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THEOLOGY Challenges in Contemporary Theology Series Divine Illumination The History and Future of Augustine’s Theory of Knowledge Lydia Schumacher, University of Oxford, UK “…challenges the traditional history of theories of knowledge. A bold and provocative reading.” Olivier Boulnois In Divine Illumination, Schumacher offers an original approach to Augustine’s theory of divine illumination, the precondition of all human knowledge. Written with great originality and clarity, she traces the idea through medieval thinkers, into early modernity, and reveals its importance in modern theories of knowledge. • Presents a groundbreaking way of thinking about the writings of Augustine, Anselm, Bonaventure, Aquinas, and John Duns Scotus, and relates this to cutting edge questions in contemporary philosophy of religion, especially epistemology • Is a significant contribution to the history of philosophy but also to contemporary debates on faith and reason Series: Challenges in Contemporary Theology 288 pages • April 2011 978-0-470-65742-3 • HB • £75.00 / €97.90 / US$119.95 / AUD$150.00 The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory Time and Eternity in the Far Country Jonathan Tran, Baylor University, USA “With the soul of a poet, the mind of a theologian, and the complex commitment of a Vietnamese-American Christian, Jonathan Tran’s analysis is hauntingly, beautifully, profound. The book is worth its price for several individual sections on their own; the cumulative achievement is extraordinary and not to be missed.” L. Gregory Jones, Duke University Series: Challenges in Contemporary Theology 304 pages • April 2010 978-1-4051-8320-8 • HB • £50.00 / €64.90 / US$119.95 / AUD$120.00 In Adam’s Fall A Meditation on the Christian Doctrine of Original Sin New Ian A. McFarland, Emory University, USA Towards a Jewish- Muslim-Christian Theology David B. Burrell University of Notre Dame, USA Towards a Jewish-Muslim-Christian Theology delineates the ways that Christianity, Islam, and the Jewish tradition have moved towards each another over the centuries and points to new pathways for contemporary theological work. • Explores the development of the three Abrahamic traditions, brilliantly showing the way in which they have struggled with similar issues over the centuries • Shows how the approach of each tradition can be used comparatively by the other traditions to illuminate and develop their own thinking • Written by a renowned writer in philosophical theology, widely acclaimed for his comparative thinking on Jewish and Islamic theology • A very timely book which moves forward the discussion at a period of intense inter-religious dialogue Series: Challenges in Contemporary Theology 216 pages • April 2011 978-0-470-65755-3 • HB • £65.00 / €83.90 / US$99.95 / AUD$130.00 God, Sex, and Gender An Introduction New New Adrian Thatcher, University of Exeter, UK The last 50 years have seen unprecedented changes in sexual and gender relationships. These include the easy availability of contraception, the separation of sexual experience from marriage and marriage from parenthood. Relationships between men and women have moved towards a new model of equality, and a new recognition of sexual and gender difference. These transformations have resulted in great benefits but they have also sparked painful and on-going controversies in all the churches. God, Sex, and Gender is a clear and engaging introduction to these issues. It offers a consistent theological understanding which is contemporary, undogmatic, questioning, and relevant to readers’ experience, interests and needs. Throughout the book, Thatcher connects theological ideas, with broader, secular thought, filling a gap in the literature by linking together the diverse themes of sexuality, gender and Christian thought in one coherent volume. 288 pages • April 2011 978-1-4051-9369-6 • HB • £50.00 / €65.90 / US$79.95 / AUD$99.95 978-1-4051-9370-2 • PB • £19.99 / €24.90 / US$34.95 / AUD$37.95 12 “A must read for anyone who thinks seriously about questions of sin and what it means to be human. McFarland deftly explores historical theological texts and contemporary scientific theory to paint a picture of human beings as creatures whose identity is rooted in an essential unity and thus a common destiny… This book will be a classic…” Stephen G. Ray Jr, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Series: Challenges in Contemporary Theology 256 pages • October 2010 978-1-4051-8365-9 • HB • £70.00 / €87.90 / US$119.95 / AUD$140.00 The Blackwell Reader in Pastoral and Practical Theology Edited by James Woodward, Stephen Pattison & John Patton Rector of Middleton and Wishaw, UK; University of Wales, Cardiff, UK; Columbia Theological Seminary, Georgia, USA “This is a textbook to be recommended. The whole spectrum of practical theology, including the feminist perspective, is covered.” International Journal of Practical Theology Series: Blackwell Readings in Modern Theology 360 pages • 1999 978-0-631-20745-0 • PB • £24.99 / €32.90 / US$55.95 / AUD$49.95 BESTSELLER Religion 2011.indd 12 1/6/11 4:11:29 PM
