Theologians A-Z
Saturday
Oct172009

Abraham, William J.

 

Personal reflection

I first got to know William Abraham's work through his Oxford doctorate on the inspiration of Scripture (where I found he offered an evangelical alternative to the "inerrantist" tradition of Warfield and Hodge) and his work on evangelism. He has most recently been at the heart of the Canonical Theism movement.

Short bio

William J. ("Billy") Abraham, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, is Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies and Altschuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, TX.

Curriculum Vitae

Date of Birth: 1947, Dec 19

Position: Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies and Altschuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Perkins School of Theology, Dallas, TX.

Denomination/Tradition: Methodist

Areas of expertise: Religious epistemology, John Wesley, Wesleyan and Methodist theology, doctrine of revelation, systematic theology, philosophy of religion, evangelism, Cardinal Newman, renewal movements in Christianity, ecclesiology, theological education

Nationality: Irish

Personal Website

Personal Blog

Facebook Page

University Website

Contact Details: wabraham@smu.edu; 214.768.2040

 

Wikipedia

Theopedia

Other webpages:

Profile as Methodist theologian

 

 

My Library author page

Amazon UK author page

Amazon US author page

Google Books

Google Scholar

 


Other pages on site:

Bio page

Online texts

Online audios and videos

Bibliography

 

Last updated: Jan 2011

Friday
Dec312010

Abraham, William: Online texts

 

 William J. Abraham, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, is Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies and Altschuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Perkins School of Theology.

Internet Resources

Doctrine

Divine Action and Analogy

Theses on Canonical Theism

 

Evangelism

The Theology of Evangelism: The Heart of the Matter, 1994 [PDF]

 

Ecclesial Matters

Evangelicals & Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the 3rd Millennium, First Things, May 1994 [endorsed by Abraham]

Healing Our Doctrinal Dyslexia, 1995.

United Methodists at the end of the Mainline, First Things, June/July 1998

In Search of Unity - A Conversation with Recommendations for the Unity of The United Methodist Church: Dialogue on Theological Diversity within The United Methodist Church Nashville, November 20-21, 1997; Dallas, February 19-20, 1998 [participant]

Be Steadfast: A Letter to Confessing Christians, Oct 2000 [signatory]

 

Other

C.S. Lewis & The Conversion of the West, Touchstone, Mar/Apr 1998.

The Word Made Fresh: A Call for the Renewal of the Evangelical Spirit [signatory]

Philosophy of Teaching

 

Last updated: Jan 2011

Saturday
Oct312009

Alison, James

Personal reflection

I discovered James Alison's work through my research in relation to sexuality and he is a writer whose books I always buy as he is such a stimulating and provocative thinker.  Although he has written widely in relation to homosexuality as a gay Catholic priest his work covers a much greater range of subjects, his doctoral work being on the doctrine of original sin. All of his writing is shaped by the thought of Rene Girard which he creatively relates to Christian theology and ethics, also often producing fascinating insights into biblical texts.

Short bio

James Alison was brought up in an evangelical Anglican home (son of a Conservative MP, Michael Alison, baptised as an infant by John Stott) but converted to Rome and became a Roman Catholic priest. He is now an author and international speaker.

CV

Date of Birth: 1959

Position: Itinerant speaker and writer

Denomination/Tradition: Roman Catholic

Areas of expertise: Girard, sexuality, sin, spirituality

Nationality: English

 

Personal Website: this is multi-lingual and frequently updated and contains the text of a large number of talks and articles and links to audio and video recordings

Personal Blog

University Website

Facebook Page

Contact Details: cgfragments @ btinternet.com

 

Wikipedia

Theopedia

Other webpages


My Library author page

Amazon UK author page

Amazon US author page

Google Books

Google Scholar


 

Other pages on site:

Bio page

Online texts

Online audios and videos

Bibliography

 

Last updated: Jan 2011

 

Friday
Dec312010

Alison, James: Online texts

James Alison (b. 1945) is a Roman Catholic priest, author and international speaker particularly associated with the theological insights of Rene Girard and contributions to sexuality debates.

