James Clarke Co: 50 books
by Tricia Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the relevance of the biblical book of Esther to historic and current anti-Semitism, as well as anti-Judaism in the Church. The essential argument is that despite the fact that the Hebrew version of Esther is the most relevant book in the Hebrew Bible for...
Signs of Salvation
The Theme of Creation in John's Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Was Mary Magdalene really mistaken when she took the Risen Lord to be a ‘gardener’ working near the tomb where Christ was laid after the crucifixion? In this compelling volume, Anthony M. Moore persuasively argues that Jesus must be recognised, at a theological level, as the Gardener: the Creator-God...
The Hermeneutical Self and an Ethical Difference
Intercivilizational Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
In response to the religious and spiritual transition experienced in our modern world, Chung creates a postcolonial framework for inter-religious exchange, focussing on issues of interpretation, moral deliberation and ethical praxis. He investigates the relationship between hermeneutical theory and...
A Man of Many Parts
Essays in Honour of John Bowker on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
A Man of Many Parts is an inspired homage to the life and thought of John Bowker, cleric, lecturer and broadcaster. Author of The Sense of God, Is God a Virus? and The Sacred Neuron, Bowker is an independent thinker of profound erudition with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and understanding....
Divine Essence and Divine Energies
Ecumenical Reflections on the Presence of God
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
A composite book of essays from ten scholars, Divine Essence and Divine Energies provides a rich repository of diverse opinion about the essence-energy distinction in Orthodox Christianity a doctrine which lies at the heart of the often-fraught fault line between East and West, and which, in this...
Dunstan
Saint and Statesman
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
St Dunstan of Canterbury (909-88) was the central figure in the development of English church and society after the death of King Alfred. Douglas Dales traces Dunstan's life beginning with his education at the great monastery of Glastonbury of which he became abbot. He was a central figure at the...
The Original Ending of Mark
A New Case for the Authenticity of Mark 16:9-20
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Although traditionally accepted by the church through the centuries, the longer ending of Mark's Gospel (16:9-20) has been relegated by modern scholarship to the status of a later appendage. The arguments for such a view are chiefly based upon the witness of the two earliest complete manuscripts of...
Election, Atonement, and the Holy Spirit
Through and beyond Barth's Theological Interpretation of Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Election, Atonement, and the Holy Spirit' is an examination of the doctrines of election and atonement in Karl Barth’s 'Church Dogmatics', taking up Barth’s own challenge to his reader to surpass his argument and offer a better typological interpretation of the cultic texts. Barth’s radical...