Publications
Available Soon: Michael Hanby’s No God, No Science?: Theology, Cosmology, Biology
Available soon: No God, No Science?: Theology, Cosmology, Biology, by Michael Hanby, the latest addition to the Illuminations series [Pre-order UK | Pre-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 shed light into mankind’s quest for the ultimate […]
Recent Angelico Press Publications
From the latest Angelico Press newsletter. Glastonbury: The Novel of Christian England (reprint) by Donna Fletcher Crow [Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon Kindle edition] Glastonbury Abbey was, according to legend, the center from which radiated a Christian presence on that island for two thousand years, a sacred site from which the Christian faith was passed down through […]
Now available from Veritas: Covering up Luther, by Rustin E. Brian
Now available in the Centre of Theology and Philosophy’s Veritas series is Covering Up Luther: How Barth’s Christology Challenged the Deus Absconditus that Haunts Modernity, by By Rustin E. Brian. [Purchase directly from Wipf & Stock] Book description: Karl Barth’s Christology provides a key to out-narrating the Deus absconditus, which, as Rustin Brian contends, is in fact the […]
The Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought: A Seminar
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK of THEOLOGY AND MODERN EUROPEAN THOUGHT: A SEMINAR A seminar marking the publication of THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF THEOLOGY AND MODERN EUROPEAN THOUGHT edited by Nicholas Adams, George Pattison, and Graham Ward Panel Discussion ‘What is Theology and Modern European Thought’ led by Clare Carlisle (King’s College London) Jennifer Geddes (University […]
Korean Translation of Darwin’s Pious Idea
Conor Cunningham’s Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get It Wrong has recently been translated into Korean as 다윈의 경건한 생각 : 다윈은 정말 신을 죽였는가? Below are two reviews (in Korean) of Cunningham’s book: The Kyunghyang Newspaper Gospel and Situation (a Christian magazine) Various places for purchase: Aladin.co.kr Gangbuk Culture Information […]
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 […]
Two New Papers from John Milbank
Two new papers by John Milbank have been posted in the ‘Working Papers’ section of the CoTP website. ‘Blue Labour, One-Nation Labour and Postliberalism: A Christian Socialist Reading’ ‘The Politics of the Soul’ Respectively, the first paper is Professor Milbank’s Christian Socialist Movement talk given in the House of Commons at a ‘hearing’ with David […]
Notable: Modern Theology: A Critical Introduction
This book offers a fresh and up-to-date introduction to modern Christian theology. The ‘long nineteenth century’ saw enormous transformations of theology, and of thought about religion, that shaped the way both Christianity and ‘religion’ are understood today. Muers and Higton provide a lucid guide to the development of theology since 1789, giving students a critical […]
Now Shipping from the INTERVENTIONS Series: Words of Christ and Metaphysics
Copies of the following have arrived today in the post: from Eerdmans published with the Centre of Theology and Philosophy as a part of the INTERVENTIONS series: Words of Christ by Michel Henry translated by Christina M. Gschwandtner with a foreword by Jean-Yves Lacoste and an introduction by Karl Hefty [Purchase US | Purchase UK] […]
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
Going to the Gym Without Eating First? Here’s a new incentive: Eat protein before you go and you can peel off 15 pounds a year. A study published in the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport showed that women who ate a high-protein meal an hour before their workout burned more calories per minute than […]
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
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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 […]
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