The Christian imagination: Theology and the origins of Race, by Willie James Jennings. London: Yale University Press, 2010. Book review by Sara Améstegui Deik Introduction Willie Jennings is an associate professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale Divinity
Sermon: The Way of Jesus in a World on Fire
Sermon on 1 Peter 3:8-22, preached at St Nic’s, Durham, by CSBV Research Associate Brandon Hurlbert, on 7th June 2020, in the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests in the USA and across the world. Sermon transcript is as
Trump’s White Supremacist Bible: A Christian Leader and an Atheist Respond.
Following recent events in Washington, CSBV director Helen Paynter and atheist biblical scholar Katie Edwards decided to put out a joint statement on President Trump’s use of the Bible. An abbreviated version of our article appeared in the Independent online
The Child as Viper: How Voddie Baucham’s Theology of Children Promotes Abuse
By R.L. Stollar. Ryan is an advocate for children and abuse survivors and a child liberation theologian. Ryan has an M.H.S. in Child Protection from Nova Southeastern University, an M.A. in Eastern Classics from St. John’s College, and a B.A.
Thomas Merton: Catholic humanist?
By Matthew Feldman. Professor Feldman is a specialist on fascist ideology and the far-right in Europe and the USA. He has written widely on these subjects, for both academic and general audiences. He has long researched the interaction between politics and
The Possible Use of a Trajectorial Hermeneutic to Support a Christocentric Application of Scripture Within Anabaptist Communities —A Critical Evaluation.
by Mark Warner.Mark is a ‘retired’ BUGB minister with extensive experience in media, local church and mission organisations. He has a passion for the Anabaptist approach to discipleship, especially regarding non-violence. When he is not pursuing his MA at Bristol
Jesus and the Subversion of Violence: wrestling with the New Testament evidence
Thomas Yoder Neufeld, Jesus and the Subversion of Violence: wrestling with the New Testament evidence (London: SPCK, 2011) Guest blogs are invited to stimulate thought and comment. They do not necessarily reflect the view of the Centre for the Study
Bloody, Brutal and Barbaric? Wrestling with troubling war texts
William J Webb & Gordon K Oeste, Bloody, Brutal and Barbaric? Wrestling with Troubling War Texts, IVP USA, 2019 Two reviews of this new book by Ashley Hibbard and Howard Peskett. Review by Howard Peskett. Howard has taught in Newcastle
Guest blog: “Dear Sisters”
Emily Taylor is a second year student at Emmanuel Bible College in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, studying towards a Bachelor of Religious Education. As part of the assessment for her ‘Historical Books’ class, she wrote a poem called Dear Sisters. This
Unspeakable Things Unspoken
Review of Isabelle Hamley’s book, by Helen Paynter. This review will be published in a forthcoming edition of the Biblical Theology Bulletin. Hamley, Isabelle M. Unspeakable Things Unspoken: An Irigarayan Reading of Otherness and Victimization in Judges 19-21. Foreword by