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7 Commentaries 

10 Theology 

16 Philosophical Theology 

18 Practical Theology 

19 Ethics 

20 Religion & Society 

21 Preaching 

22 Worship 

23 Religious Studies 

25 History 

28 Biography 

29 Humanities 

30 Spirituality 

31 General Info 

32 Order Form 

33 Index 

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Jack R. Lundbom 

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Milestone commentary on a key Pentateuchal book 

Approaching the End 

Stanley Hauerwas 

The latest offering from a renowned, ever provocative 

theologian-ethicist 

Justification Reconsidered 

Stephen Westerholm 

Lively, informed take on recent scholarly debates over 

justification in Paul 

Theology for Liberal Protestants 

Douglas F. Ottati 

Original, accessible, revisionary interpretation of Christian belief 

The Analogical Turn 

Johannes Hoff 

Brilliantly recovers a 15th-century thinker’s original insights 

for theology and philosophy today 

Eros and Self-Emptying 

Lee C. Barrett 

A novel, nuanced comparative study of Augustine and Kierkegaard 

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A Political Theology 

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Michael S. Northcott 

Uniquely discusses nations as key moral agents in the climate crisis 

The Torah, the Gospel, 

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Anton Wessels 

A well-thought-out Christian plea for interreligious unity 

Process and Providence 

Bradley J. Gundlach 

Explores how preeminent conservative 19th-century theologians 

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Wisdom’s Wonder 

Making Sense of Sex 

Born of a Virgin? 

Character, Creation, and Crisis 

in the Bible’s Wisdom Literature 

William P. Brown 

Wisdom’s Wonder offers a fresh reading of the 

Hebrew Bible’s wisdom literature with a 

unique emphasis on “wonder” as the framework 

for understanding biblical wisdom. 

William Brown argues that wonder effectively 

integrates biblical wisdom’s emphasis on 

character formation 

and its outlook on 

creation, breaking 

an impasse that 

has plagued recent 

wisdom studies. 

Drawing on 

various disciplines, 

from philosophy 

to neuroscience, 

Brown discovers 

new distinctions 

and connections in 

Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes. Each book is 

studied in terms of its view of moral character 

and creation, as well as in terms of the social or 

intellectual crisis each book identifies. 

Most general treatments of the wisdom 

literature spend too much time on issues of 

genre, poetry, and social context at the neglect 

of discussing the intellectual and emotional 

power of the wisdom corpus. Brown argues 

that the real power of the wisdom corpus 

lies in its capacity to evoke the reader’s sense 

of wonder. Central to each book, he says, are 

certain “texts of tremendum,” which evoke the 

wide range of wonder’s nuance, from “fear 

seeking understanding” to confounding 

perplexity to unbridled joy. These texts serve 

to transform the reader’s character. 

An extensive revision and expansion of 

Brown’s Character in Crisis (Eerdmans, 1996), 

this book demonstrates that the wisdom 

books are much more than simply advice 

literature: with wonder as the foundation 

for understanding, Brown maintains that 

wisdom is a process with transformation of 

self as the goal. 

William P. Brown is William Marcellus 

McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at 

Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, 

Georgia. Other books of his include The Seven 

Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecology 

of Wonder and Seeing the Psalms: A Theology 

of Metaphor. 

Attitudes towards Sexuality 

in Early Jewish and Christian 

Literature 

William Loader 

This book is about listening to what writers 

were saying about sex in early Judaism 

and Christianity 

— ancient words 

surprisingly relevant 

for today. It functions 

as both a summary of 

and a conclusion to 

William Loader’s five 

previous books on 

ancient sexuality; it 

also contains a useful 

subject index to 

those five volumes. 

“The capstone of a project that has already produced 

five volumes of detailed research, this book establishes 

Loader as the Kinsey of biblical sexuality. Like 

Kinsey, he has taken a topic that has often been taboo 

and demystified it. His patient cataloguing of the 

diverse biblical attitudes to sexuality complicates 

the issue for anyone who would appeal to biblical 

authority in a simplistic way. This is a major contribution 

both to biblical scholarship and to practical 

theology.” 

