Philip G. Ziegler
Biography
Philip G. Ziegler earned a ThD from the University of Toronto/Victoria University. Ziegler has served as a personal chair in dogmatics at King's College, University of Aberdeen, and as a senior fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Ziegler also cofounded and cochaired the Theology and Apocalyptic network. Ziegler wrote Militant Grace (2018) and wrote forewords to Fides and Secularity (2018) and Karl Barth and the Resurrection of the Flesh (2013).
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A Trinitarian Theology of Nature
Science & Faith
“The evolving dialogue between theology and science is well-served by the work of those who, like Winslow herself, inhabit both the scientific and theological worlds and are committed to integrating them with the distinctive insight and creativity such a position affords.”
Theology
“Reichel’s work brims with creativity and provocation, asking readers to consider again the design, use, and affordances of Christian doctrine. By insisting that theologians attend carefully to the ethos of the development and deployment of doctrine, this study invites us all to do better by both our subject matter—the God of the gospel—and all those who matter to our God.”
An Evangelical Spiritual Theology
Theology
“In this present moment of ours, we have much to learn from the aims, substance, and tenor of Donald Bloesch’s valuable theological work. Jamin Goggin’s fine and substantive study will serve to acquaint—or reacquaint—readers with Bloesch’s singular, lively, and winsome vision of theology and its service in giving shape to faithful Christian lives.”
Theology
“Alan and Torrance Andrew Torrance here remind us of the crucial importance of that theological trajectory that runs from Kierkegaard through Barth and on into our present. This study challenges our easy forgetfulness of the transcendence of God, the redeeming force of contingent revelation in Jesus Christ, and the radical conversion of heart and mind which must follow in their wake. By re-equipping contemporary theology with the lessons Barth and Kierkegaard together teach, the authors invite a specific reordering of the Christian mind with profound consequences for faith, life, theology, and ethics.”
Calvin's Theology of Piety in the Institutes
Theology
“Calvin understood that Christian doctrine has its term in the glorification of God, and that God is truly glorified as right teaching takes hold of the whole of the Christian life, transforming minds and hearts, and bearing good fruit in turn. Ngien’s fine study of Calvin’s Institutes seizes upon this fundamental horizon of the reformer’s work, leading readers stepwise through this influential text to trace its trinitarian grammar and to discern and make manifest its practical ambition, namely, to serve the reshaping of life by the power of the gospel of God. Ngien thus invites us to contemplate the great theme of Calvin’s lifework: namely, that true doctrine ministers to true piety to the glory of the one true God.”
Theology
“McNeill’s study valuably explores the connections between the pressing concern for the education and care of children and our fundamental, sometimes unreflective, ideas about the nature of childhood as construed by Christian faith. Careful historical work on Calvin, Edwards, and the wider Reformed tradition here funds a better practical wisdom for Christian life with and for children in our own time.”
Evangelism in an Age of Despair
Christian Living
“In this invaluable study of the central place of consolation in the practice and theology of ministry and its power to fundamentally reshape our witness, Root proves once again to be the teacher we need. By story and argument, with characteristic humanity and theological insight, he bids us to repent of our culture’s official optimism and to embrace the one thing genuinely needful: the good word of the cross that claims and consoles us still amid this vale of tears.”
Theology
“The breadth and intensity of Barth's commitment to the exegetical mainsprings of Christian faith and thought generally, and of doctrine in particular, are well honored and well served by this fine volume. As these essays make clear in all their incisiveness and insight, read well, Barth's theology continues to invite us to return again and again to dwell in the 'strange new world of the Bible.'”
Christian Living
“The rich fruit of a lifetime’s reflection on its theme, Vissers’s fine study of friendship with Christ enhances our understanding of the person of Christ, the work of Christ, and the shape of the Christian life. Written in discerning conversation with the biblical sources and careful dialogue with the theological tradition, this book is a most welcome contribution to contemporary Reformed theology, not least in its creative use and renewal of the ‘threefold office’ to display the richness of the identity and activity of the Savior.”
