Mike Higton's
Publications and Unpublished Papers
Books:
ed., with David F. Ford, The Modern Theologians Reader. Oxford, Blackwell, forthcoming, 2010.
SCM Core Text: Christian Doctrine. London: SCM, 2008, xi+403pp
ed., Rowan Williams, Wrestling with Angels: Conversations in Modern Theology. London: SCM / Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007, xxv+305pp
Deliver Us: Exploring the Problem of Evil. (Church Times Study Guides). London, SCM, 2007, 26pp.
Vulnerable Learning: Towards a Theology of Higher Education. Cambridge, Grove Booklets, 2006, 24pp
Difficult Gospel: The Theology of Rowan Williams. London: SCM / New York: Church Publishing, 2004, 174pp
Christ, Providence and History: the Public Theology of Hans W. Frei. London and New York: T&T Clark (Continuum), 200 4, xii+287pp. Online edition available at Logos Bible Software
ed., Hans W. Frei, Unpublished Pieces: Transcripts from the Yale Divinity School Archive. New Haven: Yale Divinity School Library, 2004: http://www.library.yale.edu/div/Freiindex.htm, 199pp
ed. with David F. Ford, Jesus (Oxford Readers series). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, xx+572pp
ed. with John C. McDowell, Conversing with Barth. Aldershot / Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2004, xii+234pp
Parts of books:
‘Adoptionism’, ‘Anhypostasia’, ‘‘Christology’, 'Communicatio idiomatum’, ‘Hans Frei’, ‘Homoousios’, ‘Hypostatic Union’, ‘Hypostasis’, ‘Incarnation’, ‘Neo-Chalcedonianism’, in The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology. Cambridge, CUP, forthcoming 2009.
‘Christology’, ‘Frei, Hans’, ‘Hermeneutics’, ‘Lindbeck, George’ and ‘Narrative Theology’ in The New Dictionary of Theology. London, IVP, forthcoming 2008
‘Hans Frei’ in Justin S. Holcomb, ed., Christian Theologies of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction. New York, New York University Press, 2006: 220–239
'Introduction' (with John C. McDowell) and ‘The fulfilment of history in Barth, Frei, Auerbach and Dante’ in Mike Higton and John C. McDowell, eds, Conversing with Barth. Aldershot / Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2004: 1-13, 120–141
‘Jesus in modern English popular culture’ in Leslie Houlden, ed., Jesus in History, Culture and Thought: an Encyclopedia. Oxford / Santa-Barbara CA: ABC–Clio, 2003: 240–44, republished as Jesus: The Complete Guide, London: SCM, 2005.
‘Luther’, in The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, London: Routledge, 1998
Journal articles
'Undoing delusion', editorial article in Conversations in Religion and Theology 6.1 (2008), 1-5
'The irrepressibility of Scripture: Psalm 1 between Jews and Christians', Journal of Scriptural Reasoning 7.1 (2008), http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/ssr/issues/volume7/number1/ssr07_01_e02.html
‘The spirituality of Further Education’, Journal of Chaplaincy in Further Education 2007
‘Read Mark and learn’, Journal for Scriptural Reasoning 5(2), October 2005, <etext. lib.virginia.edu/journals/ssr/issues/volume5/number3/ssr05_03_e01.html>
‘Can the University and the Church save each other?’, Crosscurrents 55(2) 2005: 172–183
‘Boldness and reserve: A lesson from St. Augustine’, Anglican Theological Review 85(3) 2003: 445–56
‘The Research Assessment Exercise as sin’, Critical quarterly 44(4) 2002: 40–45
‘An American theologian of history: Hans W. Frei in 1956’, Anglican and Episcopal History 71(1) 2002: 61-84
‘Meeting Scotus: on scholasticism and its ghosts’ (with Steve Holmes), International Journal of Systematic Theology 4(1) 2002: 67–81
‘After Counting: the church in English social life’, Reviews in Religion and Theology 7(4) 2000: 382–386
‘Hans Frei and David Tracy on the ordinary and the extraordinary in Christianity’, The Journal of Religion 79(4) 1999: 566–591
‘“A carefully circumscribed progressive politics”: Hans Frei’s political theology’, Modern Theology 15(1) 1999: 55–83
‘Frei’s Christology and Lindbeck’s cultural-linguistic theory’, Scottish Journal of Theology 50(1) 1997: 83–95
Book reviews
George Pattison, A Short Course in Christian Doctrine, David Willis, Clues to the Nicene Creed, John R. Franke, The Character of Theology, in The International Journal of Systematic Theology (forthcoming)
David Ford and Chad Pecknold (eds), The Promise of Scriptural Reasoning, in Reviews in Religion and Theology 15.2 (2008): 162-164
H. Richard Niebuhr, The Meaning of Revelation, in Expository Times 119.4 (2008): 203–204
Eugene Rogers, After the Spirit, in International Journal of Systematic Theology 10.1 (2008): 91–93
Peter M. Candler, Jr., Theology, Rhetoric, Manduction, in International Journal of Systematic Theology 10.1 (2008): 111–114
Thomas Albert Howard, Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University, in Modern Theology 24.1 (2008): 127–129
