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11 The World of the Bible 13 History of Christianity 15 Theology 19 Education 21 Church & Ministry 25 Prayer/Devotional 27 Christian Belief 29 Religion & Society 32 Faith & Life 35 Biography

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Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, volume XVII Index Volume Compiled by Ronald E. Pitkin This useful resource, which concludes the illustrious Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, provides TDOT users with an index to all sixteen previous volumes. The first part of this volume indexes keywords in Hebrew, Aramaic, and English, while the second part indexes all textual references— both biblical and extrabiblical. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. English Words 2. Hebrew Words 3. Aramaic Words 4. Old Testament 5. Apocrypha

G. Johannes Botterweck (1917–1981) was professor of Old Testament and Catholic theology at the University of Bonn, Germany.

Helmer Ringgren (1917–2012) was professor of Old Testament interpretation at the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

6. New Testament 7. Near Eastern Texts 8. Pseudepigrapha 9. Qumran 10. Josephus

Heinz-Josef Fabry is professor emeritus of Old Testament at the University of Bonn, Germany.

11. Philo 12. Rabbinic Writings 13. Early Christian Writings 14. Greco-Roman Literature 15. Qur’an

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G. Johannes Botterweck, Helmer Ringgren, and Heinz-Josef Fabry, editors

Ronald E. Pitkin is the former president of Cumberland House Publishing in Nashville, Tennessee. He also compiled the index for the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament.

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“An important and interesting scholastic tool, essential for any library that serves serious Bible students, theological scholars, church-school teachers, pastors, or interested laypeople.”

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A Grammar of New Testament Greek LANGUAGES

Rodney A. Whitacre A reader’s guide to the morphology and syntax of Koine Greek From the pen of a seasoned instructor of biblical Greek, this book functions as both an essential resource for second-year students and an invaluable asset for all readers as they continue to hone and deepen their linguistic skills. It begins with a basic overview of the language for new learners and for those looking for a brief refresher before moving into nuanced matters of morphology and syntax. Whitacre’s aim is ultimately to help readers understand the subtleties of the language on the pages of the New Testament; thus, he engages with the biblical text both grammatically and exegetically, so that readers can experience its full power and beauty. Including numerous illustrative examples throughout and several useful appendices at the end, A Grammar of New Testament Greek is indispensable both as a textbook and as a reference for all readers of the Greek New Testament—and other texts written in Koine, such as the Septuagint. TABLE OF CONTENTS

Rodney A. Whitacre has been a teacher of Greek for over forty years. He is the author of Using and Enjoying Biblical Greek, A Patristic Greek Reader, and a commentary on the Gospel of John in the IVP New Testament Commentary series.

1. Introduction to Greek Writing, Pronunciation, and Punctuation 2. Basic Features of Ancient Greek 3. Morphology of Nominal Forms 4. Morphology of Verbal Forms 5. Greek Syntax Appendix 1: Rules for Accenting Appendix 2: Words Distinguished by Their Accents and Breathing Marks

Appendix 3: Common Sufﬁxes Appendix 4: Paradigms for Reference Appendix 5: Summary of Selected Syntax Topics Appendix 6: Simple Overview of English Grammar Essentials Appendix 7: Suggestions for Approaching a Sentence in Greek

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Daily Scriptures 365 Readings in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin Jacob N. Cerone and Matthew C. Fisher A simple and meaningful way of practicing biblical languages Pastors, students, and scholars not in the midst of language coursework often find it difficult to maintain their knowledge of biblical languages like Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. For those looking to do so in a meaningful but manageable way, this devotional offers 365 short daily readings, pairing an Old Testament passage in Hebrew and Greek with a corresponding New Testament passage in Greek and Latin. Lexical notes in English are included as a way of facilitating a comfortable reading experience that will build one’s confidence and ability in reading the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, the Greek New Testament, and the Latin Vulgate. “Our goal and our purpose for this volume is to keep you in the languages, keep you fed in the Word, and hopefully spark a desire to explore more deeply how the New Testament at its core relies upon the Old Testament Scriptures.” — FROM THE INTRODUCTION

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Jacob N. Cerone is a doctoral candidate at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität at ErlangenNuremburg, Germany. Matthew C. Fisher is lecturer in biblical studies and theology at St. Petersburg Christian University, Russia.

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COMMENTARIES FOR CHRISTIAN FORMATION

Galatians N. T. Wright

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The first major biblical commentary from the pen of N. T. Wright Galatians is often read by Christians as being primarily concerned with the traditional doctrine of justification through faith, but it is also a text focused deeply on the political concerns of its specific historical moment. This commentary from N. T. Wright—the inaugural volume of the Commentaries for Christian Formation series—offers a theological interpretation of Galatians that puts that historical context of the book in dialogue with present questions, so that readers can understand both what Paul meant and what his writing might mean for us today. Each section of verse-by-verse commentary in this volume is followed by Wright’s reflections on what the text says about Christian formation today, making this an excellent resource for individual readers and those preparing to teach or preach on Galatians. The focus on formation is especially appropriate for this biblical letter, in which Paul wrote to his fellow early Christians, “My children— I seem to be in labor with you all over again, until the Messiah is fully formed in you!” TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction

Galatians 3:15–29

Galatians 1:1–17

Galatians 4:1–11

The Situation in Galatia Paul’s Answer Commentaries and Christian Formation Apostleship and the Gospel (1:1–5) Another Gospel? (1:6–9) The Story So Far (1:10–17)

Galatians 1:18–2:10

First Jerusalem Visit: A Happy Relationship (1:18–24) The Second Visit: Standing Firm (2:1–10)

Galatians 2:11–21

Peter in Antioch (2:11–14) The Great Transformation (2:15–21)

Galatians 3:1–14

The Spirit and Faith (3:1–5) Abraham and the Covenant (3:6–9) The Curse of the Law (3:10–14)

The Unbreakable Covenant (3:15–18) Why Then the Law? (3:19–22) Under the Paidagōgos (3:23–25) Abraham’s One Family (3:26–29) The New Exodus (4:1–7) Don’t Go Back to Slavery! (4:8–11)

Galatians 4:12–5:1

True Friends and False Friends (4:12–20) Two Women, Two Families, Two Covenants, Two Mountains (4:21–5:1)

Galatians 5:2–26

The Warning and the Challenge (5:2–12) Love and the Spirit (5:13–26)

Galatians 6:1–18

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Closing Exhortations (6:1–10) Final Warnings and Example (6:11–18)

The Commentaries for Christian Formation (CCF) series—edited by Stephen E. Fowl, Jennie Grillo, and Robert W. Wall—serves a central purpose of the Word of God for the people of God: faith formation. Some series focus on exegesis, some on preaching, some on teaching , and some on application. This new series integrates all these aims, serving the church by showing how sound theological exegesis can underwrite preaching and teaching , which in turn forms believers in the faith.

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Uniting these volumes is a shared conviction that interpreting Scripture is not an end in itself. Faithful belief, prayer, and practice, deeper love of God and neighbor: these are ends of scriptural interpretation for Christians. The volumes in Commentaries for Christian Formation interpret Scripture in ways aimed at ordering readers’ lives and worship in imitation of Christ, informing their understanding of God, and animating their participation in the church’s global mission with a deepened sense of calling.

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Romans

Douglas A. Campbell

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The Letter to the Romans A Short Commentary Frederick Dale Bruner

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In the wake of two magisterial commentaries on first the Gospel of Matthew and then the Gospel of John, noted theologian and exegete Frederick Dale Bruner turns his scholarly attentions to Paul’s letter to the Romans. In this concise commentary, he relays his findings on what he calls the “Fifth Gospel” and its central claim that “through the Father’s love, Jesus’s passion, and the Spirit’s application of this passionate love, human beings can have a perfectly right relationship with God—by simple faith in His Christ.” As he did in his commentaries on Matthew and John, Bruner engages historical interpreters of Romans from Origen to Cranfield—including Augustine, Chrysostom, Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin—while offering his own lucid translation of the text and relevant pastoral applications. Bruner also engages with other contemporary interpreters who “have spent much of their scholarly lives mining the gold down deep” in Romans, as he humbly admits that his “conversation with Paul’s texts is almost as often a conversation with these fellow miners, who have given their lives to understanding exactly what Paul said and meant in his deep sentences.” The result is a holistic understanding of the book of Romans informed not only by one scholar’s lifetime of ministry, teaching, and learning, but also by the full depth and breadth of church tradition. Frederick Dale Bruner is the George and Lyda Wasson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Whitworth University. His other books include A Theology of the Holy Spirit: The Pentecostal Experience and the New Testament Witness and commentaries on the Gospels of Matthew and John. 978-0-8028-7943-1 | Jacketed Hardcover | 230 pages | $26.99 US | $35.99 CAN | £21.99 UK Available October 2021

ILLUMINATIONS COMMENTARY SERIES

Jonah Introduction and Commentary Amy Erickson How can we move away from stale interpretations to recover the richness of meaning that belongs to this short but noteworthy book of the Bible? This Illuminations commentary delves into Jonah’s reception history in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic contexts while also exploring its representations in visual arts, music, literature, and pop culture. After this thorough contextualization, Erickson provides a fresh translation and exegesis, paving the way for pastors and scholars to read and utilize the book of Jonah as the provocative, richly allusive, and theologically robust text that it is. “Amy Erickson has written a Jonah commentary that is breathtaking in its comprehensiveness, erudition, and interpretive courage. It will be the go-to study for all subsequent work on the book of Jonah. This book is a tour de force that pays careful and imaginative attention to the thickness, playfulness, and elusiveness of the text, and, as such, it is a durable marker for the work of interpretation to which attention must be paid.” — WALTER BRUEGGEMANN Columbia Theological Seminary

“This clear and carefully organized volume provides both a detailed commentary and a compilation of an astonishing array of interpretive traditions on Jonah. With invaluable and deeply researched bibliographies in each section, it will prove immensely useful to those interested in the study of prophetic literature, the book of the twelve, or the artistry and afterlives of Jonah.” — NYASHA JUNIOR Temple University

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THE NEW INTERNATIONAL COMMENTARY ON THE OLD TESTAMENT

The Book of Jeremiah Of the Major Prophets, Jeremiah is perhaps the least straightforward. It is variously comprised of stories about the prophet Jeremiah, exchanges between Jeremiah and Yahweh, and messages directly from Yahweh—meaning a consciousness of form is essential to the understanding of its content. At times it is written in poetry, resembling Isaiah, while at other times it is written in prose, more similar to Ezekiel. And it is without doubt the darkest and most threatening of the Major Prophets, inviting comparisons to Amos and Hosea. John Goldingay, a widely respected biblical scholar who has written extensively on the entire Old Testament, navigates these complexities in the same spirit as other volumes of the New International Commentary on the Old Testament series—rooted in Jeremiah’s historical context but with an eye always trained on its meaning and use as Christian Scripture. After a thorough introduction that explores matters of background, composition, and theology, Goldingay provides an original translation and verse-byverse commentary of all fifty-two chapters, making this an authoritative and indispensable reference for scholars and pastors as they engage with Jeremiah from a contemporary Christian standpoint.

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John Goldingay

John Goldingay is the David Allan Hubbard Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. For many years he also served as priest-in-charge of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California. Now living back in England, where he was born and raised, he is the author of numerous commentaries and books, including Reading Jesus’s Bible: How the New Testament Helps Us Understand the Old Testament and an original translation of the Old Testament entitled The First Testament. 978-0-8028-7584-6 | Jacketed Hardcover | 992 pages | $75.00 US | $100.99 CAN | £60.99 UK | Available December 2021

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL COMMENTARY ON THE OLD TESTAMENT

The Books of Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah Thomas Renz “This is a commentary with technical expertise and pastoral sensitivity. An impressive contribution to the well-regarded NICOT series.”

Proverbs A Shorter Commentary Bruce K. Waltke and Ivan D. V. De Silva “Simply a masterpiece. Written with the integration of lucid instruction and keen scholarship, this delightful commentary is characterized by both depth and simplicity. Pastors, Sunday school teachers, biblical students, and Christian parents should have this book in their arsenal to pursue and to communicate authentic biblical wisdom.” — PETER A. LILLBACK president of Westminster Theological Seminary

— CHRISTOPHER SEITZ Wycliffe College, University of Toronto

Thomas Renz is the rector of Monken Hadley, a parish within the Church of England. Previously, he taught Old Testament and Hebrew at Oak Hill Theological College, a seminary in North London. 978-0-8028-2626-8 | Jacketed Hardcover | 750 pages | $56.00 US | $75.99 CAN £45.99 UK | Available June 2021

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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. Ivan D. V. De Silva is instructor in religious studies at Trinity Western University and adjunct faculty at Pacific Life Bible College. 978-0-8028-7503-7 | Paperback | 528 pages | $38.00 US | $50.99 CAN | £30.99 UK | Available

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THE PILLAR NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARY

THE TWO HORIZONS NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARY

The Letter of James

1–3 John

SECOND EDITION

Thomas Andrew Bennett

Douglas J. Moo

“Thomas Andrew Bennett has written a smart, well-written commentary on John’s three Catholic Epistles. His fluent exposition of these neglected biblical texts and his wide-ranging theological investigations of them fashion an inviting dialogue for and with clergy of the confessing church. Bennett’s attentiveness to the reception history of these letters as well as the ecclesial location of their interpretation as Scripture is especially welcome. Readers will appreciate the care by which Bennett selects which of these issues to discuss and how they might help the pastor or teacher prepare sermons or lectures that are formative of a people’s knowledge of and life with God.” — ROBERT W. WALL

This highly original commentary on James by respected New Testament scholar Douglas Moo combines penetrating scholarship with the simplicity of style and pastoral tone characteristic of James itself. After discussing such background issues as authorship, genre, purpose, structure, and theology, Moo provides a verse-by-verse exposition of the text that leads readers to the heart of James’s message—wholehearted commitment to Christ. In addition to expounding the meaning of James, Moo also takes care to provide practical insights for applying that meaning in the church today. At once scholarly and accessible, this volume has become a standard commentary on James. The second edition is based upon the newest version of the NIV and incorporates the latest scholarship. It has been expanded, updated, and revised throughout. “Douglas Moo is well known to New Testament commentary readers, both from his magisterial volume on Romans in The New International Commentary on the New Testament and from his excellent little work on James in the Tyndale series. Fully abreast of the latest scholarship on James, Moo here walks readers with remarkable clarity through even complex exegetical issues. He consistently comes to convincing conclusions. As a bonus, he occasionally inserts comments by way of application that reflect his warm pastoral heart. Highly recommended.” — CRAIG L. BLOMBERG Denver Seminary

Douglas J. Moo is the Kenneth T. Wessner Professor of New Testament at Wheaton Graduate School. His other commentaries include the NICNT volume on Romans and the PNTC volume on Colossians and Philemon. 978-0-8028-7666-9 | Jacketed Hardcover | 450 pages $45.00 US | $60.99 CAN | £36.99 UK | Available June 2021

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Seattle Pacific University and Seminary

“This is a work of scholarship for the church, for the very same community to whom the writings of John were first addressed. Under Bennett’s careful and incisive guidance the church of today will be helped to read John’s letters with ears tuned to the Word of God. Bennett helps us to explore the theological questions that John himself explores and so offers rich resources and encouragement to the church to be what it is called to be: the proclaimer in word and deed of the message of salvation.”

