THEO3280 - Module Reading List
Bibliography
General
Bretherton, L. Christianity and contemporary politics : the conditions and possibilities of faithful witness (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
Bull, M. (ed) Apocalypse theory and the ends of the world (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995) Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE
Cavanaugh, W. Migrations of the Holy : God, state, and the political meaning of the Church (Cambridge: Eerdman’s, 2011)
Cavanaugh, W. Theopolitical imagination (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2002)
Cavanaugh, W. and Scott, P. (eds) The Blackwell companion to political theology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004)
Cavanaugh, W., Bailey, J.W. and Hovey, C. (eds) An Eerdmans reader in contemporary political theology (Cambridge: Eerdman’s, 2012)
Cox, H. The secular city : secularization and urbanization in theological perspective (1965) Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE
Davis, C. Religion and the making of society : essays in social theology (Cambridge: CUP,1994)
De Gruchy, J. Christianity and democracy : a theology for a just world order (Cambridge: CUP, 1995) Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE
Eliade, M. The Myth of the Eternal Return trans. Willard R. Trask (Princeton: PUP, 1991)
Forrester, D. Theology and politics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988) Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE
Hoelzl, M. and Ward, G. (eds) Religion and political thought (London: Continuum, 2006) Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE
Hoelzl, M. and Ward, G. (eds) The new visibility of religion : studies in religion and cultural hermeneutics (London: Continuum, 2008)
Kaufman, P.I. Redeeming politics (Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990)
Lincoln, B. Holy terrors : thinking about religion after September 11 (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
Löwith, K. Meaning in history : the theological implications of the philosophy of history/ by Karl Löwith (London: University of Chicago Press, 1949) Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE
McLellan, D. Political Christianity : a reader (SPCK, 1997)
McLellan, D. Unto Caesar : the political relevance of Christianity (London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993)
Milbank, J. Theology and social theory : beyond secular reason (Wiley-Blackwell, 1995)
O’Donovan, O. The desire of the nations : rediscovering the roots of political theology (Cambridge: CUP, 1996)
O’Donovan, O. And O’Donovan, J.L., Bonds of imperfection : Christian politics, past and present (Cambridge: Eerdman’s, 2004)
Rowland, C. Radical Christianity : a reading of recovery (Cambridge: Polity, 1988)
Augustine
Chadwick, H. Augustine (Oxford: OUP, 1986)
Augustine of Hippo, Concerning the city of God against the pagans trans. Henry Bettenson (London: Penguin, 2003)
Daley, Brian The hope of the early church : a handbook of Patristic eschatology (Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 2003)
Dyson, R. St Augustine of Hippo : the Christian transformation of political philosophy (London: Continuum, 2005)
Markus, R.A., Saeculum : history and society in the theology of St. Augustine (Cambridge: CUP, 1970) Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE
Markus, R.A., Christianity and the secular (Indiana: University of Notre Dame, 2006)
Christian Eschatology
Balabanski, V. Eschatology in the making : Mark, Matthew, and the Didache (Cambridge: CUP, 1997)
Baukham, R. The climax of prophecy : studies on the Book of Revelation
Bauckham, R. Hope against hope : Christian eschatology at the turn of the millennium
Ferguson, David and Marcel Sarot, eds , The future as God's gift : explorations in Christian eschatology (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2000).
Frilingos, C.A. Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Martyrs and the Book of Revelation (University of Pennysylvania Press, 2013)
La Due, W. J. The Trinity guide to eschatology (London: Continuum, 2004)
Metz., J.B. Faith in history and society : toward a practical fundamental theology (Burns & Oates, 1980)
Moltmann, J, The coming of God : Christian eschatology trans. By Margaret Kohl (London: SCM Press, 1996).
Moltmann, J. The experiment hope (London: SCM Press, 1975) Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE
Moltmann et al, Religion and political society (London: Harper and Row, 1974)
Moltmann, J. Theology of hope : on the ground and the implications of a christian eschatology, 5th edition (London: SCM Press, 2002)
Rasmussen, A. The Church as polis : from political theology to theological politics as exemplified by Jürgen Moltmann and Stanley Hauerwas (Lund: Lund University Press, 1994)
Liberation Theology
Guttierez, G. A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics and Salvation (London: SCM, 1988) Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE
Kee, A. Marx and the failure of liberation theology London: SCM, 1990)
Segundo, J.L. Liberation of theology ( London: Gill and Macmillan, 1977)
Marxism
Engels, F. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
[ http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm ]
Cristaudo, W and Baker, W Messianism, apocalypse and redemption in twentieth century German thought (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2006).
