| Theological Papers |
| An old paper written in 1992 as an Undergraduate. It will eventually be revised and expanded substantially, particularly in the light of recent theological developments and publication of secondary literature. |
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| if there is nothing that can hide the face of our fellow man as morality, religion can hide us as nothing else from the face of God. ... Dogma ... has become the most exalted form of invulnerability against revelation. Martin Buber (1878-1965) |
| This is really only the impressionistically composed basis of a much fuller paper that will appear later next year, concerning the nature of Christian hoping as properly eucharistic. As it stands, I have lost the footnotes in the upload - they also will appear in time. |
| This paper now exists in an unmodified form, without the footnotes, as read at a Tyndale conference in Cambridge in July 2001 (slightly rewritten from a version delivered in May 2001 at the University of St. Andrews). It traces the notion that the contemporary consumer-self is a self of 'lost and broken time', and that a sense of a proper (persons-in-relation-forming) temporality, critical of this loss, is fragilely available to theology through participating in the eucharistic act. |
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| Interrogating Gods, Super-Things, and Other Aliens. James Byrne's God: Thoughts in An Age of Uncertainty |
| A review of a very interesting new book published by Continuum . |
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| God is hidden and unrecognisably present in those who quarrel with God, destroy all images of God and are never satisfied. Juergen Moltmann, Hope and Planning |
| A lecture from 1998 surveying the ethical writings of Don Cupitt. |
| From the Deep Dark Past |
| A rough survey of John Hick's eschatologically significant writings, written early in my PhD research (1994). |
| My 1992 undergrad dissertation ever so slightly modified and shortened in 1994. |
| A rough survey of Rudolf Bultmann's eschatologically significant writings, written early in my PhD research (1995) but with a modified introduction (1999). |
| A brief paper that is forthcoming in a Dictionary of Apologetics (Leicester: IVP). |
| An extended version of the paper published in Literature and Theology 14 (2000), 385-411. . |
| Conversations to Humanise the Practise of Speech (Presently Offline) |
| A paper recently submitted to Literature and Theology. It raises a question about George Steiner's appeal to silence as Word-loss, and seeks to reinvigorate a sense of theology as ongoing conversation through John Milbank's critique of 'dialogue'. |
| Crossing Silence ( Word version, rtf version) |
| A paper recently delivered at the Society for the Study of Theology at the University of Newcastle, April 2003. It distinguishes between 4 patterns of silence, and pleads for a theologico-ethical transfiguration of silence as responsibly performed 'conversation'. |
| 'A Very Unnationalistic Patriotism, Or What The Flag Should Not Blind Us To', The Witness (March 2004). |
| This short paper emerges from a theologico-political concern over the appeal of certain forms of patriotism, and their rhetorical enforcement and justification. |
| This short review paper that arises out of a theologico-political concern with the 2004 cinematic event, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. |
| This short paper reflects on the nature of patriotism, and offers a very brief Christian assessment. It is forthcoming in The Third Way. |
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| in The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture xv (Spring 2007). |