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Puts forth a robust, contemporary understanding of how the Reformers really read Paul
and the Eyewitnesses 3 Jesus Richard Bauckham Expanded second edition of a truly groundbreaking work in biblical studies
Interpreting the Gospel 4 and Letters of John Sherri Brown and Francis J. Moloney, SDB Splendid introductory textbook by two acknowledged experts on John
Jesus’s Bible 5 Reading John Goldingay How does the New Testament help us understand the Old Testament?
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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
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“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. The subtitle correctly presents the book as an ‘introduction,’ but it is more than that. For me it has served—and will continue to serve—as a much-needed refresher course in how to bring new vitality to the exploration and twenty-first-century updating of the best of the theology that we have received from the past!” — Richard J. Mouw Fuller Theological Seminary
“Non-Dutch readers can now see for themselves why this Christian Dogmatics became such a best-seller in its native land. It provides a cogent, fresh, confident statement of the Christian faith that honestly engages the tough challenges our modern world throws at it. In addition, this work is a pedagogic success. . . . 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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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. Consisting of sixteen chapters, the book is ideal for classroom use. Each chapter begins with several engaging questions and a statement of learning goals and concludes with a list of recommended further reading. Written in a student-friendly tone and style and expertly translated and edited, van der Kooi and van den Brink’s Christian Dogmatics splendidly displays the real, practical relevance of theology to the complexities of our world today.
Preface to the English Edition Preface to the Original Edition 1. Dogmatics as Disciplined Thinking about God Definitions and Aims 2. Is There a God? Prolegomena 3. God as Three in One The Doctrine of the Trinity 4. “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” The Names, Attributes, and Essence of God 5. Encountering God The Doctrine of Revelation 6. Existence Given The Doctrine of Creation 7. Human Beings and the Image of God Theological Anthropology 8. Existence Ravaged Sin and Evil 9. Israel, the Raw Nerve in Christian Theology The Doctrine of the Covenant 10. The Person of Jesus Christ Christology 11. “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” Jesus Christ as Victor, Redeemer, and Mediator 12. Holy Spirit, Giver of Life Pneumatology 13.The Book of God and of Humans The Doctrine of Scripture 14. Renewal of God’s Community Ecclesiology 15. Renewal of the Human Being Justification and Transformation 16. Renewal of God’s World Eschatology Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects Index of Scripture References
“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. School of Intercultural Studies, 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
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A Man Attested by God
Apostle of the Crucified Lord
An Anomalous Jew
J. R. Daniel Kirk
A Theological Introduction to Paul and His Letters
Michael F. Bird
This book by J. R. Daniel Kirk presents a comprehensive defense of the thesis that the Synoptic Gospels present Jesus not as divine but as an idealized human figure. Counterbalancing the recent trend toward early high Christology in such scholars as Richard Bauckham, Simon Gathercole, and Richard Hays, Kirk thoroughly unpacks the humanity of Jesus as understood by Gospel writers whose language is rooted in the religious and literary context of early Judaism. Without dismissing divine Christologies out of hand, Kirk argues that idealized human Christology is the best way to read the Synoptic Gospels, and he explores Jesus as exorcist and miracle worker within the framework of his humanity. With wide-ranging exegetical and theological insight that sheds startling new light on familiar Gospel texts, A Man Attested by God offers up-to-date, provocative scholarship that will have to be reckoned with.
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Though the apostle Paul is often lauded as the first great Christian theologian and a champion for Gentile inclusion in the church, in his own time he was universally regarded as a strange and controversial person. In this book Pauline scholar Michael Bird explains why, elucidating how Paul was variously perceived by Jews, by by Jewish Christians, by Greeks, and by the Romans.
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“This may well be the most important book about New Testament Christology to appear in recent years. . . . Daniel Kirk makes a persuasive case for viewing the depiction of Jesus in Matthew, Mark, and Luke as one of an idealized human figure. His argument is likely to stand the test of time and become a focal point for ongoing debates and new research in the years and decades to come.” — James McGrath
Michael J. Gorman Foreword by John M. G. Barclay This comprehensive, widely used text by Michael Gorman presents a theologically focused, historically grounded interpretation of the apostle Paul and raises significant questions for engaging Paul today. In this second edition Gorman brings the conversation upto-date with major recent developments in Pauline studies and devotes greater attention to themes of participation, transformation, resurrection, justice, and peace. “Michael Gorman enviably combines simplicity of presentation with profound originality. The present work, enhanced in this new edition, is simultaneously an accessible textbook and an exposition of challenging new ideas which all Pauline scholars must take seriously. A book to draw in the beginner and to compel the expert into fresh reflection.” — N. T. Wright University of St Andrews
“I have used Michael Gorman’s introduction to Paul with both undergraduate and graduate students. In my experience it is the best available introduction to Paul and his letters. The appearance of this revised and updated edition is good news for all who love and teach Paul.” — Frank J. Matera
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“Everyone concerned with the origins of Christian belief needs to take note of this work.” — Morna D. Hooker
“The best introduction to Paul and his letters just got better!” — Michael F. Bird Ridley College, Melbourne
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J. R. Daniel Kirk holds a PhD in New Testament from Duke University and has taught at North Carolina State University, St. Joseph’s University, Eastern College, and Fuller Theological Seminary. His previous books include Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul? and Unlocking Ro mans:Resurrection and the Justification of God.
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Michael J. Gorman holds the Raymond E. Brown Chair in Biblical Studies and Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary & University, Baltimore, Maryland. His other books include Cruciformity: Paul’s Narrative Spirituality of the Cross; Inhabiting the Cruciform God: Kenosis, Justification, and Theosis in Paul’s Narrative Soteriology; and Becoming the Gospel: Paul, Participation, and Mission.
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Paul among Jews, Greeks, and Romans
“This is vintage Bird, perhaps with a noticeable tinge of N. T. Wright thrown in as well. In this book we find historically informed, strong readings of the Pauline texts, a deep awareness of the scholarly debates and positions on Paul and first-century Judaism, and overall a substantive and important contribution to situating Paul in his firstcentury context.” — Joshua W. Jipp Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
“Michael Bird argues persuasively that Paul did not cease to be a Jew when he became Christian—and yet his previous Jewish convictions were shaken to the core and transformed. Paul remained a Jew, but he became an anomaly to his Jewish contemporaries.” — Francis Watson Durham University
“Even though contextualizing Paul is necessary in order to understand him, Bird argues that Paul nevertheless defies categorization. He was a maverick apostle, an inimitable thinker, and an anomalous Jew. Bird cogently sets Paul within his world, not to domesticate him, but to draw out his peculiarity. This is engaging reading, peppered with fresh insight into the historical Paul.” — Nijay K. Gupta George Fox Evangelical Seminary
Michael F. Bird is lecturer in theology at Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia. His previous books include Introducing Paul: The Man, His Mission and His Message and The Gospel of the Lord: How the Early Church Wrote the Story of Jesus, which won the 2015 Christianity Today Book Award for Biblical Studies.
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Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
Answering Adoptionist Christology
The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony
Reconciling the Old and New Perspectives
Michael F. Bird
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Stephen J. Chester
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Richard Bauckham
Adoptionism—the idea that Jesus is portrayed in the Bible as a human figure who was adopted as God’s son at his baptism or resurrection—has been commonly accepted in much recent scholarship as the earliest explanation of Jesus’s divine status. In this book Michael Bird draws that view into question with a thorough examination of pre-Pauline materials, the Gospel of Mark, and patristic sources. Engaging critically with Bart Ehr man, James Dunn, and other scholars, Bird demonstrates that a full-fledged adoptionist Christology did not emerge until the late second century. As he delves into passages often used to support the idea of an early adoptionist Christology, including Romans 1:3–4 and portions of the speeches in Acts, Bird persuasively argues that early Christology was in fact incarnational, not adoptionist. He concludes by surveying and critiquing notable examples of adoptionism in modern theology.
This critically acclaimed work by noted New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham argues that the four Gospels are closely based on the eyewitness testimony of those who personally knew Jesus. Bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption that the Jesus accounts 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.
Foreword by John M. G. Barclay In debates surrounding the New Perspective on Paul, the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformers are often characterized as the apostle’s misinterpreters in chief. In this book Stephen Chester challenges that conception with a careful and nuanced reading of the Reformers’ Pauline exegesis. Examining the overall contours of early Reformation exegesis of Paul, Chester contrasts the Reformers with their Roman opponents and explores particular contributions made by such key figures as Luther, Melanchthon, and Calvin. He relates their insights to contemporary debates in Pauline theology about justification, union with Christ, and other central themes, arguing that their work remains a significant resource today. Being published in the five-hundredth anniversary year of the Protestant Reformation, Reading Paul with the Reformers reclaims a robust, contemporary understanding of how the Reformers really read Paul. “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. . . . His deep historical research will be honored and admired on all sides, and the rich materials he feeds back into the stream of theological interpretation will surely fertilize Pauline scholarship for many decades to come.” — John M. G. Barclay from the foreword
Stephen J. Chester is Professor of New Testament at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago. He is also the author of Conversion at Corinth: Perspectives on Conversion in Paul’s Theology and the Corinthian Church.
“An engagingly written, well-researched, and persuasive challenge to a modern (and ancient) adoptionist reading of early Christianity. As one expects from Michael Bird’s work, this book is wide-ranging in its command of relevant disciplines and respectfully addresses a range of views.” — Craig S. Keener Asbury Theological Seminary
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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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 “Another blockbuster from the productive pen of Richard Bauckham. . . . Not to be missed!” — James D. G. Dunn
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“Bauckham’s careful and eloquent presentation of his argument, supported not just by careful scholarship but by admirable common sense, deserves earnest consideration by all.” — Times Literary Supplement “It will be hard to take seriously future works on the origin of the Gospels that have not interacted with Bauckham. . . . Recommended.” — Choice “Bauckham’s proposal is both pathbreaking and a tour de force.” — First Things Richard Bauckham is professor emeritus of New Testament studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, senior scholar at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and a fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His many other books include Jesus and the God of Israel, Gospel Women, and Jesus: A Very Short Introduction.
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Interpreting the Gospel and Letters of John An Introduction
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Accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date, Interpreting the Gospel and Letters of John is an ideal text for students new to the discipline of biblical studies. Sherri Brown and Francis Moloney, both acknowledged experts on John, present a broad overview of the story of Christianity arising out of its Jewish foundations and proceed expertly to guide readers through the contents of the Gospel and Letters of John. Maintaining that Johannine literature is best understood against the background of the Old Testament covenant metaphor, Brown and Moloney focus on the central role of covenant in the narrative of John’s Gospel and highlight the Evangelist’s use of fulfillment language. Helpful sidebars, maps, questions for review, and further reading sections are placed throughout the text, making this volume perfect for classroom use. “Sensitivity to student learning and depth of scholarship combine in this innovative book to produce a very special guide on the journey into the wisdom and world of John. It is a big-picture approach that embraces Israel’s story, Rome’s world, and the church’s beginnings as a framework for a careful reading of the biblical texts. Students will reap the rewards of its excellence.” — William Loader
Jesus in John’s Gospel Structure and Issues in Johannine Christology William Loader Foreword by Harold W. Attridge The culmination of a lifetime of work on the Gospel of John, William Loader’s Jesus in John’s Gospel explores the Fourth Gospel as a whole, focusing on ways in which attention to the structure of Christology in John allows for greater understanding of Johannine themes and helps resolve long-standing interpretive impasses. Following an introductory examination of the profound influence of Rudolf Bultmann on Johannine studies, Loader takes up the central interpretive issues and debates surrounding Johannine Christology and explores the death of Jesus and the salvation event in John. With an exhaustive bibliography and careful, well-articulated conclusions that take into account the latest research on John, this volume will be useful to scholars and students alike. “Jesus in John’s Gospel could only have been written by one who has been deeply immersed in the Fourth Gospel and Johannine scholarship for decades. Loader is acutely sensitive to the nuances of John’s language and thought, has followed closely the debates over Johannine theology, and masterfully sets its Christology in dialogue with the Jewish context of early Christianity. . . . This is a masterpiece!” — R. Alan Culpepper Mercer University
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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 other books include commentaries on the Gospel of John and the Gospel of Mark.
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“This book must become the essential point of reference for all future discussion of Johannine Christology. Not all will agree with William Loader’s carefully argued case, but everyone will come away richer for having encountered Loader’s splendidly articulated argument.” — Francis J. Moloney, SDB Australian Catholic University
William Loader is professor emeritus of New Testament at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. His many other books include The New Testament with Imagination: A Fresh Approach to Its Writings and Themes and Making Sense of Sex: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Early Jewish and Christian Literature.
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Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel Narrative Approaches to Seventy Figures in John Steven A. Hunt, D. Francois Tolmie, and Ruben Zimmermann, editors Foreword by Craig R. Koester Using various narrative approaches and methodologies, an international team of forty-four Johannine scholars here offers probing essays related to individual characters and group characters in the Gospel of John. These essays present fresh perspectives on characters who play a major role in the Gospel (Peter, Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman, Thomas, and many others), but they also examine characters who have never before been the focus of narrative analysis (the men of the Samaritan woman, the boy with the loaves and fishes, Barabbas, and more). Taken together, the essays shed new light on how complex and nuanced many of these characters are, even as they stand in the shadow of Jesus. Readers of this volume will be challenged to consider the Gospel of John anew. “This collection of studies of John’s characters builds on the numerous literary studies of the Gospel that have been done in recent decades, offering the best in recent scholarship. At the same time, the studies are accessible, inviting a broad range of current readers to consider one of the most intriguing aspects of John’s narrative—its portrayal of the people whose lives are somehow intertwined with that of Jesus. . . . Valuable for scholars, teachers, and preachers, all of whom face the challenge of reading the text in fresh and stimulating ways.” — Craig R. Koester from the foreword
Steven A. Hunt is professor of New Testament studies at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts. D. Francois Tolmie is professor of New Testament studies at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Ruben Zimmermann is professor of New Testament studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany.