Internet Resources

The best site for material by Alison is found here. Frequently updated it includes

A selection of online published material is found below.

Atonement

An Atonement Update, Australian EJournal of Theology, Oct 2006.

 

Sexuality

On Helping the Faithful Negotiate Confusion, The Tablet, Mar 2007

 

Biblical Reflections

Prodded to Life (Is. 11:1-10; Ps. 72:1-7, 18-19; Rom. 15:4-13; Matt. 3:1-12)

Stretched Hearts (Is.:1-10; Ps. 146:5-10; Lk. 1:47-55; James 5:7-10; Matt. 11:2-11, Christian Century, Nov 2007

Reading the Signs (Is. 7:10-16; Ps. 80:1-7, 17-19; Rom. 1:1-7; Matt. 1:18-25), Christian Century, Dec 2007

Risk and Fulfillment (Is. 63:7-9; Ps. 148; Heb.2:10-18; Matt. 2:13-23), Christian Century, Dec 2007

Halo Effect (Is.60:1-6; Ps. 72:1-7, 10-14; Eph. 3:1-12; Matt. 2:1-12), Christian Century, Dec 2007

 

Book Reviews by Alison

Schwartz: The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism, First Things, Dec 1997

 

Interviews with Alison

Violence undone: James Alison on Jesus as forgiving victim, Christian Century, Sept 2006.

 

Other

Sacrifice, Law & The Catholic Faith: Is Secularity Really the Enemy?, Tablet Lecture, Dec 2006.

Taking the plunge: Immersed in Theology, Christian Century, Feb 2007.

Punctured, Christian Century, Nov 2007

 

Engagements with Alison

James G. Williams, Review of The Joy of Being Wrong, First Things, Jan 1999.

Hefling, Charles, A view from the stern: James Alison's theology (so far), Anglican Theological Review, Fall 1999.

Stanley Hauerwas, Review of Raising Abel, First Things, Nov 1996



Saturday
Oct312009

Anscombe, Elizabeth

Short bio

Elizabeth (G.E.M) Anscombe was a distinguished Roman Catholic British analytic philosopher based in Cambridge where she was a student of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

CV

 

Date of Birth: 1919, 18th March

Date of Death: 2001, 5th January [Obituary: Guardian]

Denomination/Tradition: Roman Catholic

Areas of expertise: Moral philosophy, action theory

Nationality: British

 

Personal Website  (contains bibliography of her writings)

Facebook Page

 

Wikipedia

Theopedia

Other webpages:

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

 

 

My Library author page

Amazon UK author page (and complete books page)

Amazon US author page (and complete books page)

Google Books

Google Scholar

 

Other pages on site:

Bio page

Online texts

Online audios and videos

Bibliography

 

Last updated: Jan 2011

Friday
Dec312010

Anscombe, Elizabeth: Online texts

Elizabeth (G.E.M) Anscombe (1919-2001) was a distinguished Roman Catholic British analytic philosopher based in Cambridge.

Elizabeth Anscombe at Wikipedia

Internet Resources

There is a comprehensive online bibliography so only the least specialist online resources are listed below.

Moral Philosophy

Modern Moral Philosophy, Philosophy (Jan 1958)

 

Theology

On Transubstantiation


Sexual Ethics

Contraception and Chastity (1972)

 

Obituaries

Robert P. George, National Review

Guardian



Saturday
Oct312009

Ashley, Benedict

Short bio

Benedict M. Ashley, O.P, has served as Professor of Moral Theology, Aquinas Institute of Theology since 1951 with a short break in the early 1970s. He has written extensively in the area of philosophy, particuarly Christian ethics and served as consultant to the U.S. Catholic Bishops on moral matters. He was Professor of Moral Theology at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C. and the Institute for the Psychological Sciences in Arlington, Virginia.

