CENTRE of THEOLOGY and PHILOSOPHY

Our Common Cosmos: Exploring the Future of Theology, Human Culture and Space Sciences

By Adam Morton ⋅ January 18, 2019 ⋅ Post a comment

Our Common Cosmos: Exploring the Future of Theology, Human Culture and Space Sciences Edited by Zoë Lehmann Imfeld, Andreas Losch Purchase: Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com | T&T Clark This volume collects an international body of voices, as a timely response to a rapidly advancing field of the natural sciences. The contributors explore how the disciplines of theology, […]

New and forthcoming in the INTERVENTIONS series

By Adam Morton ⋅ January 5, 2019 ⋅ Post a comment

New from Philipp W. Rosemann in the Interventions series, with a foreword from John Milbank: Charred root of Meaning: Continuity, Transgression, and the Other in Christian Tradition Purchase: Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk Description: Ecologists tell us that periodic wildfires, though devastating, are necessary to the rhythm of nature. The death of the old allows something new to […]

Veritas Series: Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good

By Adam Morton ⋅ December 5, 2018 ⋅ Post a comment

Highlighting publications in the Veritas series from the last year: Love, Friendship, Beauty, and the Good Plato, Aristotle, and the Later Tradition By Kevin Corrigan Purchase: Wipf & Stock | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk Description: This book tells a compelling story about love, friendship, and the Divine that took over a thousand years to unfold. It […]

Veritas Series: Embracing Our Finitude

By Adam Morton ⋅ December 3, 2018 ⋅ Post a comment

Highlighting publications in the Veritas series from the last year: Embracing Our Finitude: Exercises in a Christian Anthropology between Dependence and Gratitude By Stephan Kampowski Purchase: Wipf & Stock | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk Description: Memento mori—remember death—this is how the medieval monks exhort us. Our life, given in birth and taken by death, is radically […]

Veritas Series: Love and the Postmodern Predicament:

By Adam Morton ⋅ December 1, 2018 ⋅ Post a comment

Highlighting publications in the Veritas series from the last year: Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth By D. C. Schindler Purchase: Wipf & Stock | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk Description: The computer has increasingly become the principal model for the mind, which means our most basic experience of “reality” […]

Veritas Series: The Social Philosophy of Gillian Rose

By Adam Morton ⋅ November 30, 2018 ⋅ Post a comment

Highlighting publications in the Veritas series from the last year: The Social Philosophy of Gillian Rose By Andrew Brower Latz Purchase: Wipf & Stock | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk Description: Gillian Rose was one of the most important social philosophers of the twentieth century. This is the first book to present her social philosophy as a […]

Veritas Series: Maximus the Confessor as a European Philosopher

By ericaustinlee ⋅ November 29, 2018 ⋅ Post a comment

Highlighting publications in the Veritas series from the last year: Maximus the Confessor as a European Philosopher EDITED BY Sotiris Mitralexis, Georgios Steiris, Marcin Podbielski, Sebastian Lalla Purchase: Wipf & Stock | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk Description: The study of Maximus the Confessor’s thought has flourished in recent years: international conferences, publications and articles, new critical […]

Russian translation of Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea now available

By Adam Morton ⋅ January 9, 2018 ⋅ Post a comment

Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong, by Conor Cunningham, has now been translated into Russian, which also now includes a new 40-page afterword by the author. See the full description here, which also includes a link to the table of contents and the book’s introduction. Purchase the Russian translation […]

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

By Adam Morton ⋅ 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. […]

Now available: Maurice Blondel on the Supernatural in Human Action: Sacrament and Superstition

By Adam Morton ⋅ April 24, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available from Brill: Maurice Blondel on the Supernatural in Human Action: Sacrament and Superstition, by Cathal Doherty SJ (University of San Francisco). [Purchase: Brill] How do sacraments differ from superstition? For Enlightenment philosophers such as Kant, both are merely natural actions claiming a supernatural effect, an accusation that has long been ignored in Catholic theology. In […]