— MURRAY RAE

University of Otago, New Zealand

“Thomas Andrew Bennett has provided us with a well-informed, stylish study of the Johannine Letters and their ongoing significance. Passionately confessional, his commentary points to their articulation of major Christian doctrines and ethical practices. John, possibly the author of the letters, the fourth Gospel, and Revelation, summons wavering early Christians to a shared way of life guided by perennial Christian truths.”

— FRANCIS J. MOLONEY, SDB

Catholic Theological College, University of Divinity, Australia

Thomas Andrew Bennett is affiliate assistant professor of theology at Fuller Theological Seminary and lead pastor of Coast Bible Church, San Juan Capistrano, California.

No one familiar with the Bible needs to be told that it is a truly remarkable work. But it takes help to understand this ancient collection of diverse forms of literature written by different people across many centuries. The Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible (ECB) is the finest single-volume Bible handbook available. Written by world-class Bible scholars, the ECB encapsulates in nontechnical language the best of modern scholarship on the sixty-six biblical books plus the Apocrypha. The only one-volume Bible commentary to cover all the texts (even including 1 Enoch) regarded by one or more Christian churches as canonical, the ECB provides readerfriendly treatments and succinct summaries of each section of the text that will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers alike. “An international team of 67 biblical scholars offers this judicious and solid introduction to the varieties of biblical literature.” — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “The commentaries and articles in this collection will be a valuable resource for scholars, students, ministers, and others for many years to come.” — JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

“A magisterial one-volume commentary. . . . Of immense value.” — CHURCH TIMES James D. G. Dunn (1939–2020) was a renowned New Testament scholar and the longtime Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at Durham University. John W. Rogerson (1935–2018) was professor of biblical studies at the University of Sheffield. 978-0-8028-7978-3 | Paperback | 1649 pages | $70.00 US $94.99 CAN | £55.99 UK | Available

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DISCOVERING BIBLICAL TEXTS

Discovering Isaiah

Content, Interpretation, Reception

Ralph K. Hawkins

Andrew T. Abernethy

“A stimulating study of the book of Exodus that investigates various historical, thematic, and theological facets. Thoroughly researched, this book will be a great resource for serious students of the Bible.”

“Isaiah is the richest book with the richest story, from its origins to the present day. Andrew Abernethy has written a rich guide to this story and to the book itself.”

— JOHN GOLDINGAY

— JAMES K. HOFFMEIER

Ralph K. Hawkins is director of the program in religion and professor of biblical and archaeological studies at Averett University, Danville, Virginia. He is also the author of How Israel Became a People.

author of Israel in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition

“The enormous influence of Exodus on global history and culture cannot be overstated. Hawkins helpfully synthesizes the state of research in critical scholarship, archaeology, and the history of interpretation for the next generation of students.” — CARMEN JOY IMES author of Bearing God’s Name: Why Sinai Still Matters

Andrew T. Abernethy is associate professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College. His other books on Isaiah include God’s Messiah in the Old Testament: Expectations of a Coming King and The Book of Isaiah and God’s Kingdom: A Thematic-Theological Approach.

“This introductory study offers a balanced discussion of Isaiah with a focus on its historical setting, theology, and Christian reception. Its pedagogical style and lucid structure render it wellsuited to undergraduate teaching.” — LENA-SOFIA TIEMEYER Örebro School of Theology, Sweden

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Discovering Revelation

Discovering Luke

Joel B. Green is associate dean for the Center for Advanced Theological Studies and professor of New Testament interpretation at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the author or editor of more than forty-five books, including Hearing the New Testament; coauthor of Introducing the New Testament; and editor of the New International Commentary on the New Testament series.

author of The Theology of the Book of Isaiah

Content, Interpretation, Reception

Joel B. Green

David A. deSilva

“A comprehensive account of Luke’s Gospel from an established and respected interpreter. . . . As he engages with timeless questions and interlocutors from every era, Green has produced a must-read volume for our generation.” — AMY PEELER

“David deSilva has produced what must certainly be regarded as the most comprehensive and well-structured introduction to the Revelation of John currently available, reflecting a thorough knowledge of both classical and recent secondary literature on the book.”

Wheaton College

“Solidly grounded in scholarship, this new introduction lifts the horizon beyond the familiar debates and invites us into a refreshed vision of Luke’s multifaceted message(s) for the church, both then and now. . . . Highly commended for students, teachers and preachers both within and without the academy.” — LOVEDAY ALEXANDER University of Sheffield

David A. deSilva is the Trustees’ Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek at Ashland Theological Seminary. His many other books include An Introduction to the New Testament, Introducing the Apocrypha, Galatians: A Handbook to the Greek Text, and the NICNT commentary on Galatians.

— DAVID E. AUNE editor of The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament

“This is an excellent introduction to Revelation and one that fills a muchneeded gap for those seeking to understand this often-confounding biblical text. With accessible prose and theological sensitivity, deSilva immerses readers in the ancient religious, economic, and political environment of Revelation.” — ROBYN WHITAKER Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, Australia

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Discovering Exodus

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BIBLICAL STUDIES

Cruciformity

Cruciform Scripture

Paul’s Narrative Spirituality of the Cross

Cross, Participation, and Mission

20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Christopher W. Skinner, Nijay K. Gupta, Andy Johnson, and Drew J. Strait, editors

Mark Reasoner

“This is a collection of first-rate essays that celebrate Michael Gorman’s work by pursuing his own central concerns in fresh directions. Like his own work, they exemplify attentive exegesis that overflows into the theology and the life of the contemporary church.”

A Christian never gains all that Scripture offers by reading it with just one approach. Yet too often this is attempted—whether through an academic obsession with the historical-critical method or through a consumerist approach that seeks only the motivation of the moment. Mark Reasoner broadens the options for scriptural engagement by describing five models of Scripture: documents, stories, prayers, laws, and oracles. To illustrate each, he uses examples from throughout the history of interpretation. Reasoner shows how an appreciation for all five will enrich one’s scriptural insights while also bridging divides between the various branches of the Christian family. In addition to the five models, Reasoner surveys Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant constructions of the biblical canon and addresses specific issues relevant to their respective interpretations of Scripture, including scriptural metanarratives, the use of the Bible in Christian worship, and the principle of sola Scriptura. Through it all, Reasoner remains unequivocally focused on his goal: “to help readers grow in their love for Scripture in ways that will help them plant this love in those to whom they minister.”

Michael J. Gorman Foreword by Nijay K. Gupta When it was first published in 2001, Cruciformity broke new ground with a vision of Pauline spirituality that illuminated what it meant to be a person or community in Christ. Beginning with Paul’s express desire to “know nothing but Christ crucified,” Gorman showed how true spirituality is telling the story, in both life and words, of God’s self-revelation in Jesus, so that we might practice “cruciformity”—the impossible possibility of conformity to the crucified Christ. Two decades later, Gorman’s seminal work is still a powerful model for combining biblical studies and theological reflection to make Paul’s letters more immediately relevant to contemporary Christian life. This twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new foreword by Nijay Gupta—a nextgeneration Pauline scholar heavily influenced by Gorman—as well as an afterword by the author, in which he reflects on the legacy of Cruciformity in the church and the academy, including his own subsequent work in Pauline theology. “This work illustrates how the cross of Christ is the key to Paul’s spirituality—and to our own as well.” — FRANK J. MATERA author of God’s Saving Grace: A Pauline Theology

“In an age when spirituality is often simply a mask for self-projection and self-assertion, Gorman’s Paul reminds Christians that such vital matters as faith, hope, love, and power should be shaped by the story of the crucified and resurrected one rather than by our own whims and desires.” — STEPHEN E. FOWL Loyola University Maryland

Michael J. Gorman holds the Raymond E. Brown Chair in Biblical Studies and Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he has taught since 1991. A highly regarded New Testament scholar, he has also written Inhabiting the Cruciform God, Becoming the Gospel, and Apostle of the Crucified Lord, among other significant works.

— RICHARD BAUCKHAM University of Cambridge

“The debt we owe Gorman is attested not just by the fine assembly of scholars in this volume who honor his life and work but also by the way their scholarly contributions here engage directly with his interpretations and continue his work, deepening and widening its insights still further.”

— DOUGLAS A. CAMPBELL Duke Divinity School

CONTRIBUTORS Ben C. Blackwell, Sherri Brown, Frank E. Dicken, Dennis R. Edwards, Rebekah Eklund, Dean Flemming, Patricia Fosarelli, Stephen E. Fowl, Nijay K. Gupta, Richard B. Hays, Andy Johnson, Sylvia C. Keesmaat, Brent Laytham, Christopher W. Skinner, Klyne R. Snodgrass, Drew J. Strait, and N. T. Wright.

Christopher W. Skinner is associate professor of New Testament and early Christianity at Loyola University Chicago. Nijay K. Gupta is associate professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary. Andy Johnson is professor of New Testament at Nazarene Theological Seminary.

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“To relish the feast that is Scripture, we need to use multiple models.”

“Mark Reasoner has managed to weave together the distinctive paradigms of inspiration and interpretation in the Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox traditions. This book will undoubtedly enrich critical scholarship, seminary instruction, and spiritual formation in ways that shed hardened stereotypes of the past and suggest fresh perspectives for analysis and meditation in the future.” — JOHN CHRYSSAVGIS theological advisor to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

Mark Reasoner is professor of biblical theology at Marian University. He is the author of Romans in Full Circle: A History of Interpretation and coauthor of The Abingdon Introduction to the Bible. 978-0-8028-7682-9 | Paperback | 320 pages | $29.99 US $39.99 CAN | £23.99 UK | Available August 2021

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Voices from the Ruins

Rebekah Eklund

Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible

Foreword by Dale C. Allison Jr.

Dalit Rom-Shiloni

A reception history of the Beatitudes, from the first century to the present day “It is not an overstatement to describe Rebekah Eklund’s book as stunning. Clearly written. Delightful to read. Erudite while being open-hearted and openhanded. I learned something new (and old) on every page. This will become the new standard work on the Beatitudes.” — JONATHAN T. PENNINGTON

“Voices from the Ruins is a descriptive theology of the traumatic events of a period in the history of Israel—the Babylonian conquest of Judah and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple—that affected Judean/Jewish history and thought forever after. Rom-Shiloni presents a thorough methodological and masterful discussion of various biblical texts that relate to these events, constructs a tapestry of the topics raised, and uncovers the different—often antagonistic—views which allowed doubt and fierce protest yet still persisted in taking part in the talk about God.” — SARA JAPHET

author of The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing

“Like a scribe trained for the kingdom of heaven, Rebekah Eklund brings out of the treasures of the Beatitudes what is new and what is old. Her impressive reception history attunes the heart and mind to interpret these oft-quoted and well-loved Scriptures with the very virtues they seek to inculcate: humility and wisdom, including a discerning appreciation for the theological and ethical concerns these texts raise.” — MARIANNE MEYE THOMPSON Fuller Theological Seminary

“Rebekah Eklund’s heart is large, and her imagination broad; her eye for detail is sharp, and her curiosity winsome; her energy to pursue an unlikely hypothesis is generous, and her patience to unearth an esoteric source unending; her passion for truth is relentless, and her joy in Christ’s upside-down kingdom infectious. Blessed are those who read every word of this book and treasure it: for the glory and playfulness of God’s good future are theirs.” — SAMUEL WELLS

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

“The fall of Jerusalem is the pivotal event in the history of ancient Judah. It triggered a plethora of theological interpretations that became very influential for the formation of the Hebrew Bible. In this wide-ranging study, Dalit Rom-Shiloni vividly and meticulously describes different biblical approaches to theodicy and develops a descriptive theology of Hebrew Bible texts from the sixth century BCE.” — KONRAD SCHMID University of Zurich

“Everyone interested in the theology of the Hebrew Scriptures will benefit from Rom-Shiloni’s magisterial work. Taking on the thorniest theological problems presented in the Scriptures, she adroitly acknowledges prior contributions even as she makes her own compelling argument for how to think about God and trauma and the traditional problem of theodicy. How we think about God matters for how we live, and Rom-Shiloni is an able guide to thought-provoking new ways of doing so.” — JACQUELINE E. LAPSLEY

vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London

“Hardly anyone has done such extensive and thorough research on the Beatitudes as Rebekah Eklund. She has provided insight on the biblical text and a wide purview on the impact of the Beatitudes throughout the centuries. In the process, with each Beatitude she provides a walkthrough of church history, an exercise in devotion, and an invitation to consider the nature of Scripture, the tensions in interpretation, and the significance of the Beatitudes for living. If you are studying the Beatitudes, you will find real and impressive help here.”

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The Beatitudes through the Ages

Princeton Theological Seminary

“The subject of this wonderful book—the justice of God—is as timely today as it was in the biblical period. After developing a framework for descriptive Hebrew Bible theology, Rom-Shiloni explores a large variety of biblical texts, highlighting the many biblical views concerning theodicy and the multivocal voices of the Bible more generally. Her exploration of the implications of the different metaphors used of the biblical God in these contexts is especially enlightening.” — MARC ZVI BRETTLER Duke University

— KLYNE R. SNODGRASS author of Stories with Intent: A Comprehensive Guide to the Parables of Jesus

Rebekah Eklund is associate professor of theology at Loyola University Maryland, where she teaches Scripture, theology, and ethics. She is the author of Jesus Wept: The Significance of Jesus’ Laments in the New Testament and coauthor, with Samuel Wells and Ben Quash, of the second edition of Introducing Christian Ethics. 978-0-8028-7650-8 | Jacketed Hardcover | 352 pages | $35.00 US | $46.99 CAN £27.99 UK | Available

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Dalit Rom-Shiloni is associate professor of Hebrew Bible at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She writes extensively on Hebrew Bible theology, group-identity conflicts, and the formation of sixth-century BCE literature. Rom-Shiloni serves as editor-in-chief of the Hebrew-language journal Beit Mikra: Journal for the Study of the Bible and Its World and is the initiator and editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of Nature Imagery of the Bible project. 978-0-8028-7860-1 | Hardcover | 580 pages | $70.00 US | $94.99 CAN | £55.99 UK Available May 2021

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Interpreting Paul THE CANONICAL PAUL, VOLUME 2

Jesus, the New Testament, and Christian Origins

Luke Timothy Johnson

Perspectives, Methods, Meanings

With the contextual framework in place from volume 1 of The Canonical Paul, Luke Timothy Johnson now probes each of the thirteen biblical letters traditionally attributed to the apostle Paul in a way that balances respect for historical integrity with attention to present-day realities. In doing so, Johnson reforges the connection between biblical studies and the life of the church, seeking to establish once again the foundational and generative role that the thirteen letters of Paul have had among Christians for centuries.

