Modern Believing - Recent editions

Recent editions

Vol 54:2 Apr 2013 - Editor: Adrian Thatcher

Editorial • Books reviewed • Books received

The Gospel and Myth: Steven Shakespeare
Panentheism: The Abiding Significance of Honest to God: Michael Brierley
John A. T. Robinson and Christology: Ann Loades
Worldly Holiness: Jane Shaw
The New Morality: Samuel Wells
Recasting the Mould? Or 'Was John Robinson a Prophet?': Natalie Watson

Vol 54:1 Jan 2013 - Editor: Adrian Thatcher

Editorial • Books reviewed • Books received • Index to Volume 53

: Part 1: The Theology of Women's Leadership
Authority, Followership and 'Humbition': Harriet Harris
Women Leaders in the New Testament: Loveday Alexander
Christian Women and Religious Authority in Third-Century North Africa: Charlotte Methuen
: Part 2: The Practice of Women's Leadership
Embodying Leadership: Reflections on the Synod Decision: Vanessa Herrick
A Female Imam?: Halima Krausen

Vol 53:4 Oct 2012 - Editor: Adrian Thatcher

Editorial • Books reviewed • Books received

The Value of Limited Loyalty: Christianity, the Nation, and Territorial Boundaries: Nigel Biggar
Patriotism, Nationhood and Neighbourhood: Stephen Backhouse
Being the Enemy Within: Re-asserting Black 'Otherness' as a Riposte to the Homogeneous Construct of Whiteness: Anthony G. Reddie
Patriotism Good - Nationalism Bad? The News from Scotland: Doug Gay

Vol 53:3 Jul 2012 - Editor: Adrian Thatcher

Editorial • Books reviewed

Sexuality Statement
John Hick - Champion of Liberal Religious Thought: Alan Race
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Theologian for Our Time: Richard Truss
Changing Perceptions of Churchmanship: Kelvin J. Randall
Hastings Rashdall's Doctrine of Atonement: Margaret J. Rayner
The Finger of God: Tim Belben
On Being Disabled: Michael N. Marsh

Vol 53:2 Apr 2012 - Editor: Adrian Thatcher

Editorial • Books reviewed

Bible and Film: Suffering and Special Effects: Gerard Loughlin
William Blake and King James Bible: Christopher Rowland
'Promising much, delivering little': Ministry Development Review and its secular critics: Justin Lewis-Anthony
Instead of the Anglican Covenant: Jonathan Clatworthy
The Death and Resurrection of the Bible in Church and Society: Ray Vincent
'Good as New' - A Different Approach to Translation: John Henson
O Books: an Invitation to Publish: John Hunt
Moving On: Averil Stedeford

Vol 53:1 Jan 2012 - Editor: Adrian Thatcher

Editorial • Books reviewed • Index to Volume 52

The Literal Sense of Scripture: A Hermeneutical Disaster: Adrian Thatcher
Contextual Bible Study: Characteristics and Challenges: Susannah Cornwall
The Bible and the Novel: Apocalyptic Reading: Alison Milbank
The New Atheism: Reflections of a Biblical Scholar: John Barton
'God's Ex-Wife: what price monotheism?': A 'discussion' with Prof. Francesca Stavrakopolou
The Control of Life and Death: Widening the Field: Averil Stedeford

Vol 52:4 Oct 2011 - Editor: Paul Badham

Editorial • Books reviewed

I am not a Problem: I am your Sister in Christ: Hilary Cotton
Jewish Folklore in Matthew's Infancy Stories: Gareth Lloyd Jones
Digital Privacy: A Squandered Gift: Eric Stoddart
Translatability and the Breath of Life. A Sermon for Pentecost: Simon J. Taylor
The Metaphysics of Energy: Peter F. Mills
After Life? The Elect are bound to be saved, but not necessarily (Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica): Tim Belben

Vol 52:3 Jul 2011 - Editor: Paul Badham

Editorial • Books reviewed

Recent Developments in the Anglican Communion, or Ecumenism Misapplied: Marilyn McCord Adams
What can we learn from the Cognitive Science of Religion?: John Nightingale
The Psalms: What can we do with the nasty bits?: Nick Jowett
Judaism and Euthanasia: Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Faith in the Free-market: A Cautionary Tale for Anglican Adults: Martyn Percy

