Sixteen new essays by a team of leading international scholars on the theme of the Bible and its reception and appropriation in the context of radical practices, and an exposition of the imaginative possibilities of radical engagement with the Bible in inclusive social contexts.

• Introduction: Action is the life of all : Approaching the work of Christopher Rowland


• Part I: The Bible and Radicalism


• 1: David B. Gowler: The limits of Radicalism: A dialogical response to liberation in Luke 13:10-17


• 2: Peter Garnsey: Peter Olivi on the community of the first Christians at Jerusalem


• 3: Ched Myers: From capital to community: Discipleship as defection in Jesus parable about a manager of injustice (Luke 16:1-13)


• 4: Judith Kovacs: The language of grace: Valentinian reflection on New Testament imagery


• 5: John J. Collins: Radical religion and the ethical dilemmas of apocalyptic millenarianism


• 6: Paolo Nogueira: Hidden identities and the arriving new world: The experience of reading the Book of Revelation


• Part II: Reception History: The appropriation of the biblical text in the radical tradition


• 7: Christine E. Joynes: Still at the margins?: Gospel women and their afterlives


• 8: Denys Turner: Winstanley, Hobbes, and the sin of the world


• 9: Rowan Williams: The human form divine : Radicalism and orthodoxy in William Blake


• 10: Jane Shaw: A modern millenarian prophet s Bible


• Part III: Radical Christian voices today


• 11: Brad Braxton: Every time I feel the spirit : African American Christology for a pluralistic world


• 12: Ivan Petrella: The futures of Liberation Theology


• 13: Tim Gorringe: Does God tell us how to build?


• 14: Andrew Bradstock: Seeking the welfare of the city : Public theology as radical action


• 15: Marilyn McCord Adams: Sex and the sins of the fathers: Fertility religion versus human rights


• 16: Christopher Rowland: I have writ, I have acted, I have peace


• Christopher Rowland A biographical note


• Bibliography of the major works of Christopher Rowland