OLIVER DAVIES PUBLICATIONS 2011
FORTHCOMING
‘Letter on Spirit’, in Paul Fiddes and Günter Bader, eds., Spirit and Letter: the Reversal of a Tradition, (T&T Clark Continuum);
MONOGRAPHS
2011: Love in Act: Transforming Theology, (in preparation)
2007a: Oliver Davies, Paul Janz, Clemens Sedmak, Transformation Theology: Church in the World, London: T&T Clark (179 pp.).
2004a: The Creativity of God. World, Eucharist, Reason, Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (xi + 210 pp.).
2001a: A Theology of Compassion. Metaphysics of Difference and the Renewal of Tradition (London: SCM Press; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003). (xxii + 376 pp.).
1996a: Celtic Christianity in Early Medieval Wales: the Origins of the Welsh Spiritual Tradition, (Cardiff: University of Wales Press; US repr. 2008 through University of Chicago Press). (xii + 193 pp.).
1991a: Meister Eckhart: Mystical Theologian (London: SPCK). (xiv + 257 pp.). 2nd edition 2011.
1988: God Within: the Mystical Tradition of Northern Europe (London: Darton, Longman and Todd; New York: Paulist Press; Dutch translation: De Reis naar binnen, Brussels: Unistat, 1990; Italian translation: Nel' Intimo con Dio, Rome: Città Nuova, 1991). (xi + 224 pp.) 2nd edition 2006.
EDITED COLLECTIONS
2002a: O. Davies and D. Turner, eds., Silence and the Word: Negative Theology and Incarnation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (repr. in pb, 2008).
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
2010a: ‘History and Tradition: Catholicism and the Challenge of Globalised Modernity’, in Lieven Boeve, Frederieke Depoortere and Stephan van Erp, eds., Edward Schillebeeckx and Contemporary Theology (London: T&T Clark), pp. 183-93.
2010b: ‘Dante’s Commedia and the Body of Christ’, in Vittorio Montemaggi and Matthew Treherne, eds., Dante’s Commedia. Theology as Poetry (Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press), pp. 161-79.
2009a: ‘Theology and Aid: Speaking across Boundaries’, Words in Action Conference Papers, The Heythrop Institute for Religion, Ethics and Public Life, May, 2009.
2009b:‘Knowing the Unknowable about God and the Universe: Humility, Hope and the End of Knowledge’, in J. Bowker ed., Knowing the Unknowable. Science and Religions on God and the Universe (London: I.B.Tauris), pp. 161-74.
2008a: ‘Rights and Revelation. A Study of Particularism and Universality in the Advocacy of Human Rights’, New Blackfriars, vol. 89, no. 1022, pp. 441-67.
2008b: ‘The Interrupted Body. Transformation Theology’, Gregorianum, vol. 89/2, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, pp. 312-31.
2007b: ‘World and Body. A Study in Dante’s cosmological Hermeneutics’, in John C. Barnes and Jennifer Petrie, eds., Dante and the Human Body (Dublin: Four Courts Press), pp. 195-214.
2006a: O. Davies, ‘Cosmic Speech and the Liturgy of Silence’, in Randi Rashkover and C.C.Pecknold, eds., Liturgy, Time and the Politics of Redemption (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans), pp. 215-26.
2006b: ‘Monotheismus und Pluralismus. Menschenrechte und das Schweigen Gottes’, in Stefan Stiegler and Uwe Swarat, eds., Der Monotheismus als theologisches und politisches Problem, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2006, pp. 103-118.
2006c: ‘Reading the Burning Bush: Voice, World and Holiness’, Modern Theology, vol. 22, no. 3 (July 2006), pp. 439-47.
2006d: ‘Violence in Bloomsbury: A Theological Challenge’, International Journal of Systematic Theology, vol. 8, no. 3 (July 2006), pp. 252-65.
2005: ‘Fields of faith: an experiment in the study of theology and the religions’, with Nicholas Adams and Ben Quash, in David F. Ford, Ben Quash and Janet Martin Soskice, eds., Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 207-221.