Vol 52:2 Apr 2011 - Editor: Paul Badham

The Centenary of 'The Modern Churchman/Modern Believing'

Editorial • Books reviewed

Henry Major and the foundation of The Modern Churchman: Clive Pearson
Essays and Reviews: 150 years on: Mark D. Chapman
'Released from the thraldom of mere bibliolatry': Biblical Criticism in the Sermons of Bishop Colenso: Gerald Parsons
An Historical Argument for Belief in the Resurrection of Jesus: Paul Badham
The Phenomenology of the Near-Death Experience (NDE): An Encounter with Eternity - or Simply an Aberrant Brain-State?: Michael N. Marsh

Vol 52:1 Jan 2011 - Editor: Paul Badham

Shifting Paradigms: Theology and Economics in the 21st Century

Editorial • Books reviewed

Do we need a new economic paradigm?: Tim Leunig
A Theological Interpretation of the Financial Crisis: Philip Goodchild
The Financial Crisis: A Crisis for Liberalism?: Malcolm Brown
The Failure of Neo-Liberalism and the 'Despotism of Numbers': A Political and Theological Critique: Michael S. Northcott
Theology and Political Economy in the 21st Century: From Irrelevance to Ally in Progressive Change: John Atherton

Vol 51:4 Oct 2010 - Editor: Paul Badham

Modern Church

Editorial • Books reviewed

Modern Church's Response to the Proposed Covenant: Jonathan Clatworthy
The Episcopacy of all Believers: Marilyn McCord Adams
Once Again: 'Does Christology Rest on a Mistake?': Paul Trudinger
What's in a name? The Significance of John Ruskin for Anglia Ruskin University and its Chaplaincy: Ivor Moody
Religious Experience in Contemporary Turkey: Cafer Sadik Yaran

Vol 51:3 Jul 2010 - Guest editor: Alan Race

Edinburgh 1910 to 2010: a Century of Being Changed

Editorial • Books reviewed

Between Edinburgh 1910 and 2010: Changing Theological Views of Mission: Paul H. Cho
Matthew's Trumpet Blast (28.16-20): J. Leslie Houlden
Ecumenical Theology 1910-2010: Does it have a future?: Paul Avis
Interreligious Dialogue and Mission in Protestant Theology: S. Wesley Ariarajah
Mission and Dialogue in Contemporary Catholicism: John T. Pawlikowski, OSM
Feminist Theology as Theology of Religions: Helene Egnell

Vol 51:2 Apr 2010 - Editor: Paul Badham

Attitudes of Lay Anglicans to Current Controversies

Editorial • Books reviewed

How Homonegative is the Typical Anglican Congregation?: Mandy Robbins, Leslie Francis, Andrew Village and Laura Murray
A Lay Vote of Confidence: New research across five provinces indicates more agreement than division and little appetite for schism: Nicholas P. Henderson
Religious Experience among Contemporary Japanese University Students: Paul McQuillan and John O'Gorman
The Church and Modern Media: Colin McAlister
Quantum Creation? Cosmologists are coming up with some strange theories about the origin of the Universe: Tim Belben
Weighing the Gravity of Sin: A Response to Jeyan Anketell's Article 'Making sense of Atonement': Brenda Watson

Vol 51:1 Jan 2010 - Editor: Paul Badham

Liberal Theology in the Contemporary World

Editorial • Books reviewed

The Future of Liberal Theology - A Reflection from the Chair: John Saxbee
For What We have Received: Geoffrey Rowell
Liberalism in Science and in Christian Faith: Keith Ward
Liberating the Church for Today and Tomorrow: Brian Smith
Liberating Scripture: Holding on to Fundamentals without being Fundamentalist: Helen-Ann Hartley
Liberal Theology: To Bring Peace or a Sword: Jonathan Clatworthy
When the Word on the Street is RESIST: Peter Selby

Vol 50:4 Oct 2009 - Editor: Paul Badham

Religion in America today

Editorial • Books reviewed

Emotion, Experience and Enthusiasm: The Growing Divide in the U.S. Religion: Lynn Bridgers
The Funeral Celebrant's Tale: David Seddon
Assessing Chaplaincy's Contribution to the Care of Mental Disease on Campus: Ivor Moody
Hastings Rashdall's Theology of the Church: Margaret J. Rayner
Making sense of Atonement: Jeyan Anketell

