Here are some excellent new theology books * that will be released in July 2025 :
* broadly interpreted, including ethics, church history, biblical studies, and other areas that intersect with theology
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Greg McKinzie
(Cascade Books)
Many theological interpreters of Scripture have claimed that church practices produce well-formed readers. But which practices? Greg McKinzie argues that missional hermeneutics challenges the church to include participation in God’s mission among the indispensable components of readerly formation. After a quarter century of contemporary reflection on missional theology, however, the meaning of participation in God’s mission remains vague. In order to explain why it is a critical hermeneutical experience, therefore, McKinzie sets out to develop a theological account of missional participation that incorporates the concepts of theosis, embodied narrativity, and solidarity. Then, in conversation with the hermeneutical phenomenology of Paul Ricoeur, the study suggests how theologically recontextualizing a model of the movement from embodied commitments to textual interpretation in terms of participation in God’s mission illuminates the epistemic reconstitution of the church’s theological interpretation of Scripture. Understanding participation in God’s mission as theological interpretation’s proper locus theologicus should reorient the notion of readerly formation because the formation of missional readers is the process in which God opens the reading community’s embodied eyes of faith through the works of faith seeking understanding.
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Sonya Shetty Cronin
( Fortress Press )
The Repentance of YHWH is not an attempt to recover the historical Jesus by looking through Mark’s textual window, even if the things the real Jesus said and did could have inspired such a gospel. Nor is it a book on Christian origins, mining Mark for information about what the earliest followers of Jesus believed about Jesus, even though it inadvertently does make claims about such. Repentanceis not an exercise to prove early high Christology, though it does make that claim as well, all while giving a richer profile about how Mark imagines Jesus as YHWH’s messiah.
The Repentance of YHWHis not a book about Mark’s narrative architecture, though it does throw light on how Mark goes about telling his story as well as the underlying story that informs his Gospel. It does not simply examine the way that Mark uses the Old Testament (Greek and Hebrew) through citation (explicit footnote to a specific text), allusion (implicit nod to a specific text), or echo (implicit nod to a passage). Repentance tracks the way Mark mixes multiple stories simultaneously and constantly. Repentance has taken its cues from Mark–showing rather than telling, highlighting the currents of movement, and demonstrating how Mark melds old with new to open up a new world. In the end, Repentance exposes the narrative fusion throughout Mark’s Gospel to reveal that, for Mark at least, the story of Jesus and his followers is really, still, the story of YHWH and YHWH’s Israel.
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