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God put a thought into my mind: the charismatic Christian experience of receiving communications from God (2015)
Journal Article
Dein, S., & Cook, C. (2015). God put a thought into my mind: the charismatic Christian experience of receiving communications from God. Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 18(2), 97-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2014.1002761

The agentive aspects of communicative religious experiences remain somewhat neglected in the social sciences literature. There is a need for phenomenological descriptions of these experiences and the ways in which they differ from culturally defined... Read More about God put a thought into my mind: the charismatic Christian experience of receiving communications from God.

Tobit (2015)
Book Chapter
Stuckenbruck, L., & Weeks, S. (2015). Tobit. In J. K. Aitken (Ed.), The T & T Clark companion to the Septuagint (237-260). Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Theophilus of Alexandria and the First Origenist Controversy: Rhetoric and Power (2015)
Book
Banev, K. (2015). Theophilus of Alexandria and the First Origenist Controversy: Rhetoric and Power. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198727545.001.0001

In the age of the Theodosian dynasty and the establishment of Christianity as the only legitimate religion of the Roman Empire, few figures are more pivotal in the power politics of the Christian church than archbishop Theophilus of Alexandria (385-4... Read More about Theophilus of Alexandria and the First Origenist Controversy: Rhetoric and Power.

Responsible, Critical Assent (2015)
Book Chapter
Kilby, K. (2015). Responsible, Critical Assent. In A. Carroll, M. Kerkwijk, M. Kirwan, & J. Sweeney (Eds.), Towards a Kenotic Vision of Authority in the Catholic Church. Council for Research and Values in Philosophy

Religion and the Cultures of Higher Education: Student Christianity in the UK (2015)
Book Chapter
Guest, M. (2015). Religion and the Cultures of Higher Education: Student Christianity in the UK. In L. Beaman, & L. Van Arragon (Eds.), Issues in religion and education : whose religion? (346-366). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004289819_017

This chapter is about the relationship between higher education and the religious identities of university students. Unlike some other essays in this volume, its primary concern is not with how religion is managed as a curricula topic within classroo... Read More about Religion and the Cultures of Higher Education: Student Christianity in the UK.

Evangelicalism and Politics (2015)
Book Chapter
Guest, M. (2015). Evangelicalism and Politics. In G. Smith (Ed.), 21st century evangelicals : reflections on research by the evangelical alliance (82-99). Instant Apostle

Political Theology and Comedy: Žižek through Rose Tinted Glasses (2015)
Journal Article
Pound, M. (2015). Political Theology and Comedy: Žižek through Rose Tinted Glasses. Crisis and critique, 2(1), 171-191

This paper defends the centrality of comedy as paradigmatic of political theology by reading the project of Slavoj Žižek through the lens of the late British philosopher Gillian Rose. I begin by exploring Rose’s recovery of Hegel as means to make goo... Read More about Political Theology and Comedy: Žižek through Rose Tinted Glasses.

Theology After Lacan (2015)
Book
Davis, C., Pound, M., & Crockett, C. (Eds.). (2015). Theology After Lacan. Wipf and Stock

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s protagonist in Notes from Underground nicely identifies the central thesis of this book, namely, that theology in the wake of Lacanian psychoanalysis is devoid of the “the big Other,” i.e., a guarantee that a system of belief is f... Read More about Theology After Lacan.

The Fourfold Gospel in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian (2015)
Journal Article
Crawford, M. R. (2015). The Fourfold Gospel in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian. Hugoye (Washington, D.C.), 18.1, 9-51

Ephrem of Nisibis is unique among patristic authors for having authored a commentary on Tatian’s gospel commonly known as the “Diatessaron.” In this article I examine Ephrem’s corpus to determine what evidence exists for his knowledge and use of gosp... Read More about The Fourfold Gospel in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian.

Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice (2015)
Journal Article
Cook, C. C. (2015). Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice. BJPsych Advances, 21(1), 42-50. https://doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.114.013276

Spirituality and religion have assumed importance in psychiatric practice in recent years because of both a growing evidence base and the desire of patients that such matters should be better addressed as an aspect of their care. However, there has b... Read More about Religion and Spirituality in Clinical Practice.

Blueprint Ecclesiology and the Lived: Normativity as Perilous Faithfulness (2015)
Journal Article
Ward, P. (2015). Blueprint Ecclesiology and the Lived: Normativity as Perilous Faithfulness. Ecclesial Practices, 2(1), 74-90. https://doi.org/10.1163/22144471-00201008

Normativity in Ecclesiology has tended to be based on a particular understanding of theology as blueprint. In the Ecclesiology and Ethnography Conversation there has been some dispute around how theological normativity should operate. This paper argu... Read More about Blueprint Ecclesiology and the Lived: Normativity as Perilous Faithfulness.