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Religion
Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism From Thanksgiving to Communion
Kimberly Hope Belcher | University of Notre Dame, Indiana Discussions between Christians from different traditions often focus on doctrine, but for many Christians, differences in practice and worship are much more central and important. By looking at the eucharist as thanksgiving, this book bridges Catholic and Protestant practice and theology and shows a new approach to Christian unity. • Receptive ecumenism is a relatively new approach to dialogue between
Christians from different denominations.; this book is both an exercise in the method and a demonstration of scholarly humility in action • The historical context of theological development, especially what
Christians were doing and what they thought they ought to be doing, is used to contextualize contentious doctrines and debates like transubstantiation and sacrifice • The author’s approach both expands our understanding of the eucharist and illuminates the role of thanksgiving in our daily and spiritual life September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-83956-3 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Aspects of Truth A New Religious Metaphysics
Catherine Pickstock | University of Cambridge This bold new work offers a discussion of the topic of truth from simultaneously philosophical and theological perspectives. It argues for the value of a metaphysical approach to truth. This approach defends the notion that truth cannot be separated from what the author calls ‘the reality of the thinking soul’. • Advances a daring and original new argument about truth that unites philosophy and theology as well as premodern and postmodern perspectives • The author, an originator of the controversial Radical Orthodoxy movement, is one of the most creative and best known theological thinkers at work today • Moves towards a notion of truth that gets beyond the limitations of epistemological argument, and as such will be of great interest to theologians and philosophers alike October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.275pp 978-1-108-84032-3 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
Ambrose, Augustine, and the Pursuit of Greatness
J. Warren Smith | Duke University, North Carolina Two important theologians of early Christianity were Ambrose of Milan and Augustine of Hippo. Both were intellectually formed by philosophers, such as Cicero, who taught that virtue was the way to greatness. Yet they saw contradictions between Roman and Christian ethical ideals. Could these competing visions of greatness be reconciled? • Examines the Classical and Hellenistic cultural backgrounds for the development of Christian theology and ethics in late antiquity • Examines how two major Latin theologians, Ambrose and Augustine, used the language of greatness to distinguish Christian virtue from pagan virtue • Provides an account of the development of the idea of greatness and the ideal of the great-souled man after Aristotle October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-49074-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Law and the Rule of God A Christian Engagement with Shari’a
Joshua Ralston | University of Edinburgh This book presents a new comparative approach to the relationship between law, politics, secularism, and religion in Christianity and Islam. Academics and students in theology, Islamic Studies, religion and politics, and law will benefit from this study of how sharī’a and Christian theology have been debated across the centuries. • This is the first book length academic study of sharī’a and law in
Christian-Muslim dialogue • Proposes a new method of comparative political theology to engage
Christian, Muslim, and secular debates on law, religion, and politics • Advances a theological account of public law that is both particular to the Christian tradition and open to dialogue with Islamic political theology
Current Issues in Theology, 15
September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-48982-9 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Human Anguish and God’s Power
David Kelsey | Yale University, Connecticut This book is for seminary and doctrinal students in theology, theologically reflective clergy, and anyone else who is troubled by the suggestion that because God is unrestricted power, God must be the explanation of ‘why’ horrendous suffering happens. • Uses traditional Christian Trinitarian terms to characterize God’s power • Addresses the suggestion that because God is unrestricted power, God must be the explanation of ‘why’ horrendous suffering happens • Opens up space to legitimize an avowed ‘faithful agnosticism’ about
‘why’ we experience both profound suffering and the Triune God’s grace
Current Issues in Theology, 16
November 2020 216 x 138 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-83697-5 Hardback c. £29.99 / c. US$39.99 P
The Origins of Early Christian Literature Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture
Robyn Faith Walsh | University of Miami, Coral Gables Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for religious communities, akin to the Romantic poet speaking for the common folk. This book argues that they were written by educated elites in dialogue with Greco-Roman literature, not exclusively by and for Christian communities. • Offers an interdisciplinary approach to the Synoptic gospels using methods from classics and literary theory, as well as religious studies • Demonstrates how the field of New Testament studies remains indebted to methods practiced since the era of German Romanticism • Offers novel readings of the Synoptic gospels, comparing them with allied Greek and Latin literature November 2020 228 x 152 mm c.325pp 978-1-108-83530-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
An Apostolic Gospel The ‘Epistula Apostolorum’ in Literary Context
Francis Watson | University of Durham This book is intended for scholars and students of the New Testament and early Christianity, and highlights the significance of an early gospellike text that has been neglected owing to the inadequacy of previous translations. A new translation is provided, and links with other early Christian literature are explored. • Provides a new translation of the Epistula Apostolorum, drawn from the Coptic, Ethiopic, and fragmentary Latin manuscripts, with a textual apparatus in English listing textual variants • Includes in-depth studies of key theological themes, locating them in their wider early Christian literary context • Includes extensive additional notes on issues of text, translation and exegesis, keyed to the translation
Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 179
December 2020 228 x 152 mm c.325pp 978-1-108-84041-5 Hardback c. £80.00 / c. US$105.00 C
Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice Miscellany and the Transformation of GrecoRoman Writing
J. M. F. Heath | University of Durham For readers of Patristics, Classics, and Early Christian Studies, this book offers the fullest treatment of Clement of Alexandria’s literary form and its relationship to his theology since the 1960s, and is the only one that draws much on comparative evidence from Roman imperial authors. • Compares Clement as a Christian miscellanist with particular examples from Classical tradition • Contextualises Clement’s Stromateis within his larger literary project, as the third work in a sequence that begins with the Protrepticus and
Paedagogus • Combines literary, theological, and cultural historical approaches December 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-84342-3 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Church and the Law
Volume 56 Edited by Rosamond McKitterick | University of Cambridge This volume explores the legal issues and legal consequences underlying relations between secular and religious authorities in the context of the Christian Church, deepening our understanding of interactions between the churches and the legal systems in which they existed in the past and continue to exist now. • Explores the long and complex history of the relationship between the Church and the law, from the emergence of the Christian Church within Roman Palestine through to the present day • Features a wide range of leading scholars in the field • Contains contributions on a diverse range of historical and regional contexts, including the Anglican Church in nineteenth-century South
China; excommunications in twelfth-century England, and the Slavic
Nomocanon in the thirteenth century
Studies in Church History
July 2020 228 x 138 mm 544pp 978-1-108-83963-1 Hardback £65.00 / US$105.00 C
Salafism and Traditionalism Scholarly Authority in Modern Islam
Emad Hamdeh | Embry-Riddle University This book highlights the heated debates between Muslim scholars in the Modern Muslim world, especially between Salafis and Traditionalists. It covers the emergence of modern reform movements, the role of print and the internet, Islamic education, the production of scholarly authority, and the different approaches to Islamic scripture and law. • The first book that focuses exclusively on the debates that took place between Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albānī, the 20th century’s most influential Salafi, and his Traditionalists critics • Contextualizes the history of Islamic scholarship and scholarly authority in the 20th century • Provides a detailed analysis on the debate surrounding the authority of the Muslim schools of law (madhhabs). In other words, does one understand scripture on its own or through scholarly tradition? December 2020 229 x 152 mm c.256pp 978-1-108-48535-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
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War, Memory, and National Identity in the Hebrew Bible
Jacob L. Wright | Emory University, Atlanta Drawing on the intriguing interdisciplinary research on war commemoration, the book shows that war pervades the pages of the Bible because its authors were engaged in an effort to forge a corporate identity for Israel, one that can both transcend deep divisions within the population and withstand military conquest by imperial armies. • Demonstrates how the biblical authors worked in the framework of a common narrative to create a new political identity • Includes inter-disciplinary and comparative perspectives, including ‘war commemoration’ and brings the biblical narratives into conversation with political theory and political theology • Highlights distinctive features of the biblical corpus, and reflects on persisting concerns for political communities including kinship, marginalized others, volunteerism, and conflict resolution July 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-48089-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Theology of the Books of Haggai and Zechariah
Robert Foster | University of Georgia This book serves readers interested in an academic analysis of the theological message of the Books of Haggai and Zechariah. Those interested in an in-depth discussion of key theological themes and the ethical message of the prophets of the Old Testament, especially the minor prophets, will benefit from this book. • Provides a focused and thorough discussion of the key theological teachings of the books of Haggai and Zechariah • Offers a summary of theological ethics of each major section of the books of Haggai and Zechariah, as well as how these interact with the theological ethics of the books of the Old Testament • Discusses the theology of the Book of Zechariah in terms of its final form, to help the reader see its unified message while acknowledging its development across time
Old Testament Theology
October 2020 216 x 140 mm c.250pp 978-1-108-47550-1 Hardback £69.99 / US$89.99 P 978-1-108-46858-9 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P
Divine Aggression in Psalms and Inscriptions Vengeful Gods and Loyal Kings
Collin Cornell | University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee Students of theology, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East know that the biblical god acted destructively against his own client king and country. This book rereads familiar biblical psalms within their ancient contexts to determine if this theological vision was unique – or if other gods were just as vengeful. • Provides a sustained comparison between royal biblical psalms and ancient inscriptions • Demonstrates the distinctive features of the biblical god, especially in terms of his aggression against his own client king and country • Argues for the loyalty of kings to their specific patron god