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Women in the Story of Jesus The Gospels through the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century Female Biblical Interpreters
“In this superb anthology we hear from a veritable cloud of witnesses: women preachers, educators, biblical commentators, suffragists, social activists, novelists, and poets. These female biblical interpreters—most of them previously overlooked by scholars—can now be restored to their rightful place in the history of New Testament interpretation.” — Joy A. Schroeder author of Deborah’s Daughters: Gender Politics and Biblical Interpretation
“A treasury of writings by women, on women, and frequently for women, this carefully researched collection provides a valuable addition to the growing field of scholarship examining how women have read and interpreted the Bible. Going beyond mere recovery, this volume engages in the long overdue project of analysis and integration. Biblical scholars, historians, scholars of reception history, clergy, and general readers alike will find this book engaging and illuminating.” — Kristin Kobes Du Mez
John Goldingay
Joshua W. Jipp Foreword by Christine D. Pohl
For Jesus and his contemporaries, what we now know as the Old Testament was simply the Scriptures—and it was the fundamental basis of how people understood their relationship with God. In this book John Goldingay uncovers five major ways in which the New Testament uses the Old Testament. His discussion paves the way for contemporary readers to understand and appreciate the Old Testament more fully. 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.
Too few Christians today, says Joshua Jipp, understand hospitality to strangers and the marginalized as an essential part of the church’s identity. In this book Jipp argues that God’s relationship to his people is fundamentally an act of hospitality to strangers, and that divine and human hospitality together are thus at the very heart of Christian faith. Jipp first provides a thorough interpretation of the major biblical texts related to the practice of hospitality to strangers, considering especially how these texts portray Christ as the divine host who extends God’s welcome to all people. Jipp then invites readers to consider how God’s hospitality sets the pattern for human hospitality, offering suggestions on how the practice of welcoming strangers can guide the church in its engagement with current social challenges—immigration, incarceration, racism, and more.
“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
“A wonderfully succinct, substantive, and engaging treatment. Jipp succeeds in showing that divine and human welcome are at the heart of our Christian faith, and that hospitality is a central practice for all who follow Christ. . . . This work is a gift to the church and a major contribution to the recovery of the practice of hospitality.” — Christine D. Pohl
Redeemer University College
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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. His many other books include Do We Need the New Testament? Letting the Old Testament Speak for Itself and the three-volume Old Testament Theology.
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This volume gathers the writings of thirtyone nineteenth-century women on the stories of women in the Gospels—Mary and Martha, Anna, the Samaritan woman at the well, Herodias and Salome, Mary Magdalene, and more. Retrieving and analyzing rarely read works by Christina Rossetti, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Wordsworth, and many others, Women in the Story of Jesus illuminates the biblical text, recovers a neglected chapter of reception history, and helps us understand and apply Scripture in our present context.
How the New Testament Helps Us Understand the Old Testament
Saved by Faith and Hospitality
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Reading Jesus’s Bible
Joshua W. Jipp is assistant professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
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author of A New Gospel for Women
Marion Ann Taylor is professor of Old Testament at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, and coeditor of Women of War, Women of Woe: Joshua and Judges through the Eyes of Nineteenth- Century Female Biblical Interpreters.
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Heather E. Weir is a pastoral theologian who lives and works in Toronto.
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Scriptures and Sectarianism
The Myth of Rebellious Angels
Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews
Essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls
Studies in Second Temple Judaism and New Testament Texts
John M. G. Barclay
Loren T. Stuckenbruck
“John Barclay has for some years been one of the world’s leading New Testament scholars. He has combined in his work an extensive knowledge of the Jewish and pagan environment of the New Testament authors, a keen theoretical awareness, and careful historical analysis of Paul. Far from leading him to a suspicion of theological analyses of the New Testament, as is the case with some scholars, these strengths of Barclay have led to keen theological—and indeed ecclesiological—insights.” — Simon Gathercole
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“A timely collection, bringing together ten years of John J. Collins’s writings on the Dead Sea Scrolls. In these essays Collins displays his meticulous use of primary and secondary sources and his cogent arguments concerning the sectarian community that lived at Qumran, all in clear and readable prose. A must-read for scholars of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity!” — Sidnie White Crawford University of NebraskaLincoln
“In these sharp and nononsense essays, as always, John Collins manages to cut through the hype, the shaky theses, and even the complacent consensus opinions in the field of Qumran studies. That’s not to say that he is always correct in his conclusions, but if one disagrees, Collins is the one worth arguing with. That’s why his work forms the core of our bibliography for training doctoral students in the field of Dead Sea Scrolls.” — Carol A. Newsom Emory University
“This collection of essays—ranging from studies charting the formation of the biblical canon in the late Second Temple period, to the history of the interpretation of the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53—touches on virtually every essential aspect of current scrolls research. John Collins is undoubtedly one of the most levelheaded scholars of our generation and can be depended upon to leave no known stone unturned in his perceptive and sensible discussions. To top it off, Collins has done us the favor of gathering an extensive and up-to-date bibliography for further study. Highly recommended!” — Martin Abegg Jr. Trinity Western University
John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School and a recognized expert in early Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls. His many other works include The Apocalyptic Imagination, Beyond the Qumran Community, The Scepter and the Star, and (with Daniel C. Harlow) The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism.
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The mythical story of fallen angels preserved in 1 Enoch and related literature was profoundlyinfluential during the Second Temple period. In this volume renowned scholar Loren Stuckenbruck demonstrates how the myth was used and adapted to address new religious and cultural contexts.
Foreword by David G. Horrell
“Each new publication by Loren Stuckenbruck is a boon to the field. The essays in this volume are no exception. They expertly guide the reader through a number of difficult and important issues and texts. Reading through these essays will be of great benefit, whether one is a beginning student or an advanced scholar.” — Matthew Goff
“Barclay is one of the premier New Testament scholars of our generation, and this compilation of his essays in one monograph makes an excellent scholarly contribution.” — Joshua W. Jipp
Florida State University
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“More than any other contemporary scholar, Loren Stuckenbruck combines expertise in Second Temple Judaism and in the New Testament. This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the Jewish context in which Christianity emerged.” — John J. Collins
“The fruit of twenty years of diligent, careful, indeed seminal scholarship by one of the major voices in the present-day field of Pauline studies. . . . An excellent volume.” — Michael J. Lakey
Yale Divinity School
“Stuckenbruck’s deep scholarly knowledge and insight into the Enochic texts is unrivaled. This brilliant collection of essays displays his immense erudition and ability to provide nuanced textual interpretation. While focused in particular on the theme of the fallen angels, these essays serve as exemplary models for how to interrelate early Jewish works to the New Testament texts more broadly.” — Judith H. Newman University of Toronto
“Stuckenbruck has the rare gift of making cuttingedge scholarship and innovative research accessible to readers through his elegant writing. He is careful in his investigations and innovative in his theses. This volume is a must-read.” — Matthias Henze Rice University
Loren T. Stuckenbruck is professor of New Testament and Second Temple Judaism at the University of Munich. His previous books include 1 Enoch 91–108 and The Fall of the Angels.
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“The essays collected here represent what anyone familiar with Barclay’s work would come to expect, namely, careful and informed argumentation expressed in lucid prose and marked by keen insight. . . . Teachers and students in the field will benefit from time spent working through this volume’s pages.” — James C. Miller in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
“Students of the social history of earliest Christianity and Diaspora Judaism will warmly welcome the opportunity to have access to the riches of John Barclay’s research in this one volume.” — David G. Horrell from the foreword
John M. G. Barclay is Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at Durham University, England. His other books include Obeying the Truth: Paul’s Ethics in Galatians and Paul and the Gift.
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New Testament Apocrypha More Noncanonical Scriptures
An Introduction to Biblical Law
Volume 3: The Enlightenment through the Nineteenth Century
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William S. Morrow
Alan J. Hauser and Duane F. Watson, editors
Foreword by J. K. Elliott
“Alan Hauser and Duane Watson, two veterans in scholarship on the history of biblical interpretation, have judiciously selected expert scholars and so here provide a volume that will become the standard text on the rise and power of historical criticism—methods, scholars, historical Jesus, revision of authorship—that shook the Christian tradition at its foundations.” — Scot McKnight Northern Seminary
This anthology of ancient nonbiblical Christian literature presents informed introductions to and readable translations of a wide range of little-known apocryphal texts, most of which have never before been translated into any modern language. “In this masterful volume we find that greatest of rarities— a collection of ancient texts scarcely known (let alone studied) by scholars of Christian antiquity. With these fresh translations of some thirty apocryphal works, each with a gratifyingly full introduction and bibli ography, Burke, Landau, and all the contributors have provided us with a rigorous but highly accessible volume that will long prove to be a scholarly vade mecum.” — Bart D. Ehrman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“A treasure trove of early Christian writings dating from the second century onward, this book contains amazing stories from the Christian imagination about Jesus and other biblical characters whose legends were popular witnesses to the Christian faith in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Many of the texts introduced and translated here are being made available to us for the first time. A must-have collection.” — April D. DeConick Rice University
Contributors Bill T. Arnold, William Baird, James 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. Rogerson, James A. Sanders, David B. Schreiner, Duane F. Watson. Alan J. Hauser is professor of biblical studies and Judaism at Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. Duane F. Watson is professor of New Testament studies at Malone University, Canton, Ohio.
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“Magnificent. . . . The thirty writings brought together here present a fascinating snapshot of the concerns, interests, and piety of various early believers expressed in the form of literary texts. This volume will become a standard work in the field; serious scholars of early Christianity and interested readers will learn much while being entertained and captivated by these enigmatic ancient texts.” — Paul Foster University of Edinburgh
Tony Burke is associate professor of religious studies at York University in Toronto. Brent Landau is lecturer in religious studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
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In this book William Morrow surveys four major law collections in Exodus–Deuteronomy and shows how they each enabled the people of Israel to create and sustain a community of faith. Treating biblical law as a dynamic system of thought representing Israel’s self-definition, Morrow discusses these four different social contexts that gave rise to biblical law: (1) Israel at the holy mountain (the Ten Commandments); (2) Israel in the village assembly (Exodus 20:22–23:19); (3) Israel in the courts of the Lord (priestly and holiness rules in Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers); and (4) Israel in the city (Deuteronomy). Including forthright discussion of such controversial subjects as slavery, revenge, gender inequality, religious intolerance, and contradictions between bodies of biblical law, Morrow’s study will help students and other serious readers make sense out of texts in the Pentateuch that are often seen as obscure. “It is hard to imagine a clearer or more accessible introduction to biblical law. This is the product of a mature voice that offers a significant bridge between careful scholarship and theologically engaged readers. An impressive achievement.” — Bernard M. Levinson
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The multivolume History of Biblical Interpretation provides detailed and extensive studies of the interpretation of the Scriptures by Jewish and Christian writers throughout the ages. This third installment examines the period after the Reformation until the dawn of the twentieth century. Its essays cover broad intellectual and historical movements such as historical criticism, textual criticism, and the quest for the historical Jesus. Other contributions focus on particular individuals, including Baruch Spinoza, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and F. C. Baur. Each chapter also includes a helpful bibliography for additional study.
Tony Burke and Brent Landau, editors
B I B L I C A L
A History of Biblical Interpretation
University of Minnesota
“Morrow’s Introduction to Biblical Law is the book that we have needed in this field. It summarizes the major law collections, covers the key interpretive methods used, and discusses contemporary applications.” — Cheryl B. Anderson Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
“Morrow is an outstanding biblical scholar and ideally suited to write this book. . . . While many people prefer the stories of the Pentateuch, Morrow demonstrates how fascinating and compelling the ‘water from Sinai’ (read the intro!) can be.” — Bruce Wells St. Joseph’s University
William S. Morrow is professor of Hebrew and Hebrew Scriptures at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. His other books include Protest against God: The Eclipse of a Biblical Tradition.
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In the Fullness of Time
Into All the World
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Essays on Christology, Creation, and Eschatology in Honor of Richard Bauckham
Emergent Christianity in Its Jewish and Greco-Roman Context
Jesus and the Last Supper
Edited by Daniel M. Gurtner, Grant Macaskill, and Jonathan T. Pennington Over the course of his distinguished career Richard Bauckham has made pioneering contributions to diverse areas of scholarship ranging from ethics and contemporary issues to hermeneutical problems and theology, often drawing together disciplines and fields of research all too commonly kept separate from one another. In this volume some of the most eminent figures in modern biblical and theological scholarship present essays honoring Bauckham. Addressing a variety of subjects related to Christology, creation, and eschatology, the contributors develop elements of Bauckham’s biblical and theological work further, present fresh research of their own to complement his work, and raise critical questions. Daniel M. Gurtner is the Ernest and Mildred Hogan Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. Grant Macaskill holds the Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Jonathan T. Pennington is associate professor of New Testament at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. Contributors Philip Alexander, Jeremy S. Begbie, David Brown, James R. Davila, James D. G. Dunn, Philip F. Esler, Daniel M. Gurtner, Trevor Hart, Larry W. Hurtado, Bruce W. Longenecker, Grant Macaskill, Sean M. McDonough, Jürgen Moltmann, Micheal O’Siadhail, Jonathan T. Pennington, N. T. Wright.
