CENTRE of THEOLOGY and PHILOSOPHY

Notable: Kierkegaard’s Theological Sociology, by Paul Tyson

By CoTP ⋅ May 10, 2019 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available from Cascade Books, Kierkegaard’s Theological Sociology: Prophetic Fire for the Present Age, by Paul Tyson. Purchase: Cascade | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk Kierkegaard developed a distinctive type of sociology in the 1840s—a theological sociology. Looking at society through the lens of analysis categories such as worship, sin, and faith, Kierkegaard developed a profoundly insightful […]

Signs in the Dust by Nathan Lyons

By King-Ho Leung ⋅ April 9, 2019 ⋅ Post a comment

Signs in the Dust A Theory of Natural Culture and Cultural Nature Nathan Lyons Argues that the meaningful exchange of signs is not unique to humans and is present through all of nature Counters the common understanding of nature and culture as completely separate Draws from medieval philosophy, semiotics, biology, and modern evolutionary theory Purchase: […]

Alison Milbank, God & the Gothic, available for pre-order

By King-Ho Leung ⋅ October 31, 2018 ⋅ Post a comment

God & the Gothic Religion, Romance and Reality in the English Literary Tradition Alison Milbank Offers an original reworking of Gothic fiction, which is usually read as a secularizing genre, as instead doing creative theological work Takes the story right back to the Reformation, and locates tropes such as the usurper, fleeing heroine who […]

Now available: The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faerie

By CoTP ⋅ January 3, 2018 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available from Angelico Press: The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faerie, by Jonathan S. McIntosh. [Purchase: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] J. R. R. Tolkien was a profoundly metaphysical thinker, and one of the most formative influences on his imagination, according to this new study of his works, was the great thirteenth-century theologian, St. […]

Available for pre-order: Myth and Solidarity in the Modern World, by Timothy Stacey

By King-Ho Leung ⋅ November 22, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Available for pre-order from Routledge: Myth and Solidarity in the Modern World: Beyond Religious and Political Division, by Timothy Stacey. In the context of the rise of reactionary politics across the globe, this book seeks new ways of developing solidarity across religious, political and economic differences. Drawing on an increasingly influential Christian theological movement,　postliberalism, it […]

Now available: An Economics of Justice and Charity, by Thomas Storck

By CoTP ⋅ November 21, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available from Angelico Press: An Economics of Justice and Charity: Catholic Social Teaching, Its Development and Contemporary Relevance, by Thomas Storck, with a foreword by Peter Kwasniewski. [Purchase: Amazon | Amazon.co.uk] Since Pope Leo XIII’s landmark encyclical Rerum Novarum of 1891, a significant part of Catholic social doctrine has focused on man’s economic life and the challenge of building […]

Now available: The Architectonics of Hope, by Kyle Gingerich Hiebert

By CoTP ⋅ October 16, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available from Cascade Books: The Architectonics of Hope: Violence, Apocalyptic, and the Transformation of Political Theology, by Kyle Gingerich Hiebert, with a foreword by Cyril O’Regan. [Purchase: Wipf and Stock | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com] The Architectonics of Hope provides a critical excavation and reconstruction of the Schmittian seductions that continue to bedevil contemporary political theology. Despite a veritable explosion […]

Now available: De-fragmenting Modernity, by Paul Tyson

By CoTP ⋅ July 6, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available from Cascade Books: De-fragmenting Modernity: Reintegrating Knowledge with Wisdom, Belief with Truth, and Reality with Being, by Paul Tyson. [Purchase: Wipf & Stock] We live in a strangely fragmented lifeworld. On the one hand, abstract constructions of our own imagination—such as money, “mere” facts, and mathematical models—are treated by us as important objective […]

Now available: Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness, by Peter Kwasniewski

By CoTP ⋅ June 21, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available from Angelico press: Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness: Why the Modern Age Needs the Mass of Ages, by Peter Kwasniewski, with a foreword by Martin Mosebach. [Purchase: Amazon] The traditional liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church is a highly formal ritual unfolding in layers of elaborate gesture, rich symbolism, whispered Latin, and ancient plainchants. […]

New from Angelico Press: The Dream-Child’s Progress and Other Essays, by David Bentley Hart

By CoTP ⋅ February 25, 2017 ⋅ One comment

Just out from Angelico Press: The Dream-Child’s Progress and Other Essays, by David Bentley Hart (February 10, 2017; 358pp+). [Purchase: Angelico Press] By turns champion of the Christian difference and voice of dissent; friend to Moley and Water Rat and scourge to those of scientistic bent—these are but a few of the many guises of David […]

Now Available: Immediacy and Meaning: J. K. Huysmans and the Immemorial Origin of Metaphysics

