Simon Oliver
A Christian Theology of Science
Theology
“For decades, the disciplines of theology and science were in open conflict, banal agreement, or mutual isolation. In this work, Paul Tyson reimagines their engagement with great clarity and erudition to provide a theological analysis of science as the knowledge of nature. This is an excellent and timely book which significantly enhances our understanding of the natural sciences and their relation to theology, history, and metaphysics.”
Theology
“In the modern world, deification is fantasy. In this strikingly original work, theologian David Russell Mosley demonstrates that fantasy is strange and truthful in a way that our bleached modern imagination cannot conceive. As a participation in divine creativity, fantasy is deifying.”
Science & Faith
“For anyone interested in the relationship between science and theology, this work is indispensable. In language that is mercifully free of academic jargon and scientific technicalities, the author unveils the non-neutrality of modern science… As a humanities type whose scientific education stopped in secondary school I found the argumentation of this work easy to follow. It will be of great value to scientists, theologians, and thoughtful Christians in general.” —Professor Tracey Rowland, University of Notre Dame (Australia) "David Alcalde's book stands amongst a growing body of writings which begin not with the mesmerizing discoveries of science, but with the foundational theological and metaphysical presuppositions of science… Alcade is a scientist, theologian and philosopher who calls for better science built on firmer metaphysical and theological foundations.”
Philosophy
“Jean-Louis Chrétien is a uniquely important Catholic philosopher whose work is a profound response to the giftedness of the world. This collection of essays leads us into the great fecundity of Chrétien’s Christian phenomenology and poetry—an outstanding and original set of meditations on a philosopher of prayer, gratitude, and contemplation.”
Liturgy, Theurgy, and Active Participation
Theology
“The metaphysics of participation, rooted in Christian Platonism, claims that creation exists not in itself, but by receiving a share in the divine life. Kjetil Kringlebotten argues that participation is fundamentally liturgical. It finds its source and end in Christ, the master theurgist. Christ calls down the Holy Spirit to gather all people to Himself, that we might rise with Him in glory. This is a bold and inspiring contribution to theological and liturgical scholarship.”
Mark’s Gospel: An Actological Reading
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“One of the most striking aspects of Mark’s Gospel is its dynamic tempo. We are led through the story of Christ’s Galilean ministry, passion, and resurrection with pace and passion. This ‘actological’ reading draws our attention once again to the vibrant urgency of Christ’s life and the acts of God in history.”
Theology
“Hand’s work is part of a trajectory in Kant studies which takes seriously the integrity and originality of his religious philosophy. At the same time, it demonstrates Kant’s deep influence on subsequent Christian theology. This book is a significant contribution to our understanding of the Kantian background to Karl Barth’s dogmatic theology and its distinctively modern shape.”
Theology
“To the modern mind, reason belongs to the cold, objective stare of science. Imagination and story are mere 'culture,' of value only as escapism or entertainment. J. T. Sellars's remarkable book shows how one of Christianity's most learned but enduringly popular defenders, C. S. Lewis, belonged to a richer, classical world where reason is imaginative and the imagination is rational. I warmly welcome its publication.”
Theology
“Justin Roberts' Sacred Rhetoric offers a reading of one of the twentieth century's more enigmatic theologians, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, within the context of contemporary retrievals of the metaphysics of participation and the gift. This is an imaginative interpretation of Bonhoeffer's work for our own time.”
Theology
“Christian theology has traditionally identified the beatific vision as the ultimate end of humanity. But what does it mean to ‘see God’? How can we pursue such an end if it is beyond our understanding? Building on his exemplary ‘sacramental ontology,’ Hans Boersma here offers us a ‘sacramental teleology’ in which the end of humanity—the visio Dei—is revealed sacramentally within the created order. A profound and important work.”
Philosophy
“This work by Johannes Hoff crucially enhances our understanding of the origins of modernity in the late Middle Ages. . . . He shows how the fragmented and illusory modern world in which we live was not an inevitable outcome of the cultural and intellectual upheavals of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. There is an alternative modernity, centered on a theological symbolic reality, which can be derived chiefly from the work of fifteenth-century theologian, philosopher, and mathematician Nicholas of Cusa. There is a way of radically rethinking our modern cultural and intellectual malaise. This is scholarship of the very highest caliber. Hoff's book will establish itself as one of the most significant works of Christian theology and philosophy in recent years.”
The Fullness of Trinitarian Love
Theology
“In the company of Thomas Aquinas and Hans Urs von Balthasar, Cameron Crickenberger takes us into the mystery of the confession that God is love. He offers an analogia amoris—a profound meditation on creation as a participation in the eternal love of the Trinity. This is a work of creative synthesis, metaphysical insight, and theological imagination that shows again why love alone is credible.”
Theology
Foreword
“Shenk's book belongs firmly in the field of theological responses to evil and suffering. . . . [It] presents us with a meditation that is philosophically acute, intellectually rigorous, and historically informed. It is also honest and humble, not offering a 'solution,' but a series of theological proposals based on a profound reflection on Scripture, a deft handling of philosophical concepts, and a careful consideration of a great breadth of the Christian theological tradition.”
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