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July 19, 2019

The Force of Non-Violence: an Ethico-Political Bind

From the publisher:

Towards a form of aggressive non-violence–following on from Butler’s Precarious Life and Frames of War.

Situating non-violence at the cross-roads of the ethical and political, The Force of Non-Violence brings into focus the ethical binds that emerge within the force field of violence. 

January 4, 2019

In This World of Wonders

1995 St Andrews Gifford Lecturer Nicholas Wolterstorff recounts the details leading up to and accompanying his lectures in a soon to be published memoir (pp. 58, 260–64). 

From the publisher's website:

World-renowned Christian philosopher. Beloved professor. Author of the classic Lament for a Son. Nicholas Wolterstorff is all of these and more. His memoir, In This World of Wonders, opens a remarkable new window into the life and thought of this remarkable man. 

November 23, 2018

The Hiddenness of God

Michael Rea's Gifford Lectures now available from Oxford University Press.

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November 1, 2018

Wahrheit in Vielfalt Vom: Vom religiösen Pluralismus zur interreligiösen Theologie

Perry Schmidt-Leukel's 2015 Glasgow Gifford Lectures, "Interreligious Theology: The Future Shape of Theology," are now available (for pre-order) in German translation. A Chinese translation is also underway and will presumably come out in autumn 2019.

October 17, 2018

Surprised by Meaning: Science, Faith, and How We Make Sense of Things

While a considerably expanded version of Alister E. McGrath's 2009 Aberdeen Gifford Lectures lectures was published in that same year as A Fine Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology, readers might be interested to know that a more accessible version of these lectures, supplemented with material setting them in a deeper context, was published in 2011 as Surprised by Meaning: Science, Faith, and How We make Sense of Things.

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October 10, 2018

Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism

In Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism, Tanner is both critiquing and building on Max Weber’s classic thesis from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905). Weber argued that Protestant Christianity, especially double predestinarian Calvinism, supplied a virtue-based work ethic that capitalism co-opted for its own production-driven ends. Tanner does not dispute that the capitalism of Weber’s day very well might have gained impetus from strands of Calvinist Christianity.

October 10, 2018

The Penumbra of Ethics: The Gifford Lectures of V.A. Demant with Critical Commentary and Assessment

VTS Announces Publication of THE PENUMBRA OF ETHICS: THE GIFFORD LECTURES OF V.A. DEMANT WITH CRITICAL COMMENTARY AND ASSESSMENT 

September 30, 2014

Silence: A Christian History

The product of his 2006 Gifford Lectures, Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Silence takes a cross-section of Christian history, examining the theme of “silence” as a moral and spiritual act. Silence here stands in a dialectical relationship with “speech”, and acquires a wide range of different meanings and applications.

Silence: A Christian History
September 7, 2010

Divine Personality and Human Life: Being the Gifford Lectures in the Years 1918 and 1919

In Divine Personality and Human Life, volume 2 of Webb’s Gifford Lectures, the author examines ideas of personality and persons and their relation to broadly theistic conceptions of God. The volume explores the notion of personality in ‘man’ in light of the conclusions drawn in the first volume, and how the ‘divine personality’ figures in spheres of human activity such as the economic, scientific, aesthetic, moral, political and religious lives.

Divine Personality and Human Life: Being the Gifford Lectures in the Years 1918 and 1919
September 2, 2009

Faith and Its Critics: A Conversation

David Fergusson’s Faith and Its Critics: A Conversation is written in response to the new atheists, especially Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris. Fergusson regards it as incumbent on Christians to give an answer for the hope that is in them and in this sense his book is certainly an apologetic work. However, unusually, he also believes that theology has much to learn from the new atheists themselves, and hence that a theological study of atheism might be of salutary benefit to those who remain committed to faith.

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