By CoTP ⋅ February 12, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available: Immediacy and Meaning: J. K. Huysmans and the Immemorial Origin of Metaphysics, by Caitlin Smith Gilson (Bloomsbury Academic; 9 Feb. 2017; 323pp+); [Purchase: Bloomsbury | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] Immediacy and Meaning seeks to approach the odd uneasiness at root in all metaphysical meaning; that the human knower attempts to mediate what cannot be […]

New from Angelico Press: Person, Soul, and Identity: Philosophy and the Real Self, by Robert Bolton

By CoTP ⋅ January 12, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Person, Soul, and Identity: Philosophy and the Real Self, by Robert Bolton The reality of the self is—perhaps paradoxically—of more than purely personal interest. It is as important for religion as is the existence of God. Without it, any religious message can only go from nothing to nothing. Worse yet, scepticism about self and soul […]

Notable: Australian Religious Thought, by Wayne Hudson

By CoTP ⋅ May 23, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available: Australian Religious Thought, by Wayne Hudson (Monash University Publishing; April 20, 2016; 272pp+). [Purchase: Publisher | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com] Book description: This book is the first major historical study of Australian religious thought, arguing that religious thought can be found in many of Australia’s intellectuals, both in the religiously inclined and in those […]

New: The Heart has its Reasons: Towards a Theological Anthropology of the Heart, by Beáta Tóth

By CoTP ⋅ January 31, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Newly available from Cascade: The Heart has its Reasons: Towards a Theological Anthropology of the Heart, by Beáta Tóth (Wipf & Stock/Cascade; January 2016; 268pp). [Purchase: Wipf & Stock | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] Book description: This book explores a hitherto neglected area of theological anthropology: the unity of human emotionality and rationality embodied in the biblical concept of the heart. […]

New from Dominic Johnson: God is Watching You: How the Fear of God Makes Us Human

By CoTP ⋅ January 29, 2016 ⋅ Post a comment

Out this month from Dominic Johnson: God is Watching You: How the Fear of God Makes Us Human (Oxford University Press; January 2016; 304pp). [Purchase: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] Book description: “And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under […]

Now available: The Political Dialogue of Nature and Grace, by Caitlin Smith Gilson

By CoTP ⋅ November 1, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available: The Political Dialogue of Nature and Grace: Toward a Phenomenology of Chaste Anarchism, by Caitlin Smith Gilson (Bloomsbury Academic; September 2015; 328pp+). [Purchase: Bloomsbury | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] [Download flyer with publisher discount of 35% off here (PDF)] Description: The discourse between nature and grace finds its linguistic and existential podium in the political condition […]

Now available in English: Incarnation, by Michel Henry, trans. Karl Hefty

By CoTP ⋅ October 12, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

The last book that Michel Henry published during his lifetime is now available in English translation: Incarnation, the middle work of Henry’s final trilogy, translated by Karl Hefty (Northwestern University Press; 30 July 2015; 312pp+). In his lifetime, the order in which he wrote these final books were I Am the Truth, Incarnation, and Words of Christ, although […]

New: Sacred Rhetoric: Dietrich Bonhoeffer & the Participatory Tradition, by Justin Mandela Roberts

By CoTP ⋅ October 9, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

Published just last month: Sacred Rhetoric: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Participatory Tradition, by Justin Mandela Roberts (Wipf & Stock; Sept. 17, 2015; 140pp+). [Purchase: Wipf & Stock | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a celebrated and enigmatic figure in theology. Though he is known for advocating a concrete and worldly Christianity, Justin Mandela Roberts […]

Now available: Interstitial Soundings: Philosophical Reflections on Improvisation, Practice, and Self-Making, by Cynthia Nielsen

By CoTP ⋅ October 6, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

Now out from Cascade Books is Cynthia R. Nielsen’s Interstitial Soundings: Philosophical Reflections on Improvisation, Practice, and Self-Making. [Purchase: Wipf & Stock] In Interstitial Soundings, Cynthia R. Nielsen brings music and philosophy into a fruitful and mutually illuminating dialogue. Topics discussed include the following: music’s dynamic ontology, performers and improvisers as co-composers, the communal character of […]

Now available: The Great Grace: Receiving Vatican II Today

By CoTP ⋅ August 24, 2015 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available: The Great Grace: Receiving Vatican II Today, edited by Nigel Zimmermann (Bloomsbury Publishing; 160pp+). [Purchase: Bloomsbury | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] Publication description: Nigel Zimmermann presents critical reflections from leading Catholic prelates and scholars on the significance of the Second Vatican Council fifty years after it began. These include two senior Cardinals, one of whom is […]

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