The T & T Clark Blog

Join us at ISBL!

We will be attending ISBL next week, which is being held at King's College London, Waterloo Campus from 4th to 7th July.

We've got special conference discounts on offer - 20% off paperbacks, 35% off hardbacks and 50% off the Library of Hebrew Bible and Old Testament Studies series.

Details about the conference programme etc can be found here.

...And because we're really helpful, here's a map to help you find the venue!

 

P.S. Look out for our lovely T&T Clark t-shirts being sported by the conference porters. (I'm a little bit excited about them!)

Hope to see you there,

Kayleigh
Marketing Executive (UK)

Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics

I am trying to catch up with my blogging and to flag up all the new books we have published recently. This is not an easy task...

Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics, a collection of essays from the new and growing field of Christian Ethnography, is edited by Christian Scharen and Aana Marie Vigen. It is available to readers right now, on both sides of the Ocean. This book is divided into three parts titled: Prolegomena, Exemplars and Method; and its Foreword is written by Mary McClintock Fulkerson.

You are probably guessing now… yes, this volume has received five great endorsements from Emilie M. Townes, Ted A. Smith, Pete Ward, João Biehl and Traci West, which I am placing below:

'This engaging collection is a helpful foundation for exploring the use of ethnography in Christian ethics and theology. The authors provide thoughtful and probing challenges to how social scientists and theologians do our work-encouraging us to question and alter some of the basic assumptions of our work so that we do it with genuine rigor rather than with unexamined normative commitments or using the social sciences as lax sources for theological reflection. The challenge is genuine and I encourage us to read and learn from this fine collection.’ - Emilie M. Townes, Yale Divinity School, USA.

Tom Greggs on Motifs in Religionlessness

Tom Greggs' forthcoming 'Theology against Religion' is clearly the most exciting theology manuscript I have read in a long time. Tom looks at the critique of 'religion' as found in Barth and Bonhoeffer. After a careful analysis of their work he identifies ten central motifs in religionlessness which he then uses to develop a vision for theology and indeed the church of the future. How should theology look like, how should the church look like in a time when Christianity as religion is a thing of the past?

 

To whet your appetites, read the concluding section of chapter four below. The book will publish in October in the UK (US: December). The cover on the left is a draft design.

 

Motifs in Religionlessnes (Tom Greggs)

A theology which takes the critique of religion seriously will in the first instance be (1) radically christocentric. In seeking to understand who God is, it will necessarily look to Jesus Christ, and seek to learn from Him. In doing this, such a theology will seek to affirm the humanity of God rather than any perceived innate divinity in humans. It will be a theology that realizes that the veil is truly rent, and God is most visibly seen, in the dead human corpse of the human who died for other humans, hanging on a cross. Jesus Christ, as one who stood in opposition to religious authorities and rulers, as the one who was never a member of a priestly class and never created a priestly class, and as the one in whom there is no longer any distance between God and humanity, will be the governing rule of a theology which takes the critique of religion seriously. Revelation will be understood not simply as a ‘thing’ in relation to Him, but as the act and event of God by which He is known to individuals and communities by the power of the Spirit.

Two new volumes in the Ecclesiological Investigations series

Communion, Diversity, and Salvation by Brian Flanagan and Denomination, a collection of essays edited by Paul M. Collins and Barry Ensign-George, are published in June.

Brian Flanagan discusses the significance of the term ‘communion’ and its use in the work of Jean-Marie Tillard, OP. I have received three great endorsements for this volume from Bradford Hinze, Michael Attridge and Michael A. Fahey, SJ – and these are below:

‘A valuable introduction to the ecclesiological contribution of Jean-Marie Tillard. Brian Flanagan deftly situates major facets of Tillard’s life work in relation to contemporary debates about communion ecclesiology and theological method. His most important contribution is his assessment of Tillard’s achievement and his appeal to remedy his limitations by critically engaging social theories in the study of the concrete practices of the church.’ – Bradford Hinze, Fordham University, USA.

T&T Clark at the CTSA and ATLA conferences

June has arrived and our New York office is busy busy preparing for two conferences later this week: the Catholic Theological Society of America and the American Theological Library Association.

You'll find me (hopefully all smiles due to that California weather!) selling three tables worth of books at the CTSA meeting in San Jose, CA, June 9-11. We're offering 35% off all books and will have new and recent titles such as The Ratzinger Reader and Newman and His Contemporaries. If you have a book proposal, stop by and chat and leave it with me, and I'll pass it along to our acquisitions editor after the show.

Kim Petit will be our rep at the ATLA meeting in Chicago, IL, June 9-10. There will be a good selection for librarians to browse and some great deals on books, such as our Church Dogmatics 31 volume set.

Hope to see you there!

Kara Zavada
US Religion Marketing Manager

London launch of 'Newman and His Contemporaries'

Edward Short, author of Newman and His Contemporaries is holding a launch at The Diocese of Westminster's main office, Vaughn House, on Friday 17th June from 4pm onwards.

Do stop by and have a glass of wine! Books will be on sale at 20% discount.