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Theology .................................................................................................................2
Theologians ...........................................................................................................5
Barth Studies..................................................................................................6
Practical & Pastoral Theology and Liturgy .......................................................7
Religion and Science ..........................................................................................11
Religion and Society ...........................................................................................13
Sociology of Religion .........................................................................................15
Philosophy and Theology...................................................................................17
Philosophy of Religion .......................................................................................19
World Religions and Philosophies....................................................................21
New and Alternative Religions ......................................................................21
Indigenous Religions ......................................................................................22
Indian Religions, Asian Religions and Buddhist Studies ............................23
Islamic Studies ................................................................................................24
Biblical Studies ...................................................................................................25
Religion and the Arts ..........................................................................................26
Religious and Ecclesiastical History ...............................................................29
Index ...........................................................................................................................................32

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Theology
Atonement, Christology
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and the Trinity
Making Sense of Christian Doctrine
Vincent Brümmer, University of Utrecht,
The Netherlands
“…well written…and can only but broaden one’s
awareness of how the doctrines of Atonement,
Christology and Trinity are being used today.”
—Evangelical Quarterly
2005 134 pages
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Cambridge Theology
in the Nineteenth Century
Enquiry, Controversy and Truth
David M. Thompson, University of Cambridge, UK
“…Anyone who wishes to understand what made
Cambridge what it is today will profit from this
informative study.”
—Morna Hooker, University of Cambridge, UK
Many books have been written about nineteenth-
century Oxford theology, but what was happening in
Cambridge? This book provides the first continuous
account of what might be called ‘the Cambridge
theological tradition’, by discussing its leading figures
from Richard Watson and William Paley, through
Herbert Marsh and Julius Hare, to the trio of Lightfoot,
Westcott and Hort. In this period the study of theology
was not yet divided into its modern self-contained areas.
A critical approach to scripture was taken for granted,
and its implications for ecclesiology, the understanding
of salvation and the social implications of the Gospel
were teased out (in Hort’s phrase) through enquiry
and controversy as a way to discover truth. Cambridge
both engaged with German theology and responded
positively to the nineteenth-century ‘crisis of faith’.
Contents: Preface; Introduction; The end of the
18th century; Herbert Marsh and the beginning
of Biblical criticism; Evangelicals, Protestants and
orthodox; The Coleridgean inheritance; Theological
reconstruction: historical criticism; Theological
reconstruction: atonement, incarnation and church;
Some nonconformist voices; Conclusion; Epilogue;
Bibliography; Index.
May 2008 220 pages
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Contemporary Biblical Ecumenism Today
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Hermeneutics The Universal Church in the 21st Century
An Introduction Edited by Francesca Aran Murphy and
Manfred Oeming, Chris Asprey, University of Aberdeen, UK
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Germany What is Ecumenism? Is Christian unity a legitimate
hope or just a pious illusion? The aim of this book is
“…the breadth of treatment, the clarity of analysis
to analyze the real obstacles that stand in the path
and the lively style will be appreciated by students,
to unity and to propose solutions, where these are
while the German orientation of the discussion
possible. Distinguished authors from the main Christian
and bibliography…will be valued by scholars.”
denominations offer a unique insight into the problem
—Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
of Christian divisions and the relationships between
2006 182 pages
Christian communities. This work is not a politically
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correct exercise in diplomacy; rather, it informs
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dialogue.
Contents: Introduction: the universal church and the
Christ and Human Rights ecumenical movement, C. Asprey. PART I: THEOLOGICAL
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The Transformative Engagement ECUMENISM: Stumbling upon Peter? The question of the
George Newlands, University of Glasgow, UK Church in contemporary ecumenical dialogue,
P.G. Ziegler; Ut unum sint: some cross-bench Anglican
Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary reflections, J.B. Webster; De Lubac, Ratzinger and
Perspective Series von Balthasar: a communal adventure in ecclesiology,
“…breaks new ground in demonstrating how rich F.A Murphy; Watch and pray: a reflection on the
a source for political reflection Christology can be…” meaning of Ut, S.F. Parsons. PART II: ECUMENICAL THEOLOGY:
—Times Literary Supplement SECTION 1: UNITY AND SCHISM: The myth of schism,
D.B. Hart; The basis of Christian unity, D. McLeod.
2006 228 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5201-4 £55.00 SECTION 2: AUTHORITY: The ecumenical meaning of
Paperback 978-0-7546-5210-6 £16.99 the Petrine ministry, C. Morerod OP; A communion
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the treatment of Papal primacy in the Worms Book
(1540), N.J. Thompson. SECTION 3: EUCHARIST: All change:
FORTHCOMING eucharist is key, P. Donald; Ecclesiastical communion: in
Disciplining the Divine dialogue with Calvinism, E. Puosi. EPILOGUE: PERSECUTION
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AND THEOLOGICAL ECUMENISM: United we stand, divided
Toward an (Im)political Theology
we fall: is persecution against Christians breaking down
Paul Fletcher, Lancaster University, UK the walls between churches?, J. Pontifex; Persecution
Disciplining the Divine offers the first comprehensive and ecumenism, R. Gibbons; Index of names.
treatment of the Social Model of the Trinity, exploring its May 2008 238 pages
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past half century, including its relation to wider cultural
and political concerns. The book highlights the manner
in which theologians have attempted to make the
doctrine of God relevant to modern issues and outlooks
and it charts the conditions that have necessitated
such a reconfiguration of theological analysis. While
interrogatory in tone and intent, Disciplining the
Divine nevertheless provides a critical reconstruction
of a Christian theology and practice which might be
undertaken within the political and cultural contexts of
the new millennium.
April 2009 c. 208 pages
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Encounter Between Eastern
Orthodoxy and Radical Orthodoxy
Transfiguring the World Through the Word
Edited by Adrian Pabst, University
of Nottingham, UK and Christoph Schneider,
University of Zurich, Switzerland
“…There is much here for all interested in the future
of serious theological dialogue.”
—Lewis Ayres, Candler School of Theology,
Emory University, USA
This book presents the first debate between the Anglo-
Catholic movement Radical Orthodoxy and Eastern
Orthodox theologians. Leading international scholars
offer new insights and reflections on a wide range
of contemporary issues from a specifically theological
and philosophical perspective.
Contents: Foreword, David Bentley Hart; Introduction,
Adrian Pabst and Christoph Schneider. PART I: SOPHIA,
THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY: Glorification of the Name
and the grammar of wisdom, Antoine Arjakovsky;
Commentary, Rowan Williams; Sophiology and
theurgy: the new theological horizon, John Milbank;
Commentary, Antoine Ajakovsky. PART II: SOPHIA,
POLITICS AND ECCLESIOLOGY: The metaphysics of hope
and the transfiguration of making in the market empire,
Michael Northcott; Wisdom and the art of politics,
Adrian Pabst. PART III: ONTOLOGY, EAST AND WEST:
Ontology celebrated: remarks of an orthodox on
radical orthodoxy, Nicholas Loudovikos; Commentary,
John Milbank; Theopoiesis and Christian praxis,
Graham Ward; Commentary, Igor Dorfman;
The beatific vision of St Thomas Aquinas, Phillip Blond.
PART IV: ORTHODOXY AND TRANSFIGURATION: Space,
time and the liturgy, Andrew Louth; Commentary,
Catherine Pickstock; Wisdom: an (Eastern) orthodox
perspective, Marcus Plested; Orthodoxy and
eschatology: the liturgical fabric of time, Mihail Neamtu;
The transformation of Eros: reflections on desire
in Jacques Lacan, Christoph Schneider; Index.
March 2009 c. 362 pages
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Gay and Lesbian Theologies
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Repetitions with Critical Difference
Elizabeth Stuart, University of Winchester, UK
“This book is a good critical survey of the development
of gay and lesbian theology. It offers solid arguments
for a different approach to sexual identity. It is definitely
to be recommended.”
—Catholic Library World
2003 132 pages
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Theology
Good and Evil NEW
Quaker Perspectives Peace and Reconciliation
Edited by Jackie Leach Scully, Newcastle University, In Search of Shared Identity
UK and Pink Dandelion, Woodbrooke Quaker Study
Center and University of Birmingham, UK
Edited by Sebastian C.H. Kim, Pauline Kollontai
and Greg Hoyland, York St. John University, UK
“…the contributors certainly achieve what they set out
“…This book is an exceptional resource for discussions
to do: this is to look at both historical and contemporary
of peace and reconciliation, public theology and the
approaches to ideas about good and evil, from a purely
challenges facing Korea and other divided societies.”
Quaker perspective.”
—David Tombs, Irish School of Ecumenics,
—The Friend
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2007 262 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5621-0 £55.00 This book discusses issues and theories of identity
eBook 978-0-7546-8718-4 www.ashgate.com/ebooks formation that can be implemented for peace and
reconciliation from the perspectives of theology
and religious studies, while interacting with politics,
Holiness, Speech and Silence
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socio-cultural studies and economics.
Reflections on the Question of God Contents: Introduction, Sebastian C.H. Kim,
Nicholas Lash, University of Cambridge, UK Pauline Kollontai and Greg Hoyland; Establishing
a shared identity: the role of the healing of memories
“With this book, Lash once again shows himself
and of narrative, Robert Schreiter; What does common
to be an astute interpreter of contemporary culture
identity cost? Some German experiences and
and a profound communicator of the Christian faith.”
provocative questions, Gerhard Sauter; Truth and
—Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
reconciliation: and interfaith perspective from India,
2004 108 pages Israel Selvanaygam; Peace and reconciliation: Biblical
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themes in the East Asian context, Choong Chee Pang;
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perspectives in the context of Bosnia-Herzogovina,
Pauline Kollontai; Embracing a threatening other:
The Hybrid Church in the City identity and reconciliation in Northern Ireland,
Third Space Thinking Cecelia Clegg; Towards reconciliation and justice
in South Africa: can church unity make a difference?,
Christopher Richard Baker, Nico Koopman; Korean War: the origin of the axis
William Temple Foundation, UK of evil in the Korean peninsula, Jooseop Keum;
“…should be read by all engaged in serious thought Towards peace and reconciliation between South
about the future of the church in post-industrial cities.” and North Korean churches: contextual analysis
—Journal of Contemporary Religion of the two churches, In Soo Kim; Strategies for
2007 174 pages peace and reunification in Korea, Jung-Sun Noh;
Hardback 978-0-7546-5513-8 £50.00 Reconciliation possible? The churches’ efforts toward
eBook 978-0-7546-8441-1 www.ashgate.com/ebooks the peace and reunification of North and South Korea,
Sebastian C.H. Kim; Appendices; Index.
September 2008 218 pages
Neopragmatism and Hardback 978-0-7546-6461-1 £55.00
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G.W. Kimura, Alaska Humanities Forum, USA
Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Possession, Power and the New Age
Ambiguities of Authority in Neoliberal Societies
Theology and Biblical Studies
Neopragmatism and Theological Reason explores Matthew Wood, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
pragmatic themes across philosophy, theology Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary
and literary theory, arguing that neopragmatism Perspective Series
must acknowledge its theological sources and then
reconstruct its rationality to the religious context This book provides a new sociological account of
of modernity/postmodernity. contemporary religious phenomena such as channeling,
holistic healing, meditation and divination.
2007 176 pages
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Theology
Post-Christian Feminisms
A Critical Approach
Edited by Lisa Isherwood, University of Winchester,
UK and Kathleen McPhillips, University of Western
Sydney, Australia
This book explores the impact and contribution
of post-theories in the field of Christian feminist
theology. It fills a gap by providing a text that can make
authoritative statements on the use and status of post-
theory in feminist theology, and it makes an on-going
contribution to the discourse of Christian feminist
theology and its liberation agenda.
Contents: Introduction, Lisa Isherwood and
Kathleen McPhillips; Beyond reason: towards a post-
Christian philosophy of religion, Beverley Clack;
The ‘post’-age of belief: wither or whither
Christianity?, Pamela Sue Anderson; Ecofeminist
thea/logies and ethics: a post-Christian movement?,
Rosemary Radford Ruether; Material elements: the
matter of women, the matter of Earth, the matter
of God, Anne Elvey; Who’s been reading MY Bible?
Post-structuralist hermeneutics and sacred text,
Jane Wootton; Post-Christian hermeneutics: the rise
and fall of female subjectivity in theological narrative,
J’annine Jobling; The Bi/girl writings from feminist
theology to queer theologies, Marcella Althaus-Reid;
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour: mother of phallic
fetishes, Lisa Isherwood; De-colonizing the sacred:
feminist proposals for a post-Christian, post-patriarchal
sacred, Kathleen McPhillips; Melting hearts of stone,
Mary T. Condren; A third way: explicating the post
in post-Christian feminism, Frances Gray and
Kathleen McPhillips; Re-membering Jesus: a postcolonial
feminist remembering, Satoko Yamaguchi; Jesus past
the posts: an enquiry into post-metaphysical Christology,
Lisa Isherwood; The return of the living dead,
Elisabeth Stuart; Bibliography; Index.
May 2008 254 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5380-6 £55.00
eBook 978-0-7546-8739-9 www.ashgate.com/ebooks
Postmodernism and the Ethics
of Theological Knowledge
Justin Thacker, Evangelical Alliance, UK
Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion,
Theology and Biblical Studies
2007 154 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6185-6 £50.00
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Visions of Agapé Eucharistic Sacramentality
Problems and Possibilities
in an Ecumenical Context
in Human and Divine Love The Anglican Epiclesis
Edited by Craig A. Boyd, Azusa Pacific David J. Kennedy, Durham Cathedral, UK
University, USA
Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion,
This book brings together philosophical and theological Theology and Biblical Studies
perspectives on agapistic love. The aim of the text is
This book explores the epiclesis or invocation of the
to illuminate the nature of unlimited love by distinct
Holy Spirit in the Eucharistic prayer, using the Anglican
and integrative approaches to the intersection of the
tradition as an historical model of a communion
divine and the human. Various scientific approaches
of churches in conscious theological and liturgical
to human forms of love seem to shed light on our
dialogue with Christian antiquity. Incorporating major
nature as social beings. But to what extent are the
studies of England, North America and the Indian sub-
natural desires for affection, sexual love and friendship
Continent, the author includes an exposition of Inter-
augmented, revised, perfected or replaced by the gift
Church ecumenical dialogue and the historic divisions
of grace? In other words, we can ask how is it that
between western and eastern Eucharistic traditions
agapé modifies or shapes the natural loves?
and twentieth-century ecumenical endeavor.
To date, there is no text available that brings scholars
Contents: Introduction; The Reformation heritage;
from various theological and philosophical backgrounds
Scripture and tradition: post-Reformation exploration
together to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue on this
in the 16th and 17th centuries; Anglican diversification;
important and much neglected aspect of research
Pan-Anglican reports and statements; Ecumenical
into the human and divine loves. This book offers
exploration; The 1928 Prayerbook: ‘Eastern’ or ‘Western’
a significant attempt to remedy the situation.
identity?; Liturgical renewal in England: 1945–2000;
Contents: Introduction: perspectives on love and The Anglican Communion: case study one: the Episcopal
Agapé; The perichoretic nature of love: beyond the Church and the Anglican Church of Canada; The
perfection model, Craig A. Boyd; Nature, grace and Anglican Communion: case study two: the Churches
measuring Agapé: science, religion, and the ‘flame of the Indian sub-continent; The Epiclesis: the spiritual
of love,’ Stephen G. Post; The love of God the Father: dynamics of sacramentalism; Select bibliography; Index.
Agapé and masculinity, Ruth Groenhout; Agapé and November 2008 270 pages
nonviolence, Nancey Murphy; Can love be commanded? Hardback 978-0-7546-6376-8 £55.00
Kierkergaard’s view of neighbor love, C. Stephen Evans; eBook 978-0-7546-9286-7 www.ashgate.com/ebooks
Agapé, brokenness and theological realism in L’Arche,
Kevin S. Reimer; God’s love encountering human love:
psychological perspectives informing (and informed
by) theology, Alan C. Tjeltveit; That than which nothing
more lovely can be conceived, F. LeRon Shults;
SEE ALSO…
A relational God and unlimited love,
Thomas Jay Oord; Index. Shaping a Global Theological Mind
October 2008 164 pages page 5
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Reconstructing Practical Theology
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The Church in Anglican Theology
page 8
Theology Without Words
page 8
The Challenges of the Pentecostal,
Charismatic and Messianic Jewish
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Anselm of Canterbury
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David Rankin, Trinity Theological College, Australia
Athenagoras of Athens was a Christian thinker of
the second century who engaged with contemporary
philosophical thought in the matters of the divine,
and the relationship of that divine to the material world.
This book explores Athenagoras’ undeniable place in the
development of Christian thought on the divine, on the
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“By shrewd selection of interlocutors and a non-
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work, presented in a form accessible to advanced The gospel is the power of God for the salvation of
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Carl R. Trueman, Westminster Theological of hope, Gerhard Sauter; On belonging: doing theology
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Mark S. Gignilliat, Samford University, USA 2007 204 pages
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Barth, Israel, and Jesus
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—Theology Forum
Karl Barth’s voice registers loudly as a helpful model Mark R. Lindsay, University of Melbourne,
for engaging Scripture and its subject matter. This book Australia and University of St. Andrews, UK
2007 188 pages explores this lacuna as it encounters Barth’s theological
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exegesis of Isaiah in the Church Dogmatics.
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2007 144 pages
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EXPLORATIONS IN PRACTICAL, PASTORAL AND EMPIRICAL THEOLOGY
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Series Editors: Leslie J. Francis, University of Warwick, UK, Jeff Astley, North of England Institute for Christian Education,
UK and Martyn Percy, Ripon College Cuddesdon and The Oxford Ministry Course, Oxford, UK
Theological reflection on the church’s practice is now recognized as a significant element in theological studies in the academy and seminary.
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An Empirical Approach Entering the New Theological Space Reconstructing Practical