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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 in ancient history, New Testament, and the early church to take the story of Christianity into the Jewish and Greco-Roman world of the first century Contents RETROSPECTIVE The Interaction between Ancient Historians and New Testament Scholars: A Critical Appraisal Alanna Nobbs THE SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY TO AD 100 1. The Acts of the Apostles as a Source for Studying Early Christianity Chris Forbes 2. The Johannine Purpose and Outline Johan Ferreira 3. Unity and Diversity in Emergent Christianity Bradley J. Bitner 4. “Not as the Gentiles”: The Ethics of the Earlierst Christians David Starling C H R I ST I A N S A M O N G J EWS 5. Jewish Christianity to AD 100 Paul McKechnie 6. “The Parting of Ways” Lydia Gore-Jones and Stephen Llewelyn 7. The Letter to the Hebrews Ian K. Smith 8. Christians and Jews in Antioch Edward Bridge C H R I ST I A N S A M O N G RO M A N S 9. Divine Cultic Activites and the Early Church Bruce W. Winter 10. The Persecution of Christians from Nero to Hadrian James R. Harrison 11. Aliens and Strangers: Minority Group Rhetoric in the Later New Testament Writings Timothy MacBride 12. The Book of Revelation: A Call to Worship, Witness, and Wait in the Midst of Violence Murray J. Smith 13. Roman Political Ideology and the Audacity of First Clement L.L. Welborn
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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Brant Pitre “This dramatic new rereading of the evidence for the Last Supper will be a pivotally important work on the Last Supper and also an important contribution to historical Jesus research. . . . Offers a brilliant new synthesis of the data.” — Craig S. Keener Asbury Theological Seminary
“This beautifully written work confirms Brant Pitre’s eminence as a scholar of the very first rank. . . . Focusing on the Last Supper, Pitre develops such themes as the new bread of the presence, the new manna, the new Passover, the messianic banquet, and the kingdom of God in often surprising but utterly persuasive ways. Catholic participation in the Jesus quest has hereby finally borne its hoped-for fruit, with enormous implications for all Christians. Pitre should win the Ratzinger Prize for this book alone.” — Matthew Levering Mundelein Seminary
“Pitre’s contribution is provocative in the best sense of the word. At every turn readers will find new observations worth pondering and new arguments worth weighing. In particular, the numerous intertextual claims should generate much productive discussion, as should Pitre’s challenging approach to dating the Last Supper. No one will come away from this volume without having learned much.” — Dale C. Allison Jr. Princeton Theological Seminary
“Nothing less than a blueprint for resurrecting Jesus studies in the twenty-first century.” — Anthony Le Donne United Theological Seminary, Dayton
“You’ll never look at the Lord’s Supper, Eucharist, or Mass the same way after reading this brilliant study. A sumptuous feast of exegesis and theology!” — Michael F. Bird Ridley Melbourne Mission and Ministry College
Brant Pitre is professor of Sacred Scripture at Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans, Louisiana. He is also the author of Jesus, the Tribulation, and the End of Exile and Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist.
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The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology
The Bible in Medieval Tradition
The Acts of the Apostles
H. Lawrence Bond, Philip D.W. Krey, Ian Chistopher Levy, and Thomas Ryan, series editors
Foreword by Scot McKnight
Paul Corby Finney, editor
The Book of Jeremiah
172 color + 655 b&w pictures 22 color + 56 b&w maps Volume 1: A–J / 822 pages Volume 2: K–Z / 790 pages Volume 3: plates and color maps / 138 pages $495.00 [£412.99] (limited discount) / Available
Medieval authors represented Rabanus Maurus Rupert of Deutz Albert the Great Hugh of St. Cher Thomas Aquinas Nicholas of Lyra Denis the Carthusian 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 the Bible in Medieval Tradition volume on Genesis.
“In this little commentary by Dunn you have insight, measured judgment about history and theology and context, and suggestions that take the preacher to the heart of what the book of Acts can mean for us today. I always begin any study of any passage in the book of Acts by pulling out Jimmy’s commentary. I go to others when I’m done, but often enough I get all I need in Dunn.” — Scot McKnight (from the foreword) Northern Seminary
James D. G. Dunn is Lightfoot Professor Emeritus of Divinity at Durham University, England, and one of the foremost New Testament scholars in the world today. His many other books include the New International Greek Testament Commentary volume on Colossians and Philemon; The Oral Gospel Tradition; Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels; The Theology of Paul the Apostle; and the Christianity in the Making trilogy.
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In this volume, part of the Bible in Medieval Tradition series, Joy Schroeder provides substantial excerpts from seven noteworthy biblical interpreters who commented on Jeremiah between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Following a survey of early and medieval Christian authors and their interpretive approaches, Schroeder offers original translations from medieval commentators writing on twenty-four chapters of Jeremiah, including all the chapters present in major Western lectionaries. In addition to her clear, readable renderings of texts from authors including Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Lyra, and Denis the Carthusian, Schroeder provides an introduction to each author represented, locating him within his historical and theological context. The well-chosen selections in this masterful volume illustrate the rich diversity of medieval approaches to biblical interpretation and offer an intriguing glimpse into the worldview of medieval commentators.
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Paul Corby Finney is professor emeritus of ancient history at the University of Missouri, Saint Louis. His previous books include The Invisible God: The Earliest Christians on Art and Seeing beyond the Word: Visual Arts and the Calvinist Tradition.
Joy A. Schroeder, translator and editor
Authored by one of the world’s leading New Testament scholars, this commentary on the Acts of the Apostles was originally published in 1996. James Dunn first takes the reader through questions of authorship, audience, date, purpose, and literary structure. He then considers the kind of history writing that we find in the narrative of Acts, delineates the book’s theological teaching, and offers bibliographic comments on sources and selected studies, including work published between 1996 and 2016. This commentary as a whole provides the information and perspective necessary for reading to best effect what Dunn believes is the most exciting book in the New Testament.
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More than 400 distinguished scholars, including archaeologists, historians, art historians, epigraphers, and theologians, have written the 1,455 entries in this monumental encyclopedia—the first comprehensive reference work of its kind. From Aachen to Zurzach, Paul Corby Finney’s three-volume masterwork draws on archaeological and epigraphic evidence to offer readers a basic orientation to early Christian architecture, sculpture, painting, mosaic, and portable artifacts created roughly between AD 200 and 600 in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Authoritative, comprehensive, and lavishly illustrated, this splendid reference work will be an essential resource for all those interested in late antique and early Christian art, archaeology, and history.
James D. G. Dunn
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Reformation Resources, 1517–2017 Norman A. Hjelm, Philip D. Krey, and William G. Rusch, series editors
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Lutheran-Catholic Common Commemoration of the Reformation in 2017 Lutheran World Federation and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity Introduction by William G. Rusch Over the last fifty years, Lutherans and Roman Catholics have engaged in profound theological dialogue leading to increasingly close ties between two church bodies that have historically been divided. From Conflict to Communion contains the report produced by the Lutheran–Roman Catholic Commission on Unity along with an accompanying study guide and liturgical material suitable for a joint Catholic-Lutheran worship service. This book views the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation as an opportunity for deeper communion between Roman Catholics and Lutherans and for celebration of their common witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Including an informed introduction by William G. Rusch, this will be a valued resource not only for Lutheran and Catholic theologians but also for Christians around the world who seek greater unity in the church. “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.” — from the introduction
978-0-8028-7377-4 / paperback / 144 pages $18.00 [£14.99] / June
The Protestant Reformation in World Christianity Global Perspectives Dale T. Irvin, editor The sixteenth-century Reformation in all its forms and expressions sought nothing less than the transformation of the Christian faith. Five hundred years later, in today’s context of world Christianity, the transformation continues. In this volume, editor Dale Irvin draws together a variety of international Christian perspectives that open up new understandings of the Reformation. In six chapters, contributors offer general discussions and case studies of the effects of the Protestant Reformation on global communities from the sixteenth century to the present. Together, these essays encourage a reading and interpretation of the Reformation that will aid in the further transformation of Christianity today. Contents Introduction 1. Jews and Muslim in Europe: Exorcising Prejudice against the Other Charles Amjad-Ali 2. Spaniards in the Americas: Las Casas among the Reformers Joel Morales Cruz 3. Women from Then to Now: A Commitment to Mutuality and Literacy Rebecca A. Giselbrecht 4. The Global South: They Synod of Dort on Baptizing “Ethnics” David D. Daniels 5. The Protestant Reformations in Asia: A Blessing or a Curse? Peter C. Phan 6. Contemporary Challenges: The Reformation and the World Today Vladimir Latinovic
Dale T. Irvin is president and professor of world Christianity at New York Theological Seminary.
978-0-8028-7304-0 / paperback / 240 pages $39.00 [£32.99] / August
Wittenberg Meets the World Reimagining the Reformation at the Margins Alberto L. García and John A. Nunes Foreword by Martin E. Marty As the global church assesses the legacy of the Lutheran Reformation, Alberto García and John Nunes in this book reimagine central Reformational themes from black, Hispanic, and other perspectives traditionally at the margins of catholicevangelical communities. Focusing on the central theme of justification, García and Nunes delve into three interlinked aspects of the church’s life in the world—martyria (witness), diakonia (service), and koinōnia (fellowship). They argue that it is critically important and vitally enriching for the whole church, especially Eurocentric Protestant churches, to learn from the grassroots theological emphases of Christian communities in the emerging world. “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 twenty-first century will challenge many preconceived notions and open new avenues for thought.” — Justo L. González author of The Story of Christianity
“A prayerful exercise in ‘creative disruption’ in the face of oppressive idolatries and a pastoral call to embrace ‘God’s love alone’ amid rampant violence, Wittenberg Meets the World paves the way not only for further theological reflection from the borderlands but also for personal and collective repentance and renewal.” — Leopoldo A. Sánchez M. Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri
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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Pentecostalism as a Theology as Christian Mystical Tradition Interdisciplinary Inquiry Daniel Castelo Foreword by Elaine A. Heath
“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
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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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. This is an essential and challenging collection for all who set out to think, write, teach, and preach theologically in the contemporary world. Contents Introduction: Theology as Interdisciplinary Inquiry Robin Lovin, Peter Danchin, Agustín Fuentes, Friederike Nüssel, and Stephen Pope 1. Looking at Humans through the Lens of Deep History: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Theology and Evolutionary Anthropology Celia Deane-Drummond 2. The Moral Life and the Structures of Rational Selves: Theology and Science on Habitus, Imitatio, and the Valuation of Self and Other Michael Spezio 3. In the Divine (Mental) Image: Theological Anthropology and the Structures of Cognition Colleen Shantz 4. Nicholas of Cusa’s Mystical Theology in Theological and Scientific Perspective: Textuality, Intersubjectivity, Transformation Andrea Hollingsworth 5. Religious Persecution and Religious Freedom: The Witness of Russia’s New Martyrs and Holy Elders John P. Burgess 6. Law, Theology, and Aesthetics: Identifying the Sources of Authority Mary Ellen O’Connell Conclusion: A Collaborative Manner of Theological Reflection Douglas F. Ottati
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 in Princeton.
Daniel L. Migliore, editor 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.
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Pentecostalism, says Daniel Castelo, is commonly framed as “evangelicalism with tongues” or dismissed as simply a revivalist movement. In this book Castelo argues that Pentecostalism is actually best understood as a Christian mystical tradition. Taking a theological approach to Pentecostalism, Castelo looks particularly at the movement’s methodology and epistemology as he carefully distinguishes it from American evangelicalism. Castelo displays the continuity between Pentecostalism and ancient church tradition, creating a unified narrative of Pentecostalism and the mystical tradition of Christianity throughout history and today. Finally, he uses a test case to press the question of what the interactions between mystical theology and dogmatics could look like.
Learning with and from the Natural and Human Sciences
Reading the Gospels with Karl Barth
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.
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The Spirit over the Earth
Canonical Theology
Pneumatology in the Majority World
The Biblical Canon, Sola Scriptura, and Theological Method
Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Pardue, and K. K. Yeo, editors
John C. Peckham
In this third volume of the Majority World Theology series, nine scholars reflect deeply on the role of the Holy Spirit in both the church and the world from African, Asian, and Latin American perspectives. “This book discusses a foundational subject—the role of the Holy Spirit in the work and witness of the global church. It is appropriate that the coming of world Christianity should move discussion of the Holy Spirit to front and center for communities of faith across the world. The authors are to be congratulated for bringing to our attention the diverse and lively ways in which we see the Spirit’s manifestation in our midst today.” — Lamin Sanneh Yale Divinity School
Contributors: Oscar García-Johnson, Gene L. Green, Wei Hua, Samuel M. Ngewa, David Tonghou Ngong, C. René Padilla, Ivan Satyavrata, Zakali Shohe, Amos Yong. 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.
Foreword by Craig G. Bartholomew “Canonical Theology by John Peckham makes three timely and important contributions: first, it gives a robust account of what Peckham calls ‘canonical sola Scriptura’; second, it sets forth a clarifying analysis of the difference between the concepts ‘intrinsic’ and ‘communitarian’ as applied to the canon, including a number of compelling arguments as to why the former is superior; third, it provides a platform on which exegetes, biblical theologians, and systematic theologians can meet, hopefully to fellowship and work toward an integrative theological method. In sum, Peckham has written what is perhaps the best account to date of what ‘canonical theology’ ought to mean and why it matters.” — Kevin J. Vanhoozer Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
“Peckham takes hold of one of the most pressing issues facing the church today, and does so clearly, with a refreshing and astonishingly wide range of engagement, pushing toward the conclusion that Scripture is intrinsically authoritative as the Word of God.” — Craig G. Bartholomew from the foreword
John C. Peckham is associate professor of theology and Christian philosophy at the Theological Seminary of Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan.
