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Contents 1 History 5 Biography 7 Religion & Society 11 Theology 15 Old Testament 19 New Testament 24 Biblical Contexts 27 Biblical Interpretations 29 Commentaries 31 Ethics 34 Christian Ministry 41 Faith and Life 44 General Policies & Sales Information

Some highlights inside God’s Spies | 3 Elizabeth Braw The story of how East Germany’s Stasi spied on the countries’ Christians by means of pastors, divinity professors, and bishops

I Bring the Voices of My People | 7 Chanequa Walker-Barnes What our understanding of racism and racial reconciliation look like if we center the experiences of Black women and other women of color?

Seeing God | 11 Hans Boersma What does it mean to see God? And exactly how do we see God—with our physical eyes or with the mind’s eye?

The End of the Beginning | 15 Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos The first volume in a three-part commentary on the former prophets (Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings), entitled A People and a Land

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Scribes and Scrolls in Qumran | 24 Sidnie White Crawford A new synthesis of text and archaeology that yields a convincing history of and purpose for the Qumran settlement and its associated caves

Christ and the Common Life | 31 Luke Bretherton A robust political theology text that equips readers to think theologically through the complexities of politics today

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A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada S ECOND E D ITIO N

Mark A. Noll A best-selling text thoroughly updated, including new chapters on the last 30 years

H I S T O R Y

Mark Noll’s A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada has been firmly established as the standard text on the Christian experience in North America. Now Noll has thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded his classic text to incorporate new materials and important themes, events, leaders, and changes of the last thirty years. Once again readers will benefit from his insights on the United States and Canada in this superb narrative survey of Christian churches, institutions, and cultural engagements from the colonial period through 2018.

“An excellent study that will help historians appreciate the importance of Christianity in the history of the United States and Canada.” – The Journal of American History “Scholars and general readers alike will gain unique insights into the multifaceted character of Christianity in its New World environment. Nothing short of brilliant.” – Harry S. Stout Yale University

“A new standard for textbooks on the history of North American Christianity.” – James Turner University of Notre Dame

“Reworked and enhanced with some of the best new scholarship in the field, making this book, once again, the most up-to-date and accessible survey of American Christianity available today.” – John Fea Messiah College

Mark A. Noll is Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame. His other books include The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind and Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity.

Table of Contents Beginnings 1. European Expansion and Catholic Settlement 2. The English Reformation and the Puritans 3. Other Beginnings Americanization 4. A Renewal of Piety, 1700–1750 5. The Churches in the Revolution 6. The Revolution in the Churches The “Protestant Century” 7. Evangelical Mobilization 8. “Outsiders” 9. “Evangelical America,” 1800–1865 10. His Dominion: “Christian Canada” 11. The American Civil War 12. White Protestants Carry On, 1865-ca. 1900 13. Non-White, Non-Protestant Tumultuous Times, 1900-2018 14. Protestant Uncertainty 15. The World in the Churches, the Churches in the World, 1918-1960 16. Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions, 1960-2001 17. “Church History,” 1960-2018 18. The Recent Past, 2001-2018 Reflections 19. Legacies of “Christian America” 20. American Christianity, Christianity in America

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A Documentary History of Religion in America FO URTH E D ITIO N

Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll, and Heath W. Carter, editors An essential text to encounter the astonishing scope of religious belief and practice in American history

H I S T O R Y

For decades students and scholars have turned to A Documentary History of Religion in America for access to the most significant primary sources relating to religion in American history from the sixteenth century to the present. This fourth edition—published in a single volume for the first time—has been updated and condensed, allowing instructors to more easily cover the material in a single semester.

“The best sourcebook available to contemporary students and general readers.” — Choice “A treasure chest containing varied essentials of our country’s past.” — Religious Studies Review “This updated collection of primary documents has been expertly pulled into a single volume to give a new generation of students access to a wide range of prominent religious voices. These carefully curated readings beautifully showcase the character of American religion.” — Kate Bowler Duke Divinity School

“Gaustad’s Documentary History has long been the gold standard for teachers who want to bring primary sources into their American religious history classrooms. In this fourth edition Noll and Carter have managed to improve upon a classic!” — John Fea Messiah College

Edwin S. Gaustad (1923–2011) was professor emeritus of history and religious studies at the University of California, Riverside. Mark A. Noll is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Heath W. Carter is assistant professor of history at Valparaiso University and coeditor (with Mark A. Noll) of the Library of Religious Biography series.

Table of Contents

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Chapter 1: The Old World and the New Mississippian Culture and Society New Spain New France England Anew Chapter 2: Americanizing the Ways of Faith Religion and Social Order in the Colonies Awakening the Colonies Religion and Revolution Aftermath of Revolution: Religious Liberty Guaranteed Chapter 3: Evangelical Empire: Rise and Fall The Voluntary Principle Reviving the Nation Challenges of a Religiously Plural Republic Progress and the Perfect Society Restorations and Expectations Humans Rights and American Religion Chapter 4: Sectional Crisis and Reconstruction Debate and Schism over Slavery The Civil War as a Religious Event Meditations on the Nation Under God After the War

Chapter 5: A New Religious Landscape New Arrivals Redefining Woman’s Work The West A New World -- Abroad and at Home Chapter 6: Making Progress in a Progressive Age? New Thought Reinventing the “Old-Time Religion” Pursuing Justice Modernism / Fundamentalism Religion and Society Between World Wars Chapter 7: Consensus and Conflict in the Postwar Era The World and Its Wars Searching for Christian Unity in TriFaith America Fighting for Liberation Courts and Culture Wars Chapter 8: Into the New Millennium Pluralism and Politics Trauma and Transition Religion and National Upheaval

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God’s Spies

Between the Swastika and the Sickle

The Stasi’s Cold War Espionage Campaign inside the Church

The Life, Disappearance, and Execution of Ernst Lohmeyer

Elisabeth Braw

James R. Edwards

East Germany only existed for a short forty years, but in that time, the country’s secret police, the Stasi, developed a highly successful church department that—using persuasion rather than threats—managed to recruit an extraordinary stable of clergy spies. Pastors, professors, seminary students, and even bishops spied on colleagues, other Christians, and anyone else they could report about to their handlers in the Stasi. Thanks to its pastor spies, the Church Department (official name: Department XX/4) knew exactly what was happening and being planned in the country’s predominantly Lutheran churches. Yet ultimately it failed in its mission: despite knowing virtually everything about East German Christians, the Stasi couldn’t prevent the church-led protests that erupted in 1989 and brought down the Berlin Wall.

On February 15, 1946, the Soviet NKVD raided the home of Ernst Lohmeyer just hours before his inauguration as the president of Greifswald University in Germany. Lohmeyer had survived active duty in both World War I and World War II. A New Testament scholar and theologian, he resisted the rise of Nazi fascism as a member of the Confessing Church. But the Soviet occupation of Germany was even more repressive than Nazi domination. With the exception of one letter from prison, Lohmeyer was never heard from again. James R. Edwards recounts the story of Lohmeyer’s life, his theological achievements, his courageous resistance to the forces of political repression, not least against Jews in Nazi Germany, and of the events surrounding his death. But the biography also includes Edwards’s intrepid search for the legacy of this brilliant and courageous scholar, whose story is made more compelling by the tumultuous interplay of faith and politics in twenty-first century America.

Elisabeth Braw is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a senior consultant at the London headquarters of Control Risks. She was previously a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek and is a contributor to The Times (London), the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and Politico.

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“An important and wonderfully written biography of a pivotal figure in the study of the New Testament. Even more: this book gives us a fascinating depiction of German theological scholarship before, during, and after the Nazi years.” — Susannah Heschel author of The Aryan Jesus

James R. Edwards is the Bruner-Welch Professor Emeritus of Theology at Whitworth University. He lectures widely on theological subjects, has published more than one hundred articles, and is the author of several books as well as commentaries on Romans and the Gospels of Mark and Luke.

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Evangelicals

Who They Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be Mark A. Noll, David W. Bebbington, and George M. Marsden

H I S T O R Y

The past, present, and future of a people and movement in crisis

The word “evangelical” is in trouble. To understand the present crisis of evangelicalism, there may be no better path than to trace its history. Three figures have been the go-to scholars to help us understand evangelicalism for the last forty years: Mark Noll, whose Scandal of the Evangelical Mind identified an earlier crisis point in the movement; David Bebbington, whose “Bebbington Quadrilateral” remains the standard definition of evangelical still quoted today; and George Marsden, more often quoted recently with his definition of an evangelical as “anyone who likes Billy Graham.” Now, in Evangelicals, they combine previously published material from around the field with new contributions to give readers a survey of evangelicalism over the last forty years that leads into a discussion of where the movement stands today. Evangelicals provides an illuminating retrospective of how the term came to be used as it has been used, along with thoughtful reflections on the crisis that now exists. Mark A. Noll is Francis A. McAnaney Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Notre Dame. His other books include The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind and Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity. David W. Bebbington has taught at the University of Stirling since 1976. In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His publications include Evangelicalism in Modern Britain. George M. Marsden is professor emeritus of history at the University of Notre Dame. Among his many other books is Jonathan Edwards: A Life, which was named one of ten “Books of the Year” for 2003 by Atlantic Monthly and received the prestigious Bancroft Prize in history (2004), the Grawemeyer Award in religion (2005), and a half dozen other awards.

Table of Contents Introduction. Mark Noll, “One Word by Three Crises.” Part I: The History of “Evangelical History” 1. 1984. George Marsden, “The Evangelical Denomination.” 2. 1989. David Bebbington, The Nature od Evangelical Religion.” 3. 1991. Douglas A. Sweeney, “The Essential Evangelical Dialectic: The Historiography of the Early Neo-Evangelical Movement and the Observer-Participant Dilemma.” 4. 2001. Mark Noll, “Evangelical Constituencies in North America and the World.” 5. 2013. David Bebbington, “The Evangelical Discovery of History.” 6. 2015. Charlie Phillips, Kelly Cross Elliott, Amanda Porterfield, Thomas Kidd, Mark Noll, David Bebbington, Darren Dochuk, Molly Worthen, and David Bebbington, “Roundtable: Re-Examining David Bebbington’s ‘Quadrilateral Thesis’.” 7. 2016. Linford D. Fisher, “Evangelicals and Unevangelicals: The Contested History of a Word” Part II: The Current Crisis: Looking Back 8. Michael Hamilton, “A Strange Love? Or: How White Evangelicals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Donald.” 9. D. G. Hart, “Live by the Polls, Die by the Polls.” 10. Kristin Kobes Du Mez, “Donald Trump and Militant Evangelical Masculinity.” 11. Fred Clark, “The ‘Weird’ Fringe is the Biggest Part of White Evangelicalism.” Part III: The Current Crisis: Assessment 12. Thomas Kidd, “Is the Term ‘Evangelical’ Redeemable?” 13. Timothy Keller, “Can Evangelicals Survive Donald Trump?” 14. Molly Worthen, “How to Escape from Roy Moore’s Evangelicalism?” 15. Jemar Tisby, “Are Black Christians Evangelicals?” 16. Brian Stiller, “To Be or Not to Be an Evangelical?” Part IV: Historians Seeking Perspective 17. George Marsden, “On Not Mistaking One Part for the Whole: The Future of American Evangelicalism in a Global Perspective.” 18. David Bebbington, “Evangelicals and Recent Politics in Britain.” 19. Mark Noll, “An American Dilemma and a Global Opportunity.”

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The Miracle Lady

A Religious Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Kathryn Kuhlman and the Transformation of Charismatic Christianity

John F. Woolverton with James D. Bratt Foreword by James Comey When asked at a press conference about the roots of his political philosophy, President Franklin Roosevelt responded, “I am a Christian and a Democrat.” This volume—part of the popular and widely acclaimed Library of Religious Biography series—tells the story of how the first informed the second, showing how FDR’s upbringing in the Episcopal Church and education at the Groton School under legendary headmaster and minister Endicott Peabody formed him into a leader whose politics were fundamentally shaped by the social gospel. A work begun by religious historian John Woolverton and recently completed by James Bratt, A Christian and a Democrat is an engaging analysis of the surprisingly significant religious life of one of the most important presidents in US history. Reading Woolverton’s account of FDR’s response to the toxic demagoguery of his day will reassure readers today that a constructive way forward is possible for Christians, for Americans, for the world. John F. Woolverton (1926–2014) was a professor of church history at Virginia Theological Seminary and a pastor in the Episcopal Church. He also taught at the College of William and Mary and the University of Texas. James D. Bratt is professor emeritus of history at Calvin College and the author of Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat and Dutch Calvinism in Modern America.

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The Story of Billy Graham Grant Wacker For more than five decades Billy Graham (1918-2018) ranked as one of the most influential voices in the Christian world. Nearly 215 million people around the world heard him preach in person or through live electronic media, almost certainly more than any other person. For millions, Graham was less a preacher than a Protestant saint. Graham preached his gospel message to every corner of the world, but he made his mark in other ways, too. He led evangelicals out of the cultural closet and taught them how to function in the public square. His approach changed over time, from militant anti-communism to a more irenic, progressive posture. And throughout his career his preaching continued to resonate, propelled by his powerful promise of a second chance. This narrative biography of Billy Graham shows how he, more than any other individual, helped create and shape the powerful post-World War II evangelical movement in the United States and around the world.

Amy Collier Artman Foreword by Kate Bowler

B I O G R A P H Y

A Christian and a Democrat One Soul at a Time

Amy Collier Artman narrates the remarkable life story of Kathryn Kuhlman and in the process, relates the larger story of charismatic Christianity, particularly how it moved from the fringes of American society to the mainstream. Tracing Kuhlman’s remarkable career as a media-savvy preacher and fleshing out her unconventional character, Artman also shows how Kuhlman skillfully navigated the structures, rules, and landmines that surrounded female religious leaders in the mid-twentieth century. “With sensitivity and keen historical insight, Amy Artman explains how a girl evangelist from Missouri, once derided as a ‘holy roller’ and a ‘Jesus freak,’ grew into a media celebrity who transformed public perceptions of charismatic Christianity.” — Catherine Brekus Harvard Divinity School

“I am so pleased that Grant Wacker has given readers a portrait of my brother that is authentic.”

“Through her astute analysis of Kuhlman’s multifaceted ministry, Artman sheds new light on the complexities of the charismatic movement and its growing influence within and beyond the United States.”

— Jean Graham Ford

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Grant Wacker is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Christian History at Duke Divinity School. A past president of the American Society of Church History, he is the author of Heaven Below and America’s Pastor. A member of Orange United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, he lives with his wife, Katherine Wacker, and bulldog, Jedd Wacker, in Cary, North Carolina.

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“Artman provides an engrossing portrait of Kathryn Kuhlman (1907–1976), a leading figure in charismatic Christianity and “miracle healing,” in her strong debut. This is an excellent biography that rightly situates Kuhlman alongside evangelists such as Oral Roberts, Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, and Jim Bakker.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Amy Collier Artman teaches in the Religious Studies Department at Missouri State University. She holds a PhD in the history of Christianity from the University of Chicago.