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to Ordinary Hermeneutics Blurred Encounters of Faith, Theology
Andrew Village, York St. John University, UK Politics and Community The Impact of Globalization
Explorations in Practical, Pastoral Edited by John Reader, William Temple Foundation,
and Empirical Theology John Reader, William Temple Foundation, UK
UK and Chris Baker, William Temple
Includes 11 line drawings Explorations in Practical, Pastoral
Foundation, UK
2007 206 pages and Empirical Theology
Hardback 978-0-7546-5801-6 £55.00 Explorations in Practical, Pastoral
“A much needed creative reformulation of pastoral
eBooks 978-0-7546-8751-1 www.ashgate.com/ebooks and Empirical Theology
and practical theology in the light of the impact
This book presents theological reflections on the of globalization on the religious field…”
changing nature of church mission and Christian
A Christian Theology of Place —John Atherton, The University of Manchester, UK
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identity within a theology of “Blurred Encounter”—

John Inge, Bishop of Huntingdon, This book argues that the discipline of practical
a physical, social, political and spiritual space where
theology needs to be re-shaped in light of the impact
Cambridgeshire, UK once solid hierarchies and patterns are giving way
of globalization. By examining the familiar concerns
Explorations in Practical, Pastoral to more fluid and in many ways unsettling exchanges.
of the subject, John Reader presents the possibilities
and Empirical Theology The issues raised and dynamics explored apply to all
for a reflexive spirituality grounded in the Christian
socially-produced space, thus tending to “blur” that
PRIZE: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MICHAEL RAMSAY PRIZE, 2005 tradition as a way into the future.
most fundamental of theological categories—namely
“…a welcome addition to a growing field of inquiry.” urban vs. rural theology. Contents: A changing world; A sense of place; Pastoral
—Modern Theology care and globalization; Worship, spirituality and
Contents: Introduction, Christopher Baker and
2003 176 pages
globalization; Reflexive spirituality and globalization;
John Reader; Mainstreaming the edges: reflections on
Paperback 978-0-7546-3499-7 £55.00 Families, children and globalization; Work and the
Edinburgh’s square mile and fair trade, John Atherton;
Hardback 978-0-7546-3498-0 £16.99 new economy; Practical theology and global ethics;
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Brief engagements; processional encounters, Ian Ball;
Bibliography; Index.
‘A blurred interfaith, intercultural experience’:
a Kidderminster story, Owain Bell; Blurred encounters July 2008 150 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6224-2 £50.00
FORTHCOMING in the suburbs: problem of place and problematic
places, Malcolm Brown; Networks—the blurring
Paperback 978-0-7546-6660-8 £16.99
Examination copies are available in paperback
Hospital Chaplaincy in the 21st of institutions and networks: how should the church
engage?, Helen Cameron; Seeing the wood for the
Century
A Reader on Preaching
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trees: a multi-disciplinary approach to dementia,

The Crisis of Spiritual Care on the NHS
Christopher Swift, Leeds Teaching Hospitals
NHS Trust, UK
Explorations in Practical, Pastoral
and Empirical Theology
Issues of faith and spirituality have been resurgent
in the UK since the opening of the 21st century. This
book charts the impact of shifting attitudes towards
spirituality through the experiences of health care
chaplains. Rooted in a new and radical interpretation of
the chaplain’s work in the past, the book moves on to
describe a current crisis in the nature of spiritual care.
Using the tools of practical theology to analyse these
experiences fundamental problems are identified for
chaplains as they work within the culture of ‘evidence
based practice’.
Contents: Introduction; A history of the chaplain;
The chaplain’s professionalization; Chaplaincy under
New Labour; The battle of Worcester; The chaplain
today: an auto-ethnography; Religion, secularization
and spirituality; Theological voices and ventures;
Conclusion; Bibliography.
May 2009 c.182 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6416-1 c. £45.00
Margaret Goodall; Kent—the garden of dilemma, Making Connections
David Grimwood and Jane Winter; Weightless identity
in postmaterial communities, Philip Jones; Negotiating Edited by David Day, Jeff Astley, North
identity: the Christian individual and the secular of England Institute for Christian Education,
Durham University, UK and Leslie J. Francis,
institution, Karen Lord; Sanctuary and liminality:
stories, reflection and liturgy exploring the blurred University of Wales, Bangor, UK
encounters between mental health and illness as Explorations in Practical, Pastoral
an inner-city church, Clare McBeath; ‘Betwixt and and Empirical Theology
between’: anthropological approaches to blurred
encounters, Jonathan Miles-Watson; Baptism as cultural “…The editors have completed their difficult task with
conversation: explorations in implicit theology, great skill, and have given us a most valuable anthology.”
Martyn Percy; Truth in science and theology: —Theology
Latour, Zizek and the theory of circulating reference, 2005 302 pages
John Reader; An experience of rural ministry, Hardback 978-0-7546-5003-4 £60.00
Paperback 978-0-7546-5009-6 £18.99
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space: from blurred encounters to thresholds of
transformation, Christopher Baker and John Reader.
Includes 5 line drawings
May 2009 c. 240 pages
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Deaf Liberation Theology Theological Reflection FORTHCOMING