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Doubt, Faith, and Certainty
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Anthony C. Thiselton
Time and the Word
Doubt, faith, certainty. In this book celebrated theologian Anthony Thiselton provides clarity on these complicated, long-misunderstood theological concepts and the practical pastoral problems they raise for Christians. He reminds us that doubt is not always bad, faith can have different meanings in different circumstances, and certainty is fragile. “At a time when many religious believers are clinging ever more tightly to their beliefs, Thiselton ably defends a positive place for doubt in Christian faith that looks forward to certainty. For Thiselton, doubt involves the humility to rethink one’s position, consider viable alternatives, and thereby deepen one’s faith while awaiting the certainty of the eschaton. Engaging an impressive array of contemporary and historical thinkers, Thiselton has provided rich material for serious reflection.” — Steven L. Porter Biola University
Figural Reading of the Christian Scriptures
Ephraim Radner “Who is more qualified than Ephraim Radner to reclaim the patristic practice of figural interpretation for today’s church? . . . This is a highly original, intellectually rigorous, fearless book written by a scholar of the church for the academy.” — Robert W. Wall “Time and the Word reflects the hard-won realization that the church’s very life depends on the figural interpretation of the Bible. Radner’s substantive theological account of Scripture is both creatively traditional and truly new, and it serves as a welcome corrective to much Protestant hermeneutics and modern biblical criticism.” — Christopher A. Beeley
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Anthony C. Thiselton is professor emeritus of Christian theology at the University of Nottingham, England.
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The Courage to Be Protestant
Now in paperback!
The Crucifixion Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ Fleming Rutledge
“One of the most stimulating and thought-provoking books of theology that I have read in the past ten years.” — Robert Barron on Word on Fire
“This is pure gold.” — Peter Forster in Church Times
“Rutledge helps those who preach and those who listen not only to understand the meaning and significance of the crucifixion, but also to stand under it in awe and devotion.” — Anthony B. Robinson in Christian Century
Originally published in hardcover in October 2015, The Crucifixion by Fleming Rutledge examines in depth all the various themes and motifs used by the New Testament evangelists and apostolic writers to explain the meaning of the cross of Christ. Rutledge mines the classical writings of the Church Fathers, the medieval scholastics, and the Reformers as well as more recent scholarship, while bringing them all into contemporary context. “This is a work of a lifetime that could only be written by someone who has lived a life determined by the cross.” — Stanley Hauerwas “In this amazingly complex but clear book Fleming Rutledge goes deftly where few seem willing to go — to the variety of imaginations shaping early Christian explorations of the significance of Jesus’ death. She is one of the few theologians who not only preach inclusivism but practice it by inviting all points of view into the discussion.” — Scot McKnight
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David F. Wells
Foreword by John M. G. Barclay
At its heart, the Protestant Reformation was about a deep, doctrinally shaped faith centered on God and his Word. But that historic, substantive faith is not faring so well in our contemporary Western context. In his 2008 book The Courage to Be Protestant, David Wells issued a summons to return to the historic Protestant 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. On the cusp of the Protestant Reformation’s 500th anniversary, there is no better time to hear and heed Wells’s clarion call to reclaim the historic, doctrinally serious Reformation faith in our fast-paced, technologically dominated, postmodern culture. “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 Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Fleming Rutledge is an Episcopal priest widely recognized in North America and the UK as a lecturer, preacher, and teacher of other preachers.
David F. Wells is distinguished senior research professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and an ordained Congregationalist minister. His many previous books include Above All Earthly Pow’rs, God in the Wasteland, Losing Our Virtue, and No Place for Truth.
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Engaging Paul’s Soteriology with His Patristic Interpreters
“This is a bold book. In a season when academics battle over ‘new’ and ‘old’ perspectives on Paul, Ben Blackwell dares to take up the ancient perspective—put forward by giants such as Irenaeus of Lyon and Cyril of Alexandria. These early interpreters took seriously Paul’s insistence on life ‘in Christ.’ They spoke of divine adoption, filial deification— a salvation that is transformational—an ontological change that respects the Creator-creature distinction. Christosis is that rare work that succeeds as a work of exegesis and historical theology.” — Scott Hahn
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“Here is one of those rare theses that prove themselves both mature and invaluable in method, substance, and analysis. Blackwell’s well-considered philosophical grounding, illuminating analysis, judicious adaptation of previous typologies, clarifying charts, comprehensive knowledge of contemporary scholarship, and sensitivity to debates between East and West make for a compelling and exciting argument.” — Edith M. Humphrey Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
“More than a comparative study or an interesting exercise in reception history, Blackwell’s book challenges readers to contemplate more carefully what it might mean that ‘he became what we are in order to make us what he is himself.’ ” — Todd D. Still Truett Seminary, Baylor University
Ben C. Blackwell is assistant professor of Christianity at Houston Baptist University.
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Early Religious Writings, 1903–1909
The Hidden and the Manifest
Pavel Florensky
Essays in Theology and Metaphysics
Translated by Boris Jakim
David Bentley Hart
“Perhaps the most remarkable person devoured by the Gulag” is how Alexandr Solzhenitsyn described Pavel Florensky, a Russian Orthodox mathematician, scientist, linguist, art historian, philosopher, theologian, and priest who was martyred during the Bolshevik purges of the 1930s. This volume contains eight important religious works written by Florensky in the first decade of the twentieth century, now translated into English—most of them for the first time. Splendidly interweaving religious, scientific, and literary themes, these essays showcase the diversity of Florensky’s broad learning and interests. Including reflections on the sacraments and explorations of Russian monastic culture, the volume concludes with “The Salt of the Earth,” arguably Florensky’s most spiritually moving work. “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. Above all, his translations of the glorious trio of the great Russian Sophiologists—Solovyov, Florensky, and Bulgakov— have opened the world of Anglophone scholarship to the full scope of their truly staggering genius. This collection is a true treasure, shedding remarkable light on Florensky’s thought and on the whole of Russian religious philosophy in its golden age.” — David Bentley Hart 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. His many published translations include works by Fyodor Dostoevsky, S. L. Frank, Vladimir Solovyov, and Sergius Bulgakov.
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.” A new collection of this brilliant scholar’s work, The Hidden and the Manifest 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. . . . With a glorious disrespect for shibboleths, Hart proclaims, with unique brilliance, how Christianity restores, fulfills, and transcends the earliest human intuitions concerning the obscure symbolism of nature, the priesthood of humanity, and the unnaturalness of death.” — John Milbank University of Nottingham
The Human Person in Philosophy, Science, and Theology Thomas M. Crisp, Steven L. Porter, and Gregg A. Ten Elshof, editors It is a widely held belief that human beings are both body and soul, that our immaterial soul is distinct from our material body. But that traditional idea has been seriously questioned by much recent research in the brain sciences. In Neuroscience and the Soul fourteen distinguished scholars grapple with current debates about the existence and nature of the soul. Featuring a dialogical format, the book presents stateof-the-art work by leading philosophers and theologians— some arguing for the existence of the soul, others arguing against it—and then puts those scholars into conversation with critics of their views. Bringing philosophy, theology, and science together in this way brings to light new perspectives and advances the ongoing debate over body and soul. “This is a superb collection of outstanding essays and critical exchanges that will enrich the debate surrounding dualist and materialist conceptions of persons. It is an exceptionally important work as the contributors each work to carefully engage each other and avoid the usual deliberated misunderstandings that can mar current philosophy of mind.” — Charles Taliaferro St. Olaf College
David Bentley Hart is a philosopher, theologian, writer, and cultural commentator who has taught at the University of Virginia, Duke University, and the University of Notre Dame. His other books include The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth and Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, which was awarded the Michael Ramsey Prize in Theology in 2011.
Contributors
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Steven L. Porter is professor of theology and philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and at Rosemead School of Psychology.
Robin Collins, John W. Cooper, Kevin Corcoran, Stewart Goetz, William Hasker, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Eric LaRock, Brian Lugioyo, J. P. Moreland, Timothy O’Connor, Jason Runyan, Kevin Sharpe, Daniel Speak, Richard Swinburne. Thomas M. Crisp is professor of philosophy at Biola University.
Gregg A. Ten Elshof is professor of philosophy at Biola University.
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Evolution and the Fall
The Believing Scientist
William T. Cavanaugh and James K. A. Smith, editors
Essays on Science and Religion
Foreword by Michael Gulker
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
Both an accomplished theoretical physicist and a faithful Catholic, Stephen Barr addresses a wide range of questions about the relationship between science and religion in this book, providing a beautiful picture of how they can coexist in harmony.
Christopher Lilley and Daniel J. Pedersen, editors
“These thoughtful and thought-provoking essays are a rich demonstration of both scientific expertise and religious conviction.” — Donald Cardinal Wuerl Archbishop of Washington
“Stephen Barr’s work, well grounded in real science and informed by deep faith, is a bracing antidote to the bluster of the New Atheists and a major contribution to the renewal of Western culture.” — George Weigel Ethics and Public Policy Center
“In this book Stephen Barr beautifully demonstrates how his work as a scientist and his life as a religious believer enrich one another, because both are different yet complementary approaches to the same universal reality created by God.” — David Novak University of Toronto
“These essays are a must-read for anyone who has wondered why we couldn’t or shouldn’t have both science and religion in our lives.” — Stephen C. Meredith University of Chicago
“Barr has given us a treasure trove in this collection of essays, full of his characteristic brilliance and his trademark ability to make complex ideas accessible to nonspecialists. This book will prove its value for years to come, both inside the classroom and out.” — John C. Cavadini University of Notre Dame
William T. Cavanaugh is director of the Center for World Catholicism and Inter cultural 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.
Stephen M. Barr is professor of theoretical particle physics at the University of Delaware, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and a member of the Academy of Catholic Theology. He is also the author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith.
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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 an international team of scholars whose expertise ranges from biology and anthropology to philosophical theology and ethics. The fourteen chapters in this volume are organized around Wentzel van Huyssteen’s pioneering work in human rationality, embodiment, and evolutionary history. Bringing a variety of diverse perspectives to bear on a hotly debated issue, Human Origins and the Image of God showcases new research by some of today’s finest scholars working on questions regarding human origins and human uniqueness. Contributors M. Craig Barnes (foreword) Christopher Lilley and Daniel J. Pederson (preface)
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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.
Human Origins and the Image of God
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 Theological Seminary.
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Justice as a Virtue
Entering into Rest
Migrants and Citizens
A Thomistic Perspective
Ethics as Theology 3
Jean Porter
Oliver O’Donovan
Justice and Responsibility in the Ethics of Immigration
“Thomas Aquinas,” says Jean Porter, “gets justice right.” In this book she shows how Aquinas offers a cogent and illuminating account of justice as a personal virtue rather than predominantly a virtue of social institutions. For Aquinas, justice is more about interpersonal morality than civic or social obligations, and Porter masterfully draws out the contemporary significance of Aquinas’s perspective.
Oliver O’Donovan’s Ethics as Theology project began with Self, World, and Time, an “induction” into Christian ethics as ordered reflection on moral thinking within the life of faith. Volume 2, Finding and Seeking, shifted the focus to the movement of moral thought from a first consciousness of agency to the time that determines the moment of decision. In this third and final volume of his magnum opus, O’Donovan turns his attention to the forward horizon with which moral thinking must engage. Moral experience, he argues, is necessarily two-directional, looking both back at responsibility and forward at aims. Entering into Rest offers O’Donovan’s mature reflections on questions that have engaged him throughout his career and provides a synoptic view of many of his main themes.
“It is very difficult to bring a historical philosopher into dialogue with present-day philosophers without evident signs of strain. Jean Porter brings off this difficult feat with aplomb in Justice as a Virtue: A Thomistic Perspective. She moves back and forth with ease between an exhaustive knowledge and penetrating interpretation of Thomas’s texts and the discussions taking place in philosophy today on the same and related topics. A very impressive achievement.” — Nicholas Wolterstorff Yale University
“An elegant, deeply learned book on the foundations of Aquinas’s moral theory. Jean Porter mixes, as few scholars can, a broad historical perspective and a serious engagement with contemporary problems in philosophy and theology.” — Robert Pasnau University of Colorado
“This is a must-read for anyone who wants to think deeply about our obligations to one another, the roles of both nature and nurture in moral formation, and the centrality of justice to the good life.” — Stephen J. Pope Boston College
“A clear, cogent analysis.” — Edward L. Krasevac, OP
Tisha M. Rajendra
“Intense, complex, and closely argued, this deceptively short volume on love recapitulates many of the neo-Augustinian themes of O’Donovan’s earlier writing, but with a directness and brilliance that are utterly compelling.” — Sarah Coakley University of Cambridge
“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
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Jean Porter is John A. O’Brien Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Notre Dame. Her other books include Ministers of the Law, Natural and Divine Law, and Nature as Reason.
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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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What responsibilities do citizens have to migrants and potential migrants? What responsibilities do migrants themselves have? What is the basis of those responsibilities? In this book Tisha Rajendra reframes the confused and often heated debate surrounding immigration and develops a Christian ethic that can address these neglected questions. Rajendra begins by illuminating the flawed narratives about migrants that are often used in political debates on the subject. She goes on to propose a new definition of justice that is based on responsibility to relationships, drawing on the concrete experience of migrants, ethical theory, migration theory, and the relational ethics of the Bible. Professors, students, and others committed to formulating a solid ethical approach to questions surrounding immigration will benefit greatly from Rajendra’s timely presentation of a constructive way forward. “What a joy to find wisdom and reason brought to bear on the contentious issue of immigration. 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 Pacific School of Religion
“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
Tisha M. Rajendra is assistant professor of theological ethics at Loyola University Chicago.
