Scott Cowdell

An Honest Faith

Philosophy

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Art and the Experience of the Divine

Arts & Literature

“Art aficionado Anne Bent and Christian thought leader Ian Markham have given us food for eyes, mind, and heart. We are shown how to think theologically about art and inducted into a new journey with God. A gift both for spiritual seekers and Christians facing the long haul, Art and the Experience of the Divine helps us to see, to pray, and to give thanks.”

Combatting Totalitarianism

History & Biography

“In his tenth decade, the priest-historian John Moses here sums up his life’s work. From his rigorous Anglo-Catholic formation in a then-remote Queensland to the center of German intellectual life, with an abiding commitment to the gospel and its radical implications, Fr. Moses is uniquely placed to reinterpret and to challenge the shape-shifting specter of totalitarianism, which is timely, since the barbarians are no longer at the gates but within them.”

Love’s Entanglement

Theology

“Once again Bartlett takes us beyond an unfortunate Christian legacy rooted in Platonic stasis, revealing the semiotic breakthrough that René Girard brings. Here a living dynamic of human self-understanding and transformation is unpacked and celebrated, announcing also a necessary and more-than-timely development for Western thought. We are offered a new ‘transcendent relationality’ in place of stale metaphysics—here is ‘Entanglement’ as first philosophy. Tony Bartlett has done it again!”

Signs of Change

Theology

“Say goodbye to biblical delusions and a religion of self-justifying purity with its necessarily violent God. Instead, discover faith—a new self and a new God in a new world, beyond a poisoned religious imagination. Tony Bartlett . . . takes us on a new, consistent, and compelling interpretative journey through Hebrew scripture, Jesus, and Paul. A master class in reading and teaching the Bible.”

The Subordinate Substitute

Theology

“Peter Carnley, both bishop and first-rate theologian, is thoroughly orthodox and Bible-centered. He defends the Trinity against misguided Evangelical claims for the Son’s eternal subordination to the Father, which underpin the penal substitutionary theory of atonement that he forensically demolishes. Instead, Carnley commends a Bible-based, participatory, richly personal view of salvation that is ecclesial and eucharistic rather than narrowly juridical. He offers a decisive corrective to a theological, spiritual, and missional wrong turn.”

Theology Beyond Metaphysics

Theology

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Unbecoming a Priest

History & Biography

“Admirers of Anthony Bartlett’s theology will find here the roots of his liking for Heidegger (contra Platonic escapism), Girard (on scapegoating), and semiosis (on narrative shaping reality). But most of all he offers profoundly humane testimony to how Christ liberated him from a toxic family system and a chimeric religious quest.”