Open Theological College
Level I (CertHE) Recommended Reading Lists
These lists, whilst not exhaustive, give recommendations for background and further
reading for OTC Level I modules. The majority of these titles can be found in the University
of Gloucestershire’s Learning Centres and borrowed from the OTC Postal Library.
It is worth noting that some books are appropriate for more than one module.
Some books are currently out of print, but may be found in second-hand bookshops
(including online bookshops).
General Study Skills
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Ackroyd, R., and D. Major, Shaping the Tools: Study Skills in Theology (London:
Darton, Longman & Todd, 1999)
Cottrell, S., The Study Skills Handbook, Palgrave Study Skills, 3rd rev. edn (London:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Duce, P., and D. Strange (eds.), Keeping Your Balance: Approaching Theological and
Religious Studies (Leicester: Apollos, 2001)
Hulcoop, L., Practical Essay Writing for Students of Theology and Biblical Studies
Available from L. Hulcoop, 2 Marlin Court, Brighton Road, Lancing BN15 8EX
(01903 522279; lhulcoop@ntlworld.com)
McGrath, A.E., The Future of Christianity (Oxford: Blackwells, 2002)
Roberts, S., and D. Muir, The Distance Learner (Nottingham: St. John’s Extension
Studies, 2006). Available from http://www.stjohns-nottm.ac.uk/ (go to the online
shop from the St Johns website)
Talbot, C., Studying at a Distance: A Guide for Students (Buckingham: Open University
Press, 2003)
West, M., G. Noble and A. Todd, Living Theology (London: Darton, Longman & Todd,
1999)
OTC190 Introduction to the Old Testament: The Pentateuch
Textbooks:
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McConville, G., Teach Yourself the Old Testament (London: Hodder & Stoughton,
1996) [Note that copies of this book are currently available for purchase from the
OTC office]
Wenham, G., Exploring the Old Testament: The Pentateuch (London: SPCK, 2003)
Chambers, E., and A. Northedge, The Arts Good Study Guide, 2nd edn (Milton Keynes:
Open University, 2008)
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Alexander, T., From Paradise to the Promised Land, 2nd edn. (Carlisle: Paternoster,
2002)
Alter, R., The Art of Biblical Narrative (London: Allen & Unwin, 1981)
Baker, D.W., and T.D. Alexander (eds.), Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch
(Downers Grove: IVP, 2002)
Bright, J., A History of Israel, 4th edn. (Louisville: John Knox, 2000)
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Cole, R.A., Exodus, Tyndale Old Testament Commentary (Leicester: IVP, 1973)
Dillard, R.B., and T. Longman III, An Introduction to the Old Testamen (Leicester:
Apollos, 1995)
Drane, J., Introducing the Old Testament, 2nd edn. (Tring: Lion, 2000)
Dumbrell, W., The Faith of Israel (Leicester: Apollos, 2002)
Durham, J., Exodus, Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 3 (Dallas: Word, 1986)
Hartley, J., Leviticus, Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 4 (Dallas: Word, 1992)
Hess, R.S., and M.D. Carroll (eds.), Family in the Bible (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003)
Kidner, D., Genesis, Tyndale Old Testament Commentary (Leicester: IVP, 1971)
Kitchen, K., On the Reliability of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003)
Licht, J., Storytelling in the Bible (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1978)
Provan, I., V.P. Long and T. Longman III, A Biblical History of Israel (Louisville: WJKP,
2003)
Wenham, G., Genesis 1-15, Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 1 (Dallas: Word, 1986)
Wenham, G., Genesis 16-50, Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 2 (Dallas: Word, 1995)
Wright, C., Living as the People of God (Leicester: IVP, 1983)
Wright, C., God’s People in God’s Land, 2nd edn. (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1997)
[Please note that material from the above two books by Wright has been incorporated into
his more recent Old Testament Ethics for the People of God (Leicester: IVP, 2004), which
also is one of the current textbooks for OTC301: Deuteronomy and Old Testament Ethics]
OTC120 Introduction to the New Testament
Textbooks:
 Wenham, D., and S. Walton, Exploring the New Testament, Vol. 1: Introducing the
Gospels and Acts (London: SPCK, 2001)
 I.H. Marshall, S. Travis and I. Paul, Exploring the New Testament, Vol. 2: The Letters
and Revelation (London: SPCK, 2002)
Other works:
Those sources marked with a * are especially helpful and may be worth investing in.
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Anderson, J.C., and S.D. Moore, eds, Mark and Method: New Approaches in Biblical
Studies (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992)
Arnold, C.E., ‘Ephesians, Letter to the’, in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed. by
G.F. Hawthorne, R.P. Martin and D.G. Reid (Downers Grove: IVP, 1993), pp.238-249
Barr, D.L., ed., Reading the Book of Revelation: A Resource for Students (Atlanta:
Society of Biblical Literature, 2003)
Barrett, C.K., The New Testament Background: Selected Documents (London: SPCK,
1956)
————A Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (London: A&C Black, 1957)
————Paul: An Introduction to his Thought (London: Continuum, 1994)
Bartlett, D.L., Romans, Westminster Bible Companion (Louisville: WJKP, 1995)
Bauckham, R., The Theology of the Book of Revelation (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1993)
————God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998)
Bauckham, R., ed., The Gospels for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences
(Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1998)
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Beasley-Murray, G.R., ‘Revelation, book of’, in Dictionary of the Later New Testament
and its Developments, ed. by R.P. Martin and P.H. Davids (Downers Grove:
IVP,1997), pp.1025-1038
Best, E., Ephesians: A Shorter Commentary (London: T&T Clark, 2003)
Bock, D.L., ‘Luke, Gospel of’, in Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, ed. by J.B.
Green, S. McKnight and I.H. Marshall (Downers Grove: IVP, 1992), pp.495-510
Borg, M.J., Jesus: A New Vision (London: SPCK, 1993)
Borg, M.J., and N.T. Wright, The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions (New York:
HarperCollins, 1999)
Borgman, P., The Way According to Luke: Hearing the Whole Story of Luke-Acts
(Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, 2006)
Bowen, R., A Guide to Romans (London: SPCK, 1975)
Bredin, M., Jesus, Revolutionary of Peace: A Nonviolent Christology in the Book of
Revelation (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2003)
Campbell, W.S., ‘Israel’, in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed. by G.F. Hawthorne,
R.P. Martin and D.G. Reid (Downers Grove: IVP, 1993), pp.441-446
Care, F., ed., The Apocalypse and the Shape of the Things to Come (London: British
Museum Press, 1999)
Carter, W., The Roman Empire and the New Testament: An Essential Guide
(Nashville: Abingdon, 2006)
* Cousar, C., The Letters of Paul (Nashville: Abingdon, 1996)
Crossan, J.D., In Parables (San Fransisco: Harper, 1973)
———— Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1994)
DeVries, L., Cities of the Biblical World (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1997)
Dodd, C.H., The Parables of the Kingdom of God (Glasgow: Collins, 1935)
Donelson, L.R., From Hebrews to Revelation: A Theological Introduction (Louisville,
WJKP, 2001), pp.133-158
Dunn, J.D.G, ‘Romans, Letter to the’, in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed. by G.F.
Hawthorne, R.P. Martin and D.G. Reid (Downers Grove: IVP, 1993), pp.838-850
* ————The Theology of Paul the Apostle (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998)
———— A New Perspective on Jesus: What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed
(London: SPCK, 2005)
* Dunn, J.D.G., ed., The Cambridge Companion to St Paul (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2003)
Ellis, E., Paul’s Use of the Old Testament (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1957)
Evans, C.A., and S.E. Porter, eds, Dictionary of New Testament Background
(Downers Grove: IVP, 2000)
Fee, G.D., First Epistle to the Corinthians, NICNT, 2nd edn (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
1995)
Fee, D.G., and D. Stuart, ‘The Gospels: One Story, Many Dimensions’, in How to
Read the Bible for all its Worth, 3rd edn (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003), pp.127-148
Foulkes, F., Ephesians, Tyndale New Testament Commentary (Leicester: IVP, 1989)
France, R.T., Matthew (Leicester: IVP, 1985)
Grant, R., Paul in the Roman World: The Conflict at Corinth (Louisville: WJKP, 2001)
* Green, J.B., S. McKnight and I.H. Marshall, eds, Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels
(Downers Grove: IVP, 1992)
Green, J.B., and M.M.B. Turner, eds, Jesus of Nazareth: Essays on the Historical
Jesus and New Testament Christology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994)
Gorman, M.J., Apostle of the Crucified Lord: A Theological Introduction to Paul and his
Letters (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004)
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Gundry, R., A Survey of the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003)
Gundry-Volf, J.M., ‘Colossians, Letter to the’, in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed.
by G.F. Hawthorne, R.P. Martin and D.G. Reid (Downers Grove: IVP, 1993), pp.147156
Haacker, K., ‘Paul’s Life’, in The Cambridge Companion to St Paul, ed. by J.D.G.
Dunn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp.19-33
Hafemann, S.J., ‘Corinthians, Letters to the’ in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed.
by G.F. Hawthorne, R.P. Martin and D.G. Reid (Downers Grove: IVP, 1993), pp.164179
————‘Paul and His Interpreters’, in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed. by G.F.
Hawthorne, R.P. Martin and D.G. Reid (Downers Grove: IVP, 1993), pp.666-679
Hansen, G.W., ‘Galatians’ in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed. by G.F.
Hawthorne, R.P. Martin and D.G. Reid (Downers Grove: IVP, 1993), pp.323-334
* Hawthorne, G.F., R.P. Martin and D.G. Reid, eds, Dictionary of Paul and His Letters
(Downers Grove: IVP, 1993)
Hays, R.B., Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul (New Have: Yale University
Press, 1993)
————The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New
Testament Ethics (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996)
Heil, J.P., “Paul and the Law: Different Dimensions and Connotations”,
<http://faculty.cua.edu/heil/Articles/Paul% 20and%20Law.pdf> [accessed 03/09/2009]
Hess, R.S., and M.D. Carroll, eds, Israel’s Messiah in the Bible and the Dead Sea
Scrolls (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003)
Horsley, R.A., 1 Corinthians, Abingdon New Testament Commentaries (Nashville:
Abingdon, 1998)
Jewett, R., ‘Romans’, in The Cambridge Companion to St Paul, ed. by J.D.G. Dunn
(Cambridge: CUP, 2003), pp.91-104
Johnson, E.E., ‘Ephesians’, in The Women’s Bible Commentary, ed. by C.A. Newsom
and S.H. Ringe (Louisville: WJKP, 1992), pp.338-342
Johnson, T.S., ‘Roman Emperors’, in Dictionary of New Testament Background, ed. by
C.A. Evans and S.E. Porter (Downers Grove: IVP, 2000), pp.968-974
Keener, C.S., ‘Man and Woman’ in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed. by G.F.
Hawthorne, R.P. Martin and D.G. Reid (Downers Grove: IVP, 1993), pp.583-592
———— ‘Lamb’, in Dictionary of the Later New Testament and its Developments, ed.
by R.P. Martin and P.H. Davids (Downers Grove: IVP,1997), pp.641-645
————Paul, Women and Wives: Marriage and Women’s Ministry in the Letters of
Paul (Peabody, MA.: Hendrickson, 2001)
Koester, C.R., Revelation and the End of All Things (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001)
Kreitzer, L.J., ‘Resurrection’ in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed. by G.F.
