89. Santification by Ben Rhodes
90. Schleiermacher by Justin Stratis
91. Duns Scotus by Tom Ward
92. Sin by Adam Neder
93. Socinus, Faustus by Alan Gomes
94. Hugh of St. Victor by Gill Evans
95. Supra and Infra Lapsarianism by Edwin Van Driel
96. Theological Interpretation of Scripture by Scott Swain
97. Union with Christ by Mark Garcia
98. Universalism by Tom Greggs
99. Divine Violence by Adam Johnson
100. John Wesley by Tom McCall
101. Wisdom Literature by Craig Bartholomew
102. Wrath by Jeremy Wynne
Index
T&T Clark Companion to Henri de Lubac
Jordan Hillebert (Anthology Editor)
Table of Contents
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Foreword: A Paradoxical Humanism – Rowan Williams
Part One: Henri de Lubac in Context
Ch 1: Introducing Henri de Lubac (Jordan Hillebert, University of St Andrews, UK)
Ch 2: Neoscholasticism of the Strict-Observance, (Tracey Rowland, John Paul II Institute, USA)
Ch 3: The Influence of Maurice Blondel (Francesca Murphy, University of Notre Dame, USA)
Ch. 4: Ressourcement (Jacob Wood, Franciscan University of Steubenville, USA)
Ch 5: Henri de Lubac and Vatican II (Aaron Riches, Instituto de Filosofía Edith Stein, Spain)
Part Two: Key Themes in the Theology of Henri de Lubac
Ch 6: The Mystical Body: Ecclesiology and Sacramental Theology (Gemma Simmonds, Heythrop College, University of London, UK)
Ch 7: The Christian Mystery of Nature and Grace (Nicholas J. Healy, John Paul II Institute, USA)
Ch 8: The Spiritual Interpretation of Scripture (Kevin L. Hughes, Villanova University, USA)
Ch 9: An Inhuman Humanism (Patrick X. Gardner, University of Notre Dame, USA)
Ch 10: On Religion (David Grumett, University of Edinburgh, UK)
Ch 11: Knowing God (D. Stephen Long, Marquette University, USA)
Ch 12: A Theology of History (Cyril O’Regan, University of Notre Dame, USA)
Ch 13: Mysticism and Mystical Theology (Bryan C. Hollon, Malone University, USA)
Ch 14: An Emerging Christology (Noel O’Sullivan, Maynooth College, Ireland)
Part Three: A Theological Legacy
Ch 15: Henri de Lubac and a Desire Beyond Claim (Jean-Yves Lacoste; Translation by Oliver O’Donovan, University of Edinburgh, UK)
Ch 16: Henri de Lubac and Protestantantism (Kenneth Oakes, University of Notre Dame, USA)
Ch. 17: Henri de Lubac and Radical Orthodoxy (Simon Oliver, Durham University, UK)
Ch. 18: Henri de Lubac and Political Theology (Joseph S. Flipper, Bellarmine University, USA)
Ch. 19: Henri de Lubac and the Christian Life (Nicholas M. Healy, St. John’s University, USA)
Glossary
Index
Bibliography
T&T Clark Companion to Reformation Theology
David M Whitford (Author), David M Whitford (Anthology Editor)
This volume introduces the main theological topics of Reformation theology in a language that is clear and concise. Theology in the Reformation era can be complicated and contentious. This volume aims to cut through the theological jargon and explain what people believed and why.
The book begins with an essay that explains to students how one can approach the study of sixteenth century theology. It includes a guide to major events, persons, doctrines, and movements.
T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls
George J. Brooke (Anthology Editor), Charlotte Hempel (Anthology Editor)
The Dead Sea Scrolls are one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last century. They have great historical, religious, and linguistic significance, not least in relation to the transmission of many of the books which came to be included in the Hebrew Bible. This companion comprises over 70 articles, exploring the entire body of the key texts and documents labelled as Dead Sea Scrolls.
