Theology

Priest, poet and broadcaster Rachel Mann believes the world is charged with a divine spark. She explains how in our encounters with what she terms 'the spectres of God', one can become at peace with limitation, precariousness, lack of certainty, and one's fragility and fractures - and at the same time find in divine fragility the hope of the world.

Reflecting on the particular challenges facing a schoolgirl of the 1950s attracted to the possibility of going to university to read Theology, and her path to becoming the first woman to be given a CBE for services to Theology, Ann Loades introduces some of the key tenets of her theological thinking.

In The Corner of Fourth and Nondual, a title inspired by Thomas Merton, Cynthia Bourgeault describes the foundations of her theology: a cosmological seeing with the eye of the heart, and classic Benedictine daily rule informed and enlightened by wisdom from the Asian traditions.

The God that we were brought up on is not big enough to be God. To be both religious and spiritual, modernity must be able to absorb the notion of a cosmic and evolving God, writes Joan Chittister OSB. This notion, she argues, redefines the place and purpose and destiny of humanity itself.

In this Very Short Introduction, David Ford provides a balanced survey, for both believers and non-believers, to the central questions of contemporary theology. In this new edition, Ford includes updates to a number of areas, including theology between faiths, theological responses to science, and the effect of globalization and technology.

Takes into account the diversity of Christianity, notably the division between the Orthodox East and the Catholic West, the Reformation and its consequences; the flow out from Europe with empires and the development from corporate 'tribal' religion to religion as a matter of individual choice.

An attempt to show the main reasons that can be advanced in support of the Christian faith. Brian Hebblethwaite defends the view that belief in God makes most sense of the world, and argues that the history of religions offers the best diagnosis and solution of the problems that afflict humanity.

When first published, Evil and the God of Love instantly became recognized as a modern theological classic, widely viewed as the most important work on the problem of evil to appear in English for more than a generation. Including a foreword by Marilyn McCord Adams, this reissue also contains a new preface by the author.