— John J. Collins 

Yale Divinity School 

“Loader’s lucid prose, anchored with references to 

primary sources, makes this book an indispensable 

resource for students, but scholars will also find much 

value in the concise overview. . . . Loader is clearly a 

worldwide leading expert on sexuality in early Judaism 

and early Christianity, and his command of the 

material is detectable on every page.” 

— Margaret Y. MacDonald 

St. Francis Xavier University 

“Much more than a mere distillation of Loader’s 

magisterial five-volume study of attitudes toward 

sexuality in ancient Jewish and Christian sources. 

. . . This scintillating study showcases biblical scholarship 

in its finest form.” 

— Paul Foster 

University of Edinburgh 

William Loader is professor emeritus of 

New Testament at Murdoch University, Perth, 

Australia. His other books include Enoch, Levi, 

and Jubilees on Sexuality; The Dead Sea Scrolls on 

Sexuality; The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality; Philo, 

Josephus, and the Testaments on Sexuality; and The 

New Testament on Sexuality. 

Reconceiving Jesus in the 

Bible, Tradition, and Theology 

Andrew T. Lincoln 

Many Christians struggle with the concept 

of the virgin birth. Andrew Lincoln’s Born of 

a Virgin? begins by discussing why the virgin 

birth is such a difficult and divisive topic for 

Christians. The book then deals with a whole 

range of literary, historical, and hermeneutical 

issues from a critical yet positive perspective 

that takes seriously 

creedal confessions 

and theological 

concerns. 

As part of his 

exegetical investigation 

of the New Testament 

texts, Lincoln 

considers the literary 

genre and distinctive 

characteristics of the 

birth narratives as 

ancient biography. 

Further, he delineates how changes in our 

views of history and biography decisively 

affect any traditional understanding of the 

significance of an actual virgin birth, and he 

explores what that means for the authority of 

Scripture and creed, along with implications 

for Christology and for preaching and teaching 

from the birth narratives. 

“There are topics that are such a focus of controversy 

and attention that eventually we come to feel that 

all has been said that can or should be said. Then 

along comes a groundbreaking book that arrives like 

a breath of fresh air and allows us to see the familiar 

with new eyes. Lincoln’s volume on the virginal 

conception is such a work. . . . This excellent, clear, 

and comprehensive treatment is sure to be considered 

the volume to turn to on this topic for many years to 

come.” 

— James McGrath 

Butler University 

“This masterly study will provide essential reading 

for confessing Christians who struggle with accepting 

the historicity of the virginal conception. I cannot 

recommend it highly enough.” — Helen Bond 


Andrew T. Lincoln is Portland Professor of 

New Testament at the University of Gloucestershire, 

England. His previous books include 

Truth on Trial and commentaries on Colossians 

and John. 

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The Inspiration 

and Interpretation 

of Scripture 

What the Early Church Can Teach Us 

Michael Graves 

What is true of Scripture as a result of being 

inspired? What should divine inspiration 

cause us to expect from it? The answers to 

these questions in the early church related not 

just to the nature of Scripture’s truth claims 

but to the manner in 

which Scripture was 

to be interpreted. 

In this book 

Michael Graves 

delves into what 

Christians in the 

first five centuries 

believed about the 

inspiration of Scripture, 

based on discussions 

of numerous 

primary source texts. 

Graves presents a nuanced picture of why the 

church fathers handled Scripture as they did 

and the diversity of approaches that existed. 

He carefully lays out the ideas that early 

Christians considered to be logical implications 

of biblical inspiration and discusses the 

relevance of those ideas for the church today. 

