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Theology: The Basics

scisBahTeog:yhTel The Christian Christian Theology:
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CHALLENGES IN CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY SERIES NEW
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encliSsGodn’gKpei

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Alien Sex
xeSniAl A Theology of The Promised End
hTenEd,eomsPri

The Body and Desire in Cinema and Eschatology in Theology and Literature
Theology
Engagement
AnEgame,tofgyhToel

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University of Oxford
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“sacred eroticism” from Gregory of Nyssa to Markham draws on a range of illuminating THEOLOGY SERIES
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NEW NEW

RyetnTahidr, The Trinity Reader Christology

ogyltsiChr

Classical and Modern Readings

Edited by LEWIS AYRES
ytiWEsSLrevIUnmAEiY,RSyEor

Emory University Edited by BRUCE MARSHALL

BRMUCEAHS,L

Southern Methodist University

This book is the most comprehensive collection of readings on the
Trinity currently available.The focus of the collection is on facilitating an This READER brings together in one volume both classic and
understanding of Trinitarian theology and its direction in the modern contemporary work on the nature of Christology. The book captures
period.The nature of Trinitarian theology as it emerged in early and the astonishing diversity in modern views of Christ, while at the same
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directions and methods of Trinitarian theology since the early twentieth Christological debate.
century.The READER also provides material from the time between the Accessibly structured, the volume includes a substantial introduction
Reformation and the end of the nineteenth century, creating new by the editor, which provides a conceptual framework for the
avenues for the exploration of this period. Each reading is prefaced by a readings. It concludes with a considerable set of readings from across
clear and extensive editorial introduction explaining its significance. the spectrum of modern Christology, including a number of
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Theology and Sexuality

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NEW NEW

Understanding Theology and Queer Theology

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Rethinking the Western Body

anTtsdhgoreuiCPlypau Popular Culture
Edited by GERARD LOUGHLIN
GREAOLDUNG,HIL

GORDON LYNCH
GOYNLRDCH,N
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
University of Birmingham
Theology is a queer thing, out of line with the modern world. It speaks of
UNDERSTANDING THEOLOGY AND POPULAR CULTURE is one of the first
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theories and debates for those new to the subject, as well as
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Drawing on original case studies ranging from Eminem to The divinizing desire, it radicalizes “queer theory” and its deconstruction of
Simpsons, the text examines the nature and role of popular culture, sexual and gender identities, the fundamental categories by which
and presents a reasoned argument about the distinctive contribution western bodies are known. Queer theology invokes a complex social
that theology can make to popular culture studies. space in which transcendent eros frees us from the fear of our differences.

288 PAGES / 3 FIGURES, 11 HALFTONES In this remarkable collection of specially commissioned essays, some of
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NEW
thought, the mobile products of ever changing discourses and regimes
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KELTON COBB
OTKLENCOB,

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culture is undertaken, discusses the writers who are doing it, and Both University College of Ripon and York St. John
outlines various general theories of popular culture.
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Disney fairytales, and the macabre television series Six Feet Under, the discussion.The main focus of the book is on the creative conversation
GUIDE identifies and discusses religious themes in popular culture. between film and theology in the contemporary West, and it raises
Using a template borrowed from traditional systematic theology, the crucial questions about the interaction between theology and culture.
author probes popular movies, novels, music, architectural design,
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architectural works, cultural events, and corporate icons that lend
themselves to theological analysis.

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JOURNALS DIRECTIONS IN MODERN THEOLOGY SERIES
Series Editors: JAMES J. BUCKLEY & JIM FODOR
Modern Theology
Edited by JIM FODOR &
oguelaDinnsaAqui Aquinas in Dialogue
Thomas for the Twenty-first Century
FREDERICK C. BAUERSCHMIDT
Edited by JIM FODOR & FREDERICK CHRISTIAN BAUERSCHMIDT
C.KRDBEFAUICSMHDI;,TJOFDR,

St Bonaventure University; Loyola College

MODERN THEOLOGY
publishes scholarly
articles addressing issues
specific to the discipline
of theology and wider
issues from a theological
perspective. The editorial
policy is ecumenical, and
the journal also publishes
critical book reviews,
review essays and
responses to articles.
SAMPLE CONTENTS
AQUINAS IN DIALOGUE explores Aquinas’s relevance to contemporary theology. The
volume comprises a series of essays written by both scholars of Aquinas and by those
who are actively involved in ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue.
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AN EXTRA 64
PAGES FOR 2005
NnGhgaeksyoitrf- Re-thinking Gregory of Nyssa
Edited by SARAH COAKLEY
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2 Concept Art, Clones, and Co-Creators: The Harvard Divinity School

