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Anomalous Jew 3 An Michael F. Bird A lively, well-informed portrait of the strange and controversial apostle Paul
of the Crucified Lord 5 Apostle Michael J. Gorman Expanded and updated edition of a premier textbook on Paul
Acts of the Apostles 10 The James D. G. Dunn An esteemed biblical scholar’s commentary on “the most exciting book in the New Testament”
Believing Scientist 17 The Stephen M. Barr Elegant writings by an eminent scientist defending traditional religious beliefs
as a Virtue 18 Justice Jean Porter Explores Aquinas’s concept of justice—and why it matters today
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The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology More than 400 distinguished scholars, including archaeologists, historians, art historians, epigraphers, and theologians, have written the 1,455 entries in this monumental encyclopedia—the first comprehensive reference work of its kind. From Aachen to Zurzach, Paul Corby Finney’s three-volume masterwork draws on archaeological and epigraphic evidence to offer readers a basic orientation to early Christian architecture, sculpture, painting, mosaic, and portable artifacts created roughly between AD 200 and 600 in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Clear, comprehensive, and illustrated, this encyclopedia will be an essential resource for all those interested in late antique and early Christian art, archaeology, and history. Paul Corby Finney is professor emeritus of ancient history at the University of Missouri, Saint Louis. His previous books include The Invisible God: The Earliest Christians on Art and Seeing beyond the Word: Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition.
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New Testament Apocrypha
An Introduction to Biblical Law
Spirit Hermeneutics
More Noncanonical Scriptures
William S. Morrow
Craig S. Keener
Volume 1
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S T U D I E S
Tony Burke and Brent Landau, editors
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Foreword by J. K. Elliott This anthology of ancient nonbiblical Christian literature presents informed introductions to and readable translations of a wide range of little-known apocryphal texts, most of which have never before been translated into any modern language. An introduction to the volume as a whole addresses the most significant features of the writings included and contextualizes them within the contemporary study of the Christian Apocrypha. The body of the book comprises thirty texts that have been carefully introduced, copiously annotated, and translated into English by eminent scholars. With dates of composition ranging from the second century CE to early in the second millennium, these fascinating texts provide a more complete picture of Christian thought and expression than canonical texts alone can offer. “In this masterful volume we find that greatest of rarities— a collection of ancient texts scarcely known (let alone studied) by scholars of Christian antiquity. With these fresh translations of some thirty apocryphal works, each with a gratifyingly full introduction and bibliography, Burke, Landau, and all the contributors have provided us with a rigorous but highly accessible volume that will long prove to be a scholarly vade mecum.” —Bart D. Ehrman
In this book William Morrow surveys four major law collections in Exodus–Deuteronomy and shows how they each enabled the people of Israel to create and sustain a community of faith. Treating biblical law as dynamic systems of thought facilitating ancient Israel’s efforts at self-definition, Morrow describes four different social contexts that gave rise to biblical law: (1) Israel at the holy mountain (the Ten Commandments); (2) Israel in the village assembly (Exodus 20:22–23:19); (3) Israel in the courts of the Lord (priestly and holiness rules in Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers); (4) Israel in the city (Deuteronomy). Including forthright discussion of such controversial subjects as slavery, revenge, gender inequality, religious intolerance, and contradictions between bodies of biblical law, Morrow’s study will help students and other serious readers make sense out of texts in the Pentateuch that are often seen as obscure. William S. Morrow is professor of Hebrew and Hebrew Scriptures at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. His previous books include Protest against God: The Eclipse of a Biblical Tradition.
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“A treasure trove of early Christian writings dating from the second century onward.”
Reading Scripture in Light of Pentecost Foreword by Amos Yong “Craig Keener has written a compelling guide to reading Scripture experientially, eschatologically, and missionally. Keener resources the Pentecostal tradition, including its global breadth, to guide readers on how to draw from the Spirit, how to develop disciplined reading habits, how to understand debates about interpretation, and how to dutifully get the most out of the text. This book is nothing less than hermeneutics with holy fire!” —Michael F. Bird Ridley College, Melbourne
“Some may wonder if a new, fresh look at biblical hermeneutics is truly possible. Keener demonstrates that it is. He brings his scholarly biblical expertise and mastery of secondary literature together with his deep conviction that the experience of the Spirit should shape a Christian (not only a Pentecostal) reading of Scripture. The result is a wide-ranging consideration of the task of recontextualizing the Bible in line with, but not as a replacement for, exegesis. A wide range of readers will discover in Spirit Hermeneutics much to engage with and ponder.” —Jeannine Brown Bethel Seminary San Diego
“Few subjects are more important today than the relation between hermeneutics and the Holy Spirit, if we want to take the Bible seriously. Craig Keener rightly insists that ‘spiritual’ hermeneutics includes global Pentecostalism but is also much broader. We need careful attention to meaning to curb undue subjectivism. . . . I warmly commend this informative and commonsense approach to a crucially important subject.” —Anthony C. Thiselton University of Nottingham
—April D. DeConick Rice University
Craig S. Keener is F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky. His many other books include The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary, The Historical Jesus of the Gospels, Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts, and Acts: An Exegetical Commentary (4 volumes).
Tony Burke is associate professor of religious studies at York University in Toronto and the author of Secret Scriptures Revealed: A New Introduction to the Christian Apocrypha. Brent Landau is lecturer in religious studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Revelation of the Magi: The Lost Tale of the Wise Men’s Journey to Bethlehem.
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A Man Attested by God
Paul among Jews, Greeks, and Romans
The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels
Michael F. Bird
J. R. Daniel Kirk
Though Paul is often lauded as the first great Christian theologian and a champion for Gentile inclusion in the church, in his own time he was universally regarded as a strange and controversial person. In this book Pauline scholar Michael Bird explains why. An Anomalous Jew presents the figure of Paul in all his complexity with his blend of common and unusual Jewish beliefs and a faith in Christ that brought him into conflict with the socioreligious scene around him. Bird elucidates how the apostle Paul was variously perceived—as a religious deviant by Jews, as a divisive figure by Jewish Christians, as a purveyor of dubious philosophy by Greeks, and as a dangerous troublemaker by the Romans. Readers of this book will better understand the truly anomalous shape of Paul’s thinking and worldview.
This major book presents a comprehensive defense of the thesis that the Synoptic Gospels present Jesus not as divine but as an idealized human figure. Counterbalancing the recent trend toward early high Christology in such scholars as Richard Bauckham, Simon Gathercole, and Richard Hays, J. R. Daniel Kirk thoroughly unpacks the humanity of Jesus as understood by Gospel writers whose language is rooted in the religious and literary context of early Judaism. Without dismissing divine Christologies out of hand, Kirk argues that idealized human Christology is the best way to read the Synoptic Gospels, and he explores Jesus as exorcist and miracle worker within the framework of his humanity. With wide-ranging exegetical and theological insight that sheds startling new light on familiar Gospel texts, A Man Attested by God offers up-to-date, provocative scholarship that will have to be reckoned with.
—Nijay K. Gupta George Fox Evangelical Seminary
“This is vintage Bird, perhaps with a noticeable tinge of N. T. Wright thrown in as well. In this book we find historically informed, strong readings of the Pauline texts, a deep awareness of the scholarly debates and positions on Paul and firstcentury Judaism, and overall a substantive and important contribution to situating Paul in his first-century context.” —Joshua W. Jipp
Butler University
“Everyone concerned with the origins of Christian belief needs to take note of this work.” —Morna D. Hooker
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
“Michael Bird argues persuasively that Paul did not cease to be a Jew when he became Christian—and yet his previous Jewish convictions were shaken to the core and transformed. Paul remained a Jew, but he became an anomaly to his Jewish contemporaries.” —Francis Watson Durham University
Michael F. Bird is lecturer in theology at Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia. His previous books include Introducing Paul: The Man, His Mission and His Message and The Gospel of the Lord: How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus, which won the 2015 Christianity Today Book Award for Biblical Studies.
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“This may well be the most important book about New Testament Christology to appear in recent years. . . . Daniel Kirk makes a persuasive case for viewing the depiction of Jesus in Matthew, Mark, and Luke as one of an idealized human figure. His argument is likely to stand the test of time and become a focal point for ongoing debates and new research in the years and decades to come.” —James McGrath
“Paul was a maverick apostle, an inimitable thinker, and anomalous Jew. Bird cogently sets Paul within his world, not to domesticate him, but to draw out his peculiarity. This is engaging reading, peppered with fresh insight into the historical Paul.”
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An Anomalous Jew
University of Cambridge
“Kirk ably demonstrates the wealth of Jewish material focused on an ideal, glorious humanity and its significance for the Gospels’ portrayal of Jesus. Anyone working on the Gospels and New Testament Christology will now have to reckon with these arguments.” —Crispin Fletcher-Louis author of Jesus Monotheism
J. R. Daniel Kirk holds a PhD in New Testament from Duke University and has taught at North Carolina State University, St. Joseph’s University, Eastern College, and Fuller Theological Seminary. Currently he is pastoral director at Newbigin House of Studies, San Francisco, a faculty of internationally linked pastor-scholars working to develop leaders through theological education and counseling. Kirk’s previous books include Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God and Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul?
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Structure and Issues in Johannine Christology
The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures
William Loader
D. A. Carson, editor
The culmination of a lifetime of work on the Gospel of John, William Loader’s Jesus in John’s Gospel explores the Fourth Gospel as a whole, focusing on ways in which attention to the structure of Christology in John allows for greater understanding of Johannine themes and helps resolve long-standing interpretive impasses. Following an introductory examination of the profound influence of Rudolf Bultmann on Johannine studies, Loader takes up the central interpretive issues and debates surrounding Johannine Christology and explores the death of Jesus and the salvation event in John. With an exhaustive bibliography and careful, wellarticulated conclusions that take into account the latest research on John, this volume will be useful to scholars and students alike.
This momentous work on biblical authority offers insights into key disputed topics from a veritable who’s who of evangelical scholars. Recognizing that Scripture and its authority are now being both challenged and defended with renewed vigor, editor D. A. Carson assigned the topics that these select scholars address in the book. After an introduction by Carson to the many facets of the current discussion, the contributors present robust essays on relevant historical, biblical, theological, philosophical, epistemological, and comparativereligions topics. To conclude, Carson answers a number of frequently asked questions about the nature of Scripture, cross-referencing these FAQs to the preceding chapters. Written by a team of recognized experts— thirty-seven scholars in all—this comprehensive volume will be the go-to reference on the nature and authority of the Bible for years to come.
Praise for William Loader’s previous works “This is New Testament scholarship at its very best. . . . A magisterial study.” —Paul Foster “Impressively comprehensive. . . . Both an incisive and an irenic contribution to the literature.” —Theology William Loader is professor emeritus of New Testament at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. His many other books include The New Testament with Imagination: A Fresh Approach to Its Writings and Themes and Making Sense of Sex: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Early Jewish and Christian Literature.
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The Apostle Paul His Life, Thought, and Letters Stanley E. Porter “This volume is a remarkable synthesis of Stanley Porter’s extensive work on the background, setting, and content of Paul’s letters. Making it clear that historical investigation still counts, Porter addresses a whole array of debates on Paul and his letters with careful and measured judgments. Here is an in-depth introduction to Paul from which both a beginning student and an advanced scholar can profit.” —Mark A. Seifrid Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
“In this well-organized and accessibly written book, noted Pauline scholar Stanley Porter surveys both Paul’s letters and traditional introductory questions surrounding them. Although Porter is as brilliantly independent as usual and many of his own conclusions are traditional, he presents fairly the arguments for various positions, enabling critical readers to reach their own conclusions.” —Craig S. Keener Asbury Theological Seminary
“Stan Porter’s work on Paul and his letters represents scholarship at its best. Porter assesses the evidence independently and from a fresh perspective. . . . A tremendous resource for scholars, teachers, pastors, and students.”
Contributors James Beilby, Kirsten Birkett, Henri A. G. Blocher, Craig L. Blomberg, D. A. Carson, Graham A. Cole, Stephen G. Dempster, Daniel M. Doriani, Simon Gathercole, David Gibson, Ida Glaser, Paul Helm, Charles E. Hill, Peter F. Jensen, Robert Kolb, Anthony N. S. Lane, Te-Li Lau, Richard Lints, V. Philips Long, Thomas H. McCall, Douglas J. Moo, Andrew David Naselli, Harold Netland, Osvaldo Padilla, Michael C. Rea, Bradley N. Seeman, Alex G. Smith, R. Scott Smith, Rodney L. Stiling, Glenn S. Sunshine, Timothy C. Tennent, Mark D. Thompson, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Bruce K. Waltke, Barry G. Webb, Peter J. Williams, John D. Woodbridge. D. A. Carson is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, and president of The Gospel Coalition. He has written or edited more than fifty other books, including Christ and Culture Revisited, The Intolerance of Tolerance, and the Pillar New Testament Commentary volume on John.
—Thomas R. Schreiner Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
“This book showcases Porter’s ability to integrate history and interpretation. A very satisfying study of Paul’s ministry and letters, this learned work will become a standard in the field of Pauline studies.” —Craig A. Evans Houston Baptist University
Stanley E. Porter is president, dean, professor of New Testament, and holder of the Roy A. Hope Chair in Christian Worldview at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario. His many previous books include John, His Gospel, and Jesus; Fundamentals of New Testament Greek; Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Interpretive Theory; and Fundamentals of New Testament Textual Criticism.
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Apostle of the Crucified Lord
The Apocalyptic Imagination
Basic Introduction to the New Testament
A Theological Introduction to Paul and His Letters
An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
John Stott
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Foreword by Alistair Begg
Michael J. Gorman
John J. Collins
“Michael Gorman enviably combines simplicity of presentation with profound originality. This new edition is simultaneously an accessible textbook and an exposition of challenging new ideas which all Pauline scholars must take seriously. A book to draw in the beginner and to compel the expert into fresh reflection.” —N. T. Wright University of St Andrews
“Gorman’s learned, sustained, inclusive advocacy of participation as the center of Paul’s gospel is one of the key features of the modern scholarly landscape. This second edition of his balanced yet probing introduction to Paul’s thought is therefore profoundly welcome.” —Douglas A. Campbell Duke Divinity School
Michael J. Gorman holds the Raymond E. Brown Chair in Biblical Studies and Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary & University, Baltimore, Maryland. A highly regarded New Testament scholar, he has also written Cruciformity, Inhabiting the Cruciform God, and Becoming the Gospel.
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One of the most widely praised studies of Jewish apocalyptic literature ever written, The Apocalyptic Imagination by John J. Collins has served for over thirty years as a helpful, relevant, comprehensive survey of the apocalyptic literary genre. After an initial overview of things apocalyptic, Collins proceeds to deal with individual apocalyptic texts—the early Enoch literature, the book of Daniel, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and others—concluding with an examination of apocalypticism in early Christianity. Collins has updated this third edition throughout to account for the recent profusion of studies germane to ancient Jewish apocalypticism, and he has also substantially revised and updated the bibliography. Praise for earlier editions “A very useful guide to the Jewish apocalypses and related literature. . . . One will not find a better or more up-to-date survey of this material, which expresses a way of thinking that was so influential on formative Christianity, than in Collins’s book.” —James C. VanderKam in Journal of the American Academy of Religion “For those wanting what the cover promises—an introduction to Jewish apocalyptic literature—there is no book that could provide a better survey for students, or for scholars who are venturing outside their field of expertise.” —Simon J. Gathercole in
John Stott (1921–2011) was rector emeritus of All Souls Church, Langham Place, London, and founder of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. His many other books include Basic Christianity.
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Recently released Paul and the Gift John M. G. Barclay “What else can possibly be said about ‘grace’ in the letters of Paul? Quite a lot, as it turns out. John Barclay reveals just how little we have grasped the multitude of ways in which grace— ‘the gift’—was parsed among Paul’s contemporaries. . . . A must-have, must-read, must-ponder book!”
Dead Sea Discoveries John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School and has served as president of both the Society of Biblical Literature and the Catholic Biblical Association. His many other books include Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy; Beyond the Qumran Community; and The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism.