Many books presume to discuss how some 

current trend relates to the “traditional” 

view of biblical inspiration; this one actually 

describes in a detailed and nuanced way 

what the “traditional” view is and explores 

the differences between ancient and modern 

assumptions on the topic. Students and pastors 

will appreciate the critical, honest engagement 

of the questions surrounding biblical 

inspiration. 

Accessible and engaging, The Inspiration 

and Interpretation of Scripture presents a rich 

network of theological ideas about the Bible 

together with critical engagement with the 

biblical text. 

Michael Graves is the Armerding Chair of 

Biblical Studies and associate professor of Old 

Testament at Wheaton College, Illinois. He is 

also the author of Jerome’s Hebrew Philology. 


$24.00 [£16.99] / February 

David Remembered 

Kingship and National Identity 

in Ancient Israel 

Joseph Blenkinsopp 

“A wide-ranging exploration of the afterlife of 

David and the Davidic dynasty in both history and 

Scripture. Blenkinsopp’s work is, as usual, careful 

and yet bubbling with new ideas and proposals. An 

intriguing investigation.” — James L. Kugel 

Bar-Ilan University 

“In lucid and accessible language but with his characteristic 

deep learning and eminently good judgment, 

Joseph Blenkinsopp traces the development of Jewish 

thinking about God’s promise to David in periods 

that are crucial for Judaism 

and Christianity 

alike and yet underappreciated 

outside 

the academy. Both 

those familiar with 

the texts he discusses 

and those unfamiliar 

with them will find 

this book illuminating 

and rewarding — and a 

pleasure to read. Highly 

recommended.” 

— Jon D. Levenson 

Harvard University 

“Joseph Blenkinsopp’s treatment of the king of 

Israel who became the prototype for the Messiah is 

characteristically lucid and informed with intense 

historical and theological learning. . . . An enthralling 

read.” 

— John Barton 

University of Oxford 

“Much has been written on the historical David in 

recent years, but there has been a gap in studies of 

how the David story was later interpreted in the 

Second Temple period. Blenkinsopp fills that gap 

with this masterful yet readable account.” 

— Lester L. Grabbe 

University of Hull 

“Blenkinsopp’s command of the breadth and depth 

of evidence from primary and secondary sources, 

from the Babylonian to the Roman periods, is most 

impressive. . . . David Remembered is eminently 

accessible to all readers but packed with detailed 

information in dialogue with the latest scholarship.” 

— Steven L. McKenzie 

Rhodes College 

Joseph Blenkinsopp is John A. O’Brien 

Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at the 

University of Notre Dame. His other works 

include Judaism, the First Phase and the threevolume 

Anchor Bible commentary on Isaiah. 


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The Dance between 

God and Humanity 

Reading the Bible Today 

as the People of God 

Bruce K. Waltke 

“Now in his eighties, Bruce Waltke remains one of the 

sharpest minds in biblical studies today. How wonderful 

to have this selection of his studies collected 

together. . . . I enthusiastically 

recommend this 

volume to all students, 

teachers, and scholars.” 

— Tremper 

Longman III 

Westmont College 

“Here is one of the best 

summaries of a lifetime 

of dedicated service to 

our Lord, and to the 

biblical academy, by a 

humble servant of our Lord. These chapters will offer 

a new generation of biblical readers some of the most 

creative thinking in the vanguard of Old Testament 

scholarship during the last half century.” 

— Walter C. Kaiser Jr. 

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary 

“The many thousands who have benefited from the 

teaching and writing of Bruce Waltke over the course 

of his illustrious career will celebrate this extensive 

collection of his shorter works. . . . Well researched, 

incisive, and always instructive, Waltke’s essays 

invite reading and rereading. Both author and 

publisher are to be congratulated for making these 

sometimes hard-to-acquire essays available in such 

a convenient, substantial volume.” 

— V. Philips Long 

Regent College 

“I am happy to recommend as highly as possible this 

collection of thirty-plus articles gleaned from Bruce 

Waltke’s writings. . . . Waltke brings intellectual 

acumen and rigorous scholarship to all his writings. 