Hawthorne, R.P. Martin and D.G. Reid (Downers Grove: IVP, 1993), pp.805-812
Ladd, G.E., A Commentary on the Revelation of John (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
1972)
Lincoln, A.T., ‘Ephesians’, in The Cambridge Companion to St Paul, ed. by J.D.G.
Dunn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp.133-140
Lindsey, H., There’s a New World Coming: A Prophetic Odyssey (Santa Ana: Vision
House, 1973)
Longenecker, B., ‘Galatians’ in The Cambridge Companion to St Paul, ed. by J.D.G.
Dunn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp.64-73
McDonald, P., God and Violence: Biblical Resources for Living in a Small World
(Scottdale: Herald, 2004)
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McKnight, S., ‘Matthew, Gospel of’, in Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, ed. by J.B.
Green, S. McKnight and I.H. Marshall (Downers Grove: IVP, 1992), pp.526-541
Malina, B.J., On the Genre and Message of Revelation: Star Visions and Sky Journeys
(Peabody: Hendrickson, 1995)
Marshall, I.H., The Gospel of Luke (Exeter: Paternoster, 1978)
————Acts, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (Leicester: IVP, 1980)
Marshall, I.H., S. Travis and I. Paul, Exploring the New Testament, Vol. 2: The Letters
and Revelation (London: SPCK, 2002)
Martin, D.B., The Corinthian Body (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995)
Martin, R.P., ‘Center of Paul’s Theology’, in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed. by
G.F. Hawthorne, R.P. Martin and D.G. Reid (Downers Grove: IVP, 1993), pp.92-95
Moyise, S., The Old Testament in the New Testament: An Introduction (London:
Continuum, 2001)
———— “Does the Lion Lie down with the Lamb?”, <http://www. ambs.edu/ljohns/
moyise12.htm> [accessed 07/09/2009]
O’Brien, P.T., ‘Letters, Letter Forms’, in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed. by G.F.
Hawthorne, R.P. Martin and D.G. Reid (Downers Grove: IVP, 1993), pp.550-553
O’Day, G.R., ‘Jeremiah 9:22-23 and 1 Corinthians 1:26-31: A Study in Intertextuality’,
Journal of Biblical Literature, 109 [1990], pp.259-267
Onesti, K.I., and M.T. Brauch, ‘Righteousness, Righteousness of God’, in Dictionary of
Paul and His Letters, ed. by G.F. Hawthorne, R.P. Martin and D.G. Reid (Downers
Grove: IVP, 1993), pp.827-837
Pate, C.M., ed., Four Views on the Book of Revelation (Grand Rapids: Zondervan,
1998)
Paul, I., How to Read the Book of Revelation (Cambridge: Grove Books, 2003)
Riches, J., The World of Jesus: First-Century Judaism in Crisis (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Sanders, E.P., Paul and Palestinian Judaism (London: SCM, 1977)
————The Historical Figure of Jesus (London: Penguin, 1993)
Scott, I.J., Jewish Backgrounds of the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995)
Schüssler Fiorenza, E., In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of
Christian Origins, 2nd edn (London: SCM, 1995), pp.227-230
Silva, M., ‘Old Testament in Paul’, in Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, ed. by G.F.
Hawthorne, R.P. Martin and D.G. Reid (Downers Grove: IVP, 1993), pp.630-642
Smith, B.D., “The Gospel of Matthew”, Introducing the New Testament: A Workbook,
<http://www.abu.nb.ca/Courses/NTIntro/Matt.htm> [accessed on 07/07/2009]
———— “The Use of the Old Testament in the New Testament”, Introducing the New
Testament: A Workbook, <http://www.abu.nb.ca/Courses/NTIntro/ OTinNT.htm>
[accessed on 03/09/2009]
Spencer, F.S., Journeying through Acts: A Literary-cultural Reading
(Peabody: Hendrickson, 2004), pp.13-26
* Stanton, G., The Gospels and Jesus, 2nd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2002)
Stott, J.R.W., The Message of Acts: To the Ends of the Earth, Bible Speaks Today
(Leicester: IVP, 1990)
Stuckenbruck, L.T., ‘Colossians and Philemon’, in The Cambridge Companion to St
Paul, ed. by J.D.G. Dunn (Cambridge: CUP, 2003), pp.91-104
Tatum, W.B., In Quest of Jesus, revised edn (London: SCM, 1999)
Thackeray, H. St.-J., The Relation of St. Paul to Contemporary Jewish Thought
(London: Macmillan, 1900)
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Theissen, G., and A. Merz, The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide (London:
SCM, 1998)
Thiselton, A.C., The First Epistle to the Corinthians: A Commentary of the Greek Text,
NIGTC (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000)
* Thompson, M.B., The New Perspective on Paul (Cambridge: Grove, 2002)
Thompson, M.M., ‘John, Gospel of’, in Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, ed. by
J.B. Green, S. McKnight and I.H. Marshall (Downers Grove: IVP, 1992), pp.368-383
Towner, P.H., ‘Households and Household Codes’, in Dictionary of Paul and His
Letters, ed. by G.F. Hawthorne, R.P. Martin and D.G. Reid (Downers Grove: IVP,
1993), pp.417-419
Turner, M.M.B., The Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts: Then and Now, 2nd edn (Carlisle:
Paternoster, 1999)
Via, D.O., The Parables: Their Literary and Existential Dimension (Philadelphia:
Fortress, 1967)
Wallace, D.B., “New Testament: Introductions and Outlines”, Bible.org,
<http://bible.org/series/new-testament-introductions-and-outlines> [accessed on
06/07/2009]
Wedderburn, A.J.M., Reasons for Romans (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1988)
Wenham, D., and S. Walton, Exploring the New Testament, Vol. 1: Introducing the
Gospels and Acts (London: SPCK, 2001)
White, L.Michael, “Understanding the Book of Revelation”,
<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/revelation/white.html>
[accessed 03/09/2009]
Witherington, B., Conflict and Community in Corinth: A Socio-rhetorical Commentary
on 1 and 2 Corinthians (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995)
————Grace in Galatia: A Commentary on St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians
(Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1998)
Wright, N.T., The Climax of the Covenant (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1991)
————Jesus and the Victory of God (London: SPCK, 1996)
————What St Paul Really Said: Was Paul of Tarsus the Real Founder of
Christianity? (Oxford: Lion, 1997)
————The Challenge of Jesus (London: SPCK, 2000)
———— “Communion and Koinonia: Pauline Reflections on Tolerance and
Boundaries”, 2002 <http://www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_Communion_ Koinonia.htm>
[accessed 01/09/2009]
———— Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians (London: SPCK, 2002)
———— Paul for Everyone: The Prison Letters: Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians
and Philemon (London: SPCK, 2002), pp.141-209
————The Resurrection of the Son of God (London: SPCK, 2003)
Yoder, J.H., The Politics of Jesus, revised edn (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994)
Ziesler, J., ‘New Testament Theology’, in A New Dictionary of Christian Theology, ed.
by A. Richardson and J. Bowden (London: SCM, 1983), pp.398-403
————Pauline Christianity, revised edn. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990)
OTC122 Making Sense of the Modern World
Textbooks:
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Goheen, Michael W. & Bartholomew, Craig G., Living at the Crossroads: An
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(NB: There is a companion website for this book, www.biblicaltheology.ca/living-atthe-crossroads/, which has a wealth of resources).
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Lyon, David Postmodernity, 2nd ed. (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1999).
Other works:
NB: A number of Lesslie Newbigin’s writings are
http://www.newbigin.net (browse with Internet Explorer).
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Anderson, W.T., Reality Isn't What It Used to Be (New York: Harper Collins, 1990),
pp.131-156.
Archbishop’s Council, Mission-Shaped Church: Church Planting and Fresh
Expressions of Church in a Changing Context (London: Church House Publishing,
2004).
Bartholomew, C.G., et al. Renewing Biblical Interpretation, (Carlisle: Paternoster Press,
2000), especially the Introduction.
Bauckham, Richard, ‘Reading Scripture as a Coherent Story’, in Ellen F. Davis and
Richard Hays, The Art of Reading Scripture (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003), pp3853.
Berger, P., The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious
Affirmation (London: Collins, 1980).
Berger, P., A Rumour of Angels (New York: Doubleday, 1990).
Berger, P.L., A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credulity (New York: The
Free Press, 1992), pp.25-46.
Bevans, Stephen, Models of Contextual Theology, revised edition (Maryknoll: Orbis,
2002).
Bosch, D.J., Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission (Maryknoll,
NY: Orbis Books, 1991).
Bosch, D.J., Believing in the Future: Toward a Missiology of Western Culture (Valley
Forge, PA: Gracewing/Trinity Press International, 1995).
Brierley, Peter, Pulling out of the Nosedive (London, Christian Research, 2006).
Briggs, Richard, Reading the Bible Wisely, (London: SPCK, 2003), esp. Ch 4.
Brown, Callum, The Death of Christian Britain, (London: Routledge, 2001).
Carson, Don, The Gagging of God (Leicester: Apollos, 1996).
Cooling, Trevor, A Christian Vision for State Education (London: SPCK, 1994).
Cooling, Trevor, ‘In Defence of the Common School’ Agenda for Educational Change,
edited by John Shortt & Trevor Cooling, (Leicester: Apollos, 1997).
Cooling, Trevor, Slaying the Dragon of Moral Relativism: Relativism in School and
Community, (Sydney, Aquila Press, 1998).
Cooling, Trevor ‘Commitment and Indoctrination: a dilemma for Religious Education?’
in Issues in Religious Education, edited by Lynne Broadbent & Alan Brown (London:
Routledge/Falmer, 2002), pp. 44-55.
Donovan, Vincent, Christianity Rediscovered, (London: SCM Press, 1978).
Erickson, M.J., Truth or Consequences: The Promise and Perils of Postmodernism
(Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2001), pp.306-328.
Everett, Daniel, Don’t Sleep There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian
Jungle (London: Profile, 2008).
Giddens, A., Runaway World: How Globalisation is Reshaping our Lives (London:
Profile Books, 1999), pp.1-19.
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Goheen, Michael W. and C.G. Bartholomew, The Drama of Scripture: Finding our
Place in the Biblical Story (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004).
Goheen, Michael W. and Craig G. Bartholomew, ‘Scripture and Worldview’,
www.biblicaltheology.ca/living-at-the-crossroads/, accessed 24/7/09.
Grenz, S.J., A Primer on Postmodernism (Grand Rapids, MI/Cambridge: William B.
Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996).
Grenz, Stanley and John Franke, Beyond Foundationalism: Shaping Theology in a
Postmodern Context (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001).
Groothuis, Douglas, Truth Decay: Defending Christianity against the Challenges of
Postmodernism, (Leicester: IVP, 2000).
Guinness, O., The Gravedigger File (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1983), pp.29-47.