New in the Veritas series: Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein

By Adam Morton ⋅ April 19, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

New in the Veritas series: Human and Divine Being: A Study on the Theological Anthropology of Edith Stein, by Donald Wallenfang, with a foreword by John C. Cavadini. [Purchase: Wipf & Stock] Nothing is more dangerous to be misunderstood than the question, “What is the human being?” In an era when this question is not only […]

New in Veritas: Ever-Moving Repose A Contemporary Reading of Maximus the Confessor’s Theory of Time

By Adam Morton ⋅ April 19, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

New in the Veritas series: Ever-Moving Repose: A Contemporary Reading of Maximus the Confessor’s Theory of Time, by Sotiris Mitralexis, with a foreword by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. [Purchase: Wipf & Stock] Sotiris Mitralexis offers a contemporary look at Maximus the Confessor’s (580-662 CE) understanding of temporality, logoi, and deification, through the perspective of contemporary philosopher and theologian Christos […]

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

By Adam Morton ⋅ 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 […]

Available in the Veritas series: Wealth of Persons: Economics with a Human Face

By Adam Morton ⋅ February 22, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Available in the Veritas series: Wealth of Persons: Economics with a Human Face, by John McNerney, with a foreword by David Walsh. [Purchase: Wipf & Stock] Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century initiated a great debate not just about inequality but also regarding the failures found in the economic models used by theoreticians and practitioners alike. […]

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

By Adam Morton ⋅ 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 […]

Just released: Socrates and Other Saints, by Darius Karłowicz

By Adam Morton ⋅ February 7, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Just released in the KALOS book series: Socrates and Other Saints: Early Christian Understandings of Reason and Philosophy, by Darius Karłowicz, translated by Artur Sebastian Rosman and with a foreword by Rémi Brague. [Purchase: Wipf & Stock] Many contemporary writers misunderstand early Christian views on philosophy because they identify the critical stances of the ante-Nicene fathers […]

Available in the Veritas series: Being the Body of Christ in the Age of Management, by Lyndon Shakespeare

By Adam Morton ⋅ February 2, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Available in the Veritas series: Being the Body of Christ in the Age of Management, by Lyndon Shakespeare. [Purchase: Wipf & Stock | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] “The church needs effective leaders.” “We must be more missional.” “Better organization is required.” Such sentiments are commonplace among Christians concerned with the health and sustainability of their local […]

Available in the Veritas series: Seeing Things as They Are: G. K. Chesterton and the Drama of Meaning

By Adam Morton ⋅ January 25, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Available in the Veritas series: Seeing Things as They Are: G. K. Chesterton and the Drama of Meaning, by Duncan Bruce Reyburn. [Purchase: Wipf & Stock | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] The jovial journalist, philosopher, and theologian G. K. Chesterton felt that the world was almost always in permanent danger of being misjudged or even overlooked, and so […]

Available from Veritas: Things Seen and Unseen: The Logic of Incarnation in Merleau-Ponty’s Metaphysics of Flesh, by Orion Edgar

By Adam Morton ⋅ January 24, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Available in the Veritas series: Things Seen and Unseen: The Logic of Incarnation in Merleau-Ponty’s Metaphysics of Flesh, by Orion Edgar. [Purchase: Wipf & Stock | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty was developing into a radical ontology when he died prematurely in 1961. Merleau-Ponty identified this nascent ontology as a philosophy of incarnation […]

Available in the Veritas series: Owen Barfield: Philosophy, Poetry, and Theology, by Michael Vincent Di Fuccia

By Adam Morton ⋅ January 23, 2017 ⋅ Post a comment

Available in the Veritas series: Owen Barfield: Philosophy, Poetry, and Theology, by Michael Vincent Di Fuccia. This book contains a foreword by Owen A. Barfield, the grandson of the Inkling Owen Barfield. [Purchase: Wipf & Stock | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk] In this book Michael Di Fuccia examines the theological import of Owen Barfield’s poetic philosophy. He argues […]

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