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Empirical demonstration of environmental sensing in catalytic RNA: evolution of interpretive behavior at the origins of life
(BioMedCentral, 2014-12-04)BACKGROUND: The origins of life on the Earth required chemical entities to interact with their environments in ways that could respond to natural selection. The concept of interpretation, where biotic entities use signs ... -
Engaging the Bible in GCSE and A level Religious Studies: Environmental stewardship as a test case
(Routledge (Taylor & Francis), 2014)This article explores the potential for critical and informed engagement with biblical texts to form a key element of the study of Christian perspectives on ethical issues at GCSE and A level. Given the current dominance ... -
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, 2017-10-01)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 ... -
'Failing Safely': Increasing Theology and Religious Studies Students' Resilience and Academic Confidence via Risk-Taking in Formative Assessment
(Wiley, 2018-04-02)Students increasingly appear anxious, risk-averse, and worried about getting things “wrong”. They may appear to lack intellectual curiosity, and be unwilling to engage in independent study. This essay explores how teaching ... -
Faithfulness to Our Sexuate Bodies: The Vocations of Generativity and Sex
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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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Galen in Syriac: Rethinking Old Assumptions
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2017-11-17)This article challenges a series of common assumptions regarding the Syriac translations of Galen: first, about the quality of the sixth-century Syriac translations; second, about the status and role of Syriac as a scientific ... -
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, ...