Professor Karen Kilby's Outputs (31)

Divine contradiction: fascinating but unpersuasive (2024)
Journal Article
Kilby, K. (online). Divine contradiction: fascinating but unpersuasive. Religious Studies, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412524000271

This article, offered from the point of view of a non-analytic, systematic theologian, admires the freshness, clarity, and simplicity of the proposal at the heart of Beall's Divine Contradiction, while raising three objections. The first is to the st... Read More about Divine contradiction: fascinating but unpersuasive.

Rahner on Original Sin: A Response to The Symposium (2024)
Journal Article
Kilby, K. (2024). Rahner on Original Sin: A Response to The Symposium. The Heythrop Journal, 65(5: Special Issue: THE THEOLOGY OF ORIGINAL SIN), 592 - 594. https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14355

Belief, Unbelief and Mystery (2023)
Book Chapter
Kilby, K. (2023). Belief, Unbelief and Mystery. In H. A. Harris, & V. S. Harrison (Eds.), Atheisms: The Philosophy of Non-Belief. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315142395

Suffering and Sin Revisited: A Conceptual Exploration (2022)
Book Chapter
Kilby, K. (2022). Suffering and Sin Revisited: A Conceptual Exploration. In J. Coblentz, & D. P. Horan (Eds.), The Human in a Dehumanizing World: Re-Examining Theological Anthropology and Its Implications. Orbis Books

Letter to a Young Theologian (2022)
Book Chapter
Kilby, K. (2022). Letter to a Young Theologian. In H. van der Westhuizen (Ed.), Letters to a Young Theologian. Fortress Press

Reply to Critics, a reply to six reviews of God, Evil and the Limits of Theology (2021)
Journal Article
Kilby, K. (2021). Reply to Critics, a reply to six reviews of God, Evil and the Limits of Theology. Political Theology, 22(5), 423-432. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317x.2021.1955577

God, Evil and the Limits of Theology (2020)
Book
Kilby, K. (2020). God, Evil and the Limits of Theology. Bloomsbury

What difference does grace make? An exploration of the concept of grace in the theological anthropology of Karl Rahner (2020)
Book Chapter
Ashley, M., & Kilby, K. (2020). What difference does grace make? An exploration of the concept of grace in the theological anthropology of Karl Rahner. In C. Deane-Drummond, & A. Fuentes (Eds.), Theology and Evolutionary Anthropology: Dialogues in Wisdom, Humility, and Grace. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429273650

It is typical of much theology in the Catholic tradition to frame an understanding of humanity, and of the human being’s relationship to both the world and God, with the help of categories of nature and grace. While in Protestant thought, grace is ch... Read More about What difference does grace make? An exploration of the concept of grace in the theological anthropology of Karl Rahner.

Paradox and Paul: Catholic and Protestant Theologies of Grace (2020)
Journal Article
Kilby, K. (2020). Paradox and Paul: Catholic and Protestant Theologies of Grace. International Journal of Systematic Theology, 22(1), 77-82. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12393

John Barclay offers a capacious and helpful framework for reflection on large swathes of the history of the theology of grace with his notion of the six ways of ‘perfecting the gift’. In this article, I extend his analysis to a consideration of certa... Read More about Paradox and Paul: Catholic and Protestant Theologies of Grace.

Suffering and the Christian Life (2019)
Book
Kilby, K., & Davies, R. (Eds.). (2019). Suffering and the Christian Life. Bloomsbury, T&T Clark

This volume approaches questions concerning the status and meaning of suffering in Christian life and Christian theology through the lens of a variety of theological disciplines – biblical, historical, practical, political and systematic theology. Sc... Read More about Suffering and the Christian Life.

The seductions of kenosis (2019)
Book Chapter
Kilby, K. (2019). The seductions of kenosis. In K. Kilby, & R. Davies (Eds.), Suffering and the Christian Life (163-174). T&T Clark. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567687265.0018

Negative Theology and Meaningless Suffering (2019)
Journal Article
Kilby, K. (2020). Negative Theology and Meaningless Suffering. Modern Theology, 36(1), 92-104. https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12577

This article attempts an exploration of the limits of our capacity to weave suffering into patterns of meaning. I try to show that something like an apophatic moment in our response to some kinds of suffering is both necessary and difficult to sustai... Read More about Negative Theology and Meaningless Suffering.

Eschatology, Suffering and the Limits of Theology. (2017)
Book Chapter
Kilby, K. (2017). Eschatology, Suffering and the Limits of Theology. In C. Chalame, A. ‎Dettwiler, ‎. Mazzocco, & G. ‎Waterlot (Eds.), Game Over? Reconsidering Eschatology (279-292). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110521412-018

Julian of Norwich, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the Status of Suffering in Christian Theology (2017)
Journal Article
Kilby, K. E. (2018). Julian of Norwich, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the Status of Suffering in Christian Theology. New Blackfriars, 99(1081), 298-311. https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12298

Philosophy (2016)
Book Chapter
Kilby, K. (2016). Philosophy. In P. McCosker, & D. Turner (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to TheSumma Theologiae. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cco9781139034159.006

Response to the Reviewers in Book Symposium on Karen Kilby's "Balthasar: a (very) critical introduction' (2015)
Journal Article
Kilby, K. (2015). Response to the Reviewers in Book Symposium on Karen Kilby's "Balthasar: a (very) critical introduction'

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

Too many trinities? Kendall Soulen's Trinitarian Trinitarianism (2015)
Journal Article
Kilby, K. (online). Too many trinities? Kendall Soulen's Trinitarian Trinitarianism

Seeking Clarity (2014)
Book Chapter
Kilby, K. (2014). Seeking Clarity. In M. Higton, & J. Fodor (Eds.), the Routledge Companion to the Practice of Christian Theology. Routledge

Trinity and Politics: An Apophatic Approach (2014)
Book Chapter
Kilby, K. (2014). Trinity and Politics: An Apophatic Approach. In O. Crisp, & F. Sanders (Eds.), Advancing Trinitarian Theology: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics. Zondervan