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Modern Theology Symposium on Taylor's A Secular Age

How much can a philosopher do? - Fergus Kerr

History, belief and imagination in Charles Taylor's A Secular Age - Graham Ward

'Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet': Reflections on A Secular Age - Stanley Hauerwas and Romand Coles

The Response of a Theologian to Charles Taylor's A Secular Age - Gregory Baum

The Deep Conditions of Secularity - Hent de Vries

Challenging Issues about the Secular Age - Charles Taylor

New books on Baptist History and Theology

In July, Baylor will published David Bebbington's one volume Baptists through the Centuries
A History of a Global People

A clearly written introduction to the history and theology of this international people, Baptists through the Centuries provides a chronological survey of the main developments in Baptist life and thought from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. As Baptists spread globally beyond their British and American origins, Bebbington persuasively demonstrates how they constantly adapted to the cultures and societies in which they lived, generating even more diversity within an already multifaceted identity. In the course of telling the story of Baptists, Bebbington also examines the challenging social, political, and intellectual issues in Baptist history—attitudes on race, women’s roles in the church, religious liberty, foreign missions, and denominational identity—and situates each one within a broader context.

In November, Cambridge will published Robert E. Johnson's A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches

Coinciding with the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Baptist movement, this book explores and assesses the cultural sources of Baptist beliefs and practices. Although the movement has been embraced, enriched, and revised by numerous cultural heritages, the Baptist movement has focused on a small group of Anglo exiles in Amersterdam in constructing its history and identity. Robert E. Johnson seeks to recapture the varied cultural and theological sources of Baptist tradition and to give voice to the diverse global elements of the movement that have previously been excluded or marginalized. With an international communion of over 110 million persons in more than 225,000 congregations, Baptists constitute the world’s largest aggregate of evangelical Protestants. This work offers insight into the diversity, breadth, and complexity of the cultural influences that continue to shape Baptist identity today.

• A global treatment that includes the major Baptist traditions of the world and investigates each within its own context and considers women within the church • Offers a well-organized, accessible, and global overview of the history, traditions, faith, and practices of Baptist people and churches • Supports an inclusive, global, and integrated approach for interpreting Baptist churches, including a reflection on how emerging global realities may challenge and reshape Baptist identity in the next generation • Includes a global Baptist timeline

And coming at some point in the future (no date yet), I've discovered Steve Holmes is writing a book on Baptist theology as part of new series from T & T Clark on Doing Theology.

Bible and Justice

The results of the 2008 conference at Sheffield on the Bible and Justice are now appearing. First in the latest edition of Political Theology 11.3:

Editorial Introduction: The Problems and Potential of Bible and Justice - Matthew J.M. Coomber

Rough Justice: Lars von Trier's Dogville and Manderlay and the Book of Amos - Hugh S. Pyper

"Just War" and the Contemporary Art of Justifying the Unjustifiable - James Crossley

Understanding YHWH’s Threats through Modern Politics – and Vice Versa - Rob Barrett

Idolatry and Redemption: Economics in Biblical Perspective - Timothy Gorringe

Beyond Mint and Rue: The Implications of Luke’s Interpretive Controversies for Modern Consumerism - Christopher Hays

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Deuteronomy and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - Pekka Pitkänen

"How" Does the Bible Mean? The Bible and Dalit Liberation in India - Peniel Rajkumar

Justice and Biblical Interpretation beyond Subjectivity and Self-Determination: A Contrapuntal Reading on the Theme of Suffering in the Book of Job - Alissa Jones Nelson

Urban Morality and the Great City in the Book of Jonah - Mary Mills

The Use of the Bible by the Christian Human Rights Organizations Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) and International Justice Mission (IJM) - David McIlroy

A secondly further a book due in January 2011 from Equinox, with a paper from Stanley Hauerwas and my friend Simon Woodman:

Bible and Justice: Ancient Texts, Modern Challenges
Edited by: Matthew J.M. Coomber

Part 1:Challenges and Understanding of Bible and Justice

1. On the Genesis of the Alliance between the Bible and Rights Yvonne Sherwood, University of Glasgow

2. Rough Justice? Philip Davies, University of Sheffield

3. Is the Belief in Human Rights either Biblical or Useful? John Sandys-Wunsch

4. Jesus: The Justice of God Stanley Hauerwas

Part 2: Uses and Approaches to Bible and Justice

5. Justice and Violence in the Priestly Utopia Walter J. Houston

6. A Signs Source: Approaching Deaf Biblical Interpretation Louise J. Lawrence

7. From a Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) of the Economy to the RDP of the Soul: Public Realm Biblical Appropriation in Postcolonial South Africa Gerald West

Part 3: Prospects for Applications of Bible and Justice

8. The Old Testament and the Environment J.W. Rogerson

9. Ecojustice in the Bible? Pauline Contributions to an Ecological Theology David G. Horrell

10. Can the Book of Revelation be a Gospel for the Environment? Simon P. Woodman

11. ‘I Have Always Relied on the Kindness of Strangers’: Hospitality and the Geneva Conventions of Ancient Israel Diana Lipton

12. Prophets to Profits: Ancient Judah and Corporate Globalization Matthew J.M. Coomber

Things to Click

A poetic guide to modern theologians and more here - if you know anything about modern theologians, these are very funny ...

the problem of pleasure - a new book from dominic erdozain

Pauline soteriology: a very basic analogy

Contemporvant worship

affirming the ministry of women part 1 (Steve, we await part 2)

mp3s (scroll down) of the holy spirit conference last week in london with david ford, rowan williams, jurgen moltmann and miroslav volf

o'donovan sideswipe at milbank's politics of love

advanced notice of the cambridge dictionary of theology (available feb 2011)

steve taylor starts writing his creationary.