John C. McDowell

Election, Barth, and the French Connection, 2nd Edition

Theology

Afterword

(wrote the afterword)

Karl Barth and the Resurrection of the Flesh

Theology

“In this profound and sophisticated study Nathan Hitchcock explores what has been an astonishingly undertreated feature of [Barth's] work. He depicts the role of carnal resurrection, with regard to the eschatological binding of persons to the salvific history of God's humanization, and the locus of life as reconciled life being redeemed through the categories of eternalization, manifestation, and incorporation. Readers will be swept along by Hitchcock's deft critical touch.”

Liturgia Dei

Preaching & Worship

“Adam Couchman articulates the consequences of conceiving of the liturgy as formative theological practice. Worshippers—in, through, and with the high priestly work of the vicarious humanity of Christ—are given to participate within the infiniteness of the self-communicative mystery of the God whose life is life-giving. Human beings, therefore, are irreducibly grounded within the beneficence of divine creativity, and are materially incorporated into relations of mutual responsibility.”

One for the Other

Theology

“The New Testament writers who deal with Christ’s death are much more reticent about describing the violence of it than future theologians, preachers, and filmmakers have been. The same could be said of the icon writers of the Orthodox tradition. More recently some theologians have sieved this area of reticence to disconnect the violence from the efficacy of the atonement. One for the Other is a persuasive study in providing an ethical synthesis of these approaches.”

Re-imagining African Christologies

Theology

“What would 'freedom in Christ' look like for Africans when it reflects care to diverse and complex contexts? Engaging with this decades old theological question, Victor Ezigbo's excellent study will reward the reader with a typology of African Christologies; a sense of the complexity of the theological task; an exhibition of the destructiveness of ill-formed knowledge of both the density of the manifold Christian traditions and the irreducible richness of living ancient cultures; and a refusal to reduce contextualization to a phenomenology that under-appreciates the theological task of reading the deep particularities of texts and contexts contemporaneously.”

The Good Work of Non-Christians, Empowerment, and the New Creation

Theology

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Theology as Hope

Theology

“In the 1960s the so-called theologies of hope rolled in to become one of the most noteworthy and influential waves of the late twentieth-century European theology, taking seriously a claim made four decades earlier by Karl Barth, that all theology is eschatology. Contrary to much of the commentary on his work, the oeuvre of the German theologian Jurgen Moltmann continued to be shaped by many of the concerns about hope and theological insights he developed during this earlier period, and Neal's valuable book convincingly demonstrates that this is the case. This is an important, critical, and excellently researched study of a perennial theological issue in the fruitful reflections of one of the most important modern theologians.”