Theology of Making
The thought of Gregory of Nyssa, the youngest of the fourth-century “Cappadocian”
Michael S. Northcott
Fathers, is currently at the centre of a number of important theological debates.
2 Symposium on Gift
This collection of specially commissioned essays calls the long-accepted interpretation
Tasmin Jones Farmer, Todd Billings,
of Gregory’s trinitarianism into radical question, and simultaneously urges a reading of
David Albertson and Scott Dolff
his “pedagogy of desire” that will cause a major reconsideration of his methods of
2 The ‘Open Country Whose Name is Prayer’: trinitarian exposition. The implications for renewed ecumenical dialogue between east
Apophasis, Deconstruction, and Contemplative and west are also considered.
Practice 144 PAGES / 1-4051-0637-9 PB / FEBRUARY 2003
Martin Laird

2 The Crossing of the Feminine and the

Resurrection of Race: On the Paschal Shape of
Freedom in Frederick Douglass’ 1845 Narrative
J. Kameron Carter
2 The Simplicity of the Living God: Aquinas and
Theology and Eschatology at the Turn of
enhMltuTmoiraf the Millennium
GOJRELAN.M;OSY,.RJE Edited by JAMES J. BUCKLEY & L. GREGORY JONES
Loyola College, Maryland; Duke University, North Carolina

Barth
Re-readings of medieval millenarian movements, competing modern and post-modern
Chris Franks
utopias and futurologies as well as ideologies of despair and violence - all of these have
www.blackwellpublishing.com/MOTH a claim on modern theology's eschatology, but in different and competing ways. This
volume brings together students of Scripture, the history of Christianity, and various
ISSN: 0266-7177, VOLUME 21 (2005), QUARTERLY
contemporary theologies to consider the ways diverse and often conflicting
eschatological narratives, images and beliefs might bear on the new millennium.

144 PAGES / 0-631-23395-4 PB / 2002

Also of interest: The Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology, edited by

Gareth Jones, on page 7

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NEW JOURNALS

TWENTIETH–
ThceoCtng-uyailr Twentieth-century Catholic Theology New
C E N T U RY From Chenu to John Paul II
C AT H O L I C
THEOLOGY
Blackfriars
FERGUS KERR FERGUS KERR
REGFUSKRE,
A Review: Edited by the
Blackfriars, Oxford and University of Edinburgh
Dominicans of the
This book reports on the lives and works of the most influential Catholic theologians
English Province
of the twentieth century, including: Chenu, the guru of the French worker priest Edited by FERGUS KERR
movement; Congar who was imprisoned in Colditz; de Lubac who spent much time
on the run from the Gestapo; Küng who was banned from teaching for decades Founded in 1920 as a focus
despite being the most widely read Catholic theologian of modern times; and the of Catholic Christian
controversial prelate, John Paul II. reflection on current
Author Fergus Kerr, one of the foremost Roman Catholic theologians currently events, NEW BLACKFRIARS publishes articles and
writing in English, discusses the theological development of each figure and their book reviews of general interest, with an emphasis
relationship to Church teaching. He highlights how each one contributed to the on theology, philosophy and cultural studies.
reform and renewal of the Church at the Second Vatican Council, and discloses the
different ways in which they looked back on Vatican II. This stimulating book reflects
SAMPLE CONTENTS
on Catholic theology today, considering the revival of interest in Aquinas, liberation 2 Between Exile and Redemption: A View of the
theology, Catholic feminist theology, and recent Anglo-American work. Catholic Church in England
240 PAGES / 1-4051-2083-5 HB / 1-4051-2084-3 PB / AUGUST 2005
Allan White OP

2 The Being of God: The Limits of Theological

Thinking after Heidegger
NEW
Laurence Paul Hemming
Rewritten Theology 2 Divine Disclosure and Concealment in Bach,
Aquinas after His Readers
ytihoArutnadnsaAqui

