Good News from Australia
May 28, 2008
It's great to see that my old Australian mucker from Aberdeen days, Brian Rosner (now at Moore), has a new book out. B and I shared many a happy moment in our cramped attic offices, directly over the mosque at Aberdeen University, in the late 90s, in the howling dark of a winter's midday.
B has edited a new volume, The Consolations of Theology (Eerdmans) which has just been published. Of course, Brian is himself a fine NT scholar, but here he ventures into different territory, though with the same ambition shown in his earlier books: the desire to let the Bible and theology speak to the issues of everyday life.
The book self-consciously locates itself within the ancient Boethian tradition, and the more recent popular applications of philosophy by Alain de Botton (the only man who, I think, can make Proust fun), and with essays on Augustine, Luther and Kierkegaard. Given that, I had to get a copy; and it is no disappointment. Here we have some fine evangelical minds interacting with, and appropriating insights from, some of the finest theologians of the past. A brilliant synthesis of systematic and practical theology.
Contents:
Gwenfair Walters Adams: `On Consolation'
Richard Gibson: `Lactantius on Anger'
Andrew Cameron: `Augustine on Obsession'
Mark D Thompson: `Luther on Despair'
Peter G Bolt: `Kierkegaard on Anxiety'
Brian S Rosner: `Bonhoeffer on Disappointment'
Robert Banks: `C S Lewis on Pain'
B has edited a new volume, The Consolations of Theology (Eerdmans) which has just been published. Of course, Brian is himself a fine NT scholar, but here he ventures into different territory, though with the same ambition shown in his earlier books: the desire to let the Bible and theology speak to the issues of everyday life.
The book self-consciously locates itself within the ancient Boethian tradition, and the more recent popular applications of philosophy by Alain de Botton (the only man who, I think, can make Proust fun), and with essays on Augustine, Luther and Kierkegaard. Given that, I had to get a copy; and it is no disappointment. Here we have some fine evangelical minds interacting with, and appropriating insights from, some of the finest theologians of the past. A brilliant synthesis of systematic and practical theology.
Contents:
Gwenfair Walters Adams: `On Consolation'
Richard Gibson: `Lactantius on Anger'
Andrew Cameron: `Augustine on Obsession'
Mark D Thompson: `Luther on Despair'
Peter G Bolt: `Kierkegaard on Anxiety'
Brian S Rosner: `Bonhoeffer on Disappointment'
Robert Banks: `C S Lewis on Pain'
