Publications
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. [...]
Notable Publications
The Gift of Difference: Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation Chris K. Huebner and Tripp York, Editors Foreword by John Milbank The Gift of Difference: Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation is a collection of essays in which leading theologians consider the strengths and weaknesses of Radical Orthodoxy in dialogue with the Radical Reformation tradition. Writers in this volume [...]
Notable Publications
Below are books of note that may be of interest to affiliates of the Centre. Also below are books written, edited, or translated by members and staff of the Centre. All book descriptions come from the publisher. The Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-world: A Confrontation Between St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger by Caitlin Smith Gilson [...]
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 [...]
Stanley Hauerwas Interview
In 2001 Time magazine named Stanley Hauerwas “America’s Best Theologian.” Hauerwas found the distinction humorous, but it catapulted him and his pacifist, anti-nationalistic views into the spotlight at a time when our country was poised for war. Soon he was also America’s best-known theologian. His new book, Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir (Purchase US | [...]
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 Languishing [...]
Forthcoming from Eerdmans
From Oliva Blanchette, author of The Perfection of the Universe According to Thomas Aquinas: A Teleological View, Philosophy of Being: A Reconstructive Essay and translator of Blondel’s L’Action (1893), comes Maurice Blondel: A Philosophical Life (Eerdmans, 29 April 2010, 840 pp). Publisher’s description: French philosopher Maurice Blondel (1861–1949) had a tremendous impact on both philosophy [...]
Publications of Note
Christianity and Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness, by Luke Bretherton (to be published 19 January 2010) Book description: Relations between religious and political spheres continue to stir passionate debates on both sides of the Atlantic. Through a combination of theological reflection and empirical case studies, Bretherton succeeds in offering timely and [...]
Modern Theology 25th Anniversary
The latest issue of Modern Theology is now available, and it is a special 25th-anniversary edition containing essays reflecting on the first 25 years of publication by Ken Surin (the original founding editor), Jim Fodor and William Cavanaugh, John Milbank, Kathryn Tanner, Nicholas Lash, Stanley Hauerwas, David Ford, L. Gregory Jones, John W. de Gruchy, [...]
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 [...]
Alison Milbank in the latest Mars Hill Audio Journal
Out today in the latest issue of the Mars Hill Audio Journal (#99), Ken Myers interviews Alison Milbank, discussing her book Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians: The Fantasy of the Real. Alison Milbank, on how the fantasy writings of G. K. Chesterton and J. R. R. Tolkien are intended to reconnect readers with reality. The [...]
Michel Henry, Éditions de L’Âge d’Homme
Released this year is an edited volume by Jean Leclercq and Jean-Marie Brohm simply titled Michel Henry, Paris-Lausanne, Éditions de L’Âge d’Homme, 2009, 544 p. In addition to works by Michel Henry (including some previously unpublished) and an interview with Anne Henry and Jean Leclercq, there are contributions from Jean-Louis Chrétien, Jean Leclercq, Jean-Luc Marion, [...]
Hauerwas and Hart in latest issue of Mars Hill Audio Journal
Out today in the latest issue of the Mars Hill Audio Journal (#98), Ken Myers has interviews with Stanley Hauerwas and David Bentley Hart. From the issue description: Stanley Hauerwas, on the public witness of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus and on why Neuhaus abandoned his 1960s radicalism to become a leading ‘theoconservative’. David Bentley Hart, [...]
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, [...]
Radical Orthodoxy Reader
Released in April is the Radical Orthodoxy Reader, edited by John Milbank and Simon Oliver. Book description: The Radical Orthodoxy Reader presents a selection of key readings in the field of Radical Orthodoxy, the most influential theological movement in contemporary academic theology. Radical Orthodoxy draws on pre-Enlightenment theology and philosophy to engage critically with the [...]
Chris Simpson’s new book out today
I’ve just received word from Chris Simpson that his new book has arrived today. It is entitled Religion, Metaphysics, and the Postmodern: William Desmond and John D. Caputo, published by Indiana University Press (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion). The publisher’s description: William Desmond’s original and creative work in metaphysics is attracting more and [...]