2004b: ‘Theological Aesthetics’, in E. Oakes and D. Moss, The Cambridge Companion to von Balthasar, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 131-142.
2003: ‘The Sign Redeemed: Towards a Christian Fundamental Semiotics’, in Modern Theology 19:2 (April, 2003), pp. 219-240.
2002b: ‘Soundings: towards a Theological Poetics of Silence’, in O. Davies and D. Turner, eds., Silence and the Word: Negative Theology and Incarnation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 201-22.
2002c:‘Celtic Christianity: Texts and Representations’, in M. Atherton, ed., Celts and Christians, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 23-38.
2001b: ‘Thinking Difference: a Comparative Study of Gilles Deleuze, Plotinus and Meister Eckhart’, in M. Bryden, ed, Deleuze and Religion, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 76-86.
2001c: ‘Later Medieval Mystics’, in G. Evans, ed., The Medieval Theologians, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 221-232.
2000a: ‘Revelation and the Politics of Culture: a Critical Assessment of the work of John Milbank’, in L. Hemming, ed., A Catholic Response to Radical Orthodoxy, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 112-125.
2000b:Four contributions to Adrian Hastings, ed., Oxford Companion to Christian Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2000c: ‘Beyond the Language of Being: a Comparative Study of Meister Eckhart and Emmanuel Levinas’, in Eckhart Review, no. 9, Spring, 32-40.
1999a: ‘Rhetoric of the Gift: Inspiration, Pneumatology and Poetic craft in Medieval Wales’, in Marion Glasscoe, ed., The Medieval Mystical Tradition, Cambridge: Boydell., 21-31.
1999b: ‘Poet als Priester: Soteriologie des Gedichts in frühmittelalterlichem Wales’ in Niklaus Largier und Claudia Heide-Brinckmann, eds., Homo Medietas: eine Festschrift für Alois Haas, Peter Lang Verlag, 353-366.
1998a: ‘Von Balthasar and the Problem of Being’, New Blackfriars, vol. 79, no. 923, 11-17.
1998b: 'Die Rhetorik des Erhabenen: Sprachtheorie bei Meister Eckhart', in G. Steer and L. Sturlese, eds., Lectura Eckhardi: Predigten Meister Eckharts von Fachgelehrten gelesen und gedeutet, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 97-115.
1997a: Twelve contributions to E.A.Livingstone, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1997b: ‘Message in a Bottle: the Spirituality of the Welsh’, Ecotheology, Sheffield: Sheffield University Press, no. 3, 9-22.
1997c: ‘Meister Eckhart: Preaching the One to the Many’, The Way, vol. 37 (October), London, pp. 334-8.
1996b: ‘Spirituality and Culture: the Case of Celtic Christianity’, 2nd series occasional paper, publ. by Religious Experience Research Centre, Westminster College, Oxford.
1995a: 'Being and Love: Towards a Kenotic Ontology', in Paradigms of Philosophizing, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Culture and Philosophy, St Petersburg, 157-160.
1994a: "'On Divine Love' from 'The Food of the Soul': a Celtic Mystical Paradigm?", in Mystics Quarterly, vol. 20., no. 3, Cincinnati, Ohio, 87-95.
1994b: Meister Eckhart and the Modern World', in Eckhart Review, Spring 1994, 5-14.
'Mystique chrétienne et culture européenne', in Christianisme et Identité Nationale: une Certaine Idée de l'Europe, Paris: Beauchesne, 61-69.
1992a: 'Transformational Processes in the work of Julian of Norwich and Mechthild of Magdeburg', in Marion Glasscoe, ed., The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, Vol. V, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 39-52.
1991b: 'Hildegard of Bingen, Mechthild of Magdeburg and the young Meister Eckhart', in Mediävistik: internationale Zeitschrift für inter-disziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, vol. 4, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 37-51.