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Just Immigration American Policy in Christian Perspective Mark R. Amstutz
John Witte Jr., series editor
Bruce Ellis Benson, Malinda Elizabeth Berry, and Peter Goodwin Heltzel, series editors
The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty
Always with Us?
Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant Political Theology
Liz Theoharis
W. Bradford Littlejohn
“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
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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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W. Bradford Littlejohn serves as director of the Davenant Trust, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the renewal of Christian wisdom for the contemporary church.
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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 that passage is taken out of context, distorted, and politicized. Theoharis reinterprets “the poor you will always have with you” to show that it is actually one of the strongest biblical mandates to end poverty. She documents stories of poor people organizing to improve their lot and illuminates the implications for the church. Poverty is not inevitable, Theoharis argues. It is a systemic sin, and all Christians have a responsibility to partner with the poor to end poverty once and for all. “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
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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
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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. Littlejohn shows how Martin Luther and other Reformers considered Christian liberty to be compatible with considerable civil authority over the church, but he also analyzes the ambiguities and tensions of that relationship and how it helped provoke the Puritan movement. The heart of the book examines how, according to Richard Hooker, certain forms of Puritan legalism posed a much greater threat to Christian liberty than did meddling monarchs. In expounding Hooker’s remarkable attempt to offer a balanced synthesis of liberty and authority in church, state, and conscience, Littlejohn draws out pertinent implications for Christian liberty and politics today.
“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
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Few issues are as complex and controversial as immigration in the United States. The only thing anyone seems to agree on is that the system is broken. In this book Mark Amstutz offers a succinct overview and assessment of current immigration policy and argues for an approach to the complex immigration debate that is solidly grounded in Christian political thought. After analyzing key laws and institutions in the US immigration system, Amstutz examines how Catholics, evangelicals, and mainline Protestants have used Scripture to address social and political issues, including immigration. He critiques the ways in which many Christians have approached immigration reform and gives concrete suggestions on how Christian groups can offer a more credible political engagement with this urgent policy issue.
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“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
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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Born from Lament
Disagreeing Virtuously
Forbearance
The Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa
Religious Conflict in Interdisciplinary Perspective
A Theological Ethic for a Disagreeable Church
Emmanuel Katongole
Olli-Pekka Vainio
James Calvin Davis
There is no more urgent theological task in Africa than to provide an account of hope, given the continent’s 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
“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 and Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith after Genocide in Rwanda.
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Foreword by Rob Barrett Disagreement is inevitable, particularly in our current context, marked by the close coexistence of conflicting values and perspectives in politics, religion, and ethics. How can we deal with disagreement ethically and constructively in our pluralistic world? In Disagreeing Virtuously Olli-Pekka Vainio presents a valuable interdisciplinary approach to that question, drawing on insights from intellectual history, the cognitive sciences, philosophy of religion, and virtue theory. After mapping the current discussion on disagreement among various disciplines, Vainio offers fresh ways to understand the complicated nature of human disagreement and recommends ways to manage our interpersonal and intercommunal conflicts in ethically sustainable ways. “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
“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.” — 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.
What happens when we approach disagreement not as a problem to solve but as an opportunity 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. “Religions often bring rich histories of moral reflection, including consistent priorities on other-regard and mutual respect, that if shared with the wider public could give us healthier ways of living with difference. As I talk to various church groups around the country, however, the same question comes up over and over again: How can Christians provide this civic leadership if we cannot get our own houses in order? How are we supposed to provide a template and resources for respectful dialogue when our own church debates are so often rancorous, divisive, and destructive? These are exactly the right questions for us to ask, of course, so in this book I try to imagine a better way for us Christians to navigate difference in our own midst, as an opportunity to practice biblical virtue and improve our social witness.” — from author’s preface 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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Servant of All
Incarnational Ministry
Status, Ambition, and the Way of Jesus
Being with the Church
How to Become a Multicultural Church
Craig C. Hill
Samuel Wells
Douglas J. Brouwer Foreword by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson
Foreword by William H. Willimon
“In this welcome volume Craig Hill invites readers— let’s make that leaders—to an honest discussion about the problem of unchecked ambition and statusseeking in the church. Framing his discussion with New Testament narratives and the teaching of Jesus, Hill draws from a wide array of sources to help leaders in the church and theological education to choose the way of Jesus. Thoroughly built on scholarly research, this book is readable and edifying for a lay audience as well as clergy and theologians.” — Elaine Heath “A fast-paced, revealing, scholarly-without-beingshowy, and pointedly practical book on status and ambition. . . . Servant of All will elevate Craig Hill’s status as one of our premier New Testament scholars who writes in service to the church and its leaders.” — William H. Willimon from the foreword
Craig C. Hill is dean and professor of New Testament at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. His previous books include In God’s Time: The Bible and the Future.
Contents Prologue: There Is Need of Only One Thing Introduction: The Ministry of Being With 1. Being with God 2. Being with Oneself 3. Being with the Creation 4. Being with God Together 5. Being with Child 6. Being with the Called 7. Being with the Troubled 8. Being with the Hurt 9. Being with the Afflicted 10. Being with the Challenged 11. Being with the Dying Epilogue: Precious, Honored, and Loved
Samuel Wells is Vicar of St. Martin-in-theFields, Trafalgar Square, London, and the author of Be Not Afraid: Facing Fear with Faith, A Nazareth Manifesto: Being with God, and Learning to Dream Again: Rediscovering the Heart of God.
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“How are we changed by what the Spirit of God is doing in the city? Douglas Brower offers a personal story of a pastor beginning to learn from a multicultural congregation, the International Protestant Church of Zurich. An invitation to see anew in ministry.” — Mark R. Gornik
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“In the midst of our culture’s wistful and slightly desperate clamoring for programs to create ‘strong leader ship,’ Craig Hill’s Servant of All speaks a much-needed, biblically grounded word, calling us to recognize ‘the way of Jesus’ as the true model for leadership in the church. All of us who are caught up in institutions that foster competition, ambition, and self-assertion will find this study to be a bracing, challenging reminder of the true nature of our vocation, and of the character of the One who calls us.” — Richard B. Hays
Many churches aspire to be more culturally diverse—but they find that they have no idea how to approach that goal practically. This book addresses that problem with ten ways churches can truly engage and welcome other cultures. In 2014 Douglas Brouwer, a seasoned American pastor, took on the unique challenge of serving a multiethnic, multiracial, multicultural church in one of Europe’s largest cities. In this book Brouwer distills the lessons he has learned from that experience, offering timely wisdom on issues every multicultural church faces, including language barriers, theological differences, and cultural stereotypes. Honestly recounting his own questions and challenges in multicultural ministry, Brouwer shows how churches every where can adjust their attitudes and practices to embrace racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity.
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There exists a deep tension between the bib lical view of servant leaders and the status that Christian leaders today often desire and pursue. Many pastors and other church leaders, like it or not, struggle with ambition. In this book Craig Hill shows how the New Testament can help Christian leaders deal with this problem honestly and faithfully.
“With,” says Samuel Wells, “is the most important word in the Christian faith.” In the Trinity, we see the eternal persons of the Godhead being with each other. In the Gospels, we see Jesus being with the people he encounters, mediating God’s grace to them with his own incarnational presence. Those in ministry, as Wells shows in this book, are also called to the task of being with: with God, with the church, and with the created world and those who dwell in it. Wells elaborates on the concept of being with in eight dimensions: presence, attention, mystery, delight, participation, partnership, enjoyment, and glory. His vivid narratives and wise reflections challenge readers to deeper discipleship and more vital ministry as they explore what it means to be with the troubled, the hurt, the afflicted, the challenged, the dying—and all who are embraced by the church’s incarnational ministry.
City Seminary of New York
“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 Duke University
Douglas J. Brouwer is pastor of the Inter national 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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A Little Exercise for Young Theologians
Church Planting in the Secular West
Reading the Bible Missionally
Helmut Thielicke
Learning from the European Experience
Michael W. Goheen, editor
Since it first appeared in English translation in 1962, A Little Exercise for Young Theologians has achieved classic status. In thirteen concise reflections Helmut Thielicke offers wise counsel on the difficulties—and vital importance—of maintaining one’s spiritual health in the course of academic theological study. Thousands of beginning theological students over the years have had the opportunity to eavesdrop, as it were, on a practical theology seminar by one of the twentieth century’s leading Christian thinkers. More experienced pastors and theologians have also returned to this volume again and again for the valuable insights that Thielicke brings to bear on their vocation. This reissue of Thielicke’s treasured little book features completely reset interior type and an attractive new cover.
Stefan Paas This book by Stefan Paas provides an expert study of missionary church planting in secu larized contemporary Europe. Including groundbreaking new research, Paas offers sound advice for improving existing missional practices and finally weaves together the various threads in his book with a solid theological defense of church planting today. “Amid the vast and growing literature addressing the end of Western Christendom and its implications for the Christian movement, Stefan Paas’s critical analysis sets the standard for the debate. This is a major contribution to missional theology and practice— on both sides of the North Atlantic!” — Darrell Guder Princeton Theological Seminary
“Paas exposes the poor research behind much of the accepted thinking about planting new churches in the European context, while painting the backdrop of a Europe that is not only post-Christendom but by and large post-Christian. If you are afraid of examining the assumptions you may have made about planting churches in Europe, do not read this book!” — Allan M. Barth Redeemer City to City
“This is one of the most engaging, stimulating, and well-researched books on church planting to have been published in recent years. . . . I look forward with great anticipation to seeing the impact it will have on the practices of church planting in North America as well as in Western Europe.” — John R. Franke from the foreword
Stefan Paas is J. H. Bavinck Professor of Missiology and Intercultural Theology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. An experienced evangelist and church planter in the secular context of Western Europe, he is also Professor of Missiology at Theological University in Kampen, the Netherlands.
It has become clear over the past half century that mission is a central theme in the Bible’s narrative and, moreover, is a central part of the church’s very identity. This book significantly widens and deepens the emerging conversation on missional hermeneutics, as top scholars discuss reading the Scriptures using mission as a key interpretive lens. “ The Bible is the vehicle by which God’s kingdom comes into the world. A nonmissional reading of the Bible is crippling the church in the West, often fostering self-centeredness and thwarting a missional encounter with our culture. Reading the Bible missionally can aid the church in various ways, inspire preaching that shapes congregations, and foster theological education that forms future leaders. This volume is offered to stimulate a missional reading of Scripture for the sake of the church and, through the church, for the sake of the world.” — from chapter 1 Contributors Craig G. Bartholomew, Richard Bauckham, Carl J. Bosma, Tim J. Davy, Dean Flemming, John R. Franke, Mark Glanville, Michael W. Goheen, Joel B. Green, Darrell L. Guder, George R. Hunsberger, Timothy M. Sheridan, Christopher J. H. Wright, N. T. Wright. Michael W. Goheen is director of theolog ical education at Missional Training Center, Phoenix, Arizona, scholar in residence at Surge Network, and adjunct professor of mission and theology at Redeemer Seminary, Dallas, Texas. His previous books include The Drama of Scripture: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story (with Craig Bartholomew) and Introducing Christian Mission Today: Scripture, History, and Issues.
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“To recommend this little exercise as a thin book to put in the pocket of the beginner is not enough. The more seasoned theologian will return to it, and it will touch the pastor who has long since left the halls of theological learning.” — Harvard Divinity School Bulletin Helmut Thielicke (1908–1986) was an internationally known theologian and pastor who served as professor of systematic theology at the University of Hamburg in Germany. His other books include Modern Faith and Thought, Theological Ethics, and the three-volume systematic theology The Evangelical Faith.
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Preaching the Luminous Word
Foundations for Expository Sermons in the Christian Year
Biblical Sermons and Homiletical Essays
Sidney Greidanus
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Grace Presbyterian Church, Peoria, Illinois
“Greidanus offers exegetical and literary observations, theological analysis, and expository material that will be a treasure chest of valuable content for any preacher or teacher. He has given yet another gift to his colleagues in the church through this book that will find a valued place on the shelf of many a preacher.” — Michael Duduit
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“Davis’s biblical interpretations have been widely admired for decades, but this volume exceeds even those that have gone before in its usefulness for preachers. If preachers pay attention to these essays, they will be shaken to the foundations, but when their foundation is the true Word of the living God, they— and their congregations—will be renewed from the Source. This book deserves the much-overused word ‘prophetic’ and should be close at hand on every preacher’s shelf.” — Fleming Rutledge author of The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ
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“I have long admired Sidney Greidanus’s writing on preaching from the Old Testament. . . . In this book he reveals the richness of the Psalms and helps us discover their theological and Christological significance.” — Tremper Longman III Westmont College
Sidney Greidanus is professor emeritus of preaching at Calvin Theological Seminary and author of seven books, including Preaching Christ from the Old Testament, Preaching Christ from Genesis, Preaching Christ from Ecclesiastes, and Preaching Christ from Daniel.
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“Ellen Davis is the rare academic—a brilliant academic—who takes seriously the art, craft, and calling of preaching. I am grateful that this book is in the world, in a moment in which the world so urgently needs the discerning, luminous word.” — Krista Tippett executive producer and host of On Being
Ellen F. Davis is the Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. Her previous books include Wondrous Depth: Preaching the Old Testament and (with Richard B. Hays) The Art of Reading Scripture. Austin McIver Dennis is senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Asheville, North Carolina. He has extensive prior ministry experience and recently earned a ThD degree in homiletics and reconciliation from Duke Divinity School.