Dieter Mitternacht and Anders Runesson, editors

“Interpreting Paul usefully brings together all the major essays (some reprints, some new) Luke Timothy Johnson has written on Paul. The thoughtful and often delightfully independent take on current issues in Paul for which Johnson is known is fully on display in these essays. While not a ‘Pauline theology’ in the usual sense of that phrase, the volume provides a breathtakingly broad scope of comment on many of the key issues in the apostle’s theology.” — DOUGLAS J. MOO Wheaton College

“All great scholars have a clear and distinctive view about the people, texts, and topics about which they write. This is indisputably true for Luke Timothy Johnson, who rightly insists on the importance of religious experience in understanding who Paul was, what he cared about most deeply, and how that reverberates throughout all of his letters.” — JOHN T. FITZGERALD University of Notre Dame

Foreword by David E. Aune

An introduction to the New Testament in its historical context, with an overview of interpretative approaches and exegetical exercises “Panoramic in scope, sensitive in exposition, richly informed by illustrative detail: Jesus, the New Testament, and Christian Origins offers the reader a wonderful introduction both to the field of New Testament Studies and to the ancient world from which its texts sprang.” — PAULA FREDRIKSEN author of From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ

“A remarkable synthesis that deserves to become a ‘pull-down’ book for biblical scholars, theological students, and pastors.” — CARL R. HOLLADAY Emory University

“Classroom reader, comprehensive encyclopedia, exegetical handbook, and more, this engaging, up-to-date volume attends to issues that mattered both in antiquity and today, including Jewish-Christian relations, gender and sexuality, the Roman Empire, and the means by which texts and interpretations become authoritative. A splendid achievement.” — AMY-JILL LEVINE Vanderbilt University

Luke Timothy Johnson is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Christian Origins at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. He won the 2011 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his Among the Gentiles: GrecoRoman Religion and Christianity. Johnson’s many other books include The Revelatory Body; Brother of Jesus, Friend of God; and The Writings of the New Testament. 978-0-8028-2466-0 | Jacketed Hardcover | 624 pages | $60.00 US | $80.99 CAN £48.99 UK | Available May 2021

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Dieter Mitternacht is professor of New Testament and early Christianity at Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong. Anders Runesson is professor of New Testament at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Constructing Paul

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The Pharisees Joseph Sievers and Amy-Jill Levine, editors

THE WORLD OF THE BIBLE

A multidisciplinary appraisal of who the Pharisees were, what they taught, and how they have been understood and depicted throughout history For centuries, Pharisees have been well known but little understood—due at least in part to their outsized role in the Christian imagination arising from select negative stereotypes based on the Gospels. Yet historians see Pharisees as respected teachers and forward-thinking innovators who helped make the Jewish tradition more adaptable to changing circumstances and more egalitarian in practice. Seeking to bridge this gap, the contributors to this volume provide a multidisciplinary appraisal of who the Pharisees actually were, what they believed and taught, and how they have been depicted throughout history. The topics explored within this authoritative resource include:

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the origins of the Pharisees the meaning of the name “Pharisee” Pharisaic leniency, relative to the temple priesthood, in judicial matters Pharisaic concerns for the Jewish laity Pharisaic purity practices and why they became popular the varying depictions of Pharisaic practices and beliefs in the New Testament Jesus’s relationship to the Pharisees the apostle Paul and his situation within the Pharisaic tradition the question of continuity between the Pharisaic tradition and Rabbinic Judaism the reception history of the Pharisees, including among the rabbis, the church fathers, Rashi, Maimonides, Luther, and Calvin • the failures of past scholarship to deal justly with the Pharisees • the representations, both positive and negative, of the Pharisees in art, film, passion plays, and Christian educational resources • how Christian leaders can and should address the Pharisees in sermons and in Bible studies

Following the exploration of these and other topics by a team of internationally renowned scholars, this volume concludes with an address by Pope Francis on correcting the negative stereotypes of Pharisees that have led to antisemitic prejudices and finding resources that “will positively contribute to the relationship between Jews and Christians, in view of an ever more profound and fraternal dialogue.” CONTRIBUTORS

Luca Angelelli, Harry Attridge, Vasile Babota, Shaye J. D. Cohen, Adele Yarbro Collins, Philip Cunningham, Deborah Forger, Paula Fredriksen, Yair Furstenburg, Massimo Grilli, Susannah Heschel, Angela La Delfa, Amy-Jill Levine, Hermut Löhr, Steve Mason, Eric Meyers, Craig Morrison, Vered Noam, Henry Pattarumadathil, Adele Reinhartz, Jens Schröter, Joseph Sievers, Matthias Skeb, Abraham Skorka, Günter Stemberger, Christian Stückl, and Randall Zachman.

Joseph Sievers has taught Jewish history and literature of the Hellenistic period at the Pontifical Biblical Institute since 1991. In addition, he served as director of the Cardinal Bea Centre for Judaic Studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University from 2003 to 2009. He has published several books and many articles, primarily in the areas of Second Temple history (especially Flavius Josephus) and Christian-Jewish relations. His abiding interest in the Pharisees was first expressed in an article titled “Who Were the Pharisees?” (1991). Amy-Jill Levine is the University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies and the Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her numerous publications include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, Short Stories by Jesus, The Gospel of Luke (with Ben Witherington III), The Jewish Annotated New Testament, The Bible with and without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (with Marc Brettler), and Sermon on the Mount: A Beginner’s Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven. 978-0-8028-7929-5 | Hardcover | 464 pages | $54.99 US | $73.99 CAN | £44.99 UK Available December 2021

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The Samaritans Reinhard Pummer

Pharisees, Scribes, and Sadducees in Palestinian Society

Judaism of the Second Temple Period David Flusser

Anthony J. Saldarini

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The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls SECOND EDITION

Aramaic A History of the First World Language

Jodi Magness A Choice Outstanding Academic Title and winner of the Biblical Archaeology Society’s Publication Award for Best Popular Book on Archaeology

Holger Gzella Translated by Benjamin D. Suchard

The George Washington University

“This book is the first historical account available of the Aramaic language that covers all the periods of its development from antiquity to the modern period. It unites in a masterly fashion the field of Aramaic studies, which has become fragmented in recent decades in increasingly specialist fields. The book reflects a deep scholarly knowledge of the primary sources and perceptive insights into linguistic and social history, which are presented in a remarkably accessible style. I enthusiastically recommend it to all who are studying and researching Semitic languages and also, more generally, to anybody who is interested in the history of the Middle East.” — GEOFFREY KHAN

“In this fluent, clearly written book, whose vivid account of the Qumran excavations is no less engaging than a literary thriller, Jodi Magness also succeeds in providing an accurate, updated picture of the archaeological finds and their significance against the backdrop of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A straightforward report of conflicting scholarly interpretations and academic scandals, accompanied by rich bibliographical notes, creates a robust picture of the status quaestionis of the most dramatic twentieth-century archaeological discovery.”

“As someone who grew up in an Aramaic milieu, I can testify to the magical charms and poetic allures of Aramaic. Now, Holger Gzella gives a fascinating history of Aramaic and how it conquered the ancient world not with the strength of armies but with the simplicity of its alphabet, becoming the first world language and surviving in an unbroken record for nearly three millennia. Aramaic served empires, religions, and literature. Now, Gzella gives it its due credit.”

Tel Aviv University

Princeton University

“Now revised and updated, this second edition is even better than the first. Taking twenty years of new data, publications, and interpretations into account, Magness has ensured that her accessible presentation of the archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls will remain at the forefront of required readings for colleagues, students, and the general public alike for decades to come.”

— ERIC H. CLINE

— VERED NOAM

“The latest and best discussion of Qumran. . . . This book is essential reading for specialists and general readers alike.” — ARCHAEOLOGY “An admirably clear and concise progress report on what is known about this spectacular discovery.” — HARPER’S MAGAZINE Jodi Magness is the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 2017 to 2020, she served as president of the Archaeological Institute of America. She has participated in over twenty different excavations in Israel and Greece, including as codirector of the 1995 excavations in the Roman siegeworks at Masada. Since 2011 she has directed excavations at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee. 978-0-8028-7908-0 | Paperback | 400 pages | $29.99 US | $39.99 CAN | £23.99 UK Available July 2021

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“Holger Gzella has succeeded in condensing the three-thousand-year history of Aramaic into one volume, which is both highly informative and yet easily accessible to the educated layman, student, and scholar. This work is a sweeping synthesis of Aramaic’s long, uninterrupted history from the earliest inscriptions at the beginning of the first millennium BCE to modern, spoken Aramaic dialects. Along the way the author highlights the use and development of Aramaic as shaped by demographic, political, and social factors. It is a fascinating tale told in clear and elegant prose of Aramaic in the light of local communities, global empires, and cultural traditions.” — STEVEN E. FASSBERG The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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Augustine and Tradition

A Reader

Influences, Contexts, Legacy

J. Edward Walters, editor

David G. Hunter and Jonathan P. Yates, editors

English translations of Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, Arabic, Coptic, and Ethiopic Christian texts from late antiquity to the early modern period

An indispensable resource for those looking to understand Augustine’s place in religious and cultural heritage

In order to make the writings of Eastern Christianity more widely accessible, this volume offers a collection of significant texts from various Eastern Christian traditions, many of which are appearing in English for the first time. The internationally renowned scholars behind these translations begin each section with an informative historical introduction, so that anyone interested in learning more about these understudied groups can more easily traverse their diverse linguistic, cultural, and literary traditions. A boon to scholars, students, and general readers, this ample resource expands the scope of Christian history so that communities beyond Western Christendom can no longer be ignored. CONTRIBUTORS

Jesse S. Arlen, Aaron M. Butts, Jeff W. Childers, Mary K. Farag, Philip Michael Forness, John C. Lamoreaux, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Erin Galgay Walsh, J. Edward Walters, and Jeff Wickes. J. Edward Walters is a cataloger of Syriac manuscripts for Hill Museum & Manuscript Library in Collegeville, Minnesota. His research focuses on Christianity in late antiquity, especially among Syriac speakers. Walters is particularly interested in the early period of Syriac literature, and much of his research thus far has focused on the fourth-century author Aphrahat, the Persian Sage. More broadly, Walters has written and published on a number of topics pertaining to Syriac Christianity and translated several Syriac texts. He is also the general editor of the Digital Syriac Corpus, an online repository of digitized Syriac texts. 978-0-8028-7686-7 | Hardcover | 448 pages | $55.00 US | $73.99 CAN | £44.99 UK Available November 2021

HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY

Eastern Christianity

Augustine towers over Western life, literature, and culture—both sacred and secular. His ideas permeate conceptions of the self from birth to death and have cast a long shadow over subsequent Christian thought. But as much as tradition has sprung from Augustinian roots, so was Augustine a product of and interlocutor with traditions that preceded and ran contemporary to his life. This extensive volume examines and evaluates Augustine as both a receiver and a source of tradition. The contributors—all distinguished Augustinian scholars influenced by J. Patout Burns and interested in furthering his intellectual legacy—survey Augustine’s life and writings in the context of North African tradition, philosophical and literary traditions of antiquity, the Greek patristic tradition, and the tradition of Augustine’s Latin contemporaries. These various pieces, when assembled, tell a comprehensive story of Augustine’s significance, both then and now. CONTRIBUTORS

Alden Bass, Michael Cameron, John Cavadini, Thomas Clemmons, Stephen Cooper, Theodore de Bruyn, Mark Del Cogliano, Geoffrey Dunn, John Peter Kenney, Brian Matz, Andrew McGowan, William Tabbernee, Joseph Trigg, Dennis Trout, and James Wetzel. David G. Hunter is the Margaret O’Brien Flatley Chair of Catholic Theology at Boston College. A past president of the North American Patristics Society, he is coeditor of the Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies and the Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity. Jonathan P. Yates is professor of historical theology at Villanova University. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He also served as editor of the international peer-reviewed academic journal Augustinian Studies for over ten years. 978-0-8028-7699-7 | Jacketed Hardcover | 528 pages | $80.00 US | $107.99 CAN £64.99 UK | Available November 2021

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Our Father Abraham Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith

Migration and the Making of Global Christianity

SECOND EDITION

Jehu J. Hanciles

Marvin R. Wilson

Foreword by Philip Jenkins

On the vital link between Judaism and Christianity

A magisterial sweep through 1500 years of Christian history with a groundbreaking focus on the missionary role of migrants in Christianity’s spread

This new edition of Our Father Abraham features a new preface, an expanded bibliography of recent relevant works, and two new chapters: one that discusses Jewish-Christian relations after the Holocaust and another that reflects on Marvin Wilson’s own fifty-plus-year career as an evangelical Christian deeply committed to interfaith dialogue. As Christians and Jews feel a growing need for mutual support in an increasingly secular Western world, Wilson’s widely acclaimed book will offer encouragement and wise guidance toward this worthy end. “The timeliness of Marv Wilson’s book was evident by its initial reception and growing audience over the years. Three decades later, this second edition shows the timelessness of both the subject and his insights.” — JAMES WHITMAN Center for Judaic-Christian Studies

“Our Father Abraham is a stunning achievement! Marvin Wilson has written a magnificent book that breaks new ground in furthering positive Christian-Jewish relations. His superb scholarship is combined with many concrete suggestions for building a new relationship between the church and the synagogue, between Christians and Jews.” — RABBI A. JAMES RUDIN The American Jewish Committee

“For the first time someone has given the person in the pew an understanding of just what the Jewishness of Jesus means for his or her everyday life.” — JERUSALEM PERSPECTIVE

Marvin R. Wilson, a leading scholar on Christian-Jewish relations, is the Harold J. Ockenga Professor Emeritus of Biblical and Theological Studies at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, where he taught for over fifty years. He also wrote Exploring Our Hebraic Heritage—a sequel to Our Father Abraham—and served as primary scholar of the award-winning national television documentary Jews & Christians: A Journey of Faith, based on Our Father Abraham. 978-0-8028-7733-8 | Paperback | 424 pages | $29.99 US | $39.99 CAN | £23.99 UK Available July 2021

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“This fascinating book belongs on the shelf of everyone interested in how Christianity came to be a worldwide religion.” — DANA L. ROBERT Boston University School of Theology

“This is must-reading for anyone trying to understand the social dynamics of the Christian past and its contemporary global character.” — DOUGLAS JACOBSEN author of The World’s Christians: Who They Are, Where They Are, and How They Got There

“This is a fine book with breath-taking scope that refreshes church history and sheds new light on the global spread of Christianity before the modern era.” — KIRSTEEN KIM Fuller Theological Seminary

“This book is a highly important contribution to a more polycentric approach to the history of world Christianity.” — KLAUS KOSCHORKE Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

“No book has shown more convincingly how Christianity in its first fifteen hundred years spread throughout the globe thanks to migrations.”

— PETER C. PHAN

Georgetown University

Jehu J. Hanciles is the D. W. and Ruth Brooks Professor of World Christianity and director of the World Christianity program at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Originally from Sierra Leone, he is also the author of Beyond Christendom: Globalization, African Migration, and the Transformation of the West and Euthanasia of a Mission: African Church Autonomy in a Colonial Context. 978-0-8028-7562-4 | Jacketed Hardcover | 479 pages | $45.00 US | $60.99 CAN £36.99 UK | Available

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In Quest of the Historical Adam

Conscience and Ethics

A Biblical and Scientific Exploration

A Century of Catholic Moral Theology

William Lane Craig

Matthew Levering

Was Adam a real historical person? And if so, who was he and when did he live?

How important is the conscience for the Christian moral life? How should it be understood in relation to the teachings of the Bible and of church tradition? In this book, Matthew Levering surveys twentieth-century Catholic moral theology to construct an argument for keeping conscience firmly alongside prudence, charity, and the gifts of the Spirit—and for understanding it as something that must be formed by the revealed truths of Scripture as interpreted and applied in the church. Levering shows how conscience-centered ethics came to be—both prior to and following the Second Vatican Council—and how important voices from both the Catholic and Protestant communities criticized the primacy of conscience in favor of an approach that considers conscience within “the broader framework of the Christian moral organism.” Rather than engaging with current hot-button issues, Levering presents and deconstructs the work of twenty-six noteworthy theologians from the recent past in order to work through core matters. He begins by examining how the conscience has been dealt with in dialogue with the Bible and in the Catholic “moral manuals” of the twentieth century. He then explores the rebuttals to conscience-centered ethics offered by pre- and post-conciliar Thomists and the emergence of a new, even more problematic consciencecentered ethics in German thought. Amid this wide-ranging introduction to various strands of Catholic moral theology, Levering crafts an incisive intervention of his own against the “abuse of conscience” that besets the church today as it did in the last century.