Harvey, D., The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Social
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McGrath, A., Christian Theology: An Introduction, 4th edn. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006)
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Theology (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002)
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Bray, G., Biblical Interpretation: Past and Present (Leicester: Apollos, 1996)
Carson, D.A., Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility: Biblical Perspectives in
Tension (Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2002)
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Rapids: Zondervan, 1986)
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Rapids: Baker, 1992)
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Religious Studies (Leicester: Apollos, 2001)
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(London: SCM, 2001)
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OTC124 Biblical Interpretation
Textbooks:
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Barton, J., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Tate, W.R., Biblical Interpretation: An Integrated Approach, 3rd edn (Peabody:
Hendrickson, 2008)
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1987)
• Barr, J., Holy Scripture: Canon, Authority, Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
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• Barton, J., ‘Authority of Scripture’, in The SCM Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed.
by R.J. Coggins and J.L. Houlden (London: SCM, 1990), pp.69-72
• Barton, J., ‘Canon’, in The SCM Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed. by R.J.
Coggins and J.L. Houlden (London: SCM, 1990), pp.101-105
• Barton, S.C., ‘Historical Criticism and Social-Scientific Perspectives’, in Hearing the
New Testament, ed. by J.B. Green (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), pp.69-76
• Barton, S.C., ‘Social Values and Structures’, in Dictionary of New Testament
Background, ed. by C.A. Evans and S.E. Porter (Downers Grove: IVP, 2000),
pp.1127-1134
• Bauckham, R., Scripture and Authority Today (Cambridge: Grove Books, 1999)
• Bauckham, R., The Bible in Politics: How to Read the Bible Politically, 2nd edn.
(Louisville: WJKP, 2002)
• Bible and Culture Collective, The, The Postmodern Bible (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1995)
• Black, C.C., ‘Rhetorical Criticism’, in Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for
Interpretation, ed. by J.B. Green (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), pp.256-277
• Bloesch, D.G., Holy Scripture: Revelation, Inspiration and Interpretation (Downers
Grove: IVP, 1994)
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1987)
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not Literally (New York: Harper Collins, 2001)
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Christianity and Deconstruction’, Vox Evangelica, 25 (1995), pp.17-32
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(1988), pp.232-237
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Testament’, in Approaches to New Testament Study, ed. by S.E. Porter and D.
Tombs (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), pp.356-375
• Clarke, K., ‘Canonical Criticism: An Integrated Reading of Biblical Texts for the
Community of Faith’, in Approaches to New Testament Study, ed. by S.E. Porter
and D. Tombs (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), pp.170-221
• Clines, D.J.A., ‘Deconstructing the Book of Job’, in What Does Eve Do To Help? And
Other Readerly Questions to the Old Testament (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1990),
pp.106-123
• Coggins, R.J., and J.L. Houlden (eds.), The SCM Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation
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IVP, 1989)
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• Croatto, J.S., ‘The Socio-Historical and Hermeneutical Relevance of the Exodus’,
Concilium, 189 (1987), pp.125-133
• Croatto, J.S., Biblical Hermeneutics: Toward a Theory of Reading as the Production of
Meaning (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1987)
• Crosman, R., ‘Do Readers Make Meaning?’, in The Reader in the Text, ed. by S.R.
Suleiman and R. Crosman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), pp.149164
• Davies, M., ‘Genre’, in The SCM Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed. by R.J.
Coggins and J.L. Houlden (London: SCM, 1990), pp.256-258
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Interpretation, ed. by R.J. Coggins and J.L. Houlden (London: SCM, 1990),
pp.578-580
• Davis, E.F., and R.B. Hays (eds.), The Art of Reading Scripture (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 2003)
• Downing, F.G., ‘Criteria’, in The SCM Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed. by R.J.
Coggins and J.L. Houlden (London: SCM, 1990), pp.151-153
• Dunbar, D.G., ‘The Biblical Canon’, in Hermeneutics, Authority and Canon, ed. by D.A.
Carson and J.D. Woodbridge (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995), pp.299-360
• Dyck, E., ‘Canon as Context for Interpretation’, in The Act of Bible Reading, ed. by E.
Dyck, (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1996), pp.33-64
• Elliott, N., Liberating Paul: The Justice of God and the Politics of the Apostle
(Maryknoll: Orbis, 1999)
• Esler, P., (ed.), Modelling Early Christianity: Social-scientific Studies of the New
Testament in its Context (London: Routledge, 1995)
• Evans, C.A., ‘Source, Form and Redaction Criticism: The “Traditional” Methods of
Synoptic Interpretation’, in Approaches to New Testament Study, ed. by S.E.
Porter and D. Tombs, (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), pp.17-45
• Fee, G.D., ‘Exegesis and the Role of Tradition in Evangelical Hermeneutics’,
Evangelical Review of Theology 17:4 (1993), pp.421-436
• Fee, G.D., New Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors, 3rd edn.
(Louisville: WJKP, 2002)
• Fee, G.D., and D. Stuart, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, 3rd edn. (Grand
Rapids: Zondervan, 2003)
• Ferguson, S.B., and D.F. Wright (eds.), New Dictionary of Theology (Leicester: IVP,
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• Fewell, D.N., ‘Reading the Bible Ideologically: Feminist Criticism’, in To Each its Own
Meaning, 2nd edn., ed. by S.L. McKenzie and S.R. Haynes (Louisville: WJKP,
1999), pp.268-82
• Fowl, S.E., ‘The New Testament, Theology, and Ethics’, in Hearing the New
Testament, ed. by J.B. Green, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), pp.394-410
• Fowl, S.E., ‘The Role of Authorial Intention in the Theological Interpretation of
Scripture’, in Between Two Horizons, ed. by J.B. Green and M. Turner (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000), pp.71-87
• Fowl, S.E., (ed.), The Theological Interpretation of Scripture: Classic and
Contemporary Readings (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997)
• Fowl, S.E., and L.G. Jones, Reading in Communion: Scripture and Ethics in Christian
Life (London: SPCK, 1991)
• Frame, J.M., ‘The Spirit and the Scriptures’, in Hermeneutics, Authority and Canon,
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Themelios 18:2 (1993), pp.5-9
• Goldingay, J., Models for Scripture (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1994).
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• Green, J.B., (ed.), Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation (Carlisle:
Paternoster, 1995)
• Green, J.B., ‘The Practice of Reading the New Testament’, in Hearing the New
Testament, ed. by J.B. Green (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), pp.411-427
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New Testament, ed. by J.B. Green (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), pp.175-196
• Green, J.B., and M. Turner (eds.), Between Two Horizons: Spanning New Testament
Studies and Systematic Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000)
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• Hart, L., ‘Hermeneutics, Theology, and the Holy Spirit’, Perspectives in Religious
Studies 14 (1987), pp.53-64
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• Herzog, W.R., ‘Sociological Approaches to the Gospels’, in Dictionary of Jesus and the
Gospels, ed. by J.B. Green, S. McKnight and I.H. Marshall (Downers Grove: IVP,
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• Hirsch, E.D., Validity in Interpretation (Yale: Yale University Press, 1967)
• Horrell, D.G., The Social Ethos of the Corinthian Correspondence: Interests and
Ideology from 1 Corinthians to 1 Clement (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1996)
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Academic Press, 1989)
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by R.J. Coggins and J.L. Houlden, (London: SCM, 1990), pp.105-107
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• Longman, T., Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation (Downers Grove: Apollos,
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• Lundin, R., (ed.), Disciplining Hermeneutics: Interpretation in Christian Perspective
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997)
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Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999)
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ed. by R.J. Coggins and J.L. Houlden (London: SCM, 1990), pp.599-600
• McKenzie, S.L., and S.R. Haynes (eds.), To Each Its Own Meaning: An Introduction to
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• Marshall, I.H., (ed.), New Testament Interpretation, 3rd edn. (Carlisle: Paternoster,
1992)
• Marshall, I.H., ‘Historical Criticism’, in New Testament Interpretation, 3rd edn., ed. by
I.H. Marshall (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1992), pp.126-138
• Martin, D., ‘Social-Scientific Criticism’, in To Each Its Own Meaning: An Introduction to
Biblical Criticisms and their Application, 2nd edn., ed. by S.L. McKenzie and S.R.
Haynes (Louisville: WJKP, 1999), pp.125-141
• Meeks, W.A., ‘A Hermeneutics of Social Embodiment’, Harvard Theological Review
79:1 (1986), pp.176-186
• Meyer, B., Critical Realism and the New Testament (Allison Park: Pickwick, 1989)
• Möller, K., ‘Renewing Historical Criticism’, in Renewing Biblical Interpretation, ed. by C.
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• Montague, G., Understanding the Bible: A Basic Introduction to Biblical Interpretation
(New York: Paulist, 1997)
• Moore, S.D., ‘Deconstructive Criticism: The Gospel of the Mark’, in Mark and Method:
New Approaches in Biblical Studies, ed. by J. Capel Anderson and S.D. Moore
(Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992), pp.84-102
• Morgan, R., Biblical Interpretation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988)
• Motyer, S., The Bible With Pleasure (Leicester: Crossway, 1997)
• Nineham, D.E., ‘Cultural Relativism’, in The SCM Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation,
ed. by R.J. Coggins and J.L. Houlden (London: SCM, 1990), pp.155-159
• Osborne, G.R., ‘Redaction Criticism’, in Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, ed. by
J.B. Green, S. McKnight and I.H. Marshall (Downers Grove: IVP, 1992), pp.662669
• Osborne, G.R., The Hermeneutical Spiral (Downers Grove: IVP, 1997)
• Oswalt, J.N., ‘Canonical Criticism: A Review from a Conservative Standpoint’, Journal
of the Evangelical Theological Society 30:3 (1987), pp.317-325
• Packer, J.I., ‘Theology and Bible Reading’, in The Act of Bible Reading, ed. by E. Dyck
(Carlisle: Paternoster, 1996), pp.65-87
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• Patte, D., ‘Structural Criticism’, in To Each Its Own Meaning: An Introduction to Biblical
Criticisms and their Application, 2nd edn., ed. by S.L. McKenzie and S.R. Haynes
(Louisville: WJKP, 1999), pp.183-200
• Paul, I., How to Read the Book of Revelation (Cambridge: Grove Books, 2003)
• Polanyi, M., The Tacit Dimension (Gloucester, MA.: Peter Smith, 1983)
• Porter, S.E., and D. Tombs (eds.), Approaches to New Testament Study (Sheffield:
Sheffield Academic Press, 1995)
• Powell, M.A., ‘Narrative Criticism’, in Hearing the New Testament, ed. by J.B. Green
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), pp.239-255
• Reed, J.T., ‘Modern Linguistics and the New Testament: A Basic Guide to Theory,
Terminology, and Literature’, in Approaches to New Testament Study, ed. by S.E.