His well-established reputation as an Old Testament 

scholar notwithstanding, I am impressed with the 

tone of humility and modesty and restraint that 

pervades his writings. Bruce writes not to make Bruce 

look better, but to make Bruce’s Lord look better. And 

in this he succeeds admirably.” 

— Victor Hamilton 

Asbury University 

Bruce K. Waltke is Distinguished Professor 

of Old Testament at Knox Theological Seminary, 

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and professor 

emeritus of biblical studies at Regent College, 

Vancouver, British Columbia. 


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All Things to All Cultures 

Paul among Jews, Greeks, and Romans 

Mark Harding and 

Alanna Nobbs, editors 

Secret Scriptures 

Revealed 

John, Jesus, and 

the Renewal of Israel 

All Things to All Cultures sets Paul in his firstcentury 

context and illuminates his interaction 

with Jews, Greeks, and Romans as he 

spread the gospel in the Mediterranean world. 

In addition to exploring Paul’s context and 

analyzing his letters, the book has chapters 

on the chronology of Paul’s life, the text of the 

Pauline letters, the scholarly contributions to 

our understanding of Paul over the last 150 

years, and the theology 

of the Pauline 

corpus. 

There is no comparable 

introduction to 

Paul that integrates 

the Jewish, Greek, 

and Roman influences 

on him and the 

letters that make up a 

substantial portion of 

the New Testament. 

Contents 

Foreword Alanna Nobbs 

1. Paul in the Twenty-First Century 

Murray J. Smith 

2. Paul: An Outline of His Life David L. Eastman 

3. The Archaeology of the Pauline Mission 

Cavan W. Concannon 

4. Pauline Letter Manuscripts Brent Nongbri 

5. Paul among the Jews Paul McKechnie 

6. Paul among the Greeks Christopher Forbes 

7. Paul among the Romans James R. Harrison 

8. The Letter to the Romans Michael F. Bird 

9. The Corinthian Correspondence L. L. Welborn 

10. The Letter to the Galatians Greg W. Forbes 

11. The Thessalonian Correspondence 

Murray J. Smith 

12. The Later Pauline Letters: Ephesians, 

Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon 

Ian K. Smith 

13. The Pastoral Epistles Mark Harding 

14. Pauline Theology Timothy J. Harris 

Appendix 1: Paul in the Book of Acts 

Paul W. Barnett 

Appendix 2: A Tabular Analysis of Paul’s Asian 

Epistles Paul W. Barnett 

Mark Harding is dean of the Australian 

College of Theology, an honorary associate of 

Macquarie University, and the author of Early 

Christian Life and Thought in Social Context. 

A New Introduction to 

the Christian Apocrypha 

Tony Burke 

Ever since the Christian Apocrypha burst into 

the public consciousness in 2003, following 

the publication of The Da Vinci Code by Dan 

Brown, interest in those texts not included 

in the Bible has remained strong. Although 

much has been written and said on the subject, 

misunderstandings still abound. 

Tony Burke’s Secret Scriptures Revealed dismantles 

the many myths and misconceptions 

about the Christian Apocrypha and straightforwardly 

answers common questions like 

where the apocryphal texts came from, who 

wrote them, and why they were not included 

in the Bible. The 

book offers an objective, 

fair-minded discussion 

of these texts 

and the ill-informed 

claims made about 

them in recent popular 

scholarship. 

Besides relating 

numerous fascinating 

apocryphal 

stories — including 

many that are not 

well known — Burke offers insights into the 

use of these texts in art, literature, drama, 

popular culture, and church teachings. He also 

discusses the formation of the New Testament, 

how scholars reconstruct apocryphal texts 

from manuscript sources, and the impact of 

the Christian Apocrypha on the faith of its 

readers. 

Tony Burke is associate professor of religious 

studies at York University, Toronto, and 

author of one of the best-known blogs in the 

field, www.tonyburke.ca/apocryphicity. 


