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An environmental mantra? Ecological interest in Romans 8.19-23 and a modest proposal for its narrative interpretation
(Oxford University Press, 2008-10)Romans 8:19–23 has become a favourite text for ecotheologians seeking biblical grounds for promoting a positive approach towards non-human creation. However, there has been little work that both engages with the passage ... -
Eschatological anarchism: eschatology and politics in contemporary Greek theology
(Bloomsbury--T & T Clark, 2017-06-15)Book summary: Orthodox Christianity is often considered to be out-of-sync with contemporary society, locked up in a world of its own where the church gets intertwined with the state in order to claim power over people and ... -
Ethnicisation, marriage, and early Christian identity: critical reflections on 1 Corinthians 7, 1 Peter 3, and modern New Testament scholarship
(Cambridge University Press, 2015)In the discipline of New Testament studies there are particular reasons for critical vigilance concerning the ways in which historical reconstructions can be shaped by a sense of both religious and ethnic or racial ... -
Evil and the Body of Antiochus IV Epiphanes: Disability, Disgust and Tropes of Monstrosity in 2 Maccabees 9:1−12
(Mohr Siebeck, 2016-05-01)Through a hermeneutical lens structured on the intersections of disability, disgust, and tropes of monstrosity, here I will probe the discursive and bodily act of expelling evil through the narration of the body of a ... -
The Exile, the Nomad, and the Ghostly: Holocaust Memory and Identities of the Biblical at the Edge of Reception Studies
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2017)This article considers the relationship between biblical reception studies and Holocaust memory, with particular reference to the construction of a new Holocaust memorial in central London. I suggest that although in the ... -
Exploring the Sense-scape of the Gospel of Mark
(SAGE Publications, 2011-06)This article attempts to address a certain lack of interest in the senses in New Testament Studies by conducting a sensory survey of the Gospel of Mark. Informed by cross-cultural anthropology of the senses, the Gospel of ... -
Familiar friend or alien stranger? On translating the Bible
(Sage Publications, 2005-09)Looking especially at the NRSV and NIV, and interacting with the recent comments of Earle Ellis in this journal, this essay argues that translations of the Bible should do more justice to aspects of the text that make it ... -
Fear, hope, and doing good: wives as a paradigm of mission in 1 Peter
(Facultad de Teología de la Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso, Madrid, 2015-10)Like 1 Corinthians 7,12-16, 1 Peter 3,1-6 indicates that mixed marriages may be opportunities for missionary witness. But the text in 1 Peter gives much more indication than does Paul about both the means by which this ... -
From a Remote Rural Village in Limpopo’: Colonized Bodies, Hybrid Sex and Postcolonial Theology
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012-08-01)Postcolonial theological themes and methodologies are particularly useful for considering issues of indeterminate sex and gender, since they appeal to theological goods which are willing to sit with uncertainty. Drawing ... -
From άδελϕοί to οἰ̑κος θεου̑: social transformation in Pauline Christianity
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The fulfilment of history in Barth, Frei, Auerbach and Dante
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Georges Florovsky
(Diocese of Sourozh, 2016-11-01)If the greatness of a theologian is determined by his influence, Georges Florovsky is undoubtedly the greatest Eastern Orthodox theologian of the 20th century, as indeed is often claimed. His theological programme and ... -
God, pilgrimage, and acknowledgement of place
(Cambridge University Press, 2007-06)The paper seeks to address three objections to pilgrimage practices – they are tied to superstitious beliefs (except where they are seen as simply an aid to the imagination), imply a crude experiential or emotional ... -
God’s Creation Wild and Violent, and Our Care for Other Animals
(American Scientific Affiliation, 2015-11)In this article I give examples of violence, and ingenuity in the service of violence, in predation in the natural world. I consider various types of argument that ascribe this violence to different types of fall-event, ... -
The Green Bible: A Timely Idea Deeply Flawed
(SAGE Publications, 2010-01)This article offers a critical review of the recently published Green Bible (HarperCollins, 2008), a ‘green-letter edition’ intended to enable readers to discover the Bible’s message concerning humanity’s duty to care for ... -
Hans Frei and David Tracy on the ordinary and the extraordinary in Christianity
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A Helper of Providence: "Justified Providential War" in Vladimir Solov'ev '
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‘His death belongs to them’: an Edwardsean participatory model of atonement
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017-02-13)Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017The Participatory Model of Atonement (PMA) offers an alternative view of Christian salvation, drawing on Pauline theology. It conceives of sin as a contagion which can usually be ... -
Home and Hiddenness: Queer Theology, Domestication and Institutions
(Equinox Publishing / Centre for the Study of Christianity and Sexuality, 2017-06-19)This essay examines tropes of hiddenness and domestication in queer theology, particularly in light of the increasing mainstreaming of queer theologies in institutional (e.g. university, seminary, church) settings, and the ...