Pascal and Levinas

MARK D. JORDAN
OMJDRA.KN, John McDade SJ
Emory University
2 The Paradox of God’s Hiddenness and
Recent years have seen numerous appropriations of Thomas Aquinas’s work by a Accessability in St Ephrem
range of theologians, from liberal Catholics to the creators of radical orthodoxy. Robert Murray SJ
Responding to this upsurge of interest, this book goes straight to the heart of the
2 The Hiddenness of the Spirit: The
contemporary debates about Thomism.
Disappearance of God from the English
Author Mark Jordan focuses on the concept of authority, both in terms of Aquinas’s Cultural Framework
own attitude to authority and how the Church authorities have used Aquinas to Nicholas Boyle
shore up their own position. He shows how to read Aquinas from, into and against
theological authorities, and argues for future readings of Thomas which are 2 No Other Gods Before Me? A Dialogue with St
substantially different from those which have gone before. Thomas on the Possibility of a Christian
Polytheism
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Peter Kevern

After Aquinas
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PUBLISHED ON BEHALF OF THE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL OF THE
ENGLISH PROVINCE OF THE ORDER OF PREACHERS
Versions of Thomism
FERGUS KERR
www.blackwellpublishing.com/NBFR
REGFUSKRE,

Blackfriars, Oxford and University of Edinburgh ISSN: 0028-4289, VOLUME 86 (2005), BI-MONTHLY

“Kerr is astonishingly well read, and, if you want to learn something about how
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10 Good Questions About Life Blackwell Companion to BUCKLEY, JAMES J. 15 DAWSON, LORNE L. 25 FOWL, STEPHEN E. 12, 13
and Death 31 Postmodern Theology, The 7 BUNNIN, NICHOLAS 6 DEANE-DRUMMOND, CELIA E. 30 Future of Christianity, The 4
Blackwell Companion to BURKE, T. PATRICK 19 Death, Mourning, and Burial 27
A Companion to Hume 33 Protestantism, The 7
BURRELL, DAVID 11 DECHANT, DELL 32 GIGLIOTTI, SIMONE 24
ABU-RABI, IBRAHIM M. 5, 21 Blackwell Companion to
DEL COLLE, RALPH 9 Gill, Mary Louise 33
Religious Ethics, The 5
After Aquinas 16 CAMERON, EUAN 22 Dialog 17 God is Dead 26
Blackwell Companion to
After Writing 12 CAVANAUGH, WILLIAM T. 7, 12 DOUMANIS, NICHOLAS 22 GOODWIN, JEFF 26
Social Movements, The 26
AGAR, NICHOLAS 32 CHARRY, ELLEN T. 13 DREYFUS, HUBERT L. 33 GRACIA, JORGE 33
Blackwell Companion to
Alien Sex 12 CHENG, CHUNG-YING 32 DUNN, MARILYN 23 GRIFFITH, SIDNEY H. 6
Sociology of Religion, The 25
American Religious History 20 Christ and Culture 11 GRIFFITHS, PAUL 34
Blackwell Companion to
Ancient Greek Religion 24 the Bible and Culture, The 6 Christian Faith, The 9 EAGLETON, TERRY 4 GUNN, DAVID M. 18
ANDERSON, PAMELA SUE 34 Blackwell Companion to Christian Literature 18 ECKSTEIN, NICHOLAS 22 GUNTON, COLIN E. 9
Anthropology of Religion,The 27 the Hebrew Bible, The 7 Christian Spirituality 9 EDWARDS, MARK 18
Anthropology Today 27 Blackwell Companion to Christian Theology: Emergence of Monasticism, HALDANE, J. J. 34
Aquinas in Dialogue 15 the New Testament, The 5 An Introduction 8 The 23 HAUERWAS, STANLEY 5
Atheism and Theism 34 Blackwell Companion to Christian Theology Reader,The 8 Encountering Religion 20 HEALEY, JOHN F. 6