1990: 'Why were Meister Eckhart's propositions condemned?', in New Blackfriars, 71 (October), 433-445.
1986: ‘Rhineland Mystics’, in C.P.M. Jones, G. Wainwright, E. Yarnold, eds., The Study of Spirituality (London: SPCK), 319-324.
TRANSLATIONS
2000d: Celtic Spirituality, Classics of Western Spirituality, New York: Paulist Press, (with Thomas O’Loughlin) (xxii + 550 pp.).
1995b: Celtic Christian Spirituality: an Anthology of Medieval and Modern Sources, (Translations of medieval texts. Introduction and selection with Fiona Bowie. London: SPCK, Crossroads/Continuum: New York). (244 pp.).
1994c: Meister Eckhart: Selected Writings, Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth. Editor and translator, with introduction. (xl + 293 pp.).
1993: The Spirituality of Augustine: an Anthology. Selections from his Commentary on the Psalms (London: New City). Editor and translator (with A. Roberts). (127 pp.).
1992b: The Spirituality of the Apostolic Fathers: an Anthology (London: New City; New York: New City Press). Editor and translator (with A.I.Jones). (119 pp.).
1991c: The Glory of the Lord, Vol. V (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark; San Francisco: Ignatius Press). Translation of the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar with John Riches (ed.), 205-656.
1989a: The Rhineland Mystics: an Anthology (London: SPCK; New York: Crossroads). Editor and translator. (129 pp.)
1989b: Hildegard of Bingen: an Anthology (London: SPCK; New York: Crossroads) with Fiona Bowie. Introduction, editor and translator (with additional translations by P. Dronke and R. Carver). (157 pp.)
1989c: Beguine Spirituality: an Anthology, by Fiona Bowie (London: SPCK; New York: Crossroads). I was responsible for the translated texts. (130 pp.)
1989d: The Glory of the Lord, Vol. IV, (Edinburgh: T.& T. Clark; San Francisco: Ignatius Press). Translation of the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar with John Riches (ed.) et al., 101-154.
‘Letter on Spirit’, in Paul Fiddes and Günter Bader, eds., Spirit and Letter: the Reversal of a Tradition, (T&T Clark Continuum);
MONOGRAPHS
2011: Love in Act: Transforming Theology, (in preparation)
2007a: Oliver Davies, Paul Janz, Clemens Sedmak, Transformation Theology: Church in the World, London: T&T Clark (179 pp.).
2004a: The Creativity of God. World, Eucharist, Reason, Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (xi + 210 pp.).
2001a: A Theology of Compassion. Metaphysics of Difference and the Renewal of Tradition (London: SCM Press; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003). (xxii + 376 pp.).
1996a: Celtic Christianity in Early Medieval Wales: the Origins of the Welsh Spiritual Tradition, (Cardiff: University of Wales Press; US repr. 2008 through University of Chicago Press). (xii + 193 pp.).
1991a: Meister Eckhart: Mystical Theologian (London: SPCK). (xiv + 257 pp.). 2nd edition 2011.
1988: God Within: the Mystical Tradition of Northern Europe (London: Darton, Longman and Todd; New York: Paulist Press; Dutch translation: De Reis naar binnen, Brussels: Unistat, 1990; Italian translation: Nel' Intimo con Dio, Rome: Città Nuova, 1991). (xi + 224 pp.) 2nd edition 2006.
EDITED COLLECTIONS
2002a: O. Davies and D. Turner, eds., Silence and the Word: Negative Theology and Incarnation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (repr. in pb, 2008).
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
2010a: ‘History and Tradition: Catholicism and the Challenge of Globalised Modernity’, in Lieven Boeve, Frederieke Depoortere and Stephan van Erp, eds., Edward Schillebeeckx and Contemporary Theology (London: T&T Clark), pp. 183-93.
2010b: ‘Dante’s Commedia and the Body of Christ’, in Vittorio Montemaggi and Matthew Treherne, eds., Dante’s Commedia. Theology as Poetry (Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press), pp. 161-79.
