SST 2022
Society for the Study of Theology 2022 Conference
Warwick University ⁄ Coventry, UK
MONDAY 28 – THURSDAY 31 MARCH
The Society for the Study of Theology holds an annual conference every spring, this year at Warwick University. Both members and non-members attend to discuss an important theme in theological studies. Attendees include prominent academic theologians, church ministers from different denominations, research students, and others with a postgraduate-level interest in theology.
25% off all selected titles below until Friday 1 April.
Finding Jesus in the Storm
The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges
Drawing from theological reflection on the lives of 30 Christians with severe mental health challenges, leading disability theologian John Swinton contends that mental health problems require theological understanding and not just medical...
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Postcolonial Politics and Theology
Unraveling Empire for a Global World
Postcolonial Politics and Theology seeks to reform and reimagine the field of political theology-uprooting it from the colonial soil-using the comparative lenses of postcolonial politics and theology to bring attention to the realities of the Global...
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Beguiled by Beauty
Cultivating a Life of Contemplation and Compassion
Spiritual practices awaken and attune us to the beauty both of the created order and of human relationships. Farley helps readers discover being made for both kinds of beauty, with contemplative disciplines immersing us in it. Tying these...
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£24.00
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Ghost Ship
Institutional Racism and the Church of England
The Church is very good at saying all the right things about racial equality. But the reality is that the institution has utterly failed to back up these good intentions with demonstrable efforts to reform
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Pilgrims and Priests
Christian Mission in a Post-Christian Society
What does "missional" mean for small Christian communities in a deeply secular society? How can Christians keep their missionary drive when very few people are interested in the faith, and when the impact of the church on its society is almost...
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£25.00
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First Expressions
Innovation and the Mission of God
Seeking insight from the real-life development of the earliest expressions of emerging church from their birth, through times of adolescent angst and into the reality of adulthood, 'First Expressions' offers a unique insight into the long-term...
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Words for a Dying World
Stories of Grief and Courage from the Global Church
Hannah Malcolm brings together voices from a multiplicity of different perspectives and backgrounds to reflect upon what a theology of climate grief looks like in their own context - from small island countries to inner-city suburbs, from refugees...
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The Dark Womb
Re-Conceiving Theology through Reproductive Loss
Offering a fresh, original, and creative approach to theology, Karen O'Donnell explores the complexity of the miscarrying body and its potential for theological revelation. She offers a re-conception of theologies of providence, prayer, hope, and...
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Feminist Trauma Theologies
Body, Scripture & Church in Critical Perspective
Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, Feminist Trauma Theologies explores the relationship between trauma and feminist theologies, highlighting methodological, theological, and practical similarities between the two.
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The Bible and Mental Health
Towards a Biblical Theology of Mental Health
This timely and important book integrates the highest levels of biblical scholarship with theological and pastoral concerns to consider how we use scripture when dealing with mental health issues.
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Ecclesiology for a Digital Church
Theological Reflections on a New Normal
What are the ecclesiological challenges and opportunities raised by technology? How have developments related to the COVID-19 global health crisis impacted churches, forcing a swift move to mediated and online worship? And how will this change...
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Jesus Christ, Learning Teacher
Where Theology and Pedagogy Meet
This book helps educators to treat their teacher identity as a theological resource, rather than an obstacle, and in so doing to discover new insights on Christ which can be of relevance to the wider church and its mission.
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How do I Look?
Theology in the Age of the Selfie
How might the long tradition of the Christian gaze, found in scripture, art, theology and philosophy speak into this selfie generation? This book offers an important pastoral and scholarly resource for anyone seeking to understand theologically one...
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This Assembly of Believers
The Gifts of Difference in the Church at Prayer
In 'This Assembly of Believers' Bryan Cones seeks to take seriously the pastoral context of a congregation, recognising the physical ability, gender and sexuality of those who make up the congregation.
