Werner G. Jeanrond

Behaving in Public

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Clear in thought, elegant in expression, and generous in dialogue, this book offers a new and convincing approach to Christian ethics. . . . Biggar argues for the integrity of a mature, discriminating, nonmoralizing Christian ethics which is inspired and equipped for critical engagement with the church and the wider public and which cares about the flourishing of both.”

Heavenly Bodies

Theology

“Christian faith, hope, and love are always embodied — emerging neither solely from an individual body nor solely from a social body. Rather, our understanding of our body, our bodies, and their interrelations is never stable but is shifting, depending on our eschatological experiences of our emerging selves, our social embodiments, and our relationship to God's radical otherness. Sigurdson's impressive study offers compelling insights into our attempts to relate to our own complex embodiment as persons, communities, churches, and humanity. Seeing the body as the medium of communication for God's presence, Sigurdson presents a critical and superbly readable reexamination of Christian experiences and concepts of the body — human, divine, and incarnate.”

Jacques Dupuis Faces the Inquisition

Theology

“By making two previously unpublished texts by Jacques Dupuis available and by reflecting on their context and significance, Burrows contributes significantly to the ongoing search for an adequate Christian theology of religions. Moreover, it demonstrates how a different, genuinely public, mutually attentive, and respectful theological debate could strengthen the development of Roman Catholic approaches to faith, hope, and love today.”

New Testament Theology

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Esler's fresh approach to the relationship between New Testament scholarship and the concerns of Christian discipleship inaugurates a new departure in biblical theology. His novel and challenging engagement with questions of method, social history, hermeneutics, theology, identity and conflict, and Christian community urges the reader to think beyond paralysing divisions in historical and theological research. Christian faith needs a reappraisal of the great potential of communication within the communion of saints, both with the living and the dead. Such communication requires not only historical and hermeneutical consciousness, but also a will to enter into intercultural, interpersonal and critical dialogue with our ancestors and our contemporaries in faith. Establishing relationships with our biblical ancestors, e.g. Paul, frees them from their usual status as dead authors of textual monuments to becoming real voices again in the ongoing reflection on God's creative and redemptive project in this universe. Listening to the plurality of voices today sharpens our horizon for relating anew to our biblical ancestors. For Esler, theological systems must never be the ultimate aim of biblical scholarship. Rather he wants to bring New Testament research into renewed contact with everyday Christian life, experience and identity. This work offers a critical, constructive and much welcome proposal for the renewal of both theological scholarship and the Christian church.”

Remembering the Reformation

History & Biography

“Martin Luther and the continuing challenges of reforming church, culture and society are assessed here through ecumenical, global and transconfessional perspectives. Discussing the differentiation of Christian faith in the emerging modern era superbly serves the ongoing mutual learning process in Christian churches about their shared Reformation heritage. Throughout this exciting book the study of Martin Luther’s personal faith in context provides religious energy and theological subtlety and never fails to captivate the reader.”

The Judgment of Love

Theology

“This fascinating and beautifully written book approaches the prospect of divine judgment not in terms of condemnation, but in terms of liberation . . . It brings about both an absolute recognition of all aspects of human love and a freeing of the human will to attend truthfully to divine and human otherness. Truth, ultimately, is revealed through God’s judgment of love.”

The Reality of Love

Theology

“This study of the significance, inter-relationship and potential of human and divine love offers an engaging discussion of the transformative role of love in human life. Røsok’s critical and constructive exploration of Karl Rahner’s approach to love and spirituality invites the reader to consider afresh the promise of a well-grounded Christian spirituality for today. This book will be greatly enjoyed by theologians and spiritual directors alike.”