T T Clark imprint: 345 books
Philemon: An Introduction and Study Guide
Imagination, Labor and Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
This guide explores and summarizes scholarship on Philemon, acquainting beginning students with what has been said about Philemon, and equipping them to understand the larger debates and conversations that surround it. It explores how different initial scholarly assumptions result in different interpretations...
Isaac Watts
Reason, Passion and the Revival of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Isaac Watts was an important but relatively unexamined figure and this volume offers a description of his theology, specifically identifying his position on reason and passion as foundational. The book shows how Watts modified a Puritan inherence on both topics in the light of the thought of his day....
The Old Testament in the New: An Introduction
Second Edition: Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Steve Moyise provides an accessible and well-informed introduction to the Old Testament in the New Testament. Tried and tested in previous editions, it explores the basic issues and offers summaries of the uses of the Old Testament in the Gospels and Acts, in Paul and Hebrews, James, and Revelation.
Issues...
Between Congregation and Church
Denomination and Christian Life Together
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Denominations are one of the primary ways in which Christians attempt to live in a community based around God. Yet there is very little careful theological analysis of denomination available today.
Between Congregation and Church offers a constructive theological understanding of denomination,...
Confessing God
Essays in Christian Dogmatics II
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Put together as a companion volume to his earlier volume, Word and Church, in this book John Webster begins to give voice to a reordered conception of the substance of Christian teaching, at the heart of which lies a discovery of the content and consequences of Christian teaching about God's perfection.
Webster...
Community Identity
Dynamics of Religion in Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
The understanding of identity in relation to community has been a focus of academic studies in recent years. An exclusive self-understanding of the identity of one's own community, coupled with a hostile attitude toward other communities, often leads to communal conflicts. In particular, it is important...
Ethnicity, Race, Religion
Identities and Ideologies in Early Jewish and Christian Texts, and in Modern Biblical Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Religion, ethnicity and race are facets of human identity that have become increasingly contested in the study of the Bible - largely due to the modern discipline of biblical studies having developed in the context of Western Europe, concurrent with the emergence of various racial and imperial ideologies....
"But Their Faces Were All Looking Up"
Author and Reader in the Protevangelium of James
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This study of the Protevangelium of James explores the interrelationship of authors, readers, texts, and meaning. Its central aim is to better understand how the process of repetition gave rise to the narratives of the early Christian movement, and how that process continued to fuel the creativity...
by Professor Joseph Harp Britton
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Piety is often regarded with a pejorative bias: a "pious" person is thought to be overly religious, supercilious even. Yet historically the concept of piety has played an important role in Christian theology and practice. For Abraham Heschel, piety describes the contours of a life compatible...
Christ, Shepherd of the Nations
The Nations as Narrative Character and Audience in John's Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Does John's Apocalypse envision destruction or salvation for the nations of the world? Scholarly views on this issue range from extreme (total destruction) to extreme (universal salvation). Jon Morales maintains that the question must be reframed to highlight, not only the destiny of the nations,...
Christ, Creation and the Cosmic Goal of Redemption
A Study of Pauline Creation Theology as Read by Irenaeus and Applied to Ecotheology
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
J. J. Johnson Leese discusses how the apostle Paul's writing on Christ's relationship to creation, read alongside the interpretations of Irenaeus of Lyon, provide a meaningful contribution to contemporary debates on the interrelationship between religion and nature.
Leese draws upon the integration...
Evoking Scripture
Seeing the Old Testament in the New
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2008
In clear and lucid prose Evoking Scripture explores the literary and theological frameworks that lie behind the various quotations from and allusions to the Old Testament in the New. Steve Moyise takes a series of case studies from Mark, Romans, Galatians, 1 Peter and Revelation to raise key questions...
Ephesians: An Introduction and Study Guide
Being a Christian, at Home and in the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
In this guide Stephen E. Fowl introduces students to both theological fruit and critical issues of the letter to the Ephesians.
On the theological front, Fowl shows how Ephesians offers an unparalleled cosmic vision of the significance of the death and resurrection of Jesus, of the role of...
by Kevin Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
What role do novels, drama, and tragedy play within Christian thought and living? The twentieth century Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar addressed these questions using tragic drama. For him, Christ was the true tragic hero of the world who exceeded all tragic literature and experience....