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In this comprehensive, widely used text, Michael Gorman presents a theologically focused, historically grounded interpretation of the apostle Paul and raises significant questions for engaging Paul today. After providing substantial background information on Paul’s world, career, letters, gospel, spirituality, and theology, Gorman covers in full detail each of the thirteen Pauline epistles. Enhancing the text are questions for reflection and discussion at the end of each chapter and numerous photos, maps, and tables throughout. The new introduction in this second edition situates the book within ten current approaches to Paul. In this edition Gorman brings the conversation up to date with significant developments in Pauline studies, and he devotes greater attention to themes of participation, transformation, resurrection, justice, and peace.
The writings of internationally respected preacher and teacher John Stott continue to speak to millions of readers around the world. This book—originally published in 1954 as Men with a Message—introduces readers to the message of the New Testament writers, including Mark, Matthew, Luke, John, Paul, and more. This trim new issue presents the text of the book’s 1994 edition, which bears the vintage Stott hallmarks— comprehensive knowledge of his subject, acute intellectual rigor, and powerful analysis—and was updated and expanded by Stephen Motyer at John Stott’s invitation.
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Revised by Stephen Motyer
—Beverly Roberts Gaventa
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Women of War, Women of Woe
Women in the Story of Jesus
Joshua and Judges through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters
The Gospels through the Eyes of NineteenthCentury Female Biblical Interpreters
Marion Ann Taylor and Christiana de Groot
Marion Ann Taylor and Heather E. Weir, editors
Recovering a neglected chapter of reception history, this unique volume gathers select writings by nineteenth-century women—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and thirty-three others—on the stories of several women in Joshua and Judges, including Rahab, Deborah, Jael, and Delilah.
This volume gathers the writings of thirty-one nineteenth-century women on the stories of women in the Gospels. Recovering and analyzing neglected works by Christina Rossetti, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Wordsworth, and many others, Women in the Story of Jesus illuminates the biblical text, recovers an overlooked chapter of reception history, and helps us understand and apply Scripture in our present context. Each chapter focuses on a different biblical woman and includes the various genres that nineteenth-century women used to write about women in the Gospels—commentaries, Scripture biographies, essays, travel diaries, children’s lessons, and sermons. Editors Marion Ann Taylor and Heather E. Weir provide both a general introduction to each chapter and a short introduction to each individual excerpt that discusses the author and the larger work from which the excerpt is taken.
“A spectacular corrective to stereotypes about ‘women’s writing’ about the Bible. . . . These women’s writings are passionate and compassionate, yet they also transcend sentiment to display an advocacy for women, children, and the marginalized of their own day. Clearly, these writers unflinchingly took possession of the Bible— and the women of the Bible—for themselves and for their readers.” —John L. Thompson author of Reading the Bible with the Dead
“This superb anthology is an excellent introduction to nineteenth-century women’s astonishingly diverse perspectives on the Bible, gender roles, war and violence, morality, and social issues. . . . Perfect for college and seminary classes.” —Joy A. Schroeder author of Deborah’s Daughters: Gender Politics and Biblical Interpretation
Marion Ann Taylor is Professor of Old Testament at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. Christiana de Groot is Professor of Religion at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Marion Ann Taylor is Professor of Old Testament at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. Heather E. Weir is a pastoral theologian who lives and works in Toronto.
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The Woman, the Hour, and the Garden
What Do You Seek? The Questions of Jesus as Challenge and Promise
A Study of Imagery in the Gospel of John
Michael J. Buckley, SJ
Addison Hodges Hart
Foreword by Paul G. Crowley, SJ, and Stephen J. Pope
“The best books are short and deep, and this is just such a book. . . . With the help of Christian art and poetry Addison Hodges Hart shows that ‘woman’ is an icon of the gathered community, which leads to the bold conclusion that Christ is indeed married and has taken a bride, the church. This is a book for meditation, to be read slowly with the text of the Gospel in hand.” —Robert Louis Wilken
In this book distinguished theologian Michael Buckley meditates on fourteen key personal questions that Jesus asks in the Gospel of John— such questions as “What do you seek?” “Do you know what I have done to you?” “How can you believe?” “Do you take offense at this?” “Do you love me?”
University of Virginia
“Hart gives us not only a wonderful study of several key themes in the Gospel of John but also a very accessible reading of Scripture in company with the ancient church. . . . Here we have a contemporary example of how to read the Scriptures on their own terms, not just for the sake of gaining thoughts and ideas but for a life-giving encounter with the one to whom they bear witness.” —Rodney A. Whitacre Trinity School for Ministry
Addison Hodges Hart is a retired pastor and college chaplain presently living in Norway. He is also the author of The Ox-Herder and the Good Shepherd, Taking Jesus at His Word, and The Yoke of Jesus.
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“Michael Buckley’s lovely little book of meditations on the life of Jesus drips with his life’s scholarly learning, but with such a light touch that the reader is drawn ever more deeply into the question with which the book opens: What do you seek? This is a modern classic in the Ignatian tradition—accessible, memorable, and profound.” —Sarah Coakley University of Cambridge
Michael J. Buckley, SJ, is Bea Professor of Theology Emeritus at Santa Clara University, having previously taught philosophical theology at Boston College, the University of Notre Dame, and the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. Among his other books is At the Origins of Modern Atheism.
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Wisdom’s Feast An Invitation to Feminist Interpretation of the Scriptures Barbara E. Reid
Brite Divinity School
“Attentive to issues of gender, race, ability, and class, aware of the earth and all who inhabit it, historically informed and pastorally relevant, Barbara Reid’s volume provides readers—especially those who have been hurt by uninformed interpretations that seek to limit the divine word and that offer cold judgment rather than warm compassion—with essential sustenance.” —Amy-Jill Levine Vanderbilt University
“A feast indeed! A sumptuous sampling of feminist exegetical insights served up with simple elegance by a consummate scholar. I know of no wiser guide through the challenges and delights of feminist biblical criticism than Barbara Reid. This book is as fine an introduction to the topic as anyone could hope to find.” —F. Scott Spencer author of Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows: Capable Women of Purpose and Persistence in Luke’s Gospel
Barbara E. Reid is vice president, academic dean, and professor of New Testament studies at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. Her previous books include Taking Up the Cross: New Testament Interpretation through Latina and Feminist Eyes.
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In this volume thirteen respected scholars explore the relationship between the Mosaic law and early Christian ethics, examining early Christian appropriation of the Torah and looking at ways in which the law continued to serve as an ethical reference point for Christbelievers—whether or not they thought Torah observance was essential. Posing a unified set of questions to a diverse range of texts, Torah Ethics and Early Christian Identity will stimulate new thinking about a complex phenomenon commonly overlooked by scholars and church leaders alike. “The question of the relationship between the early Christians and the law of Moses is notoriously complex. Does Christ replace the law? And if he does, in what sense does the law serve as a positive reference point for believers in Christ? Specifically, does the Mosaic law provide a moral compass for the early Christians? Torah Ethics and Early Christian Identity tackles these questions in a remarkably comprehensive manner, taking careful note of the relevant background in early Judaism as well as the development of New Testament ideas in selected church fathers. An incisive treatment of a matter that is of considerable historical, theological, and ethical importance.” —Brian S. Rosner Ridley College
Contributors S. A. Cummins, Terence L. Donaldson. Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Richard B. Hays, John W. Martens, Scot McKnight, David M. Miller, Wesley G. Olmstead, Adele Reinhartz, Anders Runesson, Susan J. Wendel, Stephen Westerholm, Peter Widdicombe. Susan J. Wendel is associate professor of New Testament at Briercrest College and Seminary, Caronport, Saskatchewan.
Essays on Christology, Creation, and Eschatology in Honor of Richard Bauckham Edited by Daniel M. Gurtner, Grant Macaskill, and Jonathan T. Pennington In this volume some of the most eminent figures in modern biblical and theological scholarship present essays honoring Bauckham. Addressing a variety of subjects related to Christology, creation, and eschatology, the contributors develop elements of Bauckham’s biblical and theological work further, present fresh research of their own to complement his work, and raise critical questions. Contributors Philip Alexander, Jeremy S. Begbie, David Brown, James R. Davila, James D. G. Dunn, Philip F. Esler, Daniel M. Gurtner, Trevor Hart, Larry W. Hurtado, Bruce W. Longenecker, Grant Macaskill, Sean M. McDonough, Jürgen Moltmann, Micheal O’Siadhail, Jonathan T. Pennington, N. T. Wright.
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“This is the best available user-friendly guide for reading the Bible from a feminist perspective—helpful for study groups, individuals, or anyone seriously interested in reading the Bible inclusively. From creation stories to Gospel women to images of new life, there is clear and reliable interpretation here.” —Carolyn Osiek, RSCJ
Susan J. Wendel and David M. Miller
In the Fullness of Time
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Woman Wisdom in Proverbs 9 invites any who want to learn her ways to come and eat at her table—an image for the rich and satisfying teaching that she offers. In this book Barbara Reid invites readers to this feast, drawing on women’s wisdom to provide a smorgasbord of new perspectives on familiar biblical passages.
Torah Ethics and Early Christian Identity
Daniel M. Gurtner is the Ernest and Mildred Hogan Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. Grant Macaskill holds the Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Jonathan T. Pennington is associate professor of New Testament at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.
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David M. Miller is associate professor of New Testament and Early Judaism at Briercrest College and Seminary.
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Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel
Scriptures and Sectarianism
The Offering of the Gentiles
Narrative Approaches to Seventy Figures in John
Essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls
Paul’s Collection for Jerusalem in Its Chronological, Cultural, and Cultic Contexts
Steven A. Hunt, D. Francois Tolmie, and Ruben Zimmermann, editors
John J. Collins Writings representing ten years of John J. Collins’s expert reflection on Scripture and the Qumran community are here collected in a volume that is sure to be of interest to students and scholars of early Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Foreword by Craig R. Koester Using various narrative approaches and methodologies, an international team of forty-four Johannine scholars in this volume offers sixtyfour essays related to individual characters and group characters in the Gospel of John. With essays that present fresh perspectives on characters who play a major role in the Gospel—Peter, Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman, Thomas, and many others—as well as original studies of characters who have never before been the focus of narrative analysis—the men of the Samaritan Woman, the boy with the loaves and fishes, Barabbas, and more—this book sheds new light on how complex and nuanced many of these characters are, even as they stand in the shadow of Jesus. Readers of this volume will be challenged to consider the Gospel of John anew. “This collection of studies of John’s characters builds on the wealth of literary studies of the Gospel that have been done in recent decades, offering the best in recent scholarship. At the same time the studies are accessible, inviting a broad range of current readers to consider one of the most intriguing aspects of John’s narrative—its portrayal of the people whose lives are somehow intertwined with that of Jesus. . . . Valuable for scholars, teachers, and preachers, all of whom face the challenge of reading the text in fresh and stimulating ways.” —Craig R. Koester from the foreword
Steven A. Hunt is professor of New Testament studies at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts. D. Francois Tolmie is professor of New Testament studies at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Ruben Zimmermann is professor of New Testament studies at the Johannes GutenbergUniversity of Mainz, Germany.
Contents 1. Introduction: What Have We Learned from the Dead Sea Scrolls? Part 1: Scripture and Interpretation 2. The Transformation of the Torah in Second Temple Judaism 3. Changing Scripture 4. Tradition and Innovation in the Dead Sea Scrolls 5. The Interpretation of Genesis in the Dead Sea Scrolls 6. The Interpretation of Psalm 2 7. The Book of Daniel and the Dead Sea Scrolls Part 2: History and Sectarianism 8. Historiography in the Dead Sea Scrolls 9. Reading for History in the Dead Sea Scrolls 10. “Enochic Judaism” and the Sect of the Dead Sea Scrolls 11. Sectarian Consciousness in the Dead Sea Scrolls Part 3: The Sectarian Worldview 12. Covenant and Dualism in the Dead Sea Scrolls 13. The Angelic Life 14. The Essenes and the Afterlife 15. Prayer and the Meaning of Ritual in the Dead Sea Scrolls 16. The Eschatologizing of Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls Epilogue 17. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament: The Case of the Suffering Servant
John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School and a recognized expert in early Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls. His other works include The Scepter and the Star, The Apocalyptic Imagination, and (with Daniel C. Harlow) The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism.
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David J. Downs Foreword by Beverly Roberts Gaventa The monetary fund that the apostle Paul organized among his Gentile congregations for the Jewish-Christian community in Jerusalem was clearly an important endeavor to Paul; discussion of it occupies several prominent passages in his letters. In this book David Downs carefully investigates that offering from historical, sociocultural, and theological standpoints. Downs first pieces together a chronological account of Paul’s fund-raising efforts on behalf of the Jerusalem church, based primarily on information from the Pauline epistles. He then examines the sociocultural context of the collection, including gift-giving practices in the ancient Mediterranean world relating to benefaction and care for the poor. Finally, Downs explores how Paul framed this contribution rhetorically as a religious offering consecrated to God. “Erudite and convincing, this book is the new touchpoint for future research on Paul’s collection for the Jerusalem church.” —Richard S. Ascough in Religious Studies Review
“David Downs’s book on the place of the collection in Paul’s letters will make it exceedingly difficult to maintain [the common] bifurcation between Paul’s spiritual message and his physical concerns. . . . The Offering of the Gentiles is a challenge to all readers of Paul to understand the holistic character of his message.” —Beverly Roberts Gaventa (from foreword) David J. Downs is associate professor of New Testament studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. He is also the author of Alms: Charity, Reward, and Atonement in Early Christianity.
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Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews
The Myth of Rebellious Angels
Political Trauma and Healing
John M. G. Barclay
Studies in Second Temple Judaism and New Testament Texts
Biblical Ethics for a Postcolonial World
Foreword by David G. Horrell
—Simon Gathercole in Ecclesiology “Barclay is one of the premier New Testament scholars of our generation, and this compilation of his essays in one monograph makes an excellent scholarly contribution.” —Joshua W. Jipp in Themelios “The fruit of twenty years of diligent, careful, indeed seminal scholarship by one of the major voices in the present-day field of Pauline studies. . . . An excellent volume.” —Michael J. Lakey in Journal for the Study of New Testament John M. G. Barclay is Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at Durham University, England. His other books include Obeying the Truth: Paul’s Ethics in Galatians and Paul and the Gift.
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“As one would expect from Stuckenbruck, the studies in this volume are carefully considered, thoroughly researched, and salutary for comprehending early Jewish and Christian literature.”
“In impressive interdisciplinary fashion, Brett argues that the Christian Scripture can constructively engage today’s postcolonial and ecological realities. The Priestly tradition and other like-minded imaginaries, he contends, reflect an anti-imperial perspective among the diverse voices within the Hebrew Bible and provide faith communities with the theological tools for humble participation in the public square. Some may not agree with aspects of Brett’s biblical reconstruction, but none can ignore his weighty call to deal responsibly with Christendom’s colonial legacy and to offer a different way forward. A remarkable work!” —M. Daniel Carroll R. Wheaton College
“Addresses the tricky, complex work of restorative justice that is to be accomplished through dialogic engagement. Mark Brett brings to this task immense learning and personal engagement; the realities of colonial history and the prospect of postcolonial well-being permeate his study. . . . Nothing less than a tour de force.” —Walter Brueggemann Columbia Theological Seminary
—Review of Biblical Literature Loren T. Stuckenbruck is professor of New Testament and Second Temple Judaism at the University of Munich. His previous books include 1 Enoch 91–108 and The Fall of the Angels.
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“John Barclay has for some years been one of the world’s leading New Testament scholars. He has combined in his work an extensive knowledge of the Jewish and pagan environment of the New Testament authors, a keen theoretical awareness, and careful historical analysis of Paul. . . . Barclay’s careful historical and exegetical work together with its often immediate theological payoff makes his work widely applicable.”
The mythical story of fallen angels preserved in 1 Enoch and related literature was profoundly influential during the Second Temple period. In this volume renowned scholar Loren Stuckenbruck demonstrates how the myth was used and adapted to address new religious and cultural contexts. Stuckenbruck considers themes as varied as demonology, giants, exorcism, petitionary prayer, the birth and activity of Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the conversion of Gentiles, “apocalyptic” and the understanding of time, and more. He also offers a theological framework for the myth of fallen angels through which to reconsider several New Testament texts—the Synoptic Gospels, the Gospel of John, Acts, Paul’s letters, and Revelation.
