SSCE Postgraduate Conference Oxford 2026
A selection of SCM Press books that address the SSCE Conference theme: “Christ Beside Us, Christ Before Us: Pilgrimage, Neighbourliness & Encounters in Christian Ethics.”
Use the code OXFORD26 to take 20% off the books below. The offer lasts from the 6th to 8th of May 2026.
How Do We Talk About Abortion?
A Feminist Pastoral Theology
In recent years, the repeal of Roe vs Wade in the United States and a number of high-profile cases in the UK have ignited intense public debates surrounding the sensitive issue of abortion. While the Pro-Life movement, often driven by religious...
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Shaping a Church of Ethical Integrity
Groundwork for a Church Rebuilt
In Shaping a Church of Ethical Integrity, Paul Avis offers a bold and incisive critique of the current state and future trajectory of the Church of England under its national and (in some cases) diocesan leadership. While demolishing...
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£40.00
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Decomposing Holy Ground
Theological Compost for Shifting Worlds
For the church, “creation care” is back on the agenda. But is creation care really the full picture or do we need to learn that we are a part of the very creation of which we claim to be stewards. Does our climate crisis demand a more radical...
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£25.00
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Praying by the Rules
What Autistic People Teach the Church about Prayer
What makes prayer difficult for autistic people, and what can autistic people teach the Church about this? Working with 18 autistic Christians to build a phenomenological account of why autistic people can feel anxious about their prayer lives,...
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Feminist Trauma Theologies
Body, Scripture & Church in Critical Perspective
Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, Feminist Trauma Theologies explores the relationship between trauma and feminist theologies, highlighting methodological, theological, and practical similarities between the two.
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£38.50
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A Heavy Yoke
Theology, Power and Abuse in the Church
What we believe about God becomes the basis for how we think about ourselves, as leaders and individuals, and how by extension, we think about and treat others. But the relationship between doctrine, practice and power is not always...
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Breaking, not Broken
Ableism and the Church after Constantine
How have inherited and contemporary notions of perfection distorted our theology and the way in which we have expressed and lived out our faith?
Breaking, not Broken exposes how Western Christianity, post-Constantine, assimilated...
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Ethics, repackaged edition
This is the last book that Bonhoeffer wrote before he was arrested by the Nazis. Pages of it were on his desk the day he was taken away and it remained unfinished. It is bold, provocative and profound.
Based on careful reconstruction of the...
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Bearing Witness
Intersectional Perspectives on Trauma Theology
Much like theology itself, the experience of trauma has the potential to reach into almost any aspect of life, refusing to fit within the tramlines. A follow up to the 2020 volume "Feminist Trauma Theologies", "Bearing Witness" explores further...
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Practical Theology Beyond the Empirical Turn
Practical Theology Beyond the Empirical Turn offers a sustained, critical interrogation of the turn towards social research and methodologies in Practical Theology which has transformed the discipline over the past forty years. It places...
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Gustavo Gutiérrez and the Liberative Sight of Christ
How can we speak of God as Father in a world that is inhumane? While many engagements with Gutiérrez's theology centre on such themes as the option for the poor, the role of praxis, or the Kingdom of God, in Gustavo Gutiérrez and...
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Stirring Up Liberation Theology
A Call for Release
In this critical time in world history when many spirits and bodies are plagued (by AIDS, covid, monkeypox, hunger, bird-flu, mad-cow disease, and other ailments) and many communities are broken (by wars, juntas, climate crises, domestic abuse,...
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Ritual, Resistance, and Liberation
A Global Intersectional Perspective
While ritual creates a shared and conventional world of human sociality and expresses and controls the meaning of experience, it also functions to set boundaries and promote normativity. This volume explores the intersections of ritual with...
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Facing Climate Collapse
Ecology, Theology and Capitalocene
Offering an in-depth exploration of the intricate interplay between theology, ecology, and social justice, Facing Climate Collapse critically engages with the evolving discourse surrounding the 'Anthropocene' and presents a compelling argument for...
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Decolonizing Development and Religion
Theoretical Frameworks, Case Studies, and Theological Models
Discourses of development have been part of the modern world, for good or for ill. In the past, various colonialisms have been justified by the notion of development, but so have efforts to provide alternatives to colonization.
In this volume,...
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Survival
Radical Spiritual Practices for Trauma Survivors
Trauma theology remains a rapidly growing field, considering as it does the impact that embodied experiences of trauma have on theological discourse. In this book, leading trauma theologian Karen O’Donnell turns her attention to the impact that...
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