Serene Jones and Paul Lakeland, eds., Constructive Theology: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Themes; Tyron Inbody, The Faith of the Christian Church; Jonathan R. Wilson, A Primer for Christian Doctrine, in International Journal of Systematic Theology 8.3 (2006): 227–231
Kevin J. Vanhoozer, The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology, in International Journal of Systematic Theology 7.4 (2005): 441–444
Eberhard Busch, The Great Passion, Joseph Mangina, Karl Barth, Kurt Anders Richardson, Reading Karl Barth, in International Journal of Systematic Theology 7.4 (2005): 472–475
F. LeRon Shults, Reforming the Doctrine of God, in Reviews in Religion and Theology, 13.4 (2006): 599–601
Bruce Metzger, The Word of Christ and the Word of Culture, in The Theological Book Review, 2004
Rupert Shortt, Rowan Williams, in Reviews in Religion and Theology, 11.2 (2004): 223–225
Marguerite Abdul-Masih, Edward Schillebeeckx and Hans Frei, in Modern Theology 19.4 (2003): 590-592
John Elias, A History of Christian Education, in Reviews in Religion and Theology, 10.1 (February 2003): 87-88
Dan Stiver, Theology After Ricoeur, in Reviews in Religion and Theology 9.4 (September 2002): 320-322
Andrew Shanks, What is Truth?, in Reviews in Religion and Theology 9.4 (September 2002): 364-366
Martin Forward, Jesus: A Short Biography, in Reviews in Religion and Theology 6.4 (November 1999): 385-386
Mark Allan Powell, Jesus as a Figure in History, in Reviews in Religion and Theology 7.1 (February 2000): 47–48
David Ford, Theology: A Very Short Introduction, in Cambridge 45 (Winter 1999-2000): 58–60
Martyn Percy, Power in the Church, in Theology 101 (Nov/Dec 1998): 453–454
Robert Wuthnow, Christianity in the Twenty-first Century, in Affirming Catholicism (1997)
Bede McGregor and Thomas Norris (eds), The Beauty of Christ, in The Theological Book Review 7.3 (June 1995): 33
Gordon J. Spykman, Reformational Theology, in The Theological Book Review 7.1 (October 1994): 34Others:
Western Theology since the Enlightenment, course-book for a module of the Southern Theological Education and Training Scheme, Salisbury; in two versions: Diploma and B.Th.; Salisbury: STETS, 1997
Bibliographies for articles on Barth, Brunner, Bonhoeffer, Bultmann, Boehme, Tenant, Tyndal, and Troeltsch The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, London: Routledge 1998
Presentations and unpublished papers:
May 2003: Response to The tent of meeting, short paper prepared for the Scriptural Reasoning Theory Group conference, Camrbidge
March 2003: "Providence", paper presented in the Department of Theology, University of Durham
February 2003: Semon on Jn 1, University of Exeter Chapel
November 2001: "A man in transition: Hans W. Frei in 1956", Theology and Real Ale seminar, Peter Tavy
August 2000: "Ghosts, embodiment and disorder", Kings College Summer Research seminars
January 2000: "Believing what you know ain't true", a paper based on the May 99 paper on the presence of Christ, originally intended for publication
February 2000: Sermon on Jn 1, University of Exeter Chapel
November 1999: "Christ in the city", paper presented to Christians Together in Central Exeter.
November 1999: Sermon on Romans 9-11, Jesus Chapel, Cambridge
November 98: Sermon for Remembrance Sunday, Jesus Chapel, Cambridge
June 97: "Who needs theologians?" Paper for the Cambridge Church and Research group. You had to be there: the paper involved popping balloons, standing on chairs, ripping up photographs of the Divinity Faculty, and making a wall from volumes of the Church Dogmatics
April 97: "Hans Frei: anthropology and politics" Paper for the Anthropology and Ethics seminar at the Society for the Study of Theology conference. The ancestor (much, much shorter than its descendant) of the article published in Modern Theology in January 99
May 96: "The body of Christ: believing and belonging" Three lectures given at the Sunday morning education course, Holy Trinity, Cambridge. An attempt to take a small group through ideas of 'believing and belonging'
April 95: "Frei's Christology and Lindbeck's cultural-Linguistic theory" Paper presented at Colin Gunton's Trinity and Christology seminar at the Society for the Study of Theology conference. The direct ancestor of the paper published in 97 in The Scottish Journal of Theology
March 95: "Christology in the local church" Paper presented at Leeds University Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Seminar in Local Church and Social Responsibility. An attempt to encourage theological attention to the details of ecclesial practice
October 94: "Yale versus Chicago? Hans Frei and David Tracy in conversation" Paper for the Cambridge Divinity Faculty Systematics Seminar. This is ultimately the (distant, immature) ancestor of the paper published in The Journal of Religion, July 99