Mark G. Brett
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For the past twenty years, John Barclay has researched and written on the social history of early Christians and the life of Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora. In this collection of nineteen noteworthy essays, he examines points of comparison between the early churches and the Diaspora synagogues in the urban Roman world of the first century. With an eye to such matters as food, family, money, circumcision, Spirit, age, and death, Barclay examines key Pauline texts, the writings of Josephus, and other sources, investigating the construction of early Christian identity and comparing the experience of Paul’s churches with that of Diaspora Jewish communities scattered throughout the Roman Empire.
Loren Stuckenbruck
Mark G. Brett is professor of Old Testament at Whitley College, University of Divinity, Melbourne. He is also the author of Decolonizing God: The Bible in the Tides of Empire and Genesis: Procreation and the Politics of Identity.
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James Dunn’s magisterial trilogy now complete! Neither Jew nor Greek A Contested Identity Christianity in the Making, volume 3
James D. G. Dunn “Here we have on full display the distilled fruits of decades of research and engagement by a mature scholar of the first rank. Dunn engages a vast range of secondary and primary literature in a way that only a senior scholar can do.” —Craig S. Keener 978-0-8028-3933-6 / hardcover / 960 pages / $60.00 [£40.99]
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The Acts of the Apostles
1 Samuel as Christian Scripture
James D. G. Dunn
A Theological Commentary
Foreword by Scot McKnight
Stephen B. Chapman
This commentary on the book of Acts by James Dunn, originally published in 1996, first takes the reader through questions of authorship, audience, date, purpose, and literary structure. Dunn also considers the kind of history writing that we find in the narrative of Acts, delineates the book’s theological teaching, and offers bibliographic comments on sources and selected studies, including work published between 1996 and 2016. The commentary as a whole provides the information and perspective necessary for reading to best effect what Dunn believes is the most exciting book in the New Testament.
In this robustly theological and explicitly Christian reading of 1 Samuel, Stephen Chapman reveals the theological drama at the heart of that biblical book as it probes the tension between civil religion and vital religious faith through the characters of Saul and David. “Many people talk about theological interpretation of the Old Testament as Christian Scripture, but Stephen Chapman does it—with style and a beautiful pen—and makes it look easy. Rarely have I been so moved, informed, and delighted as I was in reading this book. Chapman’s exposition of 1 Samuel as treating the threat that civil religion poses to genuine heart piety, his negotiation of matters historical and literary and theological, and his bibliography (is there anything he hasn’t read?) are simply remarkable. And his christological reading of the tragedy of King Saul? Absolutely stunning.” —Brent A. Strawn
“In this little commentary by Dunn you have insight, measured judgment about history and theology and context, and suggestions that take the preacher to the heart of what the book of Acts can mean for us today. I always begin any study of any passage in the book of Acts by pulling out Jimmy’s commentary. I go to others when I’m done, but often enough I get all I need in Dunn.” —Scot McKnight (from the foreword)
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James D. G. Dunn is Lightfoot Professor Emeritus of Divinity at Durham University, England, and one of the foremost New Testament scholars in the world today. His many other books include the New International Greek Testament Commentary volume on Colossians and Philemon, The Oral Gospel Tradition, The Theology of Paul the Apostle, and the Christianity in the Making trilogy.
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“Informed by astonishingly wide learning, Chapman has produced a sophisticated theological reading of 1 Samuel that is deeply attuned to the literary dimensions of the text but also responsible to the highest canons of historical-critical scholarship.” — Joel S. Kaminsky Smith College
Stephen B. Chapman is associate professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School, director of graduate studies in religion at Duke University, and an ordained American Baptist minister.
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Discovering Biblical Texts
Discovering Romans
Discovering Genesis
Content, Interpretation, Reception
Content, Interpretation, Reception
Anthony C. Thiselton
Iain Provan “Good scholarship, deep theology, and alertness to the issues that occupy us today. . . . Thiselton’s rich, multifaceted engagement with Paul’s most influential letter is a tour de force.” —David F. Ford
“A welcome and masterful presentation of how Genesis has been interpreted through the ages. Be prepared to have your mind stimulated by expanded views of hermeneutics and a close reading of the text.”
University of Cambridge
—John Walton
“Anthony Thiselton has provided perhaps the easiest and quickest access to the issues in the letter to Romans and to the relevant scholarship and trends concerning the letter. Few people have the ability to demonstrate the contribution and relevance of the tradition of Romans interpreters throughout the church’s history the way Thiselton can.”
Wheaton College
“Provan offers his readers a sweeping, succinct, accessible, and sometimes iconoclastic assessment of the history of interpretation of Genesis, a section-bysection rehearsal of its major interpretive challenges, and a deeper understanding of Genesis as theology.” —Peter Enns Eastern University
—Klyne Snodgrass North Park Theological Seminary
Anthony C. Thiselton is professor emeritus of Christian theology at the University of Nottingham, England.
Iain Provan is Marshall Sheppard Professor of Biblical Studies at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia.
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The Forms of the Old Testament Literature Rolf P. Knierim, Gene M. Tucker, and Marvin A. Sweeney, series editors
The Two Horizons New Testament Commentary Robert W. Wall and Stephen E. Fowl, series editors
Revelation
Isaiah 40–66
Andy Johnson
Marvin A. Sweeney
John Christopher Thomas and Frank D. Macchia
“Andy Johnson has written an extraordinary commentary on the Thessalonian letters from the perspective of their missional dynamic and purpose. It is at once exegetically perceptive, theologically rich, and missionally insightful. Johnson’s volume will assist all those who read it both to better understand this early Pauline correspondence and, if they so desire, to participate more fully in the mission of the Triune God to which these texts bear eloquent witness. A landmark contribution to the commentary genre.” —Michael J. Gorman
“From Marvin Sweeney’s capacious mind and diligent pen comes another remarkable volume. Detailed, clear, and thought-provoking, Sweeney’s Isaiah 40–66 complements his 1996 FOTL volume on Isaiah 1–39 and extends the passion for reading Isaiah well that has been the hallmark not only of Sweeney himself but also of a generation of his colleagues and students. Genre and redaction studies such as this one, especially when paired with the empathetic imagination that Sweeney brings, are exceptionally welcome for anyone wishing to understand Isaiah’s complex book.” —Patricia K. Tull Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
“This work provides a cutting-edge form-critical study of Isaiah 40–66 for the twenty-first century. Building on and linking to Sweeney’s important commentary on Isaiah 1–39, this treatment reads major blocks of Isaiah 40–66 in relation to different stages of Judah’s exile and restoration and in relation to the structure of the book as a whole.” —David Carr Union Theological Seminary in New York
“Sweeney has once again demonstrated his redactional and form-critical acumen in examining the component parts relating to the synchronic literary structure of Isaiah 40–66.” — Shalom Paul Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Marvin A. Sweeney is professor of Hebrew Bible at Claremont School of Theology and professor of Tanak (Bible) at the Academy for Jewish Religion, California. His previous books include the FOTL volume on Isaiah 1–39 and Tanak: A Theological and Critical Introduction to the Jewish Bible.
St. Mary’s Seminary & University
“This splendid commentary on 1 and 2 Thessalonians not only contributes to our understanding of these letters but also serves as a benchmark example of the practice of missional hermeneutics.” —John R. Franke The Gospel and Our Culture Network
“If I were asked to teach a class on 1 and 2 Thessalonians, I would do it with the Bible in one hand and this commentary in the other! With sane and meticulous attention to exegetical detail, Johnson is clear about what he believes to be the thrust of Paul’s message in these letters, and he offers his interpretation with a gracious spirit.” —George R. Hunsberger Western Theological Seminary
Andy Johnson is professor of New Testament at Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri, and coeditor of Holiness and Ecclesiology in the New Testament.
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Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
“An evocative, provocative theological commentary of first rank. Chris Thomas’s fine commentary is informed not only by his fluent reading of the sacred text and its many interpreters but also by his deep commitment to God’s people, especially of the Pentecostal communion. Frank Macchia’s complementary theological reflections are remarkable for their breadth and incisiveness in reading the church’s Scripture and tradition. Theirs is an intellectual achievement for the academy and a magisterial gift to the church.” —Robert W. Wall Seattle Pacific University and Seminary
John Christopher Thomas is Clarence J. Abbott Professor of Biblical Studies at Pentecostal Theological Seminary, Cleveland, Tennessee, and director of the Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies at Bangor University, Bangor, Wales. Frank D. Macchia is professor of systematic and Pentecostal theology at Vanguard University, Costa Mesa, California, and associate director of the Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies at Bangor University.
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“This is a welcome addition to recent literature on Revelation. It offers a multidimensional perspective on the book that gives special attention to its literary character and theological dimensions. By bringing the perspectives of a biblical scholar and a systematic theologian together, the commentary serves as an invitation for others to join in the dialogue about the interpretation and significance of Revelation’s visionary text.” —Craig Koester
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1 & 2 Thessalonians
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Doubt, Faith, and Certainty
T H E O L O G Y
Anthony C. Thiselton
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In this book celebrated theologian Anthony Thiselton provides clarity on three complicated and long-misunderstood theological concepts that raise urgent practical, pastoral problems for Christians: doubt, faith, and certainty. According to Thiselton, doubt is not always bad, faith can have different meanings in different circumstances, and certainty is fragile. Drawing on his expertise in the fields of exegesis and hermeneutics, biblical studies, and the history of Christian thought, Thiselton works his way through the labyrinth of past definitions while offering better, more nuanced theological understandings of doubt, faith, and certainty. The result is a book that speaks profoundly to existential concerns. Contents 1. The Various Meanings of Doubt, Faith, and Certainty Part 1: The Various Meanings of Doubt 2. Doubt and Skepticism 3. Doubt and Belief Part 2: The Various Meanings of Faith 4. Faith as Belief or Faith as Trust? 5. Faith, Reason, and Argument in Biblical and Modern Thought Part 3: The Various Meanings of Certainty 6. Differing Concepts and Contexts of Certainty 7. Three Approaches to Certainty, Illusory or Genuine 8. Eschatological Certainty and the Holy Spirit
Anthony C. Thiselton is professor emeritus of Christian theology at the University of Nottingham, England. His many other books include A Shorter Guide to the Holy Spirit, Systematic Theology, and Life after Death: A New Approach to the Last Things.
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Canonical Theology
Spirit and Salvation
The Biblical Canon, Sola Scriptura, and Theological Method
A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World
John C. Peckham
Volume 4
Foreword by Craig G. Bartholomew
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
What are the roles of canon and community in the elaboration and articulation of Christian doctrine? Should the church be the doctrinal arbiter in the twenty-first century? In Canonical Theology John Peckham tackles this complex, ongoing discussion by shedding light on issues surrounding the biblical canon and the role of the community for theology and practice. Peckham examines the nature of the biblical canon, the proper relationship of Scripture and tradition, and the interpretation and application of Scripture for theology. He lays out a compelling canonical approach to systematic theology—including an explanation of his method, a step-bystep account of how to practice it, and an example of what theology derived from this canonical approach looks like.
This fourth volume in Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s ambitious five-volume systematic theology develops a constructive Christian pneumatology and soteriology in dialogue with the diverse global Christian tradition and with other major living faiths—Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
“Peckham has written what is perhaps the best account to date of what ‘canonical theology’ ought to mean and why it matters.” —Kevin J. Vanhoozer Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
“Peckham takes hold of what I argue is one of the most pressing issues facing the church today, and does so clearly, with a refreshing and astonishingly wide range of engagement, pushing toward the conclusion that Scripture is intrinsically authoritative as the Word of God.” —Craig G. Bartholomew from the foreword
John C. Peckham is associate professor of theology and Christian philosophy at the Theological Seminary of Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan. He is also the author of The Love of God: A Canonical Model.
978-0-8028-7330-9 / paperback / 309 pages $35.00 [£24.99] / November
Praise for previous volumes “Extraordinary. . . . Kärkkäinen’s awareness of contemporary issues and vast learning make this volume a necessity for any scholar or Christian leader.” —Choice “With awe and admiration readers of this comprehensive and lucid book will no doubt link its author’s name with Thomas, Calvin, Barth, Moltmann, and other theological luminaries. After the completion of Kärkkäinen’s five-volume project, theology will not be the same.” —Peter Phan Georgetown University
“Kärkkäinen’s systematic theology, while firmly rooted in the evangelical theological tradition, is wonderfully and warmly ecumenical, frankly Christian but still open to the insights and practices of other religious ways, and widely inclusive of Christian thinkers from all contexts and cultures. This is a new kind of theologizing, one done in a postmodern key yet remaining faithful to the treasures of our premodern and modern past. Kärkkäinen’s breadth of scholarship is amazing.” —Stephan Bevans, SVD Catholic Theological Union, Chicago
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen is professor of systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary and docent of ecumenics at the University of Helsinki. His other books include Christ and Reconciliation, Trinity and Revelation, and Creation and Humanity, which together comprise the first three volumes of A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World.
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Heavenly Bodies
Bible, Doctrine, Experience
Incarnation, the Gaze, and Embodiment in Christian Theology
Anthony C. Thiselton
Ola Sigurdson
Anthony Thiselton’s comprehensive study The Holy Spirit—In Biblical Teaching, through the Centuries, and Today was published to wide acclaim in 2013 and received a 2014 Christianity Today Book Award. This shorter volume makes Thiselton’s vast biblical-theological knowledge and brilliant insight more accessible to more readers.
“This book has needed to be written for a long time now—a philosophically robust, historically informed, yet genuinely theological account of human embodiment. Ola Sigurdson offers us a gripping account of how the Christian confession of Christ’s incarnation and our embodied condition reciprocally illumine each other. Masterful.” —Brian Brock
“A lucid introduction to the doctrine of the Holy Spirit by one of the leading biblical exegetes and theologians of our time. . . . The magisterial way in which Thiselton integrates engagement not only with the biblical and theological material but also with the current issues and debates in the church makes this resource invaluable for students and interested laypeople alike. Very highly recommended!”
University of Aberdeen
“Sigurdson’s impressive study offers compelling insights into our attempts to relate to our own complex embodiment as persons, communities, churches, and humanity. Seeing the body as the medium of communication for God’s presence, Sigurdson presents a critical and superbly readable reexamination of Christian experiences and concepts of the body— human, divine, and incarnate.”
—Alan J. Torrance University of St. Andrews
“This wonderful book on the Holy Spirit is concise yet expansive in its range of issues and its choice of dialogue partners. Ideal for use in the classroom, but also sure to be of interest to the pastor and the scholar. A rare accomplishment.” —Frank D. Macchia Vanguard University
Anthony C. Thiselton is professor emeritus of Christian theology at the University of Nottingham, England.
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—Werner G. Jeanrond University of Oxford
T H E O L O G Y
A Shorter Guide to the Holy Spirit
Ola Sigurdson is professor of systematic theology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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The Spirit over the Earth Pneumatology in the Majority World Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, and K. K. Yeo, editors
Jesus as Healer
In this third volume of the Majority World Theology series, nine scholars reflect deeply on the role of the Holy Spirit in both the church and the world from African, Asian, and Latin American perspectives.
A Gospel for the Body Jan-Olav Henriksen and Karl Olav Sandnes In this book Jan-Olav Henriksen and Karl Olav Sandnes draw on both contemporary systematic theology and New Testament scholarship to constructively consider what it can mean for Christian theology today to understand Jesus as a healer, to embrace fully the embodied character of the Christian faith, and to recognize the many ways in which God can still be seen to have a healing presence in the world. “This book is an example of fine scholarship at its very best: two erudite scholars from different disciplines—New Testament studies and philosophical theology—combine their talents in a joint work on Jesus’ healing ministry and its significance for contemporary theology. . . . A fascinating and richly diverse text.” —Celia Deane-Drummond
Contents Introduction: The Spirit over the Earth: Pneumatology in the Majority World Gene L. Green 1. I Believe in the Holy Spirit: From the Ends of the Earth to the Ends of Time Amos Yong 2. The Spirit Blows Where It Wills: The Holy Spirit’s Personhood in Indian Christian Thought Ivan Satyavrata 3. Redefining Relationships: The Role of the Spirit in Romans and Its Significance in a Multiethnic Context of India Zakali Shohe
4. Pauline Pneumatology and the Chinese Rites: Spirit and Culture in the Holy See’s Missionary Strategy Wei Hua 5. Pneumatology: Its Implications for the African Context Samuel M. Ngewa 6. Who Is the Holy Spirit in Contem porary African Christianity? David Tonghou Ngong 7. In Search of Indigenous Pneuma tologies in the Americas Oscar García-Johnson 8. The Holy Spirit: Power for Life and Hope C. René Padilla
Gene L. Green is professor of New Testament at Wheaton College and Graduate School. Stephen T. Pardue is assistant professor of theology at Asia Graduate School of Theology in the Philippines. K. K. Yeo is Kendall Professor of New Testament at GarrettEvangelical Theological Seminary.