Hannah Lewis, Founder of Deaf Ecumenical and Education for Ministry The Church in Anglican Theology
Clergy, UK The Search for Integration in Theology An Historical, Theological
Explorations in Practical, Pastoral John E. Paver, Uniting Church and Ecumenical Exploration
and Empirical Theology Theological College, Australia Kenneth A. Locke, University of the West,
2007 208 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5524-4 £55.00 Explorations in Practical, Pastoral Rosemead, UK
eBook 978-0-7546-8704-7 www.ashgate.com/ebooks and Empirical Theology This book is the first systematic attempt to describe
2006 198 pages a coherent and comprehensive Anglican understanding
Hardback 978-0-7546-5754-5 £55.00 of Church. Drawing on the principle that dialogue
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with those who are different can lead to greater
Theology without Words self-understanding and self-realization, the book
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Theology in the Deaf Community
Wayne Morris, University of Chester, UK
Explorations in Practical, Pastoral
and Empirical Theology
“…offers a fascinating insight into a silent world where
meaning and faith are alive and well without speech.”
—John M. Hull, University of Birmingham and
The Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical
Theological Education, UK
This book is a study of a Christian theology without
words, focusing on theology in the Deaf community. Deaf
people’s first and preferred method of communication
is not English or any other spoken language, but Sign
Language—a language that cannot be written down.
While most Western theology is word-centered and is
either expressed through or dependent on written texts,
theology in the Deaf community is largely non-written.
Women’s Faith Development / evaluates a number of Anglican discussions with other
denominations in order to discern how Anglicans
Patterns and Processes understand themselves.
Nicola Slee, The Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Contents: Introduction; The Reformation and
Theological Education, Birmingham, UK Anglicanism; The continuation of Protestant ecclesiology;
Explorations in Practical, Pastoral Anglican evangelicals from the 18th century to the present;
and Empirical Theology Ecclesiological ambiguities in Anglican support for
episcopacy: Richard Hooker and the Caroline divines;
”Nicola Slee has contributed significantly to our
Further ambiguities in Anglican support for episcopacy:
understanding of the practices and processes that
the 18th to the 20th century; The Anglican approach
characterize women’s faith development…religious
to ecclesial authority; Anglicanism from an ecumenical
experience needs this level of particular attention
perspective: dialogues with the Reformed and Lutheran
to yield its wealth.”
churches; Anglicanism from an ecumenical perspective:
—Theology & Sexuality
dialogues with Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches;
2004 218 pages
Conclusion; Bibliography.
Hardback 978-0-7546-0885-1 £60.00
Paperback 978-0-7546-0886-8 £16.99 April 2009 c. 224 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6530-4 c. £50.00
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Explorations in a Christian

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This book presents and examines some of that theology
from the Deaf community and argues that written texts
NEW
are not necessary for creative theological debate, a deep Anamnesis and the Eucharist Theology of Pilgrimage
spirituality or for ideas about God to develop. Contemporary Anglican Approaches Edited by Craig Bartholomew, Redeemer University
Contents: Introduction: ‘In the beginning was the Word.’ College, Canada and Fred Hughes
Julie Gittoes, Vicar of All Saints Hampton, UK
PART I: THE DEAF COMMUNITY AND THEIR LANGUAGE: A sense “…a fascinating collection of essays…this is a book
of deaf identity; Talking with you hands: issues in British Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion,
that deserves attention.”
Sign Language. PART II: IN SEARCH OF DEAF THEOLOGY: Theology and Biblical Studies
—Church Times
Developing appropriate research methods; Deafining Focusing on the concept of anamnesis (remembrance 2004 238 pages
and doing theology; ‘Anyone who has ears, Let them or memorial), this book highlights a language of Hardback 978-0-7546-0855-4 £55.00
hear…’ …but what about deaf people? PART III: THEOLOGY connection between the integration of historical, Paperback 978-0-7546-0856-1 £17.99
WITHOUT WORDS: Theology without words: ecclesiology sacramental and ecclesial embodiments of Christ. It Examination copies are available in paperback
and liturgy; Deaf in the image of the deaf God; explores the source event of the Church’s life and the
Conclusion: ‘so many other things’; Bibliography; Index. transformative encounter with Christ in the Eucharist,
August 2008 192 pages the effects of which are seen in social/ethical/political Liturgy and the Beauty
Hardback
Paperback
978-0-7546-6222-8
978-0-7546-6227-3
£55.00
£17.99
action and the Church’s mission. of the Unknown
eBook 978-0-7546-9240-9 www.ashgate.com/ebooks
Contents: Introduction: why anamnesis?; The anamnesis Another Place
Examination copies are available in paperback debate; Memory in the Anglican tradition; What
happens in the Eucharist? Story and transformation;
David Torevell, Liverpool Hope University, UK
Meeting God in our remembering of him; On the This book breaks new ground by suggesting that liturgy
Inspiring Faith in Schools Eucharist: memory, time and transformation; Anamnesis is the means par excellence by which an experience
and the Eucharist: consequences for mission; of beauty is communicated. Drawing from both
Studies in Religious Education
Bibliography; Index. secular and religious understandings, in particular
Edited by Marius Felderhof, University the mystical and apophatic tradition, the book
August 2008 162 pages
of Birmingham, UK, Penny Thompson Hardback 978-0-7546-6176-4 £50.00 demonstrates how liturgy has the potential to achieve
and David Torevell, Liverpool Hope University, UK eBook 978-0-7546-9230-0 www.ashgate.com/ebooks the one ultimately reliable form of beauty because its
Explorations in Practical, Pastoral embodied components are able to reflect the disturbing
and Empirical Theology beauty of the One to whom worship is always offered.
Such components rely on understanding the aesthetic
2007 220 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6031-6 £55.00
dynamics upon which liturgy relies.
eBook 978-0-7546-8722-1 www.ashgate.com/ebooks 2007 212 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-3303-7 £55.00
eBook 978-0-7546-8679-8 www.ashgate.com/ebooks

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LITURGY, WORSHIP & SOCIETY SERIES NEW

SERIES

Series Editors: Dave Leal, Brasenose College, Oxford, UK, Bryan Spinks, Yale Institute Liturgical Space

