Book Series
SCM Winter Sale on Veritas Books
The fine folks over at SCM Press are having a Winter Sale (see here), including excellent deals on books in the Veritas series of books: Transcendence and Phenomenology, eds. Peter M Candler, Jr and Conor Cunningham. Was £40.00, now £15.00. [Link] Belief and Metaphysics, eds. Peter M Candler, Jr and Conor Cunningham. Was £35.00, now £15.00. [Link] Theology, Psychoanalysis, and [...]
Publication Announcement: Veritas & Interventions
Diagonal Advance: Perfection in Christian Theology, by Anthony D. Baker is now out through SCM Press in the Veritas series. [Purchase UK | Purchase US] Publication Description: Diagonal Advance argues for a radical revision of Christian thinking about the purpose of human life. Perfection is neither a vertical drop from the divine, nor a horizontal progression through [...]
Darwin’s Pious Idea wins Catholic Press Award
Darwin’s Pious Idea, has been awarded Third place in the FAITH AND SCIENCES CATEGORY of the 2011 Catholic Press Awards. The judges said that Darinw’s Pious Idea was “An amazing work of bridge-building that demonstrates convincingly that both Ultra-Darwinists and hard-core Creationists are “intellectually vacuous” in their respectively strident points of view. This sweeping interdisciplinary [...]
Symposium on Darwin’s Pious Idea
The ABC Religion website is hosting a five-part Symposium on Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong. Please follow the links below for each part. Part 1, “Mind all the Way Down: On Darwin’s Pious Idea,” by Rowan Williams Part 2, by Peter James Causton Part 3, by Kent [...]
The Biologos Forum Discusses Darwin’s Pious Idea
At The Biologos Forum, John Wesley Wright has now posted all six parts of a discussion of Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong [Purchase US | Purchase UK]. This news entry will be updated with links to the subsequent parts once they have been posted over at [...]
Darwin’s Pious Idea now available through Amazon.com
Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong is now available through Amazon.com. (Amazon.co.uk availability still forthcoming.)
Darwin’s Pious Idea: UK Distribution Promotion
For those ordering Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong from the UK, Alban Books has a promotional offer of both 20% off as well as free shipping for a total of £18.39 (from £22.99 + shipping). Go to Albanbooks.com and enter the code DP1210 at checkout. Alternatively, this [...]
Darwin’s Pious Idea now in stock
Just heard from Eerdmans: Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong (Interventions) is now in stock! Click here to order from Eerdmans (Amazon links: UK | US). Also available: See the blurbs from Justin L. Barrett, John Hedley Brooke, David Depew, William Desmond, Louis Dupré, David Fergusson, David [...]
Darwin’s Pious Idea: Eerdmans’ Promotional Materials
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. has released a promotional sampler for Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong. The packet includes advanced praise for the book as well as the acknowledgements and introduction to the book itself. Additionally, there is an expanded table of contents which may be found below. [...]
Now Available: Protestant Metaphysics after Karl Barth and Martin Heidegger
Now available for purchase is Timothy Stanley’s Protestant Metaphysics after Karl Barth and Martin Heidegger, released in the Veritas series by SCM Press in conjunction with the Centre of Theology and Philosophy. From the author’s website: What is the relationship between Martin Heidegger’s critique of metaphysical theology and Karl Barth’s? Or, more broadly, what is [...]
Darwin’s Pious Idea pre-order sale on Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.co.uk has a special pre-order price for the hardcover edition of Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get it Wrong (Interventions) going for £11.99 (£14.00 off retail, 54% off). It may be pre-ordered here.
Darwin’s Pious Idea announced by Eerdmans
Eerdmans Publishing Company has announced Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong (forthcoming in the Interventions series Fall 2010). Below is a sampling of endorsements. (Remaining blurbs can be found here.) “This work of stunning scientific erudition and critical insight differs from the common polemics with Dawkins’ and [...]
Grandeur of Reason now available
Now available for purchase from the Veritas series is the volume: The Grandeur of Reason: Religion, Tradition and Universalism, edited by Peter M. Candler, Jr. and Conor Cunningham, with a foreword by Angelo Cardinal Scola. The essays contained in this collection arose out of the conference of the same name which took place in Rome, [...]
Forthcoming in the Veritas series
Five new books are forthcoming in the Veritas series in 2010, to be published by SCM Press in association with the Centre of Theology and Philosophy: The Grandeur of Reason: Religion, Tradition and Universalism, edited by Peter M. Candler Jr. and Conor Cunningham Phenomenology and the Holy: Religious Experience after Husserl, by Espen Dahl Diagonal [...]
Interview with Philip Goodchild about Theology of Money
Philip Goodchild has been interviewed here at the ROROTOKO website about his book Theology of Money, which is available this year in the US in the New Slant series (previously available through SCM for UK and worldwide).
New Release: Freedom Not Yet: Liberation and the Next World Order
Just released by Duke University Press in the New Slant series (eds. Philip Goodchild, Kenneth Surin, and Creston Davis) is Kenneth Surin’s Freedom Not Yet: Liberation and the Next World Order. Here is the book description: The neoliberal project in the West has created an increasingly polarized and impoverished world, to the point that the [...]
Book Releases
Off the presses this week: The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth: Christ, Scripture and the Church, a collection of essays from the conference of the same name held at the University of Nottingham in the summer of 2008. Published by SCM Press in conjunction with the Centre of Theology and Philosophy in the Veritas series, [...]
SCM Press sale on CoTP books
SCM Press is having a sale on CoTP-associated books, which lasts until 30 September 2009 : The Theology of Money (paperback), by Philip Goodchild (special sale price £13.50) Transcendence and Phenomenology (paperback), eds. Peter M. Candler, Jr. and Conor Cunningham (special sale price: £28.00) Belief and Metaphysics (paperback), eds. Peter M. Candler, Jr. and Conor [...]
The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth volume soon out in the Veritas series!
Due out at the end of September is the edited conference volume entitled The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth (eds. Adrian Pabst and Angus Paddison) based on the conference proceedings of the same name held at the University of Nottingham in the summer of 2008. Click here to pre-order from SCM Press. Details: The publication [...]
New Veritas Volumes
The Veritas series page has been updated to reflect the addition of three new works. The first is for a volume just-released: J. P. Moreland’s The Recalcitrant Imago Dei: Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism. [Order UK] [Order US] Endorsements: “J. P. Moreland’s new book is a tour de force. In six clear, concise [...]
