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By the author of Honest to God and The Priority of John.

Don Cupitt's ethics may seem strange and furious; but he says that this is a religious ethic to fit the truth about the world and our own life as we now understand it.

Shows how such a claim entails a 'non-ontology' suspended between rational philosophy and revealed theology, interweaving the two, while denying them any pure autonomy from each other. The author defends the claim by Henri de Lubac that Western theology since the early modern period had lost sight of the key to integrating faith and reason.

Investigates the Russians' own view of their conversion, the origin and development of the Russian religious-ideological myth from the 14th century to its secular transformation in the 18th century, the controversies of the 19th, and its influence now.

Argues that historical investigation of the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus in only the first stage. Investigation is also needed into the systematic and philosophical implications of the exegetical findings.

The first completely new introduction to the New Testament to appear from Germany since the 1970s and likely to replace the standard work by W.G. Kummel. Provides a comprehensive account of the current state of scholarship.

This book, dedicated to the memory of David Stacey, Morna Hooker's late husband, is an expanded version of the Shaffer Lectures delivered atYale Divinity School in February 1995. It is more than just a commemoration, however, since it also carries on David Stacey's work on Prophetic Drama in the Old Testament, published by Epworth Press in 1990, and contains as an appendix his ideas for a second volume, outlined in a lecture on 'The Last Supper as Prophetic Drama'.Professor Hooker begins by reviewing the prophetic actions in the OId Testament and compares them with the way in which prophetic figures behaved in Jesus' day, in particular John the Baptist and the so-called sign prophets. Then she turns to Jesus himself and considers those actions which can be described as prophetic signs or dramas. She discusses the sign of Jonah, the refusal to perform signs, the miracles and other prophetic actions like the renaming of Simon, Jesus' eating with tax-collectors and sinners and the prophetic signs associated with Jerusalem, reaching a climax in the Last Supper. A final chapter examines the different ways in which the four evangelists interpreted Jesus' prophetic actions.Here is a fascinating study which contributes much to our understanding of the Gospel tradition and shows that biblical theology is still alive and flourishing.Morna Hooker was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Robinson College.

A Spoke in the Wheel is an ideal book to introduce Dietrich Bonhoeffer to ¿ new generation of readers. Vividly and concisely written, critical as well as appreciative, and containing material which has not been published in English before, it paints an unforgettable portrait of the great German theologianhanged by the Nazis in 1945.What emerges most clearly is the complexity of Bonhoeffer's personality and the lonely course he pursued: sensitive, but taught always to repress his feelings; moving away from his family to read theology, but not feeling at home in his church; ready to sacrifice everything but dogged by a tendency towards narcissism; finding the woman he loved and at that very moment put in a prison from which he wouldnever emerge.Above all, Renate Wind brings out Bonhoeffer's early realization of the horror of Nazi treatment of the Jews and the bravery of his involvement in the resistance against Hitler, his resolve to become a 'spoke in the wheel'. To their shame, many in the churches never forgave Dietrich Bonhoeffer this involvement, and in also calling attention to their failing, this book helps toexplain why.Dr Renate Wind is a pastor living in Heidelberg; she teaches in the Dietrich Bonhoeffer school in Weinheim. She has been involved for many years in the Christian¿ Peace Conference and in groups for solidarity withLatin America.

The publication of the book "Jesus of Nazareth" on 16 April, 2007 was an unprecedented event: never before had a reigning Pope published personal reflections on Jesus. This book provides essays by some of the leading scholars in Britain, continental Europe and the USA to highlight the insights and limits of the Pope's reflection on Jesus.

'Drawing on a wide range of writers, from Duns Scotus to Simon Schama, as well on on poetry and memories of his childhood in Dorset, Sheldrake offers a rich and original meditation on the importance of place and places in our lives' (Fergus Kerr OP).

A tribute volume for one of the most provocative and challenging theologians of our time. Marcella Althaus-Reid's strong personality and her iconoclastic work inspired a whole generation of theologians worldwide. This title draws together many scholars and others who engage with the main themes of Marcella's work.

One of the most important texts for understanding the early work of Karl Barth.

New content for this new edition includes a new chapter on the nature of Christology according to the Catholic theologian, Roger Haight and a new chapter on John Macquarrie's Christology in Jesus Christ in Christian Thought, and Christology Revisited. It aims to offer a less pretentious and more credible Christology than traditional orthodoxy.

This book attempts to do biblical theology, to discern and articulate the main theological claims of a body of textual material, to listen to the text and to speak echoes of it. At the same time it seeks to make a hermeneutical move to our theological situation by drawing a 'dynamic equivalent' between Israel's exilic situation and our own.

Rabbi Magonet's love of the Hebrew Bible developed whilst studying to be a Rabbi. Studying the Bible became a source of comfort, challenge and religious growth, without sacrificing the importance of the scientific approaches of study. This book opens up the Bible so that all readers will find their perspective and understanding changed.