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Illuminates Paul’s true place in early church tradition
and Malachi (NICOT) 6 Haggai Mignon R. Jacobs A rich new interpretation of these two Hebrew prophets
/ Colossians (NICNT) 7 Philemon Scot McKnight Two new commentaries from a highly respected biblical scholar
Edwards 9 Jonathan Oliver D. Crisp & Kyle C. Strobel An informed, accessible introduction to Edwards’s thought
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Early Jewish Literature
Stories with Intent
Paul
An Anthology
A Comprehensive Guide to the Parables of Jesus
An Apostle’s Journey
Brad Embry, Ronald Herms, and Archie T. Wright, editors
“These two volumes contribute greatly to our understanding of the literature, history, and theology of Judaism in antiquity. . . . The glossaries are invaluable for beginning students in Second Temple and biblical studies. The essays are carefully selected, and the primary texts are perfectly juxtaposed to communicate the variegated and complex nature of Second Temple Judaism.” — Hindy Najman Oriel College, Oxford
“An excellent collection of Second Temple literature with valuable introductory material presenting upto-date scholarship on these important works.” — Lawrence H. Schiffman New York University
Brad Embry is associate professor of Hebrew Bible and Old Testament studies at Regent University.
Klyne R. Snodgrass Winner of the 2009 Christianity Today Book Award for Biblical Studies, Stories with Intent offers pastors and students a comprehensive and accessible guide to Jesus’ parables. Klyne Snodgrass explores in vivid detail the historical context in which these stories were told, the part they played in Jesus’ overall message, and the ways in which they have been interpreted in the church and the academy. Snodgrass begins by surveying the primary issues in parables interpretation and providing an overview of other parables— often neglected in the discussion—from the Old Testament, Jewish writings, and the Greco-Roman world. He then groups the more important parables of Jesus thematically and offers a comprehensive treatment of each, exploring both background and significance for today. This 10th anniversary edition includes a substantial new chapter that surveys developments in the interpretation of parables since the book’s original 2008 publication. Praise for the original publication “Here in one volume is the latest and best interpretation of the parables of Jesus. This book is sure to be received as a fine resource for engaging proclamation of the parables.” — William H. Willimon “This book is simply a stunning achievement. . . . Scholar and student alike will appreciate its admirable clarity and its numerous fresh suggestions.” — Graham Stanton “Here is a book with intent, and it succeeds exceptionally well in opening up a key dimension of Jesus’ ministry and teaching.” — Darrell Bock
Archie T. Wright is associate professor of biblical studies at Regent University.
Klyne R. Snodgrass is professor emeritus of New Testament at North Park Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois. His previous books include The Parable of the Wicked Tenants, Between Two Truths: Living with Biblical Tensions, and the NIV Application Commentary volume on Ephesians.
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Ronald Herms is dean of the School of Humanities, Religion, and Social Sciences at Fresno Pacific University.
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Douglas A. Campbell Douglas Campbell has made a name for himself as one of Paul’s most insightful and provocative interpreters. In this short and spirited book Campbell introduces readers to the apostle he has studied in depth over his scholarly career. Ideal for students, study groups, and individual readers, Paul: An Apostle’s Journey dramatically recounts the life of one of early Christianity’s most fascinating figures— and offers powerful insights into his mind and his influential message. “Crazy! A racy, pageturning blockbuster on the apostle Paul! Simultaneously courageous and outrageous, tendentious and tender, pugnacious and pastoral, Campbell pours forth his vision of Paul with imagination, verve, and passion; with stories ancient and modern; with immense learning on every page, but never a boring word. The best book on Paul since Acts.” — Douglas Harink The King’s University, Edmonton
“This lively, engaging, distinctive, and personal portrait of the apostle Paul makes him powerfully relevant for Christians in the contemporary USA while also situating him firmly in the ancient world.” — David G. Horrell
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Early Jewish Liter ature: An Anthology offers more than seventy selections from Second Temple– era Jewish literature, introduced and translated by such leading scholars as James Charlesworth, Sidnie White Crawford, James D. G. Dunn, Peter W. Flint, and James VanderKam. This two-volume anthology presents both complete works and substantial excerpts of longer works, giving readers a solid introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Old Testament pseudepigrapha, the writings of Josephus and Philo of Alexandria, and the Apocrypha.
Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition
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VOLUME 1: Scriptural Texts and Traditions • Interpretive History • Romanticized Narrative • Biblical Interpretation and Rewritten Scripture VOLUME 2: Wisdom Literature and Legal Texts • Apocalyptic Literature • Psalms, Hymns, and Prayers • Testamentary Literature
University of Exeter
“Quite simply outstanding, accessible to those with little theological education yet packed with enough depth to keep an experienced reader engrossed. . . . Campbell’s exegetical skill and theological erudition are here joined by a remarkable pastoral and even prophetic depth, which confronts us with the phenomenon of Paul in a unique way.” — Chris Tilling St. Mellitus College
“A lively, readable, and profoundly insightful study of Paul and his life by one of his greatest contemporary interpreters.” — Alan J. Torrance University of St. Andrews
Douglas A. Campbell is professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School; his other books include Framing Paul: An Epistolary Biography and The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul.
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A History of Biblical Interpretation
Spirit Hermeneutics
Volume 3: The Enlightenment through the Nineteenth Century
Reading Scripture in Light of Pentecost
Alan J. Hauser and Duane F. Watson, editors
Craig S. Keener
“Alan Hauser and Duane Watson, two veterans in biblical scholarship, have judiciously selected expert scholars to provide a volume that will become the standard text on the rise and enduring power of historical criticism—its methods, its scholars, its search for the historical Jesus, its revision of long-held assumptions about biblical authorship—all of which shook the Christian tradition at its foundations.” — Scot McKnight Northern Seminary
“The great value of this project lies in the combination of focused essays on key figures and issues, with an overarching introduction to the whole period by the editors. In this third volume, such a format furnishes a well-constructed review of the highly complex but crucial set of intellectual and cultural changes that defined not just modern biblical scholarship but modernity itself, while the essays illustrate the necessity of understanding key figures and themes in their own distinctiveness and integrity. This work will serve both the scholar and the student very well indeed.” — Philip Davies
Foreword by Amos Yong “A compelling guide to reading Scripture experientially, eschatologically, and missionally. Craig 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. . . . A wide range of readers will discover in Spirit Hermeneutics much to engage with and ponder.” — Jeannine Brown Bethel Seminary San Diego
University of Sheffield
Contributors: Bill T. Arnold, William Baird, J. D. G. Dunn, Travis L. Frampton, Alan J. Hauser, Christine Helmer, Darrell Jodock, Dirk Jongkind, Jeffrey F. Keuss, Michael C. Legaspi, Carter Lindberg, Thomas H. Olbricht, J. W. xRogerson, James A. Sanders, David B. Schreiner, Duane F. Watson.
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Craig S. Keener is F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky.
978-0-8028-7561-7 / paperback / 550 pages / $40.00 [£33.99] / October
Alan J. Hauser is professor of biblical studies and Judaism at Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.
Interpreting the Gospel and Letters of John
Duane F. Watson is professor of New Testament studies at Malone University, Canton, Ohio.
An Introduction
978-0-8028-4275-6 / hardcover / 440 pages / $60.00 [£49.99] / Available
Reading Jesus’s Bible How the New Testament Helps Us Understand the Old Testament John Goldingay In this book John Goldingay highlights five major ways in which the New Testament uses the Old Testament. Along with an overview of how Jesus and the first Christian writers read the Old Testament, illustrated with passages from Matthew, Romans, 1 Corinthians, and Hebrews, Goldingay offers a straightforward introduction to the Old Testament in its own right. Reading Jesus’s Bible will shed fresh Old Testament light on Jesus, God, and the church for readers today. “In an age of increased specialization few biblical scholars explore the forward and backward movement between Old Testament and New. It is to John Goldingay’s credit that he does precisely that in such an accessible manner in this book. He brings his years of research, writing, and teaching to bear on this critically important subject. . . . Essential reading!” — Craig G. Bartholomew Redeemer University College
John Goldingay is David Allan Hubbard Professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary and priest-in-charge at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California.
Sherri Brown and Francis J. Moloney, SDB “Combining the skills of the teacher and the excellence of sound scholarship, Sherri Brown and Francis Moloney have produced a fine resource to guide students on their journey into the wisdom and world of John. Brown and Moloney’s big-picture approach embraces Israel’s story, Rome’s world, and the church’s beginnings as a framework for a careful reading of the biblical texts. This is an introduction filled with innovation and insight, a delight for learner and teacher alike.” — William Loader Murdoch University, Western Australia
“In this exceptional textbook Brown and Moloney accomplish a herculean task. They offer not only a full commentary and close reading of the Johannine Literature (Gospel and Letters!) but also combine this fine work with introductions to foundational methodologies for biblical interpretation, the history of Israel and early Christianity, and the Bible as Sacred Scripture. . . . An outstanding tool for the classroom and beyond.” — Ruben Zimmermann Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany
Sherri Brown is assistant professor of New Testament at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, and the author of several works, including God’s Promise: Covenant Relationship in John. Francis J. Moloney, SDB, is senior professorial fellow at Australian Catholic University. His many previous books include the Sacra Pagina commentary on John and Love in the Gospel of John: An Exegetical, Theological, and Literary Study.
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Reading Paul with the Reformers
Paul and the Person
Steward of God’s Mysteries
Reframing Paul’s Anthropology
Paul and Early Church Tradition
Reconciling the Old and New Perspectives
Susan Grove Eastman
Jerry L. Sumney
Stephen J. Chester
Foreword by John M. G. Barclay
Foreword by Patrick Gray
Foreword by John M. G. Barclay
Baylor University
University of Cambridge
“If Sanders’s Paul and Palestinian Judaism did much to correct existing caricatures of early Judaism, it introduced a period in which many Pauline scholars were content to repeat caricatures of Luther and other Reformers. Chester’s diligent research in this book renders future misrepresentations inexcusable; at the same time, it shows how critical engagement with the Reformers can alert us to overlooked aspects of Paul’s thought. A most impressive and timely contribution to current debates.” — Stephen Westerholm McMaster University
“In this remarkable book, the fruit of many years of reading and reflection, Stephen Chester has made a decisive intervention into Pauline scholarship that significantly alters the terrain. . . . Hours of futile disputes and reams of pages caricaturing the Reformers could have been avoided if Pauline scholars had known this material. . . . Chester’s work will surely fertilize Pauline scholarship for many decades to come.” — John M. G. Barclay
(from foreword) Durham University
Stephen J. Chester is professor of New Testa ment and academic dean at North Park Theological Seminary, Chicago, and the author of Conversion at Corinth: Perspectives on Conversion in Paul’s Theology and the Corinthian Church.
St. Mary’s Seminary & University
“An erudite and energetic reframing of Paul’s understanding of human identity and personhood. Eastman’s penetrating and expansive interpretation is a bold, insightful, and important addition to biblical study.” — L. Ann Jervis Wycliffe College, University of Toronto
“Susan Eastman is an intellectual explorer. From the familiar terrain of Paul’s statements about humanity she has gone in search of concepts, frames of reference, and models of personhood that could help us make sense of Paul. She has traveled far, into philosophy (ancient and modern), neuroscience, and experimental psychology—mostly territory unknown to biblical scholars—and she has returned in triumph. . . . This book [gives] us rich new insight into Paul and well-conceived language with which to communicate his theology effectively today.” — John M. G. Barclay (from foreword) Durham University
Susan Grove Eastman is associate research professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School and the author of Recovering Paul’s Mother Tongue: Language and Theology in Galatians.
Brite Divinity School
“An extensive and sustained argument against sensationalist claims that Paul was the inventor or second founder of Christianity or that he somehow corrupted the pure religion of Jesus. Sumney’s careful historical approach situates Paul within pre-Pauline and non-Pauline traditions in the earliest church and presents Paul as more of a transmitter than an innovator of these traditions. Enormously helpful to students and scholars alike.” — Troy W. Martin Saint Xavier University
“It is much easier to make facile claims about Paul ‘founding’ Christianity, by accident or by design, or ‘inventing’ this or that aspect of Christian theology than it is to engage in close, critical, dispassionate analysis of the primary texts. The devil is in the details. Sumney will have succeeded if his examination of these details makes it more difficult to invoke pat answers that do little to illuminate the origins of Christianity and Paul’s role in it.” — Patrick Gray (from foreword)
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“It is rare to find a book on justification in Paul that is so original. Chester here displays remarkable learning, touching on historical fields most New Testament scholars know hardly anything about. Every scholar with an interest in Pauline soteriology should read this book.” — Simon Gathercole
“Eastman’s interdisciplinary study of Paul’s anthropology, in conversation with voices ancient and modern, contends that participation, imitation, and relationality are at the heart of being a person. Elegantly written and persuasively argued, this groundbreaking book also invites further conversation. A remarkable achievement.” — Michael J. Gorman
“Did Paul ‘invent’ Christianity, as some have claimed? If not, what did he contribute? Employing an approach that compares teachings of the earliest communities with Paul’s teachings, Jerry Sumney argues that Paul creatively interprets preformed teachings and confessions to address new questions and situations. The result is a highly recommended and insightful contribution to understanding Paul’s place within the diversity and richness of Christian origins.” — Warren Carter
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“For a scholarly generation, students of Paul have confidently treated the sixteenth-century Reformers as Paul’s ‘misinterpreters-inchief.’ Now Stephen Chester’s patient and learned treatment of the Reformers’ Pauline exegesis exposes both their thoughtfulness and their potential as wise conversation partners in the present. This is a major contribution to Pauline study.” — Beverly Roberts Gaventa
In this book Susan Grove Eastman presents a fresh and innovative exploration of Paul’s participatory theology in conversation with both ancient and contemporary conceptions of the self. Juxtaposing Paul, ancient philosophers, and modern theorists of the person, Eastman opens up a conversation that illuminates Paul’s thought in new ways and brings his voice into current debates about personhood.
Rhodes College
Jerry L. Sumney is professor of biblical studies at Lexington Theological Seminary. His previous books include Paul: Apostle and Fellow Traveler; Servants of Satan, False Brothers, and Other Opponents of Paul; and The Bible: An Introduction, now in its second edition.
