Books in the Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs series

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 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.

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

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 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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.