A working guide for students conducting theological writing and research on theology and biblical studies courses, this book integrates the disciplines of writing, rhetoric, and theology, to provide a standard text for the teaching and mentoring of writing across the theological curriculum.As a theological rhetoric, it also encourages excellence in theological writing in the public domain by helping to equip students for their wider vocations as writers, preachers, and communicators in a variety of ministerial and professional contexts.

This 2nd Edition includes new chapters on ‘Writing Theology in a New Language’, which explores the linguistic and cultural challenges of writing theology well in a non-native language, and ‘Writing and Learning Theology in an Electronic Age’, addressed to distance learning students learning to write theology well from online courses, and dealing with the technologies necessary to do so.