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The Emergence of Contemporary Worship Andy Park, Lester Ruth, and Cindy Rethmeier his Church at Worship volume tells the story T of the Anaheim Vineyard Christian Fellowship and its remarkable influence on the entire Vineyard movement, which contributed to the renewal of worship in thousands of evangelical churches during the 1970s and 1980s. In presenting an in-depth look at founding leader John Wimber and the Anaheim Vineyard’s early years—including interviews, sermon excerpts, sidebars, timelines, and photos—Andy Park, Lester Ruth, and Cindy Rethmeier tell an inspiring story of revival and renewal. “Boosters and critics alike know that the Vineyard churches somehow played a crucial role in the rise of contemporary praise music and worship styles, but this remarkable book—with its groundbreaking historical research and thoughtful insider accounts— brings deep insights into the ‘hows,’ ‘whys,’ and ‘whats’ behind that development. Worshiping with the Anaheim Vineyard is essential background for anyone wanting to understand how worship has changed in North American churches during the last half century.” — Larry Eskridge
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“Ellen Davis’s preaching has a fierce intimacy, a deft poetry, a profound playfulness, and a rigorous passion. Just like the Bible. And just like God.” — Samuel Wells
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“The Lord is accomplishing a great work of gospel resurgence in our generation. Sidney Greidanus in particular has contributed by helping us pastors preach the Christian gospel accurately and confidently from the entire Bible. Now Greidanus has increased our debt of gratitude with Preaching Christ from Psalms. I expect this book to have a lasting impact not only because of the perennial appeal of the Psalms but also because of the insightful ways Greidanus connects the Psalms with Jesus and his gospel.” — Ray Ortlund
Inviting serious theological engagement with texts from all parts of the Christian Bible, Preaching the Luminous Word is a rhetorically rich collection of fifty-one sermons and five related essays from noted preacher and biblical scholar Ellen F. Davis.
Lester Ruth, Carrie Steenwyk, and John D. Witvliet, series editors
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“No one has been more influential in this generation of preachers, and in my life personally, than Sidney Greidanus on the necessity of Christ’s purposes pervading all biblical exposition. I welcome this latest contribution to his extensive body of work that has so blessed Christ’s church.” — Bryan Chapell
Ellen F. Davis with Austin McIver Dennis
The Church at Worship
author of God’s Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America
“Combines astute historical analysis with a treasure trove of primary sources. . . . Anyone interested in the future of ‘contemporary worship’ should give this book serious attention.” — Caleb J. D. Maskell Society of Vineyard Scholars
Andy Park is a writer of worship songs, a longtime worship leader, and the author of To Know You More: Cultivating the Heart of the Worship Leader. Lester Ruth is a worship historian who teaches at Duke Divinity School. Cindy Rethmeier is a worship leader and songwriter with long roots in the Vineyard.
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Women’s Voices and the Practice of Preaching
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Many women preachers and worship leaders have trouble speaking; they struggle to fully use their physical voices. Maintaining that there is often a disconnect between the 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 fully embody their God-given preaching vocations. Grounding her work in the biblical story of Miriam, Gross begins with a discussion of how women are instrumental in the work of God. She then tells stories, including her own, of women’s experiences in losing connection to their bodies and their physical voices. Finally, Gross pre sents a constructive resolution with exercises for discovering and developing a full-body voice. Key Features • Draws on developmental psychology, educational theory, and sociocultural studies • Takes into account African American, Korean, and other cultural church contexts • Supplemented by companion website with videos demonstrating techniques, designed to enhance classroom and individual use Nancy Lammers Gross is the Arthur Sarell Rudd Associate Professor of Speech Communication in Ministry at Princeton Theological Seminary and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA).
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Eucharistic Prayers Samuel Wells and Abigail Kocher This unique, elegant resource for ministers and worship planners provides a beautifully crafted Eucharistic prayer for every Sunday of the three-year Revised Common Lectionary cycle, also including prayers for special holy days and other occasions. In a helpful introduction Samuel Wells and Abigail Kocher offer guidance on how to make the Eucharistic prayer a congregational highlight. Too often, they say, what should be the most dynamic moment of a congregation’s liturgical life becomes a low-energy, low-engagement event. Closely tying the sacramental rite to the words of Scripture for the day, these theologically appropriate, pastorally fitting, and linguistically satisfying prayers change the Great Thanksgiving prayer from a lull in the liturgy to a focused, fresh, and engaged moment for the congregation. “The Lord’s Supper is not just remembrance of the saving work of Jesus. It’s an invitation to the congregation to be engulfed in the communion of saints as it is swathed with the glory of what the Father has imagined, the Son embodied, and the Spirit fulfilled. Every prayer should celebrate all three aspects of this joyous drama.” — from the introduction Samuel Wells is Vicar of St. Martin-in-theFields, Trafalgar Square, London. Among his other books are Be Not Afraid: Facing Fear with Faith and Learning to Dream Again: Rediscovering the Heart of God. Abigail Kocher is pastor of congregational life at Oak Ridge United Methodist Church in Greensboro, North Carolina, and coauthor (with Samuel Wells) of Shaping the Prayers of the People: The Art of Intercession.
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Visual Arts in the Worshiping Church Lisa J. DeBoer Foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff Although numerous studies have examined biblical and theological rationales for using the visual arts in worship, this book by Lisa J. DeBoer fills in a piece of the picture missing so far—the social dimensions of both our churches and the various art worlds represented in our congregations. “Lisa DeBoer’s wise and insightful volume is an indispensable resource for anyone who believes that art can enrich the worship and deepen the faith of individuals and congregations alike. Her sensitive consideration of the practices of different Christian communities is especially valuable, opening up the conversation and inviting readers to learn from the experiences of others. This readable and accessible work is both challenging and encouraging.” — Robin M. Jensen author of The Substance of Things Seen: Art, Faith, and the Christian Community
“All too often scholars and laypeople indulge in careless generalizations about art in the church. . . . When the terms are muddled, conversations about the liturgical arts often devolve, regrettably, to a confused, frustrating, and fruitless exchange. Thankfully, DeBoer is a careful scholar; her study of the visual arts in worship is both concrete and illuminating, and it points to a fruitful way forward.” — W. David O. Taylor editor of For the Beauty of the Church: Casting a Vision for the Arts
“DeBoer’s dominant concern is not to tell readers how the church should engage the arts but to uncover how actual congregations in different traditions do in fact engage the arts and why they engage them as they do. It’s a groundbreaking approach, full of fascinating details and perceptive analyses.” — Nicholas Wolterstorff from the foreword
Lisa J. DeBoer is professor of the history of art at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, Calif.
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The Theater of God’s Glory
The Whole Church Sings
Metrical Psalms and Reflections for Each Sunday in the Church Year
Calvin, Creation, and the Liturgical Arts
Congregational Singing in Luther’s Wittenberg
Fred R. Anderson
Foreword by John D. Witvliet
W. David O. Taylor
Robin A. Leaver
Foreword by Walter Brueggemann
Princeton Theological Seminary
“Fred Anderson here offers the Christian community an immeasurable gift.” — C. Michael Hawn Perkins School of Theology
Fred R. Anderson is pastor emeritus of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, a liturgical theologian, and a recognized hymn writer whose hymn and psalm texts appear in Protestant and Catholic hymnals around the world.
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“At a time when Protestant treatments of the arts tend to be marked by excessive shame and breastbeating, 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 shows us otherwise with exemplary skill and clarity. This is an immensely important study from one of the key leaders in theology and the arts today.” — Jeremy Begbie Duke University
W. David O. Taylor is assistant professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary and the director of Brehm Texas, an initiative in worship, theology, and the arts.
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Many scholars think that congregational singing was not established in Lutheran worship until well after the start of the Reformation. In this book Robin A. Leaver calls that view into question, presenting new research to confirm the earlier view that congregational singing was both the intention and the practice right from the beginning of the Wittenberg reforms in worship. Leaver’s study focuses on the Wittenberg hymnal of 1526, which until now has received little scholarly attention. This hymnal, Leaver argues, shows how the Lutheran Reformation was to a large degree defined, expressed, promoted, and taken to heart through early Lutheran hymns. Examining what has been forgotten or neglected about the origins of congregational hymnody under Martin Luther’s leadership, this study of worship, music, and liturgy is a significant contribution to Reformation scholarship. “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
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“The Psalms come alive when put to music. From the beginning they were given to express the high drama of life with God through song, which travels deeper into the heart than can words alone. Fred Anderson has long distinguished himself as a scholar of worship who also knows the challenges of putting together the Sunday service every week. This will be an often-used resource for any church committed to joining the deep tradition of making the psalter a hymnbook.” — M. Craig Barnes
Both detractors and supporters of John Calvin have deemed him an enemy of the physical body, a pessimist toward creation, and a negative influence on the liturgical arts. But, says W. David O. Taylor, that only tells half of the story. Taylor examines Calvin’s trinitarian theology as it intersects his doctrine of the physical creation in order to argue for a positive theological account of the litur gical arts. He does so believing that Calvin’s theology can serve, perhaps surprisingly, as a rich resource for understanding the theological purposes of the arts in corporate worship. Drawing on Calvin’s Institutes, biblical commentaries, sermons, catechisms, treatises, and worship orders, this book represents one of the most thorough investigations available of John Calvin’s theology of the physical creation—and the promising possibilities it opens up for the formative role of the arts in worship.
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Drawing on his extensive experience as a pastor, hymn writer, and hymnal consultant, Fred Anderson in this book offers pastors and worship leaders a rich treasury of singable psalms—one for each psalm text or canticle appointed in the three-year Revised Common Lectionary. Anderson renders each psalm into metered text, using contemporary, biblical, inclusive language, and suggests appropriate pairings with familiar hymn tunes. Short pastoral reflections on each psalm text provide background on what is being sung—and are also useful for sermon preparation and personal meditation.
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Singing God’s Psalms
“In this detailed and comprehensive study Robin Leaver presents and discusses the rich contributions of 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 Yale Divinity School
Robin A. Leaver is professor emeritus at Westminster Choir College and visiting professor at Yale University and Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. His previous books include Luther’s Liturgical Music: Principles and Implications.
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Emblem of Faith Untouched The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee A Short Life of Thomas Cranmer
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“Leslie Williams has composed an extremely accessible life of Thomas Cranmer. It is written vividly but simply, clearly but affectingly. She has captured the man—and she also underlines Cranmer’s importance for contemporary conflicts within the Anglican Church. Though long dead, the Archbishop speaketh still!” — Paul F. M. Zahl coauthor of The Collects of Thomas Cranmer
“A sprightly and nuanced telling of the life and times of Thomas Cranmer. Williams avoids the temptation of making Cranmer and his contemporaries twentyfirst-century people in fancy dress. These are people of their times, but recognizably human and struggling with perennial questions of faith and practice, discipleship and power. Warmly recommended.” — Justin Lewis-Anthony Virginia Theological Seminary
Leslie Williams is an English professor, writer, and three-time Fellow of Yale Divinity School. Her other books include The Judas Conspiracy and When Anything Goes: Being Christian in a Post-Christian World.
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Foreword by Mark A. Noll Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556) was the first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, the author of the Book of Common Prayer, and a central figure in the tumultuous English Protestant Reformation. This lively biography by Leslie Williams narrates Cranmer’s eventful life from the beginning, through his education and history with the monarchy, to his ecclesiastical trials and eventual martyrdom. Williams portrays Cranmer’s ongoing struggle to reconcile his two central loyalties—allegiance to the crown and fidelity to the Reformation faith—as she tells his fascinating life story.
Damning Words
“Nearly every aspect of Robert E. Lee’s life and military career has been carefully examined in scores of books. We know that his character and actions were shaped in considerable part by his religious beliefs, but until now we have not had a systematic analysis of those beliefs. This book adds an important dimension to our understanding of Lee and his world.” — James M. McPherson Pulitzer Prize winner for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
“David Cox has written the book I always wanted to read about how Robert E. Lee’s relationship with God influenced his remarkable career. Here the reader will find a superbly detailed portrait of the down-to-earth, practical faith of a man who believed that his life rested in God’s hands.” — S. C. Gwynne author of Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
“Opens up an entirely new way of looking at Robert E. Lee. Cox not only examines the details of Lee’s religious pilgrimage, but in the process recreates the entire world of Virginia Episcopalianism which nurtured him and the family world which shaped his practices. From start to finish, this is a major contribution to understanding Lee, his religion, and his times.” — Allen C. Guelzo author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
R. David Cox is an Episcopal priest and author who was rector at the R. E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church in Lexington, Virginia, for thirteen years. He currently serves as visiting professor of history at Southern Virginia University in Buena Vista, Virginia.
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) was a reporter, literary critic, editor, author—and famous American agnostic. From his role in the Scopes Trial to his advocacy of science and reason in public life, Mencken is generally regarded as one of the fiercest critics of Christianity in his day. In this biography D. G. Hart presents a provocative, iconoclastic perspective on Mencken’s life. Even as Mencken colorfully debunked American religious ideals, says Hart, it was Christianity that largely framed his ideas, career, and fame. Mencken’s relationship to the Christian faith was at once antagonistic and symbiotic. Including generous excerpts of Mencken’s own extraordinary prose, Hart superbly portrays an influential twentieth-century figure and, at the same time, casts telling new light on the religious climate of his era. “H. L. Mencken has finally met his match. Darryl Hart has a high intelligence, an ability to write, and the sensibility of a Roger Williams Calvinist. He puts them all to use in this biography of one of America’s most notorious nonbelievers. The result is a delight to read, illuminating Mencken and the journalistic culture of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century.” — Bruce Kuklick University of Pennsylvania
“Darryl Hart shows why H. L. Mencken is exactly the critic Christian conservatives and New Atheists most need to hear—a foe of progressive pieties who’s unafraid to laugh at the culture war.” — Daniel McCarthy The American Conservative
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D. G. Hart teaches history at Hillsdale College and has written several books on the history of Christianity, including From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism.