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Saved by Faith and Hospitality
Jesus the Eternal Son
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
Answering Adoptionist Christology
The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
Joshua W. Jipp
Michael F. Bird
Second Edition
Foreword by Christine D. Pohl
Foreword by Richard Bauckham
“In this remarkable study Joshua Jipp shows that extending hospitality to outcasts and strangers is at the heart of biblical faith. As he moves from biblical exegesis to an analysis of our present moment, Jipp argues passionately that the practice of unconditional welcome is central to salvation and therefore requisite for Christians. No message could be more urgent today.” — Jennifer M. McBride
“In this brief and compelling book Michael Bird challenges those scholars who think that the earliest recoverable Christology was adoptionist. Instead he proposes that the earliest Christologies formed a pattern of convictions and practices that featured Jesus at the center of Christian devotion. Only later, in the second century among the Theodotians, did adoptionism emerge full-scale in debates over select texts and how they should be interpreted. A careful answer to the perennial question Who is Jesus?” — David B. Capes
author of Radical Discipleship: A Liturgical Politics of the Gospel
“The twenty-first-century American church faces the crisis of exclusion. In this book Joshua Jipp points toward the possibility of a church that is not drenched in the un-Christian characteristic of irrational xenophobia but instead follows in the footsteps of Jesus’s hospitality. If North American churches embrace this crucial biblical teaching, we may truly become the Christian witness we claim to be.” — Soong-Chan Rah author of The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity
“Jipp’s biblical case is impeccable; his argument and practical examples will challenge even mature believers and churches.” — Craig L. Blomberg author of Christians in an Age of Wealth: A Biblical Theology of Stewardship
“A wonderfully succinct, substantive, and engaging treatment. Jipp succeeds in showing that divine and human welcome are at the heart of our Christian faith. . . . He brings to life a fascinating and fruitful conversation between the ancient biblical texts and our current challenges. This work is a gift to the church and a major contribution to the recovery of the practice of hospitality.” — Christine D. Pohl (from foreword) author of Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition
Joshua W. Jipp is assistant professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois.
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Richard Bauckham
Houston Graduate School of Theology
“An engagingly written, well-researched, and persuasive challenge to a modern (and ancient) adoptionist reading of early Christianity. As one expects from Michael Bird, this book displays his wide-ranging command of relevant disciplines and his respectful engagement with a variety of views.” — Craig S. Keener Asbury Theological Seminary
“Bird mounts a doughty and well-argued challenge to the notion that New Testament texts reflect an adoptionist view of Jesus’s relation to God. His detailed discussion of the Gospel of Mark in particular is a substantial contribution to recent debate about its Christology.” — Larry Hurtado University of Edinburgh
“With the swell of publications emerging from such able and diverse scholars as Daniel Kirk, Richard Hays, Brant Pitre, Crispin Fletcher-Louis and others, the time is ripe for a little more systematic reflection on early adoptionist claims. . . . Any future assertions that the earliest Christology was adoptionist will have to reckon with Bird’s perceptive exegesis.” — Chris Tilling St. Mellitus College
Michael F. Bird is lecturer in theology at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia. His previous books include An Anomalous Jew: Paul among Jews, Greeks, and Romans 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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Foreword by Simon Gathercole This critically acclaimed work argues that the four Gospels are based on the eyewitness testimony of those who personally knew Jesus. Noted New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption that the stories about Jesus circulated as “anonymous community traditions,” asserting instead that they were transmitted in the names of the original eyewitnesses. In this expanded second edition Bauckham has added a new preface, three substantial new chapters that respond to critics and clarify key points of his argument, and a comprehensive new bibliography. “Whenever I have been asked over the past ten years what the most significant recent books in my discipline are, I have invariably made mention of this book. I am delighted that the book is enjoying a tenth birthday party with a new release. . . . Jesus and the Eyewitnesses has had a major impact on the study of the Gospels over the past decade. It now appears on reading lists for courses in universities and seminaries across the world. . . . [It] is a product both of a deep interest and expertise in the study of the New Testament, and of a historian’s training that has not been constrained by some of the more unfortunate characteristics of New Testament study as it is practiced today. This second edition will no doubt further the influence of this remarkable book.” — Simon Gathercole (from foreword) University of Cambridge
Praise for the first edition “This book is a remarkable piece of detective work, resulting in a fresh and vivid approach to dozens, perhaps hundreds, of well-known problems and passages.” — N. T. Wright “It will be hard to take seriously future works on the origin of the Gospels that have not interacted with Bauckham. . . . Recommended.” — Choice Richard Bauckham is professor emeritus of New Testament studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
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The Urban World and the First Christians Steve Walton, Paul R. Trebilco, and David W. J. Gill, editors
Truett Seminary, Baylor University
“Makes fruitful inroads into a range of significant issues in the study of the urban context of early Christianity. Especially valuable is the juxtaposition of studies of particular cities and texts with studies of the idea of city among early Christians and their contemporaries. This will undoubtedly be a key resource in the field.” — Peter Oakes University of Manchester
Contributors: Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski, Cédric Brélaz, Paul Cloke, David W. J. Gill, David G. Horrell, Chris Keith, Anthony Le Donne, Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, Helen Morris, Ian Paul, Volker Rabens, Anders Runesson, Matthew Sleeman, Joan E. Taylor, Paul R. Trebilco, Steve Walton, Wei Hsien Wan. Steve Walton is professor in New Testament at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham (London). Paul R. Trebilco is professor of New Testament studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Mark Harding and Alanna Nobbs, editors Into All the World—the third volume from Mark Harding and Alanna Nobbs on the content and social setting of the New Testament—brings together a team of eminent Australian scholars and others with close links to Australian institutions, who together elucidate key themes in emergent Christianity. In their analysis of the spread of Christianity throughout the Jewish and Greco-Roman world of the first century, the contributors discuss all the post-Pauline New Testament writings, devoting attention to both their content and their context. They examine the impact of the growth of the church on both Jews and Gentiles, exploring the diaspora, the place of minorities, the Book of Acts, the Fourth Gospel, and more. The book proceeds to a discussion of Christianity’s impact on the Roman state, including consideration of the book of Revelation and the imperial cult. A final chapter investigates how the church was perceived by Clement of Rome at the end of the first century. Contributors
Paul B. Duff When Jesus of Nazareth began proclaiming the kingdom of God, he likely had no intention of starting a new religion, especially one that included former pagans. Yet a new religion did eventually develop—one that not only included non-Jews but was soon dominated by them. How did this happen? Paul Duff explains how in Jesus Followers in the Roman Empire. Paying special attention to social, cultural, and religious contexts—as well as to early Christian ideas about idolatry, marriage, family, slavery, and ethnicity— Duff’s informed narrative shows how the rural Jewish movement led by Jesus developed into a largely non-Jewish phenomenon permeating urban centers of the Roman Empire. “Paul Duff draws on a rich variety of outstanding contemporary scholarship while presenting the beliefs and practices of the early Jesus followers in an engaging and reader-friendly way. His discussions of why some pagans were attracted to the rather Jewish message of ‘religious experts’ like Paul, and decided to live as ‘sojourners,’ are especially fascinating and persuasive. I can’t wait to use this book with students!” — Mark D. Given
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“What do you get when you bring together human geographers, classicists, and Neutestamentlers to consider how ancient cities impacted the growth and thought of early Christian communities? Taken together, and along with the work of skilled editors and a strong press, you get The Urban World and the First Christians—a fascinating collection of learned, transdisciplinary essays by leading scholars in their respective fields. These substantive studies will shape your thinking about the urban landscape of the earliest Christ-followers and will lead you to think afresh about Christianity, whether ancient or modern, as an urban phenomenon.” — Todd D. Still
Emergent Christianity in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Context
Jesus Followers in the Roman Empire
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In the tradition of The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks, this book explores the relationship between the earliest Christians and the city environment. Experts in classics, early Christianity, and human geography analyze the growth, development, and self-understanding of the early Christian movement in urban settings.
Into All the World
Missouri State University
Bradley J. Bitner, Edward Bridge, Johan Ferreira, Chris Forbes, Lydia Gore-Jones, Mark Harding, James R. Harrison, Stephen Llewelyn, Timothy MacBride, Paul McKechnie, Alanna Nobbs, Ian K. Smith, Murray J. Smith, David Starling, L. L. Welborn, Bruce W. Winter. Mark Harding is the former dean of the Australian College of Theology and an honorary associate of Macquarie University. Alanna Nobbs is professor of ancient history and former deputy director of the Ancient Cultures Research Centre at Macquarie University.
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“This sensible and coherent account of how early Christianity emerged neither loads readers with too much detail nor retreats into the pious myopia that simply rehashes the Bible. Hearing the story in its historical and social context brings it to life and makes it real. Duff has done a sterling job in mediating the best of scholarship for a wider readership in clear and readable prose.” — William Loader Murdoch University
Paul B. Duff is professor of religion at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He is also the author of Who Rides the Beast? Prophetic Rivalry and the Rhetoric of Crisis in the Churches of the Apocalypse and Paul in Corinth: The Apologetic Context of 2 Corinthians 3.
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David W. J. Gill is professor of archaeological heritage and director of heritage futures at the University of Suffolk.
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The New International Commentary on the Old Testament
The Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary
Robert L. Hubbard Jr., series editor
Micah
Ezra and Nehemiah
Stephen G. Dempster
David J. Shepherd and Christopher J. H. Wright
The Books of Haggai and Malachi Mignon R. Jacobs This new commentary on Haggai and Malachi by Mignon Jacobs offers clear and insightful interpretation of the ancient text while drawing out themes that are especially relevant to contemporary concerns, such as honoring or dishonoring God, the responsibilities of leaders, questioning God, and hearing the prophetic word in challenging times. Engaging with the latest scholarship, Jacobs provides a thorough introduction to both prophets in which she addresses questions of authorship, date, purpose, structure, and theology, followed by a new translation of the biblical text and a verse-by-verse commentary. With intertextual discussions about key aspects of the text and attention to competing perspectives, this commentary offers a rich new interpretation of Haggai and Malachi. “A commentary on Haggai and Malachi from a wise and experienced scholar like Mignon Jacobs is to be welcomed. . . . Those who may be unsure of what two shorter prophetic books have to say to the modern reader need look no further. This is an excellent contribution to an increasingly important commentary series.” — Daniel L. Smith-Christopher Loyola Marymount University
“Jacobs provides an in-depth treatment of these two oft-neglected prophetic works, always with close attention to the Hebrew text.” — Marvin A. Sweeney Claremont School of Theology Academy for Jewish Religion California
Mignon R. Jacobs is professor of Old Testament studies, dean, and chief academic officer at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ohio. Among her other books is Gender, Power, and Persuasion: The Genesis Narratives and Contemporary Portraits.
J. Gordon McConville and Craig Bartholomew, series editors
“This volume on Micah by Stephen Dempster represents biblical-commentary writing at its best. With brilliant insights, an engaging literary style, an impassioned tone, and a whole-Bible theological acumen, Dempster invites us into the world and message of this eighth-century prophet. But he does not leave us there. He challenges us to let its life-giving message transform our thinking about pressing social and ethical issues in our time.” — Daniel Block Wheaton College
“Founded in deep exegetical reflections and broad canonical connections, Dempster’s commentary draws out theological implications that will challenge contemporary audiences to embrace the message of Micah for faith and life.” — Mark J. Boda McMaster Divinity College
“Dempster capably and insightfully interprets Micah as a book in its ancient setting, giving attention to historical, literary, and theological matters, while also placing its contents in a larger, biblical-theological context and showing its instructive power for contemporary reflection.” — J. Andrew Dearman Fuller Seminary Texas
“Up to now, the theological interpretation of Scripture movement has clearly pointed out the failures of historical-critical commentaries but has struggled to provide a viable alternative. Here we see a truly theological commentary that uses a wide range of scholarship to engage the book of Micah as the Word of God. This is an outstanding example of what the commentary genre can and should be.” — Craig A. Carter Tyndale University College, Toronto
Stephen G. Dempster is professor of religious studies at Crandall University, Moncton, New Brunswick. He is also the author of Dominion and Dynasty: A Theology of the Hebrew Bible.
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Two distinguishing features of the Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary series—theological exegesis and theological reflection—are both fully realized in this volume on Ezra and Nehemiah. Following an introduction and concise, verse-by-verse commentary on both books, David J. Shepherd and Christopher J. H. Wright engage critically with those portions of the text (such as Ezra’s dissolution of the Judeans’ marriages with foreigners) that pre sent special problems for contemporary readers. “This gem of a commentary focuses on the narrative setting of the book of Ezra-Nehemiah. Shepherd and Wright draw the reader into the story with its twists and turns in the relationships between God, the community, and the crown. . . . Serious students of the Word will welcome their sound scholarship as well as their insights on the continuing relevance of the story for today’s community of faith.” — Hannah K. Harrington Patten University
“These books have often been treated selectively in Christian ministry. There are some sections that seem frankly to be an embarrassment. The great merit of this commentary is that it keeps the two horizons of the whole work firmly in view. The commentary itself is succinct but admirably perceptive. The extended essays that follow face up to the moral and ethical challenges while steering a sympathetic pathway that without special pleading does justice to the books’ position in Christian Scripture as a whole.” — H. G. M. Williamson University of Oxford
David J. Shepherd is lecturer in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Trinity College Dublin, where he also directs the Trinity Centre for Biblical Studies. Christopher J. H. Wright is international ministries director for Langham Partnership. His other books include Old Testament Ethics for the People of God and The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative.
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A Commentary on the Gospel of John
The New International Commentary on the New Testament Joel B. Green, series editor
Scot McKnight
Scot McKnight
Paul urges Philemon to challenge social barriers and establish new realities of conduct and fellowship. His letter is nevertheless a disturbing text that has been used to justify slavery. Though brief, the letter to Philemon requires and rewards close scrutiny. In this commentary Scot McKnight carefully analyzes the text of Philemon and brings its entanglement with ancient Roman slavery into conversation with modern slavery. Too often, McKnight says, studies of this short letter gloss over the issue of slavery. Christians who want to read Philemon faithfully must grapple with moral questions, personal and institutional, that Paul himself does not raise. Pastors and scholars will find in McKnight’s commentary the insight they need to teach this controversial short book in meaningful new ways.
In the letter to the Colossians, Paul offers a compelling vision of the Christian life; his claims transcend religion and bring politics, culture, spirituality, power, ethnicity, and more into play. This exegetical and theological commentary by Scot McKnight delves deeply into Paul’s message in Colossians and draws out the theology that underpins it. McKnight interacts closely with the text of Colossians itself while bringing the best of biblical scholarship to the table. He focuses on reading Colossians in the context of Paul’s other letters, his theology, and his mission to preach the gospel to the Gentiles. Crafted specifically for preachers and teachers, this engaging and accessible commentary casts fresh light on Colossians.
Ridley College, Melbourne
“Scot McKnight has given us a bold study of this controversial little letter. He stares unflinchingly into the realities of slavery. . . . Working from conservative positions on critical issues, McKnight sees the letter to Philemon as demanding that the church today work in society to bring reconciliation and liberation to a world in need of both.” — Jerry L. Sumney Lexington Theological Seminary
Scot McKnight holds the Julius R. Mantey Chair in New Testament at Northern Seminary, Lisle, Illinois. His many other books include The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others; A Community Called Atonement; NIV Application Commentary volumes on Galatians and 1 Peter; and the NICNT volume on James. He also writes the award-winning Jesus Creed blog at patheos.com.
“Scot McKnight’s commentary on Colossians offers everything one could want: a lively and readable exposition of the biblical text, with helpful observations on Greek grammar and translation; familiarity with primary sources that illumine the ancient context of this letter and the situation that evoked it; a wide-ranging acquaintance with issues in recent scholarship on Pauline theology; and sensitivity to the epistle’s theological claims and themes. Those committed to a careful study of this epistle will find McKnight a wise and judicious guide.” — Marianne Meye Thompson Fuller Theological Seminary
“McKnight’s conservative approach to Paul incorporates insights from a broad spectrum of ‘new approaches’ to the apostle and his theology. His years of teaching Colossians in Greek provide detailed grammar analysis in footnotes. McKnight’s insistence that Paul is above all a missionary and pastor for whom the new regime of King Jesus challenges the dark powers of imperialism provides pastors with a fresh vision of church communities as the embodiment of God’s new creation.” — Pheme Perkins Boston College
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“Everyone interested in the Gospel of John—from the student to the pastor to the professional biblical scholar and theologian—has been rendered a great service by the publication of this translation. Uncomplicated, excellently documented, and written with a lightness of touch, Johannes Beutler’s commentary on the Gospel of John will provide a wonderful window for all English-only readers. They can now gaze through it into the exciting world of the best of European Johannine scholarship.” — Francis J. Moloney (from foreword) Australian Catholic University
“Displaying notably solid judgment and lucid insight, the lifetime Johannine study of one of Europe’s leading New Testament scholars is now available to the English-speaking world in this clear and accessible form. By interpreting the Fourth Gospel’s synchronicity of tradition within a diachronicity of situation, Johannes Beutler not only illumines our understandings of John’s message for its original audiences; he also unveils its meanings helpfully for readers today. A must-read for John’s interpreters!” — Paul N. Anderson George Fox University
“We are greatly indebted to Beutler for sharing with us the ripe fruit of his more than forty years of Johannine research.” — Reimund Bieringer University of Leuven
Johannes Beutler, SJ, is professor emeritus of New Testament exegesis at the Sankt Geor gen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology, Frankfurt am Main, and the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome.
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New Testament scholar Johannes Beutler brings together a lifetime of study and reflection in this acclaimed commentary, first published in German in 2013 and now available to Englishspeaking audiences for the first time. Moving through the Gospel of John with a careful and critical eye, Beutler engages the relevant primary and secondary sources; summarizes the existing discussion; and presents syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic analyses of the text.
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“A lucid and illuminating verse-by-verse analysis of Paul’s letter to Philemon. Scot McKnight soberly tackles the topics of Roman slavery, reconciliation, and Paul’s vision for churches to be dominated not by power relationships but by sibling-like relationships rooted in the new creation. McKnight makes this small letter stand tall among the writings of the Pauline corpus. A sheer joy to read!” — Michael F. Bird
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The Church’s Bible Robert Louis Wilken, general editor
The Bible in Medieval Tradition
Matthew
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D. H. Williams, translator and editor The Church’s Bible series brings the rich classical tradition of biblical interpretation to life, illuminating Scripture as it was understood during the first millennium of Christian history. Compiled, translated, and edited by leading scholars, these volumes lead contemporary clergy, Bible teachers, and students of Scripture into the inexhaustible spiritual and theological world of the early church. This volume on Matthew contains select freshly translated excerpts from patristic commentators including John Chrysostom, Irenaeus of Lyons, Origen, Tertullian, and Augustine. Ranging chronologically from the second century to the seventh century, these selections splendidly display a neglected part of the church’s interpretive tradition on Matthew. “Daniel Williams’s expertise and labor have resulted in an extraordinarily useful volume. The Gospel of Matthew was intensively studied and preached in the early church; it provided guidance for the organization of the church, the pursuit of its mission, and Christian living. Its riches were well elaborated and displayed as early teachers adapted and applied Christ’s guidance to the challenges faced in new cultures. This selection of expositions displays a full range of understandings that subsequently narrowed to meet institutional needs.” — J. Patout Burns Jr. Vanderbilt Divinity School
The Book of Jeremiah Joy A. Schroeder, translator and editor This BMT volume on Jeremiah provides substantial excerpts from seven noteworthy biblical interpreters—Rabanus Maurus, Rupert of Deutz, Albert the Great, Hugh of St. Cher, Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Lyra, and Denis the Carthusian—who commented on Jeremiah between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. “Schroeder offers here a broad sampling of the medieval exegetical tradition on Jeremiah—a book that, despite its length, did not receive much attention from medieval commentators. However, Schroeder’s accessible translation, richly annotated and preceded by a thorough introduction to the medieval interpretive tradition, shows that medieval commentators have much to offer to modern interpreters. Included here are select translations from almost every medieval commentary currently available in a printed edition, ranging from the Carolingian Rabanus Maurus to the late-medieval mystic Denis the Carthusian.” — Frans van Liere Calvin College
“Joy Schroeder’s introduction alone in this volume is an outstanding guide to the history of medieval biblical interpretation in all its variety and surprising originality. Her translations are clear, readable, and accessible, while faithfully conveying the distinct voice of each medieval author. Finally, the notes and bibliography provide up-to-date resources for further study.” — Wanda Zemler-Cizewski Marquette University
D. H. Williams is professor of religion in patristics and historical theology at Baylor University and the author of Evangelicals and Tradition: The Formative Influence of the Early Church.
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Joy A. Schroeder is professor of church history at Trinity Lutheran Seminary, professor of religion at Capital University, and holder of the Bergener Chair of Theology and Religion at both schools in Columbus, Ohio. Her previous books include Deborah’s Daughters: Gender Politics and Biblical Interpretation and the BMT volume on Genesis.
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The Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia Harry S. Stout, general editor Kenneth P. Minkema and Adriaan C. Neele, associate editors Foreword by George M. Marsden Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is widely acknowledged as one of the most brilliant religious thinkers and multifaceted figures in American history. The Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia, with nearly four hundred entries written by 169 authors, offers succinct synopses of topics large and small from his life, thought, and work. “The astonishing renaissance in study of Jonathan Edwards has very much needed a definitive reference work. This is it. An army of first-rate Edwards scholars has written authoritatively on every angle of his life and thought. The book summarizes, but it should also spur, the best kind of historical and theological scholarship.” — Mark A. Noll University of Notre Dame
“This remarkable volume of nearly 400 essays tackles a sweeping range of topics related to the life, thought, times, and legacy of America’s most influential theologian. The authors consider important but oftenoverlooked topics (such as Edwards’s shifting views on aging) and cast new light on often-considered topics (such as Edwards’s Puritan context). The concise bibliographic suggestions at the end of each article are worth the price of admission alone.” — Grant Wacker Duke Divinity School
Harry S. Stout is the Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History at Yale University, general editor of the Works of Jonathan Edwards, and director of Yale’s Jonathan Edwards Center. Kenneth P. Minkema is the executive editor of the Works of Jonathan Edwards and executive director of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale. Adriaan C. Neele is the consulting and digital editor of the Works of Jonathan Edwards and the Jonathan Edwards Center.
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Hope and Community
Church in Ordinary Time
An Introduction to His Thought
A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World, Volume 5
A Wisdom Ecclesiology
Oliver D. Crisp and Kyle C. Strobel
Oliver D. Crisp is professor of systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. His other books include Jonathan Edwards on God and Creation and Jonathan Edwards among the Theologians. Kyle C. Strobel is associate professor of spiritual theology at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. He is also the author of Jonathan Edwards’s Theology: A Reinterpretation and Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards.
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This fifth and final volume of Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s ambitious five-part systematic theology develops a constructive Christian eschatology and ecclesiology in dialogue with the Christian tradition, with contemporary theology in all its global and contextual diversity, and with other major living faiths— Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. “A fitting finale to a remarkable tour de force of systematic theology, this volume exhibits the qualities we have come to appreciate in Kärkkäinen’s scholarship: it is comprehensive, relevant, respectful yet critical of Christian tradition, and engaging of global and interreligious realities.” — Adonis Vidu Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
“As with the previous volumes in Kärkkäinen’s fivepart Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World, this concluding volume on eschatology and ecclesiology is a remarkable work of synthesis on a staggeringly ambitious scale. It is marked throughout by the concern to marry a constructive particularity (Pentecostal and mainline Lutheran) with a generous hospitality to the insights of many other Christian traditions and world faiths. Every reader will be provoked to disagree and challenged to learn.” — Paul D. Murray Durham University
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen is professor of systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, and docent of ecumenics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His many previous books include Christ and Reconciliation, Trinity and Revelation, Creation and Humanity, and Spirit and Salvation, which together comprise the first four volumes in A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World.
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Amy Plantinga Pauw The liturgical season called “ordinary time” consists mostly of the weeks between Easter and the beginning of Advent. This season, generally ignored by theologians, aptly symbolizes the church’s existence as God’s creature in the gap between the resurrection of Christ and the consummation of all things. In this book Amy Plantinga Pauw draws on the seasons of the church year and the creation theology elaborated in the Wisdom books of Scripture to explore the contours of a Trinitarian ecclesiology that is properly attuned to the church’s life amid the realities of today’s world.
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Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) has long been recognized as one of the preeminent thinkers in the early Enlightenment and a major figure in the history of American Christianity. In this accessible one-volume text, leading Edwards experts Oliver Crisp and Kyle Strobel introduce readers to the fascinating and formidable mind of Jonathan Edwards as they survey key theological and philosophical themes in his thought, including his doctrine of the Trinity, his philosophical theology of God and creation, and his understanding of the atonement and salvation. More than two centuries after his death, theologians and historians alike are finding the larger-than-life Edwards more interesting than ever. Crisp and Strobel’s concise yet comprehensive guide will help new students of this influential eighteenth-century revivalist preacher to understand why.
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
“Beautifully framed and written, this is an ecclesiology that matters. Amy Plantinga Pauw is one of the leading American theologians of our generation; when you read Church in Ordinary Time, you can see why she is such a respected and important voice.” — Willie James Jennings Yale Divinity School
“Wisdom traditions in Scripture and theology converge in this timely and provocative book on ecclesiology. Pauw offers a richly Trinitarian, ecumenically attuned, and profoundly relevant proposal for all who are serious about the church’s self-understanding today. Her writing is clearheaded and firmly rooted in Augustine, Calvin, Bonhoeffer, and biblical wisdom literature. It’s about time we had wisdom like this. Readers across all traditions will be challenged and grateful.” — Don E. Saliers Candler School of Theology, Emory University
Amy Plantinga Pauw is Henry P. Mobley Jr. Professor of Doctrinal Theology at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Her previous books include a theological commentary on Proverbs and Ecclesiastes and The Supreme Harmony of All: The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards.
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Karl Barth, the Jews, and Judaism
Reading the Gospels with Karl Barth
Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts
George Hunsinger, editor
Daniel L. Migliore, editor
Bearing Witness to the Triune God
How Jewish was Karl Barth? With this provocative question David Novak opens Karl Barth, the Jews, and Judaism—a volume that brings nine eminent Jewish and Christian theologians into direct and respectful dialogue on a crucial aspect of Barth’s thought and legacy. These scholars not only make a noteworthy contribution to Barth studies but also demonstrate creative possibilities for building positive Jewish-Christian relations without theological compromise.
Over the course of his multivolume Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth not only cites thousands of Scripture texts but also offers extensive exegetical discussion of numerous passages. In this book twelve leading theologians and biblical scholars examine Barth’s exegesis of particular passages in the Gospels. How does Barth’s practice of theological exegesis play out in his reading of the Gospels? What are the fundamental features of Barth’s interpretation of Gospel texts, and to what extent do they enliven theology, biblical studies, and ethics today? Reading the Gospels with Karl Barth explores answers to such questions and offers fresh stimulus for further study and discussion.
Contributors & Topics David Novak on the extent to which Barth thought like a Jew Eberhard Busch on three Jewish-Christian milestones in Barth’s life George Hunsinger on Christian philo-semitism and supersessionism Peter Ochs on Barthian elements in JewishChristian dialogue Victoria J. Barnett on Barth and post-WWII interfaith encounters Thomas F. Torrance on Israel’s divine calling in world history Hans Küng on moving from anti-semitism to theological dialogue C. E. B. Cranfield on pertinent Pauline texts Ellen T. Charry on addressing theological roots of enmity
“Unexpectedly moving. . . . Barth scholars will appreciate the deep archival work and the fresh readings of his theology. Others interested in the relationship between Judaism and Christianity will find a volume full of challenging questions, honest answers, and new insights.” — Keith L. Johnson Wheaton College
“Hunsinger hosts an all-star cast of theologians and scholars modeling serious and respectful interreligious encounter at the highest levels. This is an impressive volume, an indispensable addition to the curriculum of seminaries and study circles alike.” — Elliot Ratzman Lawrence University
George Hunsinger is McCord Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. His previous books include Thy Word Is Truth: Barth on Scripture and Evangelical, Catholic, and Reformed: Doctrinal Essays on Barth and Related Themes.
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Contents 1. The Election of Grace: Barth on the Doctrine of Predestination Jürgen Moltmann 2. Revelatory Word or Beloved Son? Barth on the Johannine Prologue Richard Bauckham 3. The Gospel within the Commandment: Barth on the Parable of the Good Samaritan Eric Gregory 4. A Rich Disciple? Barth on the Rich Young Ruler Willie James Jennings 5. The Compassion of Jesus Christ: Barth on Matthew 9:36 Paul T. Nimmo 6. The Journey of God’s Son: Barth and Balthasar on the Parable of the Lost Son Daniel L. Migliore 7. Parabolic Retelling and Christological Discourse: Julian of Norwich and Karl Barth on the Parable of the Lost Son Kendall Cox 8. The Riddle of Gethsemane: Barth on Jesus’s Agony in the Garden Paul Dafydd Jones 9. The Passion of God Himself: Barth on Jesus’s Cry of Dereliction Bruce L. McCormack 10. The Self-Witness of the Risen Jesus: Karl Barth’s Reading of the Emmaus Road Story Beverly Roberts Gaventa 11. The Sum of the Gospel: Barth’s Intracanonical and Intertextual Interpretation of paradidōmi Shannon Nicole Smythe 12. What’s in Those Lamps? A Sermon on Matthew 25:1–13 Fleming Rutledge
Daniel L. Migliore is Charles Hodge Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. His other books include Commanding Grace: Studies in Karl Barth’s Ethics and Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian Theology, now in its third edition.
Jeremy Begbie It is widely believed that there is something transcendent about the arts, that they can awaken a profound sense of awe, wonder, and mystery, of something “beyond” this world. Many argue that this opens up fruitful opportunities for conversation with those who may have no use for conventional forms of Christianity. Jeremy Begbie—a leading voice on theology and the arts— in this book employs a biblical, Trinitarian imagination to show how Christian involvement in the arts can (and should) be shaped by a vision of God’s transcendence revealed in the person of Jesus Christ. After critiquing some current writing on the subject, he goes on to offer rich resources to help readers engage constructively with the contemporary cultural moment even as they bear witness to the otherness and uncontainability of the triune God of love. “Jeremy Begbie has been a central and seminal figure in the recent revolution in ‘theology and the arts.’ Begbie’s argument here, both learned and lucid, is that only when we allow for a more explicitly biblical and Trinitarian vision of God will the vague claims for ‘transcendence’ in the arts begin to make sense. This book will challenge and illuminate the whole field.” — N. T. Wright University of St. Andrews
Jeremy Begbie is Thomas A. Langford Research Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School, founding director of the Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts, and senior member at Wolfson College, Cambridge. A professionally trained musician, he has also written Voicing Creation’s Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts and Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music.
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Christian Dogmatics An Introduction Cornelis van der Kooi and Gijsbert van den Brink Translated by Reinder Bruinsma with James D. Bratt
“This fine work was widely praised by Dutch readers when it first appeared in the Netherlands, going through several printings. Now we English-speakers can see what the enthusiasm was all about!” — Richard J. Mouw Fuller Theological Seminary
“Deeply informed by biblical studies as well as the history of doctrine, van der Kooi and van den Brink engage a wide range of conversation partners and offer a crucial perspective for ecumenical conversation.” — Michael S. Horton Westminster Seminary California
“One of the best and most helpful one-volume summaries of Christian thought published in the last several decades. Accessible, clear, inspiring, informative, and very readable, this work should be in every pastor’s library.” — Charles Van Engen Latin American Ministries, Inc.
“A great text for students of Christian theology that is also accessible to all who want to deepen their understanding of the faith.” — John Bolt Calvin Theological Seminary
Cornelis van der Kooi is professor of systematic theology and director of the Herman Bavinck Center for Reformed and Evangelical Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Gijsbert van den Brink holds the University Research Chair in Theology and Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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The Holy Spirit in Reformed Theology and Spirituality
Foreword by Elaine A. Heath Pentecostalism, says Daniel Castelo, is commonly framed as “evangelicalism with tongues” or dismissed as simply a revivalist movement. In this book he offers a significant corrective to that view, arguing that Pentecostalism is actually best understood as a Christian mystical tradition. “Daniel Castelo’s vision of Pentecostalism as a mystical tradition of the church catholic has power to inspire practitioners in the movement by releasing it from the bonds of American Protestantism and allowing its transcendent theological and practical qualities to freely blossom. A must-read for anyone who wishes to gain insight into the ever-evolving movement called Pentecostalism.” — Leah Payne George Fox University
“This is a powerful statement of the depth at which Pentecostalism belongs to the Christian church as a whole. Wide-ranging, engaging, and accessible, this book will open new windows on the worldwide phenomenon of Pentecostalism for many readers, whatever their background. Rarely has Pentecostalism had such a passionate and articulate advocate of its centeredness in deep Christian tradition.” — Oliver Davies King’s College London
“There are apologetic claims in this book, about Pentecostalism and mysticism, and even about evangelicalism, that will be provocative on all three fronts. But all who have a vested interest in the Pentecostal and evangelical movements must hereafter grapple with Daniel Castelo’s work, particularly if they are also committed to Christian life in the Spirit.” — Amos Yong Fuller Theological Seminary
Daniel Castelo is professor of dogmatic and constructive theology at Seattle Pacific University and Seminary. He is also the author of Pneumatology: A Guide for the Perplexed and (with Bo H. Lim) the Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary volume on Hosea.
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Cornelis van der Kooi Foreword by Daniel Castelo A key refrain in Reformed theology is that God’s Spirit trumpets the message of God’s salvation through Jesus Christ into every nook and cranny of the universe—but how? And in what way does this cosmic truth touch and shape the mundane reality of our lives and our world? In this distillation of his recent Warfield Lectures, delivered at Princeton Theological Seminary in spring 2014, leading Reformed theologian Cornelis van der Kooi examines the relationship of the Holy Spirit to Jesus Christ and demonstrates how a fuller understanding of the interplay between Christology and pneumatology can encourage the Christian church to have open eyes and ears for the inbreaking of God’s “incredibly benevolent force” into the cosmological emptiness of today’s world.
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This one-volume systematic theology offers an accessible, orthodox explication of the Christian faith for students, teachers, pastors, and serious lay readers alike. Cornelis van der Kooi and Gijsbert van den Brink not only cover all the traditional themes—God, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, Scripture, and so on—but also relate those classic themes to such contemporary developments as Pentecostalism, postmodernism, and evolutionary theory.
Pentecostalism as a This Incredibly Benevolent Christian Mystical Tradition Force
“Cornelis van der Kooi’s 2014 Warfield Lectures present an urgently needed contribution to a future Spirit-Christology and a christologically clarified doctrine of the Holy Spirit.” — Michael Welker University of Heidelberg
“How do we know that the Holy Spirit is an incredibly benevolent force? Cornelius van der Kooi has a compelling answer: Jesus Christ. He develops this answer with unusual insight and clarity. This is a truly enjoyable read for both students and seasoned theologians alike.” — Frank D. Macchia Vanguard University
“Van der Kooi has written a masterful treatment of the Holy Spirit. Everything in it is fresh, revealing, mature. This will be a theological standard for years.” — Cornelius Plantinga Jr. Calvin Theological Seminary
Cornelis van der Kooi is professor of systematic theology and director of the Herman Bavinck Center for Reformed and Evangelical Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is also the coauthor, with Gijsbert van den Brink, of Christian Dogmatics: An Introduction.
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The Courage to Be Protestant
Wittenberg Meets the World
Reformation Faith in Today’s World
Reimagining the Reformation at the Margins
Second Edition
Alberto L. García and John A. Nunes
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Foreword by Martin E. Marty “An engaging, passionate, and timely work that does more than offer a critique of facile and often elitist interpretations and privileged expressions of our Reformation heritage. This book is an excellent resource for practitioners and students eager to reimagine ministry through a tradition whose very nature it is to be about re-form-ation.” — Zaida Maldonado Pérez
In his 2008 book The Courage to Be Protestant, David Wells issued a summons to return to the historic faith, defined by the Reformation solas (grace, faith, and Scripture alone) and by a high regard for doctrine. In this thoroughly reworked second edition, Wells presents an updated look at the state of evangelicalism and the changes that have taken place in the last decade. “For a generation David Wells has chronicled the serious loss of a theological center in the evangelical movement and pointed at the need to recover the doctrinal rigor of its Protestant heritage. In this second edition of The Courage to Be Protestant, Wells updates his call to be faithful to the doctrinal shape of Protestantism by critically analyzing the developments in the evangelical world as it has become increasingly immersed and enmeshed in a culture devoid of theological concerns. In a post-truth world, Wells’s stinging critique must be taken seriously.” — Richard Lints editor of Renewing the Evangelical Mission
David F. Wells is distinguished senior research professor at GordonConwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Massachusetts.
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“How are we to read and interpret the Protestant Reformation at the time of its fifth centennial? This book is necessary reading for any who attempt to answer that question. Its wide vistas of the meaning of the Reformation for the twentyfirst century will challenge many preconceived notions and open new avenues for thought.” — Justo L. González author of The Story of Christianity
Alberto L. García is professor emeritus of theology at Concordia University Wisconsin, an ordained Lutheran pastor, and coeditor of Critical Issues in Ecclesiology. John A. Nunes is president of Concordia College New York, an ordained Lutheran pastor, and the author of Voices from the City: Issues and Images of Urban Preaching.
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Reformation Resources, 1517–2017 Norman A. Hjelm, Philip D. Krey, and William G. Rusch, series editors
The Protestant Reformation in World Christianity
From Conflict to Communion Lutheran-Catholic Common Commemoration of the Reformation in 2017
Global Perspectives Dale T. Irvin, editor “Two major issues of Christianity—reform and globalization— are brought together in this fascinating volume. Dale Irvin has assembled an insightful group of scholars to think again about the Reformation, but this time from Middle Eastern, Latin American, and other perspectives that are vitally important but much neglected. A very fitting and creative way to remember the Reformation 500 years later.” — Scott W. Sunquist Fuller Theological Seminary
“This excellent and provocative study of the Reformation lifts up global themes and voices often forgotten or neglected. The editor has assembled a fascinating cadre of scholars from different confessions and cultural centers that present in dialogical fashion the need for an ongoing global reformation of the church and new ways to bear witness to the gospel in our present world.” — Alberto L. García Concordia University Wisconsin
Contributors: Charles Amjad-Ali, Joel Morales Cruz, David D. Daniels, Rebecca A. Giselbrecht, Vladimir Latinovic, Peter C. Phan. Dale T. Irvin is president and professor of world Christianity at New York Theological Seminary.
The Lutheran World Federation and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity The first American print edition of a major ecumenical initiative, From Conflict to Communion contains the report produced by the Lutheran–Roman Catholic Commission on Unity, followed by a study guide and liturgical material suitable for joint CatholicLutheran worship services. “In an ecumenical age, how should Catholics and Lutherans note the Reformation? . . . From Conflict to Communion can contribute much to an atmosphere of trust and comfort between formerly estranged Catholics and Lutherans that would make future ecumenical reception a reality.” — William G. Rusch
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So Great a Salvation Soteriology in the Majority World
In So Great a Salvation nine scholars from the global church reflect deeply on soteriology in the Majority World. For many Christians outside Europe and North America, the doctrine of salvation is not a mere theological construct but, rather, a matter of life and death. Taking African, Asian, Latin American, and First Nations cultural contexts into account, this book allows students to see God’s creative deliverance in a fresh light. Praise for previous Majority World Theology volumes “Now that most of the world’s Christians live outside of the faith’s former strongholds in Europe and European settlements, Christian thinking has much new work to do. . . . Kudos to the authors and editors for presenting this work.” — Joel Carpenter Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity
“Provides a kind of stereophonic listening to one another across the cultures that shape us but should not define us as Christians. The whole Majority World Theology series promises to be a refreshingly reciprocal contribution to global theology.” — Christopher J. H. Wright Langham Partnership
Contributors: Milton Acosta (Colombian), Ray Aldred (Cree), Emily J. Choge Kerama (Kenyan), Sung Wook Chung (Korean American), Rosinah Mmannana Gabaitse (Botswanan), Elaine W. F. Goh (Malaysian Chinese), Jules A. MartínezOlivieri (Puerto Rican), Daniel J. Treier (American), K. K. Yeo (Chinese American). 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 Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.
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Biblical Realism in Africa and the West
Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear
Esther E. Acolatse
Matthew Kaemingk Foreword by James K. A. Smith
Among the many factors that separate churches in the West from those of the global South—worship styles, approaches to Scripture, demographic trends of growth or decline—there may be no greater difference than their respective attitudes toward supernatural “powers and principalities.” In this groundbreaking follow-up to her book For Freedom or Bondage? African theologian Esther Acolatse attempts to bridge the enormous hermeneutical gap that exists not only between the West and global Christianity but also between the West and its own biblical-theological heritage. Interacting with the work of Kwesi Dickson, Rudolph Bultmann, Walter Wink, Karl Barth, and others, Acolatse facilitates an intercultural, contextualized approach to hermeneutics that is at once global, creedal, and faithful to the biblical witness. “Acolatse’s book goes to the core problem of the church today: the church is fleeing from the Holy Spirit in its engagement with the world and interpretation of Scripture. With penetrating insight, searing candor, and unflinching loyalty to Scripture, Acolatse wields the double-edged sword of biblical realism and African Christian spirituality to execute modern and postmodern theologies that have contributed to this problem. . . .Eye-opening.” — Nimi Wariboko Boston University
“Acolatse provides a theologically informed approach that takes Scripture seriously and welcomes all interpretive locations to the table. Although she remains unfailingly gracious, it seems clear that the traditional modern Western approach to the Spirit and spirits has remained blind to its own biases. Acolatse exposes our more impoverished approach and opens us to the wealth of global perspectives more consistent even with our own biblical and theological heritage.” — Craig S. Keener Asbury Theological Seminary
Esther E. Acolatse is associate professor of pastoral theology and intercultural studies at Knox College, University of Toronto. She previously taught at Duke Divinity School; her other books include For Freedom or Bondage? A Critique of African Pastoral Practices.
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Millions of Muslims have migrated to Europe and North America in the last fifty years. Their arrival has ignited fierce public debates on both sides of the Atlantic about religious freedom and tolerance, terrorism and security, gender and race, and much more. How can Christians best respond to this situation? In this book theologian and ethicist Matthew Kaemingk offers a thought-provoking Christian perspective. Rejecting both fearful nationalism and romantic multiculturalism, Kaemingk makes the case for a third way—a Christian pluralism that is committed to both the historic Christian faith and the public rights, dignity, and freedom of Islam.
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Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, and K. K. Yeo, editors
Powers, Principalities, and the Spirit
“A path-breaking, theologically rich Christian intervention into contemporary public debates over the place of Muslims in western societies. . . . Matthew Kaemingk has pulled off a feat many would have thought impossible.” — Jonathan Chaplin author of Multiculturalism: A Christian Retrieval
“Kaemingk is a winsome guide through difficult terrain. He avoids the easy dead-ends—assimilate or stay out—that too often shape responses to the real challenges of Muslim immigration in western democracies. . . . Along the way, he stays grounded in real-world experience while never losing sight of basic convictions. The result: A book that is both timely and compelling.” — Kevin den Dulk Calvin College
“In this compelling work Matthew Kaemingk asks what Amsterdam has to do with Mecca, and the answers he finds turn out to have implications the world over. . . . The charity and clarity on display here will challenge Christians to think more deeply, and to act more responsibly, in response to the call to live peacefully and faithfully with Muslim neighbors.” — Jordan J. Ballor Acton Institute
Matthew Kaemingk is assistant professor of Christian ethics and an associate dean at Fuller Theological Seminary.
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The Hidden and the Manifest
Early Religious Writings, 1903–1909
Essays in Theology and Metaphysics
Pavel Florensky
David Bentley Hart
Translated by Boris Jakim
Rowan Williams says that David Bentley Hart “can always be relied on to offer a perspective on the Christian faith that is both profound and unexpected.” The Hidden and the Manifest, a new collection of this brilliant scholar’s work, contains twenty essays by Hart on theology and metaphysics. Spanning Hart’s career both topically and over time, these essays cover such subjects as the Orthodox understanding of Eucharistic sacrifice; the metaphysics of Paradise Lost; Christianity, modernity, and freedom; death, final judgment, and the meaning of life; and many more. “David Hart is unerringly learned, eloquent, and profound over an enormous intellectual range. Above all, this book (worth reading for the stunning Milton essay alone) shows just how the narrative vision of Christianity and its metaphysics of the simple, eternal, nonsuffering, and omnipotent God require each other.” — John Milbank
“We are yet again indebted to Boris Jakim for his prodigious efforts to bring the best of Russian Christian thought into English, not only with great fidelity but with admirable literary grace. . . . This collection is a true treasure because it sheds remarkable light on Florensky’s thought and on the whole of Russian religious philosophy in its golden age.” — David Bentley Hart “This volume reveals Florensky’s extraordinary capacity to relate quite disparate notions and his startling originality, manifest, for example, in the way he shows hierarchy and dogma to be ways of enshrining spiritual freedom. These pieces are essential for grasping the roots of Fr. Florensky’s thought.” — Andrew Louth Pavel Florensky (1882–1937) was one of the preeminent Russian Orthodox thinkers of the twentieth century. His best-known work is The Pillar and Ground of Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy in Twelve Letters. Boris Jakim is the foremost translator of Russian religious thought into English.
David Bentley Hart is a philosopher, theologian, writer, and cultural commentator whose other books include The Beauty of the Infinite and Atheist Delusions.
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Human Origins and the Image of God Essays in Honor of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen
Theology as Interdisciplinary Inquiry Learning with and from the Natural and Human Sciences Robin W. Lovin and Joshua Mauldin, editors Foreword by William Storrar Can a neuroscientist help a theologian interpret a medieval mystical text? Can a historian of religion help an anthropologist understand the effects of social cooperation on human evolution? Can a legal scholar and a theologian help each other think about how fear of God relates to respect for the law? In this volume leading scholars in ethics, theology, and social science sum up three years of study and conversation regarding the value of interdisciplinary theological inquiry. . Contributors: John P. Burgess, Peter Danchin, Celia Deane-Drummond, Agustín Fuentes, Andrea Hollingsworth, Robin W. Lovin, Joshua Mauldin, Friederike Nüssel, Mary Ellen O’Connell, Douglas F. Ottati, Stephen Pope, Colleen Shantz, Michael Spezio. Robin W. Lovin is William H. Scheide Senior Fellow in Theology at the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey. Joshua Mauldin is outreach officer at the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey.
Christopher Lilley and Daniel J. Pedersen, editors Foreword by M. Craig Barnes How did human beings originate? What, if anything, makes us unique? These questions have long been central to philosophers, theologians, and scientists. This book continues that robust interdisciplinary conversation with contributions from a team of scholars whose expertise ranges from biology and anthropology to philosophical theology and ethics. Contributors M. Craig Barnes (foreword) Christopher Lilley and Daniel J. Pederson (preface) Niels Henrik Gregersen (introduction) Part 1: Natural Scientists Justin L. Barrett, Agustín Fuentes, Tyler S. Greenway, Ian Hodder, Richard Potts, Ian Tattersall
Part 2: Philosophers and Historians John Hedley Brooke, Michael Ruse, Keith Ward, Wesley J. Wildman
Part 3: Theologians Celia Deane-Drummond, David Fergusson, Dirk J. Smit, Etienne de Villiers, Michael Welker
Christopher Lilley is a PhD candidate in systematic theology and philosophy at Marquette University. Daniel J. Pedersen holds a PhD in theology from Princeton Seminary.
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Evolution and the Fall William T. Cavanaugh and James K. A. Smith, editors
Remembrance, Communion, and Hope Rediscovering the Gospel at the Lord’s Table
Foreword by Michael Gulker
“I was stretched by this book and found myself sometimes arguing with it and at other times enthusiastically affirming it. . . . This book salted my thinking with new ideas and sailed into what, for me, were some uncharted waters. Such mind-stimulating and faith-affirming contributions should be welcomed.” — John H. Walton Wheaton College
“This book is unexpected and greatly to be welcomed: unexpected, since neither of the editors, nor some of the other contributors, have previously been closely associated with ‘science and religion’ questions; and it is welcome, both because the contributions are consistently of such high quality, and because it breathes new life into a discussion that can often be stale.” — Church Times Contributors: William T. Cavanaugh, Celia Deane-Drummond, Darrel R. Falk, Joel B. Green, Peter Harrison, J. Richard Middleton, Aaron Riches, James K. A. Smith, Brent Waters, Norman Wirzba. William T. Cavanaugh is director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology and professor of Catholic studies at DePaul University. His other books include Being Consumed and The Myth of Religious Violence. James K. A. Smith is professor of philosophy at Calvin College, where he also holds the Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology and Worldview. His previous books include How (Not) to Be Secular and You Are What You Love.
J. Todd Billings Foreword by Gerald L. Sittser “Celebrating the Lord’s Supper,” says awardwinning author and theologian J. Todd Billings, “can change lives.” In this book Billings shows how a renewed theology and practice of the Lord’s Supper can lead Christians to rediscover the full richness and depth of the gospel. With an eye for helping congregations move beyond common reductions of the gospel, he develops a vibrant, biblical, distinctly Reformed sacramental theology and explores how it might apply within a variety of church contexts, from Baptist to Presbyterian, nondenominational to Anglican. At once strikingly new and deeply traditional, Remembrance, Communion, and Hope will surprise and challenge readers, inspiring them to a new understanding of—and appreciation for—the embodied, Christ-disclosing drama of the Lord’s Supper. “Todd Billings has done it again. In the clear and heartfelt prose we have come to expect, he presents a constructive theological project in the ‘catholicReformed tradition.’ . . . Calls the church to renewal through deep engagement with the Lord’s Supper as the ‘true icon’ of the good news of Jesus Christ, the form of the gospel that we can taste and see.” — Martha Moore-Keish Columbia Theological Seminary
“A rich, thick, pastoral and theologically sensitive approach. . . . The Lord’s Supper needs to be baptized into the Bible’s most significant texts as well as into the riches of the deep traditions of the church. Todd Billings does just that!” — Scot McKnight Northern Seminary
J. Todd Billings is the Gordon H. Girod Research Professor of Reformed Theology at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan. His other books include Union with Christ: Reframing Theology and Ministry for the Church, which won a 2012 Christianity Today Book Award.
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Matthew Levering When death begins to strip away nearly everything that belongs to us, we discover that we need the virtues more than ever. We especially need to cultivate those virtues that can carry us through to the full and final fruition of our earthly journey. In this book Matthew Levering investigates nine such virtues—love, hope, faith, penitence, gratitude, solidarity, humility, surrender, and courage—that dying persons need in order to prepare themselves for the end of life. Retrieving and engaging scriptural, theological, and contemporary resources ranging from the book of Job to present-day medical science, Levering journeys through the various stages and challenges of the dying process, beginning with the fear of annihilation and continuing through repentance and gratitude, suffering and hope, before arriving finally at the courage needed to say goodbye to one’s familiar world.
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What does it mean for the Christian doctrine of the Fall if there was no historical Adam? If humanity emerged from nonhuman primates —as genetic, biological, and archaeological evidence seems to suggest—then what are the implications for a Christian understanding of human origins, including the origin of sin? Evolution and the Fall gathers a multidisciplinary, ecumenical team of scholars to address these difficult questions and others like them from the perspectives of biology, theology, history, Scripture, philosophy, and politics.
Dying and the Virtues
“This is a rich and sophisticated ars moriendi for our time, drawn from the storehouse of the Christian tradition that Levering has been so profoundly exploring over the past years. . . . His focus upon the divine graces of Christian virtue now shaping the fullness of living and dying in Christ provides extraordinary fruit.” — Ephraim Radner Wycliffe College, University of Toronto
“I love this book! In Dying and the Virtues Matthew Levering explores the path of discipleship in life’s final chapter with an acute mind and an attentive heart. . . . Gives a compelling theological portrait of how the triune God is at work even amidst fear, suffering and loss on our mortal journey, bringing life through the crucified and risen Lord.” — J. Todd Billings Western Theological Seminary
Matthew Levering is James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology at Mundelein Sem inary and a longtime participant in Evangelicals and Catholics Together. Among his many other books are Engaging the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit: Love and Gift in the Trinity and the Church and Proofs of God: Classical Arguments from Tertullian to Barth.
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Entering into Rest
Disagreeing Virtuously
Forbearance
Ethics as Theology 3
Religious Conflict in Interdisciplinary Perspective
A Theological Ethic for a Disagreeable Church
Olli-Pekka Vainio
James Calvin Davis
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“Learned, stylish, and wise, this climactic volume of O’Donovan’s trilogy on ethics as theology is the work of a master craftsman. Entering into Rest makes Christian ethics exciting and surprising again; and, more importantly, by stretching categories of religious and secular thought with eschatological horizons, it has something constructive to say to our spiritual and intellectual lives and the communities that sustain them.” — Eric Gregory Princeton University
“Oliver O’Donovan here completes his magisterial trilogy on theological ethics with an invitation to consider what it would be to ‘fall away in God’s glory,’ to ‘learn love anew’ at the end of time. Intense, complex, and closely argued, this deceptively short volume on love recapitulates many of the neoAugustinian themes of O’Donovan’s earlier writing, but with a directness and brilliance that are utterly compelling.” — Sarah Coakley University of Cambridge
“Entering into Rest blows the dust off the word ‘devotion.’ Devotion, explains O’Donovan, is about uniting knowledge and energy in the supremacy of love. To explore what this means for the duties and ends of ethics, O’Donovan takes us back, yet again, to the Christian Scriptures—always in profound dialogue with the wisdom of the centuries, drawn from philosophers and theologians, from novelists and poets. Itself the mature fruit of devotion, this book is a profound encouragement on our pilgrimage to the God of love.” — Hans Boersma Regent College
Oliver O’Donovan is a fellow of the British Academy and professor emeritus of Christian ethics and practical theology at the University of Edinburgh. His other books include The Desire of Nations, Resurrection and Moral Order, and the two previous volumes of his Ethics as Theology project—Self, World, and Time and Finding and Seeking.
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Foreword by Rob Barrett “This book expertly provides the science, philosophy, and theology behind our natural but lamentable tendencies to overestimate our own beliefs and intellect and then to think that those who disagree with us aren’t just wrong; they are irrational, immoral, even crazy. Olli-Pekka Vainio offers sage advice for cultivating intellectual humility, on the one hand, and respect for others and their varying beliefs and practices, on the other. It’s hard to imagine, in our deeply divided world, a more timely topic.” — Kelly James Clark Kaufman Interfaith Institute, Grand Valley State University
“A splendid study of one of the most pressing topics in these fractious times—how to disagree better. With great talent, Olli-Pekka Vainio develops the philosophy and psychology of disagreement and guides us in how to disagree more productively—making Disagreeing Virtuously a must-read for pastors, politicians, journalists, and teachers. An important and much-needed achievement.” — Marcia Pally author of Commonwealth and Covenant
“Vainio marshals the best insights of virtue theory, cognitive science, and religious studies to make the case that the practice of virtuous disagreement can enhance our shared humanity across worldviews. This text is simply the most clearly argued and intellectually generous treatment of this topic that I have encountered. It will be of crucial interest to scholars of religion and violence as well as anyone seeking insights into better ways of moving forward in our increasingly fragmented societies.” — Robert Saler Center for Pastoral Excellence, Christian Theological Seminary
Olli-Pekka Vainio is university lecturer of systematic theology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His other books include Virtue: An Introduction to Theory and Practice and Beyond Fideism: Negotiable Religious Identities.
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What happens when we approach disagreements in our churches not as problems to solve but as opportunities to practice Christian virtue? In this book James Calvin Davis reclaims the biblical concept of forbearance to develop a theological ethic for faithful disagreement. Pointing to Ephesians and Colossians, in which Paul challenged his readers to “bear with each other” in spite of differences, Davis draws out a theologically grounded practice in which Christians work hard to maintain unity while still taking seriously matters on which they disagree. The practice of forbearance, Davis argues, offers Christians a dignified, graceful, and constructive way to deal with conflict. Forbearance can also strengthen the church’s public witness, offering an antidote to the pervasive divisiveness present in contemporary culture. “Forbearance. It’s an old-fashioned word, perhaps, but if ever we needed to recover its use, now is the time. Our politics and economics, our communities and churches, and even our families are fractured by polarizing disagreements that often grow into debilitating conflicts. In this discerning book James Calvin Davis deftly narrates the meanings, spirit, power, and practice of ‘bearing with one another’ as a fundamental Christian civic virtue, one that can lead us into ways of dealing with our conflicts that are marked by wisdom, justice, faithfulness, and hope.” — Craig Dykstra Duke Divinity School
James Calvin Davis is professor of religion at Middlebury College and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He is also the author of In Defense of Civility: How Religion Can Unite America on Seven Moral Issues That Divide Us.
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I Pledge Allegiance
Just Immigration
Migrants and Citizens
A Believer’s Guide to Kingdom Citizenship in Twenty-FirstCentury America
American Policy in Christian Perspective
Justice and Responsibility in the Ethics of Immigration
David Crump
“Just Immigration is an outstanding book— comprehensive, measured, fair-minded, and enlightening. It deals with a controversial issue in a sophisticated and nuanced way. In assessing the role of Christian churches in the contemporary policy debate over immigration, Mark Amstutz offers a thoughtful perspective on the subject. His Christian faith informs his politics without being distorted by politics. Anyone who cares about immigration should read this book.” — Peter Wehner
Bitter partisan conflict. State-sanctioned torture. Economic injustice. Ethical corruption. Even a cursory glance over daily news headlines shows a stark contrast between the American political state and the kingdom of heaven. Where does the Christian’s ultimate allegiance lie? In I Pledge Allegiance David Crump issues a clarion call to Jesus’s twenty-first-century disciples, stirring them up to heed God’s word and live out their kingdom citizenship here on earth. Closely examining the ethical teachings of Jesus and his apostles in the New Testament and using real-world examples to illustrate the vital issues at stake, Crump challenges Christians to embrace the radical, counterintuitive, upside-down way of Jesus. “This book meets two needs. The first is for a biblically based analysis of the ethical issues of our day aimed at an educated lay audience. The second is for a book by an evangelical Christian that challenges evangelicals to take Jesus seriously in living out their citizenship.” — William T. Cavanaugh DePaul University
“Crump is a New Testament scholar who has the courage to write a book in Christian ethics that explores how Christians must learn how to negotiate a world in which they are no longer in control.” — Stanley Hauerwas Duke Divinity School
“A powerful, passionate plea to American Christians to follow Jesus rather than conform to a broken culture. . . . Biblical, urgent, provocative. A must-read.” — Ronald J. Sider Palmer Seminary, Eastern University
David Crump is a retired professor of New Testament at Calvin College and a former pastor with more than thirty years of combined experience in the pulpit and the classroom. His other books include Encountering Jesus, Encountering Scripture: Reading the Bible Critically in Faith and Knocking on Heaven’s Door: A New Testament Theology of Petitionary Prayer.
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“Mark Amstutz brings realism and responsibility to the debate within the Christian church over immigration without relinquishing the church’s proper and important role of moral guidance. At a time when the debate over immigration in the United States has reached a white heat, Amstutz’s sober and faithful perspective offers us wise moral and political counsel.” — Daniel Philpott University of Notre Dame
“To a debate that has divided Americans of all faiths, Amstutz makes a timely and impressive contribution that offers a way to build a consensus grounded in careful theology and politics.” — Peter Feaver Duke University
“Meticulously researched. . . . Amstutz offers both cautions and concrete recommendations for faithful engagement, taking a moderately progressive stance. This thoughtful and clearly presented analysis offers rich material for churches to contemplate, opening the door for more balanced consideration of immigration reform.” ? Publishers Weekly (starred review) Mark R. Amstutz is professor of political science at Wheaton College. His previous books include Evangelicals and American Foreign Policy and International Ethics: Concepts, Theories, and Cases in Global Politics.
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Tisha M. Rajendra Foreword by Daniel G. Groody, CSC In all the noisy rhetoric currently surrounding immigration, one important question is rarely asked: What ethical responsibilities do immigrants and citizens have to each other? In this book Tisha Rajendra reframes the confused and often heated debate over immigration around the world, proposes a new definition of justice based on responsibility to relationships, and develops a Christian ethic to address this vexing social problem.
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Mark R. Amstutz
A creative contribution to the urgent ethical challenges raised by migration today. Drawing on social analysis and Christian thought, Rajendra shows that treating migrants justly will require rethinking and reshaping the social, political, and economic relationships that set the context for the movement of people today. Essential reading for all concerned with ethics and migration.” — David Hollenbach, SJ Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
“What a joy to find wisdom and reason brought to bear on this contentious issue! Using case studies to illustrate the complexities of immigration, Rajendra exposes flaws in common narratives about immigrants. In clear and compelling prose, she then presents a stellar explication and critique of dominant theories of international justice and a carefully crafted argument for what justice requires in the arena of immigration.” — Karen Lebacqz author of Six Theories of Justice
“In tackling the pressing social issue of immigration reform, Rajendra’s Migrants and Citizens exposes and reforms our understanding of who we really are as human beings. A prophetic and revealing work.” — Paul Louis Metzger author of Connecting Christ: How to Discuss Jesus in a World of Diverse Paths
Tisha M. Rajendra is associate professor of theological ethics at Loyola University Chicago. She has written essays and articles for various journals, including Political Theology and Journal of Catholic Social Thought. This is her first book.
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Born from Lament
Prophetic Christianity
The Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa
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Bruce Ellis Benson, Malinda Elizabeth Berry, and Peter Goodwin Heltzel, series editors
Always with Us?
There is no more urgent theological task than to provide an account of hope in Africa, given its endless cycles of violence, war, poverty, and displacement. So claims Emmanuel Katongole, an innovative theological voice from Africa. In the midst of suffering, Katongole says, hope takes the form of “arguing” and “wrestling” with God. Such lament is not merely a cry of pain—it is a way of mourning, protesting, and appealing to God. As he unpacks the rich theological and social dimensions of the practice of lament in Africa, Katongole tells the stories of courageous Christian activists working for change in East Africa and invites readers to enter into lament along with them. “What an extraordinary gift! Emmanuel Katongole helps us see how God and the everyday, lament and hope, Scripture and prayer, church and public life all hold together. Born from Lament is about Africa, yet it speaks to the world. This is a landmark work by one of the most remarkable and transformational theological leaders of our time.” — Mark R. Gornik City Seminary of New York
“Katongole in this book redefines the method for doing public theology in Africa and the world church by giving voice to those on the margins.” — Stan Chu Ilo DePaul University
“A rich ethnographic and theological analysis. . . . Born from Lament is a refreshing political theology grounded in human practices rather than the sovereignty of the state and its rulers. This compelling invitation to rethink the theology of hope should be on everyone’s reading list.” — Elias Kifon Bongmba Rice University
Emmanuel Katongole is associate professor of theology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Kampala, Uganda. His other books include The Sacrifice of Africa: A Political Theology for Africa.
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What Jesus Really Said about the Poor Liz Theoharis Foreword by William J. Barber II Jesus’s words “the poor you will always have with you” (Matthew 26:11) are regularly used to suggest that ending poverty is impossible. In this book Liz Theoharis critically examines both the biblical text and the lived reality of the poor to show how this passage is taken out of context and distorted. Poverty is not inevitable, Theoharis argues. It is a systemic sin. “Provocative. Powerful. Persuasive. Liz Theoharis’s fresh reading of a familiar biblical text opens up new ground for preaching, teaching, and activism. This is a book of lived theology and radical compassion.” — Laura Sumner Truax LaSalle Street Church, Chicago
“Theoharis brings the Bible to life in this exciting study of one of its most famous passages. With a combination of rigorous theological scholarship and personal stories from her life as an organizer, she shows us that the front line in the fight against poverty is not in poor neighborhoods but rather within the assumptions of a society that fosters systemic injustice.” — Karenna Gore Center for Earth Ethics, Union Theological Seminary
“Be ready to be stirred up by this scriptural exploration of the meaning of poverty. It challenged me with the moral demand to end poverty now.” — Sr. Simone Campbell, SSS NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice
Liz Theoharis is founder and codirector of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice and coordinator of the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary, New York City. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), Theoharis has spent the last two decades organizing among the poor in the United States and worldwide.
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The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant Political Theology W. Bradford Littlejohn What happens when Christians must obey God rather than human authorities? In this book W. Bradford Littlejohn addresses that question as he unpacks the magisterial political-theological work of Richard Hooker, a leading figure in the sixteenth-century English Reformation, through the lens of Christian liberty. “It is an exciting development that Richard Hooker is being relieved of his image as a fusty ecclesiastical polemicist and rediscovered as a formative influence on the modern political imagination. He finds a committed and discriminating advocate in W. Bradford Littlejohn, who reveals how the generous Christian faith that moved Hooker equipped him with a supple and disciplined account of human freedom.” — Oliver O’Donovan University of Edinburgh
“Littlejohn’s work would have been enough if it had simply been a terrific recovery and restatement of major themes in the work of Richard Hooker—for he is, after all, perhaps the one truly great major thinker in Christian thought who lacks disciples in the contemporary academy. But, more than that, it is also a significant contribution to debates about the nature of modernity and liberalism, the relation between earlier theological notions of liberty of conscience and contemporary individualism, church and state, and arguments about the meaning of the Reformation for the contemporary world—all from a deeply underappreciated perspective.” — Charles Mathewes University of Virginia
W. Bradford Littlejohn serves as director of the Davenant Trust, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the renewal of Christian wisdom in today’s church. He is also the author of Richard Hooker: A Companion to His Life and Work and many articles and book chapters in Reformation studies and Christian ethics.
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The Gospel in Our Culture Series
Incarnational Ministry
Participating in God’s Mission
Being with the Church Samuel Wells
A Theological Missiology for the Church in America Foreword by John R. Franke
“A real milestone for missiology and ecclesiology in the North American context.” — Stephen Bevans, SVD Catholic Theological Union
“The parsing of the Christendom legacy provided here is a rich resource for further exploration of what it means, biblically and theologically, to be God’s witnessing people in the North Atlantic mission fields. This a welcome and challenging expansion and deepening of the missional discourse.” — Darrell Guder Princeton Theological Seminary
Craig Van Gelder is professor emeritus of congregational mission at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, and a consultant with churches and other faithbased organizations. Dwight J. Zscheile is associate professor of congregational mission and leadership at Luther Seminary.
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“In this beautiful volume Sam Wells lays out a path for us to become more fully present to God, self, others, and creation. Using the phrase ‘being with,’ Wells guides readers to take up a truly incarnational stance that is fundamental to the way of Christ.” — Elaine Heath Duke Divinity School
Samuel Wells is Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London. Among his other books are Learning to Dream Again: Rediscovering the Heart of God and A Nazareth Manifesto: Being with God.
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What might faithful and meaningful Christian witness look like within our changing American context? After analyzing contemporary challenges and developing a missiological approach for the US church, Craig Van Gelder and Dwight Zscheile reflect on the long, complex, and contested history of Christian mission in America. Five distinct historical periods from the beginning of the colonial era to the dawn of the third millennium are reviewed and critiqued. Van Gelder and Zscheile then bring the story forward to the present day, discussing current realities confronting the church, discerning possibilities of where and how the Spirit of God might be at work today, and imagining what participating in the triune God’s mission may look like in an uncertain tomorrow.
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“Sam Wells, one of the finest priest-theologians of our time, weaves together deep theology with the practical heart and skill of a pastor. This book is a must-read and a challenge for all who want to grow in their understanding and practice of being Christians together, following the God who chose to journey with us in Jesus.” — Justin Welby
Craig Van Gelder and Dwight J. Zscheile
978-0-8028-7485-6 / paperback / 245 pages / $22.00 / Available UK and EU rights: Canterbury Press
Incarnational Mission Being with the World Samuel Wells “With,” says Samuel Wells, “is the most important word in the Christian faith.” In this compelling follow-up to Incarnational Ministry: Being with the Church, Wells explores what it means for mission-minded Christians and churches to be with the world. His vivid narratives and wise reflections will help Christian readers better understand how to be with all kinds of people outside the church, both individually and collectively.
978-0-8028-7498-6 / paperback / 359 pages / $35.00 [£29.99] / January
How to Become a Multicultural Church Douglas J. Brouwer Foreword by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson “In an age when diversity can be demonized, Doug Brouwer reveals its beauty as the heart of the gospel and the embodiment of the kingdom of God on earth. Through his rich pastoral experience, particularly at the beloved IPC, he reveals the joys, frustrations, and gifts that emerge in a multicultural congregation. He is an honest, seasoned, and wise guide who will fill readers with the hope that Pentecost is still possible today.” — Luke A. Powery
“Being with Sam Wells, in person or through his writing, is a journey of profound discovery and joy. It is a discovery of the power of the gospel, of how to navigate this world faithfully and well, and of seeing familiar issues in remarkably fresh ways. . . . This book shines with the wisdom we have come to expect from Wells.” — L. Gregory Jones
Duke University
“This book is not some ‘how to’ manual for tinkering with congregational life but, rather, a survival guide for congregational witness in today’s world.” — Wesley Granberg-Michaelson (from foreword)
Duke Divinity School
978-0-8028-7486-3 / paperback / 250 pages / $22.00 / February UK and EU rights: Canterbury Press
Douglas J. Brouwer is pastor of the International Protestant Church in Zürich, Switzerland. His previous books include Remembering the Faith: What Christians Believe and What Am I Supposed to Do with My Life? Asking the Right Questions.
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The Church at Worship
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Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies John D. Witvliet, series editor
Leaning on the Word
The Theater of God’s Glory
The Whole Church Sings
Worship with Argentine Baptists in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Calvin, Creation, and the Liturgical Arts
Congregational Singing in Luther’s Wittenberg
Lester Ruth and Eric L. Mathis In this latest volume in the Church at Worship series, Lester Ruth and Eric L. Mathis draw from a rich selection of primary sources to immerse readers in the worship life of Conservative Baptists in northwest Argentina from 1948 to 1964. Combining historical, theological, and practical perspectives, this book offers a vital educational resource for Christian ministers engaged in or preparing for cross-cultural ministry, introduces readers to a worshiping community that may be unfamiliar to them, and represents a significant contribution to liturgical history. “By drawing on different types of sources, Ruth and Mathis not only create a composite picture of the worship of Conservative Baptists in northwest Argentina during the mid-twentieth century; they also demonstrate a method for the liturgical investigation of ‘free’ or independent church communities not reliant upon fixed liturgical texts or prescribed practices. Moreover, they address issues of missionary engagements and reception, inter-Christian conflict and relationships, inculturation, and much more. A valuable resource especially for persons interested in connections between worship, mission, and culture.” — Karen B. Westerfield Tucker Boston University
Lester Ruth is Research Professor of Christian Worship at Duke Divinity School. An editor of the Church at Worship series, he is also the author of Longing for Jesus: Worship at a Black Holiness Church in Mississippi, 1895–1913 and a coauthor of Worshiping with the Anaheim Vineyard: The Emergence of Contemporary Worship. Eric L. Mathis is assistant professor of music and worship and director of anima: the Center for Worship and the Arts at Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama.
978-0-8028-7390-3 / paperback / 182 pages $29.00 [£24.99] / December
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Robin A. Leaver
Foreword by John D. Witvliet “David Taylor’s extraordinary study of Calvin and the liturgical arts consistently surprises and delights. Its greatest strengths are its command of Calvin’s full works, not just the Institutes, and its ability to think with Calvin but far beyond his self-imposed strictures. The result is a more profoundly incarnational Calvin and a more deeply scriptural rendering of the liturgical arts.” — Samuel Wells St. Martin-in-the-Fields
“Taylor goes behind the curmudgeonly caricatures of Calvin to offer a nuanced reading and a critical recovery of Calvin’s theology of embodiment as a surprisingly rich resource for contemporary liturgical arts. Taylor’s dialogue with Calvin is judicious and fair, and his proposals admirably extend Calvin’s own concerns for worship that is not only biblical and orderly but also beautiful and joyful.” — John L. Thompson Fuller Theological Seminary
“Studies like this remind us of treasures easily overlooked. For some, Calvin would be the last theologian from whom we might expect wisdom on the liturgical arts. But David Taylor, with exemplary skill and clarity, shows us otherwise. This is an immensely important study from one of the key leaders in theology and the arts today.” — Jeremy Begbie Duke University
“Drawing on John Calvin’s rich, Trinitarian theology of creation and embodiment, Taylor deconstructs Calvin’s flat—yea, disheartening—dismissal of the liturgical arts, offering a constructive contribution to the conversation between theology and the arts that has important implications for worship renewal in the church.” — James K. A. Smith
“Though focused on a significant reevaluation of one specific hymnal published in Wittenberg in 1526, this book is a virtuosic study of Lutheran congregational song in its formative first two decades (1517–36). The depth and breadth of Leaver’s erudition are dazzling. This is the lucid and detailed account of the origins of Protestant hymnody that we have been awaiting.” — Stephen A. Crist Emory University
“Robin Leaver is one of the leading scholars of the musical traditions of the Reformation. In this detailed and comprehensive study he presents and discusses the rich contributions of both Luther and the Wittenberg Reformation to congregational hymns. This is an important book both for historians of music and for liturgical studies.” — Bryan D. Spinks Yale Institute of Sacred Music
“A most welcome addition to Reformation studies generally and to Luther’s contribution to the church’s song particularly. The text tells the story, but for those who want even more details, the footnotes and appendices amply provide the data to pursue them.” — Paul Westermeyer Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
“Drawing on a lifetime’s experience and expertise, Leaver has charted not only a superb introduction to the world of Lutheran hymnody but also a fundamental rereading of its early history.” — Michael Marissen author of Bach & God
“A masterful refutation of the relatively recent notion that congregational singing was not integral to Luther’s program for the renewal of the liturgy. . . . A must-read!” — William Weedon LCMS Director of Worship
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W. David O. Taylor is assistant professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary and the director of Brehm Texas, an initiative in worship, theology, and the arts.
Robin A. Leaver is professor emeritus at Westminster Choir College and visiting professor at Yale University and Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Preaching Adverbially Foreword by Gordon W. Lathrop
Nancy Lammers Gross
Christian preaching obviously entails the sermon, but in reality it involves much more. Preaching happens when the entire assembly, the worshiping congregation, gathers to speak and sing, pray and listen, eat and drink, bless and baptize. Preaching at root is a dynamic event that is best captured not in adjectives but in adverbs. In Preaching Adverbially Russell Mitman shows how eleven select adverbs—biblically, contextually, invitationally, doxologically, and others—serve to identify what essentially happens in Christian preaching. Each chapter draws on scriptural paradigms, liturgical and musical forms, the insights of scholars and teachers, and Mitman’s own rich experience. His purpose is for these adverbs to become practical, revitalizing guides for all who are called to proclaim the Word of God within the framework of Christian worship.
Many women preachers and worship leaders struggle to fully use their physical voices. Maintaining that there is often a disconnect between a woman’s self-understanding as a preacher and her own body, Nancy Lammers Gross presents not only techniques but also a theologically empowering paradigm shift to help women embody their God-given preaching vocations. “This is a stunning book by one of the finest teachers of our generation of preachers. In a voice both clear and compassionate Nancy Lammers Gross says what most needs to be said about and for women preachers. The effect is stunning. Stunningly helpful. Stunningly powerful. Even stunningly beautiful. . . . While women readers will feel deeply understood, all preachers will be helped by this important volume’s insights into preaching and women’s experience.” — Jana Childers San Francisco Theological Seminary
“Mitman’s informed reflections on homiletical and liturgical arts are simply a delight to read. At times he is the wise storytelling pastoral theologian, or the sensitive presider conducting liturgy, or the preacher-poet rendering God’s Word. For him preaching and worship are one.” — Paul Scott Wilson University of Toronto
F. Russell Mitman has served as a parish pastor and as conference minister for the Pennsylvania Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ. He is the author of several books on preaching and worship, including Worship in the Shape of Scripture.
978-0-8028-7558-7 / paperback / 196 pages / $30.00 [£24.99] / January
The Preacher’s Portrait Five New Testament Word Studies John Stott Convinced that knowing the Word of God is fundamental for preaching, John Stott here presents brief studies of five New Testament metaphors that characterize preachers: steward, herald, witness, father, and servant. In the course of these five studies, Stott discusses the message and authority of preachers, the character of their proclamation, the vital necessity of their own experience with the gospel, and their motives and moral qualities. What emerges from Stott’s reflections is a biblically faithful portrayal of what preachers are supposed to be—as Stott says, “a portrait painted by the hand of God himself on the broad canvas of the New Testament.”
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Between Two Worlds The Challenge of Preaching Today John Stott “Preaching is indispensable to Christianity.” John Stott opens this book with those five bold words. He maintains, further, that “nothing is better calculated to restore health and vitality to the church than a recovery of true, biblical, contemporary preaching.” Stott was aiming to foster such a recovery when he wrote Between Two Worlds, which has become a modern evangelical classic. The genius of this book is the way it synthesizes and distills Stott’s wealth of wisdom on preaching, focusing not so much on technical matters but more on theological foundations and on necessary personal characteristics of the preacher—sincerity, earnestness, courage, and humility. Preachers old and new will continue to find much to chew on in these pages.
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“Russell Mitman brings to his discussion the wisdom of many good years of pastoral experience and much critical reflection on his wide and informed reading. This well-crafted study is an invitation to think again in a fresh way about preaching. . . . Winsome and compelling.” — Walter Brueggemann
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Women’s Voices and the Practice of Preaching
John Stott (1921–2011) was rector emeritus of All Souls Church, Langham Place, London, founder of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity, and a world-renowned preacher and teacher. His many other books include The Cross of Christ, Your Mind Matters, Confess Your Sins, and Basic Christianity.
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The Story of Latino Protestants in the United States Juan Francisco Martínez
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This groundbreaking book by Juan Francisco Martínez provides a broad, unprecedented historical overview of Latino Protestantism in the United States from the early nineteenth century to the present. Beginning with a description of the diverse Latino Protestant community and a summary of his own historiographical approach, Martínez then examines six major periods in the history of American Latino Protestantism, paying special attention to key social, political, and religious issues—including immigration policies, migration patterns, enculturation and assimilation, and others—that framed its development and diversification during each period. He concludes by outlining the challenges currently facing Latino Protestants in the United States and con-sidering what Latino Protestantism might look like in the future. Offering vital insights into key leaders, eras, and trends in Latino Protestantism, Martínez’s work will prove an invaluable resource for all who are seeking to understand this rapidly growing US demographic. “People continue to associate Latino Christian identity as primarily Roman Catholic, but Martinez highlights it as also Protestant, and this significantly so. Given how the story of Latino/a Protestants has been relatively understated, Martinez’s book fills a significant void. Through it readers will be exposed to large-scale developments, important nuances, and a host of figures, groups, and events, making this book a wonderful resource and reliable guide.” — Daniel Castelo Seattle Pacific University and Seminary
Juan Francisco Martínez is professor of Hispanic studies and pastoral leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary. A fifth-generation American Latino Protestant himself, he is a recognized expert on the history of the movement.
A Brief History of Sunday
An American Conscience
From the New Testament to the New Creation
The Reinhold Niebuhr Story
Justo L. González
Foreword by Robin W. Lovin
In this accessible historical overview of Sunday, noted scholar Justo González tells the story of how and why Christians have worshiped on Sunday from the earliest days of the church to the present. “As he has in many other books, Justo González here puts to excellent use his singular combination of biblical, historical, theological, ecumenical, and cultural wisdom to explore a subject at the heart of individual Christian life, corporate Christian community, and public Christian witness. As it tracks variations, shifts, and controversies in ‘Sabbath’ observance from pre-Christian days to the present, this learned but wonderfully accessible book explains why corporate worship on ‘the Lord’s day’ should still be as encouraging as it has been so consistently for so many in the past.” — Mark Noll University of Notre Dame
“González here demonstrates both an impressive command of history and a dexterous handling of sources. He concludes, provocatively, that Christian observance of Sunday in the twenty-first century might actually benefit from a reversion to the preConstantinian model, when Christianity was not the favored faith. This is a very good, informative, and lively book.” — Randall Balmer Dartmouth College
“With the extensive knowledge of an accomplished historian and the graceful skill of a storyteller, Justo González traverses the long and complex history of Sunday clearly and accessibly.” — Kimberly Bracken Long Columbia Theological Seminary
Justo L. González is a retired professor of historical theology and a United Methodist minister. His more than one hundred books, published in ten languages, include the acclaimed three-volume History of Christian Thought and The Story Luke Tells.
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Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was an innercity pastor, ethics professor, and author of the famous Serenity Prayer. Time magazine’s 25th anniversary issue in March 1948 featured Niebuhr on its cover, and Time later eulogized him as “the greatest Protestant theologian in America since Jonathan Edwards.” Cited as an influence by public figures ranging from Billy Graham to Barack Obama, Niebuhr was described by historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. as “the most influential American theologian of the twentieth century.” In this companion volume to the documentary film by Martin Doblmeier on the life and influence of Reinhold Niebuhr, Jeremy Sabella draws on an unprecedented set of exclusive interviews to explore how Niebuhr continues to compel minds and stir consciences in the twenty-first century. “Reinhold Niebuhr makes me shake and tremble as a human being when I think of the depths of his courage, his vision, his determination, his discipline, his willingness to expose himself publicly and to continually grow and mature. That’s why I consider him a soul mate.” — Cornel West “Niebuhr had audacity. He wrote with audacity. He took big public stands. . . . There are not too many theologians who have that kind of courage anymore.” — David Brooks Contributors (interviewees) Andrew J. Bacevich David Brooks Lisa Sowle Cahill Jimmy Carter Gary Dorrien Andrew Finstuen K. Healan Gaston Stanley Hauerwas
Susannah Heschel William H. Hudnut III Robin W. Lovin Fr. Mark S. Massa Elisabeth Sifton Ronald H. Stone Cornel West Andrew Young
Jeremy L. Sabella earned his PhD in theology from Boston College and has taught religion courses at Fairfield University and Yale Divinity School.
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An Introductory Biography for Evangelicals
Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism
Mark Galli
Heath W. Carter and Laura Rominger Porter, editors
Karl Barth
“Karl Barth, greatest theologian of the modern age, has had a mixed reception from evangelicals. Mark Galli here gives all of us the introduction to Barth that we’ve needed. This book is a wonderful contribution to both a better understanding of Karl Barth and a more fully evangelical practice of the Christian faith.” — William H. Willimon author of Conversations with Barth on Preaching
“Mark Galli wisely chooses to focus on two areas of interest (and continuing controversy) to evangelicals—Barth’s doctrines of revelation and election. Things get especially interesting when Galli uses Barth, a ‘liberal’ theologian, to criticize evangelical overemphasis on subjective experience.” — Kevin J. Vanhoozer Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
“It’s old news by now that evangelical theologians are reading Karl Barth with great appreciation. Not as well known, maybe, is the groundswell of interest in Barth among evangelicals outside the scholarly guild. For these readers, Mark Galli has written a concise, warmhearted, and plain-spoken biography of Barth that also serves as an introduction to his theology. Bravo!” — John Wilson founding editor of Education & Culture
“In this warm introduction Mark Galli succinctly captures Barth’s brilliance, his historical importance, and his intoxication with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Without shying away from the universalism question, Galli urges us to consider Barth’s claims and what preaching a Christ-centered gospel with Barth might mean in a pluralistic world.” — Jeffrey Y. McSwain founder of Reality Ministries
“Galli’s appreciative but critical posture makes this an ideal starting place for evangelicals (and others) who want to better understand Barth and his ongoing significance for Christian witness in the twenty-first century.” — John R. Franke author of Barth for Armchair Theologians
Mark Galli is editor in chief at Christianity Today and the author of many books, including Jesus Mean and Wild: The Unexpected Love of an Untamable God; Beyond Bells and Smells: The Wonder and Power of Christian Liturgy; and Beautiful Orthodoxy: The Goodness, Truth, and Beauty of Life in Christ.
978-0-8028-6939-5 / paperback / 192 pages / $18.00 [£14.99] / October
“These well-crafted essays by distinguished authorities with diverse perspectives will fascinate both students of history and evangelicals themselves.” — Daniel Walker Howe Pulitzer Prize–winning author of What Hath God Wrought
“This book sparkles with insight. Eminently readable and carefully curated, it is a significant contribution to the study of American evangelicalism.” — Kate Bowler author of Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel
“Many of us who pursue an intellectual vocation stand on the mighty scholarly shoulders of Mark Noll. In Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism Heath Carter and Laura Rominger Porter have brought together an impressive cast of historians to commemorate Noll’s magnificent career.” — John Fea Messiah College
“This is a great collection of essays by an all-star cast of scholars working on American religion. It is fascinating reading that will serve as a benchmark in the study of evangelicalism for many years to come.” — Douglas A. Sweeney Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
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author of The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ
The history of American evangelicalism is perhaps best understood by examining its turning points—those moments when it took on a new scope, challenge, or influence. The Great Awakening, the rise of fundamentalism and Pentecostalism, the emergence of Billy Graham—all these developments and many more have given shape to one of the most dynamic movements in American religious history. Taken together, these turning points serve as a clear and helpful roadmap for understanding how evangelicalism has become what it is today.
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“A gracious, appealing portrait of Barth’s life and thought.” — Fleming Rutledge
Foreword by Nathan O. Hatch Afterword by Martin E. Marty
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In this refreshingly accessible introduction to Karl Barth, Mark Galli takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the life and writings of this giant of twentieth-century theology, paying special attention to themes and topics of concern for contemporary evangelicals, who may need Barth’s acute critique as much as early-twentieth-century liberals did—and for surprisingly similar reasons.
Harry S. Stout on the Great Awakening Catherine A. Brekus on the evangelical encounter with the Enlightenment Jon Butler on disestablishment Richard Carwardine on antebellum reform Marguerite Van Die on the rise of the domestic ideal Luke E. Harlow on the Civil War and conservative American evangelicalism George M. Marsden on the rise of fundamentalism Edith Blumhofer on urban Pentecostalism Dennis C. Dickerson on the Great Migration Mark Hutchinson on the global turn in American evangelicalism Grant Wacker on Billy Graham’s 1949 Los Angeles revival Darren Dochuk on American evangelicalism’s Latin turn
Heath W. Carter is assistant professor of history at Valparaiso University and the author of Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago. Laura Rominger Porter holds a PhD in history from the University of Notre Dame and is an independent scholar based in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Keeping the Soul in Christian Higher Education A History of Roanoke College
R. E. Frykenberg and Brian Stanley, series editors
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Studies in the History of Christian Missions
“Using both the 175-year history of Roanoke College and his own experience as a member of its faculty as a case study, Robert Benne examines the current state of Christian higher education in this country. The story he tells is one of constant struggle to discern the place of faith in academic life.” — Gilbert Meilaender Valparaiso University
“This intellectual history of Roanoke College is a model case study of how one institution, born in the wake and spirit of the Second Great Awakening, moved from orthodoxy toward secularism and now finds itself in a conflict between these two impulses.” — William C. Ringenberg author of The Christian College: A History of Protestant Higher Education in America
“In many ways, the Roanoke story is the story of church-related colleges writ large. All who want to strengthen Christian colleges, and who wonder about their fates, will learn much from this engaging history.” — Gerald McDermott Beeson Divinity School
Robert Benne is Jordan Trexler Professor Emeritus at Roanoke College and founder of the Benne Center for Religion and Society.
Race and Redemption British Missionaries Encounter Pacific Peoples, 1797–1920 Jane Samson “Jane Samson boldly identifies theological anthropology as the key to understanding how, at the height of European imperialism, British Protestant missionaries in the Pacific emerged as figures who confound modernist categories: they were religious men of empirical science, Christian cognoscenti of pagan pasts, and colonial abrogators of racial barriers. Offering nuanced readings of diverse sources, Samson’s thematic study shows how the missionaries’ commitment to a distinctively biblical ontology of human unity informed strategies that extended Christian inclusivity to many aspects of Victorian science and Pacific Island cultures.” — Michael W. Scott London School of Economics & Political Science
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Growing Pains How Racial Struggles Changed a Church and a School Christopher H. Meehan Part of the Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America, this book tells the troubling story of integrating Timothy Christian School in suburban Chicago during the turbulent 1960s and the subsequent creation of Chicago West Side Christian School, a “beacon of reconciliation.” “If we are to ever build Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of the ‘beloved community,’ people interested in reconciliation must be willing to truthfully confront past epochs of racial injustice. Growing Pains represents a compelling step in that direction.” — Mark Mulder author of Shades of White Flight: Evangelical Congregations and Urban Departure
“Issues of race always test the church’s commitment to the gospel. Often the result is marred by sin that continues to persist, with progress measured shamefully over far too many years. Meehan tells this story in a forthright, engaging manner, including the faithful efforts of parents of black children and the pastors and teachers who were their prophetic allies. The facts and the drama are real; this painful story is told with clarity, empathy, and truth.” — Wesley Granberg-Michaelson general secretary emeritus of Reformed Church in America
Christopher H. Meehan is news and media director for the Christian Reformed Church in North America and former religion editor of the Grand Rapids Press.
978-0-8028-7570-9 / paperback / 230 pages / $25.00 [£20.99] / Available
“Jane Samson’s landmark study pours theology into history to explore how missionaries grappled with alterity in the Pacific in the 19th and early 20th century and contributed to or challenged the emerging discipline of anthropology. Her tropes of ‘othering’ and ‘brothering’ probe the tensions between missionary recognition of human difference and the Christian imperative to breach these distinctions. . . . This empirically based analysis of the theological anthropology of Christian mission in the Pacific is a powerful and innovative history.” — Helen Gardner Deakin University
Jane Samson is professor of history at the University of Alberta.
978-0-8028-7535-8 / paperback / 282 pages / $50.00 [£41.99] November
Jesus and the Holocaust Reflections on Suffering and Hope Joel Marcus Foreword by Ellen T. Charry In Jesus and the Holocaust Joel Marcus —a Jew by birth, a Christian by choice—offers stirring meditations on the relationship between the deaths of six million Jews at the hands of the Nazis and the death of one innocent Jew on the cross. Joel Marcus is Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Duke Divinity School.