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Religion shapes every story. Regardless of our beliefs, the cultural influences and religious commitments that surround us help forge our deepest convictions. And in religious biographies, we see these dynamics at work in the lives of influential people throughout history.

The Library of Religious Biography is a series of original biographies that bring to life important figures in American history and beyond, showing the sometimes surprising influence of religion on these subjects and the world they inhabited. Grounded in solid research, these volumes link the lives of their subjects to the broader cultural contexts and religious issues that surrounded them. The authors are respected historians, each a recognized authority in the period of religious history in which his or her subject lived and worked. Marked by careful scholarship yet free of academic jargon, the books in this series are well-written narratives meant to be read and enjoyed as well as studied.

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Prophetic Christianity Series

I Bring the Voices of My People A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation Chanequa Walker-Barnes

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Foreword by Lisa Sharon Harper Disrupting the racist and sexist biases in conversations on reconciliation

Chanequa Walker-Barnes offers a compelling argument that the Christian racial reconciliation movement is incapable of responding to modern-day racism. She demonstrates how reconciliation’s roots in the evangelical, male-centered Promise Keepers’ movement has resulted in a patriarchal and largely symbolic effort, focused upon improving relationships between men from various racial-ethnic groups. Walker-Barnes argues that highlighting the voices of women of color is critical to developing any genuine efforts toward reconciliation. Drawing upon intersectionality theory and critical race studies, she demonstrates how living at the intersection of racism and sexism exposes women of color to unique experiences of gendered racism that are not about relationships, but rather are about systems of power and inequity. Refuting the idea that race and racism are “one-size-fits-all,” I Bring the Voices of My People highlights the particular work that White Americans must do to repent of racism and to work toward racial justice and offers a constructive view of reconciliation that prioritizes eliminating racial injustice and healing the damage that it has done to African Americans and other people of color.

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Chanequa Walker-Barnes is a clinical psychologist, public theologian, and minister. She is the author of Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength and has written over a dozen articles in theology and psychology. She serves as Associate Professor of Practical Theology at the Mercer University McAfee School of Theology.

Table of Contents Introduction 1. Racism Is Not about Feelings or Friendship 2. Racism Is Not a Stand-Alone Issue 3. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being 4. Reconciliation Begins with a Curse 5. Our Spiritual Strivings

About the Prophetic Christianity Series Bruce Ellis Benson, Malinda Elizabeth Berry, Peter Goodwin Heltzel, series editors The Prophetic Christianity series explores the complex relationship between Christian doctrine and contemporary life. Deeply rooted in the Christian tradition, series contributors are scholars who believe that the concept of “difference” calls us to constructive dialogue between their context and contemporary methodologies like postmodernism and postcolonialism. This series offers new avenues for constructive dialogue about biblical hermeneutics, theological method, and ecclesial commitment. The goal is to foster transformation and the integration of faith, action, and discipleship within learning communities -- including classrooms and small groups in academic and faith communities—as they seek a just and peaceable global future.

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Can I Get a Witness?

Slavery’s Long Shadow

Thirteen Peacemakers, Community-Builders, and Agitators for Faith and Justice

Race and Reconciliation in American Christianity

Charles Marsh, Shea Tuttle, and Daniel P. Rhodes, editors Can I Get a Witness? tells the stories of thirteen peculiar people who worked to transform American culture based, at least in part, on their religious convictions. These narratives are not comprehensive, cradleto-grave biographies, nor are they characterized by staid rehearsal of facts; rather, this collection strives for vibrant storytelling and researchenriched narrative to bring these figures to life. The chapters illumine aspects of the historical figures’ religious experience and conviction as well as the work they did in the world, all the while exploring how their convictions shaped their work and how their work refined their convictions. These narratives are written by authors chosen for their unique abilities to tell these very particular stories. Charles Marsh is Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies and director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia. Shea Tuttle is editorial and program manager at the Project on Lived Theology. Daniel P. Rhodes is clinical assistant professor of social justice at the Institute of Pastoral Studies, Loyola University Chicago.

James L. Gorman, Mark W. Hamilton, and Jeff W. Childers, editors At the center of the story of American Christianity lies an integral connection between race relations and Christian unity. In Slavery’s Long Shadow fourteen scholars examine how the sobering historical realities of race relations and Christianity have created both unity and division within American churches from the 1790s into the twenty-first century. Historians and any Christians interested in racial reconciliation will find this book to helpfully illuminate our Christian and national past toward a less divided future. James L. Gorman is associate professor of history at Johnson University in Knoxville, Tennessee. Mark W. Hamilton is professor of Old Testament at Abilene Christian University. Jeff W. Childers is Carmichael-Walling Chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at Abilene Christian University. Table of Contents

Daniel P. Rhodes on Cesar Chavez Donyelle McCray on Howard Thurman Grace Y. Kao on Yuri Kochiyama Peter Slade on Howard Kester Nichole M. Flores on Ella Baker Carlene Bauer on Dorothy Day Heather A. Warren on Fr. John A. Ryan Becca Stevens on Frank William Stringfellow W. Ralph Eubanks on Mahalia Jackson Susan M. Glisson and Charles H. Tucker on Lucy Randolph Mason Soong-Chan Rah on Richard Twiss David Dark on Daniel Berrigan M. Therese Lysaught on Sr. Mary Stella Simpson

James L. Gorman on Evangelical Revivalism and Race Relations in the Early National Era Wes Crawford on Racism and Division in Christianity during the Antebellum and Reconstruction Eras Christopher R. Hutson on The Role of Religion in the Lynching Culture of Jim Crow America Kathy Pulley on Civil Rights and the Religious Right Joel A. Brown on White Christianity and Resistance to Civil Rights for Racial Minorities in Twenty-First Century America Loretta Honnicutt on Women, Race, and Unity in the Stone-Campbell Movement Lawrence A. Q. Burnley on The Civil Right Movement and Interracial Unity within the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Edward J. Robinson on Racial Cooperation in the Jim Crow and Civil Rights Eras D. Newell Williams and Kamilah Hall Sharp on Initiatives to Overcome Racism in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Richard T. Hughes on Resisting White Supremacy Jerry Taylor on Racial Reconciliation as Professional Practice Tanya Smith Brice on Racial Reconciliation Workshops from the 1960s for Today

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A Brief History George M. Marsden

Pagans and Christians in the City

A keen historical take on the mix of religion and culture in the USA

Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac

Surveying the history of religion and American culture from the days of the earliest European settlers right up through the elections of 2016, Marsden offers the kind of historically and religiously informed scholarship that has made him one of the nation’s most respected and decorated historians. Students in the classroom and readers of all ages who simply enjoy reading history will benefit from engaging with the story Marsden tells.

Foreword by Robert P. George

“An astute, accessible, and wonderful introduction to the fascinating puzzle of American religious history.” — Thomas Kidd

“As engrossing, lucid, and jargonless a scholarly book as has ever been written.”

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“No better brief yet profound treatment of Christianity’s 400 years in the United States exists than this volume.” — Rick Ostrander

Steven D. Smith Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the US wonder why they are being forced to bracket their beliefs in order to participate in public life. This situation is not new, says Steven D. Smith: nearly two thousand years ago in the Roman Empire, Christians faced similar challenges and questions.

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Religion and American Culture

— Booklist, starred review “Secularists and believers alike have much to learn from this careful, balanced, and generous account.” — Anthony Kronman Yale Law School

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George Marsden is professor emeritus of history at the University of Notre Dame. Among his many other books is Jonathan Edwards: A Life, which was named one of ten “Books of the Year” for 2003 by Atlantic Monthly and received the prestigious Bancroft Prize in history (2004), the Grawemeyer Award in religion (2005), and a half dozen other awards. Table of Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Christendom and American Origins Religion and the American Revolution The Age of Democratic Revivals Protestant and Progressive America: 1860-1917 Pluralistic America: 1860-1917 Keeping the Faith in Modern Times A Return to Faith and the Quest for Consensus: 1941-63 The 1960s and Their Legacy—A Fragmented Nation in Search of a Soul The Twenty-First Century

Steven D. Smith is Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and serves as codirector of the university’s Institute for Law and Religion. His other books include The Rise and Decline of American Religious Freedom. Table of Contents 1. A Portentous Question, a Quixotic Proposal 2. Homo Religiosus 3. City of the Gods 4. Believing in Paganism 5. Looking Beyond the World: The Christian Revolution 6. The Logic of Pagan Persecution 7. The Struggle for the City 8. Under a Christian Canopy 9. Secularism and Paganism 10. Counterrevolution, Part I: Symbols, Sex, and the Constitution 11. Counterrevolution, Part II: Religious Freedom 12. Coming Home? The Imminent Immanent City

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Jesus, King of Strangers

Sightings

God and the Brain

What the Bible Really Says about Immigration

Reflections on Religion in Public Life

The Rationality of Belief

Mark W. Hamilton

Brett Colasacco, editor

Kelly James Clark

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Foreword by Justin L. Barrett

Since 1999, Martin Marty and the editors of Sightings, a digital publication of the University of Chicago Divinity School’s Martin Marty Center, have published informed, accessible, and witty commentary on religion in current events. In this volume writers intelligently engage and elucidate many critical trends, issues, and practices of faith in our pluralistic world.

Kelly James Clark brings together science and philosophy to examine some of humanity’s more pressing questions. Is belief in God, as Richard Dawkins claims, a delusion? Are atheists smarter or more rational than religious believers? Do our genes determine who we are and what we believe? Can our very creaturely cognitive equipment help us discover truth and meaning in life? Are atheists any different from Mother Teresa? Clark’s surprising answers both defend the rationality of religious belief and contribute to the study of cognitive science. God and the Brain explores complicated questions about the nature of belief and the human mind. Scientifically minded, philosophically astute, and reader-friendly, God and the Brain provides an accessible overview of some new cognitive scientific approaches to the study of religion and evaluates their implications for both theistic and atheistic belief.

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Foreword by Shaun Casey

The church has often identified itself as a community of strangers. This was the story of the church during much of its early history, and in many parts of the world, the church still is in the minority. In a world in which 240 million people are voluntary immigrants and another 60 to 70 million are refugees, the urgency of the church’s recovery of its native language on immigration remains vital. Jesus, King of Strangers examines the Bible’s key ideas about human movement and the relationship between migrants and their hosts. Hamilton argues that reclaiming the biblical language will free the church from hypernationalism and fear-driven demagoguery. “In a time when debate over immigration rages, the Christian church needs books like this that present a comprehensive study of the Bible on the topic. Hamilton moves through both testaments with skill and sensitivity to demonstrate the consistent divine demand to care for migrants and how migration is central to the story of the people of God.” — M. Daniel Carroll R. author of Christians at the Border

Mark W. Hamilton holds the Onstead Chair in the College of Biblical Studies at Abilene Christian University where he serves as Professor of Old Testament. He has authored, coauthored, and edited several books including, Slavery’s Long Shadow: Race and Reconciliation in American Christianity.

“This collection of one hundred Sightings, crafted by a wide variety scholars, journalists, and pastors, is lively, lucid, funny, quotable, perceptive, provocative, memorable, and, very often, poignant. Many of the individual essays are worth the price of the book. They yield a ‘sighting’ of how one of the great minds of Christian history has performed the hard work of spotting and making sense of the extraordinary complexity of contemporary religious trends.” — Grant Wacker Duke Divinity School

Brett Colasacco is former editor of Sightings: Religion in Public Life, a twice-weekly publication of the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion. He has a PhD in religion, literature, and visual culture from the University of Chicago, where he currently works as a writer.

Kelly James Clark is senior research fellow at the Kaufman Interfaith Institute at Grand Valley State University; his many other books include Written to Be Heard, Return to Reason, and When Faith Is Not Enough.

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Seeing God

The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition Hans Boersma Foreword by Andrew Louth

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Christianity Today 2019 Book Award for Theology/Ethics To see God is our heart’s desire, our final purpose in life. But what does it mean to see God? And exactly how do we see God—with our physical eyes or with the mind’s eye? In this informed study of the beatific vision, Hans Boersma focuses on “vision” as a living metaphor and shows how the vision of God is not just a future but a present reality. Seeing God is both a historical theology and a dogmatic articulation of the beatific vision, of how the invisible God becomes visible to us. In examining what Christian thinkers throughout history have written about the beatific vision, Boersma explores how God trains us to see his character by transforming our eyes and minds, highlighting continuity from this world to the next. Christ-centered, sacramental, and ecumenical, Boersma’s work presents life as a never-ending journey toward seeing the face of God in Christ both here and in the world to come.

“This is theological reflection of the most illuminating kind.” — David Bentley Hart author of Atheist Delusions and The Beauty of the Infinite

“A profound and important work.”

— Simon Oliver Durham University

“An energizing book from one of today’s best theologians.”

— Janet Soskice

University of Cambridge

“A richly comprehensive historical account of theologies of the beatific vision and a wonderful achievement.” — John Milbank University of Nottingham

“Boersma eloquently unveils the powerful truth that we are made in our bones to thirst for such a vision and that the ordering of our lives is properly geared toward this end.” — Ephraim Radner Wycliffe College

“A wonderful and supremely worthwhile feat.”

— Lydia Schumacher King’s College London

Hans Boersma is the J. I. Packer Professor of Theology at Regent College. Among his other books is Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry. Table of Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Plausibility and Vision | The Beatific Vision in Modernity Philosophy and Vision | Plato, Plotinus, and the Christian Faith Progress and Vision | Gregory of Nyssa’s Unending Search Augustine and Vision | Augustine on Theophanies and Ecstasy Transfiguration and Vision | Thomas Aquinas and Gregory Palamas Mystical Union and Vision | Symeon the New Theologian and John of the Cross 7. Faculties and Vision | Bonaventure and Nicholas of Cusa 8. Speech and Vision | Dante’s Transhumanizing Journey 9. Accommodation and Vision | John Calvin on Face-to-Face Vision of God 10. Modernity and Vision | John Donne’s Restoration of “Commerce twixt heauen and earth” 11. Christ and Vision | Puritan and Dutch Reformed Articulations of the Beatific Vision 12. Mediation and Vision | An Edwardsean Modification of Thomas Aquinas 13. Pedagogy and Vision | Beatific Vision through Apprenticeship

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Sacred Misinterpretation

Christian Theology in the Pluralistic World

Reaching across the Christian-Muslim Divide

A Global Introduction

Martin Accad

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen

Foreword by Gabriel Said Reynolds Theological issues are crucial to how Christians and Muslims understand and perceive each other. In Sacred Misinterpretation Martin Accad guides readers through key theological questions that fuel conflict and misunderstanding between Muslims and Christians. A sure-footed guide, he weaves personal stories together with deep discussion of theological beliefs. “In his thoughtful and thoroughly researched book Sacred Misinterpretation, Martin Accad has supplied a splendid tool for future interreligious dialogue.” — Philip Jenkins Baylor University

Martin Accad is associate professor of Islamic studies at Arab Baptist Theological Seminary in Beirut, Lebanon, and director of the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. Having a rich multicultural background in his own family, he is very involved in faith-based peacebuilding and bridging Arab-Western cultural divides. Table of Contents Chapter 1 – Introduction: Mercy, Humility, and Justice Chapter 2 – Hermeneutics and Dialogue: Establishing a Methodological Framework Chapter 3 - “God” in Christian-Muslim Dialogue and Beyond Chapter 4 - “Who Jesus Is Not” According to Muslims: Stripping the Christian Layer off the Christ-Icon Chapter 5 - “Who do you say that I am?” – The Muslim Restoration of the Qur’anic Christ-Icon Chapter 6 - Muslim Strategies in Approaching the Bible: Rescuing the Text from Jewish and Christian Misinterpretation and Mistranslation Chapter 7 - Taḥrīf: Scriptures Corrupted Beyond Repair? Chapter 8 - Islam’s “Muhammado-Centric” Reading of the Bible Chapter 9 – Good Arguments Never Die! “Muhammad Was the Promised Paraclete,” the Johannine “Expected Comforter” Chapter 10 – Beyond Conflict: Islam, a Bridge to Christ?

