OnScript Podcast on Militant Grace

It was delightful to speak with Dr Erin Heim (Wycliffe College, Oxford) from the OnScript editorial team the other day about Militant Grace. You can listen to our conversation here: https://onscript.study/podcast/philip-ziegler-militant-grace/

Ethics and the Catastrophe of Grace

Friends and colleagues in the Theology Department of the University of Geneva hosted a very fine conference earlier this month on Barth's Roemerbrief a century on.  They recorded all the sessions and they are now available for viewing and listening here. There are very interesting and important papers from German, French, British and American scholars,...

‘While We Were Yet Enemies’: Some particularly Protestant reflections on grace (SST 2019 plenary paper)

It was a privilege to have been invited to offer a plenary paper to the Society for the Study of Theology when it gathered at the University of Warwick last week for its 2019 annual meeting. The theme of the conference as a whole as the theology of grace. Here is the text of my...

Some Discussion of Militant Grace

I thought it might be useful to collect together here something of an omnibus of links to places on the internet where there's been discussion, reviews, and criticism of Militant Grace.  I'll continue to add links here should other material appear in coming months. Three review essays on the book by Shannon Smythe, Michael Allen...

“Peace Through the Cross: The Salvation of Jews and Gentiles” from the 2018 Markus Barth Symposium

The good folks at the Karl Barth Center at Princeton Theological Seminary have edited and posted audio recordings of the plenary papers from the recent Symposium on the life and legacy of Markus Barth.  You can browse and listen to all the papers here: 2018 Markus Barth Symposium My own modest contribution on Markus Barth's...

Militant Grace :: Aberdeen Symposium Photo Essay on theLAB

Declan Kelly very kindly organised an afternoon's extended discussion of Militant Grace earlier this month here in Aberdeen at which my colleague Dr Katy Hockey, together with PhD students Kevin O'Farrel, Jake Rollison gave critical responses to the book's three main sections.  It was a great gift to have such careful and searching readers, and...

Insomnolent Anathemas: E.M. Cioran’s Unbelieving Gift to Theology

Insomnolent Anathemas-E.M. Cioran's Unbelieving Gift to Theology Last month I gave this little paper on the philosopher, writer and aphorist, E.M. Cioran during the 2018 Society for the Study of Theology annual meeting. The overall conference theme was Theology, Culture and Unbelief. It might be of some interest to those interested in faith's encounter with contemporary nihilism(s)....

Militant Grace in Print

The good folks at Baker Academic shared this flyer for the new book with me, along with the first advanced printed copies this week. The book is officially to be released on the 20th of March. I'm grateful to Baker for all their dedicated effor and support with this.

The Introduction to ‘Militant Grace’

The good folks at Baker Academic have made available a PDF version of the front matter and Introduction to my new book, Militant Grace, together with the first chapter. If you're curious, the excerpt can be downloaded to read here:  Militant Grace_Introduction.  

Essay: Paul Lehmann as a Public Theologian

Delighted to see this essay into digital existence today with Studies in Christian Ethics. It will appear in print early in the new year. ‘Getting the Reformation in America’: The Making of Paul Lehmann as a Public Theologian Philip G. Ziegler https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946817738147 Abstract Paul L. Lehmann (1906–1994) was one of the leading Protestant theologians and ethicists...