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Richard Wagner (2023)
Book Chapter
Bell, R. (2023). Richard Wagner. In M. Grebe, & J. Grössl (Eds.), T&T Clark Handbook of Suffering and the Problem of Evil. T & T Clark

The article considers what Richard Wagner contributed to the understanding of suffering and the problem of evil in the ten stage works of his 'canon' (The Flying Dutchman to Parsifal).

The Muslim Theologian Ibn Taymiyyah on God, Creation, and Time (2022)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2022). The Muslim Theologian Ibn Taymiyyah on God, Creation, and Time. In M. Schmücker, M. T. Williams, & F. Fischer (Eds.), Temporality and Eternity: Nine Perspectives on God and Time (89-104). Berlin: De Gruyter

Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20 (2021)
Book Chapter
O'Loughlin, T. (2021). Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20. In Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019. Volume 22: Liturgica, Tractatus symboli; Orientalia; Critica et Philologica (31-38). Peeters

If our paradigm of the early churches is one of variety in practice preceding uniform ‘accepted’ forms, then we need to look again at many instances where early evidence for practice was by-passed as aberrant or sectarian. The sequence of eucharistic... Read More about Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20.

Social Media as Tools of Social Activism: Public Theology of the Umbrella City Cyberchurch (2021)
Book Chapter
Chu, C. (2021). Social Media as Tools of Social Activism: Public Theology of the Umbrella City Cyberchurch. In F. Yang, & C. White (Eds.), Christian Social Activism and the Rule of Law in China. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield

With the rise of digital media as a tools to exchange information in the Umbrella Movement, Umbrella Cyberchurch (UCC) established as a way to facilitate theological dialogue. This chapter will start with the definitions of social activism and public... Read More about Social Media as Tools of Social Activism: Public Theology of the Umbrella City Cyberchurch.

Zephaniah (2021)
Book Chapter
Quine, C. (2021). Zephaniah. In J. M. O'Brien (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Minor Prophets. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP)

This article discusses the key topics for the study of the Book of Zephaniah, including structure, authorship, date, central themes, Zephaniah’s relationship with the Book of the Twelve and the Hebrew Bible. Themes explored include the day of Yahweh,... Read More about Zephaniah.

Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (taʾwīl) of God’s Attributes (2020)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2020). Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (taʾwīl) of God’s Attributes. In A. Shihadeh, & J. Thiele (Eds.), Philosophical Theology in Islam: Later Ashʿarism East and West (195-230). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004426610_009

Modern research on theological production in the early Mamlūk sultanate of Egypt and Syria has focused primarily on the prolific Ḥanbalī theologians Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751/1350).2 This does not mean, however, th... Read More about Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (taʾwīl) of God’s Attributes.

Digital Christianity (2019)
Book Chapter
Hutchings, T. (2019). Digital Christianity. In The Bloomsbury Handbook to Studying Christians, 223-226. Bloomsbury Publishing

Introduction to the key theories and principles of the study of digital Christianity.

Emotion, Ritual and Rules of Feeling in the Study of Digital Religion (2019)
Book Chapter
Hutchings, T. (2019). Emotion, Ritual and Rules of Feeling in the Study of Digital Religion. In A. Possamai-Inesedy, & A. Nixon (Eds.), The Digital SocialDe Gruyter

This chapter will attempt to encourage greater engagement with emotion among scholars of digital religion by introducing two theoretical approaches. In the first half of the chapter, we will consider the place of emotion in the study of ritual, begin... Read More about Emotion, Ritual and Rules of Feeling in the Study of Digital Religion.

Reason and the Proof Value of Revelation in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s late kalām works Taʾsīs al-taqdīs, Maʿālim uṣūl al-dīn, and al-Arbaʿīn fī uṣūl al-dīn (2019)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2019). Reason and the Proof Value of Revelation in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s late kalām works Taʾsīs al-taqdīs, Maʿālim uṣūl al-dīn, and al-Arbaʿīn fī uṣūl al-dīn. In M. El Kaisy-Friemuth, R. Hajatpour, & M. Abdel Rahem (Eds.), Rationalität in der Islamischen Theologie. Band I: Die klassische Periode (373-390). De Gruyter

The resurrection appearances in 1 Corinthians 15 (2019)
Book Chapter
Bell, R. H. (2019). The resurrection appearances in 1 Corinthians 15. In R. Deines, & M. Wreford (Eds.), Epiphanies of the Divine in the Septuagint and the New Testament. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck. https://doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-156271-6

The purpose of my contribution is to examine what Paul writes of the resurrection appearances in 1 Cor 15:5-8 and to draw conclusions about their “historicity,” their nature, and their purpose. The implications of such appearances for Christian theol... Read More about The resurrection appearances in 1 Corinthians 15.

One or two cups? The text of Luke 22:17–20 again (2018)
Book Chapter
O'Loughlin, T. (2018). One or two cups? The text of Luke 22:17–20 again. In Liturgy and the living text of the New Testament: papers from the tenth Birmingham colloquium on the textual criticism of the New Testament (47-64). Piscataway, New Jersey, USA: Gorgias Press

Some hermeneutical assumptions latent within the gospel apparatus of Eusebius of Caesarea (2017)
Book Chapter
O'Loughlin, T. (2017). Some hermeneutical assumptions latent within the gospel apparatus of Eusebius of Caesarea. In M. Vinzent (Ed.), The Fourth Century; Cappadocian Writers : Papers presented at the Seventeenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2015. Peeters

The presence of Eusebius’s gospel apparatus (often incorrectly referred to as ‘the Eusebian Canons’) in the margins of so many of gospel codices, both in Greek and over the whole range of versions, is sufficient evidence of the importance of that wor... Read More about Some hermeneutical assumptions latent within the gospel apparatus of Eusebius of Caesarea.