the Qur'an, The 5
Augustine 33 Christology 13 Engaging Scripture 12 HEBBLETHWAITE, BRIAN 9
Blackwell Companion to
AUNE, DAVID 5 COAKLEY, SARAH 12, 15 Ethics in Practice 32 HEELAS, PAUL 2, 26
the Study of Religion, The 5
AVERY-PECK, ALAN J. 20 COBB, KELTON 14 Ethics of Community, The 30 HEFNER, PHILIP 28
Blackwell Dictionary of
AYRES, LEWIS 13 COHN-SHERBOK, DANIEL 20 Ethics of Gender, The 30 Heythrop Journal, The 31
Eastern Christianity, The 6
Companion to Ancient Ethics of Nature, The 30 Hinduism and Modernity 19
Blackwell Dictionary of Judaica 20
BATTLE, MICHAEL 20 Philosophy, A 33 Ethics of Sex, The 30
Blackwell Dictionary of Historical Theology 9
BAUERSCHMIDT, Companion to Early Modern Ethics of War, The 31
Western Philosophy, The 6 HOLDER, ARTHUR 6
FREDERICK CHRISTIAN 15 Philosophy, A 33
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Modern European Reformations Holocaust, The 24
BEGBY, ENDRE 31 Companion to Heidegger, A 33 Sourcebook, The 23
Christian Thought, The 6 HOULGATE, STEPHEN 33
BELSHAW, CHRISTOPHER 31 Companion to Philosophy in the European Reformations, The 23
Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of HOUTMAN, GUSTAAF 27
Middle Ages, A 33
BERGER, PETER 25 Religion, The 34 EVANS G. R. 3, 10
HSIA, R. PO-CHIA 23
Companion to Philosophy of
Bioethics: An Anthology 32 Blackwell Guide to Theology of Exodus 18
Religion, A 34 HUFFAKER, LUCINDA A. 4
Black Church in America, The 20 Popular Culture, The 14 Explorations in Theology
Companion to the Reformation
Blackwell Companion to Blackwell Reader in and Film 14
World, A 23 Idea of Culture, The 4
Christian Ethics, The 5 Judaism, The 20
Comparative Religious Ethics 32 Inquiring After God 13
Blackwell Companion to Blackwell Reader in Pastoral and Faith and Freedom 11
Practical Theology, The 13 Contemporary Debates in Intellectual Origins of the
Christian Spirituality, The 6 FASCHING, DARRELL J. 32
Philosophy of Religion 34 European Reformation, The 23
Blackwell Companion to BOOTH, WAYNE 28
Feminist Philosophy of
Conversations in Religion International Journal of
Contemporary Islamic BOWIE, FIONA 27 Religion, A 34
and Theology 17 Systematic Theology 9
Thought, The 5 BOWMAN, GLENN 28 FENN, RICHARD K. 25
CSAPO, ERIC 24 Interpreting Christian History 22
Blackwell Companion to BRADY, DIMITRI 6 FIDDES, PAUL S. 12
Eastern Christianity, The 6 Cults and New Religious Introduction to Christianity, An 9
Brief History of Death, A 3 First Christian Theologians,The 10
Movements 25 Introduction to Hegel, An 33
Blackwell Companion to
Brief History of Heaven, A 3 FLETCHER, PAUL 6
Hinduism, The 19 CUNNINGHAM, DAVID 12 Islamic Middle East, The 21
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Blackwell Companion to CUNNINGHAM, LAWRENCE S. 3
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Blackwell Companion to JASPER, JAMES M. 26
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Political Theology, The 7 BRUCE, STEVE 26 35
INDEX
JONES, L. GREGORY 15 McGRATH, ALISTER E. 2, 3, 4, Philosophy of Religion: SCHWOEBEL, CHRISTOPH 9 Twentieth-century
JORDAN, MARK D. 16, 30 6, 7, 8, 9, 18, 23, 28 The Big Questions 34 Science and Religion 28 Catholic Theology 16

