Recently added articles from Bible and Critical Theory:
Roland Boer, Rescuing the Bible: a response.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... For many of us who continue to read the Bible, professionally or otherwise, Roland Boer's Rescuing the Bible offers both a challenge, to articulate political and ethical grounds for our reading practice, and hope, that to read the Bible outside (and sometimes within) the mainstream of the ...
How the Bible can be red: some thoughts on Roland Boer's Rescuing the Bible.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... How does one critique a manifesto? On the cover and again in the Preface to Roland Boer's book, Rescuing the Bible, it is described as a manifesto and even explicitly compared to The Communist Manifesto (vi). However, a manifesto as such is not a scholarly study, presenting arguments and ...
A religious left assessment of Roland Boer's Rescuing the Bible.(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Roland Boer calls for an alliance between the secular left and the religious left (this means, in effect, the Christian and Jewish left, with emphasis on the former) to harness the liberative elements of the Bible in the cause of reform and revolution. He suggests ways in which the time is ...
Eco-justice, multivocality, the religious left and the ghosts of revolution a reply to Aichele, Elvey and jobling.(Essay)
Jun 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION Let me begin by saying thank you to Anne Elvey, George Aichele and David Jobling for their intelligent, critical and provocative comments on my Rescuing the Bible. For some reason, at the Auckland conference where they made their initial responses, all manner of ...
Review of Caroline Vander Stichele and Alasdair G. Hunter (eds), Creation and Creativity: from Genesis to Genetics and Back.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2009; ... REVIEW OF CAROLINE VANDER STICHELE AND ALASDAIR G. HUNTER (EDS), CREATION AND CREATIVITY: FROM GENESIS TO GENETICS AND BACK (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2006. PP. XII + 221). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The subtitle of this volume describes it better ...