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| Expository Times | |
|---|---|
| Title | Expository Times |
| Discipline | Theology |
| Language | English |
| History | 1889–present |
| Frequency | Monthly |
Expository Times is a long-running English-language journal focused on Christianity, biblical studies, theology, and religious education. Founded in the late 19th century during the era of debates involving figures associated with Oxford Movement, Cambridge scholarship, and the broader Victorian religious environment, it has engaged with controversies around Charles Darwin, the Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy, and twentieth-century movements such as Ecumenical movement and Liberation theology. The journal has addressed topics connected to institutions like University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, King's College London, Harvard Divinity School, and events such as the World Council of Churches assemblies.
The journal emerged amid intellectual currents influenced by personalities and institutions including John Henry Newman, F. D. Maurice, Edward Bouverie Pusey, and debates linked to publications like Essays and Reviews and controversies such as the Oxford Movement and reactions to Darwinism. Across the late 19th and early 20th centuries it intersected with clergy and academics from Durham University, Trinity College Dublin, Yale Divinity School, and figures associated with Anglican Communion, Presbyterian Church (USA), Methodist Church of Great Britain, and Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales. During the interwar and postwar periods contributions reflected responses to events including the First World War, the Second World War, the Cold War, and ecclesial developments like the Formation of the Church of South India and the founding of the World Council of Churches. Later decades saw engagement with scholars tied to University of Chicago Divinity School, Duke University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and debates around Feminist theology, Black theology, and Postcolonialism.
The editorial stance emphasizes exegesis, homiletics, and applied theology with editorial conversations that have included commentators connected to Karl Barth, Pope John Paul II, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and interpreters of St Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. It provides space for sermons, scholarly articles, book reviews, and practical reflection from contributors affiliated with All Souls College, Oxford, Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral, Wesleyan Church, and seminaries such as Regent College, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and St Mellitus College. The journal interacts with research produced at centers like The British Library, Bodleian Library, Vatican Library, and museums such as the British Museum when dealing with manuscript studies, patristics, and liturgical texts tied to works like Book of Common Prayer and Septuagint manuscripts.
Published on a monthly basis, the journal's production and distribution have involved presses and institutions historically connected to Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and other academic publishers serving readers in United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, and across Europe. Issues typically contain peer-reviewed essays, reviews of books from publishers such as T&T Clark, Bloomsbury, Routledge, HarperCollins, and notices about conferences held by organizations like the Society for Biblical Literature, the Catholic Theological Association of America, the Anglican Communion Institute, and the International Association for the History of Religions.
Contributors have included leading churchmen, scholars, and public intellectuals associated with names like William Temple, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, F. R. Tennant, N. T. Wright, Jürgen Moltmann, Paul Tillich, James Barr, Elizabeth A. Johnson, Rowan Williams, Alister McGrath, John Stott, Wilhelm Herrmann, and John Polkinghorne. Articles have engaged primary sources such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, Nag Hammadi library, Gospel of Thomas, and debated modern works like Theology of Hope and The Idea of the Holy, as well as responses to legal and cultural moments involving The Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 and ecclesiastical decisions linked to Lambeth Conference resolutions.
The journal has been cited in discussions among scholars and church leaders connected with Cambridge Camden Society, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Church Mission Society, and academic networks in Oxford, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Kingston upon Hull, and Belfast. Its influence extends into pastorates, seminaries, and publishing conversations related to textbooks used at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge, Harvard Divinity School, and lecture series at venues such as Regent's Park College, Oxford and Greenbelt Festival. Reviews and critiques have appeared alongside discourse featuring journals like Theological Studies, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Scottish Journal of Theology, Modern Theology, and engagements at forums including Gifford Lectures and Tyndale Fellowship events.
Category:Academic journals