William Lane Craig sets out to answer these questions through a biblical and scientific investigation. He begins with an inquiry into the genre of Genesis 1–11, determining that it can most plausibly be classified as mytho-history— a narrative with both literary and historical value. He then moves into the New Testament, where he examines references to Adam in the words of Jesus and the writings of Paul, ultimately concluding that the entire Bible considers Adam the historical progenitor of the human race—a position that must therefore be accepted as a premise for Christians who take seriously the inspired truth of Scripture. Working from that foundation of biblical truth, Craig embarks upon an interdisciplinary survey of scientific evidence to determine where Adam could be most plausibly located in the evolutionary history of humankind, ultimately determining that Adam lived between 750,000 and 1,000,000 years ago as a member of the archaic human species Homo heidelbergensis. He concludes by reflecting theologically on his findings and asking what all this might mean for us as human beings created in the image of God, literally descended from a common ancestor—albeit one who lived in the remote past. William Lane Craig is professor of philosophy at Houston Baptist University and a visiting scholar at Talbot School of Theology. He has authored or edited over forty books—including Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics and On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision—as well as nearly two hundred articles in professional publications of philosophy and theology. In 2016 he was named by The Best Schools one of the fifty most influential living philosophers, and in 2011 Sam Harris referred to Craig as “the one Christian apologist who seems to have put the fear of God into many of my fellow atheists.” 978-0-8028-7911-0 | Jacketed Hardcover | 420 pages | $38.00 US | $30.99 CAN £50.99 UK | Available September 2021

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Matthew Levering holds the James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary and is a longtime participant in Evangelicals and Catholics Together. Among his many other books are Dying and the Virtues and Aquinas’s Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance. 978-0-8028-7950-9 | Jacketed Hardcover | 368 pages | $45.00 US | $60.99 CAN £36.99 UK | Available October 2021

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A Companion to the Theology of John Webster

Christian Ethics

Michael Allen and R. David Nelson, editors

Hak Joon Lee

Foreword by Kevin J. Vanhoozer

In this capacious and accessible introduction to Christian ethics, Hak Joon Lee advances a renewed vision of Christian life that is liberative, gracecentered, and justice- and peace-oriented in nature. Responding to key ethical questions of today, Lee applies the moral meaning and implications of the new covenant in Jesus Christ to twenty-first-century life, characterized by fluidity, fragmentation, division, and violence. Christian Ethics begins by introducing covenant as the central drama and storyline of Scripture that culminates in the new covenant of Jesus. It presents shalom (the wholeness and flourishing of creation) as God’s ultimate purpose and God’s covenant as “God’s organizing mechanism of community” that mediates God’s work of liberation and restoration. Lee proposes a creative model of Christian ethics based on the new covenant of Jesus and its organizing patterns, reconstructing the key categories of ethics (agency, norms, authority of Scripture, ethical discernment, etc.) and drawing out four practices—communicative engagement, just peacemaking, grassroots organizing, and nonviolence. The result is a new model of Christian ethics that is inclusive, egalitarian, ecological, and justice- and peace-oriented, which overcomes the limitations of traditional covenantal ethics. In the second part of the book, Lee systematically applies new covenant ethics to the most urgent and controversial social issues of our time: democratic politics, economic ethics, creation care, criminal justice, race, sex and marriage, medicine, and war and peace. Through his deep, pastoral, and irenic inquiries into these difficult topics, Lee demonstrates a pattern of covenantal moral reasoning that undercuts the dominant neoliberal ethos of individualism and transactional relationship that more and more influences Christian moral decisions. His conclusion is that as covenant has been at the heart of modern democracy, human rights, civil society, and civic formation, a renewed understanding of covenant centered in Jesus can help to heal our broken society and imperiled planet, and to reorganize the fragmented human life in the era of globalization and digitization.

An overview and analysis of John Webster’s seminal contributions to Christian theology “John Webster was probably the most creative and intellectually rigorous Protestant theologian in the English-speaking world in the last few decades, and his tragically early death robbed us of a uniquely joyful, insightful, and nourishing perspective on Christian revelation. This first-class collection of essays shows how his prolifically diverse writings converge toward a truly comprehensive and magisterial theological vision of apostolic faith for our generation.” — ROWAN WILLIAMS 104th Archbishop of Canterbury

“With contributions from some of today’s finest theologians, this volume is a labor of love that honors the rich legacy of John Webster’s theology and points towards ways to further it.”

— SUZANNE MCDONALD

Western Theological Seminary

“Helpfully ordered, crystal clear, yet also filled with appropriate detail, this volume will define the shape of future research on Webster and is indispensable for scholar and student alike.” — EPHRAIM RADNER Wycliffe College

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Michael Allen, Ivor J. Davidson, Christopher R. J. Holmes, Matthew Levering, Joseph L. Mangina, R. David Nelson, Paul T. Nimmo, Kenneth Oakes, Fred Sanders, Darren Sarisky, Katherine Sonderegger, Justin Stratis, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Martin Westerholm, and Tyler R. Wittman.

Michael Allen is the John Dyer Trimble Professor of Systematic Theology and academic dean at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. R. David Nelson is senior acquisitions editor at Baker Academic and Brazos Press and editor of Lutheran Forum. 978-0-8028-7674-4 | Jacketed Hardcover | 336 pages | $50.00 US | $67.99 CAN £40.99 UK | Available June 2021

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A New Covenant Model

Hak Joon Lee is the Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has published several books, including God and Community Organizing: A Covenantal Approach; Discerning Ethics: Diverse Christian Responses to Divisive Moral Issues; Intersecting Realities: Race, Identity, and Culture in the Spiritual Life of Young Asian Americans; and The Great World House: Martin Luther King, Jr., and Global Ethics. 978-0-8028-7687-4 | Hardcover | 550 pages | $47.99 US | $64.99 CAN | £38.99 UK Available November 2021

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The Same God Who Works All Things Fountain of Salvation Inseparable Operations in Trinitarian Theology

Trinity and Soteriology

Adonis Vidu

Fred Sanders

Classical Trinitarianism holds that every action of Trinity in the world is inseparable. That is, the divine persons are equally active in every operation. But then, in what way did the Father create the world through Christ? How can only the Son be incarnate, die, and be resurrected? Why does Christ have to ascend before the Spirit may come? These and many other questions pose serious objections to the doctrine of inseparable operations. In the first book-length treatment of this doctrine, Adonis Vidu takes up these questions and offers a conceptual and dogmatic analysis of this essential axiom, engaging with recent and historical objections. He then tests the rule precisely on the battlegrounds that were thought to have witnessed its defeat: the doctrines of creation, incarnation, atonement, ascension, and the indwelling of the Spirit. What emerges is a constructive account of theology in which the recovery of this dogmatic rule shines fresh light on ancient doctrines.

A Trinitarian exposition of Christian soteriology

“The gold standard on this essential doctrine for decades to come.” — GREGG R. ALLISON Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

“[A] bold project which aims to rekindle the passion and pastoral relevance that once made dogmatic theology the preeminent work of the queen of the sciences.” — MATTHEW LEVERING Mundelein Seminary

“The Same God Who Works All Things is sure to rank among the most important studies in trinitarian theology published in this decade.” — FRED SANDERS Torrey Honors College, Biola University

Adonis Vidu is professor of theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is also the author of Atonement, Law, and Justice: The Cross in Historical and Cultural Contexts; Theology after Neo-Pragmatism; and Postliberal Theological Method: A Critical Study.

The relation of God and salvation is not primarily a problem to be solved. Rather, it is the blazing core of Christian doctrine, where the triune nature of God and the truth of the gospel come together. Accordingly, a healthy Christian theology must confess the doctrine of the Trinity and the doctrine of salvation as closely related, mutually illuminating, and strictly ordered. When the two doctrines are left unconnected, both suffer. The doctrine of the Trinity begins to seem altogether irrelevant to salvation history and Christian experience, while soteriology meanwhile becomes naturalized, losing its transcendent reference. If they are connected too tightly, on the other hand, human salvation seems inherent to the divine reality itself. Deftly navigating this tension, Fountain of Salvation relates them by expounding the doctrine of eternal processions and temporal missions, ultimately showing how they inherently belong together. The theological vision expounded here by Fred Sanders is one in which the holy Trinity is the source of salvation in a direct and personal way, as the Father sends the Son and the Holy Spirit to enact an economy of revelation and redemption. Individual chapters show how this vision informs the doctrines of atonement, ecclesiology, Christology, and pneumatology—all while directly engaging with major modern interpreters of the doctrine of the Trinity. As Sanders affirms throughout this in-depth theological treatise, the triune God is the fountain from which all other doctrine flows—and no understanding of salvation is complete that does not begin there. Fred Sanders is professor of theology in the Torrey Honors College at Biola University, where he teaches across the full range of classic Christian doctrine but specializes in the doctrine of the Trinity. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Triune God and The Deep Things of God. 978-0-8028-7810-6 | Paperback | 248 pages | $24.99 US | $33.99 CAN | £19.99 UK Available September 2021

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In God’s Image An Anthropology of the Spirit

Jesus the Spirit Baptizer

Michael Welker

Christology in Light of Pentecost

SECOND EDITION

From the 2019/2020 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh

Frank D. Macchia

Miroslav Volf

In God’s Image describes how centering our culture on the human and divine spirit can revitalize four universally acknowledged characteristics of a thriving human existence: justice, freedom, truth, and peace. Inspired not only by religious sources but also by scientists, philosophers, economists, and legal and political theorists, Michael Welker develops the idea of a “multimodal” spirit that generates the possibility of living and acting in the image of God. “An impressively flexible, dynamic, and historical approach. With its expanded notion of natural theology and capacious doctrine of the Spirit, this is set to become a landmark study in the field.” — DAVID FERGUSSON University of Edinburgh

“Welker offers us a truly embodied vision of the human spirit as it reaches for God, but he does so from the context of what various disciplines tell us about the complex dangers and possibilities of life as it is actually lived. He has made natural theology an engaging topic of interest again.”

The End of Memory Remembering Rightly in a Violent World

In Jesus the Spirit Baptizer, globally recognized Pentecostal theologian Frank Macchia offers a Christology based on the premise that Pentecost is the culminating point of the identity and mission of Jesus. Drawing from both classical and contemporary sources, Macchia probes the fundamental connection between the person of Christ and the Holy Spirit, arguing that Christology properly explicates Jesus as the one who bears the Spirit so as to impart the Spirit to all flesh. “Frank Macchia understands the outpouring of the life-giving Spirit as the fulfillment of Christ’s life and mission. And so he rightly interprets the birth, passion, and resurrection of Christ from the perspective of Pentecost. . . . I am grateful for this book.” — JÜRGEN MOLTMANN author of The Way of Jesus Christ and The Spirit of Life

“Ecumenical and grounded in Pentecost, this Christology is at once biblical and academic, creative and traditional. Macchia’s salutary critical dialogue with Pannenberg and Barth only serves to deepen his analysis and extend his own creative revisions.” — ALAN G. PADGETT

— FRANK D. MACCHIA

Luther Seminary

Vanguard University of Southern California

“A truly inspiring Christology by leading Pentecostal theologian Frank Macchia, who argues that Pentecost is the culminating event of Christ’s identity and mission. Macchia unfolds a Spirit-Christology that sheds new light on the saving and ennobling work of Jesus Christ and on the creativity of the triune God.”

Michael Welker is senior professor at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and executive director of the Research Center for International and Interdisciplinary Theology. He is the author or editor of dozens of books, including God the Spirit, The Work of the Spirit, God the Revealed, Creation and Reality, What Happens in Holy Communion?, and The Depth of the Human Person. 978-0-8028-7866-3 | Jacketed Hardcover | 167 pages $29.00 US | $38.99 CAN | £22.99 UK | Available 978-0-8028-7874-8 | Paperback | 167 pages | $21.00 US $27.99 CAN | £16.99 UK | Available

— MICHAEL WELKER University of Heidelberg

How should we remember atrocities? Should we ever forgive abusers? Can we not hope for final reconciliation, even if it means redeemed victims and perpetrators spending eternity together? We live in an age that insists that past wrongs— genocides, terrorist attacks, bald personal injustices—should never be forgotten. But Miroslav Volf here proposes the radical idea that letting go of such memories—after a certain point and under certain conditions—may actually be a gift of grace we should embrace. Volf ’s personal stories of persecution and interrogation frame his search for theological resources to make memories a wellspring of healing rather than a source of deepening pain and animosity. This second edition includes an appendix on the memories of perpetrators as well as victims, a response to critics, and a James K. A. Smith interview with Volf about the nature and function of memory in the Christian life. “Miroslav Volf combines in an ingenious way his personal struggle with his own months-long interrogation as a Yugoslavian soldier under suspicion with probing psychological insights and theological reflections. His style is personal and inviting, and he is honest with himself and with God. This book is full of surprisingly novel and compelling insights. A masterpiece.” — JÜRGEN MOLTMANN University of Tübingen

“This is a book of profundity and wisdom, endowed with the authenticity of considerable personal suffering.” — SARAH COAKLEY University of Cambridge

Frank D. Macchia is professor of Christian theology at Vanguard University, Costa Mesa, California, and associate director of the Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies at Bangor University, Wales (UK). His other books include The Spirit-Baptized Church: A Dogmatic Inquiry; Justified in the Spirit: Creation, Redemption, and the Triune God; and the Two Horizons Commentary volume on Revelation.

Miroslav Volf is director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School. His other books include Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation. 978-0-8028-7867-0 | Jacketed Hardcover | 308 pages $24.99 US | $33.99 CAN | £19.99 UK | Available

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Nurturing Faith A Practical Theology for Educating Christians Fred P. Edie and Mark A. Lamport Faith left on rocky soil withers. But faith nurtured in the good soil of Christian teaching, formation, and mentorship grows to maturity and yields thriving community. Educational ministries are so often where this happens—where the desires of the human heart are shaped toward a love for God, a love for one’s neighbor, and a love for the world. In this comprehensive guide to educational ministries in the twenty-first century, Fred Edie and Mark Lamport explore how church leaders and others involved in Christian education can nurture a robust, cruciform faith within their communities. When discussing strategies and goals, Edie and Lamport consider a range of contexts and a variety of related fields that might give insight into educational ministry: theology, pedagogy, philosophy, social science, and more. Those working with any age group—children, adolescents, and adults—will find a relevant discussion of key underlying theological themes, a guide to concrete practices, and indispensable help in navigating shifting cultural dynamics. Exceedingly practical and consistent with the teachings of the gospel, the wisdom in this book will speak to all who long to foster discipleship in their church, school, or missional community. Fred P. Edie is associate professor for the practice of Christian education at Duke Divinity School. He is a United Methodist pastor and veteran youth worker. His first book is titled Book, Bath, Table, and Time: Christian Worship as Source and Resource for Youth Ministry. Mark A. Lamport is a professor at graduate theological schools in Colorado, Arizona, Virginia, Indiana, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Portugal. He is editor of the Encyclopedia of Christian Education, the Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South, and the Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States.

