Christian freedom in a permissive society

Ever since it served as a chapter heading in Hones,. to God 'the new morality' has been a household phrase. For most people it suggests permissiveness or worse. But Dr Robinson was pleading for a criterion of response and responsibility far more  searching than that'of code morality, as his subsequent lectures Christian Morals Today made clear. These lectures are reprinted in this book, which will take its place alongside his earlier essays On Being the Church in the World, now available as a Pelican. The theme running through this new collection is the meaning of authentic Christian freedom in relation to the moral and political issues of our contemporary society and to the thinking and structuresof theChurch.

Robinson, John A.T.

Westminster Press

Honest to God

Religion & Spirituality

The Westminster Press

Human Face of God

SCM-Canterbury Press Ltd

The Human Face of God

The human face of God

S.C.M. Press

In this controversial study, first published in l957. Dr Robinson looked for the origins of the doctrine of the Second Coming in the belief of the early church. His conclusion, that the early church may well have misinterpreted the original teaching of Jesus on the issue, was based on a careful and thorough examination of the New Testament material. In his preface to this reissue, he writes: In the quarter of a century since I worked on the material I am not persuaded that the thesis of the hook has lost its importance Or its credibility. How and why the doctrine of the Parousia or Second Coming of Christ emerged in the thinking of the earliest Christian Communities remains of vital significance as we continue to wrestle today with how we can re-express it theologically, apply it politically, oâ-ºmmunicate it pastorally or incorporate it liturgically. that part of Christian teaching which asserts that Christ has to come into everything would seem on the t face of it to he the easiest to make relevant. Yet how much of its traditional formulation rests On a mistake, or represents a myth we can scarcely make our own? Until we understand what in that primordial explosion of truth which marked the first decades of the Christian movement caused it to he thrown up. what positive insights it embodied--and. I would say, distorted--we shall not he free to proclaim it with conviction or to apply it with discernment.'

Jesus and His Coming

Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd

A collection of essays and sermons from the author of the twentieth-century theological classic Honest to God.

Truth is Two-Eyed

Twelve New Testament Studies

SCM Press

<p>This completely new collection of papers. most of which are either unpublished or have hitherto been almost inaccessible in specialist volumes, sheds light on one of the most original -- and controversial -- minds in New Testament scholarship. Titles include Did Jesus have a Distinctive Use of Scripture', 'The Shroud and the New Testament', 'Flow Small was the Seed of the Church', The Last Tabu?•The Self-consciousness of Jesus', and 'The Fourth Gospel and the Church's Doctrine of the Trinity'. John Robinson, who died in December 1983, was Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge.</p>

Twelve More New Testament Studies (Xpress Reprints)

XPRESS Reprints

`I have vowed,' Dr Robinson says, 'never to write a biblical commentary. For in a commentary you have to say something on everything, whether you have anything to say or not. This is why most commentaries, in my experience, are duller than other books written by the same persons, even on the same subject. But they are indispensable quarries.' Sensing the lack of something between them and books designed for daily or group Bible study, he has provided a guide to the Epistle to the Romans which will set the historical context, draw attention to the points of interest and importance, and help the would-be reader to wrestle with its often difficult message. `I do not promise only blood, sweat and tears. On the contrary, the Epistle to the Romans offers what Winston Churchill also called the sunlit uplands, indeed the very heights of Christian experience and theology. But to appreciate them one must be prepared to work at it. A church where this wrestling is not being seriously attempted, especially in the most educated generation of its history to date, will be impoverished in its capacity to transform the world rather than be conformed to it.

Wrestling with Romans

The Priority of John

<p>One of the classic works of Johannine scholarship.</p>

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