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The Future of Christian Theology

Coming in February 2011 is David Ford's manifesto on the future of Christian theology. The contents indicate that this will be a very Ford approach to theology, building on his work in Christian Wisdom and Shaping Theology.

Preface.
1. A Cry for Wisdom: Theology for the Twenty-first Century.
2. Drama in Bible, Theology and Life.
3. A Dramatic Code for Twenty-first Century Theology.
4. Desire Above All.
5. Belonging: Church, Collegiality, Conversation.
6. Church and Society.
7. Inter-Faith Blessing.
8. New Theology and Religious Studies: Shaping, Teaching and Funding a Field.
9. Becoming a Theologian: The Apprentice.
10. The Bible – Creative Source of Theology.
Index.

Also coming from Wiley-Blackwell is a second edition of the Wells and Hauerwas Companion to Christian Ethics, with the promise of new and revised essays (although initially only as in hardback).

 

Advent blog starts

here today with a fantastic start from Jim

Whitley Lecture 2011

This year's Whitley Lecture will be given by Anne Clements with the title "Wrestling with the Word - a woman reads Scripture"

You can heard it at Northern Baptist College on 1st March 2011, 7.30 - 9.00 p.m and of course at the Baptist Assembly. (I'll update when the other Baptist colleges announce their date). It will also be available at some point next year through the BUGB website.

This is blurb:

This lecture grapples with the issues raised when a committed Christian woman comes to the biblical text and realises that not only are there the verses from Timothy to negotiate but far deeper hermeneutical problems. How does a woman who does not wish to reject the authority of Scripture but who increasingly becomes aware of the androcentric, male centred, nature of the text and the patriarchal character of many of its stories come to terms with the Word ? Not only the text itself but patriarchal interpretation of these texts has caused anguish for many women called in different ways into God’s work. The lecture traces one woman’s journey from a call to ministry that led to an intellectual engagement with issues of interpretation and the formulation of  her own hermeneutical stance. Out of this came her revisionist work on the women in Matthew’s Gospel in the conviction that the Biblical text contains a self-critique of patriarchy. The gender issue is now a mainstream topic both within the academy, the church (the BUBG Council 2010 debated the issues surrounding women in ministry) and at popular cultural levels. It is increasingly important to be able to articulate and develop a hermeneutic that both recognises the Bible’s patriarchy for what it is, whilst at the same time hearing God’s Word speaking to us within the complexities of lives lived in the 21st century.

The Rev Anne Clements is minister of West Kingsdown Baptist Church, Kent. She has been happily married for thirty years and is the mother of three grown daughters. She originally trained as a teacher and she and her husband spent ten years teaching in mainland China (1986-1996). She was called to the ministry in 2002, trained at Spurgeon’s College and was ordained in 2006. Anne is currently completing her PhD on the women in Matthew’s Gospel.

Regent's Reviews, October 2010

Running a little late, the latest edition of Regent's Reviews is now ready for downloading. Click here to download.

Find inside reviews of

Stanley Hauerwas, Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

Luke Bretherton, Christianity and Contemporary Politics

Ferdinan Schlingensiepen, Dietrich Bonheoffer 1906-1945

Joseph Mangina, Brazos/SCM Revelation commentary

Angus Paddison, Scripture: A Very Theological Proposal

as well as Baptist authors:

Steven Harmon, Ecumenism Means You, Too

Paul Goodliff, Ministry, Sacrament and Representation

Anthony R. Cross and Nicholas Wood, Exploring Baptist Origins

John Weaver, Christianity and Science

Christopher Voke, Creation At Worship

British Baptist Biblical Scholars (1) David S. Russell

1917-2010

B. Litt (Oxford); D. Litt (Glasgow, 1967); Hon DD (Glasgow, 1980); OBE (1982)

Principal, Rawdon College (1953-1964)
Joint Principal, Northern Baptist College (1964-1967)
General Secretary of the Baptist Union (1967-1982)
President of the Baptist Union (1982-1983)

Delivered the Hayward Lectures and Nordenhaug Memorial Lectures (published as Apocalyptic: Ancient and Modern)

Major Publications

Between the testaments (SCM, 1960, rev ed., 1963)

The method & message of Jewish apocalyptic, 200 BC - AD 100 (SCM, 1964)

The Jews from Alexander to Herod (OUP, 1967)

Apocalyptic: ancient and modern (SCM, 1978)

Daniel (Saint Andrew Press, 1981)

From early Judaism to early Church (SCM, 1986)

The Old Testament pseudepigrapha : patriarchs and prophets in early Judaism (SCM, 1987)

Daniel: an active volcano: reflections on the Book of Daniel (St. Andrew's, 1989)

Poles apart: the Gospel in creative tension (St. Andrew's, 1990)

Divine disclosure: an introduction to Jewish apocalyptic (SCM, 1992)

Prophecy and the apocalyptic dream: protest and promise (Hendrickson, 1994)

'Apocalyptic Imagery as Political Cartoon' in John Barton and David James Reimer (eds.), After the Exile: Essays in Honour of Rex Mason (Mercer, 1996)

Sean Winter obituary | abp obituary

 

Luke Bretherton now blogging

Luke Bretherton now blogging here

Have a read of this ...

A flavour of Pete Ward's new book on celebrity

Bonnie Miller-McLemore's critique of recent interpretations of Jesus and children

interview with Nate Kerr

Luke Bretherton on church and big society

a preview of Robert Jenson's new book Canon and Creed

a position at Regent's Park College, Oxford for a lecturer in evangelism and contemporary mission (limited hours)

 

Paternoster back up and running with new titles on their way

Mike Parsons, the new Paternoster commissioning editor, has been in touch and let me know some of the books that will be appearing next year from Paternoster. Its good to hear that they are back up and running.

Here are some to look out for:

Stuart Murray, The Naked Anabaptist (Feb 2011)

Stephen Fowl, Theological Interpretation of Scripture (March 2011)

Lloyd Pietersen, Reading the Bible after Christendom (April 2011)

Tim Grass, F. F. Bruce: A Biography (April 2011)

William Kay & Robin Parry (eds), Exorcism and Deliverance (June 2011)

Richard Bauckham, Living with Other Creatures (September 2011)

Stephen Holmes, The Holy Trinity (Christian Doctrine in Historical Perspective) (September 2011)

Roger Ward & Philip Thompson (eds.), Tradition and the Baptist Academy (SBHT) (September 2011)