Theology
“In this fine study, Mark Lindsay moves at pace and with sharp insight over the complex historical-theological terrain required for us to understand the doctrine of election in its long and contested development to the present day. The lucid discussion that results illumines how this doctrine can be considered the very sum of the gospel by its proponents but impious speculation by its detractors, old and new. The closing exploration of the meaning of the doctrine for Christian-Jewish encounter in the shadow of the Holocaust confronts us with questions whose theological importance simply cannot be denied.”
History & Biography
“After a period of relative neglect, Helmut Thielicke and his theological legacy are receiving renewed attention. With its well-researched and closely argued account of the formative interaction between Thielicke’s personal life and the central themes of this theology, Grassl’s fine study sets an important benchmark for future work.”
Theology
“Few could author such an authoritative, searching, and engaging account of the development of Lutheran theology as Paul Hinlicky has done in this concise Cascade Companion. As dense with learning as it is alive with provocation, Hinlicky’s fine study tells the tale of Lutheran theology in such a way that no faithful reader will be able to fall back into reductive and overly simple views of what it has meant across the centuries—and so yet means—to think theologically as a Lutheran.”
History & Biography
“Mark Lindsay has written an invaluable and engaging portrait of Markus Barth in which we meet the person, the scholar, and the Christian. The key elements of Barth's lifework—his contributions to New Testament exegesis (most especially to the study of Paul), his passionate commitment (both theological and personal) to the importance of Jewish-Christian relations, and his provocative ecumenical contributions to rethinking the nature and practice of baptism and the Lord's Supper—are all insightfully examined on the basis of careful archival research. The result is a fine account of Barth's life and legacy that also affords important perspectives on the history of theology in the twentieth century.”
Messianic Political Theology and Diaspora Ethics
Theology
“Kroeker pursues a style of radical theological reflection at once intellectually sophisticated and spiritually profound: there is much to learn here of the difficult and patient labor of living out a Christian particularity that, in love and dispossession, foreswears both isolation from and conformity with our nihilistic age for the sake of a better gospel witness. These essays represent an invaluable Anabaptist contribution to contemporary political theology and ethics.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This collection of Susan Eastman’s recent work is to be treasured. No one has thought as deeply and as carefully as has Eastman about the manifold consequences of Paul’s apocalyptic gospel for theological anthropology and so also for our contemporary self-understanding. These fine essays—at once exegetical, theological, and pastoral in force— open up invaluable new perspectives upon how we may faithfully inhabit our beleaguered humanity today.”
Theology
“Helmut Gollwitzer’s provocative theological vision was forged amidst some of the most extraordinary events of the 20th century in Europe. His commitment to thinking the incomparable freedom, justice, and love of the God of the gospel made the radical politics of Christian living his inescapable concern. McMaken’s lucid study of Gollwitzer’s life and work asks whether we have in fact registered the revolutionary power of justifying grace and the advent of the Kingdom of God in our world of continuing alienation, exploitation and violence. If not now, then when?”
Paul, Philosophy, and the Theopolitical Vision
Philosophy
“"There is a rich education to be had within these covers. On the one hand, the essayists offer crucial insights into what all the fuss is about regarding the philosophical rediscovery of the apostle Paul, and readers come to appreciate his varied fate in the hands of Taubes, Badiou, Agamben, and Zizek. On the other hand, these secular despoilers of Paul are themselves despoiled here, and Christian theology has set before it a wealth of provocations to better faithfulness and understanding. Taken together, these essays illumine the contours of the apocalyptic gospel of God at the heart of Paul's own witness and make plain its import for contemporary political thought. Philosophers and theologians alike are well reminded--indeed well warned--of the dynamite they take into their hands when, in quest of a better human politics, they turn to Paul.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Douglas Harink takes readers to school with Paul's letter to the Romans in order to learn (and learn again) that justification has everything to do with justice because the God of the gospel has designs—at once gracious and righteous—upon our persons, our societies, and our nations. The fruit of long wrestling with Paul, Resurrecting Justice provides an accessible, instructive, and edifying study of the very heart of the gospel: namely, God's powerful setting things to rights in Christ Jesus.”
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