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen presents historic Christian doctrines in relation to the natural sciences and four other living faiths—Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. This textbook covers all systematic topics along with a host of current issues such as violence, colonialism, inclusivity, sociopolitical liberation, environmental care, and more. Accessible and student-friendly, Christian Theology in the Pluralistic World is the ideal text for exploring a theological vision at once rooted in the Christian tradition and constructive in its engagement with the complexities of our global, pluralistic world. Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen is professor of systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, and docent of ecumenics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His other books include the five volumes of his ambitious constructive-theology project: Christ and Reconciliation, Creation and Humanity, Trinity and Revelation, Spirit and Salvation, and Hope and Community. Table of Contents Introduction 1. Revelation 2. Triune God 3. Creation 4. Humanity 5. Christology 6. Reconciliation 7. Holy Spirit 8. Salvation 9. Church 10. Eschatology Epilogue: Christian Doctrine as the Trinitarian Unfolding of the Divine Economy

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Kierkegaard and Spirituality Accountability as the Meaning of Human Existence C. Stephen Evans The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard is often read for his contributions to Christian theology, but he also has much to offer about spirituality—both Christian and more generally human. C. Stephen Evans assesses Kierkegaard’s belief that true spirituality should be seen as accountability: the grateful recognition of our existence as a gift. Spirituality takes on a Christian flavor when one recognizes in Jesus Christ the human incarnation of the God who gives us being. In this clearly written and substantive book a leading scholar on Kierkegaard’s thought makes Kierkegaard’s contributions to spirituality accessible not only to philosophers and theologians but to pastors, spiritual directors, and lay Christians. C. Stephen Evans is University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Baylor University and director of the Baylor Center for Christian Philosophy. He is also Professorial Fellow at the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology at the University of St. Andrews and at the Institute for Religion and Critical Enquiry at Australian Catholic University. His numerous books include A History of Western Philosophy and Why Believe?

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Reimagining the Analogia Entis The Future of Erich Przywara’s Christian Vision Philip John Paul Gonzales Foreword by Cyril O’Regan

“Gonzales is that rare combination of exceptional scholar and visionary philosopher; he has shaken the dust off the analogia entis and, like Przywara, opened up worlds of conversation, communion, and nuance. Breathtaking, exhilarating, and grounded in the Christocentric substance which alone discloses truth, this book is indeed an analogia caritatis—an essential, graceful, and rewarding journey.” —Caitlin Smith Gilson University of Holy Cross, New Orleans

“Philip Gonzales here achieves a remarkable expansion and updating of the analogical metaphysics of Erich Przywara. Analogy comprises both being and revelation and a tensionality not just between God and creation but between essence and existence, past and future, potential and fulfillment. Therefore, a metaphysics of analogy must be as much believed in as argued for, lived as much as believed, and hoped for through a welcoming of the fire of sanctity as much as lived. More radically than ever, Gonzales suggests that the biblical, Catholic horizon offers the only credible philosophy that is not a mere surrender to despair.” —John Milbank

The Bible in Medieval Tradition Series

The Book of Revelation

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Kierkegaard and Christian Thought Series

David Burr, translator and editor In this volume Franciscan scholar David Burr concentrates on the mendicant contribution to the book of Revelation. Clashing interpretive strategies developed, mirroring authority structures in the context of the new institutional framework of the university, the new methodology of scholasticism, and expanding papal authority. By the early fourteenth century a clear victory of one strategy and one structure emerges in the work of Pierre Auriol and Nicholas of Lyra, and, conversely, the defeat of another in the posthumous condemnations of Petrus Iohannis Olivi and, to some extent, Joachim of Fiore. This is the fifth volume of The Bible in Medieval Tradition (BMT), a series designed to reconnect the church with part of its rich history of biblical interpretation. David Burr is professor emeritus of history at Virginia Tech. He received the St. Bonaventure medal for lifetime achievement in Franciscan studies in 2005 and is currently working on a critical edition of Petrus Iohannis Olivi’s commentary on the gospel of Matthew.

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University of Nottingham

Philip John Paul Gonzales is affiliate assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Dallas. He is the editor of Exorcising Philosophical Modernity: Cyril O’Regan and Christian Discourse after Modernity and author of numerous articles, chapters, and reviews.

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Full Darkness Original Sin, Moral Injury, and Wartime Violence Brian S. Powers

Faith Seeking Understanding

Christian Dogmatics

An Introduction to Christian Theology

Cornelis van der Kooi and Gijsbert van den Brink

T HI R D E D I T I O N

Foreword by John Swinton In Full Darkness theologian and wartime veteran Brian Powers argues that the Augustinian concept of original sin can illuminate the nature of wartime violence, particularly through the lens of veteran trauma. He shows precisely how sin and war both cause human identity, agency, and hope to be lost. Ideal for veterans, chaplains, and pastors, Full Darkness offers a new perspective on the cultural understanding of military violence, provides theological help for those drowning in guilt and shame, and paves the way for reclaiming positive human agency and identity. “All of us who live in this world plagued by human violence and unending war, and all who care about the redemption of real, wounded human beings, need this book.” —Martha Moore-Keish Columbia Theological Seminary

“Extraordinary! Full Darkness is essential reading, certainly for theologians and ethicists, but perhaps more importantly for our nation’s political and military leaders, for thoughtful citizens and religious leaders, and for healers and caregivers.” —Craig Dykstra Duke Divinity School

Brian S. Powers holds a PhD from Emory University in theological studies with a concentration in religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. He is the inaugural Bernard William Vann Fellow for the Study of Christianity and the Military at Durham University in the UK.

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Daniel L. Migliore A superb, standard Christian theology text for nearly a quarter century, Daniel Migliore’s Faith Seeking Understanding explores all of the major Christian doctrines in freshly contemporary ways. This third edition offers a substantial expansion of the glossary and new material incorporated throughout, including a section on Christians and Muslims. A new generation of students, pastors, and Christian educators, eager to better understand the rich heritage, central themes, and contemporary challenges of Christian theology, will find both guidance and stimulation in Migliore’s updated work. “A book that manages to be at once deeply traditional and freshly contemporary…Hearty, winsome, and mature, Faith Seeking Understanding sharpens the same appetite it satisfies. Migliore everywhere shows that he knows the difference between what is usual in theology and what is vital.” — Cornelius Plantinga Jr. “This is theology with a sure and sharp pastoral touch…An ideal primer in doctrine for students.”

An Introduction

Translated by Reinder Bruinsma with James D. Bratt A fresh, inviting text on the content of Christian faith in our contemporary context, this one-volume systematic theology offers an accessible, orthodox explication of the Christian faith for students, teachers, pastors, and serious lay readers alike. Cornelis van der Kooi and Gijsbert van den Brink not only cover all the traditional themes but also relate those classic themes to such contemporary developments as Pentecostalism, postmodernism, and evolutionary theory. Ideal for classroom use, each chapter begins with several engaging questions and a statement of learning goals and concludes with a list of recommended reading. Written in a student-friendly tone and style, van der Kooi and van den Brink’s Christian Dogmatics splendidly displays the real, practical relevance of theology to the complexities of our world today. “Serves as a much-needed refresher course in how to bring new vitality to the exploration and twentyfirst-century updating of the best of the theology that we have received from the past!” — Richard J. Mouw Fuller Theological Seminary

— The Expository Times “A seminary and undergraduate standard…Migliore has thoroughly recrafted the volume in his lively and accessible style.” — Religious Studies Review

Cornelis van der Kooi is professor of systematic theology and director of the Center for Evangelical and Reformation Theology at the Free University of Amsterdam.

Daniel L. Migliore is Charles Hodge Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Gijsbert van den Brink is university research chair in theology and science at the Theological Faculty of the Free University of Amsterdam.

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A People and a Land Series

The End of the Beginning Joshua and Judges Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos

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The End of the Beginning presents a chapter by chapter interpretation of the Hebrew text of Joshua and Judges, based on the author’s translation. Johanna van Wijk-Bos accompanies the reader and explains the overarching story of Israel from the entry into Canaan up to the time of Samuel. Presented in the context of the four Historical Books, Joshua through Kings, van Wijk-Bos weaves together the memories of ancient Israel’s past in the form of story, set in the traumatic context of postexilic Judah, based on material dating to earlier periods. The historical books of the Bible were written for education, edification, and entertainment. Some of the stories may move us, some may appall; all will speak to the imagination if we let them. They show a people forging a path forward into an uncertain future in the hope that God will begin again with them, in view of past failures. Christians enter the stories of Israel’s past in a certain sense as outsiders, while at the same time they lay claim to a bond with the same God, and as such, they expect more from the text than lessons of the past intended for a different people. These are not our stories, but we too hope for insight and for a guiding word in our own uncertain future. This is the first volume of A People in a Land, a series on the historical books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings.

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Ancient stories invoking contemporary questions and providing insight for an uncertain future

Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos taught as Professor of Old Testament at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary from 1977-2017. She serves the Presbyterian Church as ordained pastor and is deeply engaged with issues of equity in terms of gender and race. A prolific author and editor, she wrote among others Making Wise the Simple: the Torah in Christian Faith and Practice and Reading Samuel: A Literary and Theological Commentary. Table of Contents Part I: Joshua: Entering the Land Introduction Cycle I: Crossing and Conquest: Joshua 1:1-12:24 Cycle II: Occupation: Joshua 13:1-21:45 Cycle III: Conflict and Unification: Joshua 21:1-24:33 Part II: Judges: Delivering the Land Introduction Cycle I: Setting the Stage: Judges 1:1-3:6 Cycle II: Oppressors and Saviors: Judges 3:7-16:31 Cycle III: To Do What Is Right: Judges 17:1-21:25

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The Psalms as Christian Praise

A Historical Theology of the Hebrew Bible

A Historical Commentary

Konrad Schmid explores not only the theology of the biblical books in isolation, but he also offers unifying principles and links between the distinct units that make up the Hebrew Bible. By focusing on both the theology of the whole Hebrew Bible as well as its individual pieces, A Historical Theology of the Hebrew Bible provides a comprehensive discussion of theological work within the Hebrew Bible.

Bruce K. Waltke and James M. Houston Following in the style of their companion volumes, The Psalms as Christian Worship and The Psalms as Christian Lament, Bruce Waltke and James Houston now explore the depths of Christian praise. Each volume uniquely blends verse-by-verse commentary with a history of Psalms interpretation in the church from the time of the apostles to the present. Since praise is the essence of the book of Psalms, Waltke and Houston have narrowed the focus to Book IV of the Psalter (Psalms 90106), which magnify God and proclaim him king. To give voice to the psalmist, the authors (carefully) translate and explain each psalm and summarize its theological message. This is followed by listening to the voice of godly churchmen whose comments have stood the test of time. The Psalms as Christian Praise is ideal for anyone seeking to better understand the praise of Israel as found in the Psalms and how Christians also use these Psalms in worship. Bruce K. Waltke is professor emeritus of biblical studies at Regent College, Vancouver, and distinguished professor emeritus of Old Testament at Knox Theological Seminary, Fort Lauderdale. James Houston is professor emeritus of spiritual theology at Regent College, Vancouver.

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Konrad Schmid

Konrad Schmid is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism at the University of Zurich and author or editor of numerous books in Old Testament interpretation including, Is There Theology in the Hebrew Bible?, The Old Testament: A Literary History, Genesis and the Moses Story, and A Farewell to the Yahwist? with Thomas Dozeman. In addition, he serves as main editor of the journal “Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel”. Table of Contents A. Introduction 1. Is There a Theology of the Hebrew Bible? B. The Use of the Concept of Theology in Relation to the Bible 2. The Premodern Conception of Theology: From Mythology to Systematic Doctrine 3. The Reformation’s Reconstrual of the Concept of Theology 4. From Biblical Theology to the Theology of the Old Testament 5. The Romantic Devaluation of the Concept of Theology 6. The Reception of the Concept of Theology in Judaism 7. The Devaluation of the Concept of Religion in Neo-orthodox Theology 8. Developments since the Mid-twentieth Century 9. Implicit Theologies in the Hebrew Bible and the Search for a Theology of the Hebrew Bible C. Hebrew Bible and Old Testament 10. The Pluriformity of the Tradition 11. The Tanakh as the Hebrew Bible 12. Reception and Transformation into the Old Testament 13. The Meaning and Relativity of the Canon for a Theology of the Hebrew Bible D. Methodological Reflections 14. Comparative Definitions 15. Fundamental Methodological Choices E. Theologies of Extant Hebrew Bibles and Old Testaments 16. Hebrew Bibles in Judaism and Their Theologies 17. Old Testaments and Their Theologies F. Theologies of the Three Parts of the Canon and Their Collections 18. Torah

19. Neviʼim 20. Ketuvim G. The Principal Theological Guidelines in the Literary History of the Hebrew Bible 21. The Hebrew Bible on the Way to Its Theology 22. The Destruction of the Northern Kingdom in 722 BCE 23. The Preservation of Jerusalem in 701 BCE 24. The Reinterpretation of Assyrian Imperial Ideology 25. The Destruction of Judah in 587 BCE 26. The Theological Reception of Persian Imperial Ideology 27. The Destruction of the Persian Empire in 333–331 BCE 28. Confrontations with the Maccabean Crisis (167–164 BCE) and the Question of the End of the Theological History of the Hebrew Bible H. Themes in the Theology of the Hebrew Bible 29. Literary Genres and Forms of Theological Statements in the Hebrew Bible 30. Perceptions and Impressions of God 31. From Counterworld to Everyday World: The Basic Precepts of Life 32. Divine Intervention in History 33. Political Theology 34. Law and Righteousness 35. Temple Worship and Sacrifice 36. People of a Nation, People of God, and the Individual 37. Monarchy, Theocracy, and Anticipation of a Ruler 38. Zion and Sinai 39. Interpretations of Humanity 40. Diversity and Unity in the Theology of the Hebrew Bible I. The Question of a Jewish or a Christian Theology of the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament 41. The Hebrew Bible and Judaism 42. The Old Testament and Christianity

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Introducing the

“This well-written and beautifully produced volume will be of enormous help to serious Bible readers who desire to dive deeper into their most ancient Scriptures. I commend it warmly.” — Iain Provan

OLD TESTAMENT

Regent College

McAfee School of Theology

Emory University

McMaster Divinity College

Robert L. Hubbard Jr. is professor emeritus of biblical literature at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, general editor of the New International Commentary on the Old Testament series, and author of the award-winning NICOT volume on Ruth. J. Andrew Dearman is professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, associate dean at Fuller’s regional campus in Houston, Texas, and author of the NICOT volume on Hosea.