Bloch, Ernst, The spirit of Utopia, trans. by Anthony A. Nassar (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000).
Bloch, Ernst , The principle of hope, vol. 1-3 , trans. by Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice and Paul Knight (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986). Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE
Bloch, E. Man on his own : essays in the philosophy of religion trans. E.B. Ashton (London: Herder and Herder, 1970)
Lash, N. A matter of hope : a theologian's reflections on the thought of Karl Marx (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1982)
Marx, K. and Engels, F. The Communist manifesto ed. David McLellan (Oxford: OUP, 1992)
McLellan, D. Marxism and religion : a description and assessment of the Marxist critique of Christianity (London: Macmillan Press, 1987) Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE
Bloch, Atheism in Christianity : the religion of the Exodus and the Kingdom (New York: Herder and Herder, 1972)
Bentley, J. Between Marx and Christ : the dialogue in German-speaking Europe 1870-1970 (London: Verso, 1982). Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE
Hudson, W. The Marxist philosophy of Ernst Bloch (London: Macmillan, 1982)
Kee, A. Marx and the failure of liberation theology (London, SCM: 1990)
Liberalism
Crimmins, J.E. Religion, secularization and political thought : Thomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill (London: Routledge, 1990)
Beaumont, J. and Cloke, P. Faith-based organisations and exclusion in European cities (London: Polity, 2012)
Berlin, Isaiah, The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas (London: Pimlico, 2003)
Fukuyama, F. The end of history and the last man (London: Penguin Books, 1992).[ http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/fukuyama.htm ]
Gray, John, Black mass : apocalyptic religion and the death of Utopia (London: Penguin, 2007) Available as an Online Course Reading in the VLE
Insole, C. The politics of human frailty : a theological defence of political liberalism (London: SCM Press, 2004)
Nicholls, D. Deity and domination : images of god and the state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (London: Routledge, 1994)
Apocalypse
Collins, John J. (ed) The encyclopedia of apocalypticism. vols. 1-3 (London: Continuum)
Collins, John J. The apocalyptic imagination : an introduction to Jewish apocalyptic literature (1984)
Collins, A.Y. Crisis and catharsis : the power of the Apocalypse (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1984).
Cohn, N. The pursuit of the millennium : revolutionary millenarians and mystical anarchists of the Middle Ages, revised and expanded (New York: Oxford University Press, [1957] 1970).
Grabbe, L. L. (ed) Knowing the End From the Beginning: The Prophetic, Apocalyptic, and their Relationship (T&T Clark, 2000)
Rowland, C. The open heaven : a study of apocalyptic in Judaism and early Christianity (London: SPCK, 1982)
Rowland, C. And Kovacks, J. Revelation (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004)
Millennialism
Bull, M. and Lockhart, K. Seeking a sanctuary : Seventh-day Adventism and the American dream (Indiana University Press, 2007)
Katz, David and Richard Popkin, Messianic revolution (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998)
Landes, R. Encyclopedia of millennialism and millennial movements (Routledge, 2000)
McGinn, B. Visions of the end: apocalyptic traditions in the middle ages (Columbia University Press, 1998)
Newport, K. and Gribben, C. Expecting the end : millennialism in social and historical context (Baylor University Press, 2006)
Newport, K Apocalypse and millennium : studies in biblical eisegesis (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Northcott, Michael, An angel directs the storm : apocalyptic religion and American empire (London: I.B.Tauris & Co., 2004). Available online
O'Leary, S. Arguing the apocalypse : a theory of millennial rhetoric (OUP, 1994).
Tuveson, E.L. Redeemer nation : the idea of America's millennial role, new edition (University of Chicago Press, 1980)
*Wessinger, C. (ed) The Oxford handbook of millennialism (New York: USA OUP, 2011)
This list was last updated on 10/04/2013