Paul J. Griffiths
Biography
Paul J. Griffiths wrote Israel, An Apology for Apologetics, and Lying.
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Theology
“Alan Brill's A Jewish Trinity is a wise and instructive depiction of central Christian doctrines as they appear to his Jewish eyes. Christian theologians have much to learn from it.”
World Religions
“Yandell and Netland's Buddhism: A Christian Exploration and Appraisal provides a clear, concise and accurate introduction to Buddhist history and doctrine. Although written for Christians, it is not a work of apologetics so much as one concerned to instruct Christians about what Buddhism is, and to clarify differences between the two religions. It does those things very well indeed, and I hope that it will rapidly become the point of first reference for Christians who want to understand Buddhism.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Political theology--thinking theologically about politics and understanding all political thought as first-and-last theological--is a lively field that until now has lacked a lucid and elegantly brief introduction. Pecknold's book fills that gap, and more: it makes a real theoretical contribution of its own, most notably in its treatment of the migration of the treatment of conscience from church to state, and the effects of that migration on the understanding of freedom, political and otherwise.”
Theology
“Jamie Smith shows in clear, simple, and passionate prose what worship has to do with formation and what both have to do with education. He argues that the God-directed, embodied love that worship gives us is central to all three areas and that those concerned as Christians with teaching and learning need to pay attention, first and last, to the ordering of love. This is an important book and one whose audience should be much broader than the merely scholarly.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“David Bentley Hart is an agent provocateur with a taste for beauty, as the saturated prose and argument of this volume abundantly show. We Christians are lucky to have him, and anyone — Christian or not — with a taste for argument and wit will find this volume a delight. Read Hart on Gogol or on Waugh and learn thereby to love them more and for the right reasons. Or read him on the difference between Christ and nothing, and come to understand how that is the only difference that finally counts. In any case, read him.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“The Isaiah volume in The Church's Bible is as intellectually and aesthetically delightful as its predecessors in this series, and it is an essential resource for anyone who wants to see what this Hebrew prophet has meant to Christians. Isaiah is especially important among the prophetic books because of the explicitness with which Christians have taken it to speak of Christ, and this is amply represented in the commentaries collected here. So too is some of the anti-Jewish polemic sometimes practiced by Christians. Both threads are important for understanding the history of Christian perceptions of the Jewish people, and they are woven elegantly together in this fascinating book.”
Letters from Abu Ghraib, Second Edition
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Casteel's letters breathe intelligence and passion. We Americans are more in need of listening to him now than we were when he wrote these letters more than a decade ago. 'The entire country should drop to its knees,' he writes, and he is right. I'm grateful to have read this book, and grateful for the man who wrote it.”
Theology
“This is a book of enormous ambition: it depicts sin and time as identical, and shows how, through the lens of that identity, everything (yes, everything) finds its proper place. Barbera writes with elegance, passion, learning, and an unusually strong sense of what argument can do. He provides something now rare: genuine and deep intellectual stimulus.”
Theology
“This book shows how lively and fecund Hauerwas's thought remains. A dazzling performance, capable of entertaining and instructing professional theologians as much as those who think the world might be a better place without theologians in it.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Jason Byassee's book beautifully defends and illustrates the benefits of a fully theological engagement with scripture. He does this by way of an elegant reading of Augustine's Psalms commentary as revelatory of the christology of the Psalms, and he does it judiciously, which is to say assuming neither that Augustine is always right, nor that what he has to say is worthless. Byassee's book may be among the first signs of a rapprochement between the dogmatic defenders of historical-critical method and the advocates of a reappropriation of figural readings of Scripture. If so, it is welcome: each group has much to learn from the other, and we should now be past the purely polemical phase of the engagement between them.”
Theology
“David Bentley Hart's book shows great patristic and philosophical learning. That is rare enough. Still more rare is the book's compellingly complete theology of beauty. Hart shows that the sublime aesthetic of the market -- this age's chief principality -- can be disrupted by (and perhaps only by) the gospel's radiant beauty. This book makes a major contribution to bringing that disruption about.”
Theology
“S. Mark Heim has for some years been among the most creative and interesting theologians writing about religious diversity. His book titled Salvations was a careful and challenging theoretical essay on the promise of a properly pluralistic theology of religious diversity? a theology that would be genuinely pluralistic in recognizing the possibility of deep, thoroughgoing difference in religious ends. This new book develops those abstract theoretical suggestions in a properly theological way by using trinitarian doctrine. Heim's use of specifically Christian conceptual resources to think about religious diversity produces a scintillating treatise that is a model of how theology should be done and of how, when it is done as it should be, it can yield insight into apparently intractable problems. This book should change the agenda for Christians who want to think about religious diversity.”
Theology
“Isaac Morales's The Life of the World to Come is a lucid and compelling presentation of the case, biblical and traditional, for holding the promise of bodily resurrection together with that of beatific vision. Only when these are kept together, and neither one is permitted to absorb or dilute the other, is the fullness of the Christian promise preserved. An especially compelling aspect of Morales's work is his treatment of worship as a category that permits us to see why and how resurrection and vision require one another.”
Theology
“Bulgakov’s essays on the Apocatastasis in this volume are not only gorgeous, learned, and stimulating, but very probably, and importantly, correct. His homily on the Dormition, while probably mistaken, is nonetheless essential reading for anyone who wants to think seriously about Mary. It is a delight to have the works collected here available in English: Roberto De La Noval deserves gratitude for his fine work in translating them; and Bulgakov deserves something approaching homage for having written them.”
Theology
“This is a delightful and stimulating book, full of careful exegesis of two of the most profound theologians ever to have written. Barth and Aquinas are often caricatured or expounded in such a way as to blunt their thought. Not here. Here their thought is at work in its fullness, and in genuine and lively debate. The result is a surprising degree of rapprochement, but also the sharpening and deepening of some old disagreements. Above all, what's here is good theological thinking done with passion. There's no higher praise.”
Theology
“page an unusual and lovely combination of conceptual precision, stylistic elegance, and intellectual energy.”
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