Cover art: The Tablets Given to Moses, after the painting by Raphael in the Vatican, from The Bible and Its Story, ed. Charles F. Horne and Julius August Brewer, 1908; Wikimedia Commons Cover design: James T. Chiampas

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Biblical Hebrew

Introducing the Old Testament

An Introductory Grammar

Robert L. Hubbard and J. Andrew Dearman

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In this up-to-date, student-friendly text—the best available Old Testament introduction for university and seminary students—Robert Hubbard and Andrew Dearman bring decades of scholarly study and classroom experience to bear as they introduce readers to the context, composition, and message of the Old Testament.

Page H. Kelley Revised by Timothy G. Crawford The fruit of decades of classroom teaching, this carefully crafted, comprehensive grammar of Biblical Hebrew has instructed thousands of students since its original publication in 1992. The book offers easy-tounderstand explanations, numerous biblical illustrations, and a wide range of imaginative, biblically based exercises. In this second edition Timothy Crawford has updated the text throughout while preserving the Page Kelley approach that has made Biblical Hebrew so popular over the years.

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A Handbook to Biblical Hebrew

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“A wise guidebook from two scholars with a balanced critical and confessional perspective who have devoted their lives to orienting students to the world, text, and relevance of the Old Testament.” — Mark J. Boda

Introducing the

“This highly useful and highly usable volume from two gifted teachers and first-rate scholars is readable, up-to-date, and packed with helpful features—illustrations, charts, reading questions, programmatic texts, a glossary, and much more.” — Brent A. Strawn

OLD TESTAMENT

“A breath of fresh air. . . . Can proudly and uniquely take its place among the Old Testament introductions in the marketplace today.” — Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford

Robert L. Hubbard Jr. and J. Andrew Dearman

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In this up-to-date, student-friendly text—the best available Old Testament introduction for university and seminary students— Robert Hubbard and Andrew Dearman bring decades of scholarly study and classroom experience to bear as they introduce readers to the context, composition, and message of the Old Testament.

“A breath of fresh air. . . . Can proudly and uniquely take its place among the Old Testament introductions in the marketplace today.” — Nancy L. deClaissé-Walford McAfee School of Theology

“This highly useful and highly usable volume from two gifted teachers and firstrate scholars is readable, up-to-date, and packed with helpful features—illustrations, charts, reading questions, programmatic texts, a glossary, and much more.” — Brent A. Strawn

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Emory University

Page H. Kelley, Terry L. Burden, and Timothy G. Crawford Designed to enhance learning time both inside and outside of class, this accompanying handbook contains answer keys, footnotes, additional helps, and suggestions for further testing. Page H. Kelley (1924–1997) was professor of Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew for more than thirty years at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. Terry L. Burden is assistant professor of comparative humanities at the University of Louisville. Timothy G. Crawford is dean and professor of Old Testament and Hebrew in the College of Christian Studies, University of Mary HardinBaylor, Belton, Texas.

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An Introduction to the Scriptures of Israel

An Introduction to Biblical Law

The Text of the Old Testament

History and Theology

William S. Morrow

An Introduction to the Biblia Hebraica

Tzvi Novick

Surveying four major law collections in Exodus–Deuteronomy, William Morrow shows how they each enabled the people of Israel to create and sustain a community of faith. Treating biblical law as a dynamic system of thought representing Israel’s self-definition, Morrow discusses these four different social contexts that gave rise to biblical law: (1) Israel at the holy mountain (the Ten Commandments); (2) Israel in the village assembly (Exodus 20:22–23:19); (3) Israel in the courts of the Lord (Priestly and Holiness law found throughout Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers); and (4) Israel in the city (Deuteronomy). Including forthright discussion of such controversial subjects as slavery, revenge, gender inequality, religious intolerance, and contradictions between bodies of biblical law, Morrow’s study will help students and other serious readers make sense out of texts in the Pentateuch that are often seen as obscure and difficult to understand.

Ernst Würthwein and Alexander Achilles Fischer

“It is hard to imagine a clearer or more accessible introduction to biblical law. This is the product of a mature voice that offers a significant bridge between careful scholarship and theologically engaged readers. An impressive achievement.”

“A very welcome, thorough revision of the longhonored standard introduction to the Masoretic text. Its integration of recent scholarship is first-rate, and the rewritten text retains the clear, accessible style that won its predecessors decades of popularity as a textbook. Highly commended.”

In this textbook for Hebrew Bible courses, Tzvi Novick takes a thematic approach rather than a chronological one. Sorting the books according to their historical context, theological claims, and literary conventions, Novick explores the historical and intellectual development of the Hebrew Bible. With attentiveness to historical-critical and traditional-canonical approaches, An Introduction to the Scriptures of Israel focuses on the dichotomy of the particular and the universal. It shows how this dichotomy impacts each book’s style and content and how it informs Jewish and Christian traditions as they develop. This non-traditional textbook is coherent, engaging, and succinct—a perfect resource for any introductory Hebrew Bible course. Tzvi Novick holds the Abrams Chair of Jewish Thought and Culture in the theology department at the University of Notre Dame.

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— Bernard M. Levinson

Ernst Würthwein’s introduction to the Biblia Hebraica has long served as a textbook for generations of students interested in the history of the Old Testament text and the problems of textual criticism. From its first appearance in 1952 to the fifth German edition in 1988, the book was faithfully updated by Würthwein himself in light of new research While staying true to the original structure and character of Würthwein’s classic work, Alexander Fischer has rewritten the text completely to bring it up to date with the new Quinta edition of Biblia Hebraica. Besides updating information throughout, this edition includes a new chapter on the texts from the Qumran. This third edition of The Text of the Old Testament will be an indispensable resource for serious students of the Biblia Hebraica and Old Testament exegesis.

— Robert L. Hubbard

University of Minnesota

North Park Theological Seminary

William S. Morrow is professor of Hebrew and Hebrew Scriptures at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. His previous books include Protest against God: The Eclipse of a Biblical Tradition.

Ernst Würthwein (1909-1996) was professor emeritus of Old Testament at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany.

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Christobiography

Memories, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels Craig S. Keener Demonstrates the reliability of the canonical gospels by exploring the genre of ancient biography

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The canonical gospels are ancient biographies, narratives of Jesus’s life. The authors of these gospels were intentional in how they handled historical information and sources. Building on recent work in the study of ancient biographies, Craig Keener argues that the writers of the canonical gospels followed the literary practices of other biographers in their day. In Christobiography he explores the character of ancient biography and urges students and scholars to appreciate the gospel writers’ method and degree of accuracy in recounting the ministry of Jesus. Keener’s Christobiography has far-reaching implications for the study of the canonical gospels and historical-Jesus research.

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“I have long thought that what we need is to be able to place the Gospels much more precisely within the wide spectrum of ancient biographies. Keener has mastered the literature, primary and secondary—as one would expect.” — Richard Bauckham “Keener does a huge service for New Testament scholars by bringing this material into the debate on gospels and biography.” — Richard Burridge Craig S. Keener is F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. Several of his twenty-five books have won national or international awards. His works include commentaries on Matthew, Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Galatians, a two-volume commentary on John, and a four-volume commentary on Acts. Table of Contents Introduction Part 1. Biographies about Jesus 2. 3. 4. 5.

Not a Novel Proposal Examples and Development of Ancient Biography What Sort of Biographies Are the Gospels? What Did First-Century Audiences Expect of Biographies?

Part 2 Biographies and History 6. Biographies and Historical Information 7. What Historical Interests Meant in Antiquity 8. Luke-Acts as Biohistory 9. Sources Close to the Events Part 3. Testing the Range of Deviation 10. Case Studies: Biographies of Recent Characters Use Prior Information 11. Flex Room: Literary Techniques in Ancient Biographies Part 4. Two Objections to Gospels as Historical Biographies 12. What about Miracles? 13. What about John? Part 5. Memories about Jesus: Memories before Memoirs 14. Memory Studies 15. Jesus Was a Teacher 16. Oral Tradition, Oral History 17. The Implications of This Study

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Paul, a New Covenant Jew

Rethinking Pauline Theology Brant Pitre, Michael P. Barber, and John A. Kincaid The most useful and up-to-date text on Paul for Catholic seminarians in a generation.

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After the landmark work of E. P. Sanders, the task of rightly accounting for Paul’s relationship to Judaism has dominated the last forty years of Pauline scholarship. Pitre, Barber, and Kincaid argue that Paul is best viewed as a new covenant Jew, a designation that allows the apostle to be fully Jewish, yet in a manner centered on the person and work of Jesus the Messiah. This new covenant Judaism provides the key that unlocks the door to many of the difficult aspects of Pauline theology. Paul, a New Covenant Jew is a rigorous, yet accessible overview of Pauline theology intended for ecumenical audiences. In particular, it aims to be the most useful and up to date text on Paul for Catholic Seminarians. The book engages the best recent scholarship on Paul from both Protestant and Catholic interpreters and serves as a launching point for ongoing Protestant-Catholic dialogue.

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“This synthetic work is a goldmine for scholars and students alike. Drawing upon the full range of contemporary Pauline scholarship, the authors carefully and generously describe the positions that differ from their own, thereby enabling beginning students to get their bearings in the debates. Not only for biblical scholars, but also for theologians, this spectacular scholarly study is a ‘must read.’”

— Matthew Levering Mundelein Seminary

“In a deliciously ecumenical approach, this trio of authors’ vision of Paul brings together various threads of Jewish apocalypticism, Paul’s core conviction about Jesus, his account of the cross and justification, as well as new creation and communion. A genuinely fresh and insightful study of Paul that all serious students of the Bible will need to read.” — Michael F. Bird Ridley College

Brant Pitre is Distinguished Research Professor of Sacred Scripture at the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology. Michael P. Barber Associate Professor of Sacred Scripture and Theology at the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology. John A. Kincaid is Visiting Associate Professor in theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Table of Contents: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Introduction What Kind of Jew was Paul? Paul’s Apocalyptic Worldview Paul and Divine Christology Paul and the Atonement Paul and New Covenant Justification Paul, the Lord’s Supper, and Participation in Christ Paul, Grace, and the Wages of the World to Come Conclusion: The “Center” of Pauline Theology

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Paul’s Theology in Context

Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé

Creation, Incarnation, Covenant, and Kingdom

Translated by Christopher R. Smith Foreword by John Kloppenborg

James P. Ware

A literary tour de force that analyzes and refutes the hypothesis that Jesus was a Cynic Was Jesus really a Cynic? This book examines the arguments submitted by some New Testament scholars who believe that Jesus and his disciples were influenced by the ethics and social behaviors of Cynic preachers in Galilee. In examining the “Cynic Jesus hypothesis,” Marie-Odile GouletCazé offers a reliable, accessible, and fully documented summary of Cynicism and its ideas, from Diogenes to the Imperial Period, and she investigates the extent and nature of contact between Cynics and Jewish people, especially in the first century BCE and CE. While recognizing similarities between the ideas and morals of ancient Cynicism and those evident in early Christian movements, Goulet-Cazé identifies more significant, fundamental differences between them in terms of culture, theology, and worldview. Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé has been a researcher at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, France, since 1978 and is now director emerita of research at CNRS. She served as president of the International Society of Classical Bibliography, which publishes L’Année philologique, and she has written several books on Cynicism and ancient philosophy.

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This accessible introductory text by James P. Ware provides both a concise guide to Paul’s theology and a general introduction to the key issues and debates in the contemporary study of Paul. Examining Paul’s message in the context of the ancient pagan world, Ware identifies what would have struck Paul’s original audience as startling or unique. By comparing Paul’s teaching to the other religions and philosophies of that day, Ware presents a fresh perspective on Paul’s theology, revealing four pillars of his thought: creation, incarnation, covenant, and kingdom. After examining each of these dimensions of Paul’s gospel, Ware explores the historical role of Paul within Christian origins and the astounding evidence embedded in his letters regarding the beginnings of Christianity and the eyewitness origins of the Gospels. Clergy, students, and laypeople will find that this guide to the big picture of Paul’s theology will illumine and enliven the study, preaching, and teaching of all the Pauline letters.

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Cynicism and Christianity in Antiquity

“This is a beautifully written study of Paul’s place in early Christianity and a crisp, clear introduction to his thought. It engages the latest scholarship on the apostle without resorting to tedious summaries of what everyone else is saying and, at the same time, supports its own more traditional understanding of Paul with arguments that are fresh and persuasive. Readers may differ on this or that point, but they will find this study clear, evenhanded, and engaging at every turn.” — Frank Thielman Beeson Divinity School

James P. Ware is professor of religion at the University of Evansville and the author of Synopsis of the Pauline Letters in Greek and English and Paul and the Mission of the Church: Philippians in Ancient Jewish Context.

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Jesus in Jerusalem The Last Days

Biblical Theology of the New Testament

Eckhard J. Schnabel

Peter Stuhlmacher

Foreword by Craig A. Evans

Translated and edited by Daniel P. Bailey Foreword by G. K. Beale

This is the first book to describe and analyze, sequentially and in detail, all the persons, places, times, and events mentioned in the Gospels accounts of Jesus’s last week in Jerusalem. Part reference guide, part theological exploration, Eckhard Schnabel’s Jesus in Jerusalem uses the biblical text and recent archaeological evidence to find meaning in Jesus’s final days on earth. Schnabel profiles the seventy-two people and groups and the seventeen geographic locations named in the four passion narratives. Placing the events of Jesus’s last days in chronological order, he unpacks their theological significance, finding that Jesus’s passion, death, and resurrection can be understood historically as well as from a faith perspective. “As always, Eckhard Schnabel’s work is comprehensive, independent, insightful, and well documented, critically engaging a wide range of scholarship and other sources. We see the full fruit of such massive scholarship on display here.” — Craig S. Keener Asbury Theological Seminary

“Many have undertaken to write about Jesus’ last days in Jerusalem, but few have done so with Schnabel’s magisterial command of the sources, both Jewish and Greco-Roman, or with his knowledge of the secondary literature. Despite the erudition packed into this volume for everyone who claims to be interested in the passion of Jesus – for skeptics and the devout alike, for academics and pastors. No one will be able to engage this literature in the future without weighing the careful and detailed work of Eckhard Schnabel.” — D. A. Carson Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Eckhard J. Schnabel is the Mary F. Rockefeller Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He has published books in both German and English, including Paul the Missionary: Realities, Strategies and Methods and commentaries on Mark, Acts, Romans, and 1 Corinthians.