University of Notre Dame
Jan-Olav Henriksen is professor of systematic theology and philosophy of religion at Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo, Norway.
978-0-8028-7273-9 / paperback / 175 pages $20.00 [£14.99] / December
Karl Olav Sandnes is professor of New Testament at Norwegian School of Theology.
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Time and the Word Figural Reading of the Christian Scriptures
T H E O L O G Y
Ephraim Radner
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“Who is more qualified than Ephraim Radner to reclaim the patristic practice of figural interpretation for today’s church? Radner recognizes that the first task in doing so is to reset historical criticism’s discourse, which typically treats figural reading as an artifact of antiquity, an inappropriate approach to Scripture for the modern-minded. . . . This is a highly original, intellectually rigorous, fearless book written by a scholar of the church for the academy.” —Robert W. Wall Seattle Pacific University and Seminary
“Ephraim Radner, whose significance and brilliance in contemporary Anglicanism becomes ever more apparent, here deepens and develops his proposal for the right reading of Scripture as rooted in a right reading of God—the Creator God who in Christ shows himself to be utterly sovereign over created time. . . . The range of Radner’s reading is dazzling, as is his re-visioning of the doctrine of the divine ideas to insist that Christians must read and live history figurally, through the eternal Word manifested in Scripture as Love.” —Matthew Levering Mundelein Seminary
“Time and the Word reflects the hard-won realization that the church’s very life depends on the figural interpretation of the Bible. Radner’s substantive theological account of Scripture is both creatively traditional and truly new, and it serves as a welcome corrective to much Protestant hermeneutics and modern biblical criticism. . . . An important response to the pressing question of what it means to read, interpret, preach, and pray with the Christian Scriptures faithfully.” —Christopher A. Beeley Yale Divinity School
Ephraim Radner is professor of historical theology at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, and an ordained Anglican priest active in ecumenical affairs. His other books include The End of the Church: A Pneumatology of Christian Division in the West and A Brutal Unity: The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church.
978-0-8028-7220-3 / hardcover / 334 pages $50.00 [£35.99] / October
Today When You Hear His Voice
Christ’s Descent into Hell
Scripture, the Covenants, and the People of God
John Paul II, Joseph Ratzinger, and Hans Urs von Balthasar on the Theology of Holy Saturday
Gregory W. Lee
Lyra Pitstick
“Greg Lee here makes a significant integrative contribution to discussions about the theological interpretation of Scripture by comparing and contrasting three Christian readings of the Old Testament: Augustine, Calvin, and the Epistle to the Hebrews. The result is an important proposal about biblical authority and interpretation that carries considerable ecumenical and interdisciplinary promise. Lee’s suggestion regarding the literal sense allows Protestants to lie down with Roman Catholics, and systematic theologians with biblical exegetes.” —Kevin Vanhoozer Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
“Operating within the assumptions of the Christian faith, Gregory Lee expounds the content, the character, the authority, and the functions of Scripture in such ways as to furnish in one magnificent volume both a history of biblical interpretation and an incisive systematic theology.” —Geoffrey Wainwright Duke Divinity School
“A fascinating study at the intersection of biblical exegesis, historical interpretation, and constructive theology. . . . Lee presents a novel and exciting proposal for how Hebrews might inform contemporary theological reflection on the unity of the canon and the ways the living God continues to speak through Scripture.” —David M. Moffitt University of St. Andrews
“Marvelous. . . . This audacious book operates on many levels—Lee’s criticisms of Augustine will in themselves provoke fruitful debate—but its most enduring contribution will surely be its eye-opening insistence that the church must relearn from Hebrews how to hear God’s scriptural voice.” —Matthew Levering Mundelein Seminary
Gregory W. Lee is assistant professor of theology at Wheaton College and senior fellow for the Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies.
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Pope John Paul II and Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI) both held Hans Urs von Balthasar in high regard. Many assume that their praise of Balthasar indicates approval of his controversial theology of Holy Saturday, but this book by Lyra Pitstick shows that conclusion to be far from accurate. Pitstick looks at what John Paul II, Ratzinger, and Balthasar have in fact said regarding the creedal affirmation that Christ “descended into hell,” and she shows that there are radical differences in their views. She then addresses a number of important questions that follow from these differences. This careful, concise exploration of what three of the twentieth century’s most famous Catholic theologians had to say about Christ’s descent into hell provides an accessible take on a difficult point of theological debate. “The truth that Christ ‘descended into hell’ to crush the powers of evil and to lead into heaven those who had died longing for Him is weak in the consciousness of many modern Western Christians, and into this vacuum have come theologies of the descent such as Balthasar’s. . . . Lyra Pitstick’s work is extraordinarily timely, since she firmly lays to rest any claims that, on this issue, Balthasar had the agreement of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Her work is both accurate and supportive of authentic devotion.” —Richard Conrad, OP Aquinas Institute, Blackfriars, Oxford
“Pitstick’s work is an excellent exercise of theological method, faithful to Christian revelation as transmitted by the Magisterium and elaborated in a clear, critical, systematic way.” —Manfred Hauke University of Lugano, Switzerland
Lyra Pitstick holds a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome. She won a John Templeton Award for Theological Promise for her previous book on Balthasar, Light in Darkness: Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Catholic Doctrine of Christ’s Descent into Hell.
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A Theology of Grace in Six Controversies
Ecce Homo
Edward T. Oakes, SJ
Aaron Riches
Foreword by Robert Barron
Foreword by Rowan Williams
Cultivating a Contemporary Theology of Creation
Few topics in theology over the centuries have been debated as much as grace. In this book Edward Oakes shows that controversies clarify issues, as he works through six central historical debates on nature and grace, including sin and justification, evolution and original sin, and free will and predestination.
“By far the most novel, scholarly, and consequent contribution to Christology of recent times.”
David Vincent Meconi, SJ, editor
—Matthew Levering Mundelein Seminary
“Fr. Edward Oakes will be remembered as one of the finest American Catholic theologians of his generation. With A Theology of Grace in Six Controversies, he has given the church and contemporary theology a final offering—a work as daring as it is faithful, as provocative as it is irenic, as creative as it is traditional. This book promises to change the terms of the question concerning the relation of nature and grace. A must-read for anyone interested in contemporary theology.” —Aaron Riches Seminario Mayor San Cecilio
Edward T. Oakes, SJ (1948–2013) was associate professor of systematic theology at the University of St. Mary of the Lake / Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois, and a longtime member of Catholics and Evangelicals Together. His other books include Pattern of Redemption: The Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Infinity Dwindled to Infancy: A Catholic and Evangelical Christology.
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—John Milbank University of Nottingham
“This book, in a way that is all too rare today, unites genuinely historical and theological study. Contemporary scholarship tends to separate the man Jesus from the divine Word and, consequently, to banish the divine from the created realm. Aaron Riches shows us, instead, how to understand—boldly, coherently, and consistently—the paradox of the one Lord Jesus Christ. . . . An insightful, stimulating, and often provocative presentation of the person of Christ for today.” —John Behr St. Vladimir’s Seminary, New York
“Ecce Homo: On the Divine Unity of Christ fulfills a need for a readable, philosophically wellinformed Christology. Perceiving that the great temptation of modern Christians is to imagine Jesus as so very nice that he was just about God, Riches shows how the Christian tradition has envisaged Jesus as so profoundly divine that he was able to enter human nature and transform it. . . . This book is a milestone for Christology in the twenty-first century.” —Francesca Murphy University of Notre Dame
“A remarkable achievement. This book brings to life the great Christological themes of the later Patristic period, which are often buried under the weight of their technical terminology. Aaron Riches shows how the tradition shaped by Cyril of Alexandria, received in East and West, sheds light on the theological conversation today and leads us to a fuller and richer understanding of the mystery of Christ than do many modern approaches.” —Uwe Michael Lang Heythrop College, University of London
Aaron Riches is a joint faculty member of the Instituto de Filosofía Edith Stein and the Instituto de Teología Lumen Gentium in Granada, Spain, where he teaches theology at the Seminario Mayor San Cecilio.
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On Earth as It Is in Heaven
With the 2015 publication of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato Si’, many people of faith have found themselves challenged to seek new ways of addressing serious ecological questions—issues essential to the flourishing of all creatures and not just human beings. In this volume fifteen select scholars consider pressing contemporary environmental concerns through the lens of Catholic theology.
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“Deeply cultured, brilliant, and witty, Edward Oakes was an irreplaceable theologian. Reading Oakes, I always think that this is what it would have been like had Chesterton written the works of von Balthasar. One finds here a master of Christian apologetics drawing upon the full spectrum of the Christian tradition’s resources and delivering highly intellectual arguments in wonderfully accessible prose. Specialists and nonspecialists alike will relish this fitting last testament to grace from the pen of one of America’s greatest Jesuits.”
On the Divine Unity of Christ
Contributors and Topics Robert Louis Wilken on honoring centipedes and toads—and all of God’s created works Christopher J. Thompson on not reducing creatures to “resources” solely to be “used” Steven A. Long on understanding the created order as a participation in the divine, eternal law Marie George on human stewardship of creation as both kingship and kinship Matthew Levering on “be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth”—a good idea? Dawn M. Nothwehr, OSF on sustainability from a Franciscan perspective John A. Cuddeback on land use and household stewardship Faith Pawl on animal flourishing and suffering Paul M. Blowers on evolutionary theory and the promise of restoration for all creation Christopher A. Franks on Job, poverty, gratitude, and “a gentle life” Jonathan J. Sanford on how Aristotle and Maritain illuminate our obligation to care for creation Paige E. Hochschild on contemplating rather than dominating nature, building on Augustine and George Grant Chris Killheffer on how monastic sources help us rethink gluttony and its remedies David Vincent Meconi, SJ on the wonderful, awe filled interrelationship between creatures and their Creator Esther Mary Nickel, RSM on the liturgy as the space in which all creation is consecrated before the cross of Christ
David Vincent Meconi, SJ, is associate professor of historical theology at Saint Louis University. His previous books include The Cambridge Companion to Augustine and an annotated edition of Augustine’s Confessions.
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The Intolerable God
Christosis
Kant’s Theological Journey
Engaging Paul’s Soteriology with His Patristic Interpreters
The Theological Anthropology of David Kelsey
Ben C. Blackwell
Responses to Eccentric Existence
T H E O L O G Y
Christopher J. Insole
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The work of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is often regarded as having caused a crisis for theology and religion because it sets the limits of knowledge to what can be derived from experience. In The Intolerable God Christopher Insole challenges that assumption and argues that Kant believed in God but struggled intensely with theological questions. Drawing on a new wave of Kant research and texts from all periods of Kant’s thought— including some texts not previously translated—Insole recounts the drama of Kant’s intellectual and theological journey. He focuses on Kant’s lifelong concern with God, freedom, and happiness, relating these topics to Kant’s theory of knowledge and his shifting views about what metaphysics can achieve. “A rare, fresh, and masterful account of Kant’s theological development that engages the imagination and achieves lucidity without trampling over nuance. Christopher Insole has no interest in dominating his reader, writes with unpretentious grace, and never fails in charity. A model of Christian scholarship, this is a very fine book indeed.” —Nigel Biggar University of Oxford
“This is an astonishingly good book. How unfortunate for Kant not to have had Christopher Insole around during his lifetime! . . . Insole affords us the kind of fresh and startlingly new comprehension that will surprise and delight both seasoned Kant scholars and new explorers.” —Mark A. McIntosh Loyola University Chicago
“In this beautifully clear and engaging book, Christopher Insole provides an integrated account of the place of theology in Kant’s evolving thought. The result is a fascinating exploration of the idea in Kant that we can ‘neither resist nor tolerate’ the thought of God.” —Adrian Moore University of Oxford
Foreword by John M. G. Barclay This book by Ben Blackwell is a pioneering, nuanced study of salvation in Paul’s letters in light of patristic ideas about deification. Several recent biblical interpreters have characterized Paul’s soteriology as theosis, or deification, harking back to patristic interpretations of Paul. Critically evaluating that interpretation as he explores the anthropological dimension of Paul’s soteriology, Blackwell suggests that the language of christosis better describes Paul’s understanding of salvation since, for Paul, believers participate in the divine life by being conformed to Christ by the Spirit. Blackwell examines two major Greek patristic interpreters of Paul in particular (Irenaeus and Cyril of Alexandria), focuses on Paul’s soteriology expressed in Romans 8 and 2 Corinthians 3–5, and compares the patristic view of deification with Paul’s soteriology arising from the biblical texts, noting both substantial overlap and key differences. “Christosis is that rare work that succeeds as a work of exegesis and historical theology.” —Scott Hahn Franciscan University of Steubenville
“Blackwell’s well-considered philosophical grounding, illuminating analysis, judicious adaptation of previous typologies, clarifying charts, comprehensive knowledge of contemporary scholarship, and sensitivity to debates between East and West make for a compelling and exciting argument.” —Edith Humphrey Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
“More than a comparative study or an interesting exercise in reception history, Blackwell’s book challenges readers to contemplate more carefully what it might mean that ‘he became what we are in order to make us what he is himself.’ ” —Todd D. Still
Gene Outka, editor David Kelsey’s two-volume masterwork, Eccentric Existence: A Theological Anthropology, has been recognized as a major achievement, the culmination of decades of probing theological thought about what it means to be a human being in relationship with God. Ten distinguished scholars respond to and interact with Eccentric Existence in this book, celebrating both Kelsey and his landmark study with essays on theological anthropology as it relates to the Bible, Catholic tradition, theological education, and other subjects. Contents Editor’s Preface Gene Outka Methodological Choices in Kelsey’s Eccentric Existence John E. Thiel A Response to Eccentric Existence Charles M. Wood Humanity Before God; Thinking Through Scripture: Theological Anthropology and the Bible David F. Ford Eccentric Existence and the Catholic Tradition Cyril O’Regan Eccentric Ecclesiology Amy Plantinga Pauw A Trinitarian Grammar of Sin Joy Ann McDougall For God’s Own Sake: Eccentric Existence and the Theological Education Debate Barbara G. Wheeler and Edwin Chr. van Driel From Narrative to Performance? Shannon Craigo-Snell David H. Kelsey Publications and Presentations
Gene Outka is Dwight Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Christian Ethics at Yale University and author of several books, including Agape: An Ethical Analysis and God and the Moral Life: Conversations in the Augustinian Tradition.
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Christopher J. Insole is professor of philosophical theology and ethics at Durham University, England. Among his previous books is Kant and the Creation of Freedom: A Theological Problem.
Ben C. Blackwell is assistant professor of Christianity at Houston Baptist University.
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The Concept of Woman Volume III: The Search for Communion of Persons, 1500–2015 Sister Prudence Allen, R.S.M.
—Michele M. Schumacher, S.T.D. University of Fribourg
Sister Prudence Allen is the former chair of the philosophy department at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary, Denver, and a member of the Religious Sisters of Mercy in Alma, Michigan.
978-0-8028-6843-5 / paperback / 571 pages $55.00 [£39.99] / December
The Human Person in Philosophy, Science, and Theology
Stephen M. Barr
Thomas M. Crisp, Steven L. Porter, and Gregg A. Ten Elshof, editors
Both an accomplished theoretical physicist and a faithful Catholic, Stephen Barr addresses a wide range of questions about the relationship between science and religion in this book, providing a beautiful picture of how they can coexist in harmony. In his first essay, “Retelling the Story of Science,” Barr challenges the widely held idea that there is an inherent conflict between science and religion. He goes on to analyze such topics as the quantum creation of universes from nothing, the multiverse, the Intelligent Design movement, and the implications of neuroscience for the reality of the soul. Including responses to highly influential books by such figures as Edward O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, Francis Collins, Michael Behe, and Thomas Nagel, The Believing Scientist helpfully engages questions that often vex religious believers who wish to interact with the world of science.
