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Torah in the Ethics of Paul
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 110.00The relationship between Paul and Torah is often discussed in terms of Paul's theology of salvation. However it is also important in Pauline ethics. Whilst some scholars dismiss this because of a paucity of Old Testament quotations in Paul, others hint at the consensus between Paul and early Jewish tradition concerning the content of single commands.... more...
Zeal Without Knowledge
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 110.00The concept of zeal has been discussed in a sustained way by James D. G. Dunn, who argues that Paul was drawing on a long and venerable tradition of Jewish zeal for the nation of Israel, that is, a concern to maintain Israel's distinction from the surrounding nations by defending and reinforcing its boundaries. Ortlund interacts with Dunn, agreeing... more...
The Feminine Genius of Catholic Theology
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 90.00This bookintroduces Catholic doctrine through the crucible of the women mystics'reception of the gospel.The work of thegreat women theologians of the Church's second millennium has too often beenneglected (or relegated to the category of mysticism') in textbooks onCatholic doctrine.This is a shame,because their work shows the interior... more...
Trinity, Freedom and Love
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 120.00By critically engaging Eberhard Jüngel's doctrine of the Trinity, this volume makes a broader, constructive contribution to contemporary trinitarian thought.The argument centers on the question - posed by the inconsistencies uncovered in Jüngel's doctrine of God - of how one can assert both divine freedom and the inter-subjectivity... more...
Great War Modernisms and 'The New Age' Magazine
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 110.00The literary magazine The New Age broughttogether a diverse set of intellectuals. Against the backdrop of the FirstWorld War, they chose to write about more than modernist art and aesthetics. Byclosely reading and contextualizing their contributions, Paul Jackson's studyengages with the political and philosophical responses of literary artists... more...
Derrida, Badiou and the Formal Imperative
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 120.00In this path-breaking study Christopher Norrisproposes a transformed understanding of the much-exaggerated differencesbetween analytic and continental philosophy. While keeping the analytictradition squarely in view his book focuses on the work of Jacques Derrida andAlain Badiou, two of the most original and significant figures in the recent historyof... more...
Angela Carter
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 110.00Bringing together leading international scholars of contemporary fiction and modern women writers, this book provides authoritative new critical readings of Angela Carter's work from a variety of innovative theoretical and disciplinary approaches. Angela Carter: New Critical Readings both evaluates Carter's legacy as feminist provocateur and... more...
Divine Providence: A History
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 110.00Holding divine intervention responsible for political and military success and failure has a long history in western thought. This book explores the idea of providential history as an organizing principle for understanding the divine purpose for humans in texts that may be literary, historical, philosophical, and theological. Providential History... more...
The Purpose of Life
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 65.00What does philosophy have to say on the question of the meaning of life? This is one of the founding questions of philosophy and has remained a central problem for philosophers from antiquity through to the Middle Ages and modern period. It may surprise some readers that there has, in fact, been a good deal of agreement on the answer to this... more...
The Promise and Premise of Creativity
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 80.00The Promise and Premise of Creativity considers literature in the larger context of globalization and "the clash of cultures." Refuting the view that the study of literature is "useless," Eoyang argues that it expands three distinct intellectual skills: creative imagination, vicarious sympathy, and capacious intuition.With... more...