Vol 50:3 Jul 2009 - Editor: Paul Badham

Why the Church needs Liberal Theology

Editorial • Books reviewed

Affirming Liberalism: Mark D Chapman
Teilhard de Chardin and Sir Alister Hardy: Marianne Rankin
In Honour of Darwin's 200th Birthday!: Jonathan Clatworthy
Reconciliation and Renewal in Anglican Life: Lorraine Cavanagh
Saving the Soul of Anglicanism: The Nature and Future of the Anglican Communion: Janet Wootton

Vol 50:2 Apr 2009 - Editor: Paul Badham

Widening Horizons

Editorial • Books reviewed

'In which the pure Word of God is preached and Sacraments be duly administered': The Ecclesiology of the Church of England in the context of the European Reformation: Charlotte Methuen
Saving the Soul of Anglicanism: Blessing or Curse; the African Experience: Musonda Trevor Selwyn Mwamba
Jews, Christians and Muslims in Leeds Formulate Principles for Peace in Israel/Palestine: David G Kibble, Neil Solden and Hassan Abassi
Flat Screens and Rood Screens: The Integration of Audio-Visual Technology into Traditional Worship: Andrew Cain, Angharad Parry Jones
Religious Experience in Tamilnadu, South India: Jonathan Robinson
'My Kingdom is Not of This World': Reflections on Archbishop Jensen's Jesus: Andrew Gleeson

Vol 50:1 Jan 2009 - Guest Editor: Johannes Hoff

German Theology in Contemporary Society

Editorial • Books reviewed

Science, Life and Religion: Theology at the University: Helmut Hoping
Christian Ethics in Germany - Tendencies and Future Perspectives: Hille Haker
Christendom and Culture - the Cultural Turn of Contemporary German Protestant Theology and its Criticism: Ulrich H. J. Körtner
The Politics of Revelation - New Challenges, Different Perspectives: Gregor Maria Hoff
Beyond Experience. The Contribution of System Theory in German Theology: Johann Ev. Hafner
'God in me, above me': A Reasonable Faith Grounded in the Consciousness of Self: Saskia Wendel

Vol 49:4 Oct 2008 - Editor: Paul Badham

Conference papers and Martyn Percy on Bishop Gene Robinson

Editorial • Books reviewed

The Religious Poetry of R. S. Thomas - Questions not Answers - a way forward for the Anglican Communion?: Barry Morgan
Unfit for Purpose - or, why a pan-Anglican Covenant at this time is a very bad idea!: Marilyn McCord Adams
Anglicanism: Blessing or Curse? The Irish Experience: Michael Jackson
Holding Together in the Eye of the Storm: Responding to Barney Hawkins and Ian Markham: Martyn Percy

Vol 49:3 Jul 2008 - Editor: Paul Badham

The Historic Anglican Recognition of 'Change and Alteration'

Editorial • Books reviewed

Reflections on the Craig-Flew Debate: Paul Badham
Applied Theology for the Retired Minister in Secular Employment (MSE): Dorrie Johnson
The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion: Barney Hawkins and Ian Markham
In a Divided World is there a Future for Sustainable Security?: Paul Rogers

Vol 49:2 Apr 2008 - Editor: Paul Badham

Pacifism and the Just War Traditions

Editorial • Books reviewed

Attitudes to Human Sexuality within the Methodist Church: David Booth
From Pacifism to Just War: Changing Attitudes in the Church of England 1930 to 1940: David Branford
Hearing the Truth in Love - A Response to 'Splitting Up': Lorraine Cavanagh
Splitting Up: Richard Crossland
The Ethics of Pacifism and Just War in an Age of Terrorist Violence: Tony Kempster
Reconciliation and Renewal within the Church: Paul Oestreicher
Has Secularism Emptied the World of Angels?: Howard Worsley

