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- PublicationThe Copto-Arabic Tradition: Paul the First Hermit in Coptic Cultural Memory(Brill, 2024-12-09) Agaiby, Lisa; Agaiby, LisaA first edition and translation of the Copto-Arabic life of Paul the First Hermit (Anbā Būlā), which reclaimed not only the textual tradition and authorship but even the saint’s body for the Egyptian Church.
- Publication“Revive, Sisters!”: Chinese women in ministry through the lens of the Canaan Hymns(2025-02-20) Yang, Xiaoli“Half of the Sky”, a phrase used to describe the rise of women in the New China of the 1960s, can equally apply to the tremendous legacy of Chinese women in Christian ministry in the contemporary indigenous movement. This paper amplifies the voices of Chinese women in ministry and studies the feminine motif in the song collection known as Canaan Hymns. Drawing from the methodologies of lived theology through textual analysis, interviews, and literature reviews, firstly it examines some biblical portraits of women resonating with the experiences of female Chinese itinerants; secondly the embodied spirit-filled experiences coupled with feminine tenderness and flaming passion; lastly the organic ecclesiology that empowers female leadership. It is argued that the hymns offer a unique poetic window into the lived experiences of Christian women, providing nuances and complexity of gender, identity, body, spirituality and relationality in the recent history of Chinese Christianity.
- PublicationFirst in the Desert: St. Paul the Hermit in Text and Tradition(Brill, 2024-12-09) Agaiby, Lisa; Agaiby, LisaThis volume invites the reader to a journey into the mystery that is St. Paul the First Hermit. Presented in nine language traditions that span ten centuries of transmission, Paul’s vitae are a case study in cultural fusion and diversity. Assembled here for the first time, they provide the scaffolding for the volume that offers a window into the world of Eastern Christianity that consists of deeply interconnected, diverse communities. We learn about churches and monasteries and libraries; about books and relics; about art and iconography; and about the place of St. Paul in various liturgical traditions.
- Publication“Created and Sustained by the Triune God”: a pivotal faith confession of the (UCA) Preamble(2025-02-01) Gilbert, SeanParagraph 1 of the Preamble to the Uniting Church’s Constitution is a bold and paradigm-shaking confession of faith. Not only does it subvert colonial assumptions about entitled supremacies of knowledge, place, and power, it radically reframes a theology of God in accord with what is arguably heartland of the Christian tradition: the confession of God as Trinity. The implication is that God in undivided relational fullness has always been present to the First Peoples of this land in contradistinction to a western dualistic hermeneutic that might countenance partial revelations of the Creator and Spirit but not the missionary imported Redeemer. The ongoing retrieval of trinitarian orthodoxy remains a vital component of valuing and practicing the theological keystones of the Preamble. Rather than imposing a religiously conceptual import, Trinity, by virtue of its effusive and essential ground of relationality, symbolises the wellbeing of all expressions of life, undergirded by unifying giftings of grace, truth and justice.
- PublicationThe Language that Remains(Polity Books, 2025-11) Kirkland, ScottTranslation of Giorgio Agamben's La lingua che resta from Italian to English.