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Foreword by Charles R. Foster

KEY FEATURES

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A “Road Map” at the beginning of each chapter concisely introduces the chapter’s topic and essential themes. Sidebars throughout the text provide deeper insight into particular important or nuanced concepts. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter facilitate further reflection, especially in conversation with others. Suggestions for further reading are provided at the end of each chapter for those interested in exploring the chapter’s ideas in greater depth. • Concluding the book is a series of afterwords from experts in the field of Christian educational ministries: Martyn Percy, Almeda Wright, Craig Dykstra, Kirsten Oh, Elizabeth DeGaynor, and Thomas Groome. 978-0-8028-7556-3 | Paperback | 512 pages | $44.99 US | $60.99 CAN | £36.99 UK | Available September 2021

Flourishing Together A Christian Vision for Students, Educators, and Schools Lynn E. Swaner and Andy Wolfe

Lynn E. Swaner serves as the chief strategy and innovation officer at the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI).

How do students, educators, and schools flourish together—especially in an era of mounting pressures on educational systems, alarming student disengagement, and growing teacher burnout? Many schools strive toward academic achievement as their primary marker of success, but this well-meaning approach can lead to a reductionist view in which students are too often seen as statistics rather than whole human beings. Teachers, school leaders, parents, and of course students know that flourishing is a much broader and more holistic aim for education. But what is to be done? The goal of this book is to call Christian educators back to a better vision of flourishing within a robust theological framework, with the practical guidance necessary for implementation. To accomplish this, Lynn Swaner and Andy Wolfe take readers through an exploration of five essential domains identified through extensive empirical research—purpose, relationships, learning, resources, and well-being. An ideal resource for professional development and strategic planning, Flourishing Together persistently adheres to the principle that “anything that is worth building cannot be built alone.” Thus, the vision for flourishing here is one in which the school community is understood as an interconnected ecosystem, in which “each one’s flourishing is dependent on their flourishing together.” Accordingly, teachers and administrators will be inspired and equipped to reshape their schools as places where they—alongside their students—can flourish together in a community of abundant life. 978-0-8028-7957-8 | Paperback | 240 pages | $24.99 US | $33.99 CAN | £19.99 UK | Available November 2021

Andy Wolfe is the deputy chief education officer (leadership development) for the Church of England.

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THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION BETWEEN THE TIMES

E D U C AT I O N

Notes of a Native Daughter

Beyond Profession

Testifying in Theological Education

Keri Day is associate professor of constructive theology and African American religion at Princeton Theological Seminary. 978-0-8028-7882-3 | Paperback 176 pages | $19.99 US | $26.99 CAN £15.99 UK | Available June 2021

The Next Future of Theological Education

Keri Day

Daniel O. Aleshire

In Notes of a Native Daughter, Keri Day testifies to structural inequalities and broken promises of inclusion through the eyes of a black woman who experiences herself as both stranger and friend to prevailing models of theological education. Inviting the reader into her religious world—a world that is African American and, more specifically, Afro-Pentecostal— she not only uncovers the colonial impulses of theological education in the United States but also proposes that the lived religious practices and commitments of progressive AfroPentecostal communities can help the theological academy decolonize and reenvision multiple futures.

Daniel Aleshire, the longtime executive director of the Association of Theological Schools, offers a brief account of how theological education has changed in the past and how it might change going forward. He begins by reflecting on his own extensive experience with theological education and then turns to reviewing its history, dating back to the seventeenth century. Amid this historical survey, he uncovers an older model of the field that he believes must become dominant once again—what he calls formational theological education— and explores educational practices that this model would require.

Daniel O. Aleshire served as executive director of the Association of Theological Schools from 1998 to 2017. 978-0-8028-7875-5 | Paperback 176 pages | $19.99 US | $26.99 CAN £15.99 UK | Available

Transforming Fire

Atando Cabos Latinx Contributions to Theological Education

Imagining Christian Teaching

Elizabeth Conde-Frazier

Mark D. Jordan

Mark D. Jordan is the R. R. Niebuhr Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. 978-0-8028-7903-5 | Paperback 176 pages | $19.99 US | $26.99 CAN £15.99 UK | Available

How should Christian teaching happen, especially in this time of significant change to theological education as an institution? Mark Jordan addresses this question by first allowing various depictions and instances of Christian teaching from literature to speak for themselves before meditating on what these illustrative examples might mean for Christian pedagogy. Each textual scene he shares is juxtaposed with a contrasting scene to capture the pluralistic possibilities in the art of teaching a faith that is so often rooted in paradox. He exemplifies forms of teaching that operate beyond the boundaries of scholarly books and discursive lectures to disrupt the normative Western academic approach of treating theology as a body of knowledge to be transmitted merely through language.

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Latinx Protestantism is a rapidly growing element of American Christianity—in both Pentecostal and non-charismatic forms. How should institutions of theological education in the United States welcome and incorporate the gifts of these populations into their work? In this book, Elizabeth Conde-Frazier takes stock of the cabos sueltos— loose ends—left over from the history of Latinx Christianity, including the ways the rise of Pentecostalism disrupted existing power structures and opened up new ways for Latinx people to assert agency. Then, atando cabos—tying these loose ends together—she reflects on how a new paradigm, centered on the work of the Holy Spirit, can serve to decolonize theological education going forward, bringing about an in-breaking of the kingdom of God.

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CHURCH & MINISTRY

No Longer Strangers

The Invitation

Transforming Evangelism with Immigrant Communities

A Theology of Evangelism

Eugene Cho and Samira Izadi Page, editors

Richard R. Osmer

Foreword by Ann Voskamp

Moving beyond mere conversionism

A new vision for evangelism that honors the most vulnerable “In No Longer Strangers, a remarkable group of contributors with deep and diverse experience in ministry to the marginalized show how to be incarnational in our evangelism.” — ED STETZER Wheaton College

“A significant and insightful contribution to the ongoing discussion about Christianity and immigration. The authors understand that each person who wishes to immigrate is created in the image and likeness of God and should be treated as such, including in how the gospel is brought to them. This book provides a vision of what that looks like for the church.” — J. D. GREEAR pastor of The Summit Church and 62nd president of the Southern Baptist Convention

“This book calls us to rediscover an expression of biblical Christian faith that does not ignore those who will form the spiritual backbone of the next evangelicalism.” — SOONG-CHAN RAH author of The Next Evangelicalism

CONTRIBUTORS

Laurie Beshore, Andrew F. Bush, Eugene Cho, K. J. Hill, Torli H. Krua, Sandra Maria van Opstal, Samira Izadi Page, Issam Smeir, Ann Voskamp, and Jenny Yang.

Rev. Eugene Cho is president and CEO of Bread for the World. He is also the founder/visionary of One Day’s Wages, founder and former senior pastor of Quest Church, and the author of Overrated: Are We More in Love with the Idea of Changing the World Than Actually Changing the World? and Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk: A Christian’s Guide to Engaging Politics.

Many Christians today are uncomfortable with older, simpler notions about evangelism as conversionism but see as insufficient the more progressive model of evangelism as hospitality. Transcending that dichotomy, Richard Osmer advances a theology of evangelism as a multifaceted act of invitation into Christ-following community. Osmer begins by exploring references to evangelism in the New Testament—both in the Gospels and in the letters of Paul. He then enters into dialogue with Karl Barth to work through ideas of church witness and the relationship of evangelism to salvation. Finally, with lucid explanations and illustrative case studies, he offers guidance for pastors, laity, and students to use as they reimagine how evangelism might best happen in their churches and missional organizations. Osmer’s approach mirrors the conviction, stated in his introduction, that our concept of evangelism must be formed and constantly reformed by keeping the Bible, church doctrine, and practical theology in conversation. Foundational to Osmer’s rendering of evangelism as invitation is the essential truth that it is Christ and the Holy Spirit who calls converts and makes disciples—not Christians. Thus, we can invite our neighbors to the wedding feast while remaining reassured that the table is already set. Richard R. Osmer is Princeton Theological Seminary’s Ralph B. and Helen S. Ashenfelter Professor of Mission and Evangelism. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he chairs the Committee to Write New Catechisms for the Presbyterian Church (USA). His other books include Practical Theology: An Introduction, The Teaching Ministry of Congregations, and Religious Education between Modernization and Globalization. 978-0-8028-7622-5 | Paperback | 275 pages | $24.99 US | $33.99 CAN | £19.99 UK Available October 2021

Rev. Dr. Samira Izadi Page is the founder of Gateway of Grace Ministries, an outreach ministry to refugees. She is a Muslim-background Christian from Iran and a sought-after speaker, workshop leader, and church mobilizer. She has a doctorate in missiology and is the author of Who Is My Neighbor? 978-0-8028-7865-6 | Paperback | 224 pages | $19.99 US | $26.99 CAN | £15.99 UK Available May 2021

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We Aren’t Broke

Good Works

Uncovering Hidden Resources for Mission and Ministry

Hospitality and Faithful Discipleship

Mark Elsdon

Keith Wasserman and Christine D. Pohl

Foreword by Craig Dykstra

For over forty years, the community of Good Works, Inc., has shared life with its neighbors in rural southeastern Ohio, a region with high poverty rates and remarkably resilient people. Offering friendship to those without a support network and shelter, care, and community to people without homes, those involved with Good Works have made it their mission to embody the gospel in innovative and lifegiving ways. What insights can be gleaned from Good Works, and how might these lessons be applied to our own communities and churches? Christians everywhere who hunger for lifegiving involvement in their local communities—wherever they might be, and in whichever circumstances— will find inspiration and guidance in this quiet but powerful Appalachian ministry. Short prayers and questions for reflection at the end of each chapter make this a book to be studied and shared among those who know that love of God and neighbor is the starting point, but who aren’t sure where to go from there.

What if everything you need is already there? Despite talk of financial struggle and decline in the church, most religious institutions have more resources than they know. This book is an invitation to innovation, possibility, and hope in utilizing those hidden resources— property, investments, people, and passion—that are available right now to revitalize churches and missional organizations, as well as their surrounding communities. “One of our biggest challenges in the church is imagination. In this book, Mark Elsdon reminds us that there is no scarcity of resources, only a scarcity of creativity and courage.” — SHANE CLAIBORNE author, activist, and cofounder of Red Letter Christians

“Mark Elsdon knows what he is writing about: a capacious Christian vision of the common good. What he proposes is not abstract but grounded—a tested way of perceiving and acting that reorders the power of money and property for the sake of a more just and thriving neighborhood or town.”

— MARK LABBERTON

author of The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor

“This book packs a wallop—it could not be timelier or more important for congregations today. Elsdon calls churches to reckon with the impact of their finances— not just whether they can make bank—and turns impact investing into something mighty close to a spiritual practice.” — KENDA CREASY DEAN author of Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church

“We Aren’t Broke does an excellent job of digging into challenging topics and highlighting new ways for the church to utilize its assets and reclaim its position as the transformational agent of change in our communities.”

— DERRICK MORGAN

retired NFL linebacker and managing partner at KNGDM Group

Mark Elsdon, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), is cofounder of RootedGood, which seeks to create more good in the world through social innovation; executive director at Pres House on the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus; and owner of Elsdon Strategic Consulting. 978-0-8028-7898-4 | Paperback | 248 pages | $18.99 US | $25.99 CAN | £14.99 UK Available June 2021

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“Good Works is an inspiring and beautiful book full of wisdom. It weaves together Christine Pohl’s decades of insightful scholarship with the practical, lived wisdom of Keith Wasserman and the community of Good Works, Inc. This book helps us all go deeper into Jesus’s call to hospitality and faithful discipleship and to be inspired to live more faithfully ourselves.” — L. GREGORY JONES Duke Divinity School

“Wasserman and Pohl invite us to pull up a seat at the table of friendship where laughter and tears flow freely and where people who are counted as little in the eyes of the world discover they are seen and known. Good Works welcomes us into their home and introduces us to a family where all are embraced.” — MICHAEL MATHER author of Having Nothing, Possessing Everything

Keith Wasserman is founder and executive director of Good Works, Inc., a nonprofit ministry that works alongside people in rural Appalachia to build a community of hope among those struggling with poverty, isolation, exclusion, and homelessness. Christine D. Pohl is professor emerita of church in society at Asbury Theological Seminary. Her other books include Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us and Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition. 978-0-8028-7701-7 | Paperback | 160 pages | $16.99 US | $22.99 CAN | £13.99 UK Available July 2021

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Elegy for a Church on the Edge Jack R. Reese Foreword by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson At the Blue Hole is the story of Churches of Christ in America seen through three defining events, from their origins to their current state of rapid decline. Jack Reese offers an elegy of remembrance and a promise of hope—that if these churches claim their own death, this oncethriving fellowship may find resurrection and a future. “Equal parts theologian, pastor, and historian, Jack Reese is uniquely qualified to write this book. His pages are personal and prophetic—a reflection on what has happened among Churches of Christ and a description of what must be changed.” — MAX LUCADO pastor and bestselling author

“It takes courage to offer a way forward, courage to name some of the failures of the past, courage to offer a diagnosis and prognosis that require actual change in lifestyle. That’s what Jack Reese offers in these pages, and I pray many readers take this positive, honest, and challenging book to heart.”

CALVIN INSTITUTE OF CHRISTIAN WORSHIP LITURGICAL STUDIES

Becoming What We Sing Formation through Contemporary Worship Music David Lemley Foreword by John D. Witvliet Contemporary worship music is ubiquitous in many Protestant Christian communities today. Rather than debating or decrying this post– worship-wars reality, David Lemley accepts it as a premise and examines what it means for us to be singing along with songs that aren’t so different from the pop genre. In Becoming What We Sing, he draws on cultural criticism, ethnomusicology, and liturgical and sacramental theology to process the deluge of the contemporary in today’s worship music. The result is a thorough assessment of contemporary worship music’s cultural economy that will guide readers toward greater consciousness of who we are becoming as we sing “our way into selves, societies, and cosmic perspectives.”

— BRIAN D. MCLAREN author of Faith after Doubt

“At the Blue Hole defies categorization. Part spiritual autobiography, part history of the Churches of Christ, and part missional epistle for a denomination that like so many others is in steep decline, this volume is Jack Reese’s prophetic call to his people to come back to Jesus. . . . Well researched yet personal in its storytelling style, this book should be read by every Church of Christ minister, seminarian, and layperson, and by anyone who longs for renewal in the church.” — ELAINE A. HEATH author of God Unbound: Wisdom from Galatians for the Anxious Church

Jack R. Reese has served as a preacher and missional leader in a variety of churches, urban ministries, and mission points across five continents. He is currently an interfaith leader and executive minister at the Northside Church of Christ in San Antonio. In addition, he has served as a community organizer, ministry consultant, professor, and academic dean.

