Virtual Bookshelf

Image

'Political and Public Theologies: Comparisons – Coalitions – Critiques' is a peer-reviewed book series published in collaboration with CTPI.

Editor-in-Chief: Dr Ulrich Schmiedel

PPT seeks to provide a forum for critical and constructive engagements with the significance of theologies for the public square. Connecting the increasingly interdisciplinary fields of political and public theology, the series is interested in the impact that theologies have on public issues and the impact that public issues have on theologies, both theoretically and practically.

PPT invites publications from established and emerging scholars that engage with the significance of theologies for the public square from:

1. comparative angles that facilitate inter-religious studies,
2. coalitional angles that foster inter-religious solidarities, and
3. critical angles that re-formulate theology as a resource for contemporary controversies.

You can browse the 4 volumes that have been published here: 

Buy the book

Image

Populism is a buzzword. This compilation explores the significance of religion for the controversies stirred up by populist politics in European and American contexts in order to understand what lies behind the buzz.

Volume Editors: Dr Ulrich Schmiedel and Dr Joshua Ralston.

Engaging Jewish, Christian, and Islamic political thought and theology, contributions by more than twenty established and emerging scholars explore right-wing and left-wing protests, offering critical interpretations and creative interventions for a polarized public square. Both methodologically and thematically, the compilation moves beyond essentialist definitions of religion, encouraging a comparative approach to political theology today.

Ulrich Schmiedel and Joshua Ralston discuss their book on Brill's Humanities Matter podcast available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.

You can find out more about this book:

Buy the book

Image

Editors: Jolyon Mitchell, Giselle Vincett, Hal Culbertson and Theodora Hawksley.

This volume explores the relationship between peacebuilding and the arts. Through a series of original essays the authors break new ground, setting out fresh ways of analysing how different art forms can contribute to the processes and practices of building peace. The book is divided into five sections (on Visual Arts, Music, Literature, Film and Theatre/Dance), with over 20 authors offering overviews of each art form, case studies from around the globe and critical reflections on how the arts can contribute to peacebuilding. By bringing together the insights of scholars and practitioners working at the intersection of these two broad fields, this book presents a series of unique, critical perspectives on the interaction of diverse art forms with a range of peacebuilding endeavours.

The book is part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)

Find out more about: The Peacebuilding Through Media Arts (PMA) project.

Buy the book

Image

Author: Theodora Hawskley.

The Roman Catholic Church, with its global reach, centralized organization, and more than 1.4 billion members, could be one of the world’s most significant forces in global peacemaking, and yet its robust tradition of social teaching on peace is not widely known. In Peacebuilding and Catholic Social Teaching, Theodora Hawksley aims to make that tradition better known and understood, and to encourage its continued development in light of the lived experience of Catholics engaged in peacebuilding and conflict transformation worldwide.

The first part of this book analyzes the development of Catholic social teaching on peace from the time of the early Church fathers to the present, drawing attention to points of tension and areas in need of development. The second part engages in constructive theological work, exploring how the existing tradition might develop in order to support the efforts of Catholic peacebuilders and respond to the distinctive challenges of contemporary conflict.

Peacebuilding and Catholic Social Teaching is one of the first scholarly monographs dedicated exclusively to theology, ethics, and peacebuilding. It will appeal to students and academics who specialize in Catholic social teaching and peacebuilding, to practitioners of Catholic peacebuilding, and to anyone with an interest in religion and peacebuilding more generally.

Buy the book

Image

Edited by Johnston R. McKay

To mark the sixtieth birthday of Dr Alison Elliot, the Church of Scotland's first woman Moderator, a group of colleagues from the academic world and the Church have contributed to a wide variety of aspects of Christian Faith and the Welfare of the City. These range from theological reflections on the National Conversation on Scotland's future to the concept of human divinity, from the Christian view of farming and sustainability to a proper attitude to prisons and prisoners, and reflect Alison Elliot's wie interests from the status and place of women in the church to a contemporary ecumenical vision.

Content:

• Some Theological Fragments for the National Conversation by Graham Blount.
• Making all Things New or A Blast from the Past by James Wallace.
• The Concept of Human Dignity by Kenneth Boyd.
• Thinking out Loud by Andrew Morton.
• ‘An Unfailing Test of Civilisation’ by Andrew McLellan.
• ‘Live as though you might die tomorrow’ and ‘Farm as though you might live forever’
 by Richard Frazer
• Theology in the Shadow of War by Duncan Forrester.
• Is a Public Theology Possible? by Johnston McKay.
• The Status and Role of Women in the Church by Cecelia Clegg.
• ‘Some new vessel, coming into land’ by Kevin Franz.
• An Extraordinary Year by Sheilagh Kestin.

Download