Dust that Breathes Christian Faith and the New Humanisms William Schweiker University of Chicago, USA “In Dust That Breaths, the renowned North American ethicist William Schweiker continues to portray the stance towards life that he has made known as theological humanism. The reader is taken on a fascinating journey… It is a difficult and exciting endeavor. It is carried out with the help of Schweiker’s learnedness and his trademark ability to integrate a quest for intersubjectivity with openness for great complexity and ongoing change.” Per Sundman, Uppsala University This is an insightful and masterly look at the challenges and possibilities for Christian life in the contemporary world. Dust that Breathes is unique in its appreciation of the ambiguity of religion, in its representations of the highest human achievements and the very worst of human actions. Schweiker concludes that a Christian outlook on life is still relevant, proposing an approach to Christian existence which is fully engaged with shared human concerns, and yet one which can meet the practical challenges and possibilities of the global age. 256 pages • October 2010 978-1-4443-3535-4 • HB • £65.00 / €83.90 / US$119.95 / AUD$130.00 Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians Fergus Kerr University of Oxford and University of Edinburgh, UK This book offers a lively and succinct account of Catholic theology from 1900 to the present day. The book begins with the work of Chenu, the guru of the French worker priest movement, and concludes with the writings of contemporary theologians such as the present Pope, Benedict XVI. Kerr, himself one of the foremost Catholic theologians writing in English, discusses the theological development of each figure and their relationship to Church teaching. 240 pages • 2006 978-1-4051-2083-8 • HB • £55.00 / €71.90 / US$89.95 / AUD$110.00 978-1-4051-2084-5 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$34.95 / AUD$39.95 Luther’s Theology of the Cross Martin Luther’s Theological Breakthrough 2nd Edition Alister E. McGrath, King’s College, London, UK Building on the success of his classic text, Luther’s Theology of the Cross, first edition, Alister E. McGrath draws on new sources and advances in our understanding of late medieval intellectual, cultural and religious life to offer a fresh understanding of this pivotal moment in Protestant history. This is a must-read for anyone interested in Martin Luther, the intellectual history of the late Middle Ages and sixteenth century, and those interested in the Reformation and the development of Protestantism. 240 pages • April 2011 978-0-4706-5530-6 • HB • £60.00 / €72.00 / US$99.95 / AUD$120.00 Theology and Social Theory Beyond Secular Reason 2nd Edition John Milbank, University of Nottingham, UK “ [Theology and Social Theory] remains a dense, challenging and elusive masterpiece of a book, which has lost none of its power to intrigue and repel in equal measure.” Times Literary Supplement 480 pages • 2005 978-1-4051-3683-9 • HB • £75.00 / €97.90 / US$125.95 / AUD$150.00 978-1-4051-3684-6 • PB • £26.99 / €34.90 / US$52.95 / AUD$54.95 After Enlightenment Hamann as Post-Secular Visionary New John R. Betz, Loyola College, Maryland, USA “John Betz’s book is arguably the single best work on Hamann in the english speaking world and the most informed recent work on Hamann in any language.” Reinhard Huetter, Duke University THEOLOGY Re-thinking Dionysius the Areopagite Edited by Sarah Coakley & Charles M. Stang University of Cambridge, UK; Harvard Divinity School, USA Dionysius the Areopagite, the early sixthcentury Christian writer who took the name of Paul’s first convert in Athens, effected a marriage between Christianity and neo- Platonist philosophy which was, from the start, as controversial as it was generative. This volume provides a succinct and clear analysis of the original context and intent of the Dionysian writings, and of their subsequent interpretation in Christian tradition, up to the present day. Series: Directions in Modern Theology 240 pages • 2009 978-1-4051-8089-4 • PB • £19.99 / €25.90 / US$34.95 / AUD$39.95 Series: Illuminations: Theory & Religion 376 pages • 2008 978-1-4051-6246-3 • HB • £60.00 / €77.90 / US$104.95 / AUD$120.00 The Theology of Food Eating and the Eucharist Angel F. Mendez Montoya Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico “This book deserves to be widely read and, if you will forgive the metaphor, digested.” Christian Century Series: Illuminations: Theory & Religion 184 pages • 2009 978-1-4051-8967-5 • HB • £50.00 / €65.90 / US$94.95 / AUD$99.95 13 Religion 2011.indd 13 1/6/11 4:11:30 PM
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