Radical Christian Voices and Practice Essays in Honour of Christopher Rowland

by Bennett, Zoe; Gowler, David B.

• ISBN13: 9780191738340
• ISBN10: 0191738344
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2012-03-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Zoe Bennett, Director of Postgraduate Studies in Pastoral Theology, Cambridge Theological Federation and Anglia Ruskin University,David B. Gowler, The Dr. Lovick Pierce and Bishop George F. Pierce Professor of Religion; Director, The Pierce Institute for Leadership and Community Engagement; Oxford College of Emory University and The Center for Ethics, Emory University

Table of Contents

Introduction: Action is the life of all : Approaching the work of Christopher Rowland, Zoe Bennett and David B. Gowler
Part I: The Bible and Radicalism
1. The limits of Radicalism: A dialogical response to liberation in Luke 13:10-17, David B. Gowler
2. Peter Olivi on the community of the first Christians at Jerusalem, Peter Garnsey
3. From capital to community: Discipleship as defection in Jesus parable about a manager of injustice (Luke 16:1-13), Ched Myers
4. The language of grace: Valentinian reflection on New Testament imagery, Judith Kovacs
5. Radical religion and the ethical dilemmas of apocalyptic millenarianism, John J. Collins
6. Hidden identities and the arriving new world: The experience of reading the Book of Revelation, Paolo Nogueira
Part II: Reception History: The appropriation of the biblical text in the radical tradition
7. Still at the margins?: Gospel women and their afterlives, Christine E. Joynes
8. Winstanley, Hobbes, and the sin of the world, Denys Turner
9. The human form divine : Radicalism and orthodoxy in William Blake, Rowan Williams
10. A modern millenarian prophet s Bible, Jane Shaw
Part III: Radical Christian voices today
11. Every time I feel the spirit : African American Christology for a pluralistic world, Brad Braxton
12. The futures of Liberation Theology, Ivan Petrella
13. Does God tell us how to build?, Tim Gorringe
14. Seeking the welfare of the city : Public theology as radical action, Andrew Bradstock
15. Sex and the sins of the fathers: Fertility religion versus human rights, Marilyn McCord Adams
16. I have writ, I have acted, I have peace, Christopher Rowland
Christopher Rowland A biographical note
Bibliography of the major works of Christopher Rowland