Review of Alister McGrath, Through a Glass Darkly: Journeys through Science, Faith and Doubt – A Memoir (London: Hodder & Stoughton 2021), pp. viii + 225, ISBN: 978-1529327625. £9.99
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In honour of the late Rev Prof D. W. D. Shaw, a founding member of the Editorial Board of Theology in Scotland, we are pleased to publish this tribute by Rev Prof George Newlands. This is a shortened version of George’s contribution to the Conference held at New College in 2018 to celebrate Bill’s 90th birthday.
为了纪念已故的dr . W. D. Shaw牧师教授，他是苏格兰神学编委会的创始成员之一，我们很高兴出版乔治·纽兰兹牧师教授的这篇颂词。这是乔治在2018年为庆祝比尔90岁生日而在新学院举行的会议上的贡献的缩短版。
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Review of Andrew G. Ralston, Nevile Davidson: A Life to be Lived (Eugene, Or.: Wipf and Stock, 2019), pp. xv + 205, ISBN 978-1532687808. £17.00
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This review essay considers four books published within the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It guides us through how each of these texts offers a timely Christian response to, and not explanation for, the challenges that we face: innumerable deaths, the inability to worship together, deserted streets and shut-up businesses, the place of viruses in the Earth’s ecology, and the apparent absence of God as the innovations of modern science seem to be our only salvation. Reviewed works:John C. Lennox, Where is God in a Coronavirus World? (Epsom, Surrey: The Good Book Company, 2020)Tom Wright, God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and its Aftermath (London: SPCK: 2020)Walter Brueggemann, Virus as a Summons to Faith: Biblical Reflections in a Time of Loss, Grief, and Uncertainty (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2020)Robert Keay, Reframing Pandemic (The Window of Christianity series; New York: Basiliad Publishing, 2020)
{"title":"Review essay: When the dancing turned to mourning: Theological responses to the pandemic","authors":"Jonathan C. P. Birch","doi":"10.15664/TIS.V28I1.2186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15664/TIS.V28I1.2186","url":null,"abstract":"This review essay considers four books published within the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It guides us through how each of these texts offers a timely Christian response to, and not explanation for, the challenges that we face: innumerable deaths, the inability to worship together, deserted streets and shut-up businesses, the place of viruses in the Earth’s ecology, and the apparent absence of God as the innovations of modern science seem to be our only salvation. Reviewed works:John C. Lennox, Where is God in a Coronavirus World? (Epsom, Surrey: The Good Book Company, 2020)Tom Wright, God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and its Aftermath (London: SPCK: 2020)Walter Brueggemann, Virus as a Summons to Faith: Biblical Reflections in a Time of Loss, Grief, and Uncertainty (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2020)Robert Keay, Reframing Pandemic (The Window of Christianity series; New York: Basiliad Publishing, 2020)","PeriodicalId":257449,"journal":{"name":"Theology in Scotland","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124285641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores what contribution poetry and the arts can make to the human experience in a time of pandemic. It argues that artistic productions can ‘enlarge the heart’ such that sorrow and anxiety are not removed or defeated but are, as in the biblical text, ‘woven […] into a larger imaginative story.’ This argument is made through close examination of three poems: T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”, written in 1922 during the Spanish flu epidemic; “Quarantine” by Eavan Boland, set during the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s; and Malcolm Guite’s “Easter 2020”.
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{"title":"“British Gods: Religion in Modern Britain” by Steve Bruce","authors":"P. Foster","doi":"10.15664/TIS.V28I1.2190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15664/TIS.V28I1.2190","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Steve Bruce, British Gods: Religion in Modern Britain (Oxford: OUP, 2020), pp. xvi + 282, ISBN 978-0198854111. £25.00","PeriodicalId":257449,"journal":{"name":"Theology in Scotland","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127887655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of Margaret Newbigin Beetham, Home Is Where: The Journeys of a Missionary Child (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2019), pp. 240, ISBN 978-0232534085. £12.99
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The starting point for this paper is to reflect on Karl Barth’s assertion that that, when faced with a major crisis, the most appropriate response for Christian theology is to carry on as if nothing has happened. David Fergusson emphasises the need for humility and very careful thought in a situation such as the COVID-19 pandemic, however this does not mean that we must remain silent. Three points for reflection are offered: (1) an examination of how ideas about God’s providence, and our ability to give meaning to calamitous events, have changed over time; (2) consideration of what lessons might be learned from the experience of living through a pandemic in terms of what it means to be human; and (3) thoughts on the theme of hope in the teaching and life of Jesus, and implications and opportunities for the church.
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In recent years the ‘most popular’ verse on the Bible app YouVersion (which has been installed by over 455 million ‘unique users’) has been John 3:16 or Jeremiah 29:11. However, following on from the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, Isaiah 41:10 became the most searched, read, and bookmarked verse on YouVersion in 2020. This text from Isaiah offers Israel (and other distant lands) much-needed consolation, relaying God’s message of care for his creation:
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