Meals, Eucharist, and Ecumenism
(2020)
Journal Article
All Outputs (197)
Considers how Wagner's Ring Cycle developed over its 26 year composition and how the composer appropriated his sources. The aim is to uncover the theology implicit in the artwork.
Celebrating Matthew’s Passion narrative (2019)
Journal Article
Twice each year, on Palm Sunday and Good Friday, the reading of the gospel becomes visibly a liturgical event in its own right. On these occasions the dramatic reading with several voices may replace the solitary tone of the deacon/priest. Yet in mos... Read More about Celebrating Matthew’s Passion narrative.
“The Brooten Phenomenon”: Moving Women from the Margins in Second-Temple and New Testament Scholarship (2019)
Journal Article
Although at least half the scholars entering the fields of early Judaism and nascent Christianity may now be women, and although scholarship on ancient women, on biblical and apocryphal female characters, and on the construction of femininity and mas... Read More about “The Brooten Phenomenon”: Moving Women from the Margins in Second-Temple and New Testament Scholarship.
Ibn Taymiyya (2019)
Book
Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328) of Damascus was one of the most prominent and controversial religious scholars of medieval Islam. He called for jihad against the Mongol invaders of Syria, appealed to the foundational sources of Islam for reform, and battled... Read More about Ibn Taymiyya.
The Host of Heaven and the Divine Army: a reassessment (2019)
Journal Article
That YHWH was perceived to command a divine army in the heavens brooks no argument. Traditionally, the phrase "host of heaven" (השׁמים )צבא has been associated with this divine army. This article, however, reassesses the relevant evidence and argu... Read More about The Host of Heaven and the Divine Army: a reassessment.
Jehu's slaughter of Judah's royal family at Beth-Eked (2 Kings 10:13-14) : a closer look (2019)
Journal Article
Why were the brothers of king Ahaziah at Beth-Eked in Israel, following the deaths of king Ahaziah and his northern ally, king Joram? This paper takes a closer look at the events of Beth-Eked in 2Kgs 10:13-14 and proposes that the brothers of Ahaziah... Read More about Jehu's slaughter of Judah's royal family at Beth-Eked (2 Kings 10:13-14) : a closer look.
Digital Christianity (2019)
Book Chapter
Introduction to the key theories and principles of the study of digital Christianity.
Preaching in Britain’s “Parish Church”: Sermons at London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2019)
Journal Article
This paper will address the conference themes of ‘space, place and context’ with an examination of the development of preaching at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, over the course of two hundred years. Completely rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666, o... Read More about Preaching in Britain’s “Parish Church”: Sermons at London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
The Victorian city and the Christian imagination: from gothic city to garden city (2019)
Journal Article
This article discusses some of the ways in which ideas about the city influenced the thinking of British Christians from 1840 to the early twentieth century. First, it explores nonconformist conceptions of the city, suggesting that, although the urba... Read More about The Victorian city and the Christian imagination: from gothic city to garden city.
How many lectionaries do we need? (2019)
Journal Article
Gender in the Rhetoric of Jesus: Women in Q (2019)
Book
The “gendered parable pairs” in Q reveal that Jesus of Nazareth had an innovative gender-levelling rhetoric, with literary repercussions throughout the New Testament. Examining the sayings in Q, outside of the canonical gospel narratives that tame an... Read More about Gender in the Rhetoric of Jesus: Women in Q.
Emotion, Ritual and Rules of Feeling in the Study of Digital Religion (2019)
Book Chapter
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.
Sharing the eucharistic insights of the ‘Star Wars Prayer’: a step on our pilgrim journey towards being one in Christ (2019)
Journal Article
Since our earliest days as disciples of Jesus of Nazareth the churches, local communities that came together in Jesus ’ name to praise the Father while sharing the cup and breaking the loaf, 1 have continually borrowed from one another. This borro... Read More about Sharing the eucharistic insights of the ‘Star Wars Prayer’: a step on our pilgrim journey towards being one in Christ.
Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya's religious utilitarianism (2019)
Book Chapter
Nineveh’s pretensions to divine power in Nahum 3:16 (2019)
Journal Article
With the exception of Nahum 3:16, in the Hebrew Bible Yahweh alone has the power to multiply humans so that they will be as innumerable as the stars. Nineveh’s multiplication of her merchants “more than the stars of the heavens” (Nah 3:16) was, there... Read More about Nineveh’s pretensions to divine power in Nahum 3:16.
The centrality of the Eucharist: idea and performance (2019)
Journal Article