CV (includes select bibliography)


Date of Birth: 1915, May 3rd

Date of Death

Position: Professor of Moral Theology, Aquinas Institute of Theology

Denomination/Tradition: Roman Catholic

Areas of expertise: Moral Theology, Moral Philosophy

Nationality

 

Personal Website

Personal Blog

University Website

Facebook Page

Contact Details

 

Wikipedia

Theopedia

Other webpage:

Benedict Ashley Studies and Reflections

 

 

My Library author page

Amazon UK author page

Amazon US author page

Google Books

Google Scholar

 

Other pages on site:

Online texts

Online audios and videos

Bibliography

 

Last updated: Jan 2011

Friday
Dec312010

Ashley, Benedict: Online texts


 

Benedict Ashley, O.P, has served as Professor of Moral Theology, Aquinas Institute of Theology since 1951 with a short break in the early 1970s. He has written extensively in the area of philosophy, particuarly Christian ethics and served as consultant to the U.S. Catholic Bishops on moral matters. He was Professor of Moral Theology at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C. and the Institute for the Psychological Sciences in Arlington, Virginia.

 

Internet Resources

Moral Concepts

Biblical Morality, 8 lesson course

Philosophy for Theologians, 12 lesson course

Scriptural Grounds For Concrete Moral Norms, The Thomist, Jan1988.

The Bible Gap, Catholic Dossier, Mar/Apr 1996.

Dei Verbum & Christian Morals, Catholic Dossier, Jan/Feb 2000

Dominican Guide For Sharing Our Secular Resources For The Study of Theology For Preaching in the 21st Century [also in PDF], June 2003 draft, Part 3 is on ethics (pp24-30 of PDF).


Medical Ethics

Moral Principles Concerning Infants With Anencephaly: Observations on the Document, L'Osservatore Romano, Sept 1998. Observations on this document from US National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Cloning, Aquinas & The Embryonic Person, NCBQ, Summer 2001.

"Starving" the Permanently Unconscious, Preach What?, 2003.

 

Sexual Ethics

Can the Church Be Wrong About Contraception?, Preach What?, 2003

 

Political/Social Ethics

War or Peace?, Preach What?, 2003.

 

Other

The Arts of Learning & Communication: A Handbook of the Liberal Arts, 1958.

An Autobiography

Homily At Funeral Of Fr. Timothy Sparks

Dominican Life: The Future: The Challenges of Identity

Dominican Study Is Not Just For Intellectuals

The Rosary Mysteries of Light [PDF]

The Way Toward Wisdom: An Interdisciplinary, Intercultural Introduction to Metaphysics

Art Prefects Nature

Three Strands in the Thought of Eckhard, The Scholastic Theologian, The Thomist, 1978

The Eucharist

Interviews/Profiles/Secondary Articles

Mark Latkovic, Of Dominicans & Dissertations: Reflections on the Life & Thought of Benedict Ashley, On The Occasion of his 85th Birthday [also in PDF]

Mark Latkovic, Natural Law in the Moral Thought of Benedict Ashley OP, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly, Fall 1999 [PDF]



Friday
Nov132009

Bader-Saye, Scott

Scott Bader Saye serves as Associate Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Scranton. He is best known for his work, Church, Israel and the Politics of Election (1999, reprinted 2005). His PhD is from Duke University and he also has an MDiv from Yale Divinity School, and a AB from Davidson College. His teaching and research interests include theology and culture, social ethics, political theology, suffering and violence, and Jewish-Christian dialogue.

Blogger Profile

Facebook

 

On this site

Internet Resources

Friday
Dec312010

Bader-Saye, Scott: Online texts

Scott Bader Saye serves as Associate Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Scranton. He is best known for his work, Church, Israel and the Politics of Election (1999, reprinted 2005). His PhD is from Duke University and he also has an MDiv from Yale Divinity School, and a AB from Davidson College. His teaching and research interests include theology and culture, social ethics, political theology, suffering and violence, and Jewish-Christian dialogue.

Blogger Profile

Facebook

 

Internet Resources

Blog

Blogs at Scranton Cohort - Bringing people together for conversations about faith and the emerging church in Northeast PA

 

General

Post-Holocaust Hermeneutics: Scripture, Sacrament & The Jewish Body of Christ, Cross Currents, Winter 2000

Jewish Engagements with Christianity [review of Christianity in Jewish Terms], Christian Century, Aug 2001.