Essays on Science and Religion
It is a widely held belief that human beings are both body and soul, and that our immaterial soul is distinct from our material body. But that traditional idea has been seriously questioned by much recent research in the brain sciences. In Neuroscience and the Soul fourteen distinguished scholars grapple with current debates about the existence and nature of the soul. Featuring a dialogical format, the book presents state-of-the-art work by leading philosophers and theologians—some arguing for the existence of the soul, others arguing against it—and then puts those scholars into conversation with critics of their views. Bringing philosophy, theology, and neuroscience together in this way brings to light new perspectives and advances the ongoing debate over body and soul. “This is a superb collection of outstanding essays and critical exchanges that will enrich the debate between dualist and materialist conceptions of persons. It is an exceptionally important work as the contributors each work to carefully engage each other and avoid the usual deliberated misunderstandings that can mar current philosophy of mind.” —Charles Taliaferro St. Olaf College
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“Stephen Barr’s work, well grounded in real science and informed by deep faith, is a bracing antidote to the bluster of the New Atheists and a major contribution to the renewal of Western culture.” —George Weigel
Contributors
Ethics and Public Policy Center
Robin Collins, John Cooper, Kevin Corcoran, Stewart Goetz, William Hasker, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Eric LaRock, Brian Lugioyo, J. P. Moreland, Timothy O’Connor, Jason Runyan, Kevin Sharpe, Daniel Speak, Richard Swinburne. Thomas M. Crisp is professor of philosophy at Biola University. Steven L. Porter is professor of theology and philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and at Rosemead School of Psychology. Gregg A. Ten Elshof is professor of philosophy at Biola University.
978-0-8028-7450-4 / paperback / 292 pages $38.00 [£27.99] / October
“These thoughtful and thought-provoking essays are a rich demonstration of both scientific expertise and religious conviction.” —Donald Cardinal Wuerl
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“These essays are a must-read for anyone who has wondered why we couldn’t or shouldn’t have both science and religion in our lives.”
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“With this final piece of her magnificent threevolume work, Prudence Allen has bequeathed a masterpiece of fine historical research and deft philosophical reasoning which is both timely and timeless. Destined to be a classic in philosophical anthropology, sexual ethics, and gender studies, The Concept of Woman III is also essential reading for those who wish to make their way through the crazed maze of gender politics today in view of a solid philosophical articulation of the differences and complementarity of the sexes. Future generations will join me in praising this monumental work.”
The Believing Scientist
P H I L O S O P H I C A L
The culmination of a lifetime’s scholarly work, this pioneering study by Sister Prudence Allen traces the concept of woman in relation to man in Western thought from ancient times to the present. In her third and final volume Allen covers the years 1500–2015, continuing her chronological approach to individual authors and also offering systematic arguments to defend certain philosophical positions over against others. Building on her work from Volumes I and II, Allen draws on four “communities of discourse”— Academic, Humanist, Religious, and Satirical—as she traces several recurring strands of sex and gender identity from the Renaissance to the present. Now complete, Allen’s magisterial study will be a valuable resource for scholars and students in the fields of women’s studies, philosophy, history, theology, literary studies, and political science.
Neuroscience and the Soul
—Stephen C. Meredith University of Chicago
Stephen M. Barr is professor of theoretical particle physics at the University of Delaware, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a member of the Academy of Catholic Theology. He is also the author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith.
978-0-8028-7370-5 / paperback / 232 pages $25.00 [£17.99] / November
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Justice as a Virtue
Now in paperback!
Kingdom Ethics
A Thomistic Perspective
Beyond the Abortion Wars
Following Jesus in Contemporary Context
“Thomas Aquinas,” says Jean Porter, “gets justice right.” In this book she shows that Aquinas offers us a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a personal virtue rather than predominantly a virtue of social institutions. Porter presents a thoughtful interpretation of Aquinas’s account of the complex virtue of justice as set forth in the Summa theologiae, focusing on his key claim that justice is a perfection of the will. Building on her interpretation of Aquinas on justice, Porter also develops a constructive expansion of his work, illuminating major aspects of Aquinas’s views and resolving tensions in his thought so as to draw out contemporary implications of his account of justice.
A Way Forward for a New Generation
David P. Gushee and Glen H. Stassen
“It is very difficult to bring a historical philosopher into dialogue with present-day philosophers without evident signs of strain. Jean Porter brings off this difficult feat with aplomb in Justice as a Virtue. She moves back and forth with ease between an exhaustive knowledge and penetrating interpretation of Thomas’s texts and the discussions taking place in philosophy today on the same and related topics. A very impressive achievement.”
“This accessible work may well transform the American abortion debate. Camosy gives full weight to both pro-choice feminist concerns and pro-life feminism.”
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Second Edition
Charles C. Camosy Foreword by Melinda Henneberger Originally published in hardcover in March 2015, this book by Charlie Camosy puts forth a timely take on the confused, polarized abortion debate in the US. “An important book that will healthily shake up both pro-life and prochoice readers by showing that, not only are we closer to each other than we thought, but there is a way, together, to walk out of the present political, social, religious, and legal stalemate within which we find ourselves.” —Ron Rolheiser, OMI
—Sidney Callahan “Many of us who support the right to abortion have challenged pro-lifers to put their money where their mouth is—on equal pay, pregnancy discrimination, parental leave, health care, and child care. Camosy here does all that and more.” —William Saletan
Yale University
“This is a must-read for anyone who wants to think deeply about our obligations to one another, the roles of both nature and nurture in moral formation, and the centrality of justice to the good life.” —Stephen J. Pope Boston College
Jean Porter is John A. O’Brien Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Notre Dame. Her other books include Ministers of the Law, Natural and Divine Law, and Nature as Reason.
“In any field of controversy, there is a ‘must read’ book. . . . On the issue of abortion, Camosy’s book instantly becomes the must-read text if one wishes to seriously engage the issue, or to be taken seriously.” —National Catholic Reporter Charles C. Camosy is associate professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University.
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Glen Stassen and David Gushee’s Kingdom Ethics, originally published in 2003, is the leading Christian ethics textbook of the twentyfirst century. This substantially revised edition features enhanced and updated treatments of all major contemporary ethical issues. Gushee’s revisions include updated data and examples, a more global perspective, more gender-inclusive language, a clearer focus on methodology, discussion questions added to every chapter, and a sizable new glossary. “This highly revised second edition of the now-seminal Kingdom Ethics improves what was already a practically perfect primer on Christian ethics for laypersons, pastors, and theologians.” —Rubén Rosario Rodríguez Saint Louis University
“A more-than-worthy successor to the first edition of Kingdom Ethics. . . . In this new edition Gushee sharpens the argument and intensifies the prophetic voice.” —Jonathan R. Wilson Carey Theological College
“Freshly conceived, newly organized, carefully explicit about both method and the complexity of concrete moral judgments.” —Sondra Wheeler Wesley Theological Seminary
David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University, Atlanta, Georgia. Glen H. Stassen (1936–2014) served as the Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California.
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The Invisible Bestseller Searching for the Bible in America
Commonwealth and Covenant Marcia Pally
“We buy a lot of Bibles but don’t read them. We occasionally quote the Bible, but mostly for our own immediate purposes. Ken Briggs, one of our most thoughtful religious writers, calls us to a new engagement with Scripture by offering a richly persuasive case for why the Bible still matters.” —E. J. Dionne Jr. author of Souled Out and Why the Right Went Wrong
Kenneth A. Briggs is a journalist and commentator who worked for many years as religion writer for Newsday and as religion editor for The New York Times. He has taught journalism and religion at Columbia University, Lafayette College, and Lehigh University. His previous books include The Power of Forgiveness and Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church’s Betrayal of American Nuns.
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“Has the West lost its pizzazz and gravitas? asks Marcia Pally at the start of Commonwealth and Covenant. Not if we read this magisterial study of relationality in Western theology and culture, brimming as it is with her signature brio and erudition as a leading thinker on religion and society. With an original and compelling thesis as her lantern, Pally lights up not only the history of ideas with dazzling insight but also our present parlous state with hopeful remedy.” —William Storrar Center of Theological Inquiry
“In her previous writing Marcia Pally has demonstrated keen insight into the American religious situation. In this well-crafted and highly readable book she takes a central principle in the American spiritual heritage—the covenant—and relates it with impressive skill to the psychological and political dimensions of our lives. This book advances the discussion in many ways and should not be missed.” —Harvey Cox Harvard University
“The challenge of promoting values beyond Westernstyle individual autonomy—but avoiding top-down oppression—is both a puzzle for academics and a broad social problem with real-world consequences. This most welcome book leverages an ancient and helpfully foreign concept—the biblical idea of covenant— to move beyond this paralyzing binary. The trajectory set by Marcia Pally, tightly argued and socially oriented, is one that many different kinds of people can and should support.” —Charles Camosy Fordham University
“Marked by clear and graceful prose, this book is a must-read for those concerned about our economic and political future.” —Tsvi Blanchard National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership
Marcia Pally teaches at New York University in Multilingual Multicultural Studies and at Fordham University and is a guest professor in the theology department at Humboldt University in Berlin.
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Putting forth a distinctive Lutheran take on the intersection of law and religion in our society today, this volume gathers the collaborative reflections of legal and theological scholars on a range of subjects—women’s issues, property law and the environment, immigration reform, human trafficking, church-state questions, and more— all addressed from uniquely Lutheran points of view. “What Ronald Duty and Marie Failinger have accomplished has never been done before! Until now, Lutherans have remained largely absent from the vigorous, interdisciplinary field of law and religion. Together for the first time, Lutheran authorities in the fields of secular law and Christian theology explore how classic Lutheran themes offer wisdom for contemporary legal questions. This volume will surely kindle future engagement.” —Gary Simpson Luther Seminary
“At last we have a volume that examines pressing issues at the intersection of law and morality—religious freedom, racism, climate change, restorative justice—through the realistic and creative lens of Lutheran thought. The insights provided by this distinguished interdisciplinary group of authors are of broad and ecumenical relevance.”
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How can a book—one that’s found in courthouses, libraries, and millions of households across the land—be everywhere and nowhere at the same time? In The Invisible Bestseller veteran religion writer Kenneth Briggs asks how, even as the Bible remains the bestselling book of all time, fewer Americans than ever can correctly articulate what it says, much less how it might offer guidance for their lives. In a quest to make sense of the Bible’s relative disappearance from public life, Briggs shares with readers his own two-year journey to a variety of places all across the country. His narrative incorporates pertinent interviews throughout with preachers, pollsters, scholars, and ordinary citizens from California to Texas to Florida to Massachusetts. As he probes and reflects on his varied findings, Briggs offers keen insight into why and how the Bible’s place in American public life has shifted and shrunk—and he suggests what role the Bible may play in the US in years to come.
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Lutheran Perspectives on Contemporary Legal Issues
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Kenneth A. Briggs
On Secular Governance
—Cathleen Kaveny Boston College
Contributors Svend Andersen, Robert Benne, Ibrahim Bitrus, James M. Childs Jr., Wanda Deifelt, Ronald W. Duty, Marie A. Failinger, Mary Gaebler, Patrick R. Keifert, Morten Kjaer, Susan R. Martyn, Richard J. Perry Jr., Leopoldo A. Sánchez M., Kirsi Stjerna, John R. Stumme, Victor Thasiah, W. Bradley Wendel. Ronald W. Duty is the retired assistant director for Studies in Church and Society, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Chicago. Marie A. Failinger is professor of law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota.
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T H E O L O G Y P R A C T I C A L
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Christian Practical Wisdom
Calling in Today’s World
Servant of All
Voices from Eight Faith Perspectives
Status, Ambition, and the Way of Jesus
What It Is, Why It Matters
Kathleen A. Cahalan and Douglas J. Schuurman, editors
Craig C. Hill
The concept of “vocation” or “calling” is a distinctively Christian concern, grounded in the long-held belief that we find our meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in God. But what about religions other than Christianity? What does it mean for someone from another faith tradition to understand calling or vocation? In this book contributors with expertise in Catholic and Protestant Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Daoism, and secular humanism explore the idea of calling from these eight faith perspectives. The contributors search their respective traditions’ sacred texts, key figures, practices, and concepts for wisdom on the meaning of vocation.
There is a deep tension between the biblical view of servant leaders and the status that Christian leaders today often desire and pursue. Many pastors and other church leaders, like it or not, struggle with ambition. In this book Craig Hill mines the New Testament to help Christian leaders deal with this issue honestly and faithfully. Hill examines such passages as the Christ Hymn in Philippians 2 to show how New Testament authors helped early Christians construct their identity in ways that overturned conventional status structures and hierarchies. Status and ambition, Hill says, are too seldom addressed forthrightly in the church, as Christians either secretly indulge those impulses or feebly try to quash them. Hill’s Servant of All will help Christian leaders reconcile their human aspirations and their spirituality, empowering them to minister with integrity.
Dorothy C. Bass, Kathleen A. Cahalan, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, James R. Nieman, and Christian B. Scharen In this richly collaborative work, five distinguished scholars examine the oft-neglected embodied practical wisdom that is essential for true theological understanding and faithful Christian living. After first showing what Christian practical wisdom is and does in several real-life situations, the authors tell why such practical wisdom matters and how it operates, exploring reasons behind its decline in both the academy and the church and setting forth constructive cases for its renewal. “A beautifully written and much-needed exploration of Christian practical wisdom from a trusted group of theological educators. These five friends narrate their own imaginative, embodied attempts to live attuned to the presence of God and the needs of their neighbors and help us imagine how we might recover Christian practical wisdom in ways large and small in our own lives.” —Stephanie Paulsell Harvard Divinity School
“What do dancing, imagining, and collaborating have to do with ‘gaining a heart of wisdom’ in what Charles Taylor calls ‘a secular age’? This creative and compelling case for Christian practical wisdom practices what it preaches. The authors ‘show’ and ‘tell’ how a more holistic kind of knowing—beyond academic expertise—is essential to an authentic and living theology.” —Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung Calvin College
Dorothy C. Bass is director emerita of the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith. Kathleen A. Cahalan is professor of theology at Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary, Collegeville, Minnesota. Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture at Vanderbilt University. James R. Nieman is president of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Christian B. Scharen is vice president of applied research at Auburn Theological Seminary, New York.
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“Broad yet balanced perspectives on a question that rightly preoccupies believers across religious traditions. . . . Whether readers are already convinced of their calling, or seeking to retrieve the very idea of a personal calling, or simply curious about how religious people think themselves called, this volume offers a mature and generous set of aptly nuanced possibilities for study and appropriation.” —Francis X. Clooney, SJ Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University
Contributors Mark Berkson (Confucianism and Daoism) Kathleen A. Cahalan (Catholicism) Amy Eilberg (Judaism) John Kelsay (Islam) Edward Langerak (Secularism) Anantanand Rambachan (Hinduism) Douglas J. Schuurman (Protestantism) Mark Unno (Buddhism) Kathleen A. Cahalan is professor of theology at Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary, Collegeville, Minnesota, and coauthor of Christian Practical Wisdom: What It Is, Why It Matters. Douglas J. Schuurman is professor of religion at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, and the author of Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life.
Foreword by William H. Willimon
“Church is not where we come to burnish our own status and honor. Church is a place where our ambitiousness and status consciousness must be faithfully examined. Be prepared to be enlisted in that adventure through reading this book. . . . Servant of All will elevate Craig Hill’s status as one of our premier New Testament scholars who writes in service to the church and its leaders even as the book checks some of my ambition and puts a much-needed leash on some of my status-seeking. What a great service Dean Craig Hill has rendered the church.” —William H. Willimon from the foreword
Craig C. Hill is dean and professor of New Testament at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. His previous books include In God’s Time: The Bible and the Future.