Porter and D. Tombs (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), pp.222-265
• Rhoads, D.M., J. Dewey and D. Michie, Mark as Story (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999)
• Sanders, J.A., Canon and Community (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1984)
• Sawyer, J.F.A., ‘Etymology’, in The SCM Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed. by
R.J. Coggins and J.L. Houlden (London: SCM, 1990), pp.212-214
• Schneider, S., ‘Feminist Hermeneutics’, in Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for
Interpretation, ed. by J.B. Green (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), pp.349-369
• Schüssler Fiorenza, E., ‘The Will to Choose or to Reject: Continuing Our Critical Work’,
in Feminist Interpretation of the Bible, ed. by L.M. Russell (Philadelphia:
Westminster, 1985), pp.125-135
• Schüssler Fiorenza, E., ‘Rhetorical Situation and Historical Reconstruction in 1
Corinthians’, in Christianity at Corinth: The Quest for the Pauline Church, ed. by
D.G. Horrell and E. Adams (Louisville: WJKP, 2004), pp.146-160
• Silva, M., ‘The Place of Historical Reconstruction in New Testament Criticism’, in
Hermeneutics, Authority and Canon, ed. by D.A. Carson and J.D. Woodbridge
(Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995), pp.105-134
• Smalley, S., ‘Redaction Criticism’, in New Testament Interpretation, 3rd edn., ed. by I.
H. Marshall (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1992), pp.181-195
• Stamps, D.L., ‘Rhetoric’, in Dictionary of New Testament Background, ed. by C.A.
Evans and S.E. Porter (Downers Grove: IVP, 2000), pp.953-959
• Stanton, G.M., ‘Presuppositions in New Testament Criticism’, in New Testament
Interpretation, 3rd edn., ed. by I.H. Marshall (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1992), pp.6071
• Stibbe, M.W.G., ‘Structuralism’, in The SCM Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed. by
R.J. Coggins and J.L. Houlden (London: SCM, 1990), pp.650-655
• Streete, G.P.C., ‘Redaction Criticism’, in To Each Its Own Meaning: An Introduction to
Biblical Criticisms and their Application, 2nd edn., ed. by S. McKenzie and S.
Haynes (Louisville: WJKP, 1999), pp.105-121
• Sugirtharajah, R.S., (ed.), Vernacular Hermeneutics (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic
Press, 1999)
• Sweeney, M.A., ‘Form Criticism’, in To Each Its Own Meaning: An Introduction to
Biblical Criticisms and their Application, 2nd edn., ed. by S. McKenzie and S.
Haynes (Louisville: WJKP, 1999), pp.58-89
• Tannehill, R.C., ‘Narrative Criticism’, in The SCM Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation,
ed. by R.J. Coggins and J. L. Houlden (London: SCM, 1990), pp.488-489
• Thiselton, A.C., The Two Horizons: New Testament Hermeneutics and Philosophical
Description (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1980)
• Thiselton, A.C., ‘Hermeneutics’, in New Dictionary of Theology, ed. by S.B. Ferguson
and D.F. Wright (Leicester: IVP, 1988), pp.293-297
• Thiselton, A.C., New Horizons in Hermeneutics (London: Harper Collins, 1992)
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• Thiselton, A.C., ‘Semantics and New Testament Interpretation’, in New Testament
Interpretation, 3rd edn., ed. by I.H. Marshall (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1992), pp.75104
• Thiselton, A.C., Interpreting God and the Postmodern Self: On Meaning, Manipulation
and Promise (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1995)
• Thiselton, A.C., ‘New Testament Interpretation in Historical Perspective’, in Hearing the
New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation, ed. by J.B. Green (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1995), pp.10-36
• Thomas, J., ‘Reading the Bible from within our Traditions: A Pentecostal Hermeneutic
as Test Case’, in Between Two Horizons, ed. by J.B. Green and M. Turner (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000), pp.108-122
• Tombs, D., ‘The Hermeneutics of Liberation’, in Approaches to New Testament Study,
ed. by S.E. Porter and D. Tombs (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995),
pp.310-355
• Tompkins, J.P., ‘An Introduction to Reader-Response Criticism’, in Reader-Response
Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism, ed. by J.P. Tompkins (Baltimore:
John Hopkins University Press, 1980), pp.ix-xxvi
• Torrance, T.F., Transformation and Convergence (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1984)
• Travis, S.H., ‘Form Criticism’, in New Testament Interpretation, 3rd edn., ed. by I.H.
Marshall (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1992), pp.153-164
• Tuckett, C., Reading the New Testament: Methods of Interpretation (London: SPCK,
1987)
• Turner, M., ‘Modern Linguistics and the New Testament’, in Hearing the New
Testament: Strategies for Interpretation, ed. by J.B. Green (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1995), pp.146-195
• Turner, M., ‘Historical Criticism and Theological Hermeneutics of the New Testament’,
in Between Two Horizons, ed. by J.B. Green and M. Turner (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 2000), pp.44-70
• Vanhoozer, K.J., ‘The Reader in New Testament Interpretation’, in Hearing the New
Testament: Strategies for Interpretation, ed. by J.B. Green (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1995), pp.301-328
• Vanhoozer, K.J., Is There a Meaning in this Text?: The Bible, the Reader and the
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• Viviano, P., ‘Source Criticism’, in To Each Its Own Meaning: An Introduction to Biblical
Criticisms and their Application, 2nd edn., ed. by S. McKenzie and S. Haynes
(Louisville: WJKP, 1999), pp.29-51
• Wall, R., ‘Reading the New Testament in Canonical Context’, in Hearing the New
Testament, ed. by J.B. Green (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), pp.370-393
• Wall, R., ‘Canonical Context and Canonical Conversations’, in Between Two Horizons,
ed. by J.B. Green and M. Turner (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000), pp.165-182
• Watson, F., Text, Church and World: Biblical Interpretation in Theological Perspective
(Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1994)
• Watson, F., ‘The Authority of the Voice: A Theological Reading of 1 Corinthians 11:216’, New Testament Studies 46 (2000), pp.520-536
• Wenham, D., ‘Source Criticism’, in New Testament Interpretation, 3rd edn., ed. by I.H.
Marshall (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1992), pp.139-152
• Wenham, G., ‘The Place of Biblical Criticism in Theological Study’, Themelios 14:3
(1989), pp.84-89
• Witherington, B.W., Conflict and Community in Corinth: A Socio-Rhetorical
Commentary on 1 and 2 Corinthians (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995)
• Wolde, E. van, Words Become Flesh: Semantic Studies of Genesis 1-11 (Leiden: Brill,
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• Wright, N.T., The New Testament and the People of God (London: SPCK, 1992)
• Wright, N.T., The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is (Downers
Grove: IVP, 1999)
• Yates, J., ‘How does God Speak to Us Today?: Biblical Anthropology and the Witness
of the Holy Spirit’, Churchman 107:2 (1993), pp.102-129
OTC125 Key Episodes in the History of World Christianity
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Bettenson, H., and C. Maunder (eds.), Documents of the Christian Church, 3rd edn.
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
Noll, M., Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity (Grand Rapids:
Baker, 2000)
Norris, F., Christianity: A Short Global History (Oxford: Oneworld, 2002)
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Anderson, A., and W.J. Hollenweger, Pentecostals After a Century: Global
Perspectives on a Movement in Transition (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press,
1999)
Bainton, R.H., Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (New York: Abingdon, 1950)
Bainton, R.H., Erasmus of Christendom (New York: Scribner’s, 1969)
Bainton, R.H., and P. Hughes, Hunted Heretic: The Life and Death of Michael
Servetus, 1511-1553 (Providence, RI.: Blackstone, 2005)
Barnes, T.D., Athanasius and Constantius: Theology and Politics in the Constantinian
Empire (Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2001)
Barth. K., Gespräche 1964-1968, ed. by E. Busch (Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 1997)
Bennett, D.J., Nine O’Clock in the Morning (London: Coverdale, 1970)
Berry, R.J., God’s Book of Works: The Nature and Theology of Nature (London: T&T
Clark, 2002)
Bossy, J., Christianity in the West, 1400-1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985)
Brakke, D., Athanasius and Asceticism (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press,
1998)
Brown, P.R.L., The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, AD200-1000
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1997)
Butterfield, H., Christianity and History (London: Collins, 1957)
Chadwick, H., and G.R. Evans (eds.), Atlas of the Christian Church (Oxford: Phaidon,
1990)
Clarke, P., West Africa and Christianity (London: Edward Arnold, 1986)
Coffey, J., Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689 (London:
Longman, 2000)
Collinson, P., ‘The Late Medieval Church and its Reformation (1400-1600)’, in The
Oxford illustrated History of Christianity, ed. by J. McManners (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1990), pp.233-266
Comby, J., and D. MacCulloch, How to Read Church History, 2 vols. (London: SCM,
1985)
Cox, H., Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of
Religion in the Twenty-First Century (London: Cassell, 1996)
Cusack, C., The Rise of Christianity in Northern Europe, 300-1000, Cassell Religious
Studies (London: Cassell, 1998)
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Daneel, M., ‘African Initiated Churches in Southern Africa: Protest Movements or
Mission Churches?’, in Christianity Reborn: The Global Expansion of
Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century, ed. by D. Lewis (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 2004), pp.181-218
Dowley, T., (ed.), The History of Christianity (Oxford: Lion 1990)
Duffy, E., The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England,1400-1580 (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1992)
Dussell, E., The Church in Latin America, 1492-1992 (Tunbridge Wells: Burns & Oates,
1992)
Edwards, D.L., Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years (London: Cassell, 1997)
Elliott-Binns, L.E., The Early Evangelicals : A Religious and Social Study, Library of
Ecclesiastical History (Cambridge: James Clarke, 2002)
Elm, S., Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Clarendon,
1996)
Evans, E., The Welsh Revival of 1904 (Bridgend: Evangelical Press of Wales, 1972)
Fletcher, R., The Conversion of Europe: From Paganism to Christianity, 371-1386AD
(London: HarperCollins, 1997)
Fletcher, R., The Cross and The Crescent (London: Penguin, 2004)
Freston, P., ‘Contours of Latin American Pentecostalism’ in Christianity Reborn: The
Global Expansion of Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century, ed. by D. Lewis
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004), pp.221-270
Frykenberg, R., ‘Gospel, Globalization and Hindutva: The Politics of “Conversion” in
India’, in Christianity Reborn: The Global Expansion of Evangelicalism in the
Twentieth Century, ed. by D. Lewis (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004), pp.108-132
Gillman, I., and H.-J. Klimkeit, Christians in Asia before 1500 (Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1999)
González, J.L., The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation, The Story of
Christianity, vol. 1 (London: Harper & Row, 1984)
González, Justo L, The Reformation to the Present Day, The Story of Christianity, vol.
2 (London: Harper & Row, 1984)
Grant, M., The Emperor Constantine (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993)
Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Saint Macrina, trans. with introduction and notes by K.
Corrigan (Toronto: Peregrina, 1997)
Gruchy, J.W. de, The Church Struggle in South Africa (London: Collins, 1986)
Gruchy, J.W. de, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Witness to Jesus Christ (London: Collins, 1988)
Hampson, N., The Enlightenment: An Evaluation of its Assumptions, Attitudes and
Values (London: Penguin, 1990)
Harries, R., and H. Mayr-Harting (eds.), Christianity: Two Thousand Years (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2001)
Hartley, L.P., The Go-Between (London: Penguin, 2004)
Hastings, A., (ed.), A World History of Christianity (London: Cassell, 1999)
Haynes, S.R., ‘Who Needs Enemies? Jews and Judaism in Anti-Nazi Religious
Discourse’, Church History 71 (2) 2002, pp.341-367
Holtschneider, K., ‘Christians, Jews and the Holocaust’, in Religion in History, ed. by J.