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of Sacred Music and Divinity School, USA, Paul Bradshaw, University of Notre Dame, UK and USA, Christian Worship and Church Buildings
Gregory Woolfenden, St. Mary’s Orthodox Church and Phillip Tovey, Ripon College Cuddesdon, UK in Western Europe 1500–2000
This series forms an important new “library” on liturgical theory at a time of great change in the liturgy
Nigel Yates, University of Wales, Lampeter, UK
and much debate concerning traditional and new forms of worship, suitability and use of places of worship,
and wider issues concerning interaction of liturgy, worship and contemporary society. Liturgy, Worship & Society Series
For more information on these titles and the series, please visit www.ashgate.com “…a masterly overview of the continual process
down the centuries by which the Church responds
to a renewed vision of God…Both scholar and
The Baptismal Liturgy of Jerusalem Early and Medieval Rituals
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worshipper will be enriched by it.”
Fourth- and Fifth-Century Evidence and Theologies of Baptism —Richard Giles, Dean of Philadelphia Cathedral, USA
from Palestine, Syria and Egypt From the New Testament This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of
the internal arrangement of church buildings in Western
Juliette Day, University of Wales, Lampeter, UK to the Council of Trent Europe between 1500 and 2000, showing how these
Liturgy, Worship & Society Series Bryan D. Spinks, Yale Institute of Sacred Music arrangements have met the liturgical needs of their
“…should provide a new beginning for further detailed and Yale Divinity School respective denominations, Catholic and Protestant,
studies in the sources of Jerusalem liturgy…” Liturgy, Worship & Society Series over this period. In addition to a chapter looking at
—Worship the general impact of the Reformation on church
“[Bryan Spinks] has produced the most comprehensive buildings, there are separate chapters on the churches
2007 166 pages
history of Christian baptism available, perhaps the most of the Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican and Roman
Hardback 978-0-7546-5751-4 £50.00
eBook 978-0-7546-8636-1 www.ashgate.com/ebooks complete ever published.” Catholic traditions between the mid-sixteenth and
—Touchstone mid-nineteenth centuries, and on the ecclesiological
2006 204 pages movement of the nineteenth century and the liturgical
Christian Inculturation in India Paperback 978-0-7546-1428-9 £16.99 movement of the twentieth century, both of which have
Examination copies are available
Paul M. Collins, University of Chichester, UK impacted all the churches of Western Europe over the
past 150 years. The book is extensively illustrated with
Liturgy, Worship & Society Series figures in the text and a series of plates. It also contains
“…Collins provides introductions and signposts in the SEE ALSO… comprehensive guides to both further reading and
field of inculturation which will offer those who are buildings to visit throughout Western Europe.
interested a vast itinerary of places to explore.” Reformation and Modern Rituals and Contents: Introduction; The legacy of the pre-Reformation
—Vidyajyoti Journal of Theological Reflection
Theologies of Baptism church and the impact of the Reformation; The Lutheran
Includes 18 b&w illustrations churches of Germany and Scandinavia; The Calivinist
page 10
2007 252 pages
and Reformed churches; The worship and buildings of
Hardback 978-0-7546-6076-7 £55.00
eBook 978-0-7546-8702-3 www.ashgate.com/ebooks the Anglican via media; Counter-Reformation Roman
The Theory and Practice of Catholicism; Ecclesiology and neo-Medievalism; Liturgical
renewal and church design in the 20th century; Guide
Daily Liturgical Prayer Extended Communion to further reading; Guide to buildings to visit; Index.
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Origins and Theology Phillip Tovey, Diocese of Oxford and Ripon College Includes 35 b&w illustrations, 36 line drawings and 1 map
Cuddesdon, UK July 2008 212 pages
Gregory W. Woolfenden, St. Mary’s Orthodox Hardback 978-0-7546-5795-8 £55.00
Liturgy, Worship & Society Series
Church, Lorain, Ohio, USA Paperback 978-0-7546-5797-2 £17.99
Three churches have recently produced liturgies for Examination copies are available in paperback
Liturgy, Worship & Society Series
‘extended communion’. This is the distribution of
“Unlike other studies of the origins of Christian prayer, previously consecrated elements at a public service by
The Liturgies of Quakerism
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Woolfenden seeks to elucidate its theology and lay people or a deacon in the absence of a priest.
symbolism…All historians of Christian worship Pink Dandelion, Woodbrooke Quaker Study
This development began in the Roman Catholic Church
will read this study with much profit.” Center and University of Birmingham, UK
with the Vatican ‘Directory on Sunday Worship in the
—International Review of Biblical Studies
absence of a priest’ in 1988. The Methodist Church Liturgy, Worship & Society Series
2004 338 pages produced a service of Extended Communion in 1999,
Hardback 978-0-7546-1600-9 £65.00 “…a fascinating treatment of an issue central to the
Paperback 978-0-7546-1601-6 £19.99
and the Church of England authorized ‘Public Worship
spiritual vitality of the Quaker movement…will have
Examination copies are available in paperback with Communion by Extension’ in 2001. In this book
significant implications for all members of the wider family
Phillip Tovey examines these churches to discover the
of Friends, and the broader Christian movement…”
reasons for the production of these services and their
First Communion theological rationale. An in-depth examination of case
—Quaker Studies
Includes 13 figures
Ritual, Church and Popular Religious Identity studies draws conclusions highly relevant to the wider
2005 150 pages
church.
Peter McGrail, Liverpool Hope University, UK Hardback 978-0-7546-3128-6 £55.00
Includes 14 line drawings Paperback 978-0-7546-3129-3 £16.99
Liturgy, Worship & Society Series June 2009 c. 224 pages Examination copies are available in paperback
“…a most welcome addition to the literature Hardback 978-0-7546-6684-4 c. £50.00
eBook 978-0-7546-9370-3 www.ashgate.com/ebooks
on the history of the rites of Christian initiation.”
—Worship
2007 212 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5741-5 £55.00
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Liturgy and Architecture
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From the Early Church to the Middle Ages
Allan Doig, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, UK
Liturgy, Worship & Society Series
“This is a panoramic survey of Christian church
architecture as viewed through the lens of liturgy. It
commands both of these complex fields with ease and
with welcome attention to political history as well…”
—Richard Pfaff, University of North Carolina, USA
In this book Allan Doig explores the interrelationship
of liturgy and architecture from the early Church
to the close of the Middle Ages, taking into account
social, economic, technical, theological and artistic
factors. These are crucial to a proper understanding
of ecclesiastical architecture of all periods, and together
their study illuminates the study of liturgy. Buildings
and their archaeology are standing indices of human
activity, and the whole matrix of meaning they present
is highly revealing of the larger meaning of ritual
performance within, and movement through, their
space. The excavation of the mid-third-century church
at Dura Europos in the Syrian desert, the grandeur
of Constantine’s Imperial basilicas, the influence
of the great pilgrimage sites, and the marvels of soaring
Gothic cathedrals, all come alive in a new way when
the space is animated by the liturgy for which they
were built. Reviewing the most recent research in the
area, and moving the debate forward, this study will
be enormously useful to the liturgist, clergy, theologians,
art and architectural historians, and those interested
in the conservation of ecclesiastical structures built
for the liturgy.
Contents: Preface; Introduction; The earliest
Christian worship and its setting; Constantine,
continuity and change in the 4th century; The
emergence of the Byzantine rite and the church
building as sacrament; Late antiquity in the West and
the Gallican rite; Carolingian architecture and liturgical
reform; Monasticism, pilgrimage and the Romanesque;
Gothic architecture and the Latin rite: from origins
to the close of the Middle Ages; Bibliography; Index.
Includes 5 colour and 54 b&w illustrations
June 2008 254 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5272-4 £55.00
Paperback 978-0-7546-5274-8 £15.99
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Reformation and Modern Rituals
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and Theologies of Baptism
From Luther to Contemporary Practices
Bryan D. Spinks, Yale Institute of Sacred Music
and Yale Divinity School, USA
Liturgy, Worship & Society Series
“…highly recommended for all seminary collections
in conjunction with Early and Medieval Rituals if not
already part of the library collection.”
—Catholic Library World
2006 266 pages
Paperback 978-0-7546-5697-5 £16.99
Examination copies are available
Towards Liturgies that Reconcile
Race and Ritual among African-American
and European-American Protestants
Scott Haldeman, Chicago Theological
Seminary, USA
Liturgy, Worship & Society Series
“…provides an excellent discussion of a much neglected
dimension of American religion and race relations and
thus deserves a wide readership across disciplines.”
—Journal of Contemporary Religion
Towards Liturgies that Reconcile reflects upon Christian
worship as it is shaped, and mis-shaped, by human
prejudice, specifically by racism. Scott Haldeman
traces the development of Protestant worship among
whites and blacks, showing that the following exist
in tension: African American and European American
Protestant liturgical traditions are both interdependent
and distinct; and that multicultural communities must
both understand and celebrate the uniqueness of
various member groups while also accepting the risk
and possibility of praying themselves into an integrated
body, one new culture.
2007 196 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5726-2 £55.00
eBook 978-0-7546-8657-6 www.ashgate.com/ebooks
West Syrian Liturgical Theology
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Baby Varghese, Orthodox Theological
Seminary, India
Liturgy, Worship & Society Series
“…This is certainly a work which ought to be in every
library that covers liturgy in general.”
—Orientalia Christiana Periodica
2004 206 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-0618-5 £55.00
Paperback 978-0-7546-0619-2 £16.99
Examination copies are available in paperback
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Liturgy in the Age of Reason
Worship and Sacraments in England
and Scotland 1662–c.1800
Bryan D. Spinks, Yale Institute of Sacred Music
and Yale Divinity School, USA
“…Liturgy in the Age of Reason provides new lenses
for examining and interpreting the liturgical upheaval
that characterized England and Scotland during
the 17th and 18th centuries.”
—Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, Boston University, USA
Liturgy in the Age of Reason examines the changing
perspectives in and discussions on worship styles
and practices from the Restoration to the death
of Wesley, in England and Scotland. It places worship
in the society which it served, and from which changes
sprang, exploring the interaction of cultural thought
and worship and drawing parallels between the
Enlightenment period and problems of late modernity
and the worship wars of the late twentieth century.
Contents: Introduction; The Restoration settlement
of worship in the established Churches of England
and Scotland; Restoration sacramental teaching North
and south of the border; The Glorious revolution
and liturgical plurality; Singing God’s praises from
the margins: worship and hymns of late 17th-century
dissent; Ancient régime and patristic authority; High
Church, nonjuring and Jacobite liturgical experiments;
Newtonian and ockean theology, liturgical revision
and rational sacraments; Affectionate worship: the
evangelical awakening; ‘Common or garden’ liturgy:
worship and sacraments in later Georgian England;
Some aspects of worship and sacramental instruction
in the Georgian Kirk; Glimpses of dissenting worship—
old, new and curious; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Includes 21 b&w illustrations
January 2009 294 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6089-7 £55.00
Words to God, Word from God
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The Psalms in the Prayer
and Preaching of the Church
Howard Neil Wallace, Melbourne College
of Divinity, Australia
“This is a thoughtful and very worthwhile book…
It deserves to be widely read.”
—Heythrop Journal
2005 210 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-3691-5 £55.00
Paperback 978-0-7546-3692-2 £16.99
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2004 372 pages
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From Human to Posthuman

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The dialogue between theology and science has
blossomed in recent decades, but particular beliefs
about Jesus Christ have not often been brought to the
forefront of this interdisiciplinary discussion even in
explicitly Christian contexts. This book breaks new
ground by explicitly bringing the specific themes of
Christology into dialogue with contemporary science.
It engages recent developments in late modern
philosophy of science in order to articulate the Christian
beliefs about Jesus Christ in a way that responds to
challenges and opportunities that have arisen in light
of various scientific discoveries. The main chapters
deal with Incarnation, Atonement and Parousia. After
a brief treatment of the history of the shaping of these
ideas, the author traces developments in some of the
sciences that have challenged these formulations:
evolutionary biology, cultural anthropology and physical
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popular constructive responses to these developments.
After clarifying the way in which the Christian
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Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul
Human Systems of Cognitive
Science and Religion
Mark Graves, Jesuit School of Theology, USA
Ashgate Science and Religion Series
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soul? Many scientists and scholars believe the whole
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that does not reduce to the parts. One sees this in the
synapses – or apparently empty gaps between the
neurons in one’s brain-where informative relationships
give rise to human mind, culture, and spirituality.
Drawing upon the disciplines of cognitive science,
computer science, neuroscience, general systems
theory, pragmatic philosophy, and Christian theology,
Mark Graves reinterprets the traditional doctrine of
the soul as form of the body to frame contemporary
scientific study of the human soul.
Contents: Mind; Systems theory; Levels of human
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Spiritual relationships; Brain; American pragmatism;
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Anna Case-Winters, McCormick Theological
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Stephen Hunt, University of the West
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“…Before anyone utters a further word for or against
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2004 286 pages
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FORTHCOMING
Biodivinity and Biodiversity
The Limits to Religious Environmentalism
Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds, UK
This book explores the tension between the “romantic”
ecological discourse common among many Western
activists and a more pragmatic approach which is found
in India. The adoption of environmental causes by the
Hindu Right in India makes it difficult to distinguish
genuine concern for the environment from the broader
politics surrounding the idea of a Hindu rashtra (nation).
This raises a further level of analysis which has not been
provided in other studies.
Contents: Preface; Introduction; The religious
environmentalist mode of religion; The prehistory of
contemporary environmentalism; Environmentalisms:
a comparative approach; Religious environmentalism
and environmental direct action in Britain; Hinduism
and the environment: radical to world religions
approach; Religious environmentalism in India;
Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
May 2009 c. 224 pages
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Encyclopedia of Cremation
Edited by Douglas J. Davies, Durham University,
UK with Lewis H. Mates
“…Treatment is admirably interdisciplinary, integrating
sociological, psychological, historical, legal, theological,
scientific, engineering and artistic perspectives,
along with political and economic dimensions
of the practice…Recommended.”
—Choice
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2005 516 pages
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Furthering Humanity
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A Theology of Culture
T.J. Gorringe, University of Exeter, UK
PRIZE: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MICHAEL RAMSAY PRIZE, 2005
“…this is a crucial book. It is the most thorough theological
treatment of culture to appear in many years…”
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and the Anglican Church
Christian Engagement with
the Contemporary World
Edited by Timothy Blewett, Launde Abbey, UK,
Adrian Hyde-Price, University of Bath, UK
£60.00 and Wyn Rees, University of Nottingham, UK
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“…At a time when our foreign policy is rightly
scrutinized by many within our society, this book
shows that it is through our foreign policy that we
express the values that we have in our country…”
—Tim Stevens, Bishop of Leicester, UK
This book seeks to elucidate whether there are particular
Christian perspectives on the role that Great Britain
should play in the world today. The book brings together
senior individuals from within the Church, academia
and non-governmental organizations to investigate
these various ethical dilemmas.
Contents: PART 1: THE ETHICAL CONTEXT: Introduction,
Tim Blewett; Christian ethics and the dilemmas of
foreign policy, Adrian Hyde-Price. PART 2: THE MILITARY
INSTRUMENT: The continuing, crucial relevance of just
war criteria, Richard Harries; Balance of consequences:
towards an ethical standpoint on the Iraq intervention
of 2003, Richard Bonney; Three parables about
war, Charles Jones; British military intervention since
1990, Tim Cross; The Church and the war on terror,
Richard Lock-Pullan; UK arms sales and the Church
of England, Wyn Rees. PART 3: BRITAIN AND THE LESS
DEVELOPED WORLD: Waiting for jubilee: the campaign
for debt cancellation, Timothy Jones; The challenge
of aid, Fletcher Tembo; Index.
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Church, Community and Power
Roy Kearsley, Cardiff University, Wales
In the era of “post-Christendom,” how can church as
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dangers, yet constructive possibilities, of “power”
flowing in and around its community? Attuned to the
current distrust of church power, this book creatively
works out responses that could turn painful censure
£70.00 into a re-visioning of church power relations.
Contents: Introduction: church as community
in the presence of power; Church as a koinonia.
The fellowship of the way; The contested concept.
What is power?; Church and the environment of power;
‘Power relations’ and church; Strategies, church and
freedom; Spirit, power and weakness; Power, authority
and community; Twin problems on power and church;
Conclusion: power in the future of koinonia community;
Bibliography; Index.
December 2008 284 pages
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Exodus Church and Civil Society
Public Theology and Social Theory
in the Work of Jürgen Moltmann
Scott R. Paeth, DePaul University, USA
Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion,
Theology and Biblical Studies
This book examines the way in which Jürgen
Moltmann’s concept of the “Exodus Church” can
illuminate the importance of the idea of civil society for
a Christian public theology.
Contents: PART 1: JÜRGEN MOLTMANN’S PUBLIC THEOLOGY:
Moltmann, modernity and public theology; The
development of Moltmann’s political theology; Promise,
covenant, and human rights; Exodus church and civil
society. PART 2: ETHICAL ENGAGEMENT AND THE TASK OF PUBLIC
THEOLOGY: Public theology and the task of theological
ethics; Public theology in the American tradition. PART
3: RATIONALITY, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH:
Theology, reason, and critical theory; The evolution of
the theory of civil society; Civil society and the church’s
public role. PART 4: SOCIAL ETHICS AND THE EXODUS CHURCH:
Public theology, critical modernism, and the kingdom of
God; The theological and social character of the church;
Conclusions and prospects; Bibliography; Index.
October 2008 232 pages
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FORTHCOMING
Explorations in Christian
Theology and Ethics
Essays in Conversation with Paul L Lehmann
Edited by Philip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen,
UK and Michelle Bartel, Hanover College, USA
These essays argue for a reorientation in Christian
theology that better honors the formative power
of the gospel to animate and shape doctrine
and witness, as well as ethical and political life.
Contents: Editors’ preface; Introduction: Paul
Lehmann—the man and the teacher, F. Rutledge. PART
1: Paul Lehmann as nurturer of theological discernment,
C. Morse; The commandments and the common
life—reflections on Paul Lehmann’s The Decalogue and
a Human Future, N.J. Duff; The laboratory of the living
word—Paul Lehmann on conscience, church, and the
politics of God, B. Harvey. PART 2: Creation, redemption
and law—toward a Protestant perspective on the question
of human law, P.G. Ziegler; The advantages and limits of
irregular and regular dogmatics—political responsibility
according to Lehmann and Barth. A discussion pertinent
to the notification of Jon Sobrino, D.E. Demson; ‘Where
have we been? Where are we going?’—Paul Ramsey, Paul
Lehmann, and Karl Barth’s doctrine of God, J.F. Cubie.
PART 3: The living word in the living world—Lehmann for
preachers, S.A. Brown; Koinonia ethics and preaching in
South Korea, E.M. Kim; Christian ethics in the morning
sunrise—living in God’s providential space, M.J. Bartel;
Select bibliography; A Paul Lehmann bibliography; Index.
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FORTHCOMING FORTHCOMING NEW

