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Society Shaped by Theology
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 39.95Society Shaped by Theology explores the possibility that theological concepts may sometimes still be influential in the modern world. It follows in the tradition of Max Weber, arguing that theological virtues and debates can at times be transposed, wittingly or unwittingly, into society at large. Gill examines the unusual instance of the public debate... more...
Churchgoing and Christian Ethics
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 42.00This book examines new evidence about church communities, and it shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attitudes, beliefs and behaviour. However, these are shared by many non-churchgoers as well. The distinctiveness of church communities in the modern world is thus real but relative, and is central to Christian ethics. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 26.00Following the same formula as other Cambridge Companions, this book is written by leading international experts in Christian ethics and is aimed at students on upper-level undergraduate courses, and at graduate students and teachers. Its eighteen chapters provide a comprehensive introduction to Christian ethics which is both authoritative and up-to-date. more...
Igneous Rocks and Processes
Wiley 2009; US$ 109.95This book is for geoscience students taking introductory or intermediate-level courses in igneous petrology, to help develop key skills (and confidence) in identifying igneous minerals, interpreting and allocating appropriate names to unknown rocks presented to them. The book thus serves, uniquely, both as a conventional course text and as a practical... more...
Changing Worlds
Continuum International Publishing 2002; US$ 130.00Churches everywhere are experiencing change. In his thought-provoking book, Professor Robin Gill identifies the main challenges facing the church and reflects on how Christians should respond.He first studies the immense moral challenges of our rapidly changing world: religion and the environment, the arms trade (including reflection on the global... more...
Moral Leadership in a Postmodern Age
Continuum International Publishing 1997; US$ 120.00Robin Gill examines the issues that connect faith and moral leadership in an increasingly fragmented and relativistic world. more...
New Challenges for Christians
SPCK 2011; US$ 18.94Theologians are involved in a wide variety of public committees concerned with ethical issues arising from modern science, and are still holding their own against critics such as Richard Dawkins. It is important that a wide range of people are aware of how to be responsibly involved in these discussions, and to avoid the knee-jerk reactions of fundamentalists.... more...
Theology in a Social Context
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 39.95In the first book of his new trilogy on Sociological Theology, Gill argues that a sociological perspective makes an important contribution to theology. Having explored objections raised by theologians and sociologists, Gill explains that a proper understanding of social context is a prerequisite for effective theology and how sociological perspective... more...
Theology Shaped by Society
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 39.95Theology Shaped by Society argues that theology can be seen as a 'socially constructed reality' that is sometimes dangerously related to power but, at other times, that is a positively engaged discipline taking the risk of being shaped by particular societies and cultures. From this second perspective theology is seen properly as a thoroughly... more...
Self Love and Christian Ethics
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 32.00Contemporary culture encourages self love while depriving us of the resources needed to discern what it means to love ourselves rightly. Darlene Fozard Weaver argues that proper self love involves truthfulness of and to the self, embodied in actions and relations, under the norms of love for God and neighbor. more...









