Endorsements for "Embodied Souls, Ensouled Bodies"

  Another one of our forthcoming monographs has gained the praise of specialists in the field. Marc Cortez' book Embodied Souls, Ensouled Bodies  will be published in September in the UK and in November in the US.

'The mind-body debate is one of the most complex and difficult areas of contemporary intellectual endeavour, because it spans such a wide range of disciplines and issues. Cortez's book offers a real contribution to this literature by arguing that theologians should work out their views on this matter from the person of Christ, rather than to Christ from more general, philosophical considerations. Using Karl Barth's Christological anthropology as a means of setting out his theological concerns, Cortez then considers how a Christological anthropology relates to a range of contemporary philosophical views in the mind-body debate, both monist and dualist. This is a careful, theologically sensitive essay in philosophical theology that ought to be taken seriously by anyone interested in the theological dimension to this discussion.'
Oliver Crisp, Reader in Theology, University of Bristol, UK.

‘Never before has the question as to what it is to be a human self been so central to academic debates - and across so many disciplines! This is due not only, one suspects, to the exponential increase in the explanatory power of neuroscience, but also the growing influence of evolutionary psychology and, other areas where naturalistic assumptions tend to dominate. Whereas Christian philosophers are contributing impressively to these debates at a philosophical level, few contemporary academics have sought to integrate theological and philosophical analysis of what it is to be a person. In this volume, Marc Cortez does precisely that - and in an impressively informed, insightful and lucid manner. It is not possible to be serious about theological anthropology without engaging with this extremely significant monograph - a book that should prove of equal benefit to Christian philosophers and theologians alike.’
Alan Torrance, Professor of Systematic Theology, University of St. Andrews, UK.

The book will be the first to be published in the new series of T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology, a series of high profile monographs in the field of Christian doctrine, with a particular focus on constructive engagement with topics in systematic theology through historical analysis or contemporary restatement. T&T Studies in Systematic Theology are edited by John Webster (Aberdeen), Ian McFarland (Emory University) and Ivor Davidson (University of Otago).

Comments

[William Alford]

Are there any other titles lined up to appear in this series? Looks great!

[William Alford]

P. S. I see that the author's name is spelt differently in your blurb and on the book cover - Marc and Mark are both printed! I think it is Marc as I have read some of his material in SJT.

[Tom]

Yes, we had already noticed that the name was misspelled. New cover now uploaded!

There are other forthcoming titles in the series:

Jennifer Cooper: Humanity in the Mystery of God (on Edward Schillebeeckx)
Jonathan Norgate on the Trinitarian theology of Isaak August Dorner
David Gibson with a book the use of scripture in the formation of doctrine in Calvin and Barth: "Reading the Decree"
R. Michael Allen with a book on the pistis Christou-debate: The Christ's Faith