Shapers of Christian Orthodoxy: Engaging with Early and Medieval Theologians
This book is scheduled to be published by InterVarsity Press-UK (United Kingdom) in June 2010 (http://www.ivpbooks.com/). I am contributing to and editing this volume, . . .
which consists of eight chapters which look at some of the central theologians of the ancient and medieval eras. While writing my dissertation--doing lots of reading of Augustine--I found that I was learning to think theologically by "watching" Augustine think theologically. From this experience of learning how to think theologically by reading Augustine came the idea for the book--a book that would look at key ancient and medieval theologians, and that might help readers to learn how to think theologically by seeing how key theologians think and theologize. I edited the volume and contributed the chapter on Augustine. Other contributors are Brian Shelton, Bryan Litfin, Gerald Bray, Carl Beckwith, Robert Letham, David Hogg and Mark Elliott. It is due out on June, and now shows up on Amazon.
"The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life"
The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life is my attempt to wrestle through the issues of the relationship between the Christian faith and the intellectual life. It is centered in an observation and a question. The observation: wherever the cross is planted the academy follows. The question: why?
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Colin Gunton and the Failure of Augustine: The Theology of Colin Gunton in Light of Augustine
This monograph is essentially my dissertation, and will be published by Wipf and Stock in 2010. I look forward to working with the folks at Wipf and Stock. I am thankful for the time spent reading and studying both Gunton and Augustine. One spends years working through issues unearthed in doctoral work. My mentor, A.J. Conyers once commented that years after having studied a thinker in some depth, you inevitably get glimpses of how much you have been influenced by such persons. This is undoubtedly true with me and both of these thinkers. Although my monograph offers certain criticisms of Gunton, I was helped immensely in learning how to think theologically by reading Gunton, and I am in profound debt to him.
Reformation Commentary on Scripture
I and a colleague (Ray Van Neste) have been asked to write/edit a volume in the Reformation Commentary on Scripture, being edited by Timothy George for InterVarsity Press. Ray and I are honored to have the opportunity. We will be editing volume 12 of the New Testament volumes, which covers 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1, 2, and 3 Timothy, Titus, and Philemon. The series is an ambitious one, and we look forward to working away at this exciting project.