Nature, Space and the Sacred Moved by Mary Religious America,

Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by S. Bergmann, Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, Norway, P.M. Scott,
University of Manchester, UK, M. Jansdotter,
Karlstad University, Sweden and H. Bedford-Strohm,
University of Bamberg, Germany
Nature, Space and the Sacred offers the first investigative
mapping of a new and highly significant agenda—
the spatial interactions between religion, nature
and culture. In this ground-breaking work, different
concepts of religion, theology, space and place and
their internal relations are discussed in an impressive
range of approaches. Weaving together a diversity
of perspectives, this book presents an innovative
and truly trans-disciplinary environmental science.
Contents: Preface, Jürgen Moltmann; Editorial,
S. Bergmann; P.M. Scott, M. Jansdotter Samuelson
and H. Bedford-Strohm; Nature space and the sacred,
Sigurd Bergmann. PART A: EARTHING THE SACRED:
Transforming the theological climate in response
to climate change: Jesus and the mystery of giving,
Anne Primavesi; The whole household of God: the
use of the oikos metaphor in the built and non-built
environment, Ernst M. Conradie; Interpreting heaven
and earth: the theological construction of nature,
place and the built environment, Forrest Clingerman.
PART B: ETHICS IN NATURAL AND BUILT SPACE: Atmospheric
space, climate change and the communion of saints,
Michael Northcott; Biodiversity and Christian ethics—
a critical discussion, Anders Melin; The master of the
universe or the humble servant, Björn Vikström; The
proper praise for an architecture of the improper—
Joseph Beuys: building with butter, Annette Homann;
Ideal landscapes: landscape design between beauty
and meaning, Carola Wingren; Altars of the dead,
The Power of Pilgrimage in the Modern World
Edited by Anna-Karina Hermkens,
Willy Jansen and Catrien Notermans, Institute
for Gender Studies and the Department of Cultural
Anthropology, Radboud University Nijmegen,
Netherlands
The Virgin Mary continues to attract devotees to the
images and sites dedicated to her, despite modern trends
of secularisation. This book explores the ways in which
people around the world are ‘moved’ by Mary and
religiously empower themselves to face a wide range of
modern-day problems and inequalities. Linking Marian
pilgrimages to broader questions of culture, power and
politics, the authors present in-depth case studies of
particular groups of people that reveal how they identify
and join with Mary in their struggle against social
inequality, oppression, individualisation, occupation
and violence but also how Mary is mobilized to impose
norms and legitimize acts of violence and oppression.
June 2009 c. 256 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6789-6 c. £50.00
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Pentecostal Theology
for the Twenty-First Century
Engaging with Multi-Faith Singapore
May Ling Tan-Chow, TCA College, Singapore
Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion,
Theology and Biblical Studies
2007 224 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5718-7 £55.00
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Secular Europe?
A Theme and Variations
Peter Berger, Boston University, USA, Grace Davie,
University of Exeter, UK and Effie Fokas, The London
School of Economics and Political Science, UK
“If you have heard Texans talking about Europe,
especially France, or some Germans talking about the
USA, especially its religion, you know there is a very
big problem: this important book explains why.”
—David Martin, London School of Economics, UK
Europe is a relatively secular part of the world in
global terms. Why is this so? And why is the situation
in Europe so different from that in the United States?
The first part of this book—the theme—articulates this
contrast. The remaining text—the variations—looks in
turn at the historical, philosophical, institutional and
sociological dimensions of these differences. Key ideas
are examined in detail, among them: constitutional
issues; the Enlightenment; systems of law, education
and welfare; questions of class, ethnicity, gender and
generation. In each chapter both the similarities and
differences between the European and the American
cases are carefully scrutinized.
Contents: Introduction; Religious America, secular
Europe?; Variation 1: contrasting histories; Variation 2:
different intellectual traditions; Variation 3: institutional
carriers; Variation 4: social difference; So what? Policy
implications; Bibliography; Index.
September 2008 176 pages
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Anna Petersson. PART C: NATURE AS ENTANGLEMENT: The

wedge and the knot: hammering and stitching the
An Introduction
Predicting Religion
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face of nature, Tim Ingold; Knowing natural spaces: Peter W. Edge, Oxford Brookes University, UK
reinterpreting deep ecology as phenomenology, Christian, Secular and
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Kingsley Goodwin; Seeking transformation in a Alternative Futures
2006 168 pages
consumer world: can we achieve a unity of ends Edited by Grace Davie, University of Exeter, Paperback 978-0-7546-3048-7 £16.99
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GEOGRAPHIES: Indigenous, embodied knowing: a study
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University, USA Faith-based Initiatives
century Japanese ecological attitude, Daniel M.P. Shaw.
2006 268 pages
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NEW
The Centrality
of Religion in Social Life
Essays in Honour of James A. Beckford
Edited by Eileen Barker, London School
of Economics, UK
“An excellent collection of thoughtful and often
innovative essays…”
—Lorne L. Dawson, University of Waterloo, Canada
This book is a collection of essays written in James
A. Beckford’s honor, drawing on a number of religious
themes that have been central to Beckford’s interests,
while also offering a significant contribution
to our understanding of the wider society.
Selected Contents: PART I: THE FRENCH CONNECTION:
Thinking sociologically about religion: contexts,
concepts and clarifications, Grace Davie; Two different
types of manifest secularization: Belgium and France
compared, Karel Dobbelaere. PART II: RELIGIOUS INSERTIONS
IN SOCIETY: The inner-world mysticism and a successful
social integration of the Sikh Panth, Enzo Pace; The
trumpet sounds retreat: learning from the Jehovah’s
Witnesses, David Voas; Theorising conversion:
can we use conversion accounts as sources to actual
past processes?, Margit Warburg. PART III: RELIGION,
POWER AND POLITICS: The religious and the political,
David Martin. PART IV: THE SPIRITUAL AND/OR THE
RELIGIOUS?: The church without and the god within?
Religiosity and/or spirituality?, Eileen Barker; Toward
a sociology of spirituality: individual religion in social/
historical context, Meredith B. McGuire; Index.
Includes 4 line drawings and 7 tables
October 2008 260 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6515-1 £55.00
The First Islamist Republic
Development and Disintegration
of Islamism in the Sudan
Abdullahi A. Gallab, Arizona State University, USA
Based on extensive field work inside and outside the
Islamists’ regime in the Sudan, this book provides an
entry point into the regime’s local and global worlds
as they interact and collide with each other.
January 2008 194 pages
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An Introduction
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to the Sociology of Religion
Classical and Contemporary Perspectives
Inger Furseth, KIFO Center for Church Research,
Norway and University of Southern California, USA
and Pål Repstad, Agder University College, Norway
“…an excellent introduction to the sociology of religion…”
—Journal of the American Academy of Religion
2006 252 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5653-1 £55.00
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Sociology of Religion
NEW
Meeting Jesus at University
Rites of Passage and Student Evangelicals
Edward Dutton, Oulu University, Finland
“Meeting Jesus at University is one of the rare books that
will be influential both for the academic anthropological
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This book explores universities in six countries.
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male Anglican clergy, M. Keenan; Religious identity and
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A Sociology of Spirituality
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Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary
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Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary
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Contents: Introduction: women and secularization:
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in the West: watch the women, Penny Long Marler;
Singleness and secularization: British evangelical
women and church (dis)affiliation, Kristin Aune; When
young women say ‘yes’: exploring the sexual selves
of young Canadian women in Protestant churches,
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ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITIES: The spiritual revolution and
the New Age gender puzzle: the sacralization of self
in late modernity (1980–2000), Dick Houtman and
Stef Aupers; The soul of soulless conditions: paganism,
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how second generation Muslim women create religious
identities in two worlds, Rubina Ramji; Being seen
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NEW RELIGIONS
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Contemporary Religious Satanism
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Controversial New Religions
Despite the fascinating nature of religious Satanism,
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scholars to produce the first serious book-length study of
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and the post-charismatic fate of the church of Satan
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the multiple Princes of Darkness in the left hand
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Italian martyrs of ‘Satanism’: Sister Maria Laura Marinetti
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Edited by Purushottama Bilimoria, Deakin
University and Melbourne University, Australia,
Joseph Prabhu, California State University, USA
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ethical thinking, reflecting on the interpretation
and application of its teachings and practices
in the contemporary context.
2007 442 pages
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2007 206 pages
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NEW Freedom of Religion,
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and North America and Hassan Saeed, Attorney-General, The Maldives
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K.A. Jacobsen and S.J. Raj; PART I: EUROPE: South Edited by Roger Boase, Queen Mary College,
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 Biblical Studies
SOCIETY FOR OLD TESTAMENT STUDY Luke the Priest
SERIES