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The Gospel and Our Culture Series John R. Franke, series editor
Church Planting in the Secular West
Reading the Bible Missionally
Learning from the European Experience
Michael W. Goheen, editor
In this book Stefan Paas offers an expert study of missionary church planting in secularized contemporary Europe. Including groundbreaking new research, his thoughtful analysis explores both successful and unsuccessful church-planting strategies and presents a solid theological defense of church planting today. “Amid the vast and growing literature addressing the end of Western Christendom and its implications for the Christian movement, Stefan Paas’s critical analysis sets the standard for the debate. This is a major contribution to missional theology and practice—on both sides of the North Atlantic!” —Darrell Guder Princeton Theological Seminary
978-0-8028-7348-4 / paperback / 314 pages / $34.00 [£24.99] / October
A Missional Hermeneutic 1. A History and Introduction to a Missional Reading of the Bible Michael W. Goheen 2. Mission as Hermeneutic for Scriptural Interpretation Richard Bauckham 3. Mapping the Missional Herme neutics Conversation George R. Hunsberger 4. Theological Interpretation and a Missional Hermeneutic Craig G. Bartholomew 5. Intercultural Hermeneutics and the Shape of Missional Theology John R. Franke A Missional Reading of the Old Testament 6. Reading the Old Testament Missionally Christopher J. H. Wright 7. A Missional Reading of Deuteronomy Mark Glanville 8. A Missional Reading of Psalms 67 and 96 Carl J. Bosma
How Youth Ministry Can Change Theological Education—If We Let It
Michael W. Goheen is director of theological education at Missional Training Center, Phoenix, Arizona, scholar in residence at Surge Network, and adjunct professor of mission and theology at Redeemer Seminary, Dallas, Texas.
Kenda Creasy Dean and Christy Lang Hearlson, editors Foreword by Craig Dykstra “ATTENTION, seminary presidents and divinity school professors, senior pastors and denominational leaders: READ THIS BOOK! Read it not because it offers the secret of institutional survival (it doesn’t) but because of the hope it speaks for the work of theological education and the ministry of the church in the world. Having learned from years of experimentation within seminary-embedded youth theology programs, these authors offer crucial resources to renew and to expand our theological and pedagogical imagination.” —Jeffrey Conklin-Miller
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A Little Exercise for Young Theologians Helmut Thielicke Introduction by Martin E. Marty
Duke Divinity School
Since it first appeared in English translation in 1962, A Little Exercise for Young Theologians has achieved classic status. In thirteen brief yet packed reflections Helmut Thielicke offers wise counsel on the difficulties—and vital importance—of maintaining one’s spiritual health in the course of academic theological study. This reissue of Thielicke’s treasured little book features completely reset interior type and an attractive new cover.
Contributors: Elizabeth W. Corrie, Kenda Creasy Dean, Katherine M. Douglass, Fred Edie, Christy Lang Hearlson, David Horn, Andrew Brubacher Kaethler, Jeffrey Kaster, Anabel Proffitt, Judy Steers, Brent A. Strawn, Anne Streaty Wimberly, Jacquie Church Young. Kenda Creasy Dean is the Mary D. Synnott Professor of Youth, Church, and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary. Christy Lang Hearlson is an ordained Presbyterian pastor and a PhD candidate at Princeton Seminary.
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A Missional Reading of the New Testament 9. Reading the New Testament Missionally N. T. Wright 10. Reading James Missionally Joel B. Green 11. A Missional Reading of Colossians Dean Flemming A Missional Reading of Scripture and Preaching 12. A Missional Reading of Scripture and Preaching Michael W. Goheen 13. Missional, Christ-Centered, or Gospel-Centered Preaching— What Is the Difference? Timothy M. Sheridan A Missional Reading of Scripture and Theological Education 14. The Implications of a Missional Hermeneutic for Theological Education Darrell L. Guder 15. A Missional Reading of Scripture for Theological Education and Curriculum Michael W. Goheen Missional Hermeneutics Bibliography Tim J. Davy and Michael W. Goheen
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Stefan Paas is J. H. Bavinck Professor of Missiology and Intercultural Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. An experienced evangelist and church planter in the context of Western Europe, he is also Professor of Missiology at Theological University in Kampen, the Netherlands.
Over the past half century, it has become clear that mission is a central theme in the Bible’s narrative and, moreover, is central to the very identity of the church. This book significantly widens and deepens the emerging conversation on missional hermeneutics, as top scholars discuss reading the Scriptures using mission as a key interpretive lens.
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Helmut Thielicke (1908–1986) was an internationally known theologian and pastor who served as professor of systematic theology at the University of Hamburg in Germany.
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Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies
The Church at Worship Lester Ruth, Carrie Steenwyk, and John D. Witvliet, series editors
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Singing God’s Psalms Metrical Psalms and Reflections for Each Sunday in the Church Year Fred R. Anderson
Foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff
Foreword by Walter Brueggemann Although numerous studies have examined biblical and theological rationales for using the visual arts in worship, this book by Lisa J. DeBoer fills in a piece of the picture missing so far—the social dimensions of both our churches and the various art worlds represented in our congregations. The first part of the book looks at Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Protestantism in turn— including case studies of specific congregations—showing how each tradition’s use of the visual arts reveals an underlying ecclesiology. DeBoer then focuses on six themes that emerge when Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant uses of the visual arts are examined together—the arts as expressions of the church’s local and universal character, the meanings attributed to particular styles of art for the church, the role of the arts in enculturating the gospel, and more. DeBoer’s Visual Arts in the Worshiping Church will focus and deepen the thinking of pastors, worship leaders, artists, students, and laypeople regarding what the arts can do in the midst of their congregations. “[DeBoer’s] dominant concern is not to tell readers how the church should engage the arts but to uncover how actual congregations in different traditions do in fact engage the arts and why they engage them as they do. It’s a groundbreaking approach, full of fascinating details and perceptive analyses.”
Drawing on his decades of experience as a pastor, hymn writer, and hymnal consultant, Fred Anderson here offers pastors and worship leaders a rich treasury of singable psalms—one for each psalm text or canticle appointed in the three-year Revised Common Lectionary. Anderson renders each psalm into metered text, using contemporary, biblical, inclusive language, and suggests appropriate pairings with familiar hymn tunes. Short pastoral reflections on each psalm text provide background on what is being sung—and are also useful for sermon preparation and personal meditation. “A much-needed collection. Coming from years of pastoral experience ‘in the trenches,’ it witnesses in an exceptional way to the power of meter and music to convey the depths of God’s Word.” —Jeremy Begbie Duke University
“Fred Anderson offers the Christian community an immeasurable gift. Already represented in several hymnals, these additional metrical psalms will enrich this genre of congregational song that will stand the test of time. Worshipers will find their appreciation of the psalter deepened by singing and praying these metrical poems in addition to reading the psalms.” —C. Michael Hawn Perkins School of Theology
—Nicholas Wolterstorff from the foreword
Lisa J. DeBoer is professor of the history of art at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California.
978-0-8028-6951-7 / paperback / 299 pages $24.00 [£17.99] / December
Fred R. Anderson is pastor emeritus of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City and a recognized hymn writer whose hymns and metrical psalm texts appear in a number of Protestant and Catholic hymnals around the world.
978-0-8028-7321-7 / paperback / 259 pages $24.00 [£17.99] / December
Worshiping with the Anaheim Vineyard The Emergence of Contemporary Worship Andy Park, Lester Ruth, and Cindy Rethmeier Before “contemporary worship” was known by that name, what was it? For at least one new congregation meeting in a high school gymnasium in southern California around 1980, it was simply worship: heart-felt, life-changing, intimacy-creating, can’twait-until-the-service-starts worship. Many of these worshipers— even (perhaps especially) the longtime church attenders—felt they truly were worshiping the Lord for the first time in their lives. They arrived early by an hour or more, eager to see how they would encounter God this week and poised to pour out their love to him. —from the introduction This book tells the story of the Anaheim Vineyard Christian Fellowship and its remarkable influence on the entire Vineyard movement, which contributed to the renewal of worship in thousands of evangelical churches during the 1970s and 1980s. In presenting an in-depth look at founding leader John Wimber and the Anaheim Vineyard’s early years, this volume tells an inspiring story of revival and renewal among people desperately hungering for a deeper knowledge of God. Enhanced with interviews, sermon excerpts, sidebars, timelines, and photos, Worshiping with the Anaheim Vineyard addresses core issues for all Christians desiring to know God more intimately. Andy Park is a writer of worship songs, a longtime worship leader, and the author of To Know You More: Cultivating the Heart of the Worship Leader. Lester Ruth is a recognized worship historian who teaches at Duke Divinity School. Cindy Rethmeier is a worship leader and songwriter with long roots in the Vineyard.
978-0-8028-7397-2 / paperback / 160 pages 25 photos / $25.00 [£17.99] / January
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Eucharistic Prayers Samuel Wells and Abigail Kocher
Abigail Kocher is pastor of Salem United Methodist Church in Morganton, North Carolina, and coauthor (with Samuel Wells) of Shaping the Prayers of the People: The Art of Intercession.
978-0-8028-7261-6 / hardcover / 365 pages $40.00 / October UK and Europe rights: Canterbury Press
Biblical Sermons and Homiletical Essays
Sidney Greidanus
Ellen F. Davis with Austin McIver Dennis Foreword by Stanley Hauerwas
In this final volume of his acclaimed series on preaching Christ from the Old Testament, Sidney Greidanus offers expert guidance for busy pastors on preaching Christ from Psalms. Beginning with a substantial chapter on how pastors can interpret and preach biblical psalms—and why they should— Greidanus proceeds to discuss twenty-two psalm texts assigned by the Revised Common Lectionary, Year A, supplying the building blocks for preaching from Psalms during Advent and Lent, Christmas, Easter, Pentecost, and other major days and seasons of the church year. In addition to laying out basic hermeneutical, homiletical, and theological approaches for each selected psalm, these chapters also provide verse-by-verse exposition, bridges to Christ in the New Testament, and suggestions for application. “No one has been more influential in this generation of preachers, and in my life personally, than Sidney Greidanus on the necessity of Christ’s purposes pervading all biblical exposition. I welcome this latest contribution to his extensive body of work that has so blessed Christ’s church.” —Bryan Chapell Grace Presbyterian Church, Peoria, Illinois
“Greidanus offers exegetical and literary observations, theological analysis, and expository material that will be a treasure chest of valuable content for any preacher or teacher. He has given yet another gift to his colleagues in the church through this book that will find a valued place on the shelf of many a preacher.” —Michael Duduit Preaching magazine
Sidney Greidanus is professor emeritus of preaching at Calvin Theological Seminary and author of seven books, including Preaching Christ from the Old Testament, Preaching Christ from Genesis, Preaching Christ from Ecclesiastes, and Preaching Christ from Daniel.
978-0-8028-7366-8 / paperback / 615 pages $40.00 [£28.99] / October
Inviting serious theological engagement with texts from all parts of the Christian Bible, Preaching the Luminous Word is a rhetorically rich collection of fifty-one sermons and five related essays from noted preacher and biblical scholar Ellen F. Davis. A brief introduction to each sermon delineates its liturgical context and theological themes as well as distinctive elements of structure and style. Arranged in canonical order, the sermons treat a wide range of texts: Torah, Prophets, Writings, Gospels, Epistles, and Revelation. They are complemented by essays on various aspects of biblical interpretation for preaching. “Ellen Davis is the rare academic—a brilliant academic—who takes seriously the art, craft, and calling of preaching. I am grateful that this book is in the world, in a moment in which the world so urgently needs the discerning, luminous word.” —Krista Tippett host of On Being
“Davis’s biblical interpretations have been widely admired for decades, but this volume exceeds even those that have gone before in its usefulness for preachers. . . . This book deserves the much-overused word ‘prophetic’ and should be close at hand on every preacher’s shelf.” —Fleming Rutledge
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Samuel Wells is Vicar of St. Martin-in-theFields, Trafalgar Square, London. Among his other books are Be Not Afraid: Facing Fear with Faith and Learning to Dream Again: Rediscovering the Heart of God.
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“The Lord’s Supper is not just remembrance of the saving work of Jesus. It’s an invitation to the congregation to be engulfed in the communion of saints as it is swathed with the glory of what the Father has imagined, the Son embodied, and the Spirit fulfilled. Every prayer should celebrate all three aspects of this joyous drama.” —from the introduction
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This unique, elegant resource for ministers and worship planners provides a beautifully crafted Eucharistic prayer for every Sunday of the three-year Revised Common Lectionary cycle, also including prayers for special holy days and other occasions. In a helpful introduction Samuel Wells and Abigail Kocher offer guidance on how to make the Eucharistic prayer a congregational highlight. Too often, they say, what should be the most dynamic moment of a congregation’s liturgical life becomes a low-energy, low-engagement event. Closely tying the sacramental rite to the words of Scripture for the day, these theologically appropriate, pastorally fitting, and linguistically satisfying prayers change the Great Thanksgiving prayer from a lull in the liturgy to a focused, fresh, and engaged moment for the congregation.
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“Ellen Davis’s preaching has a fierce intimacy, a deft poetry, a profound playfulness, and a rigorous passion. Just like the Bible. And just like God.” —Samuel Wells St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Ellen F. Davis is the Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School. Her previous books include The Art of Reading Scripture (with Richard B. Hays). Austin McIver Dennis is senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Asheville, North Carolina. He holds a ThD degree in homiletics and reconciliation from Duke Divinity School.
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A Short Life of Martin Luther
Church History
Thomas Kaufmann
An Introduction to Research Methods and Resources
Translated by Peter D. S. Krey and James D. Bratt Foreword by William G. Rusch
Second Edition
James E. Bradley and Richard A. Muller
For 500 years Martin Luther has been both hated and honored, both reviled as a heretic and lauded as a latter-day apostle. This superb translation of Thomas Kaufmann’s popular German biography highlights the two conflicting “natures” of Martin Luther, depicting Luther’s earthiness as well as his soaring theological contributions, his flaws as well as his greatness.
This long-popular, standard resource in church history and historical theology has been revised, expanded, and updated to include discussion of Internet-based research, digitized texts, and the electronic forms of research tools and their use. Praise for the first edition “A reliable roadmap for all who would enter the scholarly labyrinth known as ‘church history.’ . . . All new practitioners of the discipline, not to mention old ones, could benefit from this book.”
“This concise but coherent treatment of Martin Luther portrays the Reformer as a man of extreme opposites. . . . A carefully crafted and readable narrative, Kaufmann’s Short Life of Martin Luther will enlighten and challenge anyone seeking to better comprehend the person and work of Luther. The English translation of this work is a welcome addition to Reformation scholarship.” —John T. Pless Concordia Theological Seminary
“Among the many Luther biographies available, this one is truly memorable and unique. It is simply written, yet not oversimplified; robust in scholarship, yet welcoming to many readers. Although it is a short life of Martin Luther, this book will cast a long shadow for generations.” —A. Trevor Sutton
—Religious Studies Review James E. Bradley is Geoffrey W. Bromiley Professor Emeritus and Senior Professor of Church History at Fuller Theological Seminary. Richard A. Muller is P. J. Zondervan Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary.
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Thomas Kaufmann is professor of theology at the University of Göttingen, Germany.
978-0-8028-7153-4 / paperback / 152 pages / $18.00 [£12.99] / October
Nathan Söderblom Called to Serve Jonas Jonson Translated from Swedish by Norman A. Hjelm Foreword by Olav Fykse Tveit
“Yes! Well . . .” Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of the Church James Hart Brumm, editor In this volume, the latest installment in the Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America, authors from around the world present essays in honor of John W. Coakley, L. Russell Feakes Memorial Professor Emeritus of Church History at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Jersey. Following the pattern of Coakley’s teaching, the contributors push readers to think about aspects of the church in new ways.
Nathan Söderblom (1866–1931) was Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden and a pioneering force behind the modern ecumenical movement. A vocal advocate for peace and justice during and after World War I, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1930. Jonas Jonson’s award-winning biography of Söderblom is now available in this fine English translation. “An outstanding biography of an extraordinary church leader. . . . Söderblom’s irenic spirit and deep commitment to a socially engaged church remain an inspiration in our era. This is a fine study of one of the great figures in the history of the ecumenical movement.” —Michael Kinnamon Seattle University
Contributors Thomas A. Boogart, James Hart Brumm, Kathleen Hart Brumm, Jaeseung Cha, James F. Coakley, Sarah Coakley, Matthew Gasero, Russell Gasero, Allan Janssen, Lynn Japinga, Mary L. Kansfield, Norman J. Kansfield, James Jinhong Kim, Gregg A. Mast, Dirk Mouw, Ondrea Murphy, Mark V. C. Taylor, David W. Waanders. James Hart Brumm is director of the Reformed Church Center and pastor of the Blooming Grove Reformed Church in DeFreestville, New York.