Wolffe (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005), pp.217-248
Jenkins, P., The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (New York:
Oxford University Press USA, 2002)
Kalu, O., (ed.), The History of Christianity in West Africa (Harlow: Longman, 1982)
Lewis, D., (ed.), Christianity Reborn: The Global Expansion of Evangelicalism in the
Twentieth Century (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004)
Lindberg, C., The European Reformations Sourcebook (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)
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Littell, F.H., The Crucifixion of the Jews (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1986)
Logan, D., A History of the Church in the Middle Ages (London: Routledge, 2002)
Luther, M., Luther's Works (St. Louis: Concordia, 1955)
Luther, M., On the Jews and Their Lies, trans. M.H. Bertram, in Luther’s Works Vol. 47,
The Christian in Society, IV, ed. by F. Sherman and H.T. Lehmann (Philadelphia:
Fortress, 1971)
McCulloch, D., ‘The Reformation 1500-1650’, in Christianity: Two Thousand Years, ed.
by R. Harries and H. Mayr-Harting (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001),
pp.132-161
McGrath, A.E., The Future of Christianity (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002)
McIntire, C.T., (ed.), God, History and Historians: Modern Christian Views of History
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977)
McManners, J., (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1990)
Mann, V., and T. Glick (eds.), Convivencia: Jews, Muslims and Christians in Medieval
Spain (New York: George Braziller, 1992)
Mayr-Harting, H., The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd edn.
(London: Batsford, 1991)
Meyendorff, J., Byzantine Theology, 2nd edn. (New York: Fordham University Press,
1987)
Moffett, S.H., A History of Christianity in Asia (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1998)
Noll, M., The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (Leicester: IVP, 1994)
Perry, M., and F. Schweitzer (eds.), Jewish-Christian Encounters Over the Centuries:
Symbiosis, Prejudice, Holocaust, Dialogue (New York: Peter Lang, 1994)
Phillips, J., The Fourth Crusade And The Sack Of Constantinople (London: Penguin,
2005)
Rack, H., Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism (London:
Epworth, 2002)
Rapp, C., ‘“For Next to God, You are My Salvation”: Reflections on the Rise of the Holy
Man in Late Antiquity’, in The Cult of the Saints in Late Antiquity and the Early
Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown, ed. by J. HowardJohnston and P. Hayward (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp.63-81
Rittner, C., (ed.), The Courage to Care: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust (New
York: New York University Press, 1986)
Rittner, C., S. Smith and I. Steinfeldt (eds.), The Holocaust and the Christian World:
Reflections on the Past, Challenges for the Future (London: Kuperard, 2000)
Ryrie, A., The Origins of the Scottish Reformation (Manchester: Manchester University
Press, 2006)
Sommerville, C.J., The Secularization of Early Modern England: From Religious
Culture to Religious Faith (New York: Oxford University Press USA, 1992)
Southern, R., Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1970)
Stark, F., Rome on the Euphrates: The Story of a Frontier (London: Murray, 1966)
Steigmann-Gall, R., The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Stewart, J., Nestorian Missionary Enterprise (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1928)
Thomas, J., From Lausanne to Manila: Evangelical Social Thought: Models of Mission
and the Social Relevance of the Gospel (Delhi: ISPCK, 2003)
Voorst, R.E. van, Readings in Christianity, 2nd edn. (Belmont: Wadsworth, 2001)
Ware, T., The Orthodox Church (London: Penguin, 1993)
Wells, R., History and the Christian Historian (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999)
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Williams, R., Arius: Heresy and Tradition (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001)
Williams, R., Silence and Honey Cakes: The Wisdom of the Desert (London: Lion
Hudson, 2003)
Wilson, D., Armageddon Now!: The Premillenarian Response to Russia and Israel
Since 1917 (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1977)
Wolffe, J., Religion in History: Conflict, Conversion, and Coexistence (Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 2004)
OTC126 Christian Engagement with the Modern World
Textbooks:
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Atkinson, D.J., and D.H. Field (eds.), New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral
Theology (Leicester: IVP, 1995)
Stott, J., New Issues Facing Christians Today, 4th edn. (London: Marshall Pickering,
2006)
Other works:
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Aitken, J., Pride and Perjury (London: Continuum, 2003)
Aune, K., Single Women: Challenge to the Church? (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2002)
Beaudoin, T., Virtual Faith: The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X (New York:
Jossey-Bass, 1998)
Bebbington, D.W., Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the
1980s (London: Unwin Hyman, 1989)
Beckford, R., Jesus is Dread: Black Theology and Black Culture in Britain (London:
Darton Longman & Todd, 1998)
Beckford, R., Dread and Pentecostal: A Political Theology for the Black Church in
Britain (London: SPCK, 2000)
Bird, M., Exploring Your Vocation: Stop Working and Start Living Milton Keynes:
Authentic, 2002)
Bird, M., Culture Changers (Eastbourne: Kingsway, 2003)
 Boff, L., and C. Boff, Introducing Liberation Theology (Tunbridge Wells: Burns &
Oates, 1987)
Bruce, S., Religion in Modern Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)
Bryant, C., (ed.), Reclaiming the Ground: Christianity and Socialism (London: Hodder &
Stoughton, 1993)
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales: Committee for the World of Work,
A Spirituality of Work (London: Catholic Media Trust, 2001)
Church of England, Mission Shaped Church (London: Church House, 2004)
Church of England, Staying in the City: Faith in the City 10 Years On (London: Church
House, 1994)
Dale, G., God’s Politicians: The Christian Contribution to 100 years of Labour (London:
HarperCollins, 2001)
Davie, G., Religion in Modern Europe: A Memory Mutates (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2000)
Dow, G., A Christian Understanding of Daily Work (Cambridge: Grove Books, 1994)
Drane, J., Evangelism for a New Age: Creating Churches for the Next Century
(London: HarperCollins, 1994)
Drane, J., The McDonaldization of the Church (London: Darton Longman & Todd,
2000)
Fergusson, S.B., (ed.), New Dictionary of Theology (Leicester: IVP, 1988)
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Finney, J., Emerging Evangelism (London: Darton Longman & Todd, 2004)
Greene, M., Thank God it's Monday: Ministry in the Workplace (Milton Keynes:
Scripture Union, 2001)
Higginson, R., Questions of Business Life: Exploring Workplace Issues from a Christian
Perspective (Milton Keynes: Authentic, 2002)
Hilborn, D., (ed.), Movement for Change: Evangelical Perspectives on Social
Transformation (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2004)
Johnson, P., and C. Sugden (eds.), Markets, Fair Trade and the Kingdom of God:
Essays to Celebrate Traidcraft’s 21st Birthday (Oxford: Regnum, 2001)
Lewis, C.S., The Four Loves (London: Geoffrey Bless, 1960)
Lynch, G., After Religion: Generation X and the Search for Meaning (London: Darton
Longman & Todd, 2002)
Mahedy, W., and J. Bernardi, Generation Alone: Xers Making a Place in the World
(Downers Grove: IVP, 1994)
McCloughry, R., (ed.), Belief in Politics: People, Policies and Personal Faith (London:
Hodder & Stoughton, 1996)
McGrath, A.E., The Re-Enchantment of Nature: Science, Religion and the Human
Sense of Wonder (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003)
Moltmann, J., God for a Secular Society: The Public Relevance of Theology (London:
SCM, 1999)
Murray, S., Post-Christendom: Church and Mission in a Strange New World (Carlisle:
Paternoster, 2004)
Nazir-Ali, M., Shapes of the Church to Come (Eastbourne: Kingsway, 2001)
Niebuhr, R., Christ and Culture (London: HarperCollins, 1956)
Oliver, D., and J. Thwaites, Church that Works, 2nd edn. (Milton Keynes: Authentic,
2003)
Schumacher, C., God in Work (Oxford: Lion, 1998)
Shepphard, D., Bias to the Poor (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1984)
Sine,T., Wild Hope (Dallas: Word, 1991)
Stott, J., The Contemporary Christian: An Urgent Plea for Double Listening (Leicester:
IVP, 1992)
Sunderland, C., In a Glass Darkly: Seeking Vision for Public Life (Carlisle: Paternoster,
2001)
Temple, W., Christianity and the Social Order (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1984)
Thwaites, J., Church Beyond the Congregation: The Strategic Role of the Church in the
Postmodern Era (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1999)
Tiplady, R., World of Difference: Global Mission at the Pic’n’mix Counter (Carlisle:
Paternoster, 2003)
Tiplady, R., (ed), Postmission: World Mission by a Postmodern Generation (Carlisle:
Paternoster, 2002)
Tomlin, G., The Provocative Church, 2nd edn. (London: SPCK, 2004)
Valerio, R., L is for Lifestyle: Christian Living that Doesn't Cost the Earth (Leicester:
IVP, 2004)
Various, The Life@Work Book (Dallas: Word, 2000)
Ward, P., Liquid Church (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2002)
Wilmore, G.S., and J.H. Cone (eds.), Black Theology: A Documentary History, 19661979 (New York: Orbis, 1993)
Wright, D.F., (ed.), Essays in Evangelical Social Ethics (Exeter: Paternoster, 1979)
Wright, N.T., The New Testament and the People of God (London: SPCK, 1993)
Yoder, J.H., The Politics of Jesus, 2nd edn. (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1994)
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To be confirmed.
