Theology

A Companion to the Theology of John Webster

Michael Allen and R. David Nelson, editors

Foreword by Kevin J. Vanhoozer 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. is rst-class collection of essays shows how his proli cally 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 om some of today’s nest 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 lled with appropriate detail, this volume will de ne the shape of future research on Webster and is indispensable for scholar and student alike.” — EPH IM DNER

Wycli e College

CONTRIBUTORS

Michael Allen, Ivor J. Davidson, Christopher R. J. Holmes, Ma hew 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. Wi man.

Michael Allen is the John Dyer Trimble Professor of Systematic eology and academic dean at Reformed eological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. R. David Nelson is senior acquisitions editor at Baker Academic and Brazos Press and editor of Lutheran Forum.

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Christian Ethics

A New Covenant Model Hak Joon Lee

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- rst-century life, characterized by uidity, 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 ourishing 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 pa erns, 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. e 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. rough his deep, pastoral, and irenic inquiries into these di cult topics, Lee demonstrates a pa ern of covenantal moral reasoning that undercuts the dominant neoliberal ethos of individualism and transactional relationship that more and more in uences 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.

Hak Joon Lee is the Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller eological 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 e Great World House: Martin Luther King, Jr., and Global Ethics.

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The Same God Who Works All Things

Inseparable Operations in Trinitarian Theology Adonis Vidu

Classical Trinitarianism holds that every action of Trinity in the world is inseparable. at 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? ese and many other questions pose serious objections to the doctrine of inseparable operations.

In the rst book-length treatment of this doctrine, Adonis Vidu takes up these questions and o ers a conceptual and dogmatic analysis of this essential axiom, engaging with recent and historical objections. He then tests the rule precisely on the ba legrounds 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.

“ e 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.”

— MA HEW LEVERING

Mundelein Seminary

“ e Same God Who Works All ings 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 eological Seminary. He is also the author of Atonement, Law, and Justice: e Cross in Historical and Cultural Contexts; eology a er Neo-Pragmatism; and Postliberal eological Method: A Critical Study.

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Fountain of Salvation

Trinity and Soteriology Fred Sanders A Trinitarian exposition of Christian soteriology

e 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 le unconnected, both su er. e 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. De ly 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. e 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 a rms throughout this in-depth theological treatise, the triune God is the fountain from which all other doctrine ows—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 e Triune God and e Deep ings of God.

978-0-8028-7810-6 | Paperback | 248 pages | $24.99 US | $33.99 CAN | £19.99 UK Available September 2021

In God’s Image

An Anthropology of the Spirit Michael Welker From the 2019/2020 Gi ord Lectures at the University of Edinburgh

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 exible, 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 eld.”

— DAVID FERGUSSON

University of Edinburgh

“Welker o ers us a truly embodied vision of the human spirit as it reaches for God, but he does so om 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.”

— F NK D. MACCHIA

Vanguard University of Southern California

Michael Welker is senior professor at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and executive director of the Research Center for International and Interdisciplinary eology. He is the author or editor of dozens of books, including God the Spirit, e Work of the Spirit, God the Revealed, Creation and Reality, What Happens in Holy Communion?, and e Depth of the Human Person.

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Jesus the Spirit Baptizer

Christology in Light of Pentecost Frank D. Macchia

In Jesus the Spirit Baptizer, globally recognized Pentecostal theologian Frank Macchia o ers 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 esh.

“Frank Macchia understands the outpouring of the life-giving Spirit as the ful llment of Christ’s life and mission. And so he rightly interprets the birth, passion, and resurrection of Christ om 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. PADGE

Luther Seminary

“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

University of Heidelberg

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 e Spirit-Baptized Church: A Dogmatic Inquiry; Justi ed in the Spirit: Creation, Redemption, and the Triune God; and the Two Horizons Commentary volume on Revelation.

978-0-8028-7979-0 | Paperback | 383 pages | $35.00 US $46.99 CAN | £28.99 UK | Available August 2021

The End of Memory

Remembering Rightly in a Violent World

SECOND EDITION Miroslav Volf

How should we remember atrocities? Should we ever forgive abusers? Can we not hope for nal reconciliation, even if it means redeemed victims and perpetrators spending eternity together?

We live in an age that insists that past wrongs— genocides, terrorist a acks, bald personal injustices—should never be forgo en. But Miroslav Volf here proposes the radical idea that le ing go of such memories—a er a certain point and under certain conditions—may actually be a gi 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. is 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. 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 re ections. His style is personal and inviting, and he is honest with himself and with God. is book is full of surprisingly novel and compelling insights. A masterpiece.” — JÜRGEN MOLTMANN

University of Tübingen

“ is is a book of profundity and wisdom, endowed with the authenticity of considerable personal su ering.” — SA H COAKLEY

University of Cambridge

Miroslav Volf is director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and the Henry B. Wright Professor of eology at Yale Divinity School. His other books include Exclusion and Embrace: A eological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation.

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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 rst 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.

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

Andy Wolfe is the deputy chief education o cer (leadership development) for the Church of England. A Practical Theology for Educating Christians Fred P. Edie and Mark A. Lamport

Foreword by Charles R. Foster Faith le 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 o en 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- rst 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 elds that might give insight into educational ministry: theology, pedagogy, philosophy, social science, and more. ose working with any age group—children, adolescents, and adults—will nd a relevant discussion of key underlying theological themes, a guide to concrete practices, and indispensable help in navigating shi ing 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.

KEY FEATURES

• 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 re ection, 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 a erwords from experts in the eld of Christian educational ministries: Martyn Percy, Almeda Wright, Craig Dykstra, Kirsten Oh, Elizabeth DeGaynor, and omas 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

How do students, educators, and schools ourish 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 o en seen as statistics rather than whole human beings. Teachers, school leaders, parents, and of course students know that ourishing is a much broader and more holistic aim for education. But what is to be done? e goal of this book is to call Christian educators back to a be er vision of ourishing 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 ve essential domains identi ed 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.” us, the vision for ourishing here is one in which the school community is understood as an interconnected ecosystem, in which “each one’s ourishing is dependent on their ourishing together.” Accordingly, teachers and administrators will be inspired and equipped to reshape their schools as places where they—alongside their students—can ourish 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