Series Editor: Margaret Barker, Society for Old Testament Study, UK The Authority of the Author
Series Editorial Board: Katharine J. Dell, Paul Joyce, Edward Ball and Eryl Davies
of the Third Gospel
Rick Strelan, University of Queensland, Australia
Series Advisory Board: Bertil Albrektson, Graeme Auld, John Barton, Joseph Blenkinsopp,
William Johnstone and John Rogerson This book focuses on the authority and status of the
author of Luke-Acts. Rick Strelan constructs the author
as a Jewish Priest, examining such issues as writing and
NEW NEW orality, and the status and role of priests. The analysis
is set within the context of scholarly opinion about the
Amos and the Cosmic Imagination Hebrew Life and Literature author, the intended audience and other related issues.
James R. Linville, University of Lethbridge Selected Essays of Bernhard Lang
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Who were the Gospel
Society for Old Testament Study Bernhard Lang, University of Paderborn, Germany writers?; Gospels, authors and authority; The status
Said to contain the words of the earliest of the biblical Society for Old Testament Study of Luke in scholarship; Why write another Gospel?;
prophets (8th century BCE), the book of Amos is Bernhard Lang, known for his contributions over several Owning, controlling, guarding the traditions; The oral
reinterpreted by James Linville in light of new and decades to biblical anthropology, offers in this volume and the written; Luke in the tradition; Luke among
sometimes controversial historical approaches to a selection of essays on the life and literature of the the scholars; Luke the priest; Luke as authoritative
the Bible. Amos is read as the literary product of the ancient Hebrews. The subjects range from the Hebrew interpreter of Scripture; Luke as interpreter of the Jesus
Persian-era community in Judah. Its representations of God, the world-view of the Bible and the formation of tradtions; Luke as interpreter of Paul; Conclusion;
divine-human communication are investigated in the the scriptural canon, to peasant poverty, women’s work, Bibliography; Indexes.
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Society for Old Testament Study The Sermon on the Mount in the The Genesis of Fiction
Modern Novelists as Biblical Interpreters
Despite the welcome revival of scholarly interest Light of the Temple
in Biblical Wisdom, the Book of Proverbs remains Terry R. Wright, Newcastle University, UK
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neglected. It continues to be seen as a disorganized 2007 200 pages
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that this misleading consensus owes more to scholarly has the New Testament’s Sermon on the Mount, and yet
presuppositions than to the content of Proverbs; it sees this crucial text still begs to be more clearly understood.
Proverbs as a challenging work, one that aims to provoke This book offers new insights by seeing it in the
Rendering the Word
a critical appropriation of wisdom and in which diverse shadow of the all-pervasive Temple in Jerusalem, which in Theological Hermeneutics
sources have been skillfully brought together by a creative dominated the religious landscape of the world of Jesus Mapping Divine and Human Agency
final editor to form a complex unity. and his earliest disciples. Analyzing Matthew 5-7 in
light of biblical and Jewish backgrounds, ritual studies, Mark Alan Bowald, Redeemer University
August 2008 214 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6304-1 £55.00 and oral performances in early Christian worship, this College, Canada
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Society for Old Testament Study
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2007 308 pages and the Church Richard R. Topping, The Church of St. Andrew
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 Religion and the Arts
ASHGATE STUDIES IN THEOLOGY, IMAGINATION NEW
SERIES

AND THE ARTS Theological Aesthetics

Series Editors: Jeremy Begbie, Duke Divinity School, USA, Trevor Hart, St. Mary’s College, after von Balthasar
University of St. Andrews, Scotland and Roger Lundin, Wheaton College, USA Edited by Oleg V. Bychkov and James Fodor,
What have imagination and the arts to do with theology? For much of the modern era, the answer has been, St. Bonaventure University, USA
‘not much’. It is precisely this deficit that this series seeks to redress. The arts are playing an increasingly Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts
significant role in the way people come to terms with the world; at the same time, artists of many disciplines
are showing a willingness to engage with religious or theological themes. A spate of publications and courses This collection of essays explores the present-day
in many educational institutions has already established this field as one of fast growing concern. field of theological aesthetics: from von Balthasar’s
contribution and parallel developments to correctives
This series taps into a burgeoning intellectual concern on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond. The peculiar and alternatives to his approach. A tribute to von
inter-disciplinarity of theology, and the growing interest in imagination and the arts in many different fields of Balthasar’s own project expands into a dialogue with
human concern, afford the opportunity for a series which has its roots sunk in varied and diverse intellectual ancient and medieval traditions in search of revelatory
soils, while focused around a coherent theological question: How are imagination and the arts involved in aesthetics. The contributors outline challenges to
the shaping and reshaping of our humanity as part of the creative and redemptive purposes of God, and what his approach (including Protestant perspectives) and
roles do they perform in the theological enterprise? introduce new ways of viewing the field of theological
aesthetics, which ultimately opens up to the idea of
concrete cultural contexts and practical human needs
Faith and Beauty The Passion in Art
/
/

determining the use of the arts and aesthetic sensibilities

A Theological Aesthetic
Edward Farley, Vanderbilt University, USA
Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts
“Edward Farley has produced a work on beauty
characterized by enormous theological depth, simplicity
of style and lapidary insight. His theological aesthetic is
concerned to develop an understanding of the intrinsic
relationship of beauty, or that which is intrinsically
attractive, to faith, as the life of communal and
individual response which arises with redemption... This
is a wonderful book which goes a long way in restoring
the idea of and passion for redemptive beauty to our
world. It is in itself a moment of that redemptive beauty.”
—Modern Theology
2001 132 pages
Richard Harries, The Rt Revd Lord Harries in theology.
of Pentregarth, UK Contents: Introduction, Oleg Bychkov. PART I:
Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts THE LEGACY OF VON BALTHASAR: SECTION A: THE TRILOGY:
Hans Urs von Balthasar: beauty as a gateway to love,
“This beautiful book by the highly respected and
Francesca Aran Murphy; Hans Urs von Balthasar’s
scholarly bishop of Oxford shows clearly how sacred
‘Theatre of the World’: the aesthetics of a dramatics,
art functions as a theological locus, as a place of divine
Ben Quash. SECTION B: RETRIEVING THE PAST: Transcending
revelation for those who have eyes to see.”
the aesthetic: Gadamer on tragedy and the tragic,
—Worship
Daniel L. Tate; The beautiful after Thomas Aquinas:
Includes 26 colour and 16 b&w illustrations questioning present-day concepts, Günther Pöltner;
2004 168 pages
Divine delight: acceptatio and the economy of salvation
Hardback 978-0-7546-5010-2 £55.00
Paperback 978-0-7546-5011-9 £16.99 in Duns Scotus, Mary Beth Ingham; Hopkins, Scotus
and von Balthasar: philosophical theology in poetry,
Examination copies are available in paperback
Bernadette Waterman Ward. PART II: VON BALTHASAR: SOME
CRITICISMS: Balthasar, Hopkins and the ‘English tradition’,
Redeeming Beauty Fergus Kerr; Von Balthasar and Protestant aesthetics: a
/

Hardback 978-0-7546-0453-2 £55.00 mutually corrective conversation, Lee Barrett; Is the time
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Soundings in Sacral Aesthetics
right for a theological aesthetics?, George Pattison. PART
Examination copies are available in paperback Aidan Nichols, University of Oxford, UK III: OUTSIDE VON BALTHASAR: THE SPECTRUM OF THEOLOGICAL
Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts AESTHETICS: SECTION A: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES: Beyond
Faithful Performances “Nichols’s essays raise many other questions that point, beauty and the aesthetic in the engagement of religion
and art, Nicholas Wolterstorff; The beauty of the Cross,
Enacting Christian Tradition directly or indirectly, to the most significant issues in
Richard Viladesau; Is good art good for religion?,
discussion in contemporary theological aesthetics. For
Edited by Trevor A. Hart, St. Mary’s College, this reason, as well as for its historical surveys, the Frank Burch Brown; On a new list of aesthetic
University of St. Andrews, UK and Steven R. Guthrie, book is of great value for scholars interested in the categories, Alejandro Garcia-Rivera. SECTION B: SPECIFIC
School of Religion, Belmont University, interrelationships between God, religion, beauty, and ISSUES: ‘Alien beauty’: parabolic judgment and the
Nashville, USA the arts.” witness of faith, James Fodor; The strange and the self:
—Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies visual arts and theology in Aboriginal and other (post-)
Ashgate Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts
colonial spaces, Sigurd Bergmann; Aesthetics and the
Includes 4 b&w illustrations 2007 168 pages
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built environment, Timothy Gorringe; Index.
2007 296 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5525-1 £55.00 Paperback 978-0-7546-6001-9 £17.99 Includes 15 b&w illustrations
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 Religion and the Arts