OTC130 Old Testament 2: The Prophets
Textbook:
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McConville, G., Exploring the Old Testament, volume 4: The Prophets (London: SPCK,
2002)
Other works:
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Allen, L.C., Ezekiel 1-19, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, 1994)
Allen, L.C. Ezekiel 20-48, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, 1990)
Auld, A.G., Amos, Old Testament Guides (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1986)
Baker, D.W., Nahum, Habakkuk and Zephaniah, Tyndale Old Testament Commentary
(Leicester: IVP, 1988)
Baker, D.W., T.D. Alexander and B.K. Waltke, Obadiah, Jonah and Micah (Leicester:
IVP, 1988)
Baldwin, J.G., Daniel, Tyndale Old Testament Commentary (Leicester: IVP, 1978)
Baldwin, J.G., Haggai Zechariah and Malachi, Tyndale Old Testament Commentary
(Leicester: IVP, 1972)
Barton, J., Isaiah 1-39, Old Testament Guides (Sheffield: Sheffield: Sheffield Academic
Press, 1995)
Barton, J., Joel and Obadiah, Old Testament Library (Louisville: WJKP, 2001)
Barton, J., and J. Muddiman (eds.), The Oxford Bible Commentary (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2001)
Block, D.I., The Book of Ezekiel: Chapters 1-24, NICOT (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
1997)
Block, D.I., The Book of Ezekiel: Chapters 25-48, NICOT (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
1998)
Brueggemann, W., Theology of the Old Testament (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1997)
Carroll, R.P., Jeremiah, Old Testament Library (London: SCM, 1986)
Carroll, R.P., Jeremiah, Old Testament Guides (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press,
1989)
Coggins, R.J., Joel and Amos, New Century Bible Commentary (Sheffield: Sheffield
Academic Press, 2000)
Craigie, P.C., P.H. Kelley and J.F. Drinkard, Jr., Jeremiah 1-25, Word Biblical
Commentary (Dallas: Word, 1991)
Davies, G.I., Hosea, Old Testament Guides (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press,
1998)
Eaton, J., Mysterious Messengers (London: SCM, 1997)
Emmerson, G., Isaiah 56-66, Old Testament Guides (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic
Press, 1992)
Goldingay, J., The Message of Isaiah 40-55: A Literary-Theological Commentary
(Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2005)
Goldingay, J., Daniel, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, 1989)
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Goldingay, J., Isaiah, New International Biblical Commentary (Peabody: Hendrickson,
2001)
Goldingay, J., Old Testament Prophecy Today (Cambridge: Grove, 2003)
Hubbard, D.A., Joel and Amos: An Introduction and Commentary, Tyndale Old
Testament Commentary (Leicester: IVP, 1990)
Keown, G.L., P.J. Scalise and T.G. Smothers, Jeremiah, 26-52:27, Word Biblical
Commentary (Dallas: Word, 1995)
Limburg, J., Jonah, Old Testament Library (London: SCM, 1993)
Lucas, E., Daniel, Apollos Old Testament Commentary (Leicester: Apollos, 2002)
Lucas, E., Decoding Daniel: Reclaiming the Visions of Daniel 7-11 (Cambridge: Grove,
2000)
Mason, R., Micah, Nahum and Obadiah, Old Testament Guides (Sheffield: Sheffield
Academic Press, 1991)
Mason, R., Zephaniah, Habakkuk and Joel, Old Testament Guides (Sheffield: Sheffield
Academic Press, 1994)
Mayes, J.L., Amos, Old Testament Library (London: SCM, 1969)
McKeating, H., Ezekiel, Old Testament Guides (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press,
1993)
McNutt, P., Reconstructing the Society of Ancient Israel, Library of Ancient Israel
(Louisville: WJKP, 1999)
Motyer, J.A., Isaiah, Tyndale Old Testament Commentary (Leicester: IVP, 1999)
Motyer, J.A.,The Prophecy of Isaiah (Leicester: IVP, 1993)
Nissinen, M., C.L. Seow and R.K. Ritner, Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near
East, SBL Writings from the Ancient World (Atlanta: SBL, 2003)
O’Brien, J.M., Nahum, Readings: A New Biblical Commentary (Sheffield: Sheffield
Academic Press, 2002)
Peterson, D.L., Haggai and Zechariah 1-8, Old Testament Library (London: SCM,
1984)
Peterson, D.L., Zechariah 9-14 and Malachi, Old Testament Library (London: SCM,
1995)
Prevost, J.P., How to Read the Prophets (London: SCM, 1996)
Rowley, H.H., The Relevance of Apocalyptic (London: Lutterworth, 1946)
Russell, D.S., Apocalyptic: Ancient and Modern (London: SCM, 1978)
Russell, D.S., From Early Judaism to Early Church (London: SCM, 1986)
Russell, D.S., The Method and Message of Jewish Apocalyptic (London: SCM, 1964)
Seow, C.L., Daniel, Westminster Bible Companion (Louisville: WJKP, 2003)
Southwell, P., Prophecy (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982)
Stuart, D., ‘Jonah’, in New Bible Commentary: 21st Century Edition, ed. by D.A.
Carson, R.T. France and J.A. Motyer (Leicester: IVP, 1994)
Taylor, J.B., Ezekiel, Tyndale Old Testament Commentary (Leicester: IVP, 1969)
Thorogood, B., A Guide to the Book of Amos (London: SPCK, 1971)
Tucker, G.M., ‘The Role of the Prophets and the Role of the Church’, in Prophecy in
Israel, ed. by David L Peterson (London: SPCK, 1987)
Vermes, G., The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English: Complete Edition, 6th edn.
(London: Penguin, 2004)
Waltke, B.K., A Commentary on Micah (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007)
Watts, J.W.D., Isaiah 1-33 Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, 1985)
Watts, J.W.D., Isaiah 34-66 Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, 1987)
Westermann, C., Isaiah 40-66, Old Testament Library (Louisville: Presbyterian, 2005)
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Westermann, C., Lamentations: Issues and Interpretation (Edinburgh: T&T Clark,
1994)
Whybray, R.N., The Second Isaiah, Old Testament Guides (Sheffield: Sheffield
Academic Press, 1983)
Mays, J.L., Micah, Old Testament Library (London: SCM, 1976)
OTC132 An Introduction to Islam
Textbooks:
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Rippin, A., Muslims, Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, 2nd edn. (London:
Routledge, 2003)
One of:
 Ali, A.Y. (trans.), The Holy Qur’an (Ware: Wordsworth, 2000)
 Arberry, A. (trans.), The Koran (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 1998)
Other works:
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Ahmed, L., Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)
Ahsan, M.M., Muslim Festivals (Hove: Wayland, 1985)
Al Hibri, A., Women and Islam (Oxford: Pergamon, 1982)
Armstrong, K., Islam: A Short History (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2001)
Bakhtiar, L., Ramadan: Motivating Believers to Action; An interfaith perspective
(Chicago: Kazi, 1994)
Bishop, P., Words in World Religions (London: SCM, 1974)
Brown, D., A New Introduction to Islam (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003)
Cragg, K., Jesus and the Muslim, 2nd edn. (Oxford: Oneworld, 1999)
Cragg, K., Muhammed and the Christian: A Question of Response (New York: Orbis,
1996)
D’Costa, G., Theology and Religious Pluralism: The Challenge of Other Religions
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1986)
Esposito, J., Islam: The Straight Path (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
Esposito, J., The Oxford History of Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
Gabriel, T., Lakshadweep: History, Religion and Society (New Delhi: Books & Books,
1989)
Gleave, R., and E. Kermeli (eds.), Islamic Law: Theory and Practice (London: IB
Tauris, 1997)
Gulen, M.F., Key Concepts in the Practice of Sufism (Fairfax: Fountain, 1999)
Halm, H., Shia Islam: From Religion to Revolution (New York: Marcus Weiner, 1996)
Kung, H., Christianity and World Religions (London: SCM, 1993)
Momen, M., An Introduction to Shi’I Islam: The History and Doctrines of Twelver
Shi’ism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987)
Muhammed Ali, M., A Manual of Hadith (London: Curzon, 1995)
Mumisa, M., Islamic Law: Theory and Interpretation (Beltsville: Amana, 2002)
Parrinder, G., Jesus in the Qur’an, new edn. (Oxford: Oneworld, 1999)
Peters, F.E., The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2004)
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Qaradawi, Y., Fiqh Az Zakat: A Comparative Study of the Philosophy and Rulings of
Zakah According to the Quran and Sunnah (Herndon: International Institute of
Islamic Thought, 1999)
Robinson, N., Discovering the Qur’an (London: SCM, 2003)
Robinson, N., The Sayings of Muhammed (London: Duckworth, 1991)
Robinson, N., Christ in Islam and Christianity (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1991)
Ruthven, M., Islam: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
Saqib, M.A.K., A Guide to Prayer in Islam (London: Ta Ha, 1996)
Schimmel, A., Mystical Dimensions of Islam (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1975)
Shariati, A., Hajj: Reflections on its Rituals (Chicago: Abjad Book Designers & Builders,
1992)
Shobhani, J., and R. Shah-Kazemi, Doctrines of Shi’I Islam: A Compendium of Imami
Beliefs and Practices (London: IB Tauris, 2001)
Swarup, R., Understanding the Hadith: The Sacred Traditions of Islam (Amherst:
Prometheus, 2002)
Van-Gorder, A.C., No God But God: A Path to Muslim-Christian Dialogue on God’s
Nature (New York: Orbis, 2003)
Von Grunebaum, G.E., Muhammadan Festivals (London: Curzon, 1976)
Watt, W.M., Muhammed: Prophet and Statesman (New York: Oxford University Press
USA, 1974)
Watt, W.M., and R. Bell, Introduction to the Qur’an, 2nd edn. (Edinbughr: Edinburgh
University Press, 1995)
OTC133 An Introduction to Judaism
Textbook:
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Cohn-Sherbok, D., Judaism: History, Beliefs and Practices (London: Routledge, 2003)
Other works:
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Adelsberger, L., Auschwitz: A Doctor's Story, trans. by S. Ray (London: Robson Books,
1998)
Adler, R., Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics (Boston: Beacon,
1999)
Bayfield, T., and M. Braybrooke (eds.), Dialogue with a Difference: The Manor House
Group Experience (London: SCM, 1992)
Berger, D., (ed.), History and Hate: The Dimensions of Anti-Semitism (Philadelphia:
Jewish Publication Society, 1995)
Berkovits, E., Faith After the Holocaust (New Jersey: Ktav, 1973)
Bernstein, S.T., The Seamstress, A Memoir of Survival (London: Putnam, 1997)
Biale, R., Women and Jewish Law (New York: Schocken, 1995)
Biale, R., Women and Judaism (New York: Schocken, 1984)
Birger, T., and J.M. Green, A Daughter’s Gift of Love: A Holocaust Memoir
(Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1992)
Bitton-Jackson, L., I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust (New
York: Simon & Schuster, 1999)
Bland, K.P., The Artless Jew: Medieval and Modern Affirmations and Denials of the
Visual (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000)
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Blumenthal, D., Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest (Louisville: WJKP,
1993)
Borowitz, E., Exploring Jewish Ethics: Papers on Covenant Responsibility (Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, 1990)
Boteach, S., Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy (London: Duckworth,
1999)
Braiterman, Z., (God) After Auschwitz: Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish
Thought (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998)
Bruchfeld, S., and P.A. Levine, Tell Ye Your Children: A Book About the Holocaust
(Stockholm: Levande Historia, 1998)
Chester, M.A., Divine Pathos and Human Being: The Theology of Abraham Joshua
Heschel (London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2005)
Cohen, A., and P. Mendes-Flohr (eds.), Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought (New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1987)
