Book Launch: Oxford Handbook of Digital Theology

A couple of years ago, I received the kind invitation from Jonas Kulberg (deputy director for Durham University’s Centre for Digital Theology) Durham University’s Centre for and Alexander Chow (co-director of Edinburgh University’s Centre for the Study of World Christianity) to contribute to a volume that would become the Oxford Handbook of Digital Theology.

This contribution follows on from the kind invitation by Francesca Murphy, Balasz Mezei and Kenneth Oakes to contribute to the Oxford Handbook of Divine Revelation, for which I wrote a chapter on revelation and the political.

For the Handbook of Digital Theology, I was asked to write a chapter on Dogmatics and Digitality, and after some back and forth, and prompted by Katherine Schmidt’s identification of the incarnation and ecclesiology as key theological touchstones, the guiding questions for my inquiry became “does the incarnation matter” and “does the church matter”.

As the volume got to the later stages of development I found that, much to my pleasant surprise, that my contribution will be the first chapter following Kulberg’s and Chow’s introduction. I am both delighted and honoured by this.

We recently received the update that the digital copies will be available very soon, and hard copies available later in the year.

To mark the release of this book, there will be a launch event happening on the 16th June in Zurich at 7:00pm CEST (GMT +2). It will be part of the Global Network for Digital Theology conference.

To receive the link to the launch event, please sign up for the GNDT conference site: www.gonedigital.media.

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