Beginning with a section on the complex methods used in discovering, archiving and analysing the Scrolls, the focus moves to consideration of the Scrolls in their various contexts: political, religious, cultural, economic and historical. The genres ascribed to groups of texts within the Scrolls- including exegesis and interpretation, poetry and hymns, and liturgical texts – are then examined, with due attention given to both past and present scholarship. The main body of the Companion concludes with crucial issues and topics discussed by leading scholars. Complemented by extensive appendices and indexes, this Companion provides the ideal resource for those seriously engaging with the Dead Sea Scrolls.
T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Prayer
Ashley Cocksworth (Volume Editor), John C. McDowell (Volume Editor)
The essays collected in this volume provide a resource for thinking theologically about the practice of Christian prayer.
In the first of four parts, the volume begins by reaching back to the biblical foundations of prayer. Then, each of the chapters in the second part investigates a classical Christian doctrine – including God, creation, Christology, pneumatology, providence and eschatology – from the perspective of prayer. The chapters in the third part explore the writings of some of the great theorizers of prayer in the history of the Christian tradition. The final part gathers a set of creative and critical conversations on prayer responding to a variety of contemporary issues.
Overall, the T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Prayer articulates a theologically expansive account of prayer – one that is deeply biblical, energetically doctrinal, historically rooted, and relevant to a whole host of critical questions and concerns facing the world today.
T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and Climate Change
Hilda P. Koster (Anthology Editor), Ernst M. Conradie (Anthology Editor)
The T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and Climate Change entails a wide-ranging conversation between Christian theology and various other discourses on climate change. Given the far-reaching complicity of “North Atlantic Christianity” in anthropogenic climate change, the question is whether it can still collaborate with and contribute to ongoing mitigation and adaptation efforts. The main essays in this volume are written by leading scholars from within North Atlantic Christianity and addressed primarily to readers in the same context; these essays are critically engaged by respondents situated in other geographic regions, minority communities, non-Christian traditions, or non-theological disciplines.
Structured in seven main parts, the handbook explores: 1) the need for collaboration with disciplines outside of Christian theology to address climate change; 2) the need to find common moral ground for such collaboration; 3) the difficulties posed by collaborating with other Christian traditions from within; 4) the questions that emerge from such collaboration for understanding the story of God’s work; and 5) God’s identity and character; 6) the implications of such collaboration for ecclesial praxis; and 7) concluding reflections examining whether this volume does justice to issues of race, gender, class, other animals, religious diversity, geographical divides and carbon mitigation.
This rich ecumenical, cross-cultural conversation provides a comprehensive and in-depth engagement with the theological and moral challenges raised by anthropogenic climate change.
T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and the Modern Sciences
John P. Slattery (Anthology Editor)
Description
This handbook surveys the many relationships between scientific studies of the world around us and Christian concepts of the Divine from the ancient Greeks to modern ecotheology. From Augustine to Hildegard of Bingen, Genesis to Frederick Douglass, and physics to sociology, this volume opens the intersections of Christian theology and science to new concepts, voices, and futures.
The central goal of the handbook is to bring new perspectives to the foreground of Christian theological engagement with science, and to highlight the many engagements today that are not often identified as ‘science-theology’ discussions. The handbook thus includes several aspects not found in previous handbooks on the same topic: significant representation from the three major branches of Christianity-Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant; multiple essays on areas of modern science not traditionally part of the “theology and science” dialogue, such as discussions of race, medicine, and sociology; a collection of essays on historical theologians’ approaches to nature and science.
T&T Clark Handbook to Christian Theology and the Modern Sciences is divided into 3 sections: historical explorations, encompassing a eleven chapters from Aristotle to Frederick Douglass; Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox surveys of theology-science scholarship in the 20th and 21st centuries; and ten explorations in Christian theology today, from Einsteinian physics to decolonial sociology. The 24 chapters than span the volume offer the reader, whether scholar, student, or layperson, an essential resource for any future conversations around science and Christian theology.
T&T Clark Handbook of Edward Schillebeeckx
Stephan van Erp (Anthology Editor), Daniel Minch (Anthology Editor)
Written by leading experts on both the thought of Edward Schillebeeckx and modern theology, this handbook offers the first comprehensive study of the historical, philosophical, political and theological aspects of Schillebeeckx’s work. As one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, he played a key role in the preparations for the theological revolution of the Second Vatican Council and the debates of the post-conciliar era. His engagement with critical theory, hermeneutics, and biblical scholarship culminated in his groundbreaking Christological trilogy, which marked Schillebeeckx as one of the most significant and innovative thinkers of his time.
