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I am pleased to announce that my new book, Paul Tillich in Plain English, is now available! You can get a copy at all the usual retailers. Amazon: https://amzn.to/486cPSX My website: https://www.sdmorrison.org/product/pa... It’s been five years since the last Plain English […]

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In Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire criticized what he called the “banking concept of education.” In this model, a teacher’s role is to “deposit” knowledge into passive students’ minds like a bank vault. Students are thus passive in their […]

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Book: The Theological Metaphors of Marx by Enrique Dussel; trans. Camilo Pérez-Bustillo. Publisher: Duke University Press, 2024. Overview: Dussel’s close reading of Marx reveals a religious critique of capital at the core of his philosophy, a critique that functions theologically to uncover capitalism’s […]

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Book: The Oxford Handbook of Friedrich Schleiermacher ed. by Andrew C. Dole, Shelli M. Poe, and Kevin M. Vander Schel Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2024 Overview: This volume offers a definitive and scholarly analysis of Schleiermacher’s multi-faceted contributions to theology, philosophy, […]

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Book: Who is a True Christian?: Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture by David W. Congdon Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Overview: Congdon wrestles with a vital question: What is the permanent essence of Christianity? First, he surveys the liberal quest, which […]

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Book: Beyond Justification: Liberating Paul’s Gospel by Douglas A. Campbell and Jon DePue Publisher: Cascade Books, 2024. Overview: This book challenges what the authors call “justification theory,” and it offers a textual solution that liberates Paul’s gospel from that theory.  Justification theory is […]

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Book: Beyond Immanence: The Theological Vision of Kierkegaard and Barth by Alan J. Torrance and Andrew B. Torrance Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2023 Overview: This book proposes and analyzes a Kierkegaard and Barth trajectory (KBT), which challenges immanence theologies that risk domesticating […]

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Book: Transfiguring a theologia crucis through James Cone (Dogmatik in der Moderne, 48) Publisher: Mohr Siebeck, 2023 Overview: Brach S. Jennings traces a theologia crucis from its origin in Martin Luther through its radicalization in Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Jürgen Moltmann, to culminate in […]

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Book: After Method: Queer Grace, Conceptual Design, and the Possibility of Theology by Hanna Reichel Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 2023 Overview: Hanna Reichel’s thought-provoking new book engages both systematic and constructive theology (represented by Karl Barth and Marcella Althaus-Reid) in an enlightening conversation […]

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Book: The Early Karl Barth: Historical Contexts and Intellectual Formation, 1905-1935 by Paul Silas Peterson Publisher: Mohr Siebeck, 2018 Overview: Peterson’s book is noteworthy for its efforts to locate Karl Barth within a definite historical and political context, and it excels as a resource […]

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