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This is a response to Gareth Jones's critique of Changing Worlds, arguing that while this critique largely misunderstands the approach taken in the book, it does raise important questions about the prospect of war in the modern world. Crucial differences are identified in the use of theological rhetoric as a means of resolving differences about the legitimacy of war in the modern world. Adapted from the source document.

This article attempts to draw the scope and content of contemporary Political Theology, based on a review of the 2013 publication titled, Political Theology: Contemporary challenges and future directions, edited by Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Klaus Tanner and Michael Welker. The book is a collection of contributions which explore the contemporary content and potential future of the subject discipline. 'Political Theology' as critical theology and as a 'theology with its face towards the world' is committed to 'justice, peace and the integrity of creation' and is multifaceted. It represents a discipline with which theologians reflect on political-theological objectives across continents and paradigms. The article concludes with a brief investigation of the implications of insights offered in the book for the South African context (as part of the African continent). ; http://www.hts.org.za ; am2015

Concern for the environment has developed and intensified over the last few decades to the point where it now dominates much of our contemporary political landscape and culture. The rise of religious environmentalism in particular adds its own distinctive voice to the debate, for it seeks to trace both the malaise and a potential solution to environmental understanding. In Eco-Theology, Celia Deane-Drummond offers a comprehensive resource book for this burgeoning field of enquiry that highlights and seeks to evaluate the merits or otherwise of contemporary eco-theologies. She introduces the reader to critical debates in eco-theology, tracing trends from around the globe and key theological responses, and encourages reflection and analysis through further reading sections at the end of each chapter and questions for discussion.

Foreword: So what? --Preface --Acknowledgments --Introduction: The what and why of activist theology --1.The darkness of Holy Saturday: rupturing complacency and becoming transformation --2.Turning tables in the temple: disruption --3.The struggle is real --4.The Psalmist sings: the poetry of protest --5.Following the ways of Jesus: enacting radical social change --6.Old wine in new wineskins: reframing theology as activism --7.Economic supremacy: when class ascendency doesn't work in your favor --8.Activist theology's resilience: a year after Charlottesville --Coda: Poetry by Ree Belle --Further reading.

Theology Reforming Society tells the story of Anglican social theology from its roots in the writings and work of F.D. Maurice and the Christian Socialists, including Charles Kingsley and John Ludlow, and on to the work of William Temple. It also looks beyond Temple to the work of the Board for Social Responsibility, and to some of the theologians and church leaders who have continued its witness since then. Referring to the wider ecumenical context in order to draw out the distinctive features of the tradition of Anglican Social Theology, the book provides an important and comprehensive account for all those interested in Anglican theology, social and political theology and Christian ethics

In a bold, provocative book, Toward An American Theology a young American theologian makes his debut. Herbert Richardson, who is only 36, is an assistant professor of theology at Harvard Divinity School. Heretofore he has only been known in American theological circles, and then not widely, but this book alone establishes him as a profound, creative thinker who will have to be reckoned with in the future. This slight but significant work contains five essays which are very diverse in form and subject matter, but which are yet integrally related to the principal concern of how to formulate a meaningful theology for a modern, technical civilization. Richardson's thesis in brief is this: We are living in a time of historical transition which is also a time of general cultural crisis. In such a period there is a breakdown of habitual modes of thought and action with the result that language no longer functions meaningfully. The new period of history which is beginning will be dominated by social techniques developed by the sociological, psychological, economic, and political sciences. It is a "sociotechnic age," an age which presages a new cultural epoch. We are on the verge of a cybernetic society where rational techniques are applied not only to the production of goods but also to the organization of society. This will require a new theological and institutional expression of Christianity: not one of adjustment—the liberal solution—butone which will develop a conception of God, an eschatological symbolism, and new ethical principles which will relate to and undergird the primary realities of the new cybernetic world.

A review essay on books by: (1)Stephen Pattison, The Challenge of Practical Theology (London: Jessica Kingsley, 2007); (2)John Reader, Reconstructing Practical Theology: The Impact of Globalisation (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008); (3)Pete Ward, Participation and Mediation: A Practical Theology for the Liquid Church (London: SCM Press, 2007); and (4)John Milbank and Simon Oliver [Eds], The Radical Orthodoxy Reader (London: Routledge, 2009).