Altarpieces and Their Viewers NEW NEW

in the Churches of Rome from
Caravaggio to Guido Reni
Pamela Jones, University of Massachusetts,
Boston, USA
Visual Culture in Early Modernity
“…subtly conceived, and lucidly argued…”
—Walter Melion, Emory University, USA
A social history of reception, this study focuses on art
and Catholicism in early modern Rome. The five public
altarpieces examined here-by Caravaggio, Guercino,
Guido Reni, Tommaso Laureti, and Andrea Commodi-
are seen anew through the eyes of female and male
viewers from all walks of life. In treating officially
sanctioned and unorthodox responses, Jones illuminates
problems churchmen faced when trying to channel the
power of images to reform Catholic society.
Includes 16 colour and 85 b&w illustrations,
3 line drawings and 2 maps
March 2008 390 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6179-5 £65.00
Art and Identity
in Early Modern Rome
Edited by Jill Burke and Michael Bury,
University of Edinburgh, UK
Considering identity creation and artistic development
in Rome during this period, this collection adroitly
demonstrates how the exceptional quality of Roman
court and urban culture interacted with developments
in the visual arts. With its distinctive chronological
span and uniquely interdisciplinary approach, Art
and Identity in Early Modern Rome puts forward an
alternative history of the visual arts in early modern
Rome, one that questions traditional periodisation and
stylistic categorisation.
Includes 35 b&w illustrations
May 2008 308 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5690-6 £65.00
The Art of the Sublime
Principles of Christian Art and Architecture
Roger Homan, University of Brighton, UK
“...Homan is full of original ideas and insights...”
—Art and Christianity
Includes 14 b&w illustrations
2006 240 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5073-7 £55.00
The Avant-Garde Icon The Four Modes of Seeing
Russian Avant-Garde Art Approaches to Medieval Imagery
and the Icon Painting Tradition in Honor of Madeline Harrison Caviness
Andrew Spira Edited by Evelyn Staudinger Lane, Wheaton
“…a vital contribution to the study of twentieth-century College, USA Elizabeth Carson Pastan,
Russian art…” Emory University, USA and Ellen M. Shortell,
—John Milner, Newcastle University, UK Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA
This book looks at the relationship between traditional Borrowing its title from Madeline Harrison Caviness’s
icon painting and the art of the Russian avant-garde. influential work on the modes of seeing articulated by
Although artists repudiated their heritage in line with the twelfth-century cleric Richard of Saint Victor, this
the political and social climate their work shows interdisciplinary collection brings together the work of
unmistakable influence of iconic paintings. Important thirty scholars from England, France, Germany, Italy,
artists such as Malevich and Tatlin are considered and Switzerland, and the United States. Each author has
their oeuvre examined to identify the stylistic borrowing contributed an original article that engages with ideas
from icons. It will include a history of the avant-garde formulated in Caviness’s wide-ranging scholarship.
in Russia, the psychology between 1917 and the 1950s Includes 146 b&w illustrations
and the impact of the spirituality of Russian orthodoxy. April 2009 c. 624 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6010-1 c. £65.00
Includes 90 colour and 40 b&w illustrations
November 2008 224 pages
Hardback 978-0-85331-975-7 £40.00
A Lund Humphries book NEW
John Clare’s Religion
NEW Sarah Houghton-Walker, Gonville and
Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK
Crusader Art
The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, The Nineteenth Century Series
1099–1291 Addressing a neglected aspect of John Clare’s history,
Sarah Houghton-Walker engages with Clare’s poetry
Jaroslav Folda within the context of his faith and the religious milieu
The Crusades, which began as expeditions called by the in which he lived. Her book engages not only with the
Pope to regain the Holy Land and liberate the oppressed facts of Clare’s more traditional religious habits but also
Christians living there, were one of the most important with the ways in which he was literally inspired and
and recognizable features of the European Middle Ages. how that inspiration is connected to his vision of the
One of the least known aspects of the Crusades is the natural, to his intimations of divinity, and thus to his
art that was commissioned by the Crusaders in the Holy poetry.
Land from the time they took Jerusalem in July 1099 to March 2009 c. 276 pages
the time they were pushed into the sea by the Mamluks Hardback 978-0-7546-6514-4 c. £55.00
in 1291. This book tells the fascinating story of Crusader eBook 978-0-7546-9290-4 www.ashgate.com/ebooks
art, focusing for the first time on Crusader painting
(manuscript illumination, frescoes, mosaics and icon
painting) as providing the most significant continuous NEW
surviving evidence for the development of Crusader art.
It will be essential reading for scholars, students and
The Idol in the Age of Art
enthusiasts alike. Objects, Devotions
Includes 90 colour, 30 b&w illustrations and 13 maps and the Early Modern World
November 2008 176 pages Edited by Michael W. Cole, University
Hardback 978-0-85331-995-5 £45.00
A Lund Humphries book
of Pennsylvania, USA and Rebecca E. Zorach,
University of Chicago, USA
St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
Dionysius the Areopagite Approaching the Reformation idol as an essentially
and the Neoplatonist Tradition international problem, and placing particular emphasis
Despoiling the Hellenes on cultural encounters, this book provides fresh
perspectives on the very nature of Renaissance art,
Sarah Klitenic Wear, Franciscan University and underscores how colonial issues came to be often
of Steubenville, USA and John Dillon, Trinity framed in terms of European religious conflicts.
College Dublin, Ireland
Includes 1 colour and 96 b&w illustrations
Ashgate Studies in Philosophy February 2009 384 pages
& Theology in Late Antiquity Hardback 978-0-7546-5290-8 £55.00
2007 152 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-0385-6 £50.00
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Religion and the Arts
Keats, Hermeticism,
and the Secret Societies
Jennifer N. Wunder, Georgia Gwinnett College, USA
The Nineteenth Century Series
Wunder recovers the common knowledge about secret
societies like the Rosicrucians and Freemasons during
the Romantic period and offers readers a first look
at the role they played in the writings of Romantic
authors in general and Keats in particular. As she details
the reading public’s exposure to and fascination with
articles, pamphlets, and books about the societies,
Wunder also traces their influence on Keats’s poetry
and letters and offers a new perspective on Keats
scholarship.
May 2008 214 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6186-3 £55.00
eBook 978-0-7546-8008-6 www.ashgate.com/ebooks
NEW
The Netherlandish Image after
Iconoclasm, 1566–1672
Material Religion in the Dutch Golden Age
Mia M. Mochizuki, Jesuit School of Theology and
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley,
California, USA
“This book breaks new ground through its conceptual
structure and its approach to art in sacred space and
helps explain how the rejection of religious imagery led
to a redefinition of art itself. This is history at its best,
and as such, it should command the attention of a
wide range of readers: anyone who is interested in the
Reformation, the Netherlands, religious symbols, art and
aesthetics will find this book indispensable.”
—Carlos M.N. Eire, Yale University, USA
Debunking the myth of the stark white Protestant church
interior, this innovative book draws on art history,
reformation history and theology to explain the impact
of iconoclasm on the cultural topography of the Dutch
Golden Age. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs
of many objects never before published, this study
identifies a previously overlooked aspect of iconoclasm:
while acknowledging its destructive force, Mochizuki
also discloses its generative power and the remarkable
creativity it unleashed.
Includes 158 colour and 61 b&w illustrations and 4 ground plans
November 2008 424 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6104-7 £65.00
28 Religious Studies and Theology 2009
The Playfulness
of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Joseph J. Feeney, SJ, Saint Joseph’s
University, USA
The Nineteenth Century Series
“…[Feeney’s] accessibly written book is an important
contribution to a new phase in Hopkins studies.”
—Catherine Phillips, Downing College, Cambridge,
editor of Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works
Renowned Hopkins expert Joseph J. Feeney, SJ, offers
a fresh take on Gerard Manley Hopkins that begins
the next phase in Hopkins studies. In both his poetry
and prose Feeney discovers a distinctive playfulness
inextricably bound to Hopkins’s creativity, style, and
poetic competitiveness-even, strikingly, in “The Wreck
of the Deutschland” and the “Terrible Sonnets.” No one
who absorbs these radical readings will ever see his
poems the same way.
April 2008
Hardback
228 pages
978-0-7546-6005-7 £55.00
eBook 978-0-7546-9229-4 www.ashgate.com/ebooks
NEW
The Reformation in Rhyme
Sternhold, Hopkins and the English
Metrical Psalter, 1547–1603
Beth Quitslund, Ohio University, USA
St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
The Whole Booke of Psalmes was one of the most
published and widely read books of early modern
England, running to over 800 editions between the
1570s and the early eighteenth century. It offered all of
the Psalms paraphrased in verse with appropriate tunes,
together with an assortment of other scriptural and
non-scriptual hymns, and was rapidly (if unofficially)
adopted by the established English Church. Yet, despite
the significant impact of the Whole Booke of Psalmes
upon English culture and literature, this is the first
book-length study of it, and the first sustained critical
examination of the texts of which it comprises. By
tracing the ways in which historical contingency,
religious fervor and the print marketplace together
created and were changed by one of the most successful
books of English verse ever printed, this study opens a
new window through which to view the intellectual and
ecclesiastical culture of Tudor England.
October 2008 340 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6326-3 £60.00
NEW
Visualizing Medieval Performance
Perspectives, Histories, Contexts
Edited by Elina Gertsman, Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale, USA
“…This is a significant contribution to an emerging
field of enquiry…”
—Carol Symes, University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign, USA, author of A Common Stage:
Theater and Public Life In Medieval Arras
Taking a fresh look at the interconnections between
medieval theater, images, texts, and practices of
viewing, reading and listening, this volume explores
various manifestations of performance and meanings
of performativity in the Middle Ages. The contributors-
from their various perspectives as scholars of art history,
religion, history, literary studies, theatre studies, music
and dance-combine their resources to reassess the
complexity of expressions and definitions of medieval
performance in a variety of different media.
Includes 41 b&w illustrations and 1 music example
October 2008 366 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6436-9 £65.00
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2009 catalogue
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 Index
A C
Aboriginal Environmental Knowledge .............................22
Aloi, Peg ...........................................................................21
Alpha Enterprise, The .......................................................13
Altarpieces and Their Viewers in the Churches
of Rome from Caravaggio to Guido Reni....................27
Alternative Religions.........................................................21
Althaus-Reid, Marcella....................................................15
Amos and the Cosmic Imagination ................................25
Analytical Thomism .........................................................17
Anamnesis and the Eucharist ...........................................8
Anselm of Canterbury ........................................................5
Aquinas on God................................................................20
Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome ...........................27
Arthur, Rosemary A. ........................................................30
Art of the Sublime, The.....................................................27
Arweck, Elisabeth ............................................................16
Asprey, Chris ......................................................................2
Astley, Jeff ..........................................................................7
Athanasius..........................................................................5
Athenagoras........................................................................5
Atonement, Christology and the Trinity.............................2
Attfield, Robin ..................................................................17
Aune, Kristin ....................................................................16
Avant-Garde Icon, The ......................................................27
B Creation: Law and Probability ..........................................11
Baker, Chris........................................................................7
Baker, Christopher Richard ..............................................3
Baptismal Liturgy of Jerusalem, The.................................9
Barker, Eileen ...................................................................15
Barrow, Julia ....................................................................30
Bartel, Michelle................................................................13
Barth’s Theology of Interpretation .....................................6
Barth, Israel, and Jesus......................................................6
Bartholomew, Craig...........................................................8
Barton, John.....................................................................25
Basinger, David................................................................19
Bebbington, David...........................................................29
Bedford-Strohm, H. .........................................................14
Berger, Peter ....................................................................14
Bergmann, S. ...................................................................14
Bernauer, James................................................................5
Bible and Lay People, The...................................................7
Biblical Scholarship and the Church ...............................25
Bilimoria, Purushottama.................................................24
Biodivinity and Biodiversity..............................................13
Blewett, Timothy ..............................................................13
Boase, Roger....................................................................24
Book of Ezekiel and its Influence, The .............................25
Bowald, Mark Alan ..........................................................25
Boyd, Craig A. ....................................................................4
Brauch, Julia....................................................................15
Briggs, J.H.Y. ....................................................................29
British Foreign Policy and the Anglican Church..............13
Brümmer, Vincent........................................................2, 20
Brundin, Abigail...............................................................30
Buddhism, Knowledge and Liberation ............................23
Buddhism and Postmodern Imaginings in Thailand......24
Buddhism as Philosophy.................................................23
Burke, Jill..........................................................................27
Burton, David ...................................................................23
Bury, Michael...................................................................27
Bychkov, Oleg V. ...............................................................26
Byrne, Peter......................................................................20
32 Religious Studies and Theology 2009
Encounter Between Eastern Orthodoxy and Radical
Orthodoxy ......................................................................3
Cambridge Theology in the Nineteenth Century..............2
Encyclopedia of Cremation ..............................................13
Caribbean Diaspora in the USA .......................................22
Entering the New Theological Space .................................7
Carrette, Jeremy ................................................................5
Ethics of War, The .............................................................17
Case-Winters, Anna.........................................................12
Eucharistic Sacramentality in an Ecumenical Context.....4
Cathey, Robert Andrew ...................................................17
Evagrius Ponticus.............................................................29
Centrality of Religion in Social Life, The...........................15
Exodus Church and Civil Society .....................................13
Challenges of the Pentecostal, Charismatic and
Explorations in a Christian Theology of Pilgrimage...........8
Messianic Jewish Movements, The ..........................22
Explorations in Christian Theology and Ethics ...............13
Child, Louise.....................................................................24
Explorations in Neuroscience, Psychology
Christ and Human Rights..................................................2
and Religion ................................................................11
Christian Citizens in an Islamic State .............................24
Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age..........16
Christian Inculturation in India..........................................9
Christian Theology of Place, A ...........................................7 F
Christology and Science...................................................11
Faith and Beauty...............................................................26
Church, Community and Power ......................................13
Faithful Performances.......................................................26
Church in Anglican Theology, The.....................................8
Farley, Edward ..................................................................26
Cole, Michael W. ..............................................................27
Feeney, Joseph J., SJ.......................................................28
Collins, Paul M...................................................................9
Feist, Richard ...................................................................12
Comparative Approaches to Chinese Philosophy...........23
Felderhof, Marius ...............................................................8
