Publications
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 [...]
Review of Darwin’s Pious Idea in Quarterly Review of Biology
Michael Rose has written a review of Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong in the most recent issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology: “Cunningham is not shy about pulling the ontological pants of materialism down to its ankles. He supplies an unremitting attack on the scientific and philosophical views [...]
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 [...]
Review of Darwin’s Pious Idea
“Dueling Dualisms”, a review of Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong by John Rose in Commonweal. [Link]
New Publication: The Crisis of Global Capitalism
The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Pope Benedict XVI’s Social Encyclical and the Future of Political Economy, edited by Adrian Pabst (Wipf & Stock, 2011). [Purchase: Wipf & Stock | Amazon US | Amazon UK] Publication description: This collection of essays outlines a new political economy. Twenty years after the demise of Soviet communism, the global recession into which free-market [...]
Darwin’s Pious Idea reviewed in The Church Times
Andrew Davison reviews Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong [UK | US] in The Church Times: ‘[This book] is nothing short of magnificent. Every now and then Providence sends a book to save the day. Darwin’s Pious Idea may be one of those books.’ Link. [Subscription required]
Publications of Note
Postsecular Cities: Religious Space, Theory and Practice, edited by Christopher Baker and Justin Beaumont [UK | US] Description: This book reflects the wide-spread belief that the twenty-first century is evolving in a significantly different way to the twentieth, which witnessed the advance of human rationality and technological progress, including urbanisation, and called into question the [...]
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 [...]
Archbishop Rowan Williams Reviews Darwin’s Pious Idea in the TLS
The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams reviews Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong in the latest edition of the Times Literary Supplement, saying that it is “the most interesting and invigorating book on the science–religion frontier that I have encountered”. Link to the website is here, and can [...]
The Other Journal interviews Conor Cunningham
Conor Cunningham has been interviewed by The Other Journal about his book, Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong. Both parts have now been posted: “Ultra-Darwinism and Creation’s Sabbath: An Interview with Conor Cunningham” Part I Part II In his recently publishedDarwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both [...]
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 [...]
‘Ultra-Darwinists and the pious gene’ piece in the Guardian
Mark Vernon has written a piece in the ‘Comment is Free’ section of The Guardian entitled ‘Ultra-Darwinists and the Pious Gene’ with a lede of ‘Richard Dawkins won’t like it, but he and creationists are singing from similar hymn sheets, according to a new book’, which provides an overview of Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: [...]
Charles Taylor’s latest: Dilemmas and Connections
Charles Taylor’s latest book is now available: Dilemmas and Connections: Selected Essays [Purchase UK | Purchase US]. From the publisher: There are, always, more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in one’s philosophy—and in these essays Charles Taylor turns to those things not fully imagined or avenues not wholly explored in his epochal A [...]
Italian Translation of Monstrosity of Christ
An Italian translation of Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (by John Milbank, Slavoj Žižek, and ed. by Creston Davis) is out, with the Italian title of La mostruosità di Cristo. Paradosso o dialettica?, translated by D. Bondi and A. Gonzi. The description from the publisher reads: In La mostruosità di Cristo il filosofo Slavoj Žižek [...]
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 [...]
Theology and Social Theory now in French
John Milbank’s Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason has just been translated into French by Pascale Robin: Théologie et théorie sociale : Au-delà de la raison séculière , Collection Théologiques (Cerf, 2010). 730pp. An extract of the translation can be read here. Official publishers page: Les Éditions du Cerf Buy from Amazon.co.uk Buy from Amazon.fr
New book from Milbank, Žižek, and Davis: Paul’s New Moment
Now out in the States from Brazos Press comes Paul’s New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology, by John Milbank, Slavoj Žižek, and Creston Davis (pre-order in the UK). Are there moments in Christian history when non-Christians in some ways understand Christianity better than Christians? The church fathers and mothers often did [...]