“Precisely the kind of scholarship that will help worship leaders to discern not just what kind of popular music we ought to be singing in our corporate worship but how popular music might uniquely form in us a cruciform identity.” — W. DAVID O. TAYLOR

Preaching Christ from Leviticus Foundations for Expository Sermons Sidney Greidanus “The voice of the Lord fills the book of Leviticus in chapter after chapter of direct speech, yet this portion of God’s Word remains neglected in our preaching. In Preaching Christ from Leviticus, Sidney Greidanus draws us back to the literary and theological heart of the Pentateuch to recover a voice speaking to the church with surprising and refreshing relevance. His thoughtful and reproduceable method provides a trustworthy guide along the exegetical journey from text to sermon. Students, pastors, and fellow scholars will benefit from his clear exposition of the text, his Christocentric approach to the theology of Leviticus, and his engaging examples of God’s holy Word proclaimed.” — CHRISTINE PALMER

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At the Blue Hole

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

“Preaching from the Old Testament is crucial for the church but often neglected. After all, it is difficult to know how the Old Testament relates to the gospel of Christ, which is the heart of the Christian faith. . . . For those who need help, Sidney Greidanus is an excellent teacher.” — TREMPER LONGMAN III author of Confronting Old Testament Controversies

“Sidney Greidanus is one of the most gifted advocates of ‘redemptive-historical’ preaching. . . . In a time when there is much confusion about what it means to preach in fidelity to the Scriptures, we very much need the lessons that he offers us.” — RICHARD J. MOUW Fuller Theological Seminary

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“This book will help us all move to the next level in valuing [contemporary worship music’s] effect on corporate worship.” — CONSTANCE M. CHERRY Indiana Wesleyan University

David Lemley is assistant professor of religion at Seaver College, Pepperdine University. He is also a contributing author and hymn editor in A Teaching Hymnal: Ecumenical and Evangelical.

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Power in Weakness Paul’s Transformed Vision for Ministry

Foundations of Chaplaincy

Timothy G. Gombis

A Practical Guide

Foreword by Michael J. Gorman

Alan T. Baker

After Paul’s encounter with the risen Christ on the road to Damascus, he turned from coercion and violence to a ministry centered on the hope of Christ’s resurrection. In earthly terms, Paul had traded power for weakness. But—as he explained in his subsequent letters—this “weakness” was actually the key to flourishing community that is able to experience God’s transformation, restoration, and healing. What would it mean for pastors today to lead their congregations in this way? Instead of drawing leadership principles and practices from the worlds of business, education, and politics—which tend to orient churches around institutional power and image maintenance—Timothy Gombis follows Paul in making cruciformity the operating principle of the church. With practical insight, he guides the reader through practices and patterns that can lead a congregation past a focus on individual salvation toward becoming instead a site of resurrection power on earth.

An approachable overview of the nature, purpose, and functional roles of chaplaincy Chaplaincy is unlike any other kind of ministry. It involves working outside a church, without a congregation, usually in a secular organization. It requires ministering to those with starkly different religious convictions, many of whom may never enter a house of worship. It is, as Alan Baker writes, “ministry in motion.” Those who are embarking upon this unique and specialized call deserve equally unique and specialized guidance, and Foundations of Chaplaincy offers exactly that. “I have known Alan Baker for decades and can think of no one more qualified to write about the foundations of chaplaincy. This book should be required reading for anyone who is attempting to understand how a positive and powerful ministry can be sustained in an inclusive environment of religious diversity.” — REAR ADMIRAL BARRY C. BLACK 62nd Chaplain of the United States Senate

“This is Pauline wisdom the church today urgently needs to hear. I hope this book shapes the pastoral imagination of every current pastor and seminary student.” — KRISTEN DEEDE JOHNSON coauthor of The Justice Calling

“In this wise and timely book Tim Gombis opens up the theological vision of the apostle when it comes to power-mongering leaders in churches and society in a way that makes me even more fond of the apostle himself.” — SCOT MCKNIGHT author of Pastor Paul

Timothy G. Gombis is professor of New Testament at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary. He is also the author of Paul: A Guide for the Perplexed, The Drama of Ephesians: Participating in the Triumph of God, and a commentary on Mark’s Gospel in the Story of God Bible Commentary series.

“A clear, lively, and theologically grounded exposition of the distinctive calling of chaplaincy, richly illustrated with stories and biblical resources. . . . This is a much-needed resource for a form of ministry of growing importance in our religiously plural world.” — SONDRA WHEELER Wesley Theological Seminary

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Why Can’t Church Be More Like an AA Meeting? And Other Questions Christians Ask about Recovery Stephen R. Haynes Addiction—whether to a substance or to a behavior—is a problem within faith communities, just like it is everywhere else. But because churches are rarely experienced as safe places for dealing with addiction, co-addiction, or the legacy of family dysfunction, Christians tend to seek recovery from these conditions in Twelve-Step fellowships. Once they become accustomed to the ethos of vulnerability, acceptance, and healing that these fellowships provide, however, they are often left feeling that the church has failed them, with many asking: why can’t church be more like an AA meeting? Inspired by his own quest to find in church the sort of mutual support and healing he discovered in Twelve-Step fellowships, Stephen Haynes explores the history of Alcoholics Anonymous and its relationship to American Christianity. He shows that, while AA eventually separated from the Christian parachurch movement out of which it emerged, it retained aspects of Christian experience that the church itself has largely lost: comfort with brokenness and vulnerability, an emphasis on honesty and transparency, and suspicion toward claims to piety and respectability. Haynes encourages Christians to reclaim these distinctive elements of the Twelve-Step movement in the process of “recovering church.” He argues that this process must begin with he calls “Step 0,” which, as he knows from personal experience, can be the hardest step: the admission that, despite appearances, we are not fine. Stephen R. Haynes is professor of religious studies at Rhodes College and theologian-in-residence at Idlewild Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee. A contributor to The Christian Century and Huff Post, he is also the author of several books, including The Battle for Bonhoeffer: Debating Discipleship in the Age of Trump. 978-0-8028-7885-4 | Paperback | 240 pages | $19.99 US $26.99 CAN | £15.99 UK | Available October 2021

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Means of Grace A Year of Weekly Devotions Fleming Rutledge

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Edited by Laura Bardolph Hubers

“I bring you news of a living reality that changes everything. Jesus has come; Jesus will come. Whatever your own personal darkness, it has been and will be overcome.” Means of Grace is a weekly devotional culled from the sermons of beloved pastor and theologian Fleming Rutledge, organized according to the framework of the liturgical calendar. Each entry, compiled and edited by Rutledge’s friend Laura Bardolph Hubers, begins with a biblical passage and ends with a short prayer. Those familiar with Rutledge’s work will recognize both her genuine empathy for human experience and her deep reverence for God. Anyone longing for the wise pastoral guidance of an adept veteran preacher—one who views Scripture not as bland “life lessons” or “timeless teaching” but as “the living God present and acting in the story of redemption”—will find here a meaningful companion through the seasons of their spiritual journey that they can return to year after year. “A church year’s worth of biblical meditations by the great Fleming Rutledge? Yes, please! Rutledge is one of the best preachers of our time because of her relentless focus on the boundless grace made available to us in Jesus Christ. With a preacher’s heart, an incisive mind, and a lively theological imagination, she opens that Gospel to us week by week. What a gift.” — ALAN JACOBS author of How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds

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You will meet turnings in the road every day, turnings that, if taken, will lead you further and further away from the living God, deeper and deeper into the worship of the gods of the image-makers. As you come to these turnings in the way, perhaps you will think from time to time of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and how they said, “Our God is able to deliver us . . . but if not, be it known to you, O King, that we will not serve the image which you have set up.” For, you see, ultimately the story of the three young men in the fiery furnace, for all its thrilling qualities, is a story not of glory but of the cross. The story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego has maintained its power over the centuries as a story cherished by those who would walk into the flames and would not come out again on this side—martyrs, slaves, prisoners, those who bore their witness in the midst of the world that hates God. The worship of the living God may not bring us prosperity, may not bring us success, may not bring us advancement in this world, but he alone is worthy of worship for his own sake, he alone keeps his promises in the way that is best for us, he alone can and will vindicate the cause of his people. And for those who believe this, no road is too long, no fire too hot, no night too dark, no sacrifice too great, for truly, as King Nebuchadnezzar was forced to admit, “There is no other God who is able to deliver in this way.” May the Lord God of Hosts defend you for all your days and fill your hearts with the peace that passes human understanding.

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 books include Help My Unbelief, Three Hours: Sermons for Good Friday, 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. Laura Bardolph Hubers is director of marketing and publicity at Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 978-0-8028-7870-0 | Jacketed Hardcover | 264 pages | $24.99 US $33.99 CAN | £19.99 UK | Available August 2021

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Morning and Evening Prayers

Where the Eye Alights

Cornelius Plantinga

Phrases for the Forty Days of Lent

In this little book, Cornelius Plantinga offers a month’s worth of prayers, with two for each day: one for the morning, looking forward, and one for the evening, looking back. Each prayer expresses some essential Christian longing on behalf of self and others—for faith, hope, love, wisdom, gratitude, peace—yet also makes space for any state of heart or mind by rejoicing with all who rejoice and weeping with all who weep. Earnest and unassuming, Morning and Evening Prayers is for anyone seeking fellowship with God— from those who have prayed their whole lives to those who have yet to find the words.

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Cornelius Plantinga is president emeritus of Calvin Theological Seminary and senior research fellow at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. His previous books include Beyond Doubt, Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be, and Engaging God’s World, and his many articles and essays have appeared in such periodicals as Books & Culture, Christianity Today, and The Christian Century. 978-0-8028-7881-6 | Hardcover | 144 pages | $19.99 US | $26.99 CAN | £15.99 UK Available May 2021

Lent is about more than going to church on weekdays and giving up chocolate or social media. It’s also a time to form one’s heart and mind through study and prayer. In Where the Eye Alights, Marilyn McEntyre offers forty short meditations, based on excerpts from Scripture and poetry, that guide readers on a devotional journey from Ash Wednesday through Holy Saturday. As in lectio divina—the spiritual practice of reading Scripture repetitively and meditatively—McEntyre invites us to notice words that may give us pause and summon us to reflection. This book calls our attention to how the Spirit speaks through phrases that can open doors to deep places for those willing to sit still with them. 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), When Poets Pray, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict, and Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies. 978-0-8028-7698-0 | Jacketed Hardcover with Ribbon | 128 pages | $19.99 US $26.99 CAN | £15.99 UK | Available

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A Memoir of Faith, Sexuality, and Staying in the Church

God Gets Everything God Wants Katie Hays

Sally Gary

A gospel of hope, inclusion, and defiance

Sally Gary knew since her early adulthood that she was attracted to women. But as a devoted Christian, she felt there was no way to fully embrace this aspect of her identity while remaining faithful. In this deeply personal memoir, Sally traces the experiences, conversations, and scriptural reading that culminated in her seeing her sexuality as something that made sense within the context of her faith—not outside of it or in opposition to it. Along the way, she addresses specific aspects of her journey that will resonate with many other gay Christians: the loneliness and isolation of her previously celibate life, the futile attempts she made to resist or even “change” her sexual orientation, and the fear of intimacy that followed a lifetime of believing same-sex relationships were sinful. Her story is a resounding reminder that, just like Sally’s own heart, things can change, and sometimes, when we earnestly search for the truth, we find it in the most unexpected places.

If God gets everything God wants, and if what God wants is you, can anything stand in God’s way? Too many Christians have been taught that essential parts of who they are—their gender, their sexual orientation, their politics, their skepticism—prevent God from loving them fully. For these, church has been a painful experience of exclusion, despite the reality that Jesus was the embodiment of God’s radical inclusion. Katie Hays invites weary Christians, former Christians, and the Christcurious to take another look at God through the testimony of our biblical ancestors and to reimagine the church as a community of “beautiful, broken, and burdened” people doing their best to grow into their baptisms together. Hays insists that yes, God does get everything God wants, and—even better—we’re invited to want what God wants, too, and want it “more and more and more, until life feels abundant and eternal and delicious and drunken with possibility.” This is a message of stouthearted faith anchored in wonder—not false certainty. Atheists are welcome. Those who feel uneasy inside a church are welcome. Those still angry at other Christians are welcome. Because no matter what we’ve experienced, the God who still adores this world is the God of hope, inclusion, and defiance of the powers that be. And for those who are willing to collaborate in “the painstaking work of examining our Christian faith and sorting it out—the good stuff from the harmful stuff, the stuff with integrity from the stuff we simply inherited from family or church or . . . the cultural air we’re breathing”—there await life-giving possibilities found nowhere else.

“By sharing her story with such thoughtfulness and grace, Sally Gary invites other Christians to join her in rethinking their views while holding fast to the love of Jesus and the truth of the Bible. Her words will open countless hearts, bring healing to those who are hurting, and help build up the church’s witness for future generations.” — MATTHEW VINES author of God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships

“This is a powerful read. . . . In a world that increasingly sees Christians as hypocrites and homophobes, Sally’s story is just what we need to remind us of what drew so many of us to Jesus in the first place.” — JUSTIN LEE author of Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate

“I have known Sally Gary for nearly twenty years. She has been—and still is— deeply committed to faith, Scripture, and the church. In sync with the same spirit she has demonstrated all these years, I recommend this vital work.” — DON MCLAUGHLIN

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Affirming

Katie Hays is the founder and lead evangelist of Galileo Church, a church that seeks and shelters spiritual refugees, especially young adults and LGBTQ+ people, on the outskirts of Fort Worth, Texas. She is also the author of We Were Spiritual Refugees: A Story to Help You Believe in Church and the coauthor of Family of Origin, Family of Choice: Stories of Queer Christians.

senior minister of North Atlanta Church of Christ

Sally Gary is founder and executive director of CenterPeace, a nonprofit organization that has been helping churches and families have Christ-like conversations about faith and sexuality since 2006. She is also the author of Loves God, Likes Girls.

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Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark? The Bible and Modern Science and the Trouble of Making It All Fit

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Janet Kellogg Ray Foreword by Deborah Haarsma

A scientific look at creationism from a former creationist

Janet Kellogg Ray is an enthusiastic science educator who blogs at JanetKRay.com on the intersections of science, faith, and culture. Raised a creationist, she is uniquely equipped to explain evolution to questioners, doubters, deniers, and those who just want to know more about the science of origins.

A significant number of Americans, especially evangelical Christians, believe Earth and humankind were created in their present form sometime in the last 10,000 years or so—the rationale being that this is (presumably) the story told in the book of Genesis. Within that group, any threatening scientific evidence that suggests otherwise is rejected or, when possible, retrofitted into a creationist worldview. But can this uncomfortable blend of biblical literalism and pseudoscience hold up under scrutiny? Is it tenable to believe that the Grand Canyon was formed not millions of years ago by gradual erosion but merely thousands of years ago by the Great Flood? Were there really baby dinosaurs with Noah on his ark? Janet Kellogg Ray, a science educator who grew up a creationist, doesn’t want other Christians to have to do the exhausting mental gymnastics she did earlier in her life. Working through the findings of a range of fields including geology, paleontology, and biology, she shows how a literal interpretation of the book of Genesis simply doesn’t mesh with what we know to be reality. But as someone who remains a committed Christian, Ray also shows how an acceptance of the theory of evolution is not necessarily an acceptance of atheism, and how God can still be responsible for having created the world, even if it wasn’t in a single, momentary, miraculous event. “This is a well-written, insightful, and accessible book with pitch-perfect and well-balanced tone. I couldn’t help but to be drawn into the stories that punctuated the treatment.” — JOHN H. WALTON Wheaton College

“If you are . . . wondering if there is any way that Christian faith and evidence-based science can work together, Janet Ray is an able guide. She is a biology teacher and a Christ-follower who invites you to walk alongside her in her journey and provides an engaging overview of the views, evidence, and arguments on origins science.” — DEBORAH HAARSMA from the foreword

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Questions Christians Aren’t Supposed to Ask James V. Brownson Why should anyone believe in God in a world with so much pain? Why should I become a Christian when I find the public agenda of many Christians so offensive? I have been hurt by the church in the past. Why should I bother with it now? Most Christians have found themselves in conversations with nonbelieving friends and family where these kinds of questions have come up. In fact, most Christians have probably found themselves asking these questions too. But everyone who has ever wondered about such complicated things knows that this is dangerous territory—after all, what if there’s no easy answer? This book welcomes and encourages these questions that Christians “aren’t supposed to ask.” In each chapter, James Brownson introduces a particular question and then reframes it with a relevant passage from the Bible, bringing to bear his expertise as a biblical scholar. Rather than providing dogmatic (and ultimately unsatisfying) “Sunday school answers,” he explores the questions in provocative ways that often challenge the status quo of American Christianity. Fittingly, each chapter closes with discussion questions and suggestions for further reading, so that the conversations begun here can continue among the book’s readers in fruitful ways. James V. Brownson is the James and Jean Cook Professor of New Testament at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan. He is also the author of Bible, Gender, Sexuality and The Promise of Baptism.

