Timothy J. Gorringe

Decoding Mammon

Work, Money & Leadership

“In a world where the problems of the financial architecture of the past forty years push up suicide rates and threaten the fate of whole nations, Decoding Mammon is a welcome call for reflection on what we mean by money and what we should be doing about it.”

Faiths and Faithfulness

Evangelism & Missions

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Karl Barth and the Problem of War, and Other Essays on Barth

Theology

“In engaging with a world which relies on violence to settle disputes, for which profit is the bottom line, and which idolizes success, no-one is more helpful for Christian life than Karl Barth. And in helping us to understand Barth's true radicalism, in assessing its strength and weakness, in bringing us closer to the true astringency of the gospel, no-one is more helpful than John Howard Yoder. These essays are an addition to that small collection of books which genuinely further Christian discipleship and which address us, and help us address our world, with the claim of Jesus Christ.”

Poacher’s Pilgrimage

“McIntosh uses a twelve day walk across the length of Harris and Lewis, where he grew up, as the basis for an extended reflection on three things: violence, the theology which is complicit with it, and the way to deal with it; the ecology of the imagination; and the spirituality of place. All three are interconnected, and all bear on a world torn apart by rage… What the book challenges us to do is to find the locus of the holy inscribed in the places in which we live. This is a poetically imagined, politically engaged, narrative theology which illuminatingly tackles some of the deepest problems of our world.”

Speaking of God in an Inhumane World, Volume 1

Theology

“How should we order our societies and our economies? Christians look to Scripture to answer these questions, but this turns out to be no simple matter, and we are faced with the ‘conflict of interpretations.’ Addressing this conflict, Christopher Rowland is one of our surest guides, and these essays underline the challenge which Scripture, as understood by liberation theology, poses to mainstream understandings of ‘the way things have to be.’”

Speaking of God in an Inhumane World, Volume 2

Theology

“Since the eighth century BCE, a vital strain in both Judaism and Christianity has understood ‘religion’ to include a visceral call to the practice of social justice. Christopher Rowland stands in that tradition and, over a lifetime, has written and witnessed to it. This volume helpfully brings together many of his papers on radical Christianity which provide not only a vital gloss on his biblical work but also provide an important resource in our present dark ages.”

The Word of Christ and the World of Culture

Theology

“That Karl Barth was the twentieth century's greatest theologian of culture has long been known but has never been adequately demonstrated. In this beautifully constructed book Paul Metzger shows how Barth's profoundly christological theology provides us with a basis for reflection on culture that goes further and deeper than the theologies of correlation by Barth's contemporaries. This volume will be welcomed by students of Barth and all who want to better understand the interaction of theology and culture.”