Cohen, A., The Tremendum: A Theological Interpretation of the Holocaust (New York:
Continuum, 1993)
Cohen, J., Following the Synagogue Service: Guide to the Weekday and Sabbath
Services (London: Gnesia, 1997)
Cohn-Sherbok, D., Dictionary of Judaism and Christianity (London: SPCK, 1991)
Cohn-Sherbok, D., Jewish Mysticism, An Anthology (Oxford: Oneworld, 1995)
Cohn-Sherbok, D., Modern Judaism (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996)
Cohn-Sherbok, D., God and the Holocaust (Leominster: Gracewing, 1996)
Cohn-Sherbok, D., Anti-Semitism (Stroud: Sutton, 2002)
Cohn-Sherbok, D., Holocaust Theology: A Reader (Exeter: Exeter University Press,
2002)
Cohn-Sherbock, D., and D.S. El-Alami, The Palestine-Israeli Conflict: A Beginner’s
Guide (Oxford: Oneworld, 2002)
Delbo, C., Auschwitz and After, trans. by R.C. Lamont (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1995)
Dershowitz, A., The Case for Israel (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2003)
Dorff, E.N., and L.E. Newman (eds.), Contemporary Jewish Ethics and Morality: A
Reader (New York: Oxford University Press USA, 1995)
Dorff, E.N., and L.E. Newman, Contemporary Jewish Theology: A Reader (New York:
Oxford University Press USA, 1999)
Edelheit, H., History of Zionism: A Handbook and Dictionary (Boulder: Westview, 2000)
Eliach, Y., There Once Was a World: A 900 Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
(Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998)
Evan, C., and P. Copan (eds.), Who Was Jesus? A Jewish-Christian Dialogue
(Louisville: WJKP, 2001)
Fackenheim, E., God’s Presence in History: Jewish Affirmations and Philosophical
Reflections (New York: Harper & Row, 1972)
Fackenheim, E., To Mend the World: Foundations of Future Jewish Thought, new
edition (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994)
Feldman, D., The Right and the Good: Halakhah and Human Relations (New York:
Jason Aaronson, 1999)
Frankl, V.E., Man’s Search of Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy, new edition
(London: Ebury, 2004)
Friedländer, S., Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997)
Fry, H.P., Jewish-Christian Dialogue: A Reader (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1996)
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Goldin, H.E., The Jewish Woman and Her Home (New York: Hebrew Publishing Co.,
1978)
Goldstein, D., Judaism (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1997)
Green, A., (ed.), Jewish Spirituality from the Sixteenth-Century Revival to the Present
(London: SCM, 1989)
Green, A., Seek My Face, Speak My Name: A Contemporary Jewish Theology (New
York: Jason Aronson, 1992)
Heschel, A.J., The Sabbath (New York: Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1975)
Hilberg, R., The Destruction of the European Jews, 3 volumes, 3rd edn. (New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2002)
Hillesum, E., An Interrupted Life: Diaries 1941-43 and Letters from Westerbork (New
York: Henry Holt, 1996)
Isherwood, L., (ed.), The Good News of the Body: Feminist Explorations in the
Religious Construction of Female Sexuality (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press,
2001)
Jacobs, L., A Jewish Theology (New York: Behrman House, 1973)
Johnson, P., A History of the Jews, new edn. (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001)
Kalechofsky, R., Judaism and Animal Rights: Classical and Contemporary Responses
(Marblehead: Micah, 1992)
Kampf, A., Chagall to Kitaj: Jewish Experience in Twentieth-Century Art (London:
Lund-Humphries/Barbican Art Gallery, 1990)
Katz, S., (ed.), Interpreters of Judaism in the Late Twentieth Century (Washington:
B’nai B’rith Book Service, 1993)
Katz, S., Post-Holocaust Dialogues: Critical Studies in Modern Jewish Thought (New
York: New York University Press, 1983)
Kluger, R., Landscapes of Memory: A Holocaust Childhood Remembered (London:
Bloomsbury, 2003)
Kochan, L., Beyond the Graven Image: A Jewish View (New York: New York University
Press, 1998)
Krell, M.A., Intersecting Pathways: Modern Jewish Theologians in Conversation with
Christianity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
Kunin, S.D., (ed.), Themes and Issues in Judaism (London: Cassell, 2000)
Lamm, M., The Jewish Way in Love and Marriage (New York: Jonathan David, 1991)
Landau, R., The Nazi Holocaust (London: IB Tauris, 1992)
Lange, N. de, Judaism, 2nd edn. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)
Laytner, A., Arguing With God: A Jewish Tradition (New York: Jason Aronson, 1998)
Levi, P., Survival in Auschwitz, trans. by Stuart Woolf (New York: Collier Macmillan,
1961)
Levi, P., If This is a Man and The Truce (London: Abacus, 1989)
Lewittes, M., Jewish Law: An Introduction (London: Kuperard, 1995)
Lodahl, M.E., Shekhinah/Spirit: Divine Presence in Jewish and Christian Religion
(Mahwah: Paulist, 1992)
Maybaum, I., The Face of God After Auschwitz (Amsterdam: Polak and Van Gennep,
1965)
Meyer, M.A., (ed.), Ideas of Jewish History (Detroit: Wayne State University Press,
1988)
Meyer, M.A., Judaism Within Modernity: Essays on Jewish History and Religion
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001)
Michaels, A., Fugitive Pieces (London: Bloomsbury, 1998)
Nash, H., Helen Nash’s Kosher Kitchen (London: Random House, 1988)
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Neuberger, J., On Being Jewish (London: Mandarin, 1996)
Neusner, J., and A.J. Avery Peck (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Judaism (Oxford:
Blackwell, 2000)
Neusner, J., and A.J. Avery Peck (eds.), The Blackwell Reader in Judaism (Oxford:
Blackwell, 2000)
Neusner, J., A Rabbi Talks with Jesus (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press,
2000)
Novak, D., Jewish Social Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992)
Ofer, D., and L.J. Weitzman (eds.), Women in the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1998)
Plaskow, J., Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective (San
Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1990)
Potok, C., My Name is Asher Lev (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973)
Potok, C., The Chosen (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970)
Potok, C., The Promise (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971)
Raphael, M., The Female Face of God in Auschwitz: A Jewish Feminist Theology of
the Holocaust (London: Routledge, 2003)
Richmond, T., Konin: A Quest (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996)
Rosner, F., Biomedical Ethics and Jewish Law (New Jersey: Ktav, 2001)
Rothschild, S., and S. Sheridan (eds.), Taking Up the Timbrel: The Challenge of
Creating Ritual for Jewish Women Today (London: SCM, 2000)
Rubenstein, R.L., After Auschwitz: Radical Theology and Contemporary Judaism, 2nd
edn. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1992)
Ruttenberg, D., (ed.), Yentl’s Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism (Seattle:
Seal, 2001)
Schindler, P., Hasidic Responses to the Holocaust in the Light of Hasidic Thought
(New Jersey: Ktav, 1990)
Scholem, G., Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (London: Thames & Hudson, 1955)
Schwartz, H., Elijah's Violin and Other Jewish Folktales (Harmondsworth: Penguin,
1983)
Schwartz-Bart, A., The Last of the Just, trans. by S. Becker (London: Secker &
Warburg, 1962)
Shapiro, M., The Rebbe’s Daughter: Memoir of a Hasidic Childhood (Philadelphia:
Jewish Publication Society, 2002)
Shokeid, M., A Gay Synagogue in New York (New York: Columbia University Press,
2003)
Sicker, M., Between Man and God: Issues in Judaic Thought (Westport: Greenwood,
2001)
Steinsalz, A., The Miracle of the Seventh Day: A Guide to the Spiritual Meaning,
Significance and Weekly Practice of the Jewish Sabbath (San Francisco: JosseyBass, 2003)
Tec, N., Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2003)
Tedeschi, G., There Is a Place on Earth: A Woman in Birkenau, trans. by T. Parks
(London: Minerva, 1994)
Umansky, E., and D. Ashton (eds.), Four Centuries of Jewish Women’s Spirituality: A
Sourcebook (Boston: Beacon, 1992)
Vermes, G., Jesus the Jew: A Historian’s Reading of the Gospels (London: SCM,
2001)
Waskow, A., Down-To-Earth Judaism: Food, Money, Sex, and the Rest of Life (New
Jersey: William Morrow, 1995)
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Werblowsky, R.J.Z., et al. (eds.), The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (New
York: Oxford University Press USA, 1997)
Wiesel, E., Night, trans. by S. Rodway (New York: Avon, 1960)
Wyschogrod, M., The Body of Faith: Judaism as Corporeal Election (New York:
Seabury, 1983)
Yaffe, M.D., Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader (Lanham: Lexington, 2001)
Yerushalmi, Y.H., Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory (Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 1996)
Young, J., Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narratives and the Consequences of
Interpretation (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988)
OTC134 Making Sense of Christian Experience
Textbook:
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Foster, R., Streams of Living Water: Celebrating the Great Traditions of the Christian
Faith (Trowbridge: Eagle, 1999)
Other works:
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Alfeyev, H., The Mystery of Faith (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 2002)
Anderson, N., Freedom in Christ (Ventura: Regal, 1995)
Arnold, C., Spiritual Warfare: What Does the Bible Really Teach? (London: Marshall
Pickering, 1999)
Astley, J., How Faith Grows: Faith Development and Christian Education (London:
Church House Publishing, 1991)
Astley, J., and L. Francis (eds.), Christian Perspectives on Faith Development
(Leominster: Gracewing, 1992)
Ballard, P., and J. Pritchard, Practical Theology in Action (London: SPCK, 1996)
Bennett, Z., and C. Rowland, ‘Contextual And Advocacy Readings Of The Bible’, in
The Bible In Pastoral Practice, ed. by P. Ballard and S.R. Holmes (London:
Darton, Longman & Todd, 2005), pp.174-191
Best, T.F., and D. Heller, Worship: Understanding Practice, Ecumenical Implications
(Geneva: World Council of Churches, 2004)
Bons-Storm, R., The Incredible Woman (Nashville: Abingdon, 1996)
Campbell, A., Rediscovering Pastoral Care (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1981)
Clément, O., The Roots of Christian Mysticism: Texts from the Patristic Era with
Commentary, trans. by T. Berkeley (London, New City, 2002)
Daly, M., Beyond God the Father (Boston: Beacon, 1973)
Dayton, D., The Theological Roots of Pentecostalism (Peabody: Hendrickson, 1990)
Deere, J., Surprised by the Power of the Spirit (Eastbourne, Kingsway, 1993)
Evans, C.S., The Historical Christ and The Jesus of Faith (Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 1996)
Schüssler Fiorenza, E., In Memory of Her, 2nd edn. (London: SCM, 1995)
Foster, R., and J.B. Smith, Devotional Classics: Selected Readings for Individuals and
Groups (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993)
Fowler, J.W., Weaving the New Creation: Stages of Faith and the Public Church (New
York, HarperCollins, 1991)
Gellman, J., Mystical Experience of God: A Philosophical Enquiry (Aldershot: Ashgate,
2001)
Gilligan, C., In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development
(Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1982))
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Goldman, R., Religious Thinking from Childhood to Adolescence (London: Routledge
and Kegan Paul, 1964)
Grieg, G., and K. Springer, The Kingdom and the Power (Ventura: Regal, 1993)
Gumbel, N., Questions of Life (Eastbourne: Kingsway, 2002)
Gunton, C., The Actuality of Atonement (London: T&T Clark, 2003)
Hay, D., Exploring Inner Space: Scientists and Religious Experience, revised edn.
