'Paula Gooder once
again shows an extraordinary ability to offer top class biblical scholarship in an accessible form. She makes a complex topic
interesting and surprisingly relevant.' --Professor Christopher Rowland, University of Oxford
'In this profound, lucid and compassionate book, Paula Gooder demonstrates that
heaven is not a vague future hope but the presence of the God who made heaven and earth.' --Jane Williams, author of Lectionary
Reflections
Journeying with Mark: Bringing the Gospel Alive
for Groups and Individuals (with Mark Pryce and James Woodward; SPCK, August, 2011)
This Risen Existence.
The Spirit of Easter (Canterbury Press, 2009) Read this book, and your Easter, and the weeks after it, will never
be the same again. (The Good Bookstall) Effortlessly combining anecdote, theological reflection, and serious biblical study, this book
has something for everyone.... This Risen Existence will stretch your mind and your imagination (William Whyte, The Church
Times) A Way Through the Wilderness. God's Help in a Time of Crisis
(Church House Publishing,2009)
This is a five session course for
those desiring to explore their faith at greater depth. Paula Gooder is an experienced practical theologian who uses all her
skills to encourage greater comprehension of the Biblical text, and this series, based on Isaiah 40, is meticulously structured
to achieve that end. Yet it can be delivered by any member of a group – her guidance is enabling and reassuring. Each
session offers a plan that is helpful but not restrictive, looking to the experiences of other group members to open their
own windows of understanding. It is a course which groups may want to repeat in order to reap the greatest reward in Experiencing
God’s Help in Times of Crisis, the book’s subtitle. I warmly recommend it. (The Good Bookstall) Reader
Ministry Explored (with Cathy Rowling; SPCK, June 2009)
What a treasure this book is!
Anyone asking questions about the possibility of public ministry – lay or ordained – should read it. Readers
and clergy alike cannot fail to be encouraged, challenged and informed by this mix of theory and down-to-earth practice.
History, vocation, selection, training, lots about ministry and so much more, this is a resource well worth reading and one
to which I know I will return again and again. Robert Paterson, Bishop of Sodor and Man, Vice Chair of Theological Education
for the Anglican Communion and Chair of the Central Readers’ Council for England and Wales. LentWise: Spiritual Essentials for RealLife (Church House Publishing, 2008)
User-friendly,
undaunting and profound. The author is an experienced and trustworthy guide on our journey through Lent. With her help, Lent
will be a journey of delighted discovery and not a miserable, dutiful trudge. Jane Williams Searching for Meaning. An Introduction to Interpreting the New Testament (SPCK, 2008)
In
this excellent introduction, Paula Gooder acts as our erudite, reliable and ever patient guide. This impressive volume deserves
to be on the bibliography of every serious student of the Bible. Dr Helen Bond, University of Edinburgh This is a clearly
written and extremely helpful introduction to many different approaches to the interpretation of the New Testament. ...It
will become an indispensable tool and is greatly to be welcomed.'Richard A. Burridge Dean of King's College London
and Professor of Biblical Interpretation" The Meaning is in the Waiting. The Spirit
of Advent (Canterbury Press, 2008)
Shrewd observations and intelligent
commentary are offered with a lightness of touch, so that the reader is drawn gently but compellingly to re-examine familiar
texts and find in them fresh insights to ponder...It is an exceedingly good book, and well worth waiting with. Edward Dowler,
Church Times. Only The Third Heaven? 2 Corinthians 12.1-10
and Heavenly Ascent (T&T Clark, 2006)
Hosea-Micah
The People's Bible Commentary (BRF, 2005)
Exploring New Testament Greek: A Way In (with Peter Kevern, SCM
2004)
The Pentateuch: A Story of Beginnings (Continuum Biblical Studies series, December 2000; reissued February
2005).
Articles The NewTestament material in The Anglican Communion and Homosexuality (SPCK,
2008)
'Towards a Diaconal Church: Some Reflections on New Testament Material' in David Clark (ed)
The Diaconal Church: Beyond the Mould of Christendom (Epworth, 2008)
'In Search of the Early Church:
The New Testament and the Development of Early Christian Communities G. Mannion (ed.) The Routledge Companion to the Christian
Church. (Routledge, 2008)
Contributions to Reflections for Daily Prayer: Advent - Epiphany 2007-2008. (CHP, 2007)
'Diakonia in the New Testament: A Dialogue with John N. Collins' Ecclesiology 3.1 (2006): 33-56.
Contributions
to Guidelines, BRF, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
'The Use of the Bible in BEM' in Paul Avis (ed.)
Paths to Unity. Explorations in Ecumenical Method (London: Church House Publishing, 2005)
Column in Sojourners'
Magazine January to May 2005
'Remembering Rizpah' Sojourners Magazine January 2004
'Eden
and Beyond: Images of Paradise in Biblical and extra-Biblical Literature' New Blackfriars vol 83, no. 971 (2002)
Contributions to Leslie Houlden and John Rogerson (eds) The Common Worship Lectionary. A Scripture Commentary Year C (SPCK,
2003).
'Exile, Ministry and the Church Today' Modern Believing vol 43:4 July 2001
'Interpreting
Paul' Priest and People July 2001
Various articles and research for the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian
Church (3rd edition, 1997).
Regular reviews in the Journal of Theological Studies, The Reader and occasional reviews
in Ecclesiology