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Being Interrupted
Reimagining the Church's Mission from the Outside, In
Beginning with a ‘Street Nativity Play’ that didn’t end as planned, and finishing with an open-ended conversation in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Being Interrupted locates an institutionally-anxious Church of...
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Missio Dei in a Digital Age
For the first time, this book explores the implications of digitality for Missio Dei in thought and practice. Bringing together theologians, missiologists, computer scientists and practitioners, the book considers a diverse range of topics from...
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Ancestral Feeling
Postcolonial Thoughts on Western Christian Heritage
The language of heritage permeates Scripture, encouraging Christians to approach church history like a family history. But the notion of ancestry also constrains the world’s Catholics and Protestants to trace their confessional descent from...
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Reconceptualising Disability for the Contemporary Church
Blending theory, anthropology, theology, pastoral concerns and the lived experience of people with disabilities, Reconceptualising Disability for the Contemporary Church offers an important and thoughtful challenge to the contemporary Church.
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For the Good of the Church
Unity, Theology and Women
Based on qualitative research from five focus groups, this book exposes the difficulties women face when they work in a church - sexism, unfulfilled vocation, and abuse of power and privilege, as well as the wide range of gifts and skills which...
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After Pestilence
An Interreligious Theology of the Poor
Theology, according to liberation theologians is only a second step. The first is praxis. A liberating praxis puts the poor and the marginalised at the centre. It is found in the collective response of global religious communities responding to...
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Queer and Indecent
An Introduction to the Theology of Marcella Althaus Reid
Offering a much needed introduction to a towering figure queer, feminist and liberation theologies, Queer and Indecent shows the development of Marcella Althaus-Reid’s core concepts - indigeneity, economic oppression, the body, indecency,...
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Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer
The Church and the Famine of Grace
In this honest, timely and provocative book, Jarel Robinson-Brown argues that there is deeper work to be done if the body of Christ is going to fully accept the bodies of those who are black and gay.
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Doing Theology in the New Normal
Global Perspectives
Responses to the recent pandemic have been driven by fear, with social distancing and locking down of communities and borders as the most effective tactics. Out of fear and strategies that separate and isolate, emerges what has been described as...
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Theologies and Practices of Inclusion
Insights From a Faith-based Relief, Development and Advocacy Organization
Inclusion has recently become a high priority issue within the development sector, brought to the fore by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development's commitment to leave no one behind. Practices within the remit of inclusion often focus on...
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Motherhood and Autism
An Embodied Theology of Motherhood and Disability
While autism is gaining increasing attention as an important subject of theological inquiry, the maternal experience of caring for a child with autism has had less attention. Traversing issues of gender, embodiment, disability and motherhood,...
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A Redemption Song
Illuminations on Black British Pastoral Theology and Culture
Drawing from real-life pastoral examples, socio-political analysis, and the theme of Eucharist as a means to human healing and restoration, A Redemption Song outlines and explores what a black British pastoral theology might look...
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An Interweaving Ecclesiology
The Church, Mission and Young People
What is church? What spaces does church occupy? Can ecclesial space exist beyond the boundaries of church? In An Interweaving Ecclesiology Mark Scanlan offers a fresh vision of Christian community as constructed for and by...
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Motherly
Reimagining the maternal body in feminist theology and contemporary art
How can contemporary art reimagine the body of the mother in relation to a feminist Christian conception of the divine? And, at the level of culture, what might be the implications of the maternal body imaged as ordinary, multiple, generative and...
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Reconciling Theology
Leading thinker on Anglicanism and ecumenism Paul Avis focuses on the perennial Christian issues of argument, debate, polemic and conflict, on the one hand, and dialogue, search for common ground, working for agreement and harmony, on the other....
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The Promise of Anglicanism
By looking at the Church through the lens of the biblical theme of promise, The Promise of Anglicanism seeks to offer neither lament for a tattered tradition nor facile hope for an expanding one. It considers the key phases of Anglican history, from...
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