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Following an extended discussion of the task of writing a New Testament theology, Stuhlmacher explores the development of the Christian message across the pages the Gospels, the writings of Paul, and the other canonical books of the New Testament. The second part of the book examines the biblical canon and its historical significance. Daniel Bailey’s expert translation makes this iconic work of New Testament theology available in English for the first time. A concluding essay by Bailey applies Stuhlmacher’s approach to specific texts in Romans and 4 Maccabees. “At last!—the English translation of Stuhlmacher’s great two-volume Biblical Theology from the 1990s. Not least of the benefits of this publication are the updated bibliography and critical interaction with German- and English-language scholarship reaching into the twenty-first century. The long wait has been well worth it!” – James D. G. Dunn Durham University

“Peter Stuhlmacher’s Biblical Theology of the New Testament provides a powerful challenge and a viable alternative to nearly every other theology of the New Testament.” – Frank J. Matera Catholic University of America

“Peter Stuhlmacher’s two-volume Biblical Theology of the New Testament has long been used as a standard textbook in Germany, alongside the more critical works by his contemporaries, and English-speaking readers will welcome this translation.” —Morna Hooker University of Cambridge

Peter Stuhlmacher is professor emeritus of New Testament studies at the University of Tübingen and the author of many books including Historical Criticism and Theological Interpretation of Scripture and Revisiting Paul’s Doctrine of Justification. Daniel P. Bailey is manager of research planning at the University of Chicago’s College of Engineering.

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The Making of Christian Morality

James D. G. Dunn

Paul Borgman and Kelly James Clark

Foreword by Rowan Williams

Paul Borgman and Kelly James Clark offer the keys to recovering the radical, relevant messages of each gospel as they were first heard. With careful analysis of the gospel writers’ particular voices within their own ancient literary context, Borgman and Clark equip readers to read as if hearing, focusing on overlapping patterns of hearing cues that shape each text and embed theological perspective.

Reading Paul in Ancient and Modern Contexts

Dunn surveys the New Testament texts from Matthew to Revelation, exploring and unpacking what they actually say about Jesus. Dunn’s Jesus according to the New Testament points to the wonder of those first witnesses and enriches our understanding of who Jesus is to us today. James D. G. Dunn is Lightfoot Professor Emeritus of Divinity at Durham University and one of the foremost New Testament scholars in the world today. His many other books include the magisterial Christianity in the Making trilogy and The Theology of Paul the Apostle.

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Introducing the New Testament Its Literature and Theology Paul J. Achtemeier, Joel B. Green, & Marianne Meye Thompson

Paul Borgman is professor emeritus of English at Gordon College and the author of The Way according to Luke: Hearing the Whole Story of Luke-Acts. Kelly James Clark is senior research fellow at the Kaufman Interfaith Institute at Grand Valley State University; his many other books include When Faith Is Not Enough.

David Horrell Foreword by John M. G. Barclay After covering historical questions about the setting of the Pauline communities, David Horrell analyzes Pauline ethics through a detailed study of particular passages. Horrell then brings Pauline thought to bear on contemporary issues and challenges, using the environmental crisis as a case study to demonstrate how Paul’s ethics can be appropriated fruitfully in a world so different from Paul’s own. David Horrell is professor of New Testament studies at the University of Exeter. His many other books include An Introduction to the Study of Paul and Solidarity and Difference: A Contemporary Reading of Paul’s Ethics.

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Backgrounds of Early Christianity

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Jesus according to the New Written to Be Heard Testament Recovering the Messages of the Gospels

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Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran

The Satan

Sidnie White Crawford

How God’s Executioner Became the Enemy

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls altered our understanding of the development of the biblical text, the history and literature of Second Temple Judaism, and the thought of the early Christian community. Questions continue to surround the relationship between the caves in which the scrolls were found and the nearby settlement at Khirbet Qumran. It is still a mystery how they were deposited in the caves and the nature of the relationship between the scroll caves and the settlement at Khirbet Qumran. In Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran, Sidnie White Crawford combines those conclusions of the first generation of scrolls scholars that have withstood the test of time, new insights that have emerged since the complete publication of the scrolls corpus, and the much more complete archaeological picture that we now have of Khirbet Qumran, and creates a new synthesis of text and archaeology that yields a convincing history of and purpose for the Qumran settlement and its associated caves.

Ryan E. Stokes

Sidnie White Crawford serves as the Willa Cather Professor of Biblical Studies Emerita at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, Dr. Dan D. Crawford, and their cat, Mollie.

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Foreword by John J. Collins Many people today think of Satan as a little red demon with a pointy tail and a pitchfork—but this vision of the devil developed over many centuries and would be foreign to the writers of the Old Testament, in which this figure makes his first appearances. The earliest texts that mention the Satan—it is always “the” Satan in the Old Testament—portray him as an agent of Yahweh, serving as an executioner of evildoers. But over the course of time, the Satan came to be regarded more as God’s enemy than God’s agent and was blamed for a host of problems. Biblical scholar Ryan E. Stokes explains the development of the Satan tradition in the Hebrew scriptures and the writings of early Judaism, describing the interpretive and creative processes that transformed an agent of Yahweh into the archenemy of good. He explores how the idea of a heavenly satan figure factored into the problem of evil and received the blame for all that is wrong in the world. Ryan E. Stokes is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Director of the Tandy Manuscript Research Center. He has published widely on biblical and related literature and enjoys teaching students in the classroom, speaking at churches, and giving lectures to various audiences who are interested in learning about the Bible.

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Laura M. Zucconi

Canonical Narrative and Christian Faith

John L. McLaughlin

Foreword by Candida Moss

L. Daniel Hawk

This book by Laura M. Zucconi is an accessible introductory text to the practice and theory of medicine in the ancient world. In contrast to other works that focus heavily on Greece and Rome, Zucconi’s Ancient Medicine covers a broader geographical and chronological range. The world of medicine in antiquity consisted of a lot more than Hippocrates and Galen. Zucconi applies historical and anthropological methods to examine the medical cultures of not only Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome but also the Levant, the Anatolian Peninsula, and the Iranian Plateau. Devoting special attention to the fundamental relationship between medicine and theology, Zucconi’s one-volume introduction brings the physicians, patients, procedures, medicines, and ideas of the past to light.

Foreword by John Goldingay

This introductory-level textbook begins by explaining the meaning of wisdom to the Israelites and surrounding cultures before moving into the conventions of the genre and its poetic forms. The heart of the book explores the wisdom books themselves: Proverbs, Job, Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes), and the deuterocanonical Ben Sira and Wisdom of Solomon. McLaughlin also points to where wisdom is expressed in the historical books and in the New Testament. Designed especially for beginning students, An Introduction to Israel’s Wisdom Traditions offers an informed, panoramic view of wisdom literature’s place in the biblical canon.

Laura M. Zucconi is associate professor of historical studies at Stockton College, Galloway, New Jersey, a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, and the author of Can No Physician Be Found? The Influence of Religion on Medical Pluralism in Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Israel.

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The teachings of the incarnate Jesus sometimes seem to be at odds with the edicts of the God of Israel. Joshua commands God’s people to wipe out everyone in the Promised Land, yet Jesus commands God’s people to love their enemies. How are we to interpret passages on violence when it is sanctioned at one point and condemned at another? The Violence of the Biblical God by L. Daniel Hawk offers a new framework, solidly rooted in the authority of Scripture, for understanding the seeming paradox of God’s participation in violence. Hawk suggests that the historical narrative of the Bible offers multiple canonical pictures for faithful Christian engagement with the violent systems of the world. Reading the canonical narrative as the story of the Creator’s decision to enter human experience and restore creation by working within and along with humanity, Hawk shows how Christians with diverse perspectives can at once be faithful to the biblical text and partake in a common conversation on violence. L. Daniel Hawk is professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Ashland Theological Seminary and an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church.

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From Mesopotamia to Rome

The Violence of the Biblical An Introduction to Israel’s God Wisdom Traditions

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Ancient Medicine

“Offers an excellent, accessible reading of wisdom across the Bible. McLaughlin brings readers into the world of wisdom ranging from Egypt to Mesopotamia, and he masterfully presents the conventions of Hebrew poetry…A pleasure to read, most highly recommended.” — Mark S. Smith Princeton Theological Seminary

John L. McLaughlin is associate professor of Old Testament / Hebrew Bible in the Faculty of Theology, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto. His previous books include The Ancient Near East: An Essential Guide and Justice in the Balance: Learning from the Prophets.

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An Introduction to Early Judaism

The Apocalyptic Imagination

Apocalypse against Empire

James C. VanderKam

An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature, Third Edition

Anathea E. Portier-Young

Based on the best, most recent archaeological research, this illustrated volume explores the history of Judaism during the Second Temple period (516 B.C.E. - 70 C.E.), describing the body of Jewish literature written during these centuries and the most important groups, institutions, and practices of the time. Particularly interesting are VanderKam’s depiction of events associated with Masada and the Kokhba revolt, and his commentary on texts unearthed in places like Elephantine, Egypt, and Qumran.

“The period VanderKam covers is vital to understanding all subsequent Jewish and Christian history, and his introduction to it is complete, accessible, and overall top-notch.” — Alan J. Avery-Peck “His accessible, engaging style and helpful organization make this volume ideal for classroom use.” — Amy-Jill Levine “VanderKam offers a fine and accessible introduction to early Judaism. . . Elementary but elegant, this primer is perfect for classroom or individual use.” — Publishers Weekly James C. VanderKam is John A. O’Brien Professor of Hebrew Scriptures at the University of Notre Dame and a member of the international team responsible for preserving and translating the Dead Sea Scrolls. His previous books include The Dead Sea Scrolls Today.

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John J. Collins After an initial overview of things apocalyptic, Collins proceeds to deal with individual apocalyptic texts — the early Enoch literature, the book of Daniel, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and others — concluding with an examination of apocalypticism in early Christianity. Collins has updated this third edition throughout to account for the recent profusion of studies germane to ancient Jewish apocalypticism, and he has also substantially revised and updated the bibliography.

“Collins’s volume will justifiably remain one of the primary introductions to Jewish apocalyptic literature.” — Review of Biblical Literature “A very useful guide to the Jewish apocalypses and related literature…One will not find a better or more up-to-date survey of this material, which expresses a way of thinking that was so influential on formative Christianity, than in Collins’s book.” — Journal of the American Academy of Religion John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School and a recognized expert in early Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls. His many other works include Beyond the Qumran Community, The Scepter and the Star, and (with Daniel C. Harlow) The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism.

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Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism Foreword by John J. Collins The year 167 B.C.E. marked the beginning of a period of intense persecution for the people of Judea, as Seleucid emperor Antiochus IV Epiphanes attempted to eradicate traditional Jewish religious practices. Anathea PortierYoung reconstructs the historical events and key players in this traumatic episode in Jewish history and provides a sophisticated treatment of resistance in early Judaism.

“In Apocalypse against Empire Anathea PortierYoung delves deeply into the meaning of empire, the methods used by empires, and the forms of resistance they engender. She then applies these insights to the sources for the historical context in which the earliest Jewish apocalypses were composed and to the texts themselves. The result is refreshing and impressive.” — James VanderKam University of Notre Dame

Portier-Young brings to life the ancient realities of Seleucid state terror in Judea in a way that few historians have captured. Against that background she makes a compelling case for the audacity of resistance grounded in the apocalyptic imaginations of 1 Enoch and Daniel…Brings new depth to the claim that these are political apocalypses.” — Carol Newsom Emory University

“A wonderful textbook for a seminary or graduate course on apocalyptic literature.” — Interpretation Anathea E. Portier-Young is associate professor of Old Testament at Duke University Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina.

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An Introduction

This new textbook effectively introduces students to the art and craft of biblical interpretation. New Testament scholars Sherri Brown and Francis Moloney begin by orienting students to the world of the Bible, exploring contemporary methods for interpreting the biblical literature, and showing how the Old Testament is foundational to the formation of the New Testament. The book proceeds to lead readers through the books of the New Testament by genre: * The Narratives: Gospels and Acts * Paul and His Letters * Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles * Apocalyptic Literature and the Book of Revelation

Unlike book-by-book introductory textbooks that tend to overshadow the primary biblical text with lots of detailed information, Brown and Moloney’s Interpreting the New Testament actually facilitates the study of the New Testament itself. Their concluding chapter reflects on the challenge of the New Testament to our present world. Sherri Brown is associate professor of New Testament at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, and the author, co-author, or co-editor of several books on the Johannine Literature as well as a number of articles on John, Paul, and the Catholic Epistles. Francis J. Moloney, SDB, is senior professorial fellow at Catholic Theological College, Melbourne, an internationally respected New Testament scholar, and the author of many other books.

Surprised by Jesus Again

Clues That Unlock the Mysteries of the Text

Reading the Bible in Communion with the Saints

John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie

Jason Byassee

There is an element of detective work to biblical scholarship that entails sniffing out and interpreting clues that often escape the notice of readers. John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie introduce the art of sleuthing the Bible, providing the necessary training to hunt for clues and piece them together to understand the larger picture. Sleuthing the Bible helps readers answer questions that occur during thoughtful examination of the Bible and provides exercises that aid in working through biblical passages on their own. Kaltner and McKenzie analyze two kinds of clues: (1) Smoking Guns – those that are obvious upon any close reading of biblical texts, and (2) Dusting for Prints – those that are more subtle or hidden from non-specialists because of their unfamiliarity with the languages, culture, and larger content of the Bible. Written in a jargon-free and accessible style, Sleuthing the Bible is an ideal resource for anyone who wants to dig deeper into the text.

Drawing on the early church’s theological giants—Origen, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and more from the historical cloud of witnesses—author Jason Byassee models how we can recover ancient Christians’ multiple ways of reading the Bible to our benefit. As Byassee says, God himself is Jewish, Catholic, and Pentecostal—so much larger than our own little corner on the truth—and this book offers readers a refreshingly enhanced vision of the Bible and of Jesus himself.

John Kaltner is Virginia Ballou McGehee Professor of Muslim-Christian Relations at Rhodes College. Among his publications are Ishmael Instructs Isaac and Introducing the Qur’an.

