A man of many parts
Subtitle: essays in honour of John Bowker on the occasion of his eightieth birthday
By: edited by Eugene E. Lemcio ; introduction by Rowan Williams
Publisher: James Clarke & Co
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780227175330; 9780227904763; 9780227904756
Subjects: Theologians
Description: This collection of essays by colleagues, former students, and friends illustrates something of the breadth and depth of subjects that have engaged the life and thought of the Reverend Doctor John Westerdale Bowker. His clerical and academic appointments in Cambridge, Lancaster, London, and North America further illustrate the integrative nature of his spiritual and intellectual way of being and acting.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: John Bowker : a theological overview / Rowan Williams; title: The teaching of Syriac at Cambridge / J.F. Coakley; title: John Bowker and "the Jewish background to the New Testament" : an essay in wirkungsgeschichte / Christopher Rowland; title: Daniel and the three (principally in the old Greek) : "historical" signs of the eschatological son of man and saints of the most high God- a paradigm for gospels Christology and discipleship / Eugene E. Lemcio; title: A pilgrimage of grace : the journal motif in Luke-Acts / Martin Forward; title: On systems, circles, and centers : Christianity as a Christocentric "system" / Richard Bauckham; title: "In persona Christi" : who, or where, is Christ at the altar? / Sarah Coakley; title: The moral imagination and a sense of God / Jane Shaw; title: Brain battles : a theology and neuroscience / William J. Abraham; title: The origin of the sense of God : causation, epistemology, and ontology / Quinton Deeley; title: The idea of constraint : a Hindu example / Gavin Flood; title: Al-Ghazali and the progress of Islamic thought / David Thomas; title: God, life, love, and religions among indigenous peoples of the world / Darryl Macer; title: The word was made flesh : life without footnotes. John Bowker as religious broadcaster for the BBC / David Craig; title: "Such was the world" : a verse offering / Eleanor Nesbitt.