Society for Old Testament Study Monographs
October 2020 216 x 140 mm c.325pp 978-1-108-84267-9 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Isabel Cranz | University of Pennsylvania Royal illness as portrayed in the Hebrew Bible anticipates the failure of kingship resulting in the destruction of Israel and Judah. This is the first systematic study of royal illness in this context. It will be of interest to students and scholars of history in the ancient Near East, biblical studies, medical humanities, and disability studies. • Presents a comprehensive study of royal illness in the Books of Samuel,
Kings and Chronicles • Applies a diachronic approach in combination with medical humanities and disability studies • Demonstrates how the motif of the sick king functions both symbolically and pragmatically, while being adapted to different ideological frameworks
Society for Old Testament Study Monographs
October 2020 216 x 140 mm c.275pp 978-1-108-83049-2 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Cognitive Science and Ancient Israelite Religion New Perspectives on Texts, Artifacts, and Culture
Brett E. Maiden | Emory University, Atlanta Recent tools and findings from the cognitive sciences illuminate religious thought and behaviour in ancient Israel and the Bible. Primarily intended for scholars of the Bible and religion, it is also relevant to cognitive scientists, researchers, and graduate students interested in the intersection of cognition and culture. • Offers an accessible introduction to the current state of the cognitive study of religion, especially for biblical scholars and historians of religion • Provides theoretical discussion and concrete examples, in the form of case studies, of interdisciplinary scholarship in action • Examines different interrelated topics in the study Israelite religion, including theoretical, artistic, and textual
Society for Old Testament Study Monographs
October 2020 216 x 138 mm c.300pp 8 b/w illus. 978-1-108-48778-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Life, Land, and Elijah in the Book of Kings
Daniel J. D. Stulac | Duke University, North Carolina Addresses a key question in biblical studies: the Elijah narratives’ contribution to the theological vision of the book of Kings. Using a canonical-agrarian approach, this book challenges longstanding assumptions to offer a new concept of the narratives’ rhetorical and theological contribution and insights into Elijah’s iconographical character. • Provides a simple description of and rationale for both a ‘canonical approach’ to the Bible (often misunderstood) and an ‘agrarian hermeneutic’, an emerging lens on biblical literature • Offers a cogent description of the narrative rhetoric and theological vision of the Elijah narratives (1 Kings 17-2 Kings 2) • Reveals a coherent interpretation of the Elijah narratives that bears directly on theological and social issues such as care for the earth
Society for Old Testament Study Monographs
January 2021 216 x 140 mm c.325pp 978-1-108-84374-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Book of Proverbs and Virtue Ethics Integrating the Biblical and Philosophical Traditions
Arthur Jan Keefer | Eton College In giving undivided attention to biblical virtue, this book opens the way for new avenues of study in biblical ethics, including law, narrative, and other aspects of biblical instruction and wisdom. It will be of interest to researchers and scholars within both biblical and philosophical disciplines. • Offers a new interpretation of the book of Proverbs from the standpoint of virtue ethics • Uses an innovative method to compare biblical and philosophical texts, explaining the moral theories of each within their respective sociohistorical contexts • Provides an in-depth and contextual reading of the ethics of the book of Proverbs October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.325pp 978-1-108-83977-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Gender and Christian Ethics
Adrian Thatcher | University of Exeter This book is for students of theology, Christian ethics, and religious and gender studies; and everyone longing for the full acceptance of women and LGBTIQ people in the churches and beyond. It exposes the roots of prejudice against women and sexual minorities, and offers constructive proposals for gender justice. • Analyses gender as the relations between women and men, as a symbolic system, and as personal identity • Exposes the inadequacy of binary models of gender and challenges notions of ‘complementarity’ and the ‘war on gender’ in contemporary
Christian thought • Offers a non-binary model of gender based on core Christian doctrines
New Studies in Christian Ethics
September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-83948-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Heidegger and His Jewish Reception
Daniel M. Herskowitz | University of Oxford Offering a breadth unmatched by any other study to date, this book deals with the intense Jewish engagement with Martin Heidegger’s philosophy. It demonstrates that while his anti-Semitism made his Jewish reception inevitably fraught, no other philosopher has impacted and fomented twentieth century Jewish European thought more than Heidegger. • Demonstrates the centrality of Heidegger’s philosophy for twentieth century European Jewish thought • Sets the Jewish encounter with Heidegger alongside other twentieth century philosophical and religious strands • Brings together leading Jewish philosophers alongside many lessknown figures, from a number of different geographical locations, over an extended period of time, and introduces new materials October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-84046-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Antichrist A New Biography
Philip C. Almond | University of Queensland This is the first full history of the Antichrist in twenty-five years. Written for the general reader, it tells of the history of the Antichrist in both Eastern and Western Christianity from his beginnings in the New Testament through to the present. • The first full treatment for 25 years of a subject that continues to generate enormous interest • Offers new interpretations of the continuing significance of the