(London: Mowbray, 1987)
Hay, D., and R. Nye, The Spirituality of the Child (London: HarperCollins, 1998)
Katz, S., Mysticism and Religious Traditions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983)
Hick, J., More than One Way? Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World (Grand
Rapids: Zondervan, 1995)
Hull, J.M., What Prevents Christian Adults from Learning? (London: SCM, 1985)
Hunt, S., The Alpha Enterprise (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)
Jamieson, A., A Churchless Faith: Faith Journeys Beyond the Churches (London:
SPCK, 2002)
Kohlberg, L., The Philosophy of Moral Development (San Francisco: Harper and Row,
1986)
Ladd, G.E., The Presence of the Future (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996)
Leech, K., Soul Friend: Spiritual Direction in the Modern World (London: Darton,
Longman & Todd, 1994)
Leeuwen, M. van, Gender and Grace (Leicester: IVP, 1990)
Lossky, V., The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (Crestwood: St. Vladmir's
Seminary Press, 1976)
Lynch, G., Losing My Religion? Moving on from Evangelical Faith (London: Darton,
Longman & Todd, 2003)
McLeod Campbell, J., The Nature of the Atonement, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996)
McGrath, A.E., Christian Spirituality (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)
McGrath, A.E., The Science of God (London: T&T Clark, 2004)
Moody, J., Authentic Spirituality (Eastbourne: Kingsway, 2000)
Murray, V., Education into Religion (London: Wisebet and Co., 1957)
Mursell, G., The Story of Christian Spirituality (Oxford: Lion, 2001)
Newell, P., Listening for the Heartbeat of God (London: SPCK, 1997)
Otto, R., The Idea of the Holy, 2nd edn., trans. J. Harvey (London: Oxford University
Press, 1950)
Pattison, S., and J. Woodward (eds.), The Blackwell Reader In Pastoral And Practical
Theology (Malden MA: Blackwell, 2000)
Peel, D., Reforming Theology (London: The United Reformed Church, 2002)
Percy, M., Words, Wonders and Power: Understanding Contemporary Christian
Fundamentalism and Revivalism (London: SPCK, 1996)
Piper, J., and W. Grudem (eds.), Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
(Wheaton: Crossway, 1991)
Plantinga, A., Warranted Christian Belief (New York: Oxford University Press USA,
2000)
Radford Ruether, R., Sexism and God-Talk (London: SCM, 1983)
Ross, A., Evangelicals in Exile: Wrestling with Theology and the Unconscious (London:
Darton, Longman &Todd, 1997)
Shanks, N., Iona: God's Energy (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999)
Silvoso, E., That None Should Perish (Ventura: Regal, 1994)
Slee, N., Women's Faith Development (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)
Tidball, D., Who Are the Evangelicals? (London: Marshall Pickering, 1994)
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Tidball, D., Skilful Shepherds: Explorations in Pastoral Theology (Leicester: Apollos,
2003)
Tiessen, T., Providence and Prayer (Downers Grove: IVP, 2000)
Tomlinson, D., The Post-Evangelical (London: Triangle, 1995)
Torrance, J., Worship, Community and the Triune God of Grace (Downers Grove: IVP,
1996)
Tozer, A.W., The Pursuit of God (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2004)
Wagner, C.P., Strategies for Church Growth (Ventura: Regal, 1989)
Wagner, C.P., Territorial Spirits (Chichester: Sovereign World, 1991)
Wagner, C.P., and P. Deiros, The Rising Revival (Ventura: Renew, 1998)
Ware, K., The Orthodox Way, revised edn. (Crestwood: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press,
1995)
White, J., The Masks of Melancholy: A Christian Physician Looks at Depression and
Suicide (Downers Grove: IVP, 1982)
Wood, W.J., Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually Virtuous (Leicester: Apollos, 1998)
Yong, A., Discerning the Spirit(s): A Pentecostal-Charismatic Contribution to Christian
Theology of Religions (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000)
OTC135 Christian Faith and the Environment
Textbooks:
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Dyke, F. van, D.C. Mahan, J.K. Sheldon and R.H. Brand, Redeeming Creation
(Downers Grove: IVP, 1996)
Gnanakan, K., God’s World (London: SPCK, 1999)
In addition:
 Carling, R., (ed.), ‘A Christian Approach to the Environment’, Transformation: An
International Dialogue on Mission and Ethics 16:3 (1999) [Supplied by OTC]
 Bouma-Prediger, S., For the Beauty of the Earth (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2001)
[Used for optional reading and activities]
 Northcott, M., The Environment and Christian Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996) [Used for optional reading and activities]
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Atkinson, D., The Message of Genesis 1-11 (Leicester: IVP, 1990)
Bauckham, R., God and the Crisis of Freedom (Edinburgh: John Knox Press, 2002)
Bauckham, R., ‘Joining Creation’s Praise of God’, Ecotheology 7:1 (2002), pp.45-59
Berry, R.J., (ed.), The Care of Creation (Leicester: IVP, 2000)
Berry, R.J., (ed.), God’s Book of Works: The Nature and Theology of Nature (London:
T&T Clark, 2003)
Berry, R.J., (ed.), Environmental Stewardship: A Critical Primer (London: T&T Clark,
2005)
Borowski, O., Daily Life in Biblical Times (Atlanta: SBL, 2003)
Bradley, I., The Celtic Way (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1993)
Brandt, D., (ed.), God’s Stewards (Monrovia: World Vision, 2002)
Brueggemann, W., The Land: Place as Gift, Promise and Challenge in Biblical Faith
(Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977)
Campolo, T., How to Rescue the Earth (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1992)
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Carson, R., Silent Spring (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962)
Chalke, S., I Believe… in Taking Action (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996)
Clark, S., How to Think about the Earth (London: Mowbray, 1994)
Cooper, T., Green Christianity (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990)
Cooper, T., Sustaining the Earth (Nottingham: St John’s College, 1997)
Devall, Bill & Sessions, George (1985) Deep Ecology, Salt Lake City: G. Smith.
Dyke, F. van, D. Mahan, J. Sheldon and R. Brand, Redeeming Creation (Downers
Grove: IVP, 1996)
Eaton, J., The Circle of Creation (London: SCM, 1995)
Echlin, E., Earth Spirituality: Jesus at the Centre (New Alresford: Arthur James, 1999)
Echlin, E., The Cosmic Circle (Dublin: Columba, 2004)
Elsdon, R., Greenhouse Theology (Tunbridge Wells: Monarch, 1992)
Gebara, I., Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation (Minneapolis:
Augsburg Fortress, 1999)
Gnanakan, K., God’s World (London: SPCK, 1999)
Goudzwaard, B. Idols of Our Time (Downers Grove: IVP, 1984)
Green, J., Poverty and the Environment, Public Policy Paper (London: Tearfund, 1999)
Gunton, C.E., The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of
Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
Harris, P., Under the Bright Wings (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993)
Hessel, D., and R. Radford Ruether (eds.), Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Wellbeing of Earth and Humans (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 2000)
Hiebert, T., ‘Re-imagining Nature’, Interpretation 50:1 (1996), pp.36-46
Innes, K., Caring for the Earth (Cambridge: Grove, 1991)
Jones, J., Jesus and the Earth (London: SPCK, 2003)
Lawrence, D., Heaven… It’s Not the End of the World (London: Scripture Union, 1995)
Leopold, A., Sand County Almanac (New York: Oxford University Press USA, 2001
[1949])
LeQuire, S., (ed.), The Best Preaching on Earth (Valley Forge: Judson, 1996)
Linzey, A., Animal Gospel (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1998)
Linzey, A., and D. Yamamoto, Animals on the Agenda (London: SCM, 1998)
Marshall, P., and L. Gilbert, Heaven is not my Home: Learning to Live in God’s
Creation (Nashville: Word, 1998)
Moltmann, J., God in Creation (London: SCM, 1986)
Osborn, L., Guardians of Creation: Nature in Theology and the Christian Life
(Leicester: IVP, 1993)
Palmer, M., Living Christianity (London: Element Books, 1993)
Park, C., Caring for Creation (London: Marshall Pickering, 1991)
Park, C., Sacred Worlds: An Introduction to Geography and Religion (London:
Routledge, 1994)
Peskett, H., and V. Ramachandra, The Message of Mission (Leicester: IVP, 2003)
Prance, G., The Earth Under Threat – A Christian Perspective (Glasgow: Wild Goose,
1996)
Radford Ruether, R., Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing (San
Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992)
Ray, J., The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creation (London: William
Innys, 1691)
Regenstein, L., Replenish the Earth (London: SCM, 1991)
Russell, C., Cross-currents: Interactions between Science and Faith (London: Christian
Impact, 1985)
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Russell, C., The Earth, Humanity and God (London: UCL Press, 1994)
Santmire, P., The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian
Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1985)
Santmire, P., Nature Reborn: The Ecological and Cosmic Promise of Christian
Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2000)
Sargent, T., Animal Rights and Wrongs (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996)
Schaeffer, F., Pollution and the Death of Man (Wheaton: Crossway, 1970)
Stephenson, B., and S. Power-Bratton, ‘Martin Luther’s Understanding of Sin’s Impact
on Nature and the Unlanding of the Jews’, Ecotheology 9 (2000), pp.84-102
Stott, J., The Birds our Teachers (Ipswich: Candle, 1999)
Waddell, H., and E. de Waal, Beasts and Saints (London: Darton, Longman & Todd,
1995)
Wenham, G., Genesis 1-15, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, 1987)
Wenham, G., ‘Sanctuary Symbolism in the Garden of Eden Story’, in Ancient Near
Eastern Literary and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1-11, ed. by R. Hess and
D. Tsumura (Winona: Eisenbrauns, 1994), pp.399-404
Wenham, G., Story as Torah (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2000)
Wilkinson, D., The Message of Creation (Leicester: IVP, 2002)
Wolters, A., Creation Regained (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1996)
Wood, B., Our World, God’s World (Oxford: Bible Reading Fellowship, 1986)
Wright, C., Living as the People of God: The Relevance of Old Testament Ethics
(Downers Grove: IVP, 1984)
Wright, C., Old Testament Ethics for the People of God (Leicester: IVP, 2004)
Wright, N.T., New Heavens, New Earth (Cambridge: Grove, 1999)
OTC199 Theology: Reflection and Practice
Textbooks:
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Green, L., Let’s Do Theology (London: Continuum, 2001)
Marsh, C., Christianity in a Post-Atheist Age (London: SCM, 2002)
Bell, J., Doing Your Research Project (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1999)
Other works:
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Armstrong, K., Through the Narrow Gate: A Nun’s Story (London: HarperCollins, 1981)
Astley, J., Ordinary Theology (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002)
Brookfield, S.D., Developing Critical Thinkers (Milton Keynes: Open University Press,
1987)
Deeks, D.G.. et al., Doing Theology (Letchworth: Garden City, 1972)
Drane, J., The McDonaldization of the Church (London: Dartman, Longman and Todd,
2000)
Fraser, I.M., Reinventing Theology as the People’s Work (London: USPG, no date)
Grenz, S.J., and R.E. Olson, Who Needs Theology? An Invitation to the Study of God
(Downers Grove: IVP, 1996)
Hull, J.M., In the Beginning There Was Darkness (London: SCM, 2001)
Jasper, M., Beginning Reflective Practice (Cheltenham: Nelson Thornes, 2003)
Jones, P.O., Bed of Nails (Oxford: Lion, 1996)
Parratt, J., A Guide to Doing Theology (London: SPCK, 1996)
Richter, P., et al., God’s Here and Now (London: Dartman, Longman & Todd, 1999)
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Roberts, S., and D. Muir, The Distance Learner (Nottingham: St John’s Extension
Studies, 1994)
Stone, H.W., and J.O. Duke, How to Think Theologically (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996)
Thielicke, H., A Little Exercise for Young Theologians, trans. by C.L. Taylor (Grand
Rapids: Paternoster, 1962)
West, M., G. Nobel and A. Todd, Living Theology (London: Dartman, Longman & Todd,
1999)
Wilkinson, D., (ed.), The Researcher’s Toolkit (London: Routledge Falmer, 2000)
The Open Theological College, University of Gloucestershire
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