“Jim Brownson is one of the most important biblical scholars writing today, and in this book, he lends his theological expertise to a variety of contemporary issues that often prove to be stumbling blocks for young people and others wrestling with doubts about Christianity. From the problems of hypocrisy and abuse in the church to theological debates about sexuality, hell, and women’s roles, Dr. Brownson offers important insights from Scripture to help Christians think more clearly about complex topics.” —MATTHEW VINES author of God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case for Same-Sex Relationships

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Race and the Rise of the Religious Right

Reading Evangelicals How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith

Randall Balmer

Daniel Silliman

There is a commonly accepted story about the rise of the Religious Right in the United States. It goes like this: with righteous fury, American evangelicals entered the political arena as a unified front to fight the legality of abortion after the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. The problem is this story simply isn’t true. Largely ambivalent about abortion until the late 1970s, evangelical leaders were first mobilized not by Roe v. Wade but by Green v. Connally, a lesser-known court decision in 1971 that threatened the tax-exempt status of racially discriminatory institutions—of which there were several in the world of Christian education at the time. When the most notorious of these schools, Bob Jones University, had its tax-exempt status revoked in 1976, evangelicalism was galvanized as a political force and brought into the fold of the Republican Party. Only later, when something more palatable was needed to cover for what was becoming an increasingly unpopular position following the civil rights era, was the moral crusade against abortion made the central issue of the movement now known as the Religious Right. In this greatly expanded argument from his 2014 Politico article “The Real Origins of the Religious Right,” Randall Balmer guides the reader along the convoluted historical trajectory that began with American evangelicalism as a progressive force opposed to slavery, then later an isolated apolitical movement in the mid-twentieth century, all the way through the 2016 election in which 81 percent of white evangelicals coalesced around Donald Trump for president. The pivotal point, Balmer shows, was the period in the late 1970s when American evangelicals turned against Jimmy Carter—despite his being one of their own, a professed born-again Christian—in favor of the Republican Party, which found it could win their loyalty through the espousal of a single issue. With the implications of this alliance still unfolding, Balmer’s account uncovers the roots of evangelical watchwords like “religious freedom” and “family values” while getting to the truth of how this movement began—explaining, in part, what it has become.

The story of five best-selling novels beloved by evangelicals, the book industry they built, and the collective imagination they shaped

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Bad Faith

Who are evangelicals? And what is evangelicalism? Those attempting to answer these questions usually speak in terms of political and theological stances. But those stances emerge from an evangelical world with its own institutions—institutions that shape imagination as much as they shape ideology. In this unique exploration of evangelical subculture, Daniel Silliman shows readers how Christian fiction, and the empire of Christian publishing and bookselling it helped build, is key to understanding the formation of evangelical identity. With a close look at five best-selling novels—Loves Comes Softly, This Present Darkness, Left Behind, The Shunning, and The Shack—Silliman considers what it was in these books that held such appeal and what effect their widespread popularity had on the evangelical imagination. Reading Evangelicals ultimately makes the case that the worlds created in these novels reflected and shaped the world evangelicals saw themselves living in—one in which romantic love intertwines with divine love, in which humans play an active role in the cosmic contest between the divine and the demonic, and in which the material world is infused with the literal workings of God and Satan. Silliman tells the story of how the Christian publishing industry marketed these ideas as much as they marketed books, and how, during the era of the Christian bookstore, this—every bit as much as politics or theology—became a locus of evangelical identity. Daniel Silliman is the news editor for Christianity Today. He earned a doctoral degree in American studies from Heidelberg University in Germany and has taught US history and humanities at Heidelberg, Valparaiso University, and Milligan University. 978-0-8028-7935-6 | Jacketed Hardcover | 288 pages | $27.99 US | $37.99 CAN £21.99 UK | Available October 2021

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EMORY UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN LAW AND RELIGION

The Politics of the Cross A Christian Alternative to Partisanship Daniel K. Williams

Pagans and Christians in the City

Where do Christians fit in a two-party political system?

Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac Steven D. Smith

“If you relish the inane partisanship that characterizes American political life, The Politics of the Cross is not for you. But if you are looking for a judicious assessment of the deep history and contemporary challenges of Christian faith and American politics, this is the book you’ve been waiting for.” — THOMAS S. KIDD author of Who Is an Evangelical? The History of a Movement in Crisis

“Daniel Williams is one of our finest historians of evangelicals and politics. In The Politics of the Cross, he draws on his previous works, but takes us even deeper into these issues through timely theological reflections on how evangelical Christians should engage in public life. His chapter on abortion alone is worth the price of the book.” — JOHN FEA author of Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump

“We live in a time when far too often partisan politics and catchy slogans replace thoughtful Christian engagement. Fiery rhetoric is often detached from fairminded assessment of the past and present. It occurs on both sides of the aisle. Thankfully we have people like Daniel K. Williams, who offers both the nuance of a historian and the concerns of one committed to the fullness of ancient Christian concerns. This book will at times surprise, but also hopefully inform and encourage, those seeking to more faithfully navigate the debates of our age.” — KELLY M. KAPIC Covenant College

“I have learned as much from Daniel Williams as anyone else in recent years about the history of evangelicals and politics. Reading this book is like having an extended debate with an especially wise and insightful friend. You don’t necessarily agree, but you’re always challenged to think more carefully and deeply.”

Foreword by Robert P. George Traditionalist Christians who oppose same-sex marriage and other cultural developments in the United States 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: Christians two thousand years ago faced very similar challenges. Picking up poet T. S. Eliot’s World War II–era thesis that the future of the West would be determined by a contest between Christianity and “modern paganism,” Smith argues in this book that today’s culture wars can be seen as a reprise of the basic antagonism that pitted pagans against Christians in the Roman Empire. Smith’s Pagans and Christians in the City looks at that historical conflict and explores how the same competing ideas continue to clash today. All of us, Smith shows, have much to learn by observing how patterns from ancient history are reemerging in today’s most controversial issues. “Smith’s book is as engrossing, lucid, and jargonless a scholarly book as has ever been written.”

— BOOKLIST (starred review)

“Fascinating. . . . Smith argues that much of what we understand as the march of secularism is something of an illusion, and that behind the scenes what’s actually happening in the modern culture war is the return of a pagan religious conception, which was half-buried (though never fully so) by the rise of Christianity.” — ROSS DOUTHAT

— COLLIN HANSEN editorial director for The Gospel Coalition

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“An elegant take on T. S. Eliot’s proposition that a contest between Christianity and ‘modern paganism’ would decide the West’s future.”

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Steven D. Smith is the 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. 978-0-8028-7880-9 | Paperback | 404 pages | $29.99 US | $39.99 CAN | £23.99 UK Available

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Decolonizing Christianity

Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

Becoming Badass Believers

Angela N. Parker

Miguel A. De La Torre

Foreword by Lisa Sharon Harper

A call for American Christianity to stand in solidarity with marginalized people and end its complicity with white supremacy

“We have all had doctrines of White supremacist authoritarianism take up residency in our minds and bodies. What will we do to exorcise those demons?” Angela Parker wasn’t just trained to be a biblical scholar; she was trained to be a White male biblical scholar. She is neither White nor male. Dr. Parker’s experience of being taught to forsake her embodied identity in order to contort herself into the stifling construct of Whiteness is common among American Christians, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. This book calls the power structure behind this experience what it is: White supremacist authoritarianism. Drawing from her perspective as a Womanist New Testament scholar, Dr. Parker describes how she learned to deconstruct one of White Christianity’s most pernicious lies: the conflation of biblical authority with the doctrines of inerrancy and infallibility. As Dr. Parker shows, these doctrines are less about the text of the Bible itself and more about the arbiters of its interpretation— historically, White males in positions of power who have used Scripture to justify control over marginalized groups. This oppressive use of the Bible has been suffocating. To learn to breathe again, Dr. Parker says, we must “let God breathe in us.” We must read the Bible as authoritative, but not authoritarian. We must become conscious of the particularity of our identities, as we also become conscious of the particular identities of the biblical authors from whom we draw inspiration. And we must trust and remember that as long as God still breathes, we can too. Angela N. Parker is assistant professor of New Testament and Greek at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology. In 2018, Dr. Parker received the Journal for Feminist Studies in Religion’s ESF New Scholar Award for her article “One Womanist’s View of Racial Reconciliation in Galatians.” In her research, Dr. Parker merges Womanist thought and postcolonial theory while reading biblical texts with real lived experiences of actual bodies.

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If God Still Breathes, Why Can’t I?

“Miguel De La Torre has long been one of the premier social ethicists in the world, seeking to offer a radical, no-holds-barred reconceptualization of Christianity that supports the most marginalized and oppressed. In Decolonizing Christianity, De La Torre continues in his bold and prophetic attempt to rid Christianity and the church in the US of the bad habits accrued by several centuries of brutal colonialism and racism. This text is a must-read, written by one of the most badass theologians on the planet!” — ANTHONY G. REDDIE editor of Black Theology: An International Journal

“The church in America will be recovering from the Trump presidency for many years to come, and De La Torre puts his finger squarely on the problem from a sociological and theological standpoint. The Trump regime buttressed ‘white Christianity,’ the insidious worldview that embraces racial supremacy and believes in the manifest destiny of white bodies to occupy the highest echelons of power, profits, and privilege.” — ROBERT CHAO ROMERO author of Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity

“Miguel De La Torre’s Decolonizing Christianity is a tour de force. Colonization is not only a takeover of nations but an active takeover of knowledge. Challenging the colonizing theology of racialized nationalism, De La Torre courageously calls us to follow Christ toward actual freedom.” — PETER GOODWIN HELTZEL author of Jesus and Justice: Evangelicals, Race, and American Politics

Miguel A. De La Torre is professor of social ethics and Latinx studies at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver. He has published over thirty-five books, including Burying White Privilege: Resurrecting a Badass Christianity and Reading the Bible from the Margins. 978-0-8028-7847-2 | Jacketed Hardcover | 240 pages | $24.99 US | $33.99 CAN | £19.99 UK Available

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The Gravity of Joy

Flashes of Grace

Just Tell the Truth

A Story of Being Lost and Found

33 Encounters with God

A Call to Faith, Hope, and Courage

Angela Williams Gorrell

Patrick Henry

Richard Lischer

Foreword by Miroslav Volf

Foreword by Joan Chittister

Shortly after being hired by Yale University to study joy, Angela Gorrell got word that a close family member had died by suicide. Less than a month later, she lost her father to a fatal opioid addiction and her nephew, only twenty-two years old, to sudden cardiac arrest. The theoretical joy she was researching at Yale suddenly felt shallow and distant—completely unattainable in the fog of grief she now found herself in. But joy was closer at hand than it seemed. This is the story of Angela’s discovery of an authentic, grounded Christian joy, a joy with “a mysterious capacity to be felt alongside of sorrow and even— sometimes most especially—in the midst of suffering.” Even more, it is an invitation for others to seize upon this more resilient joy as a counteragent to the twenty-first-century epidemics of despair, addiction, and suicide—a call to action for communities that yearn to find joy and “walk together through the shadows” to find it.

What does it mean to live the Christian life We all know about grace being amazing—after all, with conviction? there’s a whole song about it—but Patrick Henry reminds us that that’s not all it is. It’s also intimidating, disorienting, demanding, reassuring, and sometimes even just downright mind-boggling. Describing thirty-three different aspects of grace based on his everyday experiences, Henry tells the story of a grace that is wide-ranging and comprehensive—if not always comprehensible. Rather than trying to capture and tame his encounters with God, he lets the mystery of memory speak for itself, exemplifying his mantra that being a Christian is about being “an explorer, not a colonizer.”

“Patrick Henry draws on an immense range of learning—as well as offering theological reflections on Star Trek: The Next Generation—to chart for us a territory where we can explore in confidence, expecting at every turn the completely unexpected and completely committed grace of God in Christ.” — ROWAN WILLIAMS

“Honest, vulnerable, and healing.” — PARKER J. PALMER author of A Hidden Wholeness

“These pages crackle with raw honesty, deep wisdom, profound realizations, and potent reminders that ultimately goodness can be found amidst the rancor of daily life.” — ROBERT EMMONS

104th Archbishop of Canterbury

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author of The Psychology of Ultimate Concerns

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Angela Williams Gorrell is assistant professor of practical theology at Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary and an ordained pastor in the Mennonite Church USA. She is also the author of Always On: Practicing Faith in a New Media Landscape. 978-0-8028-7794-9 | Jacketed Hardcover | 252 pages $21.99 US | $29.99 CAN | £17.99 UK | Available

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Patrick Henry was professor of religion at Swarthmore College from 1967 to 1984 and executive director of the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research from 1984 to 2004. In retirement he is a monthly columnist for the St. Cloud Times in Minnesota, where he writes about the renewal of human community. He is also the author of The Ironic Christian’s Companion: Finding the Marks of God’s Grace in the World. 978-0-8028-7864-9 | Paperback | 318 pages | $19.99 US $26.99 CAN | £15.99 UK | Available

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“Richard Lischer is one of the most respected preachers and teachers of preaching I know, whose books have blessed my shelves for years. Now comes his first volume of published sermons, allowing readers to savor words and meanings that listeners may have missed. Whether you have heard him live or are meeting him for the first time in print, prepare to be encouraged, challenged, and emboldened by someone who reminds you why the Gospel matters—and that sermons can be works of literary art.” — BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR author of Always a Guest: Speaking of Faith Far from Home

“Richard Lischer plumbs both deep traditions and urgent contexts to remind us that it is when the ancestors speak strongest through the preacher that she or he unfurls the most original and creative visions.” — WILLIAM J. BARBER II co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign

“Lischer has long been regarded as one of the most eloquent and substantive preachers we have in our strange and confusing times. These sermons, which only tell the truth, confirm that judgment. But not to be missed is what makes Lischer such a profound witness to the Gospel.” — STANLEY HAUERWAS author of Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir

“This luminous volume erases any doubt about the sermon’s capacity to cheer the heart. With striking immediacy, God’s word emerges as salve, compass, catalyst, and joy.” — DONYELLE McCRAY Yale Divinity School

Richard Lischer is distinguished professor emeritus of preaching at Duke Divinity School. His fourteen books include the prize-winning The Preacher King, the anthology The Company of Preachers (named a “Best Book” in 2003 by Christianity Today), and two beloved memoirs: Open Secrets and Stations of the Heart. 978-0-8028-7884-7 | Paperback | 224 pages | $24.99 US $33.99 CAN | £19.99 UK | Available

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Family of Origin, Family of Choice On Her Knees Stories of Queer Christians

Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel

Katie Hays and Susan A. Chiasson

Brenda Marie Davies

Foreword by Paula Stone Williams

Foreword by Joshua Harris

Testimonies for LGBTQ+ Christians and all who love them

“My Christianity depended on Purity.”