Sticks & Stones (Ps 31.1-5; Acts 7.55-60; 1 Pet 2.2-10; Jn 14.1-4), Christian Century, April 2002.

To See & Not To See (Acts 17.22-31; Jn 14.15-21), Christian Century, April 2002.

Long Division (Acts 1.6-14; Jn 17.1-11), Christian Century, April/May 2002.

 

Interviews/Profiles/Secondary Articles

Israel & The Nations, review of Church & Israelby David B. Hart, First Things, Aug/Sept 2000

 

Other Web Resources



Friday
Nov132009

Banner, Michael

Michael Banner, an ordained Anglican priest, is Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge having previous served as Director of the ESRC Genomics Research Program and F.D. Maurice Professor of Moral and Social Theology at King's College, London. He has been active on various government commissions, chairing a MAFF Committee of Enquiry on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies in the Breeding of Farm Animals (1993-5) and the Department of Health’s CJD Incidents Panel (2000-3). From 1998 to 2006 he also chaired the Home Office's Animal Procedures Committee.  He has been a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and of the Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission.

On this site

Internet Resources

Friday
Dec312010

Banner, Michael: Online texts

Michael Banner, an ordained Anglican priest, is Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge having previous served as Director of the ESRC Genomics Research Program and F.D. Maurice Professor of Moral and Social Theology at King's College, London. He has been active on various government commissions, chairing a MAFF Committee of Enquiry on the Ethics of Emerging Technologies in the Breeding of Farm Animals (1993-5) and the Department of Health’s CJD Incidents Panel (2000-3). From 1998 to 2006 he also chaired the Home Office's Animal Procedures Committee.  He has been a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and of the Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission.

Internet Resources

Sadly there appears to be little online written by Banner:

Christianity & Civil Society in Chambers & Kymlicka, Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society, 2008 [PDF]

Turning the world upside down (partial), pp1-20 of opening chapter of Christian Ethics & Contemporary Moral Problems [PDF]

A Theologians' Brief on the Place of the Human Embryo in Christian Tradition [signatory]

St Andrew's Day Statement (on human sexuality) [a signatory]

Report of lecture on Genetics & Human Nature, Wycliffe College, Toronto, 2004 [PDF, p10]



Saturday
Jan012011

Bauckham, Richard

Richard Bauckham (b. 1946) recently retired as Professor of New Testament at St Andrew's University is now an Associate Staff member at Ridley Hall in Cambridge . In addition to his writings on New Testament he has written extensively on both historical theology and contemporary theology where he is an expert on Moltmann.

 

Bauckham at Wikipedia

Bauckham at Theopedia



Saturday
Jan012011

Bauckham, Richard: Online texts

Richard Bauckham (b. 1946) recently retired as Professor of New Testament at St Andrew's University is now an Associate Staff member at Ridley Hall in Cambridge . In addition to his writings on New Testament he has written extensively on both historical theology and contemporary theology where he is an expert on Moltmann.

 

Bauckham at Wikipedia

Bauckham at Theopedia

 

Internet Resources

 

Publications

 

Gospels

The Study of Gospel Traditions Outside the Canonical Gospels: Problems & Prospects, Gospel Perspectives vol 5, 1985.

The Relatives of Jesus, Themelios, Jan 1996

For Whom Were Gospels Written?, Hervormde Teologiese Studies, 1999

The Four Gospels & The Other 'Gospels': Is Our Canon Right?, Westminster Theological Seminary [MP3]

Response to Margaret Mitchell's Paper "Patristic Counter-Evidence to the Claim that Gospels were written for all Christians", 2004.

