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    Book Review: God and Guns: The Bible against American Gun Culture

    Book Review: God and Guns: The Bible against American Gun Culture

    Caio Peres reviews “God and Guns: The Bible against American Gun Culture” edited by C. L. Crouch and Christopher B. Hays (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2021) You are different with a gun in your hand; the gun is different

    Abigail Reid 19th April 20223rd May 2022 Book Reviews, Guest Blogs, Uncategorised No Comments Read more

    Book review: Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and The Hebrew Bible

    Book review: Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and The Hebrew Bible

    Alexiana Fry reviews Rhiannon Graybill’s new book Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and The Hebrew Bible (London: Oxford University Press, 2021) It has now been over six months since the release of Texts After Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and

    Helen Paynter 17th January 20221st March 2022 Biblical Interpretation, Book Reviews, Gender-Based Violence, Guest Blogs No Comments Read more

    “Blood had to be Spilt” Scapegoating and the Common Good

    “Blood had to be Spilt” Scapegoating and the Common Good

    But maybe thought the Doll as she lay on her miserable hotel bed watching the tv, there was some need people had to hurt others, some horrible need, that hurting one woman in some way might make others feel safe

    Helen Paynter 18th January 202123rd June 2021 Arts, Book Reviews, Uncategorised No Comments Read more

    Jesus and the Subversion of Violence: wrestling with the New Testament evidence

    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

    Helen Paynter 11th May 202011th May 2020 Biblical Interpretation, Book Reviews, General, Guest Blogs No Comments Read more

    Bloody, Brutal and Barbaric? Wrestling with troubling war texts

    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

    Helen Paynter 22nd April 202023rd April 2020 Biblical Interpretation, Book Reviews, Gender-Based Violence, War texts No Comments Read more

    Unspeakable Things Unspoken

    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

    Helen Paynter 28th February 202014th March 2022 Biblical Interpretation, Book Reviews, Gender-Based Violence No Comments Read more

    Book Review: Out of Control: Couples, conflict, and the capacity for change – Natalie Collins (SPCK, 2019)

    Book Review: Out of Control: Couples, conflict, and the capacity for change – Natalie Collins (SPCK, 2019)

    I first met Natalie Collins last summer, when I heard her speak at a conference I was attending. Her presentation on the violent and abusive nature of modern pornography was hard-hitting and deeply unsettling, but insightful and provocative. So when

    Helen Paynter 23rd May 201921st March 2022 Book Reviews, Gender-Based Violence 7 Comments Read more

    Crucifixion of the Warrior God by Gregory Boyd: Review

    Crucifixion of the Warrior God by Gregory Boyd: Review

    Greg Boyd begins his magnum opus by explaining the conundrum of Old Testament violence that drove him to write it. ‘I am […] caught between the Scylla of Jesus’ affirmation of the OT as divinely inspired and the Charybdis of

    Helen Paynter 25th April 201925th April 2019 Book Reviews 6 Comments Read more

    A sadomasochistic and megalomaniacal God? Response to Richard Dawkins, chapter 7 of The God Delusion

    A sadomasochistic and megalomaniacal God?  Response to Richard Dawkins, chapter 7 of The God Delusion

    “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic,

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