Notable Books
Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image, by John Behr
Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image, by John Behr (St Vladimirs Seminary Press, September 23, 2013, 136 pages). [Purchase US (Amazon.com)] Publication description: This book reflects upon various dimensions and implications of the astounding fact that Christ shows us what it is to be God by the way he dies as […]
Now available: Repetition and Identity: The Literary Agenda, by Catherine Pickstock
Now available: Repetition and Identity: The Literary Agenda, by Catherine Pickstock (Oxford University Press, 2013). [Purchase UK (Amazon.co.uk) | Pre-order US (Amazon.com)] Publication description: The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and […]
Notable: Irenaeus of Lyons: Identifying Christianity, by John Behr
Irenaeus of Lyons: Identifying Christianity by John Behr (Oxford University Press, 2013). [Purchase Amazon UK | Purchase Amazon US] Book description: This book provides a full, contextual study of St Irenaeus of Lyons, the first great theologian of the Christian tradition. John Behr sets Irenaeus both within his own context of the second century, a […]
Notable: Métaphysiques rebelles, by Olivier Boulnois
Now available: Métaphysiques rebelles: Genèse et structure d’une science au Moyen Âge, by Olivier Boulnois (Paris: Puf, 2013). « Au Moyen Âge, « métaphysique » cesse d’être le nom d’une série de livres d’Aristote pour devenir celui d’une science, la plus haute de toutes. Cet ouvrage explore ses origines, à travers le néoplatonisme grec et la philosophie arabe. Science théologique, […]
Notable: A Phenomenology of Christian Life, by Felix Ó Murchadha
Now available from Indiana University Press: A Phenomenology of Christian Life Glory and Night Felix Ó Murchadha “Ó Murchadha makes abundant and timely references to the philosophical tradition from Plato through Heidegger, but also, perhaps more so, to the post-Heideggerian developments sometimes considered together and at once as “the theological turn” in phenomenology. He is […]
Notable: Relating God and the Self, by Jan-Olav Henriksen,
Now available from Ashgate Publishing… Relating God and the Self: Dynamic Interplay, by Jan-Olav Henriksen, Norwegian School of Theology, Norway [Purchase from Ashgate Publishing] Book description: By discussing critically different ways the symbol of God functions in the formation of the self, this book develops a nuanced and original approach to the interplay between God and the […]
Notable: René Girard and Secular Modernity
René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis, by Scott Cowdell Download this flyer to see how you can get this book for the sale price of $23.00: René Girard and Secular Modernity Sale Price Flyer [PDF] Book description: In René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis, Scott Cowdell provides the first systematic interpretation of René […]
Notable: Ethics at the Beginning of Life: A Phenomenological Critique
Ethics at the Beginning of Life: A Phenomenological Critique, by James Mumford (Oxford University Press) [Purchase Amazon.co.uk | Pre-order Amazon.com] Book description: Many of the most controversial moral decisions we face hinge upon competing descriptions of life, and never is this truer than at the beginning of life. James Mumford draws upon phenomenology (a branch of continental philosophy) […]
Forthcoming from David Bentley Hart: The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss
Forthcoming in September/October 2013: The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, by David Bentley Hart (376 pages; Yale University Press). [Pre-order Amazon.com | Pre-order Amazon.co.uk] Book description: Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion—God—frequently remains vaguely and obscurely described. Are those engaged in these arguments even talking about the […]
Notable: The Tumbler of God: Chesterton as Mystic
New from Angelico Press: The Tumbler of God: Chesterton as Mystic, by Fr Robert Wild [Purchase Amazon.co.uk | Purchase Amazon.com] Book description: “WE NEED A NEW KIND of mystic,” writes Fr. Robert Wild; and in The Tumbler of God, he presents a spiritual portrait of G.K. Chesterton that convincingly shows why he is precisely the new […]
UPDATE: Michael Hanby’s No God, No Science? is now available
The following publication (originally advertised below) is now available: —————————— No God, No Science?: Theology, Cosmology, Biology, by Michael Hanby, the latest addition to the Illuminations series [Order UK | Order US] Book description: Are creation and evolution mutually exclusive terms? Or is there instead a deep relationship between science, metaphysics, and theology that can help […]
The Radiance of Being, by Stratford Caldecott
The Radiance of Being: Dimensions of Cosmic Christianity, by Stratford Caldecott, with a Foreword by Adrian Walker (Angelico Press, 2013. [Purchase UK | Purchase US] Book description: The Radiance of Being offers nothing less than a portrayal of the full glory of Catholic tradition. From an initial engagement with the insights of the natural sciences emerges […]
Now available: The Unknown God: Sermons Responding to the New Atheists
Now available from Wipf & Stock: The Unknown God: Sermons Responding to the New Atheism, edited by John Hughes and with a foreword by the Rt Rev & Rt Hon Richard Chartres. [Order directly from Wipf & Stock here] Contributors to this volume: Terry Eagleton David Fergusson Timothy Jenkins Conor Cunningham Alister McGrath John Hughes […]
Now Available: Christopher Ben Simpson’s Deleuze and Theology
Now available: Deleuze and Theology (Philosophy and Theology series), by Christopher Ben Simpson (T & T Clark, September 2012) [Order UK | Order US] Book description: What can a theologian do with Deleuze? While using philosophy as a resource for theology is nothing new, Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) presents a kind of limit-case for such a […]
Notable Publication
Now available: The Time of Revolution: Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger, by Felix Ó Murchadha [Purchase UK | Purchase US] Book description: This book presents Heidegger as a thinker of revolution. Understanding revolution as an occurrence whereby the previously unforeseeable comes to appear as inevitable, the temporal character of such an event is explored through Heidegger’s […]
Radical Orthodoxy: Annual Review
The Radical Orthodoxy: Annual Review (ed. Neil Turnbull) is now available for purchase from Cascade Books /Wipf & Stock. [Purchase US | Purchase UK | Purchase from Cascade Books] Review description: The Radical Orthodoxy Annual Review examines emerging agendas in contemporary theology and philosophy. Today, in an era of biotechnology and a growing ecological consciousness, it is […]
Publications: Balthasar: A (Very) Critical Introduction and Analogia Entis: Metaphysics: Original Structure and Universal Rhythm
Recently released: Balthasar: A (Very) Critical Introduction, by Karen Kilby (Interventions series, Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2012). [Purchase US | Purchase UK | Purchase at Eerdmans] Publication Description: The enormously prolific Swiss Roman Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) was marginalized during much of his life, but his reputation over time has only continued […]
Notable: Liberty: the God that Failed
Liberty: the God That Failed BY CHRISTOPHER A. FERRARA [Purchase US | Purchase UK/Europe] Book description: What has gone wrong with the grand American experiment in “ordered liberty”? In Liberty, the God That Failed, Christopher A. Ferrara unmasks the order promised as a sham; the liberty guaranteed, a chimera. We think you will agree that to read […]
New Publication: The William Desmond Reader
Released last week: The William Desmond Reader, edited by Christopher Ben Simpson, with a foreword by John D. Caputo [Purchase US | Purchase UK]. Book description: Known especially for his original system of metaphysics in a trilogy of books published between 1995 and 2008, and for his scholarship on Hegel, William Desmond has left his […]
Notable: Beauty in the Word, by Stratford Caldecott
A new book by Stratford Caldecott has been released, entitled Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education, with a foreword by Anthony Esolen. [Purchase: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] About the book: BEAUTY IN THE WORD, published by Angelico Press, offers a new Catholic philosophy of education, completing the retrieval of the seven liberal arts […]
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