Vol 49:1 Jan 2008 - Editor: Paul Badham

A more permissive attitude

Editorial • Books reviewed

Restrictions on the Gospel: Some Illegitimate Concerns of 'Marginalised' Evangelicals: Eric Stoddart
Jesus, the Law and Moral Issues Today: Richard Bending
A Psychospiritual and Physical Argument for 'Fresh Expressions' of Worship: Paul Cudby
Mysticism, Experience and the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin: David Lewin
Radical Orthodoxy, Don Cupitt and Heidegger: David Wemyss
Religion in Britain and China: Similarities and Differences: Paul Badham
Review Essay on Rowan William's Tokens of Trust: Patrick Thomas

Vol 48:4 Oct 2007 - Editor: Paul Badham

Ministerial Challenges

Editorial • Books reviewed

Ordained but Disdained: Women's Work in the Church of England: David Voas
Clergy Career Patterns: Is Leaving or Cleaving Different for Men and Women?: Kelvin Randall
Seeking Fresh Expressions of Ministry: Neil Burgess
Forgiveness, Mercy and Judgement: James P. Danaher
Faith and Believing: Jonathan Clatworthy
Casting Off the Garment of Humility: A response to The Report of the Covenant Design Group: T. W. Bartel
John Webster, Confessing God (Review Essay): Peter Groves

Vol 48:3 Jul 2007 - Guest Editor: Ian S. Markham

Includes editorial and book reviews

No Best Choice: A Tale of Disability, Motherhood and Faith in the Age of Advanced Reproduction: Ellen Painter Dollar
Voices from the Margins: Using a Foundation Analysis of Power in Cases of Clergy Misconduct: Martha Klein-Larsen
A New Interpretation of Conscience: Where Care for the Self, Attention to the World, and Hearing God Intersect: Heidi Gehman
Engaging Difference: Exercise and Tips for Creating Experiential Learning Environments: Vanessa Avery-Wall
Seeing Outranks Believing: Some Buddhist Reflections of Faith and Belief: Jane Compson

Vol 48:2 Apr 2007 - Editor: Paul Badham

Includes editorial and book reviews

A Consultation Paper on the Covenant Proposal: Jonathan Clatworthy and Paul Bagshaw
The Contemporary Relevance of the Just War Tradition: Paul Badham
Human and Divine Love: James Danaher
Finding Space for the Sacred: Ivor Moody
Hastings Rashdall on Immortality: Margaret Rayner

Vol 48:1 Jan 2007 - Editor: Paul Badham

Includes editorial and book reviews

Understanding Homosexuality in the 21st Century: Alan Sheard and Gill Cooke
If the Church says 'No', does God say 'Yes!'? - Theological Reflection on Sexuality in a Consumer Culture: Elaine Graham
A Shameless Defence of a Liberal Church: Marilyn McCord Adams
Justice for Children Too: Adrian Thatcher
Jesus and Animals in Christian Apocryphal Literature: Andrew Linzey

Vol 47:4 Oct 2006 - Editor: Paul Badham

Includes editorial and book reviews

Friends and Enemies: Breaking Down the Dichotomies between Science and Religion: John Hedley Brooke
Finding Wonder, Seeking Wisdom: Reflections at the Boundary of Science and Religion: Celia E. Dean-Drummond
Similarities and Differences between Near Death Experiences and other forms of Religious Experience: Sheela James
The Threat of Dialogue: Neil Burgess
Knowing and 'Just Knowing': Rod Jenks

Vol 47:3 Jul 2006 - Editor: Paul Badham

Includes editorial and book reviews

Unwelcome and Welcome Truths - A Christian, Jewish and Muslim Declaration: Alan Race and others
Rethinking Postmodern Theology: Theo Hobson
Music as Spiritual Experience: June Boyce-Tillman
Telling God's Stories Again and Again - Reflection on Remembrance and Reconciliation: Oliver Schuegraf
Nakedness, Bodiliness and the New Creation: Michael P. Wilson
How to Flourish in the Third Age - A Virtue Ethical Approach: Richard Craig

Vol 47:2 Apr 2006 - Editor: Paul Badham

Includes editorial and book reviews

The Significance of Rowland Williams: Paul Badham
Some Issues in Human Sexuality: A Reliable Guide to the Debate on Homosexuality?: Timothy W. Bartel
Religious Orthodoxy as Popular Belief: Calling, Diversity and Dynamism in Reformed Protestant Religion in The Netherlands: Tony Watling
Religious Experience in Contemporary China: Xinzhong Yao
On Posthumans, Transhumanism and Cyborgs: Towards a Transhumanist-Christian Conversation: Heidi Campbell