Jason Byassee holds the Butler Chair in Homiletics and Hermeneutics at Vancouver School of Theology. Formerly senior pastor of Boone United Methodist Church in Boone, North Carolina, he is also a contributing editor at Christian Century magazine and the author of Praise Seeking Understanding: Reading the Psalms with Augustine.

Steven L. McKenzie is Spence L. Wilson Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Hebrew Bible at Rhodes College. His books include The Hebrew Bible Today and All God’s Children: A Biblical Critique of Racism.

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“Writing with clarity, profundity, and humor, Byassee draws on the church fathers to recover reading habits that can help us become better and more faithful readers of scripture.” — Stanley Hauerwas “Jason Byassee goes hunting in the church’s past and discovers a long-forgotten and much-needed treasure for today—richer ways of reading Scripture than the dry, lifeless habits of reading that bewitch and bewilder the church with illusory, pointless, and lifesucking arguments.” — Jonathan R. Wilson

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Sherri Brown and Francis J. Moloney, SDB

Sleuthing the Bible

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Interpreting the New Testament

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Reading Jesus’s Bible

Acts of Interpretation

How the New Testament Helps Us Understand the Old Testament

Scripture, Theology, and Culture

The Art of Reading Scripture

S. A. Cummins and Jens Zimmermann, editors

Ellen F. Davis and Richard B. Hays, editors

This book features essays by prominent biblical scholars and theologians offering broad reflections on key interpretive issues, rich readings of challenging biblical texts, and interaction with the Christian exegetical tradition from the patristics to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The contributors to this volume are all recognized figures in the theological interpretation of Scripture. Mindful throughout of God’s gracious operation and human participation in the creation of the Bible, these essays together offer “acts of interpretation” that advance the faithful and fruitful integration of Scripture, theology, and culture.

Lucidly conceived, carefully written, and shimmering with fresh insights, The Art of Reading Scripture proposes a far-reaching revolution in how the Bible is taught in theological seminaries and calls pastors and teachers in the church to rethink their practices of using the Bible.

John Goldingay For Jesus and his contemporaries, what we now know as the Old Testament was simply the Scriptures—and it was the fundamental basis of how people understood their lives with God. In Reading Jesus’s Bible John Goldingay uncovers five ways in which the New Testament uses the Old Testament. In doing so, he provides a new way for readers today to approach the Old Testament. Along with a systematic overview of how Jesus and the first Christian writers used the Old Testament, illustrated with passages from Matthew, Romans, 1 Corinthians, and Hebrews, Goldingay offers a straightforward introduction to the Old Testament in its own right. Reading Jesus’s Bible will shed fresh Old Testament light on Jesus, God, and the church today. “In an age of increased specialization few biblical scholars explore the forward and backward movement between Old Testament and New. It is to John Goldingay’s credit that he does precisely that in such an accessible manner in this book. He brings his years of research, writing, and teaching to bear on this critically important subject. Essential reading!” — Craig G. Bartholomew Redeemer University College

John Goldingay is David Allan Hubbard Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary and priest-in-charge of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California. His many other books include Do We Need the New Testament? Letting the Old Testament Speak for Itself and Old Testament Theology: Israel’s Gospel.

Contributors: Craig G. Bartholomew, Hans Boersma, S. A. Cummins, Peter Enns, Stephen E. Fowl, Joel B. Green, Edith M. Humphrey, Charles Raith II, Christopher R. Seitz, Robert W. Wall, Jens Zimmermann S. A. (Tony) Cummins is professor of religious studies and a New Testament specialist with long-standing interdisciplinary interests at Trinity Western University. Jens Zimmermann holds the Canada Research Chair for Interpretation, Religion, and Culture at Trinity Western University.

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“’Theological interpretation,’ like a modern-day holy grail, is mentioned often, but claims of actual sightings are both few and exaggerated. Ellen Davis and Richard Hays have given us access to a multidisciplinary conversation concerned with and exemplifying the genuine relocation of the Bible within the church — that is, as authoritative Scripture. The result is a bold, impassioned, open-ended invitation and guide to the craft of reading Scripture. This is must reading for Christian pastors, theological students, exegetes, theologians, and preachers.” — Joel B. Green “These distinguished scholars go a long way forward toward recovering an exciting and coherent exegetical agenda for reading the Bible as Sacred Scripture.” — Brevard S. Childs Ellen F. Davis is the Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. Her previous books include Wondrous Depth: Preaching the Old Testament. Richard B. Hays is Dean and the George Washington Ivey Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. He is internationally recognized for his work on the letters of Paul and on New Testament ethics.

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The Second Book of Samuel David Toshio Tsumura

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Second Samuel includes some of the most well-known and theologically layered episodes in the Old Testament, such as the Lord’s establishment of an eternal covenant with David, David’s sin with Bathsheba, and the subsequent account of Absalom’s rebellion. In this second part of an ambitious two-volume commentary on the books of Samuel, David Toshio Tsumura elucidates the rich text of 2 Samuel with special attention to literary and textual issues. Tsumura interprets the book in light of the meaning of the original composition, and he provides a fresh new translation based on careful analysis of the Hebrew text. David Toshio Tsumura is professor of Old Testament at Japan Bible Seminary, Tokyo, chairman of the Tokyo Museum of Biblical Archaeology, author of The First Book of Samuel (NICOT), and editor of Exegetica: Studies in Biblical Exegesis. He was also the chairman of the Translation Committee for the New Japanese Bible, Shinkaiyaku 2017.

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The New International Commentary on the Old Testament Robert L. Hubbard Jr., series editor This premier commentary series enjoys a worldwide readership of scholars, pastors, priests, rabbis, and serious Bible students. They eagerly consult its high-quality volumes to inform their preaching, teaching, and academic research, and they warmly welcome each newly published volume as they would an encounter with a stimulating new friend. Through the rigorous yet reverent study contained in these commentary volumes, readers hear afresh the voice of the living God speaking his powerful word. Readers who want to hear God’s voice anew through Scripture will find The New International Commentary on the Old Testament to be a faithful, trustworthy guide for helping them navigate the strange other country we call the Old Testament.

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Two Horizons New Testament Commentary

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Luke

Commentary on the Epistle Commentary on the First to the Hebrews Epistle to the Corinthians

F. Scott Spencer The story Luke tells in his gospel, says F. Scott Spencer, is “a complex, compelling narrative confession of faith in God. To what degree anyone joins Luke in that faith journey is up to them, but any responsible interpreter must attend at least considerately to Luke’s theological roadmap.” In this latest addition to the Two Horizons New Testament Commentary series, Spencer integrates close textual analysis of Luke’s unfolding narrative with systematic theology, spiritual formation, philosophical inquiry, and psychological research. With section-bysection commentary, Spencer highlights the overriding salvific message that runs through Luke’s gospel. Pastors, scholars, and students alike will benefit from Spencer’s insight into Luke’s theological significance. F. Scott Spencer is professor of New Testament and biblical interpretation at Baptist Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia. His other books include Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows: Capable Women of Purpose and Persistence in Luke’s Gospel and commentaries on Acts and the Song of Songs.

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Philip Edgcumbe Hughes

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The Epistle to the Hebrews has been the subject of controversy and conjecture: its author is unknown, its occasion unstated, and its destination disputed. But these questions pale in comparison to the importance of the letter’s pervasive theme: the absolute supremacy of Christ—a supremacy which allows no challenge, whether from human or angelic beings. Hughes’s introduction includes an outline and synopsis of Hebrews and discusses theme, origin, authorship, and date. His verse-byverse study of the text is accessible to specialist and nonspecialist readers alike. Technical points are dealt with in notes and excursuses.

This classic commentary by F. W. Grosheide on 1 Corinthians unpacks Paul’s letter to the first-century Corinthian church and applies his teachings to our own situation with vigor and understanding. The volume throughout exhibits Grosheide’s fairness to the views of others and his single-mindedness to expound fully the inspired text. Originally published in 1953 as part of the New International Commentary on the New Testament series, Grosheide’s Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians in this new format will continue helping pastors, teachers, students, and other Bible readers grasp the aim and major themes of Paul’s first Corinthian letter.

Philip Edgcumbe Hughes (1915–1990) was an Anglican clergyman and New Testament scholar whose life spanned four continents: born in Australia, he grew up in South Africa, was ordained in England, and spent the latter half of his career teaching in several seminaries in the United States.

F. W. Grosheide (1881–1972) was a Dutch New Testament scholar who taught at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and served as president of the Bible Society of the Netherlands.

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Christ and the Common Life

Political Theology and the Case for Democracy Luke Bretherton A compelling vision for a Christian commitment to democracy.

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Luke Bretherton guides readers through the political landscape and identifies the primary vocabulary, ideas, and schools of thought that shape Christian reflection on politics in the West. Ideal for the classroom, Christ and the Common Life equips students to understand politics and its positive and negative role in fostering neighbor love.

“Written with incisive clarity and remarkable accessibility, this book is not only a scholarly achievement of great note but can profitably be used in teaching and discussion in universities, seminaries, and churches.” — Sarah Coakley University of Cambridge

“A monumental achievement in Christian political theology. Bretherton offers important, often breakthrough reflections on the most significant issues in this field. Christ and the Common Life offers hope for the renewal of Christian engagement with democratic politics, all over the world. An indispensable contribution.” — David P. Gushee Mercer University

“Christ and the Common Life will surely set the agenda in the field for a generation to come, orienting Christian political theology in the direction of justice.” — Vincent Lloyd Villanova University

“An erudite synthesis and expansion of his work over the last two decades and brims with insights into essential and interrelated topics—e.g., secularity, toleration, economy, sovereignty, populism—that make the case for democracy and establish the framework for discussions in Christian political theology for the next quarter century.” — Amos Yong Fuller Theological Seminary

Luke Bretherton is Professor of Theological Ethics and Senior Fellow of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. His books include Christianity & Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness, winner of the 2013 Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing, and Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship and the Politics of a Common Life.

Table of Contents Introduction 1. What is political theology? What is politics? Part One: Case Studies in Political Theology 2. Humanitarianism 3. Black Power 4. Pentecostalism 5. Catholic social teaching 6. Anglicanism Part Two: Sustaining a Common Life 7. Communion and class 8. Secularity not secularism 9. Toleration with hospitality Part Three: Forming a Common Life 10. Humanity 11. Economy 12. Sovereignty 13. The people and populism 14. Democratic politics

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Kingdom Ethics Following Jesus in Contemporary Context

The Spirit and the Common Moral Vision Good Seeing the World with Love and Justice

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Shared Flourishing in the Image of God

David P. Gushee and Glen H. Stassen

Daniela C. Augustine

Ever since its original publication in 2003, Glen Stassen and David Gushee’s Kingdom Ethics has offered students, pastors, and other readers an outstanding framework for Christian ethical thought, one that is solidly rooted in Scripture, especially Jesus’s teachings in the Sermon on the Mount. This substantially revised edition of Kingdom Ethics features enhanced and updated treatments of all major contemporary ethical issues. David Gushee’s revisions include updated data and examples, a more global perspective, more gender-inclusive language, a clearer focus on methodology, discussion questions added David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University, Atlanta, Georgia. His many other books include Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: Genocide and Moral Obligation. Glen H. Stassen (1936–2014) served as the Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. His other books include Living the Sermon on the Mount and Just Peacemaking.

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Foreword by Miroslav Volf Daniela C. Augustine offers a theological ethic for the common good. Augustine develops a public theology from a theological vision of creation as the household of the Triune God, bearing the image of God in a mutual sharing of divine love and justice, and as a sacrament of the divine presence. The Spirit and the Common Good expounds upon the application of this vision not only within the life of the church but also to the realm of politics, economics, and care for creation. The church serves a priestly and prophetic function for society, indeed for all of creation. This renewed vision becomes the foundation for constructing a theological ethic of planetary flourishing in and through commitment to a sustainable communal praxis of a shared future with the other and the different. While emphatically theological in its approach, The Spirit and the Common Good engages readers with insights from political philosophy, sociology of religion, economics, and ecology, as well as forgiveness/reconciliation and peacebuilding studies. Daniela C. Augustine is associate professor of Theological Ethics, School of Religion, Lee University and associate editor of the Journal of Pentecostal Theology and co-editor of T&T Clark’s Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology Series.

David Matzko McCarthy and James M. Donohue, CR Foreword by William C. Mattison III In this textbook two Catholic ethicists with extensive teaching experience present a moral theology based on vision. David Matzko McCarthy and James M. Donohue draw widely from the Western philosophical tradition while integrating biblical and theological themes in order to explore such fundamental questions as What is good? The fourteen chapters in Moral Vision are short and thematic. Substantive study questions engage with primary texts and encourage students to apply theory to everyday life and common human experiences. The book is accessibly written and flexible enough to fit into any undergraduate or seminary course on ethics. David Matzko McCarthy is professor of theology and associate provost at Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, Maryland. His other books include Gathered for the Journey: Moral Theology in Catholic Perspective (with M. Therese Lysaught) and Sharing God’s Good Company: A Theology of the Communion of Saints. James M. Donohue is professor of theology, chair of the theology department, and director of pastoral ministry education at Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland.

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Christian Politics and Muslim Immigration

Karen R. Keen

Matthew Kaemingk

“When it comes to same-sex relationships, there is one thing we cannot forget—people,” says Karen Keen. In this cogent book Keen breaks through the current stalemate in the debate surrounding faith and sexual identity by presenting fresh evidence from Scripture, Christian tradition, theology, and science. With pastoral sensitivity and respect for biblical authority, Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships derives from Scripture itself a principled and consistent way of applying biblical teaching to this difficult topic. Keen helpfully casts biblical insights in the context of how the church has responded to gays and lesbians throughout history. Keen’s evenhanded reevaluation will appeal to both traditionalist and progressive church leaders and parishioners, students of ethics and biblical studies, and gay and lesbian people who often feel painfully torn between faith and sexuality.

Foreword by James K. A. Smith

Karen R. Keen is a biblical scholar, writer, and spiritual director residing in Durham, North Carolina. A PhD candidate in Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity at Marquette University, she blogs at www.interpretingscripture.wordpress.com.

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Hospitality in an Age of Terror

Christianity Today 2019 Book Award of Merit in Politics and Public Life In the last fifty years, millions of Muslims have migrated to Europe and North America. Their arrival within these historically Christian cultures has ignited a series of fierce public debates on both sides of the Atlantic about religious freedom and tolerance, terrorism and security, gender and race, and much more. How can Christians best respond to this situation? In this book theologian and ethicist Matthew Kaemingk offers a thoughtful and robust Christian perspective on the growing Muslim presence in the West. Rejecting both fearful nationalism and romantic multiculturalism, Kaemingk makes the case for a third way—a Christian pluralism that is rooted in the rich tradition of Christian charity and hospitality while remaining committed to the rights, dignity, and freedom of Muslim individuals and communities. Matthew Kaemingk is director of the Fuller Institute for Theology and Northwest Culture and editor-in-chief of Christ & Cascadia.