Journal for the Scientific McINTOSH, MARK 12 PICKSTOCK, CATHERINE 12 SCOTT, PETER 7 TWISS, SUMNER B. 30
Study of Religion 26 Medieval Theologians, The 10 Pietist Theologians, The 10 Scripture and Metaphysics 11
Journal of Chinese MELLING, DAVID J. 6 PORTERFIELD, AMANDA 20 SEEL, BENJAMIN 2 Understanding Theology
Philosophy 32 Middle Ages and the Postmodern God, The 13 and Popular Culture 14
SEGAL ROBERT, A. 5
Journal of Religious Ethics 30 Birth of Europe, The 24 Powers and Submissions 12 SENOR, THOMAS 34
Journal of Religious History 22 MIKALSON, JON D. 24 Problem of Evil, The 31 VanARRAGON, RAYMOND J. 34
Sexuality and the
Journal of the Royal Anthropological MILES, MARGARET R. 22 Promised End, The 12 Christian Body 12
Institute, The 28 Modern Theologians, The 10 WALSH, MICHAEL 31
Psychology, Religion, SINGER, PETER 29, 32
Judges 18 Modern Theology 15 and Spirituality 26 WARD, GRAHAM 4, 7, 11, 13
SINGER, RENATA 29
Moral of the Story, The 29 SMART, J.J.C. 34 WEBSTER, JOHN 9, 13
Kant 33 Morality Matters 29 Queer Theology 14 WELLS, SAMUEL 5
SMITH, DAVID 19
Keeping God's Silence 11 MORRIS, PAUL 26 Questions of Faith 25 When Faiths Collide 4
SMITH, JANE 21
KELSAY, JOHN 30 MUERS, RACHEL 10, 11 QUINN, PHILIP L. 34 WILLIAMS, RHYS H. 26
SNOW, DAVID A. 26
KERR, FERGUS 16 MURRAY, MICHAEL J. 34 WILLIAMS, ROWAN 12
Social Movements
KIRKPATRICK, FRANK G. 30 Muslim World, The 21 Radcliffe, Elizabeth 33 Reader, The 26 WOLLASTON, ISABEL 17
KOVACS, JUDITH 18 Mystical Theology 12 RAWLINGS, HELEN 24 SONN, TAMARA 21 WOOD, ALLEN W. 33
KRIESI, HANSPETER 26 Mysticism After Modernity 26 Reader in the Anthropology SOULE, SARAH A. 26 WOODHEAD, LINDA 2 , 26
KUHSE, HELGA 32 of Religion, A 27 Spanish Inquisition, The 24 WOODWARD, JAMES 13
NADLER, STEVEN 33 Reformation Theologians,The 10 Spiritual Revolution, The 2 Word Made Flesh, The 22
LAFOLLETTE, Hugh 32 Nature and the Sacred 25 Reformation Thought 23 STUMP, ELEANORE 34 World Religions Reader, A 20
LAMBEK, MICHAEL 27 NEUSNER, JACOB 20 REICHBERG, GREGORY M. 31 SYSE, HENRIK 31 WRATHALL, MARK 33
LANG, BEREL 24 New Blackfriars 16 Religion in Modern Times 26 SZERSZYNSKI, BRONISLAW 2, 25
LANGSTON, SCOTT 18 New Introduction to Islam, A 21 Religion, Modernity and YU, JIYUAN 6
LARRIMORE, MARK 31 Postmodernity 26
NOONE, TIMOTHY 33 TALIAFERRO, CHARLES 34
LE GOFF, JACQUES 24 Religious Belief 34
Teaching Theology and Zygon® 28
LEVERING, MATTHEW 11 Re-thinking Gregory Religion 4
On Christian Theology 12
of Nyssa 15
Liberal Eugenics 32 ORITZ, GAYE 14 Theological Ethics and
Revelation 18 Global Dynamics 29
LINDBERG, CARTER 10, 23
Reviews in Religion Theological Interpretation of
LINDHOLM, CHARLES 21 PARRY, KEN 6
and Theology 17 Scripture, The 13
LLOYD, JANET 24 PARSONS, SUSAN F. 30
Rewritten Theology 16 Theology After Liberalism 13
LOUGHLIN, GERARD 12, 14 PATTISON, STEPHEN 13
Rhetoric of RHETORIC, The 28 Theology and Eschatology at the
LYNCH, GORDON 14 Pellegrin, Pierre 33
RIPPIN, ANDREW 5 Turn of the Millennium 15
Pentecostalism:
Rise of Western Christendom,The 23 Theology and Sexuality 13
Major Religions, The 19 The World Their Parish 26
ROBBEN, ANTONIUS C.G.M. 27 Theology of Engagement, A 12
MANN, WILLIAM E. 34 PERDUE, LEO G. 7
ROGERS, EUGENE F. 12, 13 Theology: The Basics 8
MARKHAM, IAN S. 12, 17, 20 PETERS, KARL E. 28
ROWLAND, CHRISTOPHER 18 Theories of Mythology 24
MARKS, DARREN C. 7 PETERS, TED F. 17
RUPARELL, TINU 20 These Three are One 12
MARSH, CLIVE 14 PETERSON, MICHAEL L. 34
Torture and Eucharist 12
MARSHALL, BRUCE 13 Philosophical Theology and
Sacred Desert, The 2 TRIGG, ROGER 29
MARTIN, DAVID 26 Christian Doctrine 9
SAWYER, JOHN 6 Trinity Reader, The 13
MARTY, MARTIN E. 4 Philosophy of Religion:
An Anthology 34 SCHNER, GEORGE 13 True Religion 4
MATTHEWS, GARETH 33
36 SCHWEIKER, WILLIAM 5, 29 TUSTING, KARIN 2
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