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An American Conscience The Reinhold Niebuhr Story Jeremy L. Sabella Foreword by Robin W. Lovin
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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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. “These well-crafted essays by distinguished authorities with diverse perspectives will fascinate both students of history and evangelicals themselves.” — Daniel Walker Howe “This book sparkles with insight. Eminently readable and carefully curated, it is a significant contribution to the study of American evangelicalism.” — Kate Bowler
Justo L. González In this book noted Christian historian Justo González tells the story of how and why Christians have worshiped on Sunday from the earliest days of the church to the present. After discussing the views and practices relating to Sunday in the ancient church, González turns to Constantine and how his policies affected Sunday observances. He then recounts the long process, beginning in the Middle Ages and culminating with Puritanism, whereby Christians came to think of and strictly observe Sunday as the Sabbath. Finally, González looks at the current state of things, exploring especially how the explosive growth of the church in the Majority World has affected the observance of Sunday worldwide. “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
Contributors & Topics 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. Laura Rominger Porter holds a PhD in history from the Univer sity of Notre Dame and is an independent scholar.
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“In this book Justo González demonstrates both an impressive command of history as well as 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 pre-Constantinian model, when Christianity was not the favored faith. This is a very good, informative, and lively book.” — Randall Balmer
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“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
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“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
Heath W. Carter and Laura Rominger Porter, editors
A Brief History of Sunday
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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 forthcoming 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.
Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism
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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The Concept of Woman
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Sister Prudence Allen, R.S.M. “This book is a gift to the twenty-first century, given how much confusion remains over the meaning and value of being a woman! Nowhere else can a reader find a more thorough or intellectually rigorous examination of the concept of woman, in a text seamlessly integrating philosophy, theology, and culture.” — Helen M. Alvaré George Mason University
“A masterful culmination of Sister Prudence Allen’s groundbreaking study of the concept of woman in the history of Western philosophy. Allen continues to reward readers with the fruits of her painstaking research and insightful analysis, painting a sweeping, vivid picture of the currents and crosscurrents of arguments made by the most important (yet often unheralded) philosophers writing after 1500.” — Elizabeth R. Schiltz University of St. Thomas School of Law
Sister Prudence Allen is the former chair of the philosophy department at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary, Denver, and a member of the Religious Sisters of Mercy in Alma, Michigan.
978-0-8028-6843-5 / paperback / 574 pages 34 illustrations / $55.00 [£45.99] / Available
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Keeping the Soul in Christian Higher Education
Donald J. Bruggink, general editor
A History of Roanoke College
Elephant Baseball
Robert Benne
A Missionary Kid’s Tale Paul Heusinkveld “Paul Heusinkveld really did play elephant baseball—but his memoir evokes something far more exotic, a magical stepping back into a childhood spent at an American missionary school, Kodaikanal, cloistered at 7,000 feet in the misty mountains of South India. Heusinkveld writes with a heartache for a time and place that no longer exists, but along the way he explores his own identity and grapples with an unthinkable tragedy.” — Kai Bird author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning American Prometheus
“An appealing account, self-deprecating and often very funny, of growing and changing in circumstances at once highly unusual and universally human. . . . The story goes well beyond nostalgia; it shows missionaries and their families in their full complexity and builds to a gripping, moving conclusion.” — Paul Zorn St. Olaf College
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Many colleges with historical church ties experience significant tension between the desire to compete in the secularized world of higher education and the desire to remain connected to their religious commitments and communities. In this history of one such school, Roanoke College, Robert Benne not only explores the school’s 175-year tradition of educational excellence but also lays bare its complicated and ongoing relationship with its religious heritage. Benne examines the vision of ten of Roanoke’s presidents and how those visions played out in college life. As he tells the college’s story, Benne points to specific strengths and weaknesses of Roanoke’s strategies for keeping the soul in higher education and elaborates what other Christian colleges can learn from Roanoke’s long quest. “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
“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
Recently released A Short Life of Martin Luther
Valparaiso University
Thomas Kaufmann Translated by Peter D. S. Krey and James D. Bratt Foreword by William G. Rusch “Timed to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 theses, Kaufmann’s short, incisive biography of Luther focuses on the theological import of his subject’s life. . . . His sketch of Luther’s life is brief, but Kaufmann does not shy away from controversial topics such as Luther’s anti-Semitism and his harsh reaction to the German Peasants’ War. . . . The book is impressively clear, providing insights into the mind of a complicated individual.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Robert Benne is Jordan Trexler Professor Emeritus at Roanoke College and founder of the Benne Center for Religion and Society. His other books include Good and Bad Ways to Think about Religion and Politics and Quality with Soul: How Six Premier Colleges and Universities Keep Faith with Their Religious Traditions.
978-0-8028-7517-4 / paperback / 296 pages $28.00 [£23.99] / August
“This carefully crafted and readable narrative will enlighten and challenge anyone seeking to better comprehend the person and work of Luther. The English translation of this work is a welcome addition to Reformation scholarship.” — John T. Pless
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Beautiful Light
In the Beauty of Holiness
Henry Chadwick
Religious Meaning in Film
Art and the Bible in Western Culture
Edited and introduced by William G. Rusch Foreword by Rowan Williams
Roy M. Anker
David Lyle Jeffrey
Though “religious” films usually don’t get much respect in Hollywood, religion still regularly finds its way into the movies. Drawing out often-unnoticed connections between film and religion, Roy Anker examines nine critically acclaimed films in Beautiful Light and 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.
Beauty is a highly significant subject in the Bible. So is holiness. In this study of Christian fine art 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. Incorporating sample artworks ranging from the Roman catacombs to Marc Chagall, Jeffrey demonstrates that the Bible has consistently been the most profound and productive resource for the visual arts in the West. He contextualizes Western European art from the second century through the twenty-first in relation not only to the biblical narrative but also to liturgy and historical theology. Lavishly illustrated in color with more than one hundred masterworks, In the Beauty of Holiness is ideally suited to students of Christian fine art and to general readers wanting to better understand the story of Christian art through the centuries.
This anthology gathers choice writings by one of the twentieth century’s premier church historians, Sir Henry Chadwick. Many of Chadwick’s considerable contributions to a fuller understanding of the early church were unpublished or not circulated widely during his lifetime, but here they are compiled in a convenient, accessible form. As relevant for the study of early Christianity today as when they were first written, Chadwick’s essays remain a valuable resource for better understanding the church both past and present. “It is no exaggeration to say that this volume’s impeccably edited chapters represent ‘the very best of the very best’ of Anglican patristics scholarship in the present era. Bishops, councils, monastics, liturgy, preaching, exegesis, papacy, ecumenism, and so very much more are all comprised in these over-300 pages of precise writing. Indeed, hardly anyone in the English-speaking world can now presume to write or teach about the early church without consulting the contents of this volume.” — J. Robert Wright General Theological Seminary, New York City
“Henry Chadwick represented for countless people the essence of a particular kind of Anglican identity—learned, irenic, but not bland. . . . My hope is that this book will make him better known to a new generation of students of early Christianity and of the endlessly fascinating thinking of Augustine and others. Chadwick remains one of those giants onto whose shoulders we lesser mortals of the scholarly world scramble to get a view.” — Rowan Williams from the foreword
Henry Chadwick (1920–2008) enjoyed international renown as one of the leading church historians of the twentieth century. Scholar, teacher, churchman, accomplished musician, and ecumenist, he held senior professorial appointments at both Oxford and Cambridge universities.
978-0-8028-7277-7 / hardcover / 379 pages $60.00 [£49.99] / May
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Contents Introduction: Through Wonder to Veneration 1. “Not All Angels Have Wings”: Wonder, Light, and Love in M. Night Shyamalan’s Wide Awake 2. And the Blind Shall See: Grasping the Radiance of Being in The Color of Paradise 3. The Education of a One-Man Preaching Machine: The Realization of Love in The Apostle 4. Love’s Pure Light: Moral Light and Reconciliation in Dead Man Walking 5. When Hope Breaks Out: Love and Redemption in The Shawshank Redemption 6. “It’s Taken Me So Long to Find You”: Search and Rescue in Paul Schrader’s American Gigolo 7. “How Can I Fly?” Murder and Sacramental Ascent in Tom Tykwer’s Heaven 8. “It Can Happen”: Frogs, Deliverance, and Reconciliation in P. T. Anderson’s Magnolia 9. “The Glory Smiling Through”: Wonder and Beauty in The Thin Red Line Filmography
“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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Selected Writings
David Lyle Jeffrey is Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities at Baylor University, Waco, Texas. His previous books include People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture.
978-0-8028-7470-2 / hardcover / 320 pages 145 color illustrations / $49.00 [£40.99] / July
author of Reforming Hollywood
“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.
978-0-8028-7369-9 / paperback / 277 pages 47 b&w photos / $28.00 [£23.99] / May
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Love Let Go
Searching for the Bible in America
Keeping Faith in Fundraising
Kenneth A. Briggs
Peter Harris and Rod Wilson
Laura Sumner Truax and Amalya Campbell
How can a book—one that’s found in courthouses, libraries, and millions of households across the land—be everywhere and nowhere at the same time? In The Invisible Bestseller veteran religion writer Kenneth Briggs asks how, even as the Bible remains the best-selling book of all time, fewer Americans than ever can correctly articulate what it says, much less how it might offer guidance for their lives. In a quest to make sense of the Bible’s relative disappearance from public life, Briggs shares with readers his own two-year journey to a variety of places all across the country. His narrative incorporates pertinent interviews throughout with preachers, pollsters, scholars, and ordinary citizens from California to Texas to Florida to Massachusetts. As he probes and reflects on his varied findings, Briggs offers keen insight into why and how the Bible’s place in American public life has shifted and shrunk—and he suggests what role the Bible may play in the United States in years to come. “We buy a lot of Bibles but don’t read them. We occasionally quote the Bible, but mostly for our own immediate purposes. Ken Briggs, one of our most thoughtful religious writers, calls us to a new engagement with Scripture by offering a richly persuasive case for why the Bible still matters.” — E. J. Dionne Jr. author of Souled Out and Why the Right Went Wrong
“Briggs’s penetrating study is a welcome addition to our understanding of how religion functions in everyday life. Deeply humane and beautifully written, The Invisible Bestseller introduces readers to the ways in which Americans do and don’t understand the Bible and demonstrates why it remains foundational even when its teachings are hidden in plain sight.” — Diane Winston publisher of Religion Dispatches
Kenneth A. Briggs is a journalist and commentator who worked for many years as religion writer for Newsday and as religion editor for The New York Times. He has taught journal ism and religion at Columbia University, Lafayette College, and Lehigh University.
Radical Generosity for the Real World
“Rod Wilson and Peter Harris are two well-trained and practiced companions on the journey of enabling the Christian community to carry on its ministry faithfully. Their Keeping Faith in Fundraising is both accurate in its emphasis and motivational in its focus. It draws our attention to the centrality of our common mission as brothers and sisters to both give and receive money in a way that reflects Jesus.” — Eugene Peterson author of The Message
“Drawing on strong biblical foundations and decades of stories, Wilson and Harris here present the transformative power of relationships in navigating faith-based fundraising. I am excited to see the radical change that will happen when this practical guide is put in the hands of church, parachurch, and denominational leaders!” — Paul Lorimer The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada
“The relatively abundant literature on fundraising for Christian organizations or institutions includes much about the technology of fundraising but little substantive biblical interpretation, thoughtful applied theology, or personal history that, together, form the substructure for a fundraiser’s efforts. This book does exactly the opposite. If deep Christian conviction has brought you to leadership positions that require fundraising, this book will teach you how to be authentically Christian as you undertake the task.” — Daniel O. Aleshire Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada
When LaSalle Street Church in Chicago received an unexpected windfall, its leaders made the wild, counterintuitive decision to give it away. Each church member received a check for $500 with the instruction to go out and do good in God’s world. In Love Let Go readers witness how a church community was transformed by the startling truth that money can buy happiness—when we give it away. Laura Sumner Truax and Amalya Campbell show how this radical generosity shaped their community, exploring the reverberating impact of each act of generosity, and ultimately revealing how LaSalle’s faithfilled risk snowballed into a movement beyond itself. “Our culture brainwashes us to think that greed is the motivation that drives us, but this book offers a powerful alternative message—the transformative power of generosity. This message could literally change the world, beginning with your life and mine.” — Brian D. McLaren “This book documents the story of a church that opted to give away their possessions. Their example reminds us that the New Testament church is alive and well.” — Soong-Chan Rah “A well-wrought book. . . . Will be of interest to anyone interested in community building or philanthropy.” — Publishers Weekly
Peter Harris is founder and president of A Rocha, an international Christian conservation organization, and the author of Under the Bright Wings and Kingfisher’s Fire: A Story of Hope for God’s Earth.
Laura Sumner Truax is senior pastor at LaSalle Street Church in downtown Chicago, a teaching pastor at the University of Chicago, and the author of Undone: When Coming Apart Puts You Back Together.
Rod Wilson served as president and professor of psychology and counseling at Regent College, Vancouver, from 2000 to 2015. He is also the author of How Do I Help a Hurting Friend?
Amalya Campbell is a marketing consultant in Wilmette, Illinois, with an MBA from Harvard Business School. For many years she has led stewardship classes at LaSalle Street Church and served on the church’s leadership council throughout the #LoveLetGo campaign.