Vol 47:1 Jan 2006 - Editor: Paul Badham

Modern Believing Today

Includes editorial and book reviews

The God Experience (Who Has It and Why?): Perspectives from Empirical Theology: Leslie J. Francis
Religion and Science: Old Enemies or New Friends?: Richard Harries
The Holocaust is a Christian Issue: Christology Revisited: Richard A. Cohen
The Rapid Growth of Protestant Christianity in Korea and the Emergence of Cultural Hybridity within it: Hyung Chull Jang
Honesty and Charity in the Church of England: David Taylor

Vol 46:4 Oct 2005 - Editor: Martyn Percy

Liberal Discipleship

Includes editorial and book reviews

To Conserve and Maintain the Church: Repealing the Thirty-Nine Articles: Lyn Ferraby
Excommunication in Contemporary Scotland: Eric Stoddart
Charles Handy: A Spirituality for the Marketplace: Anthony Woollard
Art as Healing Agent in Ministry to the Dying: G. W. Wilson
In the Mirror of the Eschaton? - Speech and the Fullness of Time in Soren Kierkegaard: David S. Wemyss
Popularised Atonement Theory in Children's Literature: Howard Worsley

Vol 46:3 Jul 2005 - Editor: Martyn Percy

Includes editorial and book reviews

How Edwardian Modernists Read the Canon: David Pym
Openness Theology Part Two - Dealing with the Shortcomings: Paul Cudby
The Professionalisation of Higher Education Chaplaincy: Simon Robinson and Nick Baker
Authority and Governance in the Roman Catholic Church: Kenneth Wilson
A Fearful Asymmetry in Contemporary Catholic Thought: Joe Carlisle and Andrew Teal
Geoffrey Fisher's Ghost - the 'Liberal Conspiracy' in the Church of England: Neil Burgess
Letter to the Editor: Simon Tebbutt

Vol 46:2 Apr 2005 - Editor: Martyn Percy

Includes editorial and book reviews

Shopping-shaped Church?: Neil Burgess
Openness Theology - a new Evangelical Approach to the Epicurean Paradox: Paul Cudby
The Improbable Bishop Ian Thomas Ramsey - Bishop of Durham 1966-1972: John S. Peart-Binns
'No Longer Believing'-or-'Believing Without Belonging': Kevin Ward
MCU Submission on the Assisted Dying Bill: Paul Badham
Letter to the Editor: Paul Ballard

Vol 46:1 Jan 2005 - Editor: Martyn Percy

Authority in Christian Faith

Includes editorial by Jonathan Clatworthy and book reviews

Authority without Infallibility: The Bible Today: John Rogerson
The Authority of the Church: Rowan Williams
The Experimental Grounds for Believing in God and a Future Life: Paul Badham
The Authority of University Chaplaincies: Jonathan Clatworthy
Podium: Worshipping the Son: John Earwaker
Letter to the Editor: John Bunyan

Vol 45:4 Oct 2004 - Editor: Martyn Percy

Includes editorial and book reviews

'Ambassadors in Bonds' and Other Ironies of Ripon Hall: Michael W. Brierley
By What Authority?: Anthony Harvey
Authority: Concept in Decline: Richard Newby
Authority and the Arts: Genista McIntosh
Dogma as Poetry: Graham Neville
Ecclesiological Fundamentalism: Theo Hobson
What You See Isn't Necessarily What You Get: Recent Writing on Theology and Film: Clive Marsh
Letter to the Editor: Keith Trivasse

Vol 45:3 Jul 2004 - Editor: Martyn Percy

Includes editorial and book reviews

What has Law got to Offer the Church?: Paul Bagshaw
Conflict and Division in the Anglican Communion: A Spiritual Crisis?: Lorraine Cavanagh
A Matter of Attitude: Homosexuality and Divisions in the Church: Alasdair Crockett and David Voas
The Anglican Tradition of Controversial Bishops: John Tomlinson
Lay Comments on Church and Ministry: Alan Wilkinson
Contra Ecclesiam: Resisting the Institution: John Hammersley
Podium - The Anglican Communion: Discipline, Communion and a Way Forward: Simon J. Taylor