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Dying and the Virtues

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Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships

Matthew Levering Christianity Today 2019 Book Award of Merit in Theology/Ethics When dying comes and strips away nearly everything that belongs to us, we discover that we need the virtues more than ever. We especially need to cultivate those virtues that can carry us through to the full and final fruition of our earthly journey. Matthew Levering investigates nine such virtues—love, hope, faith, penitence, gratitude, solidarity, humility, surrender, and courage—that dying persons need in order to prepare themselves for the end of life. Retrieving and engaging scriptural, theological, and contemporary sources ranging from the book of Job to present-day medical science, Levering journeys through the various stages and challenges of the dying process, beginning with the fear of annihilation and continuing through repentance and gratitude, suffering and hope, before arriving finally at the courage needed to say good-bye to one’s familiar world. Matthew Levering is James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary, codirector of the Chicago Theological Initiative, and a longtime participant in Evangelicals and Catholics Together. Among his more than thirty-five published books are Engaging the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit and Proofs of God.

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Three Hours

Sermons for Good Friday Fleming Rutledge

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Fresh, contemporary Lenten meditations from one of the master preachers of our day On Good Friday, March 30, 2018, Fleming Rutledge preached on the Seven Last Words of Jesus at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City. Her seven meditations, delivered over the course of three hours, were met with rave reviews. Printed in full in this volume, these sermons display Rutledge’s usual combination of resolute orthodoxy and pastoral wisdom—at once traditional and fresh.

“If you have heard Fleming Rutledge preach, then you don’t need a recommendation for this book. She is simply a great preacher—learned, passionate, and in the best sense provocative. The next best thing to hearing her is reading these compelling addresses.” — Miroslav Volf author of Exclusion and Embrace

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“Read this, and be guided by one of the world’s great preachers through the darkest moment of the Christian year—the darkness from which redemption comes.”

— Francis Spufford author of Unapologetic

“Few people are able to match Fleming Rutledge in her masterful unfolding of the world-shattering consequences of Christ’s death on the cross. These sermons on Christ’s final words are the work of a Spirit-filled preacher who has spent years deeply contemplating the mystery of our redemption. They were spectacular to hear, and their publication is a gift to the Church universal and a cause for celebration.” — Joel C. Daniels Associate for Evangelism, St. Thomas Fifth Avenue

“Near the desk where I write words for Sunday’s pulpit sits a volume of Fleming Rutledge’s sermons. She reminds me what exactly it is I’m supposed to be doing whenever I open up the Scriptures to God’s people. Three Hours will sit there as well, prodding me with the scandal and wildness of the Cross, with Good Friday’s terror and hope. This is the Jesus powerful enough to rescue us.” — Winn Collier pastor of All Souls Charlottesville and author of Love Big, Be Well

Fleming Rutledge is an Episcopal priest, a best-selling author, and a widely recognized preacher whose published sermon collections have received acclaim across denominational lines. Her other books include Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ and The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ, which won Christianity Today’s 2017 Book of the Year Award. Table of Contents First Sermon — “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” Second Sermon — “Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise” Third Sermon — “Woman, behold thy son…” Fourth Sermon — “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Fifth Sermon — “I thirst” Sixth Sermon — “It is finished” Seventh Sermon — “Father into thy hands I commend my spirit”

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Hearing John’s Voice

Evangelism in Word and Deed

Insights for Teaching and Preaching

David M. Gustafson

M. Eugene Boring

Foreword by Robert E. Coleman

Foreword by Thomas G. Long

In light of our increasingly post-Christian Western contexts, Gustafson offers a mission-oriented ecclesiology that moves from missional theory to practices of missional engagement. Introducing “God’s human drama” as a way to explain the gospel within God’s redemptive story, he outlines specific ways for pastors and church leaders to shape a “gospeling” culture within their congregations. Gustafson’s biblical, theological, historical, cultural, and practical approach will make this book an ideal text for evangelical pastors, professors, and Christian leaders.

How can Scripture, offer any specific guidance for hearers lives today? What are modern readers to make of the dragons and slaughtered lambs in the book of Revelation? What are we to make of a man who turns water into wine while comparing himself to bread? Can people today know what the Bible says and means? The world of the Bible is strange and distance, not only in time and space but also in language, culture, and in its basic assumptions about reality. The first task in both pulpit and pew is not to be in too great a hurry to overcome this distance, but to acknowledge it and respect it. Communication across the gap, can’t be done unless and until the reality of this gap is acknowledged and respected. Drawing on his years of teaching and study, Eugene Boring offers a way of opening the ears of listeners to the world of the Bible, a world very different from our own. Beginning with Revelation, Boring provides a historically informed and pastorally sensitive reading of the various Johannine voices in the New Testament for contemporary preachers and teachers.

“Gospel Witness presents fresh perspectives for sharing the gospel and making disciples in our post-Christendom context.” — Michael J. Breen author of Leading Missional Communities

“Fuses academic scholarship with the practice of evangelism in our culture today.” — Ed Stetzer Wheaton College

“Now more than ever, it is imperative for us to think like missionaries as we bring the gospel in word and deed to a post-Christian world. David Gustafson challenges churches to make disciples who make disciples engaging in mission, redemptive relationships, and “gospeling” wherever they connect with their communities.” — Kevin Kompelien President of the Evangelical Free Church of America

David M. Gustafson is chair of the mission and evangelism department at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. He previously served for twenty-five years as a ministry leader with Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ) and as a pastor of evangelism and discipleship.

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Gospel Witness

M. Eugene Boring, before retiring, was the I. Wylie and Elizabeth M. Briscoe Professor of New Testament at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University. He is the author of several books, including the Interpretation commentary on Revelation and (with Fred Craddock) The People’s New Testament Commentary. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Sunday Comes Every Week

Wrestling with Rest

Daily Habits for the Busy Preacher

Inviting Youth to Discover the Gift of Sabbath

Frank G. Honeycutt

Nathan T. Stucky

Foreword by Thomas G. Long

Foreword by Kenda Creasy Dean

Seasoned advice for pastors facing the weekly challenge of preparing sermons For pastors, a new sermon comes every week. Conventional wisdom says that pastors need to sequester themselves to prepare their weekly sermon without distraction. But veteran preacher Frank Honeycutt suggests just the opposite: prepare your sermons as part of a daily, lived experience in the community. Using the ordered days of the week as a framework, Honeycutt describes practical and essential tasks leading up to the writing and delivery of the Sunday sermon—habits that will provide lasting spiritual nourishment for pastors who plan for a long career in parish ministry. With humor and candid acknowledgment of his own mistakes and doubts, Honeycutt reflects on the joys and hazards of three decades in ministry and explains how a faithful process of preaching shapes a pastor for healthy longevity in ministry. Frank G. Honeycutt holds a DMin in preaching from Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and has over thirty years of experience in parish ministry in the Virginia and South Carolina synods of the ELCA. He is the author of several books and numerous articles in periodicals including The Living Lutheran, Journal for Preachers, and the Christian Century. Table of Contents: Monday: Listening Tuesday: Hearing Wednesday: Exegeting Thursday: Naming Reflecting: A Pastor Looks Back Friday: Writing Saturday: Rehearsing Sunday: Offering

“Stucky reminds us that Sabbath is a beautiful thing for us. And he shows us that at the heart of this gift of Sabbath is a truth we want to hear yet struggle to believe: God loves us.” — Jeff Chu author of Does Jesus Really Love Me?

“I didn’t know how badly I needed this book until I read it. Wise, practical, and theologically rich, Wrestling with Rest clears a path forward and invites the reader into an invigorating reconsideration of rest as a beautiful and necessary ‘gift of grace.’ I’ll be thinking about (and acting on) the ideas I encountered in these pages for months and years to come.” — Rachel Held Evans author of Searching for Sunday and Inspired

“Stucky presents a profound and compelling theological and biblical case for how Sabbath-keeping is at the core of what it means for us to become fully alive, flourishing human beings. Please read this book, not only to help the young people in your lives, but for the sake of your own life.” — Mike King President/CEO, Youthfront and author of Presence Centered Youth Ministry

Nathan T. Stucky serves as Director of the Farminary Project at Princeton Theological Seminary. An ordained Mennonite, Nate has a special interest in the role of community formation and Sabbath in the educational life of the church. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Janel, and three children.

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We Will Feast

Embracing Diversity in Christian Community

Rethinking Dinner, Worship, and the Community of God

Dana L. Robert

Kendall Vanderslice

Foreword by Christine D. Pohl

Foreword by D. L. Mayfield

Friendship isn’t always given a lot of thought—and lately, it doesn’t get a lot of time and effort either. But in a world of busy and isolated lives, in which friendships can too easily become shallow, tenuous, and homogenous, Dana Robert insists that good friendships are a vital and transformative part of the Christian life—a mustard seed of the kingdom of God. She believes Christians have the responsibility—and opportunity—to be countercultural by making friends across cultural, racial, socioeconomic, and even religious lines that separate people from each other. Robert tells the stories of Christians who, despite or even because of difficult circumstances, experienced friendship with people unlike themselves as “God with us,” as exile, as testimony, and as celebration. Jesus was a friend to his disciples. Through Jesus’s life and the lives of his followers down through the ages, Faithful Friendships shows readers how friendship can become life-changing—and even world-changing.

The gospel story is filled with meals. It opens in a garden and ends in a feast. Records of the early church suggest that believers met for worship primarily through eating meals. Over time, though, churches have lost focus on the centrality of food—and with it a powerful tool for unifying Christ’s diverse body. But today a new movement is under way, bringing Christians of every denomination, age, race, and sexual orientation together around dinner tables. Men and women nervous about stepping through church doors are finding God in new ways as they eat together. Kendall Vanderslice shares stories of churches worshiping around the table, introducing readers to the rising contemporary dinner-church movement. We Will Feast provides vision and inspiration to readers longing to experience community in a real, physical way.

Dana L. Robert is Truman Collins Professor of World Christianity and History of Mission, and Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at the Boston University School of Theology. She has published widely on mission history, world Christianity, and African Christianity, including Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion.

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“With candor and delight, Vanderslice takes us through a tasting menu of dinner churches across the country where a meal is central and community is forged. We Will Feast reminds us that to ignore food is to ignore God’s provision for our life and the flourishing of community. I finished this book more committed to and more hopeful for a Church where all are fed.” —Laura Everett author of Holy Spokes

“We Will Feast is everything I want in a book – rich prose, decadent storytelling, the taste of possibility. I’m already hungry for more.” —Shannan Martin author of The Ministry of Ordinary Places and Falling Free

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Kendall Vanderslice is a writer and baker who studies the intersection of food and theology. She holds an MLA in Gastronomy from Boston University and a Masters of Theological Studies from Duke Divinity School. She has written for Christianity Today, Christ and Pop Culture, Religion News Service, and Fathom Magazine. She lives in Durham, North Carolina with her big-eared beagle named Strudel.

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Preaching Romans

Knowing Our Faith

Four Perspectives

A Guide for Believers, Seekers, and Christian Communities

Scot McKnight and Joseph B. Modica, editors

Justo L. González

Pauline scholarship is a minefield of differing schools of thought. Those who teach or preach on Paul can quickly get lost in the weeds of the various perspectives. How, then, can pastors today best preach Paul’s message? Scot McKnight and Joseph B. Modica have assembled this stellar onestop guide exploring four major interpretive perspectives on the apostle Paul: Reformational, New, Apocalyptic, and Participationist. First elucidated by a scholarly essay, each perspective is then illuminated by three sermons expositing various passages from Paul’s magisterial letter to the Romans. Coming from such leading figures as Richard Hays, James Dunn, Fleming Rutledge, and Tom Schreiner, these essays and sermons splendidly demonstrate how each perspective on Paul brings valuable insights for preaching on Romans.

“I do not hope to convince you so that you will believe,” says Justo González to open this brief book on the basics of Christianity. “That is to be left to the Holy Spirit. I write to you because you share the faith by which I live. I write so that you may share my joy in seeking to understand better this truth that our hearts believe and love.” In Knowing Our Faith González introduces the Christian faith in direct, contemporary language that does not assume any prior study. While recognizing the existence of various denominations and theological positions, González focuses on the core faith of the Christian church through the centuries. Covering all the key topics—revelation, God, Jesus Christ, the Spirit, the church, Christian hope, and others— Knowing Our Faith will help readers to understand the Christian faith better—and, above all, to live it better.

Contributors: Michael F. Bird, Douglas A. Campbell, James D. G. Dunn, Timothy G. Gombis, Michael J. Gorman, Richard B. Hays, Suzanne Watts Henderson, Tara Beth Leach, Scot McKnight, Jason Micheli, Joseph B. Modica, Fleming Rutledge, Thomas R. Schreiner, Carl R. Trueman, Stephen Westerholm, William H. Willimon

Justo L. González is a retired United Methodist minister and professor of historical theology. His more than one hundred books, which have been published in ten languages, include The Story Luke Tells: Luke’s Unique Witness to the Gospel and A Brief History of Sunday: From the New Testament to the New Creation.

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Scot McKnight is the Julius R. Mantey Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary, Lisle, Illinois. Joseph B. Modica is university chaplain and associate professor of biblical studies at Eastern University, St. David’s, Pennsylvania.

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Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts

A Guidebook for Church Innovations

Finding Hope in a Weary Land

Patrick Keifert and Wesley Granberg-Michaelson

Margaret Adams Parker and Katherine Sonderegger

Many congregations recognize their need to bring about change in order to become or remain vital, both spiritually and organizationally. They have a sense of what they need, and what might keep them from changing. But they don’t know how to change. How Change Comes to Your Church draws on the practical experience, stories, and examples from two experienced church leaders. Patrick Keifert and Wesley Granberg-Michaelson have helped scores of congregations as well as larger denominational organizations identify key elements that are a necessary part of transformational change. Rather than a superficial approach with a simplistic formula, How Change Comes to Your Church focuses on the important work of changing church culture, with innovative spiritual practices that establish the foundation for durable, missional change.

“Suffering, sorrow, injustice, confusion, and death can touch any of us, at any time . . . the Stations can offer consolation and comfort when we are grieving; healing and restoration when we are parched; inspiration and guidance when we are searching or lost or simply beset by the turmoil and temptation, isolation and insecurity that unsettle all our lives.”

W. David O. Taylor Foreword by Jeremy Begbie Every choice of art in worship opens up and closes down possibilities for the formation of our humanity. Every practice of music, every decision about language, every use of our bodies, every approach to visual media or church buildings forms our desires, shapes our imaginations, habituates our emotional instincts, and reconfigures our identity as Christians in contextually meaningful ways, generating thereby a sense of the triune God and of our place in the world. Glimpses of the New Creation argues that the arts form us in worship by bringing us into intentional and intensive participation in the aesthetic aspect of our humanity—that is, our physical, emotional, imaginative, and metaphorical capacities. In so doing they invite the people of God to be conformed to Christ and to participate in the praise of Christ and in the praise of creation, which by the Spirit’s power raises its peculiar voice to the Father in heaven, for the sake of the world that God so loves. W. David O. Taylor is assistant professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary and the director of Brehm Texas, an initiative in worship, theology, and the arts.