Contemporary Biblical Hermeneutics ...............................2
Fifty Years in Science and Religion ...................................11
Contemporary Religious Satanism..................................21
First Communion................................................................9
Contradiction in the Book of Proverbs .............................25
First Islamist Republic, The ..............................................15
Coolsaet, Rik ....................................................................15
Flanagan, Kieran..............................................................16
Cox, James L. ...................................................................22
Fletcher, Paul......................................................................2
Creation, Evolution and Meaning....................................17
Fodor, James ....................................................................26
Fokas, Effie .......................................................................14
Crisp, Oliver........................................................................5
Folda, Jaroslav .................................................................27
Cross, Richard .................................................................20
Four Modes of Seeing, The ...............................................27
Crusader Art......................................................................27
Francis, Leslie J..................................................................7
Cult of Saint Catherine of Siena, The...............................29
Freedom of Religion, Apostasy and Islam .......................24
D From Clement to Origen...................................................29
From Human to Posthuman............................................11
D.Z. Phillips’ Contemplative Philosophy of Religion.......19
From Primitive to Indigenous ...........................................22
Daily Liturgical Prayer .........................................................9
Furseth, Inger...................................................................15
Dandelion, Pink..............................................................3, 9
Furthering Humanity........................................................13
Davie, Grace .....................................................................14
Future of Reason, Science and Faith, The........................17
Davies, Douglas J. .....................................................13, 21
Dawson, Andrew..............................................................21 G
Dawson, R. Dale ................................................................6
Gabriel, Theodore.............................................................24
Day, Abby..........................................................................16
Gallab, Abdullahi A..........................................................15
Day, David ..........................................................................7
Gay and Lesbian Theologies ..............................................3
Day, Juliette........................................................................9
Gellman, Jerome..............................................................19
Deacy, Christopher ..........................................................16
Genesis of Fiction, The .....................................................25
Deaf Liberation Theology....................................................8
Gertsman, Elina ...............................................................28
Debate and Dialogue........................................................29
Gignilliat, Mark S. ..............................................................6
DeRoo, Neal .....................................................................18
Gittoes, Julie.......................................................................8
Desmond, William ...........................................................20
God and the Nature of Time.............................................19
DeWeese, Garrett J..........................................................19
God in Postliberal Perspective ..........................................17
Dillon, John ......................................................................27
Goduka, Nomalungelo I. .................................................22
Dionysius the Areopagite and the
Good and Evil......................................................................3
Neoplatonist Tradition.................................................27
Gorringe, T.J. ....................................................................13
Disciplining the Divine.......................................................2
Graves, Mark ....................................................................12
Dix, Kenneth ....................................................................29
Greek Philosophers as Theologians.................................17
Does God Exist?................................................................19
Guthrie, Steven R.............................................................26
Doig, Allan........................................................................10
Domning, Daryl P.............................................................12 H
Doran, John......................................................................30
Haldeman, Scott..............................................................10
Drozdek, Adam ................................................................17
Hall, David J. ....................................................................29
Duns Scotus on God ........................................................20
Harries, Richard ..............................................................26
Dutton, Edward................................................................15
Hart, Trevor A. ..................................................................26
E Harvie, Timothy ................................................................18
Hatton, Peter ....................................................................25
Early and Medieval Rituals and Theologies of Baptism....9
Healy, Nicholas M..............................................................5
Ecumenism Today ..............................................................2
Hebrew Life and Literature ...............................................25
Edge, Peter W...................................................................14
Heelas, Paul .....................................................................14
Hegel’s God ......................................................................20
Hellwig, Monika K............................................................12
Helm, Paul..........................................................................5
Hermkens, Anna-Karina .................................................14
Hocken, Peter...................................................................22
Hodgson, Peter E.............................................................12
Hogg, David S. ...................................................................5
Holiness, Speech and Silence............................................3
Homan, Roger..................................................................27
Hornborg, Anne-Christine ..............................................23
Horner, Robyn ....................................................................5
Hospital Chaplaincy in the 21st Century ..........................7
Houghton-Walker, Sarah.................................................27
Hoyland, Greg ....................................................................3
Hughes, Fred......................................................................8
Hunt, Stephen..................................................................13
Hunt, Stephen J...............................................................21
Hybrid Church in the City, The ..........................................3
Hyde-Price, Adrian...........................................................13
I Lindsay, Mark R..................................................................6
Identity of Christian Morality, The....................................18
Idol in the Age of Art, The.................................................27
Indian Ethics.....................................................................24
Indigenous Peoples’ Wisdom and Power.........................22
Inge, John...........................................................................7
Inspiring Faith in Schools...................................................8
Introduction to Madhva Vedanta, An...............................23
Introduction to the Sociology of Religion, An..................15
Introduction to Yoga Philosophy, An ...............................23
Iqbal, Muzaffar .................................................................11
Isherwood, Lisa..................................................................4
Islam and Global Dialogue...............................................24
Islam and Science ............................................................11
Italian Reform and English Reformations,
c.1535 - c.1585.............................................................30
J Manoussakis, John P.......................................................18
Jacobsen, Knut A. ...........................................................24
James, Simon P................................................................23
Jan de Jonge, Henk.........................................................25
Jansdotter, M....................................................................14
Jansen, Willy ....................................................................14
Jean-Luc Marion ................................................................5
Jenkins, Allan K. ..............................................................25
Jewish Topographies ........................................................15
Jihadi Terrorism and the Radicalisation Challenge
in Europe .....................................................................15
John Clare’s Religion........................................................27
John Owen..........................................................................5
Johnston, Hannah E........................................................21
Jonathan Edwards.............................................................5
Jones, Pamela..................................................................27
Jones, R. Tudur.................................................................29
Jupp, Peter C....................................................................16
Jürgen Moltmann’s Ethics of Hope ................................18
K Mou, Bo ............................................................................23
Kahlos, Maijastina...........................................................29
Kaiser, Christopher B. .....................................................12
Kamal, Muhammad ........................................................23
Kant on God......................................................................20
Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe.....................22
Karl Barth and the Fifth Gospel ..........................................6
Kearney, Richard .............................................................17
Kearsley, Roy....................................................................13
Keats, Hermeticism, and the Secret Societies ................28
Keller, James A. ...............................................................19
Kennedy, David J. ..............................................................4
Kim, Sebastian C.H. ..........................................................3
Kimura, G.W. ......................................................................3
Kirk, J. Andrew.................................................................17
Knight, Douglas H. ............................................................6
Kollontai, Pauline...............................................................3
Konstantinovsky, Julia.....................................................29
Kraft, James.....................................................................19
Kunnie, Julian E...............................................................22
L O
Lai, Karyn .........................................................................23
Lane, Evelyn Staudinger..................................................27
Lang, Bernhard ................................................................25
Lash, Nicholas ...................................................................3
Laudine, Catherine ..........................................................22
Learning from Chinese Philosophies ..............................23
Lewis, Hannah ...................................................................8
Liberation Theology and Sexuality ...................................15
Linville, James R. .............................................................25
Lipphardt, Anna ...............................................................15
Liturgical Space ..................................................................9
Liturgies of Quakerism, The ...............................................9
Liturgy and Architecture...................................................10
Liturgy and the Beauty of the Unknown ...........................8
Liturgy in the Age of Reason............................................10
Llewellyn, Dawn ...............................................................15
Locke, Kenneth A. .............................................................8
Logan, Ian.........................................................................18
Long, Arthur .....................................................................29
Luke the Priest ..................................................................25
M Phillips, D.Z. .....................................................................20
Maclean, Iain S. ...............................................................14
Malhotra, Ashok Kumar..................................................23
Marks, Darren C.................................................................5
Martin, David....................................................................15
Masterson, Patrick...........................................................19
Mates, Lewis H.................................................................13
McGrail, Peter ....................................................................9
McPhillips, Kathleen .........................................................4
Mealey, Ann Marie...........................................................18
Meeting Jesus at University ............................................15
Mi’kmaq Landscapes .......................................................23
Michel Foucault and Theology ...........................................5
Michielin, Maico M............................................................6
Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul ....................................12
Mitchell, Claire.................................................................14
Mochizuki, Mia M. ...........................................................28
Mooney, Edward F. ...........................................................17
Moore, Andrew ................................................................17
Moore, Rosemary ............................................................29
Mormon Culture of Salvation, The...................................21
Morris, Wayne ....................................................................8
Moved by Mary .................................................................14
Mulla Sadra’s Transcendent Philosophy .........................23
Murphy, Francesca Aran...................................................2
Mystical Experience of God ..............................................19
Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters ...........................30
N Reason, Faith and History................................................18
Native Christians..............................................................23
Nature, Space and the Sacred..........................................14
Neopragmatism and Theological Reason .........................3
Netherlandish Image after Iconoclasm,
1566 - 1672, The...........................................................28
New Era - New Religions..................................................21
New Generation Witches, The..........................................21
Newlands, George .............................................................2
Nichols, Aidan .................................................................26
Ninian Smart on World Religions.....................................21
Nocke, Alexandra ............................................................15
Notermans, Catrien .........................................................14
Oeming, Manfred ..............................................................2
Old Testament: Canon, Literature and Theology, The .....25
Onnekink, David...............................................................30
On Paul Ricoeur ................................................................17
On Secularization .............................................................15
On Soren Kierkegaard.......................................................17
Original Selfishness .........................................................12
Overell, M. Anne ..............................................................30
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Pabst, Adrian......................................................................3
Paeth, Scott R. .................................................................13
Parsons, Gerald................................................................29
Passion in Art, The ...........................................................26
Pastan, Elizabeth Carson ................................................27
Paterson, Craig ................................................................17
Paver, John E......................................................................8
Peace and Reconciliation....................................................3
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Rankin, David Ivan...........................................................29
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Welch, John W. ................................................................25
West Syrian Liturgical Theology .......................................10
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Whose God? Which Tradition ............................................20
Wicker, Brian....................................................................24
William L. Rowe on Philosophy of Religion......................20
Witnesses to Faith?...........................................................24
Wolfhart Pannenberg on Human Destiny .........................6
Women’s Faith Development .............................................8
Women and Religion in the West .....................................16
Women Religious Leaders in Japan’s Christian
Century, 1549 - 1650 ...................................................30
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