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“The scholarship of the author and the skill of the translator make this study of Nathan Söderblom an essential resource in the English language for understanding the man and his times.” —William G. Rusch Yale Divinity School
Jonas Jonson is bishop emeritus of the diocese of Strängnäs, Church of Sweden, and has been an active participant in both the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World Federation for fifty years.
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Library of Religious Biography Mark A. Noll and Heath Carter, series editors
R. David Cox
Leslie Williams
Foreword by Mark A. Noll
Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556) was the first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, the author of the Book of Common Prayer, and a central figure in the tumultuous English Protestant Reformation. Few theologians have led such an eventful life: Cranmer helped Henry VIII break with the pope, pressed his vision of the Reformation through the reign of Edward VI, was forced to recant under Queen Mary, and then dramatically withdrew his recantations before being burned alive. This lively biography by Leslie Williams narrates Cranmer’s life from the beginning, through his education and history with the monarchy, to his ecclesiastical trials and eventual martyrdom. Williams portrays Cranmer’s ongoing struggle to reconcile his two central loyalties—allegiance to the crown and fidelity to the Reformation faith—as she tells his fascinating life story.
Robert E. Lee was many things—accomplished soldier, military engineer, plantation owner, college president, family man, polarizing figure. He was also a person of deep Christian conviction. In this biography of the famous Civil War general, R. David Cox examines Lee’s beliefs and how they impacted the key events of his life. Delving into family letters and other primary sources— some of them newly discovered—Cox traces the lifelong development of Lee’s convictions and how they influenced his decisions to stand with Virginia over against the Union and later to support reconciliation and reconstruction in the years after the Civil War. Faith was central to Lee’s character, Cox argues—so central that it directed and redirected his life, especially in the face of defeat. This is the first comprehensive study of Lee’s religious beliefs and how they influenced the key decisions of his life.
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“Leslie Williams has composed an extremely accessible life of Thomas Cranmer. It is written vividly but simply, clearly but affectingly. She has captured the man—and she also underlines Cranmer’s importance for contemporary conflicts within the Anglican Church. Though long dead, the Archbishop speaketh still!” —Paul F. M. Zahl coauthor of The Collects of Thomas Cranmer
“A sprightly and nuanced telling of the life and times of Thomas Cranmer. Williams avoids the temptation of making Cranmer and his contemporaries twentyfirst-century people in fancy dress. These are people of their times, but recognizably human and struggling with perennial questions of faith and practice, discipleship and power. Warmly recommended.” —Justin Lewis-Anthony
“Lee articulated his Christian convictions most clearly in personal letters, especially letters to his family and, above all, to his wife. Always a private man—some thought him aloof or remote, the “the marble man”—he never bared his soul to anyone. Still, his letters reveal the development of a theology which was at once his own yet also broadly characteristic of Virginia Episcopalians and of American Protestants of that era.” —from the preface R. David Cox is an Episcopal priest and author who was rector at the R. E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church in Lexington, Virginia, for thirteen years. He currently serves as visiting professor of history at Southern Virginia University in Buena Vista, Virginia.
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) was a reporter, literary critic, editor, author—and a famous American agnostic. From his role in the Scopes Trial to his advocacy of science and reason in public life, Mencken is generally regarded as one of the fiercest critics of Christianity in his day. In this biography D. G. Hart presents a provocative, iconoclastic perspective on Mencken’s life. Even as Mencken vividly debunked American religious ideals, says Hart, it was Christianity that largely framed his ideas, career, and fame. Mencken’s relationship to the Christian faith was at once antagonistic and symbiotic. Including generous excerpts of Mencken’s own extraordinary prose, Hart’s Damning Words superbly portrays an influential figure in twentieth-century America and, at the same time, casts telling new light on religious life in his era. “H. L. Mencken has finally met his match. Darryl Hart has a high intelligence, an ability to write, and the sensibility of a Roger Williams Calvinist. He puts them all to use in this biography of one of America’s most notorious nonbelievers. The result is a delight to read, illuminating Mencken and the journalistic culture of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century.” —Bruce Kuklick
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Emblem of Faith Untouched
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“Darryl Hart shows why H. L. Mencken is exactly the critic Christian conservatives and New Atheists most need to hear—a foe of progressive pieties who’s unafraid to laugh at the culture war.” —Daniel McCarthy editor of The American Conservative
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Leslie Williams is an English professor, writer, and three-time Fellow of Yale Divinity School. Her other books include The Judas Conspiracy and When Anything Goes: Being Christian in a Post-Christian World.
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D. G. Hart teaches history at Hillsdale College and has written several books on the history of Christianity, including Calvinism: A History and From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism.
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A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays
How to Survive the Apocalypse
David Bentley Hart
Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World
Why has Don Juan become so passé of late? What’s the trouble with Ayn Rand? How did the Doge of Venice come to venerate the counterfeit remains of Siddhartha Gautama? Why does the Bentley family’s collection of ancestral relics include a bronzed human thumb? And what, exactly, is the story behind Great Uncle Aloysius, who was born a Quaker but died a pagan? This collection of occasional essays brings us David Bentley Hart at his finest: startlingly clear and deliciously abstruse, coolly wise and burningly witty, fresh and timeless, mystical and concrete—often all at once. Hart’s incisive blend of philosophy, moral theology, and cultural criticism, together with his flair for both the well-told story and the well-turned phrase, is sure to delight. “David Bentley Hart is the most consistently interesting and provocative theologian at the moment writing in English. What he provokes is thought, and these short pieces provoke more of that than do most tomes.” —Paul J. Griffiths
Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson Foreword by Andy Crouch “In our culture dominated by fear and anxiety, I am grateful for the wisdom of teachers like Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson in How to Survive the Apocalypse. From Mel Brooks to Game of Thrones, from the movie Her to the board game Settlers of Catan, this book is full of deft and engaged analysis, helping all of us to move deeper into our ‘secular age’ with conviction and faith.” —Makoto Fujimura artist, speaker, writer, cultural shaper
“An exceptional piece of theologically rigorous, culturally perceptive criticism. With Charles Taylor’s monumental book A Secular Age as a guide, Joustra and Wilkinson show how narratives of dystopian apocalypse in contemporary films and television reveal deep philosophical, theological, and existential truths about today’s world.” —Brett McCracken film critic, author of Gray Matters and Hipster Christianity
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“Bravura brilliance in pellucid prose. Hart here applies his vast erudition, analytical rigor, formidable critical powers, and wicked sense of humor to everything from ancient cultures to Don Quixote to the metaphysics of baseball. This collection glitters with theological, philosophical, literary, and historical insights, masterfully combined by a sage of the early twenty-first century.” —Brad S. Gregory University of Notre Dame
“In exquisite and witty prose, Hart carries us from butterflies to Baudelaire via fairies and the First World War. Prodigious learning in philosophy, literature, history, and theology provides the ingredients for these reflections on culture, religion, science, and morals.” —Simon Oliver Durham University
David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox theologian, philosopher, and cultural commentator. A regular contributor to First Things, Hart has also written The Beauty of the Infinite, In the Aftermath, and Atheist Delusions.
“Dear Netflix: Hold off on sending Parks and Recreation and start me on the second season of The Walking Dead. After reading this terrific book by Alissa Wilkinson and Robert Joustra, I have decided I am ready for more apocalypse. I had been immersed in the writings of Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor, but this book helped me connect their philosophical explorations to dystopian narratives.” —Richard Mouw president emeritus of Fuller Theological Seminary
Robert Joustra is director of the Centre for Christian Scholarship and assistant professor of international studies at Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario. Alissa Wilkinson is assistant professor of English and humanities at The King’s College, New York City, and critic-at-large for Christianity Today.
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Drawn Three Ways Memoir of a Ministry, a Profession, and a Marriage A. E. Harvey Foreword by Rowan Williams “This disarmingly frank, elegantly written memoir by Anthony Harvey is both a personal account of his distinguished career in the church and a hymn of love to his late wife. Harvey frequently upbraids himself for having been ‘a gifted amateur’ rather than a single-minded academic; but classical scholarship, theology, the working ministry, and his circle of family and friends are all the richer for his having spread his talents widely and generously.” —David J. Goldberg The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London
“Anthony Harvey is one of the ablest priests of his generation. In this beautifully written memoir he gives us a vivid picture of both himself and the church he has tried to serve. Thankfully free of any self-aggrandizement or false humility, his book gives us a ruthlessly honest account of great personal struggle and fortitude.” —Richard Harries former Bishop of Oxford
“An outstanding Oxford classicist, New Testament scholar, teacher, church theologian, and social activist, Anthony Harvey has achieved more than most. This searingly honest account of what it all looks like in retrospect and from the inside prompts searching questions about England today, its established Church, and its ancient universities.” —Robert Morgan University of Oxford
“Moving and unpretentious. . . . This book has the capacity to rekindle faith in the theological vocation in the fullest sense of the word ‘theological’ and to renew a confidence in the possibility of interweaving human honesty and Christian depth.” —Rowan Williams from the foreword
A. E. Harvey is Emeritus Canon of Westminster and former lecturer in theology at the University of Oxford. His other books include A Companion to the New Testament and Is Scripture Still Holy? Coming of Age with the New Testament.
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The Riddle of Life J. H. Bavinck
Keeping Faith in Fundraising
To Begin at the Beginning
Translated by Bert Hielema
Peter Harris and Rod Wilson
An Introduction to Christian Faith
In the spirit of C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity, this book by eminent Calvinist thinker J. H. Bavinck offers a compact and compelling treatise on Christian belief. Addressing big questions that haunt every thinking human being—Why are we here? Where do we come from? What is our destiny? How should we live?—Bavinck’s Riddle of Life also explores such essential topics as sin and salvation, Jesus the Redeemer, faith and idolatry, God’s great plan for creation, and the ultimate purpose behind our lives. This lucid new translation by Bert Hielema of a classic text will make Bavinck’s profound reflections on faith and the meaning of human life accessible to a new generation of seekers.
Fundraising has always been an essential element of the Christian life: churches, schools, and many other organizations rely on it to function. But it is a risky enterprise, fraught with questions and challenges. How can Christians raise funds with integrity? In this book Peter Harris and Rod Wilson, experienced fundraisers themselves, bring fundraising within the scope of normal Christian life and work. They consider fundraising in light of the relationships that lie at its heart— with God, with creation, and with ourselves. After first laying a biblical foundation by discussing 2 Corinthians 8–9, Harris and Wilson develop seven themes central to the giving and receiving of money: integration, people, work, success, need, method, and money. In a final section, the authors offer their own personal experiences, questions, suggestions, and valuable insights that they have gained from their many years of fundraising as Christians.
“Who are we? Why are we here? What and how do we know? What does it all mean? This apologetic for the Christian faith in today’s world is not so much an argument as it is concrete, experience-based, persuasive poetry drawing the reader into an exciting journey of discovery and meaning. A perfect gift for college-age students or others wrestling with the deepest questions of life.” —John Bolt Calvin Theological Seminary
J. H. Bavinck (1895–1964) was the premier twentieth-century missiologist in the Dutch Calvinist tradition. A prolific author, he worked both as pastor and as professor in the Netherlands and Indonesia. His other books include Between the Beginning and the End: A Radical Christian Vision; selections from his writings can also be found in The J. H. Bavinck Reader.
Rod Wilson served as president and professor of psychology and counseling at Regent College, Vancouver, from 2000 to 2015. He is also the author of How Do I Help a Hurting Friend?
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Peter Harris is founder and president of A Rocha, an international Christian conservation organization, and the author of Under the Bright Wings and Kingfisher’s Fire: A Story of Hope for God’s Earth.
Christian faith, says Martin Copenhaver, is not a subject to be mastered like calculus or Shakespeare—it is a story to be told and a life to be lived. No matter how much or how little you know, To Begin at the Beginning tells the story of Christian faith and invites you to take part in it. In this book Copenhaver covers basic themes —the Bible, church, ministry, sacraments, prayer, ethics—in a clear and inviting way. His approach creates a valuable resource for pastors, an accessible guide for seekers and new Christians, and a “refresher course” for longtime Christians who want to engage anew with what they believe.
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“Here is a winsome, clear, concise, and inviting presentation of the basis for the Christian faith. . . . Persons of all ages and cultures who are asking deep questions about life’s significance and purpose will find The Riddle of Life accessible, very contemporary, and profoundly meaningful.”
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Praise for previous editions “Martin Copenhaver has a great gift for talking about deep and difficult matters in a unique, enjoyable way. His book is a wonderful introduction to the Christian faith or an invigorating way to renew faith.” —William H. Willimon “Copenhaver has done a bold thing well. Working patiently with the formidable bulk of Christian faith and thought, he has untangled its denser matters and smoothed them out.” —Barbara Brown Taylor Martin B. Copenhaver is president of Andover Newton Theological School and a United Church of Christ minister. His other books include Room to Grow: Meditations on Trying to Live as a Christian and This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers (with Lillian Daniel).
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Finding the Will of God
Aging Matters
Word by Word
A Pagan Notion?
A Daily Spiritual Practice
Second Edition
Finding Your Calling for the Rest of Your Life
Bruce K. Waltke
R. Paul Stevens
Does the Bible teach Christians to “find” God’s “special will” for their lives? No, it does not, says respected biblical scholar Bruce Waltke, contrary to much popular evangelical teaching. In this acclaimed book Waltke clearly distinguishes between pagan divination (“guessmancy”) and solid, Bible-based guidance as he distills from Scripture a six-point program to help guide Jesus followers on their life journey. This expanded and extensively rewritten second edition of Waltke’s Finding the Will of God incorporates the best insights from many other books on guidance that have appeared since the first edition came out (2002), and it includes an entirely new chapter on learning to protect one’s heart. This edition also features thoughtful questions for reflection at the end of each chapter.
Vocational discernment, says Paul Stevens, is a lifelong process—one that takes on even more significance in later life. Arguing that our calling does not end with formal retirement but continues till life’s end, Stevens reframes retirement as a time of ongoing calling and points to biblical wisdom that can help us redefine aging as an extraordinarily fruitful season of life.
Praise for the first edition “Bruce Waltke shows that God guides his servants not by dubious techniques of divination but by the discipline of purehearted decision-making. Waltke’s quiet, honest, Bible-soaked wisdom will be a godsend to puzzled people in this much-misunderstood area of Christian concern. This book is a beam of true light and a breath of fresh air.” —J. I. Packer “What a rare combination—good biblical interpretation and judicious common sense, blended in the right mixture—all in one book. Waltke’s style is provocative, thoughtful, refreshing, and richly illustrated from living applications of the principles he advocates.” —Walter C. Kaiser Jr. 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. His many previous books include The Psalms as Christian Worship, The Psalms as Christian Lament, and two NICOT volumes on Proverbs.
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“Paul Stevens has spent a writing lifetime in shaping the Christian imagination into embracing the ordinary areas of life. Aging Matters may well be his most important work—important because we are living longer than ever and finding ourselves with fewer resources to live well and wisely. This book is a brilliantly crafted, prayerfully shaped witness for living to the glory of God.” —Eugene H. Peterson author of The Message
“Stevens’s understanding of aging as a calling provides a foundation for imaginative, generous reflection on the gifts and the tasks of later life. With candor regarding the temptations and limits that come with age, he offers an invigorating vision of final years lived generously and purposefully. The study guides following each chapter make this a valuable handbook to share with friends and partners in faith.” —Marilyn McEntyre author of A Faithful Farewell
“This well-researched, engaging book encourages readers to embrace aging as a process for continuing to mature personally, live purposefully, and stay involved practically with others in ministry. . . . A very helpful, hopeful, faith-informed approach to one of the most significant challenges of our time.” —Paul Pearce Centre for Healthy Aging Transitions, Carey Institute
R. Paul Stevens is professor emeritus of marketplace theology and leadership at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia. His previous books include Work Matters: Lessons from Scripture and The Other Six Days: Vocation, Work, and Ministry in Biblical Perspective.