2009a: ‘Theology and Aid: Speaking across Boundaries’, Words in Action Conference Papers, The Heythrop Institute for Religion, Ethics and Public Life, May, 2009.
2009b:‘Knowing the Unknowable about God and the Universe: Humility, Hope and the End of Knowledge’, in J. Bowker ed., Knowing the Unknowable. Science and Religions on God and the Universe (London: I.B.Tauris), pp. 161-74.
2008a: ‘Rights and Revelation. A Study of Particularism and Universality in the Advocacy of Human Rights’, New Blackfriars, vol. 89, no. 1022, pp. 441-67.
2008b: ‘The Interrupted Body. Transformation Theology’, Gregorianum, vol. 89/2, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, pp. 312-31.
2007b: ‘World and Body. A Study in Dante’s cosmological Hermeneutics’, in John C. Barnes and Jennifer Petrie, eds., Dante and the Human Body (Dublin: Four Courts Press), pp. 195-214.
2006a: O. Davies, ‘Cosmic Speech and the Liturgy of Silence’, in Randi Rashkover and C.C.Pecknold, eds., Liturgy, Time and the Politics of Redemption (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans), pp. 215-26.
2006b: ‘Monotheismus und Pluralismus. Menschenrechte und das Schweigen Gottes’, in Stefan Stiegler and Uwe Swarat, eds., Der Monotheismus als theologisches und politisches Problem, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2006, pp. 103-118.
2006c: ‘Reading the Burning Bush: Voice, World and Holiness’, Modern Theology, vol. 22, no. 3 (July 2006), pp. 439-47.
2006d: ‘Violence in Bloomsbury: A Theological Challenge’, International Journal of Systematic Theology, vol. 8, no. 3 (July 2006), pp. 252-65.
2005: ‘Fields of faith: an experiment in the study of theology and the religions’, with Nicholas Adams and Ben Quash, in David F. Ford, Ben Quash and Janet Martin Soskice, eds., Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 207-221.
2004b: ‘Theological Aesthetics’, in E. Oakes and D. Moss, The Cambridge Companion to von Balthasar, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 131-142.
2003: ‘The Sign Redeemed: Towards a Christian Fundamental Semiotics’, in Modern Theology 19:2 (April, 2003), pp. 219-240.
2002b: ‘Soundings: towards a Theological Poetics of Silence’, in O. Davies and D. Turner, eds., Silence and the Word: Negative Theology and Incarnation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 201-22.
2002c:‘Celtic Christianity: Texts and Representations’, in M. Atherton, ed., Celts and Christians, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 23-38.
2001b: ‘Thinking Difference: a Comparative Study of Gilles Deleuze, Plotinus and Meister Eckhart’, in M. Bryden, ed, Deleuze and Religion, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 76-86.
2001c: ‘Later Medieval Mystics’, in G. Evans, ed., The Medieval Theologians, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 221-232.
2000a: ‘Revelation and the Politics of Culture: a Critical Assessment of the work of John Milbank’, in L. Hemming, ed., A Catholic Response to Radical Orthodoxy, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 112-125.
2000b:Four contributions to Adrian Hastings, ed., Oxford Companion to Christian Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2000c: ‘Beyond the Language of Being: a Comparative Study of Meister Eckhart and Emmanuel Levinas’, in Eckhart Review, no. 9, Spring, 32-40.
1999a: ‘Rhetoric of the Gift: Inspiration, Pneumatology and Poetic craft in Medieval Wales’, in Marion Glasscoe, ed., The Medieval Mystical Tradition, Cambridge: Boydell., 21-31.
1999b: ‘Poet als Priester: Soteriologie des Gedichts in frühmittelalterlichem Wales’ in Niklaus Largier und Claudia Heide-Brinckmann, eds., Homo Medietas: eine Festschrift für Alois Haas, Peter Lang Verlag, 353-366.