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Patrick Keifert is president and director of research of Church Innovations Institute. He has worked with hundreds of congregations and dozens of denominations on four continents is the Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at Luther Seminary. Wesley Granberg-Michaelson served as General Secretary of the Reformed Church in America for 17 years. He was an associate editor of Sojourners magazine and has also worked with the World Council of Churches, the Global Christian Forum, and Christian Churches Together.

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—From the introduction Praying the Stations of the Cross offers a lifetransforming spiritual practice. Grounded in Scripture, the Stations remind readers of the overarching power of God’s love for all people and our steadfast hope for redemption, a sure and true comfort in the face of pain and sorrow. Artist Margaret Adams Parker and theologian Katherine Sonderegger make the Stations of the Cross accessible for those new to the practice and offer compelling insight to those with long familiarity. Equally useful for individuals, groups, and congregations, Praying the Stations of the Cross can be used as an ongoing spiritual practice, a service offered in times of sorrow, struggle, or conflict, or a Lenten devotion.

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How Change Comes to Your Praying the Stations of the Cross Church

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Glimpses of the New Creation

Margaret Adams Parker is a professional artist and theological educator, deeply committed to the visual arts as a means of biblical interpretation and an aid to prayer. Katherine Sonderegger is William Meade Professor of Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary and the author of The Doctrine of God, Volume 1 in a multi-volume Systematic, and That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew: Karl Barth’s “Doctrine of Israel.”

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Addiction and Pastoral Care

Remembrance, Communion, and Hope

Cultivating Teen Faith

Sonia E. Waters

Rediscovering the Gospel at the Lord’s Table

Richard R. Osmer and Katherine M. Douglass, editors

J. Todd Billings

Foreword by Kenda Creasy Dean

Foreword by Gerald L. Sittser

In this book twelve authors draw on a threeyear study of more than 3,000 US congregations across five denominations to answer this pressing question. They tell stories of excellent and innovative confirmation programs that work and that show, above all, what good discipleship with young people looks like. Youth pastors, church leaders, and parents alike will benefit from the practices and new ways of teaching presented here that have proven helpful in forming and enhancing the faith of youth.

Foreword by John Swinton Substance addictions present a unique set of challenges for pastoral care. In this book Sonia Waters weaves together personal stories, engaging research, and theological reflection to offer helpful tools in addressing these challenges for pastors, counselors, chaplains, and anyone else called to care for someone struggling with addiction. Sonia E. Waters is assistant professor of pastoral theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and an Episcopal priest. She has served as a volunteer chaplain at a local treatment center and is involved in recovery activities in the Princeton area.

“Todd Billings calls the church to renewal through deep engagement with the Lord’s Supper as the ‘true icon’ of the good news of Jesus Christ, the form of the gospel that we can taste and see.” — Martha Moore-Keish Columbia Theological Seminary

“I hope this becomes the go-to textbook on the Lord’s Supper in Protestant seminaries. Our spiritual lives and our witness will be richer for it.” — James K. A. Smith Calvin College

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J. Todd Billings is Gordon H. Girod Research Professor of Reformed Theology at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, and an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America. His other books include Calvin, Participation, and the Gift (winner of a 2009 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise), The Word of God for the People of God, and Rejoicing in Lament.

Insights from the Confirmation Project

Richard R. Osmer is the Ralph B. and Helen S. Ashenfelter Professor of Mission and Evangelism at Princeton Theological Seminary. Katherine M. Douglass is assistant professor of Christian ministry at Seattle Pacific Seminary, an ordained minister in the PCUSA, and director of the Confirmation Project at Princeton Theological Seminary.

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Flawed Church, Faithful God A Reformed Ecclesiology for the Real World Joseph D. Small

Four Ministries, One Jesus Exploring Your Vocation with the Four Gospels Richard A. Burridge

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Exactly as You Are

The Life and Faith of Mister Rogers Shea Tuttle Welcome to the spiritual neighborhood of Fred Rogers

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“I like you as you are Exactly and precisely I think you turned out nicely And I like you as you are.” Fred Rogers isn’t typically thought of as forceful. But he fiercely be-

lieved and made it his mission to assert the fact that everyone, especially children, should be loved exactly as they are. This conviction developed out of his Christian faith. In Exactly as You Are, Shea Tuttle looks at Fred Rogers’ life, the people and places that made him who he was, and his work through Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. She looks and listens not just carefully, but theologically—because Fred Rogers was a deeply spiritual person. Tuttle explores this good, kind, sometimes strange, deeply influential, holy man: the neighborhood he came from, the neighborhood he built, and the kind of neighbor he, by his example, calls all of us to be even now, in our own troubled time. Throughout, Tuttle reveals the beliefs that Fred Rogers carried into every day: that God created each of us as unique people with unique feelings, that God’s welcome is wide, and that God loves us exactly as we are.

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Shea Tuttle is co-editor of Can I Get a Witness: Thirteen Peacemakers, Community Builders, and Agitators for Faith and Justice (Eerdmans, 2019). She holds an M.Div. from Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Shea lives in Virginia with her family.

Table of Contents Introduction: It’s good to look carefully, listen carefully. 1. Are you brave and don’t know it? Childhood and Fear 2. It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Hometown and Community 3. I like you as you are. Adolescence and Acceptance 4. I’m learning to sing a sad song when I’m sad. College, Music, and Feelings 5. You’re growing. Formation in New York City 6. It’s a neighborly day in this beauty wood. The Children’s Corner, Whimsy, and Seriousness 7. Did you know when you marvel, you’re learning? Graduate Studies and LifeTransforming Teachers 8. I like to be told when you’re going away. Canada, Fatherhood, and Separation 9. It’s the people you like the most who can manage to make you feel maddest. Funding, Church, and High Standards 10. We all want peace. Change, Fear, and Peace in the Neighborhood 11. I’ll be back when the day is new. Liturgy in the Neighborhood 12. TBD. Parables of the Kingdom 13. Everybody’s fancy. Difference in the Neighborhood 14. I think you’re a special person. Puppets and Personality 15. You are my friend. You are special. Relationships and Sexuality 16. The very same people who are mad sometimes are the very same people who are glad sometimes. Fred’s Big Feelings 17. Keep us safe and faithful, God. Tell us what to do. All Ground as Holy Ground 18. Goodnight, God, and thank you for this very lovely day. Heaven Is a Neighborhood

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Accidental Preacher

In This World of Wonders

A Memoir

Memoir of a Life in Learning

Will Willimon

Nicholas Wolterstorff

Afterword by Kate Bowler In this book one of today’s best-known Christian leaders recounts— with his signature wit and humor—memorable moments from his rich and full preaching life. A personal and vocational memoir, Will Willimon’s Accidental Preacher portrays the adventure of a life caught up in the purposes of a God who calls unlikely people to engage in work greater than themselves. Beginning with his childhood in a segregated South and moving through his student years, Willimon gives candid, inspiring, and humorous testimony to his experiences as a seminary professor, rural pastor, globe-trotting preacher, bishop, and popular theologian and writer. Above all, he shows how God has constantly had a call on his life. By turns poignant, hilarious, and thought-provoking—but always irresistibly engaging—Accidental Preacher is sure to join the well-remembered, classic memoir of our time. Will Willimon is Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry and Director of the Doctor of Ministry at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. He is an internationally renowned preacher and widely read author noted for his humor, his insight into the Christian faith, and his theological commitment. His many books have sold over a million copies.

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“I never took a course from Nick Wolterstorff, but he has been my teacher for the past half-century. The range of his contributions to the Christian life of the mind is amazing. But now, in this fine memoir, we get an even richer picture—a portrait of what it means to journey through life as an integrated person who exhibits in a very personal way a profound commitment to truth, beauty, and justice.” — Richard Mouw Fuller Theological Seminary

“Nick’s emphasis on learning and listening has blessed him with an incredible wealth of knowledge, from which we can all learn something that will in turn deepen our own faith, understanding, and love for the world in which we live. His is a life worth reading about, and he is someone I deeply admire.” — Jim Wallis Sojourners

“Nick Wolterstorff describes the rich landscape of his life—art, music, love, grief, the academy, houses, travel, family, furniture, and much more—in a vivid, fastpaced, and deeply moving account. From these foothills there rise up the mighty peaks of his life’s work: justice, liturgy, peace, divine discourse, lament, politics, Reason, Being, Knowing. Seeing these in the context of Wolterstorff ’s remarkable life, we see in new ways why they matter for all of us.” — N. T. Wright University of St. Andrews

“Nicholas Wolterstorff ’s fingerprints are all over the better sort of American evangelicalism, from the revival of Christian philosophy to a reawakening of passion for social justice to the renewal of interest in liturgy and the arts.” — David Neff Christianity Today

Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University. Before going to Yale he taught philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for thirty years. His other books include Justice in Love, Educating for Shalom, The God We Worship, and Lament for a Son.

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When Poets Pray

Why Wisdom Can’t Be Taught—and Why That’s Okay

Encouragements for Living, Working, and Being

Marilyn McEntyre

Carl McColman

Samuel Wells

We speak of spirituality as a “journey,” which implies not only a destination toward which we travel, but countless adventures encountered along the way. The journey is the destination—both at once. We may all be trying to get to the heart of God, but there are infinite ways to get there. Can wisdom collected along the pilgrim path even be captured in words, codified into a book? Probably not. And why do the wisest books refuse to offer glib formulas or step-bystep instructions for happiness or enlightenment? Why are the great spiritual classics mostly just an invitation to keep our eyes, ears—and especially hearts—open? Because we’re often stumbling on miracles while we’re looking for something else. Using engaging and disarming stories from his own life, Carl McColman, a leading author of books in spirituality, gently leads readers toward a recognition that although the wisdom of the past is worth reading, hearing or reading others’ experience of God is ultimately no substitute for opening our own eyes, ears, and hearts to God. Carl McColman is the author of Befriending Silence, The Big Book of Christian Mysticism, Christian Mystics: 108 Seers, Saints and Sages, and Answering the Contemplative Call. He lives near Atlanta, Georgia, where he is the member of the Lay Cistercians of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit—a contemplative community under the spiritual guidance of Trappist monks.

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“Sam Wells has written a book that catches you in delight and brings you into a place of meeting Christ. It is a honey trap, baited with inspiring language and deep thinking. It is not a book for the fainthearted, but I will be giving it to friends outside the Christian faith who think hard and with imagination about the essence of life as well as its existence… And who appreciate beautiful writing.” — Justin Welby Archbishop of Canterbury

“Whether you are new to Sam Wells or have trusted him for a long time, this small book will give you reason to think differently about your place in the universe. His counsel to walk humbly includes the neighbors next door as well as the galaxies overhead, giving Christians every reason to live large by remembering our true size.” — Barbara Brown Taylor author of Holy Envy

“Amid the clamor and conflicting claims of our present age, into the cacophony of voices that shout to us, master theologian and preacher, Sam Wells, guides and encourages us with Walk Humbly. Here are wise words from trustworthy pastoral guide who enables us to think well and to think like Christians about what’s most important in life.” — Will Willimon

Poetry and prayer are closely related. We often look to poets to give language to our deepest hopes, fears, losses—and prayers. Poets slow us down. They teach us to stop and go in before we go on. They play at the edges of mystery, holding a tension between line and sentence, between sense and reason, between the transcendent and the deeply, comfortingly familiar. When Poets Pray contains thoughtful meditations by Marilyn McEntyre on choice poems/ prayers and poems about prayer. McEntyre’s beautifully written reflections are contemplative exercises, not scholarly analyses, meant more as invitation than instruction. Here she shares gifts that she herself has received from poets who pray, or who reflect on prayer, believing that they have other gifts to offer readers seeking spiritual companionship from one pilgrim to another along the way.

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Walk Humbly

Unteachable Lessons

Marilyn McEntyre is the award-winning author of several books on language and faith, including What’s in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause (winner of a Christianity Today 2015 book award in spirituality); Make a List: How a Simple Practice Can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts; Word by Word: A Daily Spiritual Practice; and Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies.

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Samuel Wells is vicar of St. Martin-in-theFields, Trafalgar Square, London. His previous books include Incarnational Ministry, Incarnational Mission, Shaping the Prayers of the People (with Abigail Kocher), and Learning to Dream Again.

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Silence Can Kill

Outdoing Jesus

Consider the Women

Speaking Up to End Hunger and Make Our Economy Work for Everybody

Seven Ways to Live Out the Promise of “Greater Than”

A Provocative Guide to Three Matriarchs of the Bible

Arthur Simon

Doug Pagitt

Debbie Blue

Foreword by Rick Steves

Doug Pagitt uses the works and teachings of Jesus as lenses through which we see what the kingdom of God would look like if it were “at hand.” We see how developments in humanities, medicine, science, technology, philanthropy, structural design, and social justice are bringing about the agenda of God for the world; and how we can participate. Outdoing Jesus is not only insightful biblical theology but a robust call to dare great things in pursuit of human flourishing.

Among the mostly male-dominated narratives in Scripture, the stories of women can be game-changing. In this book Debbie Blue looks closely at Hagar (mother of Islam), Esther (Jewish heroine), and Mary (Christian matriarch)—and finds in them unexpected and inviting new ways of navigating faith and life.

Silence Can Kill asks citizens first to enlist government leaders to end hunger in the United States and abroad; and second to call on them to address the nation’s racial, social, and economic inequalities. While affirming the role of charity in responding to these needs, Simon explains why government leadership, now lagging, is essential. In the face of dangerous levels of economic inequality and political dysfunction, he proposes a path forward that will unite us in putting the nation’s founding ideals into action. Because silence kills. Arthur Simon, founder and president emeritus of Bread for the World, a nonprofit urging our nation’s decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad, is the recipient of a President’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his work to combat hunger. He has published feature articles in The Atlantic, Commonweal, The New Republic, The Christian Century, and major newspapers.

Doug Pagitt is pastor of Solomon’s Porch, a congregation in Minneapolis that focuses on addressing human needs in the neighboring community and facilitating a more personal encounter with God. He is also host of Doug Pagitt Radio and the author of several books, including A Christianity Worth Believing. Pagitt and his wife, Shelley, live in Minneapolis.

Debbie Blue is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and one of the founding pastors of House of Mercy in St. Paul, Minnesota (once named “the Best Church for Non-Churchgoers”). Among her other books is the award-winning Consider the Birds: A Provocative Guide to Birds of the Bible.

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Human Rites The Power of Rituals, Habits, and Sacraments Dru Johnson

The Practice of Finding How Gratitude Leads the Way to Enough Holly W. Whitcomb

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