I invite you to discover, as I have, to my lasting delight, how words may become little fountains of grace. How a single word may, if you hold it for a while, become a prayer. —from the introduction In this lovely book Marilyn McEntyre invites her readers to dwell with and savor fifteen specific words—listen, receive, enjoy, and a dozen more—as she gives each word a week, reflecting on it for seven days from seven different angles. Drawing on the spiritual practices of lectio divina and centering prayer, McEntyre’s evocative reflections open up rich new layers of meaning to nourish one’s heart, mind, and soul. “Word by Word brings lively attention to the way single words can open multiple doors of memory, imagination, and reflection. . . . Rich daily reading for those who seek to make their practice of faith and their reading lives more reflective.” —Richard Rohr author of Falling Upward and Immortal Diamond
“I love this book. It reminds me of the power of language—to heal and instruct us, to challenge and shape us.” —Shauna Niequist author of Bread & Wine and Savor
“Gentle, wise, piercing, alert—an altogether gracious book in every sense.” —Brian Doyle author of Mink River and A Book of Uncommon Prayer
Marilyn McEntyre is a writer, professor of medical humanities at UC Berkeley, and former professor of English at Westmont College. She is also the author of Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies; A Faithful Farewell: Living Your Last Chapter with Love; and What’s in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause, which won the 2015 Christianity Today Book Award for Spirituality.
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Wholeheartedness
A Gathering of Larks
Being Disciples
Busyness, Exhaustion, and Healing the Divided Self
Letters to Saint Francis from a Modern-Day Pilgrim
Essentials of the Christian Life
Chuck DeGroat
Abigail Carroll
I’m being pulled in a thousand different directions.
Who was Saint Francis? Today he is most often a sweet ceramic statue in a garden, a sentimentalized romantic figure. But A Gathering of Larks, containing forty personal letters from Abigail Carroll to Francis, shows him as a complex, quirky man who lived a fascinating life of radical faith. These letters—part devotion, part historical biography, part contemporary engagement, and part inspiration—reveal Carroll’s curiosity and wonder about Francis. She celebrates his whimsical idealism and impetuousness, explores his spirituality and commitment to poverty, and sometimes even questions him. She also uses Francis as a sounding board for larger questions about the world—and, through her own experience, explores how brokenness makes experiencing redemption possible. As beautiful as it is insightful, alight with a pilgrim’s growing sense of discovery, A Gathering of Larks has both range and depth that will uplift readers and challenge them to better understand this singular saint and how he might speak to and shape their way of living in today’s world. Tying in with the current widespread interest in Francis of Assisi, Carroll’s Gathering of Larks includes a brief biographical sketch of Saint Francis and questions for thought and discussion.
author of Found: A Story of Questions, Grace, and Everyday Prayer
“Chuck DeGroat has a deep commitment to living a life of wholeness. . . . There is life in his words.”
Abigail Carroll is the author of Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal, which was a finalist for the Zocalo Public Square Book Prize. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and Sojourners.
—John Ortberg author of All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know?
Chuck DeGroat is an experienced Christian counselor, a pastor, and associate professor of pastoral care and counseling at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan. He’s also the author of Toughest People to Love: How to Understand, Lead, and Love the Difficult People in Your Life—Including Yourself.
978-0-8028-7445-0 / paperback with French flaps 96 pages / $12.99 [£9.99] / January
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“Blends psychology, theology, and poetry in a way that embraces the wisdom of both ancient and contemporary spiritual teachers.” —Micha Boyett
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“Here’s what I’m learning personally about wholeness. It can’t be managed. It can’t be scheduled. It can’t be attained in seven easy steps or three key disciplines. . . . We learn wholeness, more often than not, when our boundaries are shattered, when our disciplines fail us, when our theologies stump us, when our supposedly wise choices betray us. We learn by un-learning, by stumbling and falling into the very thing we attempted to gain on our own terms. This, I believe, is the deep wisdom of my Christian tradition.” —from the introduction
“Discipleship,” says Rowan Williams in this companion to his bestselling Being Christian, “is a state of being. Discipleship is about how we live; not just the decisions we make, not just the things we believe, but a state of being.” Having covered baptism, Bible, Eucharist, and prayer in Being Christian, Williams turns his attention in Being Disciples to what is required for us to continue following Jesus and growing in faith. The book has six succinct chapters: 1. Being Disciples 2. Faith, Hope, and Love 3. Forgiveness 4. Holiness 5. Faith in Society 6. Life in the Spirit
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As a therapist, Chuck DeGroat hears that line all the time. “I hear it from students and software developers,” he says. “I hear it from spiritual leaders and coffee baristas. And I hear it from my own inner self.” We all feel that nasty pull to and fro, the frantic busyness that exhausts us and threatens to undo us. And we all think we know the solution—more downtime, more relaxation, more rest. And we’re all wrong. As DeGroat himself has discovered, the real solution to what pulls us apart is wholeheartedness, a way of living and being that can transform us from the inside out. And that’s what readers of this book will discover too.
Rowan Williams
In his typically gentle, inviting, pastoral writing style, Williams offers biblically grounded wisdom for Christians at all stages of their journey as disciples of Jesus. “Here is quite the most beautiful writing on discipleship I know. I am grateful for the inspiration that I find in these pages. I commend it to those who have been on this journey a long time, as well as to anyone who wonders what on earth following Jesus is all about.” —Justin Welby Archbishop of Canterbury
Praise for Rowan Williams’s Being Christian “Accessible and thoughtprovoking. . . . An excellent spiritual guide for individual or small group use.” —Publishers Weekly
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“Williams ushers us more deeply into our best discernment of the Christian life.” —Walter Brueggemann Rowan Williams served as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012 and is now Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
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Night Comes
The Spirituality of Wine
Death, Imagination, and the Last Things
Gisela H. Kreglinger Foreword by Eugene H. Peterson
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Dale C. Allison Jr.
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When he was 23 years old, Dale Allison almost died in a car accident. That terrifying experience dramatically changed his ideas about death and the hereafter. In Night Comes Allison wrestles with a number of difficult questions concerning the last things—such questions as What happens to us after we die? and Why does death so often frighten us? Armed with his acknowledged scholarly expertise, Allison offers an engaging, personal exploration of such themes as death and fear, resurrection and judgment, hell and heaven, in light of science, Scripture, and his own experience. As he ponders and creatively imagines—engaging throughout with biblical texts, church fathers, rabbinic scholars, poets, and philosophers—Allison offers fascinating fare that will captivate many a reader’s heart and soul. “In this probing work Dale Allison raises life’s largest possible theological questions—the questions we humans all have—questions about death, judgment, heaven, and hell. In a quest for answers, his nimble mind sends him racing across historical, cultural, and theological landscapes, and his range is astounding. . . . A treasure!” —Thomas G. Long Candler School of Theology
“Scholars will delight in the rich fare that Allison serves up, but this remarkable book will also speak to pastors and to every person who wonders about how to live in the face of death. Extraordinarily thoughtful and deeply personal, Night Comes makes a profound witness to the ultimate mysteries—and certainties—of religious faith.” —John P. Burgess Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Dale C. Allison Jr. is Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. His other books include The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus and The Luminous Dusk: Finding God in the Deep, Still Places.
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In this book Gisela Kreglinger explores the unique place of wine in a full-bodied Christian spirituality. She begins by examining wine in the Bible, in the history of the church, and in the Lord’s Supper, and these reflections culminate in a theology of joy and feasting that celebrates the human senses as gifts for tasting the goodness of God. Kreglinger proceeds to bring Christian spirituality and the world of wine together in new ways, exploring such matters as technology and wine-crafting, the health benefits of wine, alcohol abuse, consumerism, and soul care. Her discussion is enriched by interviews with thirty vintners from around the world as well as her own experience growing up on a family winery in Bavaria. “This book is special and full of surprises. Rich in biblical traditions and church history, it develops a new spirituality of the earth and our senses, leading us to consciously smell and taste the divine presence in wine. In vino veritas, in wine we taste the energy of the creative Spirit on this earth and the new earth. I am grateful for this beautiful book.” —Jürgen Moltmann
The Great Wall of China and the Salton Sea Monuments, Missteps, and the Audacity of Ambition Russell Rathbun Foreword by Nadia Bolz-Weber We’ve been building and making things ever since we stumbled out of Paradise. Some of those things are incredible continuations of God’s creation, while others are nothing but ambitious catastrophes. We continue making, says Russell Rathbun, but we’ve lost ourselves in the process. So how do we find ourselves again—rebuild our connections to each other, the earth, maybe even God? In search of an answer, Rathbun drives crosscountry to the Salton Sea and takes a trip to China’s Great Wall, interspersing his traveling revelations with engaging musings on Madame Mao’s Gang of Four, Grandpa Webb’s family secret, the Great Flood and the Tower of Babel, and a host of other subjects that grab his attention. With cheeky wit and sharp insight, Rathbun uncovers a way of finding ourselves and the deep connections we long for in an increasingly complex world.
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“Gisela Kreglinger writes with good humor and real piety about the transformative power of good wine. This is a thoughtful, prayerful, wide-ranging book, reminding us on every page that spirituality and gastronomy are inextricably linked. I will not soon forget Kreglinger’s theologically informed and deeply perceptive analysis of Babette’s Feast, one of my favorite stories.” —Alice Waters owner of Chez Panisse, Berkeley founder of the Edible Schoolyard project
Russell Rathbun is a writer, speaker, and blogger who brings his irreverent sense of humor and curiosity to often-overlooked subjects. A founding pastor of House of Mercy in Saint Paul, Minnesota (once named “the Best Church for Non-Churchgoers”), he has been regularly featured on Minnesota Public Radio and is also the author of Post-Rapture Radio.
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Gisela H. Kreglinger grew up on a winery in Franconia, Germany; her family has been crafting wine for many generations. She holds a PhD in historical theology from the University of St. Andrews, and she taught Christian spirituality for four years before turning to writing full-time.
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Light When It Comes
Holy Silence
Trusting Joy, Facing Darkness, and Seeing God in Everything
The Gift of Quaker Spirituality
Chris Anderson
Revised and Expanded
Foreword by Brian Doyle
J. Brent Bill Foreword by Philip Gulley
“An age that has fashioned faith into bludgeon and cudgel, and traded community for self-righteous indignation, might better be illumined by Light When It Comes and by the grace of Anderson’s vital, studious witness. The ties of belief that bind us, each to the other, needn’t be rope enough to hang, cruel lash or rein or tether. Rather, lifeline, safe mooring, the holy, miraculous lowering of our hobbled, heart-wrecked selves to the place of our redeeming.”
J. Brent Bill’s Holy Silence is a contemporary classic on sacred silence. With warmth, wisdom, and gentle humor, Bill presents the Quaker practice of silence and expectant listening to a wider Christian audience. “The practice of silence, in both its personal and its corporate expressions, is one of the special gifts Quakers have given to the larger Christian community. In Holy Silence J. Brent Bill unpacks this gift for us in vibrant colors and vivid detail. Holy Silence will deepen you, thicken you, and energize you. Get this book!” —Richard J. Foster author of Celebration of Discipline and Sanctuary of the Soul
“Brent Bill reminds us that silence is a dwindling resource that needs to be preserved for the sake of our souls. If you are seeking to hear God’s spirit beyond the din, follow the instructions it offers. Relax your body and mind. Breathe deeply. Pick up this book. And read. Can you imagine how silence might change your life?” —Diana Butler Bass author of Grounded: Finding God in the World
“Chris Anderson offers us a triune gift wrapped into a whole: beautiful prose, pastoral experience, and an authentic believing eye turned to our world. This volume is a grace to be received with abundant thanks.” —Lawrence S. Cunningham “Light When It Comes is both a literary gem and a cup of blessing for all who long to experience God’s presence.” —Paula Huston
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“In this brief primer on Quakerism in general and silence in particular, the author uses a practical tone to anchor reflections on what is essentially a matter of mystery: how God speaks in and through individual and communal silence. . . . A useful tool for readers seeking a guide to devotional practice.”
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Index [ ? indicates a new title, one appearing for the first time in any Eerdmans academic catalog]
? Allen The Concept of Woman 17 Allison Night Comes 30 ? Anderson Light When It Comes 31 ? Anderson Singing God’s Psalms (cicw) 22 ? Barclay Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews 9 ? Barr The Believing Scientist 17 Bass et al Christian Practical Wisdom 20 Bavinck The Riddle of Life 27 ? Bill Holy Silence 31 ? Bird An Anomalous Jew 3 ? Blackwell Christosis 16
? Davis & Dennis Preaching the Luminous Word 23 Dean & Hearlson How Youth Ministry Can Change Theological Education—If We Let It 21 ? DeBoer Visual Arts in the Worshiping Church (cicw) 22 DeGroat Wholeheartedness 29 Downs The Offering of the Gentiles 8 ? Dunn The Acts of the Apostles 10 Duty & Failinger On Secular Governance 19 ? Finney The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology 1
Bradley & Muller Church History, 2d ed 24
? Goheen Reading the Bible Missionally (gocs) 21
Brett Political Trauma and Healing 9
? Gorman Apostle of the Crucified Lord, 2d ed 5
? Briggs The Invisible Bestseller 19 ? Brumm “Yes! Well . . .” (hsrca) 24
? Green et al The Spirit over the Earth (mwt) 13
Jonson Nathan Soderblom 24 Joustra & Wilkinson How to Survive the Apocalypse 26 Kärkkäinen Spirit and Salvation 12 Kaufmann A Short Life of Martin Luther 24 Keener Spirit Hermeneutics 2 ? Kirk A Man Attested by God 3 Kreglinger The Spirituality of Wine 30 Lee Today When You Hear His Voice 14 ? Loader Jesus in John’s Gospel 4
? Thiselton Doubt, Faith, and Certainty 12
Waltke Finding the Will of God, 2d ed 28
Oakes A Theology of Grace in Six Controversies (ints) 15
? Wells & Kocher Eucharistic Prayers 23
Outka The Theological Anthropology of David Kelsey 16
Wendel & Miller Torah Ethics and Early Christian Identity 7
? Paas Church Planting in the Secular West (gocs) 21
? Williams Being Disciples 29
Gushee & Stassen Kingdom Ethics, 2d ed 18
Camosy Beyond the Abortion Wars 18
? Harris & Wilson Keeping Faith in Fundraising 27
? Carroll A Gathering of Larks 29
? Hart Damning Words (lrb) 25
Carson The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures 4
Hart A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays 26
Chapman 1 Samuel as Christian Scripture 10
Hart The Woman, the Hour, and the Garden 6
Collins The Apocalyptic Imagination, 3d ed 5
Harvey Drawn Three Ways 26
Radner Time and the Word 14
Henriksen & Sandnes Jesus as Healer 13
? Rathbun The Great Wall of China and the Salton Sea 30
? Hill Servant of All 20
Reid Wisdom’s Feast 7
? Hunt et al Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel 8
Riches Ecce Homo (ints) 15
? Crisp et al Neuroscience and the Soul 17
Thiselton Discovering Romans (dbt) 10
? Morrow An Introduction to Biblical Law 2
Cahalan & Schuurman Calling in Today’s World 20
Johnson 1 & 2 Thessalonians (thntc) 11
? Thielicke A Little Exercise for Young Theologians 21
Thomas & Macchia Revelation (thntc) 11
? Gurtner et al In the Fullness of Time 7
Insole The Intolerable God 16
? Taylor & Weir Women in the Story of Jesus 6
Meconi On Earth as It Is in Heaven (ctf) 15
? Burke & Landau New Testament Apocrypha 2
? Cox The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee (lrb) 25
Taylor & de Groot Women of War, Women of Woe 6
Thiselton A Shorter Guide to the Holy Spirit 13
Buckley What Do You Seek? 6
? Copenhaver To Begin at the Beginning, 3d ed 27
Sweeney Isaiah 40–66 (fotl) 11
McEntyre Word by Word 28
? Greidanus Preaching Christ from Psalms 23
? Collins Scriptures and Sectarianism 8
? Stuckenbruck The Myth of Rebellious Angels 9
Pally Commonwealth and Covenant 19 ? Park et al Worshiping with the Anaheim Vineyard (caw) 22 ? Peckham Canonical Theology 12 Pitstick Christ’s Descent into Hell 14 Porter The Apostle Paul 4 ? Porter Justice as a Virtue 18 Provan Discovering Genesis (dbt) 10
Sigurdson Heavenly Bodies 13 Stevens Aging Matters 28 ? Stott Basic Introduction to the New Testament 5
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? Williams Emblem of Faith Untouched (lrb) 25
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