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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 άδελϕοί to οἰ̑κος θεου̑: social transformation in Pauline Christianity
(Society of Biblical Literature, 2001) -
The fulfilment of history in Barth, Frei, Auerbach and Dante
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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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Identity and Formation in Theological Education: The Occasion of Intersex
(Equinox Publishing / British and Irish Association for Practical Theology (BIAPT), 2015-05-01)Formation towards vocation necessitates continuity and discontinuity with one’s former self. Some commentators understand the language of formation as potentially damaging given the implications of submission and ‘‘unselfing’’, ... -
Idol-food, idolatry and ethics in Paul
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Immanence for transcendence: confronting the techno-theological eschatology of posthuman speculative science
(GOLEM: Journal of Religion and Monsters, 2006)Posthuman speculative science, typified by the writings of Hans Moravec, Frank Tipler, and Ray Kurzweil, evinces a faith in technology’s capacity to transform the future destiny of humankind. For these thinkers technology, ... -
In defence of the laws of war
(SAGE Publications, 2015)This essay warns that Nigel Biggar’s permissive reading of the classic, theological just war tradition is problematic especially when combined with his highly contextual approach to the United Nations Charter and laws of ... -
Introduction: Barth as conversationalist
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Introduction: Troubling Bodies?
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Jesus Remembered in 1 Peter? Early Jesus Traditions, Isaiah 53, and 1 Pet 2.21-25
(Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2014-12-18)First presented as a paper at SBL, this chapter argues that 1 Pet 2.21-25 reflects knowledge of various traditions concerning Jesus' trial, suffering, and death, though the lack of specific verbal overlaps does not indicate ... -
Just war reasoning in an age of risk
(Wiley, 2015-03)The classic, theological tradition of just war reasoning (JWT) is not exhausted but needed more than ever in the shadow of global risks, when facing “hybrid” war, and when the difference between war and peace is said to ... -
The Kenosis of Unambiguous Sex in the Body of Christ: Intersex, Theology, and Existing ‘for the Other’
(Equinox Publishing / Centre for the Study of Christianity and Sexuality, 2008-01)Intersex conditions might be more usefully explored in light of theologies from impairment rather than those from sexuality. The areas of concurrence between intersex conditions and disability feed into theologies which ... -
The label Xristianos: 1 Peter 4.16 and the formation of Christian identity
(Society of Biblical Literature, 2007)It is perhaps surprising that New Testament scholars have not devoted more attention in recent years to the origin and significance of the term Xristianos, given its eventual significance as the definitive label for the ... -
'Laws 'Needefull in Later to be Abrogated': Intersex and the Sources of Christian Theology
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Models and methods in social-scientific interpretation: a response to Philip Esler
(SAGE Publications, 2000)Philip Esler’s lengthy review of The Social Ethos of the Corinthian Correspondence focused on theoretical and methodological issues which are important to the debate about how a social-scientific approach to the New Testament ...