The Alleged 'Jesus Family Tomb', Mar 2007

Response at SBL/AAR to Panel on Jesus & The Eyewitnesses Nov 2007 [MP3]

 

Other NT

Colossians 1:24 Again: The Apocalypse Note, Evangelical Quarterly, Jul-Sept 1975 [PDF]

The Role of the Spirit in the Apocalypse, Evangelical Quarterly, Apr-June 1980 [PDF]

Weakness: Paul's and ours, Themelios, Apr 1982

Creation's Praise of God in the Book of Revelation, Biblical Theology Bulletin, Summer 2008

 

Christology

MacBride Sermon on the Application of Messianic Prophecy, Sermon, Jan 2003.

Paul's Christology of Divine Identity [PDF]

 

Doctrine

Universalism: A Historical Survey, Themelios, Sept 1978

"Only the Suffering God can Help": Divine Passibility in Modern Theology, Themelios, Apr 1984

 

Interviews

Interview with Chris Tilling on Jesus and The Eyewitnesses, Nov 2006

They Really Saw Him, Interview with Gary Burge, Christianity Today, June 2007

 

Sermons

Criswell College, Mar 2008 [MP3 download]

 

Other

Report of Retirement, Oct 2007

 

Engagements with Bauckham

Chris Tilling, Detailed set of posts summarising and reviewing, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, Nov 2006 onwards.



Saturday
Jan012011

Begbie, Jeremy

Jeremy Begbie, an ordained Anglican, is Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of Theology at Duke University where he is also Director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts.



Saturday
Jan012011

Biggar, Nigel

Nigel Biggar, an ordained Anglican priest, is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Christ Church, Oxford University. He was previously Professor of Theology & Ethics at Trinity College, Dublin. He is Director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics & Public Life.

 

Saturday
Jan012011

Biggar, Nigel: Online texts

Nigel Biggar, an ordained Anglican priest, is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Christ Church, Oxford University. He was previously Professor of Theology & Ethics at Trinity College, Dublin. He is Director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics & Public Life.

Internet Resources

 

The Church of England on War & Peace, Aug 2003 [PDF, pp19-31]

Saving the "Secular": The Public Vocation of Moral Theology, Inaugural Lecture, Apr 2008 [PDF]

 

Latimer Comments

Not Just For The Poor

Any News of What's Good For Society?

A Discriminating Compassion?

Mrs Thatcher's Moral Reformation

 

 

Sermons

On Taking Seriously the Faith of Feet, May 2005

Advent: Can We Enter the Spirit of the Season?, Dec 2005

We Will Remember Them - But Why?, Remembrance Sunday 2006

Sermon on the Centenary of the Birth of Helmuth James von Moltke, Mar 2007

The Lamb of God, Jan 2008

 

Letters to the Press

"Collateral" killing, The Independent, June 1999

Blair's New Morality, The Independent, Sept 1999

 



Saturday
Jan012011

Bockmuehl, Markus

Markus Bockmuehl is Professor of Biblical and Early Christian Studies and Fellow in Theology at Keble College, Oxford.

 

Saturday
Jan012011

Bockmuehl, Markus: Online texts

Markus Bockmuehl is Professor of Biblical and Early Christian Studies and Fellow in Theology at Keble College, Oxford.

Internet Resources

Personal page including slides for lectures, reading lists and publications

 

Jesus & Jewish Background to New Testament

Jesus Through Christian Eyes, BBC Lenten Talk, 2002 [PDF]

Qumran Commentaries in Greco-Roman Context [also published as "The Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Commentary"], 2003 [PDF]

 

Reviews of Bockmuehl's Books

Seeing the Word

Timothy G. Gombis, JETS, Sept 2007

Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Christian Century, Oct 2007

 

Jewish Law in Gentile Churches

Fred Strickert, Currents in Theology and Mission, Oct 2004

Lutz Doering, RBL, Oct 2004 [PDF]

 



Saturday
Jan012011

Boersma, Hans

 

Hans Boersma is an evangelical theologian who serves as J.I. Packer Professor of Theology, Regents College, Vancouver. He did his doctoral work (at the State University of Utrecht) on the doctrine of justification in the 17th century Puritan theologian Richard Baxter but is best known for his work on atonement, especially the problem of violence and the atonement which is most fully discussed in his book, Violence, Hospitality and the Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition.