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  • The Gospel according to Star Wars, Second Edition

    Faith, Hope, and the Force

    by John C. McDowell, John C. McDowell ...
    In a new and updated version of this best-selling book, John McDowell explores the many spiritual themes that weave throughout the Star Wars films. From the Force to the dark side, the issues discussed in the films have a moral and spiritual complexity that, if paid attention to, can help us better understand our place in the world and our relation to others and to God. George Lucas, the creator ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Eschatology

    by John C. McDowell, Scott A. Kirkland ...
    Series series Guides to Theology (GT)
    This short textbook, the latest volume in the Guides to Theology series, surveys key themes and aspects of Christian hope by tracing eschatological ideas as they have developed from Scripture throughout the history of theology.John McDowell and Scott Kirkland present a series of lenses on understanding eschatological statements, or the content of Christian hope. They have structured their book ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Theology and the Globalized Present

    Feasting in the Future of God

    by John C. McDowell ...
    Series series Dispatches
    Theology and the Globalized Present focuses on the world's future in God and God's creativeness. In response to a globalized economy that reconfigures time to the detriment of human flourishing, McDowell presents a re-imagined theological vision of eschatological memory and Eucharistic performance. This entails not so much a dreaming of a different world as a dreaming of this world differently. ... Read more

    $16.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Big Fantasy

    The Ideologies of Star Wars, The Matrix and The Avengers

    by John C. McDowell ...
    Bringing critical attention to a particular set of science fiction and fantasy films--Larry and Andy Wachowski's The Matrix, George Lucas' Star Wars saga, and Joss Whedon's Avengers--this book utilizes a wide-ranging set of critical tools to illuminate their political ideologies, while also examining any resistant and complicating turns or byways the films may provide. What they all have in common ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Identity Politics in George Lucas' Star Wars

    by John C. McDowell ...
    George Lucas spoke about the didactic role of cinema and about his own work being presented through the "moral megaphone" of the film industry. A considerable body of scholarship on the six-part Star Wars series argues (unconvincingly) that the franchise promoted neo-conservatism in American culture from the late 1970s onward. But there is much in Lucas' grand space opera to suggest something more ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Hope in Barth's Eschatology

    Interrogations and Transformations Beyond Tragedy

    by John C. McDowell ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000. Hope in Barth's Eschatology presents a critical investigation and survey of Karl Barth's writings, particularly his Church Dogmatics IV.3, in order to locate the character and nature of 'hope' within Barth's eschatology. Arguing that Barth, with his form of hope that refuses to shy away from the dark themes of the 'tragic vision', could be seen to undermine ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Conversing with Barth

    by John C. McDowell, Mike Higton ...
    Series series Barth Studies
    Karl Barth addressed all the major themes of dogmatic theology, and in so doing made his own distinctive contribution to each of the ongoing conversations that constitute that theology. This book presents important new 'conversations with Barth' by leading contemporary theologians and Barth scholars. Each contributor offers their own distinctive emphasis to bring to light the ways in which the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Kenotic Ecclesiology

    Select Writings of Donald M. MacKinnon

    Edited by John C. McDowell, Scott A. Kirkland ...
    Donald M. MacKinnon has been one of the most important and influential of the post-World War British theologians, significantly impacting the development and subsequent work of the likes of Rowan Williams, Nicholas Lash and John Milbank, among many other notable theologians. A younger generation largely emerging from Cambridge, but with influence elsewhere, has more recently brought MacKinnon’s ... Read more

    $41.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philosophy and the Burden of Theological Honesty

    A Donald MacKinnon Reader

    by Donald MacKinnon ...
    This is a collection of writings of one of Britains most prominent theologian and thinker. Donald M. MacKinnon has been one of the most important and influential of post-war British theologians and religious philosophers. Generally eclectic, frequently allusive, usually intellectually generous, persistently richly challenging and always astonishingly erudite, he had a significant impact on the ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Correlating Sobornost

    Conversations between Karl Barth and the Russian Orthodox Tradition

    Edited by Ashley John Moyse, Scott A. Kirkland, John C. McDowell ...
    The diaspora of scholars exiled from Russia in 1922 offered something vital for both Russian Orthodoxy and for ecumenical dialogue. Under new conditions, liberated from scholastic academic discourse, and living and writing in new languages, the scholars set out to reinterpret their traditions and to introduce Russian Orthodoxy to the West. Yet, relatively few have considered the works of these ... Read more

    $70.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Prayer

    by Dr Ashley Cocksworth, Professor John C. McDowell ...
    Series series T&T Clark Handbooks
    The essays collected in this volume provide a resource for thinking theologically about the practice of Christian prayer.In the first of four parts, the volume begins by reaching back to the biblical foundations of prayer. Then, each of the chapters in the second part investigates a classical Christian doctrine – including God, creation, Christology, pneumatology, providence and eschatology – from ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Election, Barth, and the French Connection, 2nd Edition

    How Pierre Maury Gave a “Decisive Impetus” to Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Election

    by Pierre Maury, John C. McDowell ...
    Karl Barth’s famous account of the doctrine of election in his mammoth Dogmatics has been described as the heart of his theology—a great hymn to the grace of God in Christ. Discover the person who initially stimulated Barth’s mammoth reworking of the “classical” view of the doctrine—pastor/theologian Pierre Maury (1890–1956). Their close friendship and especially a seminal paper Maury gave in 1936 ... Read more

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