T T Clark imprint: 345 books
Sanctified by Grace
A Theology of the Christian Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Books on the Christian life abound. Some focus on spirituality, others on practices, and others still on doctrines such as justification or forgiveness. Few offer an account of the Christian life that portrays redeemed Christian existence within the multifaceted and beautiful whole of the Christian...
Paul's Large Letters
Paul's Autographic Subscription in the Light of Ancient Epistolary Conventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
At the end of several of his letters the apostle Paul claims to be penning a summary and farewell greeting in his own hand: 1 Corinthians, Galatians, Philemon, cf. Colossians, 2 Thessalonians. Paul's claims raise some interesting questions about his letter-writing practices. Did he write any complete...
Theology and Ecology Across the Disciplines
On Care for Our Common Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
The threat of ecological collapse is increasingly becoming a reality for the world's populations, both human and nonhuman; addressing this global challenge requires enormous cultural creativity and demands a diversity of perspectives, especially from the humanities. Theology and Ecology Across the...
Singing at the Winepress
Ecclesiastes and the Ethics of Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Atkinson uses Qoheleth's work ethic to provide an analysis of Ecclesiastes, utilising the writings of St Bonaventure and Martin Luther. Reading Ecclesiastes within a penitential framework, Bonaventure offers a version of the contemptus mundi tradition that is rooted in his metaphysics. His commentary...
On Animals
Volume II: Theological Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
This book presents an authoritative and comprehensive survey of human practice in relation to other animals, together with a Christian ethical analysis building on the theological account of animals which David Clough developed in On Animals Volume I: Systematic Theology (2012). It argues that a Christian...
by Dr Jesse Couenhoven
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
The concept of predestination has been an essential topic in theology and philosophy since at least the time of St. Augustine, and is notoriously among the most contentious of religious doctrines. Many people of faith have found the belief that God destines them for eternal joy a source of great comfort,...
by Rev Dr Peter J. Leithart
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
The Book of Revelation is the last book in the canon of the New Testament, and its only apocalyptic document, though there are short apocalyptic passages in various places in the gospels and the epistles. This second of two volumes on Revelation offers a systematic and thorough interpretation of the...
Into the World of the New Testament
Greco-Roman and Jewish Texts and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Daniel Lynwood Smith orients readers of the New Testament to its historical and cultural settings, introducing the cast of characters, and illuminating key concepts by exploring their use in ancient texts. Smith includes quotations from many primary sources including Josephus, Tacitus, the Qumran...
by Dr. Esther D. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Whilst Christian theology is familiar with questions about the relation of church and state, divine and human law, little attention has been devoted to questions of international law. Esther D. Reed offers a systematic engagement with contemporary issues of international law and its relevance for...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
What do people know about the Bible, and how much do they know? The media often discusses the worrying 'decline' in biblical literacy, but what does this really mean, and how can we measure this assumed 'decline'? How can we go about teaching 'biblical literacy', and about teaching teachers how to...
Biblical Terror
Why Law and Restoration in the Bible Depend Upon Fear
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
For biblical authors and readers, law and restoration are central concepts in the Bible, but they were not always so. To trace out the formation of those biblical concepts as elements in defensive strategies, Cataldo uses as conversational starting points theories from Zizek, Foucault and Deleuze,...
Jesus Research
The Gospel of John in Historical Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Most experts who seek to understand the historical Jesus focus only on the Synoptic Gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke. However, the contributors of this volume come to an important consensus: that the Gospel of John preserves traditions that are independent of the Synoptics, and which are often as...
Jesus as Mirrored in John
The Genius in the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
James H. Charlesworth begins from a burgeoning point of scholarly consensus: More and more scholars are coming to recognize that the Fourth Gospel is more historically complex than previously thought. Charlesworth outlines two historical horizons within John. On the one hand, there is the Jewish background...
Scripture as Social Discourse
Social-Scientific Perspectives on Early Jewish and Christian Writings
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Throughout the last several decades professional biblical scholars have adapted concepts and theories from the social sciences – particularly social and cultural anthropology – in order to cast new light on ancient biblical writings, early Jewish and Christian texts that circulated with the Scriptures,...