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Richard Horsley and Tom Thatcher 

In this book Richard Horsley and Tom 

Thatcher trace the Gospel of John’s portrayal 

of Jesus as a prophet of renewal by reading the 

text against a double backdrop — the social 

history of Roman 

Palestine and the 

media world of John. 

This innovative 

study is the first to 

consider the Gospel 

of John as story in 

the ancient media 

context of oral communication 

and 

oral performance. 

Horsley and Thatcher 

creatively combine 

concerns from the fields of Jesus studies and 

ancient media studies in their analysis. Taking 

the main conflict evident in John’s story of 

Jesus as the key to its plot, they discern how 

this Gospel — usually read as “spiritual” — 

portrays Jesus engaged in a concrete program 

of renewal and resistance. 

“Two skilled scholars here provide a brilliant and 

creative synthesis of literary and social-historicalpolitical 

approaches. Richard Horsley and Tom 

Thatcher offer fresh ideas in an area of scholarship 

that has sometimes become stagnant. . . . Their 

holistic approach to the Fourth Gospel is innovative, 

well-informed, and informative.” 

— Craig S. Keener 

Asbury Theological Seminary 

“Thoughtfully perceptive and genuinely innovative, 

this timely book may well change the way we think 

about the Gospels as historical narratives, the feasibility 

of the Jesus quest, and the conventional divide 

between the Gospel of John and the Synoptics.” 

— Werner H. Kelber 

Rice University 

Richard Horsley is distinguished professor 

emeritus of liberal arts and the study of 

religion at the University of Massachusetts, 

Boston. Among his many previous books is 

The Prophet Jesus and the Renewal of Israel. 


Alanna Nobbs is professor of ancient history 

and deputy director of the Ancient Cultures 

Research Centre at Macquarie University and 

coeditor (with Mark Harding) of The Content 

and Setting of the Gospel Tradition. 

Tom Thatcher is professor of biblical studies 

at Cincinnati Christian University. His other 

books include Why John Wrote a Gospel: Jesus — 

Memory — History. 


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Gospel Writing 

The Oral Gospel Tradition 

Who Do People Say I Am? 


A Canonical Perspective 

Francis Watson 

That there are four canonical versions of the 

one gospel story is often seen as a problem 

for Christian faith. In Gospel Writing, however, 

Francis Watson argues that differences and 

tensions between canonical gospels represent 

opportunities for theological reflection, not 

problems for apologetics. In exploring this 

claim, he proposes nothing less than a new 

paradigm for gospel 

studies — one that 

engages fully with 

the available noncanonical 

material so 

as to illuminate the 

historical and theological 

significance 

of the canonical. 

“A wonderfully wideranging 

book, full of 

learning and insight. 

One of the most significant books on the gospels in the 

last hundred years, this work will undoubtedly shake 

up the current study of the gospels.” 

— Simon Gathercole 

University of Cambridge 

“Francis Watson offers here a striking and powerful 

argument for the importance of reading Scripture 

as a canon. The argument is constantly historical 

as well as theological, exploring the character of the 

early church’s decision to accept a fourfold symphonic 

gospel.” 

— Lewis Ayres 

University of Durham 

“The scope of this major contribution is breathtaking. 

Watson expertly moves from Augustine to 

Lessing to Q to Thomas to the synoptic problem to the 

sources of John’s Gospel to the Gospel of Peter to the 

emergence of the fourfold gospel canon to Origen to 

early Christian art and liturgy. The upshot is a slew 

of new observations and intriguing proposals that 

open up fresh lines of inquiry. Required reading for 

all students of the gospel tradition.” 

— Dale C. Allison Jr. 

Princeton Theological Seminary 

Francis Watson holds a research chair in 

biblical interpretation at Durham University, 

England. Well known for his work in both 

theological interpretation and Pauline studies, 

he is also the author of Text and Truth: Redefining 

Biblical Theology; Paul and the Hermeneutics of 

Faith; and Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles: Beyond 

the New Perspective. 

