Books in the Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs series

This book begins with a close study of the canons of Antioch and proposes a new chronology for their composition. It then works from that conclusion to demonstrate the significance of canon law as a resource for understanding the early Church. Finally, it explores the nature and status of canon law in its early developmental period.

This study considers the growth of the genre of 'theological encyclopedia' as part of the scientific approach to theology that emerged during the eighteenth century with the reform of the German universities. The work focuses on Friedrich Schleiermacher and Karl Hagenbach in particular.

This study examines the place of angels in the religious culture of Anglo-Saxon England with particular attention to individual devotion.

This work argues that Jean-Paul Sartre's early philosophy had a notable inheritance from the Christian doctrine of original sin. With particular attention to Being and Nothingness, Kirkpatrick connects Sartre to an Augustinian tradition of Christian thought according to which nothingness enters the world with the creation of the human.

This study examines the life and work of George Errington, the Victorian Archbishop of Trebizond, who was one of the most prominent figures of nineteenth-century English Roman Catholicism. Dr James provides comprehensive investigation of some of the most divisive controversies in English Catholic history.

The book provides detailed analyses of Tillich's and Murdoch's accounts of love and the self, as well as of their respective interlocutors, with a special emphasis on their engagement with existentialism.

A study of concepts of freedom and necessity in relation to the Trinity in the work of three theologians: the Russian Orthodox Sergii Bulgakov (1871-1944), the Swiss Protestant Karl Barth (1886-1968), and the Swiss Roman Catholic Hans Urs von Balthasar (1908-1988).

The work offers a comprehensive exploration of the moral vision of Didymus the Blind and concludes that it cannot easily be categorized as 'Alexandrian' theology.

This study centres on Girolamo Zanchi's De Tribus Elohim (1572), placing it in its political and theological setting. De Tribus Elohim focussed on the grammatical peculiarity of the Hebrew word Elohim (God).

This is a study of the book of Qohelet (or Ecclesiastes), principally on concepts of past, present, and future, but also on other key themes in relation to time.

This study examines the impact in mid- to late seventeenth-century England of the major contemporary religious controversy in France, which revolved around the formal condemnation of a heresy popularly called Jansenism.

This monograph explores the significance accorded to John's island of Patmos (Rev. 1:9) within the wider reception history of the Apocalypse. Ian Boxall brings together for the first time in a coherent narrative a wide range of interpretations of Patmos, reflecting different chronological periods, cultural contexts, and Christian traditions.

A reconstruction of F.W.J. Schelling's philosophy of language based on a detailed reading of 73 of Schelling's lectures on the Philosophy of Art.

This study provides a fresh perspective on the concept of repentance in early Christianity. Alexis Torrance focuses on writings by several ascetic theologians of the fifth to seventh centuries, and also examines texts from Scripture, early Christian treatises and homilies, apocalyptic material, and canonical literature.

This work compares the literary development of Ezra 7-10 and Nehemiah 8-10 with that of the Pentateuch. It provides a commentary on the text, with introductory discussions and detailed comparisons between individual verses and numerous passages in the Pentateuch.

Heidegger's Eschatology is a ground-breaking account of Heidegger's early engagement with theology, from his beginnings as an anti-Modernist Catholic to his turn towards an undogmatic Protestantism and finally to a resolutely a-theistic philosophical method.

This is the first in-depth study to analyse the highly developed theology of Maya throughout the Maya in the Bhagavata Purana. It focuses on Maya's identification with the divine feminine and analyses its relationship with other key concepts in the text, such as human suffering, devotion, and divine play.

This is the first in-depth study of the literary works of the sixteenth-century Sanskrit poet and theologian Kavikarnapura, one of the most important poets of the Vaisnava devotional tradition inspired by Sri Krsna Caitanya.

This study considers the campaigns for and trials resulting in the beatification and subsequent canonization of the Florentine mystic nun, Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607). It explores the politics of saint-making at a time of particular significance for the history of Roman Catholic canonization.

Luigi Gioia provides a fresh description and analysis of Augustine's monumental treatise, De Trinitate, working on a supposition of its unity and its coherence from structural, rhetorical, and theological points of view.

The thesis develops resources in the work of Charles S. Pierce (1839-1914) for the purposes of contemporary philosophy.

This book examines the distinctive and significant contribution of the great French philosopher, Paul Ricoeur to contemporary debates in ethics and philosophy of religion. James Carter argues that Ricoeur's later writings in particular offer a vision of ethical life that can be understood as a moral religion.

This book assesses the understandings of the Christian doctrine of royal priesthood, long considered one of the three major Reformation teachings, as held by an array of royal, clerical, and popular theologians during the English Reformation.

This study analyses the commentaries of four Muslim intellectuals who have turned to scripture as a liberating text to confront an array of problems, from patriarchy, racism, and empire to poverty and interreligious communal violence.

This study considers the relationship of Deuteronomy 28 to the curse traditions of the ancient Near East. It focuses on the linguistic and cultural means of the transmission of these traditions to the book of Deuteronomy.

S. Min Chun discusses how to read Old Testament narrative from an ethical perspective. He employs a linguistic and literary approach to Biblical interpretation, using close study of the narrative of Josiah in the book of Kings, and argues that such an approach makes the most of the genre-characteristics of Old Testament narrative.

This book explores the historical development of a Hindu devotional movement in early modern South Asia. Provides a rigorous philological analysis of Sanskrit texts, which is combined with a detailed examination of the specific historical circumstances which led to their formation.

This book seeks to expand the self-critical resources of contemporary theological economic ethics by bringing the method of a pre-modern thinker, Martin Luther (1483-1546), into interaction with that of a modern contribution to social ethics, the Swiss theologian Arthur Rich (1910-92).

This is a study of the use of the image of the temple in the writings of the most significant theologian of pre-Conquest England, the Venerable Bede. Using the whole of the surviving corpus of Bede's writings, Dr O'Brien examines Bede as a historian and considers his exegetical methods.