What happens in a family when one member comes out? What does Christian love require and make possible for families moving forward together? A social scientist and a pastor asked their LGBTQ+ friends from church to help them understand how they navigate relationships with their affirming, nonaffirming, and affirming-ish families of origin, even as they also find belonging in other families of choice. The resulting stories, crafted from interviews with fifteen queer Christians and family members, kept anonymous at their request, are as varied as the colors of the rainbow. Over the years, some grew closer to their families of origin; others grew more distant. Some were surprised by the hardness of heart they encountered; others were amazed by the breadth of their family’s love. Most all describe a trajectory, a journey, from the coming-out moment until now and beyond, as their families of origin, like all families, remain a work in progress.

Going to a conservative Christian church when she was young, Brenda Marie Davies heard a consistent message—save yourself for marriage—that instilled in her fear and shame about sex. But after moving to Los Angeles at nineteen and finding herself suddenly exposed to a world far outside her comfort zone, she was forced to wrestle with the power and perversity of Christian purity culture. On Her Knees chronicles Brenda’s spiritual journey over the course of a decade in LA, through marriage, divorce, unlikely friendship, and sexual exploration. Through it all, she began tearing down the false idol of purity while refusing to abandon her faith. Told with raw honesty, sans obligatory shame, this is a story for anyone who wonders if it’s possible to love God without fearing sex, in all its shades of grey.

“These narratives speak boldly and carefully about the courage queer folks and their families embody as they discern their way through disclosures and invitations to enter closets and as they invite others to get to know them anew.”

“A story with which many young women, forced to reconcile the world’s incongruous expectations for their sexuality, will identify.” — LINDA KAY KLEIN

— JORETTA L. MARSHALL professor of pastoral theology and care at Brite Divinity School

“Hays and Chiasson have assembled a fascinating and forceful collection of stories from LGBTQ+ Christians about their experiences with kinship and condemnation, love and loss, reconciliation and resilience, and coming out—and coming to terms with one’s queer self.” — TONY E. ADAMS author of Narrating the Closet

Katie Hays is the founder and lead evangelist of Galileo Church, a church that “seeks and shelters spiritual refugees,” especially young adults and LGBTQ+ people, in the suburbs of Fort Worth, Texas. She is also the author of We Were Spiritual Refugees: A Story to Help You Believe in Church. Susan A. Chiasson is a qualitative researcher who tries to understand, rather than predict, people’s beliefs and attitudes. Her work involves a lot of talking to people as she observes them at work or play, in interviews, and in focus groups.

author of Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

“Brenda Marie Davies is that rare brave soul who trusted the instincts of her desire.” — IAN KERNER

sex therapist and New York Times bestselling author of She Comes First

“Exposes the lies of evangelical purity culture that have long crushed the spirit and ruined the lives of millions of faith-filled Christians.”

— TINA SCHERMER SELLERS

author of Sex, God, and the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy

Brenda Marie Davies hosts the podcast and YouTube channel God Is Grey—a “guide to becoming an inquisitive, fearless, sex positive, free-thinking Christian in the modern world.” 978-0-8028-7853-3 | Jacketed Hardcover | 200 pages | $22.00 US | $29.99 CAN £17.99 UK | Available

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Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

The Character of Virtue

Money Matters

SECOND EDITION

Letters to a Godson

R. Paul Stevens and Clive Lim

Marilyn McEntyre

Stanley Hauerwas

“Caring for language is a moral issue.”

with an introduction by Samuel Wells

“Just how can we invest money in the kingdom of God?”

With the pervasiveness of vitriol and dishonesty today, language needs to be revived and restored. In Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, Marilyn McEntyre exposes the commercial and political forces that affect public discourse in American culture and counters with twelve constructive “strategies of stewardship”—such as challenging lies (including widely tolerated forms of deception and spin), fostering the art of conversation, and encouraging playfulness and prayerfulness in writing and speaking. The second edition of this timely and timeless book includes updated cultural references and questions for reflection and discussion at the end, allowing a new generation of readers to apply McEntyre’s wisdom in a world that struggles with truth and graceful language more than ever before.

Timeless wisdom from a renowned theologian on living well “Encapsulates a life of writing about virtues and theology in these lovingly crafted letters to his godson. . . . Hauerwas’s elegant book will provide any reader with insight and wisdom into living a virtuous life.” — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Stanley Hauerwas’s wise, gentle, and compassionate letters to his godson are, in fact, timeless teachings from a great spiritual master to all of us.” — JAMES MARTIN, SJ editor of America magazine

“Seeing Stanley Hauerwas’s treatment of the virtues through the eyes of Sam Wells’s growing son, reflecting one minute on vast reaches of truth and the next on close-up political and personal challenges, all with a light touch and characteristic Texan grit—this is a treat. A book to read and savor.” — N. T. WRIGHT author of Simply Christian

“A wonderfully composed treatise.” — THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY

“A successful textual balance between sustenance and delicacy.” — RELIGION AND THE ARTS Marilyn McEntyre is the 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), When Poets Pray, and Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict. 978-0-8028-7889-2 | Paperback | 248 pages | $19.99 US $26.99 CAN | £15.99 UK | Available May 2021

“Hauerwas’s marvelous letters in The Character of Virtue are not only wisdom for those growing in the faith; they are also a model for how all of us can come alongside parents in the hard but good work of raising children in the faith.” — JAMES K. A. SMITH author of You Are What You Love

“A distillation of Stanley Hauerwas’s thought, and a distillation of love—these letters should find a home on your bookcase. “ — LAUREN F. WINNER author of Mudhouse Sabbath

Stanley Hauerwas, one of America’s best-known and most highly regarded contemporary theologians, is the author of many notable works, including The Work of Theology, Approaching the End, Hannah’s Child, and Growing Old in Christ. 978-0-8028-7879-3 | Paperback | 205 pages | $16.99 US $22.99 CAN | £13.99 UK | Available May 2021

Faith, Life, and Wealth

Money Matters is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to integrating one’s faith with one’s approach to money. Just as the Bible variously treats money as a blessing, a sacrament, and a problem, so do Stevens and Lim approach this matter judiciously—avoiding the prosperity gospel on one side and the demonization of material wealth on the other. Capitalism is treated as what it is: a system that has created widespread opportunity and relieved poverty for millions while also exacerbating the gap between the haves and the havenots. The authors’ wisdom is at turns theological, historical, and practical—and always focused on what it means to live with faithful integrity in our contemporary global economy. “For those wishing to put mammon in its proper place and deploy it for Kingdom purposes, this book is required reading and will no doubt become another classic in the faith, work, and economics space.” — KENNETH J. BARNES author of Redeeming Capitalism

“Offers clarity, hope, and a challenge to live our lives intentionally for the Kingdom in a way that is lifechanging and impactful.” — DAVE HATAJ author of Good Work: How Blue Collar Business Can Change Lives, Communities, and the World

R. Paul Stevens is professor emeritus of marketplace theology and leadership at Regent College, Vancouver, and chairman of the Institute for Marketplace Transformation, an agency that assists people with the integration of faith and work. Clive Lim is CEO of Leap International, an investment firm in Singapore. He is also adjunct marketplace theology lecturer at Biblical Graduate School of Theology and Trinity Theological College, both in Singapore, as well as visiting associate professor of marketplace theology at Regent College. 978-0-8028-7751-2 | Paperback | 199 pages | $19.99 US $26.99 CAN | £15.99 UK | Available

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Mitka’s Secret

The Religious Journey of Dwight D. Eisenhower

A True Story of Child Slavery and Surviving the Holocaust

Duty, God, and Country Jack M. Holl One of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s core convictions was that for a country to thrive, it needs a shared faith—a concept that came to be known as American civil religion, which defined and drove much of the cohesion of the 1950s under Eisenhower’s leadership. This biography tells the story of how deeply religious convictions ran through every aspect of Eisenhower’s public life: his decision to become a soldier, his crusade against fascism and communism, his response to the civil rights movement, his belief that only he as president could lead America through the Cold War, and his search for nuclear peace. As Eisenhower’s historical standing continues to rise, and his contrast with the modern Republican Party deepens, Jack Holl’s study of this consequential figure of twentieth-century American history shines a spotlight on what has changed in the intervening years. What can be learned from the religious outlook of a public servant who embraced moderation instead of partisan division? What is the nature of a faith that led a former general to a position of skepticism against the military-industrial complex? The era of American civil religion may be past, but Eisenhower’s religious journey is worth renewed attention among Americans in light of the enduring challenge of E pluribus unum—out of many, one. Jack M. Holl has served as a professor of history at Williams College, the University of Washington, and Kansas State University. A public historian at the US Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Energy, he played a leading role in the founding of the Society for History in the Federal Government and launching the National Council of Public History. He has also served at the Eisenhower Foundation and continues to evaluate Eisenhower Foundation Research Grants at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library. 978-0-8028-7873-1 | Jacketed Hardcover | 352 pages | $29.99 US | $39.99 CAN £23.99 UK | Available October 2021

Steven W. Brallier with Joel N. Lohr and Lynn G. Beck Mitka Kalinski had never revealed his past to anyone. Not even to his wife or his four children. But in 1981, three decades after it had all ended, Mitka finally broke his silence about the horrors he had endured during the Holocaust and in the years immediately afterward: not only German concentration camps and sadistic medical experiments but also seven years of enslavement in the household of a Nazi officer, “Iron” Gustav Dörr. Having been orphaned before the war, Mitka did not know his origins or even his name. Torture, slavery, and a false name stripped him of his identity entirely. Thus, when he immigrated to the United States in 1951, Mitka seized the opportunity to bury his past and forge a new life. He lived the American life in all its fullness and moved to Nevada with his beloved wife, Adrienne, and their children. But the secret he carried became an increasingly heavy burden, preventing wholeness and healing. This is Mitka’s account of facing the past, confronting his captors, connecting with lost relatives, and finding peace in the rediscovery of his origins. For Mitka, this also meant reclaiming his Jewish heritage—a journey that gave him a new sense of purpose and freedom from the lingering effects of trauma that had filled his life to that point. By the end, Mitka’s Secret is less a story of survival and more one of redemption and transformation—from hidden suffering to abundant joy. Steven W. Brallier is both a collector and a teller of stories, qualities he developed in his childhood on the western highlands of Kenya. After life in Kenya, Steve had a long career in the entertainment industry as a promoter, agent, and writer, which exposed him to many people with amazing stories. None was more compelling than Mitka’s. Almost immediately a deep trust developed between Steve and the Kalinskis, a trust that provided the essential foundation for the powerful story that is Mitka’s Secret. Joel N. Lohr is president of Hartford Seminary, a leading interfaith graduate school. He is an award-winning author, scholar of religion, and passionate leader in interreligious relations and higher education. Lynn G. Beck has served in faculty and leadership positions at various universities. She is the author or coauthor of eight books and a number of articles and has had leadership roles on national, state, and local boards. 978-0-8028-7916-5 | Paperback | 320 pages | $19.99 US | $26.99 CAN | £15.99 UK Available July 2021

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Duty and Destiny

God’s Cold Warrior

Charles Lindbergh

The Life and Faith of Winston Churchill

The Life and Faith of John Foster Dulles

Gary Scott Smith

John D. Wilsey

A Religious Biography of America’s Most Infamous Pilot

A nuanced portrait of a great historical figure considered everything from a “Godhaunted man” to a “stalwart nonbeliever”

A religious biography of one of the originators of American exceptionalism

“Gary Scott Smith, an authority on religion and American presidents, here turns his discerning eye to the role that faith played in the life, work, and character of one of the most monumental political figures of the twentieth century. The result is a model of critical investigation and nuanced judgment.” — JAMES D. BRATT coauthor of A Christian and a Democrat: A Religious Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Gary Scott Smith, with detail and good research, tackles the complicated relationship between religion and politics in Churchill’s thought. We learn that Churchill was a believer in a faith—which was at the heart of his appeal in the Second World War—but not necessarily a practitioner.” — RICHARD M. LANGWORTH senior fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project

“Meticulously researched and authoritative.” — ANDREW CONNELL Cardiff University

Gary Scott Smith is professor of history emeritus at Grove City College where he taught from 1978 to 2017. Smith was named the 2001 Pennsylvania Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Religion in the Oval Office: The Religious Lives of American Presidents and Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush. 978-0-8028-7700-0 | Jacketed Hardcover | 267 pages $28.99 US | $38.99 CAN | £22.99 UK | Available

“John Wilsey’s study of John Foster Dulles is Christian biography at its absolute best. Here readers gain fresh access to one of the most consequential men of the twentieth century and learn how this towering political figure, often caricatured as stodgy and sanctimonious, was at his core a principled and pragmatic Christian whose faith animated his daily life and ambitions to change the world.” — DARREN DOCHUK author of Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America

“God’s Cold Warrior joins the ranks of important recent works that shed essential light on the interaction of faith and American foreign policy.” — WILSON D. MISCAMBLE, CSC University of Notre Dame

“At a time when many associate Christian nationalism with evangelical Protestantism and regard the religious right as a threat to liberal democracy in the United States, John Wilsey’s astute and thorough biography of John Foster Dulles is a good reminder of what faith-based politics looks like.”

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author of Damning Words: The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken

John D. Wilsey is associate professor of church history at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is also the author of American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Idea and One Nation under God? An Evangelical Critique of Christian America. 978-0-8028-7572-3 | Paperback | 271 pages | $21.99 US $29.99 CAN | £17.99 UK | Available

Christopher Gehrz The narrative surrounding Charles Lindbergh’s life has been as varying and complex as the man himself. Once best known as an aviator—the first to complete a solo nonstop transatlantic flight— he has since become increasingly identified with his sympathies for white supremacy, eugenics, and the Nazi regime in Germany. Underexplored amid all this is Lindbergh’s spiritual life; what beliefs drove the contradictory impulses of this twentieth-century icon? In this short biography, Christopher Gehrz represents Lindbergh as he was, neither an adherent nor an atheist, a historical case study of an increasingly familiar contemporary phenomenon: the “spiritual but not religious.” Gehrz shows how, in the end, the man who flew solo across the Atlantic insisted on charting his own spiritual path, drawing on multiple sources in such a way that satisfied his spiritual hunger but left some of his cruelest convictions unchallenged. “Gehrz’s Lindbergh is splendidly complex. The famed pilot emerges as a spiritual explorer who in the end made God in his own image and refused to see God’s image in those who didn’t look like him. Observers of the ‘new’ religious movements should read this exhaustively researched, expertly narrated, and humane book first.” — DAVID R. SWARTZ author of Facing West: American Evangelicals in an Age of World Christianity

Christopher Gehrz is professor of history at Bethel University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where his innovative approach to teaching everything from church history to the world wars has earned him a Faculty Excellence Award. He is the author or editor of several books, including Faith and History: A Devotional and The Pietist Option: Hope for the Renewal of Christianity, and he blogs regularly about Christianity, history, and education at The Pietist Schoolman and The Anxious Bench. 978-0-8028-7621-8 | Jacketed Hardcover | 272 pages $28.00 US | $37.99 CAN | £21.99 UK | Available August 2021

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