By building an overview of recent research into Schillebeeckx’s writing, the contributors shed new light on his influence and ongoing relevance in contemporary theology. Beginning with the roots of Schillebeeckx’s views on metaphysics, spirituality and faith, the essays then move to his work during and after the Second Vatican Council, and then to his engagement with new directions in philosophy and his renewal of classical topics such as creation, theological and soteriological anthropology, and eschatology. Culminating with an analysis of theology and culture, this handbook thoroughly explores the implications of Schillebeeckx’s theology for a contemporary readership.
T&T Clark Handbook of Food in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel
Janling Fu (Anthology Editor), Cynthia Shafer-Elliott (Anthology Editor), Carol Meyers (Anthology Editor)
Description
Food and feasting are key themes in the Hebrew Bible and the culture it represents. The contributors to this handbook
draw on a multitude of disciplines to offer an overview of food in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel. Archaeological
materials from biblical lands, along with the recent interest in ethnographic data, a new focus in anthropology, and emerging technologies provide valuable information about ancient foodways.
The contributors examine not only the textual materials of the Hebrew Bible and related epigraphic works, but also engage in a wider archaeological, environmental, and historical understanding of ancient Israel as it pertains to food.
Divided into five parts, this handbook examines and considers environmental and socio-economic issues such as climate and trade, the production of raw materials, and the technology of harvesting and food processing. The cultural role of food and meals in festivals, holidays, and biblical regulations is also discussed, as is the way food and drink are treated in biblical texts, in related epigraphic materials, and in iconography.
T&T Clark Handbook of John Owen
John W. Tweeddale (Volume Editor) , Crawford Gribben (Volume Editor)
Description
Evaluating the writings of one of the most significant religious figures in early modern England, this volume summarizes Owen’s life, explores his various intellectual, literary and political contexts, and considers his roles as a preacher, administrator, polemicist and theologian. It explores the importance of Owen, reviews the state of scholarship and suggests new avenues for research.
The first part of the volume offers brand-new assessments of Owen’s intellectual formation, pastoral ministry, educational reform at Oxford, political connections in the Cromwellian revolution, support of nonconformity during the Restoration, interaction with the scientific revolution and understanding of philosophy. The second part of the volume considers Owen’s prolific literary output. A cross-section of well-known and frequently neglected works are reviewed and situated in their historical and theological contexts.
The volume concludes by evaluating ways that Owen scholarship can benefit historians, theologians, biblical scholars, ministers and Christian readers.
T&T Clark Handbook of Sacraments and Sacramentality
Edited by Martha Moore-Keish, James Farwell.
T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil
Matthias Grebe (Anthology Editor) , Johannes Grössl (Anthology Editor)
The T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil provides an extensive exploration of the theology of theodicy, asking questions such as should all instances of suffering necessarily be understood as evil? Why would an omnipotent and benevolent God allow or perpetrate evil? Is God unable or unwilling to reduce human and non-human suffering on Earth? Does humanity have the capacity to exercise a moral evaluation of God’s motives and intentions?
T&T Clark Handbook of Theological Anthropology (T&T Clark Handbooks)
Edited by Mary Ann Hinsdale, Stephen Okey
( Originally Published by https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tt-clark-handbook-of-theological-anthropology-9780567699039/ )
Description:
Including classical, modern, and postmodern approaches to theological anthropology, this volume covers the entire spectrum of thought on the doctrines of creation, the human person as imago Dei, sin, and grace.
The editors have gathered an exceptionally diverse range of voices, ensuring ecumenical balance (Protestant, Roman Catholic and Orthodox) and the inclusion of previously neglected perspectives (women, African American, Asian, Latinx, and LGBTQ). The contributors revisit authors from the “Great Tradition” (early church, medieval, and modern), and discuss them alongside critical and liberationist approaches (ranging from feminist, decolonial, and intersectional theory to critical race theory and queer performance theory). This is a much-needed overview of a rapidly evolving field.