A Thinking Reed

David A.

The other day I was listening to a podcast of Christian philosopher William Lane Craig defending a version of the “penal substitutionary” account of the Atonement (“PSA” as it’s often referred to).

I was struck recently by a passage from Catholic theologian Karen Kilby in the entry on “evil” in the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology.

Christopher Insole, If God Is the Answer, What Is the Question?

Learning from Other Religions, David Brown (Cambridge University Press, 2024) Arguments about how to understand the relationship among humanity’s various religious traditions have often run in well-worn grooves: Exclusivists hold to the absolute and unique

As longtime readers are aware (if there are any of you left!)

I recently re-read Thomas Jay Oord’s 2015 book The Uncontrolling Love of God, which made a bit of a splash in certain circles when it first came out.

Death Before the Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering, Ronald E.

Continuing the experiment of dusting off this creaky old blog, here are the best theology books I read this year (not necessarily published this year!)

Adam Hamilton, Why Did Jesus Have to Die?

I just finished reading Deceiving the Devil: Atonement, Abuse, and Ransom by feminist theologian Darby Kathleen Ray, partly at the suggestion of someone on Twitter.