Antichrist in popular culture • The author’s earlier book on the Devil (IB Tauris) was a widely reviewed academic bestseller September 2020 216 x 138 mm 354pp 16 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. 978-1-108-47965-3 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
From the Material to the Mystical in Late Medieval Piety The Vernacular Transmission of Gertrude of Helfta’s Visions
Racha Kirakosian | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany Challenging the long-standing idea that translations do not bear the same literary or historical weight as the supposed originals upon which they are based, this book shows that vernacular manuscripts tell us a great deal about medieval culture, especially as textiles and other material objects came to infuse devotional piety. • Provides examples of textiles which have influenced devotional culture • Discusses collective writing over long periods of time and in a manuscript culture • Makes the point that the transmission history of texts encompasses redactions which are as valuable as the text sources upon which they are modelled January 2021 253 x 177 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-84123-8 Hardback c. £80.00 / c. US$105.00 C
Aquinas, Bonaventure, and the Scholastic Culture of Medieval Paris Preaching, Prologues, and Biblical Commentary
Randall Smith | University of St Thomas, Houston Employing an in-depth study of the prologues and preaching skills of Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure, this book will spur a fundamental reconsideration of the scholastic culture of the High Middle Ages and of the educational culture that informed their impressive body of work whose influence is still widespread today. • Reveals the ‘protreptic’ character of thirteenth century prologues, both in terms of the artistry of its style and its theological significance • Provides the reader with the knowledge and resources to read medieval sermons through an in-depth analysis of the development in the skill of preaching of Aquinas and Bonaventure • Provides the reader with the knowledge and resources to read
Bonaventure’s notoriously difficult Collations with greater ease and understanding December 2020 228 x 152 mm c.325pp 978-1-108-84115-3 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Tibetan Demonology
Christopher Bell | Stetson University, Florida This Element discusses the rich taxonomy of gods and demons encountered in Tibet. These spirits are often exhorted for diverse violent and wrathful activities. The author explores the role of divinities and demons in oracular possession, illness, astrology, ritual calendars, the landscape and as protectors of religious and political institutions.
Elements in Religion and Violence
July 2020 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-71267-5 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00
Hindu Monotheism
Gavin Dennis Flood | Yale University, Connecticut If by monotheism we mean the idea of a single transcendent God who creates the universe out of nothing, then that is not found in the history of Hinduism. But if we mean a supreme, transcendent deity who impels the universe, an ultimate source of all other gods who are her or his emanations, then this can be found in Hinduism.
Elements in Religion and Monotheism
August 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-73114-0 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00
Religious Terrorism
Heather Gregg | Naval Postgraduate School How can the world’s religions, which propagate peace and love, promote violence and the killing of innocent civilians through terrorist acts? This Element aims to provide insights into this puzzle by reviewing current debates, terrorist resources gained through religion, examples of cross-faith terrorism and a synopsis of deradicalization programs.
Elements in Religion and Violence
July 2020 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-73089-1 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
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The Bahá’í Faith, Violence, and Non-Violence
Robert H. Stockman | Wilmette Institute Both violence and non-violence are important themes in the Bahá’í Faith, but their relationship is not simple. The Bahá’í sacred writings see violence in the world as being a consequence of the immature state of human civilization. This Element explores how Bahá’í scriptures provide a blueprint for building a new culture where violence is rare.
Elements in Religion and Violence
August 2020 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-70627-8 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
Monotheism and Religious Diversity
Roger Trigg | University of Oxford If there is one God, why are there so many religions? This Element argues that monotheism provides the basis for a belief in objective truth. Human understanding is fallible and partial, without the idea of one God, there is no foundation for a belief in one reality or a common human nature. The shadow of monotheism lies over everything.
Elements in Religion and Monotheism
September 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-71445-7 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
Monotheism and Hope in God
William J. Wainwright | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee This Element examines aspects of monotheism and hope. Distinguishing monotheism from nontheistic religions, it explores how God transcends terms used to describe the religious ultimate. Wainwright examines the loves prized in Islam, Christianity and theistic Hinduism, and defends the sort of love valorized by them against some charges against it.
Elements in Religion and Monotheism
September 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-70809-8 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00
Divine Ideas
Thomas M. Ward | Baylor University, Texas This Element defends a version of the classical theory of divine ideas; the containment exemplarist theory. This holds that God’s own nature is the examplar of all possible creation, so God’s ideas are ideas of himself. Containment exemplarism offers a montheism fit for metaphysics, as it is coherent, simple and explanatorily powerful.
Elements in Religion and Monotheism
September 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-81969-5 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
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