James D. G. Dunn 

“Over many years 

Jimmy Dunn has alerted 

us all to the importance 

of taking seriously the 

presence of oral tradition 

in and behind our 

present Gospels. This 

volume provides many 

of his key essays on that 

broad topic, including a 

number of responses to 

critiques by others. As 

with all of Dunn’s work, the argument is invariably 

readable, persuasive, and compelling.” 

— Christopher Tuckett 


“This book helpfully brings together a number of 

significant essays by a leading voice in the study of 

Jesus, the Gospels, and early Christian tradition. As 

indicated by the new and very helpful introduction, 

the collection not only surveys Dunn’s own voluminous 

work on the topic but also serves, in many 

respects, as a recent history of research, tracing trends 

in the evolution of study on the media history of early 

Christianity.” 

— Tom Thatcher 

Cincinnati Christian University 

“For more than thirty-five years, James Dunn has 

been a leading voice in New Testament studies 

regarding the role of oral tradition in the formation 

of Gospel narratives. This volume affords Dunn the 

opportunity to respond to criticisms of his various 

proposals and so to present time-honored ideas afresh 

for a new generation.” — Mark Allan Powell 

Trinity Lutheran Seminary 

“Dunn is no doubt one of the most influential New 

Testament scholars of our time. These collected essays 

of his build up an impressive view of the oral Gospel 

tradition.” 

— Samuel Byrskog 

Lund University 

James D. G. Dunn is Lightfoot Professor 

Emeritus of Divinity at the University of 

Durham, England. His many other books 

include Jesus Remembered and Beginning from 

Jerusalem (volumes 1 and 2 of Christianity in the 

Making); Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels; and commentaries 

on Romans, Galatians, and Colossians 

and Philemon. 


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Rewriting Gospel in 

Emerging Christianity 

Vernon K. Robbins 

Spanning early Christian writings from the 

Gospel of Mark to the Acts of John, this book 

by Vernon Robbins explores the various ways 

early Christians 

explained their 

understanding of 

the special nature 

of Jesus beyond the 

canonical Gospels. 

Who Do People Say 

I Am? shows how 

second- and thirdcentury 

Christian 

authors of additional 

Gospels and 

Gospel-like writings 

expanded and elaborated on Jesus’ divinity in 

the context of his earthly existence. According 

to Robbins, these Christian authors thought 

that the New Testament Gospel writers could 

and should have emphasized the divinity of 

Jesus more than they did. 

Learning activities and a bibliography at 

the end of each chapter help make this book a 

valuable resource for students and any other 

interested readers. 

“Jesus seen through many eyes, heard through many 

voices. That is what this terrific book by Vernon Robbins 

is all about. Robbins sets the more commonly 

known representations of Jesus in the Bible alongside 

lesser-well-known portraits of him found in texts 

like the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, 

the Gospel of Judas, and the Acts of John. . . . 

Robbins’s careful attention to historical detail and his 

accessible style make this the best book available on 

the subject of Jesus and the Gospels.” 

— April DeConick 

Rice University 

Vernon K. Robbins is professor of New Testament 

and comparative sacred texts at Emory 

University, Atlanta. Among his other books are 

Jesus the Teacher: A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation 

of Mark, The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse, 

and Exploring the Texture of Texts. 


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Following Jesus 

Biblical Reflections 

on Discipleship 

Second Edition 

N. T. Wright 

This second edition of N. T. Wright’s popular 

Following Jesus — originally published in 1995 

— includes a new preface by the author. In 

twelve wonderfully insightful meditations 

Wright explores 

what it truly means 

to follow Jesus today. 