1998a: ‘Von Balthasar and the Problem of Being’, New Blackfriars, vol. 79, no. 923, 11-17.
1998b: 'Die Rhetorik des Erhabenen: Sprachtheorie bei Meister Eckhart', in G. Steer and L. Sturlese, eds., Lectura Eckhardi: Predigten Meister Eckharts von Fachgelehrten gelesen und gedeutet, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 97-115.
1997a: Twelve contributions to E.A.Livingstone, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1997b: ‘Message in a Bottle: the Spirituality of the Welsh’, Ecotheology, Sheffield: Sheffield University Press, no. 3, 9-22.
1997c: ‘Meister Eckhart: Preaching the One to the Many’, The Way, vol. 37 (October), London, pp. 334-8.
1996b: ‘Spirituality and Culture: the Case of Celtic Christianity’, 2nd series occasional paper, publ. by Religious Experience Research Centre, Westminster College, Oxford.
1995a: 'Being and Love: Towards a Kenotic Ontology', in Paradigms of Philosophizing, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Culture and Philosophy, St Petersburg, 157-160.
1994a: "'On Divine Love' from 'The Food of the Soul': a Celtic Mystical Paradigm?", in Mystics Quarterly, vol. 20., no. 3, Cincinnati, Ohio, 87-95.
1994b: Meister Eckhart and the Modern World', in Eckhart Review, Spring 1994, 5-14.
'Mystique chrétienne et culture européenne', in Christianisme et Identité Nationale: une Certaine Idée de l'Europe, Paris: Beauchesne, 61-69.
1992a: 'Transformational Processes in the work of Julian of Norwich and Mechthild of Magdeburg', in Marion Glasscoe, ed., The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, Vol. V, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 39-52.
1991b: 'Hildegard of Bingen, Mechthild of Magdeburg and the young Meister Eckhart', in Mediävistik: internationale Zeitschrift für inter-disziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, vol. 4, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, 37-51.
1990: 'Why were Meister Eckhart's propositions condemned?', in New Blackfriars, 71 (October), 433-445.
1986: ‘Rhineland Mystics’, in C.P.M. Jones, G. Wainwright, E. Yarnold, eds., The Study of Spirituality (London: SPCK), 319-324.
TRANSLATIONS
2000d: Celtic Spirituality, Classics of Western Spirituality, New York: Paulist Press, (with Thomas O’Loughlin) (xxii + 550 pp.).
1995b: Celtic Christian Spirituality: an Anthology of Medieval and Modern Sources, (Translations of medieval texts. Introduction and selection with Fiona Bowie. London: SPCK, Crossroads/Continuum: New York). (244 pp.).
1994c: Meister Eckhart: Selected Writings, Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth. Editor and translator, with introduction. (xl + 293 pp.).
1993: The Spirituality of Augustine: an Anthology. Selections from his Commentary on the Psalms (London: New City). Editor and translator (with A. Roberts). (127 pp.).
1992b: The Spirituality of the Apostolic Fathers: an Anthology (London: New City; New York: New City Press). Editor and translator (with A.I.Jones). (119 pp.).
1991c: The Glory of the Lord, Vol. V (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark; San Francisco: Ignatius Press). Translation of the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar with John Riches (ed.), 205-656.
1989a: The Rhineland Mystics: an Anthology (London: SPCK; New York: Crossroads). Editor and translator. (129 pp.)
1989b: Hildegard of Bingen: an Anthology (London: SPCK; New York: Crossroads) with Fiona Bowie. Introduction, editor and translator (with additional translations by P. Dronke and R. Carver). (157 pp.)
1989c: Beguine Spirituality: an Anthology, by Fiona Bowie (London: SPCK; New York: Crossroads). I was responsible for the translated texts. (130 pp.)
1989d: The Glory of the Lord, Vol. IV, (Edinburgh: T.& T. Clark; San Francisco: Ignatius Press). Translation of the work of Hans Urs von Balthasar with John Riches (ed.) et al., 101-154.