978-0-8028-7435-1 / paperback / 153 pages / $18.00 [£14.99] Available
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Beautiful Light
In the Beauty of Holiness
Four Birds of Noah’s Ark
Religious Meaning in Film
Art and the Bible in Western Culture
Roy M. Anker
David Lyle Jeffrey
A Prayer Book from the Time of Shakespeare
Though “religious” films usually don’t get much respect in Hollywood, religion still regularly finds its way into the movies. In Beautiful Light Roy Anker shows how even films that aren’t overtly religious or Christian in their content can be filled with deep religious insights and spiritual meaning. Examining nine critically acclaimed films, including Magnolia, The Apostle, American Gigolo, and M. Night Shyamalan’s Wide Awake, Anker analyzes the ways in which these movies explore what it means to be human—and what it means, as human beings, to wrestle with a sometimes unwieldy divine presence.
In this comprehensive study of Christian fine art—lavishly illustrated with 146 masterworks—David Lyle Jeffrey explores the relationship between beauty and holiness as he integrates aesthetic perspectives from the ancient Hebrew Scriptures through Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant down to contemporary philosophers of art. From the walls of the Roman catacombs to the paintings of Marc Chagall, visual art in the West has consistently drawn its most profound and generative inspiration from biblical narrative and imagery. Jeffrey guides readers through this artistic tradition from the second century to the twenty-first, astutely pointing out its relationship not only to the biblical sources but also to related expressions in liturgy and historical theology.
author of Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture
“Roy Anker is one of our most perceptive theology-and-film writers. Where Elijah heard God in the evocative sound of sheer silence following a storm, Anker discovers analogous thin places in the depictions of human experience in film. Thoughtful, thorough, and eloquent, Anker shows readers how nine movies illuminate the mystery of being. Here is theological film criticism at its best.” — Robert K. Johnston author of Reel Spirituality: Theology and Film in Dialogue
“Will be catnip for students of religion and the cinema alike.” — Booklist Roy M. Anker taught film and literature for many years at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. His other books include Catching Light: Looking for God in the Movies and Of Pilgrims and Fire: When God Shows Up at the Movies.
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“Jeffrey’s richly illustrated and truly learned study of the complex relationship between visual art and Christian theology and practice begins with an examination of the place of beauty in striving for holiness and ends with examples of artistic rebellion against traditional faith and—finally—the return of the transcendentals. An indispensable contribution to the conversation among artists and theologians.” — Robin Jensen University of Notre Dame
“This book will appeal to, and enlighten, a wide range of readers, including those interested in theology, art and architecture, philosophy, the liturgy, and many other subjects. Gracefully written, learned but accessible, and deeply cogitated, it is an original and important contribution to our understanding of the Bible and art in Western culture.” — Bruce Cole former chair of National Endowment for the Humanities
David Lyle Jeffrey is Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities at Baylor University, Waco, Texas. His previous books include A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature and People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture.
978-0-8028-7470-2 / hardcover / 448 pages 146 color illustrations / $49.00 [£40.99] / October
Edited with an introduction by Robert Hudson As the Black Death ravaged London in 1608, in the midst of societal chaos and tragedy, playwright Thomas Dekker wrote Four Birds of Noah’s Ark, a book containing fifty-six prayers for the people of London and all of England. Inventively organized into categories symbolized by four birds—Dove, Eagle, Pelican, and Phoenix—the prayers in this book bear witness to Dekker’s deep faith with a power and poignancy that few written prayers in English literature achieve. Bringing Dekker’s devotional classic back into print for the first time since 1924, editor Robert Hudson has annotated the prayers and modernized their language without sacrificing their enchanting beauty and simplicity. Hudson’s substantive and illuminating introduction is a gem in itself.
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“Beautiful Light is a must-read for everyone interested in movies as a way to explore the mysteries of faith. Page after page is filled with engaging, informed, and insightful analyses of a range of cinematic achievements that invite viewers to contemplate the various and nuanced ways that religion finds expression in contemporary cinema.” — William D. Romanowski
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“Beautifully crafted, filled with human goodness and biblical truth, these are more than prayers: they are meditations, devotions, and little lessons on what it means to be human and utterly dependent upon God. This is a volume I will return to again and again.” — Karen Swallow Prior author of Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me
“Happy the reader who discovers this prayer book by Thomas Dekker, the Elizabethan playwright who probably spent more time in debtors’ prison than in church but learned from both how to read the human heart. Dekker’s prayers—gently modernized and engagingly introduced by Robert Hudson—make a rich collection of praise, petition, lament, and thanksgiving wrapped up in an irresistible wit.” — Carol Zaleski coauthor of Prayer: A History and The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings
Thomas Dekker (1572–1632) was a prolific writer whose works include The Shoemaker’s Holiday and The Gull’s Hornbook. Robert Hudson is an editor, poet, and scholar whose books include Kiss the Earth When You Pray and The Christian Writer’s Manual of Style.
978-0-8028-7481-8 / paperback with French flaps 174 pages / $17.99 [£14.99] / October
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Stay in the City
Calling All Years Good
How Christian Faith Is Flourishing in an Urban World
Christian Vocation throughout Life’s Seasons
Mark R. Gornik and Maria Liu Wong
Kathleen A. Cahalan and Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, editors
We live in an urban age. For the first time in human history, most of the world’s people live in cities. It is thus vital, say Mark Gornik and Maria Liu Wong, for Chris tians to think constructively about how to live out their faith in an urban setting. Writing from their experience living and working in New York City, Gornik and Liu Wong show what is happening in the urban church and invite readers everywhere to join together in creating a more flourishing urban world for all. “This little book is a great resource. In an accessible and engaging way, the authors communicate the energy, passion, and creativity that is alive in urban congregations. Highly recommended!” — Christine D. Pohl
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“Another great book from the Collegeville Institute ! Kathleen Cahalan and Bonnie Miller-McLemore have drawn together a circle of wise and reflective conversation partners [Matt Bloom, Joyce Ann Mercer, Katherine Turpin] who have much to share. These chapters widen our vocational vision beyond that crucial time of young adulthood in order to contemplate the many ways God calls each of us at every moment of our lives. I know of no other book that takes such a serious and sustained look at the life stages of vocation.” — Edward P. Hahnenberg John Carroll University
“Develops an insightful and theologically rich understanding of vocation, a nuanced and textured interpretation of the stages of the life cycle, and a brilliant fusion of the two. . . . There is no other book that treats this subject with such excellence, clarity, and insight.” — Douglas J. Schuurman
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“An invaluable resource of stories and theological insights from two leaders who obviously know something about staying in the city and about learning to see and tell what God is doing there.” — Emmanuel Katongole Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame
Mark R. Gornik is director of City Seminary of New York and the author of Word Made Global: Stories of African Christianity in New York City and To Live in Peace: Biblical Faith and the Changing Inner City. Maria Liu Wong is dean of City Seminary of New York.
978-0-8028-7404-7 / paperback / 95 pages / $12.00 [£9.99] / October
Basic Christianity
St. Olaf College
Kathleen A. Cahalan is professor of practical 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.
978-0-8028-7424-5 / paperback / 244 pages / $20.00 [£16.99] Available
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The Stories We Live
John Stott Foreword by Rick Warren
Finding God’s Calling All around Us
Truly a modern evangelical classic, John Stott’s Basic Christianity has sold more than two million copies since its original publication in 1958. Named one of the Top 100 Books of the Millennium by World magazine and listed among Christianity Today’s Top 100 Books of the 20th Century, Basic Christianity continues to inform the faith of Christian readers around the world.
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Kathleen A. Cahalan “Reading this engaging book, and pondering it alone or with others, can help each of us to hear and respond to God’s calling, wherever we may be on life’s journey.” — Dorothy Bass Valparaiso University
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Confess Your Sins The Way of Reconciliation
Duke Divinity School
John Stott Foreword by Ray Ortlund Back in print for the first time in many years, John Stott’s little classic on confession offers vital wisdom and assurance regarding a neglected Christian practice. “An excellent biblical, historical, and practical treatment of the subject from which all Christians will profit.” — Carl R. Trueman
Kathleen A. Cahalan is professor of practical theology at Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary, Collegeville, Minnesota, and the coauthor of Calling in Today’s World and Christian Practical Wisdom: What It Is, Why It Matters.
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Who God Says You Are
Among the Ashes
A Christian Understanding of Identity
On Death, Grief, and Hope
Klyne R. Snodgrass
William J. Abraham
“Klyne Snodgrass looks at one of the oldest questions of humanity—Who am I?— and brings wisdom that is at once ancient and fresh. To read this book is to better be prepared to understand yourself.” — John Ortberg author of All The Places to Go
Klyne R. Snodgrass is professor emeritus of New Testament at North Park Theological Seminary, Chicago.
978-0-8028-7518-1 / paperback / 243 pages / $24.00 [£19.99] / January
“A searingly honest book. William Abraham helps us understand that we cannot avoid false comforts about the death of loved ones—or about our own death—if those deaths are not seen in light of the death of Christ. This book is not an ‘easy’ read, and for this we ought to be grateful.” — Stanley Hauerwas “Abraham does not shirk from saying that in his grief he could not reason about the death of his son or about his grief. He does not shirk from saying that we have no theological explanation for the untimely death of children. He does not shirk from saying that, though we live without explanations, we nonetheless have ground for hope. Readers will find this honesty refreshing and consoling. It captures their experience, and it gives them permission to set aside pious talk and voice their own grief.” — Nicholas Wolterstorff
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In this book William Abraham reflects on the nature of certainty, death, and hope in the face of devastating grief. Beginning with a stark account of his own grief after his oldest son unexpectedly died, Abraham draws on the book of Job as he explores the significance of grief in debates about the problem of evil. He probes what Christianity teaches about life after death and ultimately relates our experiences of grief to the death of Christ. Profound and beautiful, Among the Ashes tackles deep philosophical and theological questions surrounding loss and death even as it honors the human experience of grief.
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“This book about identity simultaneously engages the self. Snodgrass deftly uses exegesis, classical sources, Hebrew tradition, and literary texts to show that participation in Christ is the goal. Readers will at some points argue, at others pray, and at others stay silent with Who God Says You Are. Then this book will have done its work, and the mind, soul, and heart of the reader will have had a workout.” — C. John Weborg
Foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff
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For respected New Testament scholar Klyne Snodgrass, Who are you? is the most important question a person can ask—the question from which everything else in life flows. Other questions follow: What made you who you are? Who gets to say who you are? And—perhaps most vital— Who does God say you are? In this book Snodgrass offers wise guidance to all who are wrestling with such universal human questions. He examines nine factors—including one’s body, personal history, commitments, and boundaries—that shape human identity, and he expertly draws out what the Bible tells us about who God says we are, how we fit within God’s purposes, and how our God-given identity can and must impact the way we live our lives.
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William J. Abraham is Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.
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? Abraham Among the Ashes 27 ? Acolatse Powers, Principalities, and the Spirit 13 Amstutz Just Immigration 17 Anker Beautiful Light 25 Bauckham Jesus and the Eyewitnesses 4 ? Begbie Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts 10 Benne Keeping the Soul in Christian Higher Education 24 ? Beutler Commentary on the Gospel of John 7 ? Billings Remembrance, Communion, and Hope 15 Bird Jesus the Eternal Son 4 Brouwer How to Become a Multicultural Church 19 Brown & Moloney Interpreting the Gospel and Letters of John 2 Cahalan The Stories We Live 26 Cahalan & Miller-McLemore Calling All Years Good 26 ? Campbell Paul: An Apostle’s Journey 1 Carter & Porter Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism 23 Castelo Pentecostalism as a Christian Mystical Tradition 11 Cavanaugh & Smith Evolution and the Fall 15 Chester Reading Paul with the Reformers 3 ? Crisp & Strobel Jonathan Edwards 9 ? Crump I Pledge Allegiance 17 Davis Forbearance 16 ? Dekker & Hudson Four Birds of Noah’s Ark 25 ? Dempster Micah (thotc) 6 ? Duff Jesus Followers in the Roman Empire 5 ? Eastman Paul and the Person 3
? Embry, Herms & Wright Early Jewish Literature 1
Littlejohn The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty (euslr) 18
Florensky Early Religious Writings, 1903–1909 14
Lovin & Mauldin Theology as Interdisciplinary Inquiry 14
? Galli Karl Barth 23
Lutheran World Federation From Conflict to Communion (rr) 12
García & Nunes Wittenberg Meets the World 12 Goldingay Reading Jesus’s Bible 2 González A Brief History of Sunday 22 ? Gornik & Liu Wong Stay in the City 26 ? Green, Pardue & Yeo So Great a Salvation (mwt) 13 Gross Women’s Voices and the Practice of Preaching 21 Harding & Nobbs Into All the World 5
Marcus Jesus and the Holocaust 24 ? Martínez The Story of Latino Protestants in the United States 22 ? McKnight Colossians (nicnt) 7 ? McKnight Philemon (nicnt) 7 ? Meehan Growing Pains (hsrca) 24 Migliore Reading the Gospels with Karl Barth 10 ? Mitman Preaching Adverbially 21 O’Donovan Entering into Rest 16 ? Pauw Church in Ordinary Time 9
Hart The Hidden and the Manifest 14
Rajendra Migrants and Citizens 17
Hauser & Watson A History of Biblical Interpretation 2
? Ruth & Mathis Leaning on the Word (caw) 20
? Hunsinger Karl Barth, the Jews, and Judaism 10
Sabella An American Conscience 22
Irvin The Protestant Reformation and World Christianity (rr) 12 ? Jacobs Haggai and Malachi (nicot) 6 Jeffrey In the Beauty of Holiness 25 Jipp Saved by Faith and Hospitality 4 ? Kaemingk Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear 13
? Samson Race and Redemption (shcm) 24 Schroeder Jeremiah (bmt) 8 ? Shepherd & Wright Ezra and Nehemiah (thotc) 6 ? Snodgrass Stories with Intent, 10th anniv ed 1 ? Snodgrass Who God Says You Are 27 ? Stott Basic Christianity 26 ? Stott Between Two Worlds 21
? Kärkkäinen Hope and Community 9
? Stott Confess Your Sins 26
Katongole Born from Lament 18
? Stott The Preacher’s Portrait 21
? Keener Spirit Hermeneutics 2
? Stout, Minkema & Neele The Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia 8
Leaver The Whole Church Sings (cicw) 20 ? Levering Dying and the Virtues 15 Lilley & Pedersen Human Origins and the Image of God 14
? Sumney Steward of God’s Mysteries 3 Taylor The Theater of God’s Glory (cicw) 20 Theoharis Always with Us? (pc) 18
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Vainio Disagreeing Virtuously 16 ? van der Kooi This Incredibly Benevolent Force 11 van der Kooi & van den Brink Christian Dogmatics 11 ? Van Gelder & Zscheile Participating in God’s Mission (gocs) 19 ? Walton, Trebilco & Gill The Urban World and the First Christians 5 Wells The Courage to Be Protestant 12 Wells Incarnational Ministry 19 ? Wells Incarnational Mission 19 ? Williams Matthew (cb) 8
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