James Clarke Co: 50 books
Islam, Peace and Social Justice
A Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Our world is fraught with horrific expressions of violence and injustice, which are often justified by religious rhetoric. 'Islam, Peace, and Social Justice: A Christian Perspective' is a relevant, comprehensive, and empathetic examination of some of these social-justice challenges within the Muslim...
Purification of Memory
A Study of Orthodox Theologians from a Catholic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Among the major Christian denominations, the Orthodox Church is the least known and widely misunderstood. This is more serious in Asia where the Orthodox Church is a minority and is perceived as an exotic branch of Christianity. But in fact, the Eastern Church has been in China since the seventeenth...
The Web of Friendship
Nicholas Ferrar and Little Gidding
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011
A biography of Nicholas Ferrar (1593-1637) and his family with a focus on his background, his education and experiences that shaped that ministry as well as the circumstances that brought the family to the village of Little Gidding in Cambridgeshire. Avoiding the hagiographic tone adopted by Ferrar's...
Reading Revelation
A Literary-theological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
In general, Revelation studies continue to favour going outside or behind the text (in search of its context of origin, via the historical-critical paradigm) or, more recently, in front of the text (to investigate the book's reception history, past and present). To date, relatively little synchronic...
All Things New
The Trinitarian Nature of the Human Calling in Maximus the Confessor and Jurgen Moltmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
For both Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662) and Jurgen Moltmann (b. 1926) understanding what it means to be human springs from a contemplative vision of God. This comparative study explores surprising parallels between the theological anthropology of the seventh-century Byzantine monk and the contemporary...
by Tim Carter
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
An analysis of the phrase ‘forgiveness of sins’, its antecedents and parallels in Jewish writings, and also of its use in the New Testament and the writings of the early church.
Theories of Justice
A Dialogue with Karol Wojtyla and Karl Barth
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
What is justice? How do we know justice? How is justice cultivated in society? These are the three questions that guide this critical dialogue with two representatives of the Catholic and Protestant traditions: Karl Barth and Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II. Though the two thought leaders are shaped within...
by Alan P. F. Sell
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
“For three decades, he flashed like a meteor across the theological horizon, and then vanished.” So writes Alan P.F. Sell of Nels F.S. Ferré (1908-1971), a mid-twentieth-century theologian whose work is little remembered, despite his constructive and often provocative contributions to theological...
The Books of Homilies
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The two Books of Homilies, along with the Book of Common Prayer and the Ordinal, have been basic documents of the Church of England, and are valuable in showing Anglican doctrine during the Reformation, as well as being of considerable historical importance.
The first book, published in 1547,...
by Vladimir Lossky
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1991
Through a combination of careful scholarship and the warmth of the deep personal devotion of the author, this book provides the authoritative English study of Eastern orthodox theology. Lossky's account makes clear the profound theological differences between East and West, as well as offering an...
Struggling with God
Kierkegaard and the Temptation of Spiritual Trial
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Invoking the biblical motif of Jacob's struggle with the Face of God (Genesis 32), Simon D. Podmore undertakes a constructive theological account of 'spiritual trial' (tentatio; known in German mystical and Lutheran tradition as Anfechtung) in relation to enduring questions of the otherness and hiddenness...
by Ralph S. Werrell
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
While Tyndale’s importance in the history of biblical translation is well understood, his theology has been much less studied. Ralph Werrell has become the leading authority on his theology, and in The Blood of Christ in the Theology of William Tyndale, he explores the background to and influences...
The Missiological Spirit
Christian Mission Theology in the Third Millennium Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
The field of the theology of mission has developed variously across Christian traditions in the last century. Pentecostal scholars and missiologists have made their share of contributions to this area. 'The Missiological Spirit' brings the insights of Pentecostal theologian Amos Yong to the discussion....
Church and Ethical Responsibility in the Midst of World Economy
Greed, Dominion, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Magisterial in scope and scrupulous in its investigation and attribution of sources, 'Church and Ethical Responsibility in the Midst of World Economy' will take its place as an important document that contributes much in terms of prophetic praxis - it challenges those who are comfortably complacent and unwilling to be disturbed.