Description:
This second volume of the Cross-Disciplinary Encounters with Theology series sparks a lively conversation by offering a Christian moral theology of order that penetrates deeply into every domain of human existence.
Brief description: TERENCE C. HALLIDAY is a research professor emeritus at the American Bar Foundation and an honorary professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (REGNET) at the Australian National University. He has published extensively on globalization of law, markets and politics with recent books in the Cambridge Studies in Law and Society. With Donald Hay, he co-founded the Global Faculty Initiative.
Review Quotes:
In this new genre of academic books, worldwide disciplinary experts grapple with today's "wicked" problems of order and disorder in intellectually rigorous conversations in which differences are addressed respectfully and shared viewpoints are refined critically. The contributions exemplify splendidly how Christian thought may be transformative at the core of the world's research universities.
Andrew Briggs, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Nanomaterials, University of Oxford, UK
Order and Disorder gathers rich, interdisciplinary exchanges and offers them as a model for dialogue that can resonate across the university. It is an invaluable resource for catalysing engagement among graduate students and academics-in-formation, equipping them to carry this conversation into their own academic contexts.
Bethan Willis, PhD
Chaplain, Oxford Pastorate, UK
Nigel Biggar sketches a concept for order and its counterpart as given, yet generative, of freedom and of flourishing. I find the interdisciplinary reactions, affirmations, and diagnoses of his offering thrilling, the kind of theology-in-the-making that is neither the sole claim of the theologians nor the insipid cant of what the culture would proclaim as obvious.
David A. Potter, PhD
Director, Mesa Scholars
This is an important and wide-ranging volume. Nigel Biggar's account of the notion of "order" in Christian theology evokes a nuanced and fruitful range of responses from different fields of academic study, resulting in a rich and illuminating discussion of a crucial topic on contemporary culture and thought.
Graham Tomlin, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, SeenandUnseen.com
By offering a concise and insightful treatment of one of the most underappreciated aspects of our world, Order and Disorder is a refreshing and innovative academic work that is profound but not ponderous. This volume and the GFI series of which it is a part demonstrate that the future of Christian scholarly engagement with the modern research university remains hopeful and full of promising possibilities.
Karl Johnson, PhD
Founder of Chesterton House, Cornell University, New York, USA
Order and Disorder offers theological educators, seminary students, and the church windows into the transformative power of theology to renew thought at the frontiers of science and learning, and for the generative contributions of the whole university to animate theology.
Kevin Vanhoozer, PhD
Blanchard Professor of Systematic Theology, Litfin Divinity School of Wheaton College, Ilinois, USA
Order and Disorder is a bold and timely contribution to contemporary Christian scholarship, written for an age marked by cultural fragmentation, moral uncertainty, political ruptures, and rapid technological change. I believe that it will be of significant value to scholars, students, and thoughtful readers seeking a faithful and intellectually robust integration of faith and scholarship.
Osam Temple, PhD
President, Society of Christian Scholars, Africa
In 1992, John Stott made an "urgent plea for double listening" where Christians listen to both the word and the world. This book is a notable response from the highest levels of academia and promises to inspire much-needed "double listening" in the university and its impact on the church and society.
Ross H. McKenzie, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Queensland, Australia