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Reflections on Suffering and Hope
Kelley Nikondeha
Joel Marcus
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Foreword by Ellen T. Charry
Adoption is one of the most radically inclusive aspects of God’s kingdom. In this book Kelley Nikondeha explores how the Christian concept of adoption into God’s family speaks powerfully to our broken world. Drawing on her own story as an adopted child and an adoptive mother, Nikondeha offers a rich, biblically grounded perspective on adoption that invites readers to new ways of looking at family, connection, and the mystery of belonging.
Jesus was a Jew. Yet nineteen centuries after his death, hatred inspired in part by the long-standing tradition of Christian anti-Judaism played a significant role in the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust. How are Christians and Jews to deal with this jarring historical incongruity? 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. Basing his work on sermons he originally preached on Good Friday 1995, a date that also corresponded with the fifty-year anniversary of the end of the Holocaust, Marcus weaves reflection on Bible passages together with poetry and narratives about the Holocaust. He shows how the hope that Christians have always found hidden in Christ’s darkest hour can shed light on one of the most tragic events of our recent history—and vice versa.
“As both an adopted person and an interracial adoptive parent, Kelley Nikondeha writes with transparency, tenderness, and racial awareness. . . . This wonderful book will illuminate a path for all people to experience sacred relationships.” — Christena Cleveland Kelley Nikondeha is codirector and chief storyteller for Communities of Hope, a community development enterprise in Burundi, and co founder of Amahoro Africa, an ongoing conversation between theologians and practitioners within the African context.
978-0-8028-7425-2 / paperback / 208 pages / $16.99 [£13.99] / August
To Begin at the Beginning An Introduction to Christian Faith Third Edition
“By giving authentic voice to the dead voices of the Holocaust refracted through the agony of the original crucified Jew, Joel Marcus brings Christians into the suffering of his people that Jews and Christians may weep together. He has blessed all the people of God, both the Jewish people and the Christian church.” — Ellen T. Charry from the foreword
Joel Marcus is Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Duke Divinity School and author of the two-volume Anchor Bible Commentary on Mark.
Martin B. Copenhaver
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“Martin Copenhaver has a great gift for talking about deep and difficult matters in a unique, enjoyable way. His book is a wonderful introduction to the Christian faith or an invigorating way to renew faith.” — William H. Willimon
Being Disciples
“Copenhaver has done a bold thing well. Working patiently with the formidable bulk of Christian faith and thought, he has untangled its denser matters and smoothed them out.” — Barbara Brown Taylor “To Begin at the Beginning provides an accessible introduction to the Christian faith that is both thoughtful and thought-provoking. Copenhaver is just the sort of advocate and apostle of the faith that Christianity needs in this hour.” — Jonathan L. Walton
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Essentials of the Christian Life Rowan Williams Having covered baptism, Bible, Eucharist, and prayer in his best-selling Being Christian, Rowan Williams turns his attention in Being Disciples to what is required for us to continue following Jesus and growing in faith. In his typically gentle, inviting, pastoral writing style, Williams offers biblically grounded wisdom for Christians at all stages of their journey as disciples of Jesus. “Quite the most beautiful writing on discipleship I know. I am grateful for the inspiration that I find in these pages. I commend it to those who have been on this journey a long time, as well as to anyone who wonders what on earth following Jesus is all about.” — Justin Welby
Martin B. Copenhaver is president of Andover Newton Theological School and a United Church of Christ minister.
978-0-8028-7416-0 / paperback / 247 pages / $21.99 [£17.99] / Available
Archbishop of Canterbury
Rowan Williams served as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012 and is now Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
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Calling All Years Good
The Stories We Live
Christian Vocation throughout Life’s Seasons
Finding God’s Calling All around Us
Kathleen A. Cahalan and Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, editors
Kathleen A. Cahalan
Do infants have a vocation? Do Alzheimer’s patients? In popular culture, vocation is often reduced to adult work or church ministry. Rarely do we consider childhood or old age as crucial times for commencing or culminating a life of faith in response to God’s calling. This book addresses that gap by showing how vocation emerges and evolves over the course of an entire lifetime. The authors cover six of life’s distinct seasons, weaving together personal narrative, developmental theory, case studies, and spiritual practices. Calling All Years Good grounds the discussion of vocation in concrete realities and builds a cohesive framework for understanding calling throughout all of life.
“Christian vocation,” says Kathleen Cahalan, “is about connecting our stories with God’s story.” In The Stories We Live Cahalan rejuvenates and transforms vocation from a static concept to a living, dynamic reality. Incorporating biblical texts, her own experience, and the personal stories of others, Cahalan discusses how each of us is called by God, to follow, as we are, from grief, for service, in suffering, through others, within God. Readers of this book will discover an exciting new vocabulary of vocation and find a fresh vision for God’s calling in their lives.
Authors & Topics Kathleen A. Cahalan on callings over a lifetime Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore on childhood Katherine Turpin on adolescence Katherine Turpin on younger adulthood Matt Bloom on middle adulthood Kathleen A. Cahalan on late adulthood Joyce Ann Mercer on older adulthood with biblical interludes by Jane Patterson
“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 “This wise and beautifully written book is a splendid resource both for personal reflection and for discussion in reading groups and among friends. It is a gift to be shared.” — Craig Dykstra 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.
978-0-8028-7419-1 / paperback / 150 pages / $15.99 [£12.99] / Available 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 / 208 pages / $20.00 [£16.99] / July
Light When It Comes Trusting Joy, Facing Darkness, and Seeing God in Everything Chris Anderson Foreword by Brian Doyle
Holy Silence
“Light When It Comes is both a literary gem and a cup of blessing for all who long to experience God’s presence.” — Paula Huston
The Gift of Quaker Spirituality Revised and Expanded
J. Brent Bill Foreword by Philip Gulley “I love this book. It’s a beautiful introduction to the depths and riches of silence. ” — Parker J. Palmer “The practice of silence, in both its personal and its corporate expressions, is one of the special gifts Quakers have given to the larger Christian community. In Holy Silence J. Brent Bill unpacks this gift for us in vibrant colors and vivid detail. Holy Silence will deepen you, thicken you, and energize you. Get this book!” — Richard J. Foster
“Chris Anderson offers us a triune gift wrapped into a whole: beautiful prose, pastoral experience, and an authentic believing eye turned to our world. This volume is a grace to be received with abundant thanks.” — Lawrence S. Cunningham Chris Anderson is professor of English at Oregon State University, a poet, a retreat leader, and a Catholic deacon. An award-winning writer and teacher, he is also the author of The Next Thing Always Belongs.
978-0-8028-7399-6 / paperback / 181 pages / $16.99 [£13.99] / Available
J. Brent Bill is a writer, photographer, popular speaker, retreat leader, and Quaker minister. His other books include Life Lessons from a Bad Quaker: A Humble Stumble toward Simplicity and Grace and Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment.
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The Great Wall of China and the Salton Sea Monuments, Missteps, and the Audacity of Ambition Russell Rathbun “An explication of the mundane inside notions of the colossal or the grand, and a model of how to truly live and appreciate the world. Rathbun’s eclectic book will be enjoyed by a wide readership of seekers.” — Publishers Weekly “Russell Rathbun is funny and honest and attuned to the tragic and to the absurd. I cannot recommend The Great Wall of China and the Salton Sea more highly.” — Morgan Meis
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The Search for Urban Spirituality on Two Wheels
Abigail Carroll
Laura Everett
“Witty, compassionate, and rich, these lyrical letters to Saint Francis court wonder, inviting the reader on a pilgrimage to the heart.” — Richard Rohr
After her car died on the highway one rainy night, Laura Everett made the utterly practical decision to start riding her bicycle to work through the streets of Boston. In Holy Spokes Everett tells about her unlikely conversion to urban cycling and uses her story to develop a deep, robust, and distinctly urban spirituality.
“More than just a fresh glimpse of an exceptional saint whose humanity and complexity Carroll delightfully renders. This is also the welcome debut of an exceptional poet, whose deep humility and adroitness with poetic form are rare qualities she shares with Francis himself. Earthy, honest, a pure delight.” — Sarah Arthur “A most refreshing, eloquent, wonderfully unassuming, gentle inquiry into the actual Saint Francis. . . . Compulsively readable and re-readable.” — Brian Doyle Abigail Carroll is the author of Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal, which was a finalist for the Zocalo Public Square Book Prize. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Huffington Post, and Sojourners.
978-0-8028-7445-0 / paperback with French flaps 108 pages / $12.99 [£10.99] Available
“Simultaneously revelatory and brilliantly accessible, Laura Everett’s Holy Spokes winds and weaves its way with grace through the little mysteries and miracles of daily life.” — Amy Butler “Everett offers cadence and communion with the world around her as a way of being in a chaotic world. This book is a delight.” — Max Grinnell “For anyone who has longed to look at the beating heart of their city through the lens of faith, Laura Everett provides a winsome two-wheeled tour.” — William H. Lamar IV Laura Everett is a dedicated urbanist, a minister in the United Church of Christ, and a fourseason bicycle commuter in her adopted city of Boston. She also serves as the executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches.
978-0-8028-7373-6 / hardcover / 201 pages $22.99 [£18.99] / April
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Allen The Concept of Woman 26 ? Amstutz Just Immigration 17
Cox The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee (lrb) 24
Hill Servant of All 19 Hunt et al Character Studies in the Fourth Gospel 4
Anderson Light When It Comes 30
Crisp et al Neuroscience and the Soul 14
Anderson Singing God’s Psalms (cicw) 23
? Davis Forbearance 18
? Irvin The Protestant Reformation and World Christianity (rr) 10
? Anker Beautiful Light 27
Davis & Dennis Preaching the Luminous Word 21
? Jeffrey In the Beauty of Holiness 27
DeBoer Visual Arts in the Worshiping Church (cicw) 22
? Jipp Saved by Faith and Hospitality 5
Dunn The Acts of the Apostles 9
? Katongole Born from Lament 18
? Everett Holy Spokes 31
Kirk A Man Attested by God 2
Finney The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology 9
? Leaver The Whole Church Sings (cicw) 23
Barclay Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews 6 Barr The Believing Scientist 15 ? Bauckham Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, 2d ed 3 ? Benne Keeping the Faith in Christian Higher Education 26 Bill Holy Silence 30 Bird An Anomalous Jew 2 ? Bird Jesus the Eternal Son 3 Blackwell Christosis 13 Briggs The Invisible Bestseller 28 ? Brouwer How to Become a Multicultural Church 19 ? Brown & Moloney Interpreting the Gospel and Letters of John 4 Burke & Landau New Testament Apocrypha 7 ? Cahalan The Stories We Live 30 ? Cahalan & Miller-McLemore Calling All Years Good 30 Carroll A Gathering of Larks 31 ? Carter & Porter Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism 25 ? Castelo Pentecostalism as a Christian Mystical Tradition 11 ? Cavanaugh & Smith Evolution and the Fall 15 Chadwick Selected Writings 27 ? Chester Reading Paul with the Reformers 3 Collins Scriptures and Sectarianism 6 Copenhaver To Begin at the Beginning, 3d ed 29
? Florensky Early Religious Writings, 1903–1909 14 ? García & Nunes Wittenberg Meets the World 10 Goheen Reading the Bible Missionally (gocs) 20 ? Goldingay Reading Jesus’s Bible 5 ? González A Brief History of Sunday 25 Gorman Apostle of the Crucified Lord, 2d ed 2 Green et al The Spirit over the Earth (mwt) 12 Greidanus Preaching Christ from Psalms 21 ? Gross Women’s Voices and the Practice of Preaching 22 Gurtner et al In the Fullness of Time 8 ? Harding & Nobbs Into All the World 8 Harris & Wilson Keeping Faith in Fundraising 28 Hart Damning Words (lrb) 24 ? Hart The Hidden and the Manifest 14 ? Hauser & Watson A History of Biblical Interpretation 7 ? Heusinkveld Elephant Baseball (hsrca) 26
? Lilley & Pedersen Human Origins and the Image of God 15 ? Littlejohn The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty (euslr) 17 Loader Jesus in John’s Gospel 4 ? Lovin & Mauldin Theology as Interdisciplinary Inquiry 11 ? Lutheran World Federation From Conflict to Communion (rr) 10 ? Marcus Jesus and the Holocaust 29 ? Migliore Reading the Gospels with Karl Barth 11 Morrow An Introduction to Biblical Law 7 ? Nikondeha Adopted 29 ? O’Donovan Entering into Rest 16 Paas Church Planting in the Secular West (gocs) 20 Park et al Worshiping with the Anaheim Vineyard (caw) 21 Peckham Canonical Theology 12 Pitre Jesus and the Last Supper 8 Porter Justice as a Virtue 16 ? Rajendra Migrants and Citizens 16 Rathbun The Great Wall of China and the Salton Sea 31 Rutledge The Crucifixion 13
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? Sabella An American Conscience 25 ? Schroeder The Book of Jeremiah (bmt) 9 Stuckenbruck The Myth of Rebellious Angels 6 ? Taylor The Theater of God’s Glory (cicw) 23 Taylor & Weir Women in the Story of Jesus 5 ? Theoharis Always with Us? (pc) 17 Thielicke A Little Exercise for Young Theologians 20 Thiselton Doubt, Faith, and Certainty 12 ? Truax & Campbell Love Let Go 28 ? Vainio Disagreeing Virtuously 18 ? van der Kooi & van den Brink Christian Dogmatics 1 ? Wells The Courage to Be Protestant, 2d ed 13 ? Wells Incarnational Ministry 19 Wells & Kocher Eucharistic Prayers 22 Williams Being Disciples 29 Williams Emblem of Faith Untouched (lrb) 24
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