Here are a some excellent theology* books that will be released this month:
* broadly interpreted, including ethics, church history, biblical studies, and other areas that intersect with theology
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[easyazon_link identifier=”1506423205″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]Altogether Lovely: A Thematic and Intertextual Reading of the Song of Songs[/easyazon_link]Havilah DharamrajFortress Press The frank eroticism of the Song of Songs has long seemed out of place in the Hebrew Bible. As a result, both Jewish and Christian interpreters have struggled to read it as an allegory of the relationship between God (as husband) and Israel or the church (as bride). Havilah Dharamraj approaches the Song with a clear vision of the gendering of power relationships in the ancient Near East and through an intertextual method centered not on production but on the reception of texts. She sets the Song’s lyrical portrayal of passion and intimacy alongside other canonical portrayals of love spurned, lust, rejection, and sexual violence from Hosea, Ezekiel, and Isaiah. The result is a richly nuanced exposition of the possibilities of intimacy and remorse in interhuman and divine-human relationship. The intertextual juxtaposition of contrasting texts produces a third text, an intracanonical conversation in which patriarchal control and violence are answered in a tender and generous mutuality. [easyazon_image align=”center” height=”500″ identifier=”1626982813″ locale=”US” src=”https://englewoodreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/51T5oSLx5OL.jpg” tag=”douloschristo-20″ width=”326″] [easyazon_link identifier=”1626982813″ locale=”US” tag=”douloschristo-20″]A Christology of Religions[/easyazon_link]Gerald O’Collins, SJOrbis Books In his latest book, Gerald O’Collins adopts the person and saving work of Christ as the master key for organizing themes commonly treated by theologies of religion. But he does so through the lens of Christology to examine important themes that these theologies typically ignore: the relevance of the theology of the cross for thinking about “the others”; the impact of Christ’s priesthood on all men and women of all places and times; the efficacy of prayer for “the others” inspired by love; and the nature of faith available for these “others.” This “Christology of religions,” O’Collins argues, can help break the current stalemate widely affecting the theology of religions, and breathe new life into thinking about religious “others.”
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