Christopher Rowland (theologian)

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Rowland, Christopher C. (1982). The Open Heaven: a study of apocalyptic in Judaism and early Christianity. New York: Crossroad. ISBN   978-0-824-50455-7. OCLC   8410967.
  • (1985). Christian Origins: an account of the setting and character of the most important messianic sect of Judaism. London: SPCK. ISBN   978-0-281-04110-7. OCLC   13004836.
  • (1985). Christian Origins: from Messianic movement to Christian religion. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing. ISBN   978-0-806-62173-9. OCLC   12131161. - differently titled US edition
  • (1988). Radical Christianity: a reading of recovery. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. ISBN   978-0-883-44370-5. OCLC   17806833.
  • ; Rogerson, J. W.; Lindars, Barnabas (1988). The Study and Use of the Bible . History of Christian Theology. Vol. 2. Basingstoke, Hants, UK ; Grand Rapids, MI: Marshall Pickering ; Eerdmans. ISBN   978-0-802-80196-8. OCLC   17549749.
  • ; Corner, Mark (1989). Liberating Exegesis: the challenge of liberation theology to Biblical studies. Louisville, KY: Westminster, John Knox Press. ISBN   978-0-664-25084-3. OCLC   20800546.
  • (1993). Revelation. Epworth Commentaries. London: Epworth Press. ISBN   978-0-716-20493-0. OCLC   32857756.
  • ; Ashton, John; Fletcher-Louis, Crispin H. T., eds. (1998). Understanding, studying, and reading: New Testament essays in honour of John Ashton. Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Supplement Series. Vol. 153. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN   978-1-850-75828-0. OCLC   44685561.
  • ; Edwards, M. J.; Goodman, Martin; Price, S. R. F., eds. (1999). Apologetics in the Roman Empire: pagans, Jews, and Christians. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-198-26986-1. OCLC   40158874.
  • , ed. (1999). The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology. Cambridge Companions to Religion. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-46144-3. OCLC   39122856.
  • ; Bradstock, Andrew, eds. (2002). Radical Christian Writings: a reader. Oxford ; Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. ISBN   978-0-631-22249-1. OCLC   48100595.
  • ; Barton, John, eds. (2002). Apocalyptic in History and Tradition. Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, Supplement Series. Vol. 43. London: Sheffield Academic Press. ISBN   978-0-826-46208-4. OCLC   51568109.
  • ; Kovacs, Judith L. (2004). Revelation: the Apocalypse of Jesus Christ. Blackwell Bible Commentaries. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN   978-0-631-23214-8. OCLC   52922297.
  • ; Tuckett, Christopher M., eds. (2006). The Nature of New Testament Theology: essays in honour of Robert Morgan. Malden, MA ; Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN   978-1-405-11175-1. OCLC   60741978.
  • (2007). "Wheels within wheels": William Blake and the Ezekiel's merkabah in text and image. Père Marquette lecture in theology, 2007. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press. ISBN   978-0-874-62587-5. OCLC   81860428.
  • ; Morray-Jones, Christopher R. A. (2009). The Mystery of God: early Jewish mysticism and the New Testament. Compendia rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, Section 3: Jewish traditions in early Christian literature. Vol. 12. Leiden ; Boston: Brill. ISBN   978-9-004-17532-7. OCLC   316736889.
  • (2010). Blake and the Bible . London ; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN   978-0-300-11260-3. OCLC   449853455.
  • Articles

    • (1980). "The Vision of the Risen Christ in Rev i.13 ff.: The Debt of an Early Christology to an Aspect of Jewish Angelology". Journal of Theological Studies . 31: 1–11.

    Festschriften

    • Bennett, Zoë; Gowler, David B., eds. (2012). Radical Christian Voices and Practice: Essays in Honour of Christopher Rowland. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-959977-6.
    • Knight, Jonathan; Sullivan, Kevin P., eds. (2015). The Open Mind: essays in honour of Christopher Rowland. Library of New Testament Studies. Vol. 522. London: T & T Clark. ISBN   978-0-567-65851-7. OCLC   890393310.
    • Ashton, John, ed. (2014). Revealed Wisdom: studies in Apocalyptic in honour of Christopher Rowland. Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. Vol. 88. Boston, MA: Brill. ISBN   978-9-004-27203-3. OCLC   872222399.

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    Christopher Rowland
    Born
    Christopher Charles Rowland

    (1947-05-21) 21 May 1947 (age 76)
    Doncaster, England
    Spouse
    Catherine Rogers
    (m. 1969)
    Ecclesiastical career
    ReligionChristianity (Anglican)
    Church Church of England
    Ordained
    • 1975 (deacon)
    • 1976 (priest)
    Academic background
    Alma mater
    Thesis The Influence of the First Chapter of Ezekiel on Jewish and Early Christian Literature (1974)
    Academic offices
    Preceded by Dean Ireland's Professor of
    the Exegesis of Holy Scripture

    1991–2014
    Succeeded by
    Awards
    Preceded by Burkitt Medal
    2018
    Succeeded by