Wright first 

outlines the essential 

messages of six 

major New Testament 

books — 

Hebrews, Colossians, 

Matthew, John, 

Mark, and Revelation 

— looking in 

particular at their 

portrayal of Jesus and what he accomplished 

in his sacrificial death. In the second part of 

the book Wright takes six key New Testament 

themes — resurrection, rebirth, temptation, 

hell, heaven, and new life — and considers 

their significance for the lives of present-day 

disciples. 

“A beautiful meditative work on Christian discipleship.” 

— Lawrence Cunningham in America 

“The slender size of this book belies its deep content. 

. . . A book to be read, reread, pondered, and lived.” 

— Christian Library Journal 

“Many unarguably sound insights.” 

— Publishers Weekly 

“Encouraging, startling, unnerving — but always 

inviting. . . . The richly biblical fruit of much working 

through of ‘the meaning of the life and death of Jesus 

and the gift to his people of the Spirit’ in the modern 

world. . . . Tom Wright offers insights valuable to 

Christians across the spectrum between literalism 

and mere metaphor in their view of Scripture.” 

— Anglican Journal 

N. T. Wright is Chair in New Testament and 

Early Christianity at the University of St. 

Andrews, Scotland, and one of the most highly 

respected biblical scholars in the world today. 


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The Unrelenting God 

God’s Action in Scripture 

Essays in Honor of 

Beverly Roberts Gaventa 

David J. Downs and 

Matthew L. Skinner, editors 

In this book sixteen 

accomplished biblical 

scholars and 

theologians engage 

in theologically informed 

interpretation 

of Scripture, 

exploring how various 

biblical writers, 

especially Luke and 

Paul, describe God’s 

unrelenting commitment 

to and activity 

in the world. 

Contents 

Preface David J. Downs and Matthew L. Skinner 

A Personal Word J. Louis Martyn 

Body Piercings Revisited: Piercings and Profanations 

of “Bodies” and the Character of God in Ezekiel 

Jacqueline E. Lapsley 

Conversion in Luke-Acts: God’s Prevenience, Human 

Embodiment Joel B. Green 

“Not Knowing What Will Happen to Me There”: 

Experiences of the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts 

John B. F. Miller 

The Word of God and the Church: On the Theological 

Implications of Three Summary Statements in 

the Acts of the Apostles Matthew L. Skinner 

Lost in Translation: A Reflection on Romans in the 

Common English Bible Richard B. Hays 

Is Paul a Covenantal Theologian? Francis Watson 

Sin’s Corruption of the Knowledge of God and the 

Law in Romans 1–8 Shane Berg 

Time in Romans 5–8: From Life to Life L. Ann Jervis 

“Who Hopes for What Is Seen?” Political Theology 

through Romans Douglas Harink 

Creation, Gender, and Identity in (New) Cosmic 

Perspective: 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 

Alexandra R. Brown 

Ashes on the Frontal Lobe: Cognitive Dissonance 

and Cruciform Cognition in 2 Corinthians 

Susan Grove Eastman 

Cross and Cosmos in Galatians Martinus C. de Boer 

Unity in the Community: Rereading Galatians 2:15-21 

William Sanger Campbell 

The God Who Gives Life That Is Truly Life: 

Meritorious Almsgiving and the Divine Economy 

in 1 Timothy 6 David J. Downs 

Jesus Christ, the End of the Law Katherine Sonderegger 

Role Model — God’s Image — Life-Giving Spirit: 

Who Is Jesus Christ for Us Today? Michael Welker 

David J. Downs is associate professor of New 

Testament studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, 

Pasadena, California. 

Matthew L. Skinner is associate professor 

of New Testament at Luther Seminary, Saint 

Paul, Minnesota. 


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Reading the 

Epistles of James, 

Peter, John, and 

Jude as Scripture 

The Shaping and Shape 

of a Canonical Collection 

David R. Nienhuis and Robert W. Wall 

Through a detailed examination of the 

historical shaping and final canonical shape 

of seven oft-neglected New Testament letters, 

Reading the Epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude 

as Scripture introduces readers to the historical, 

literary, and theological 

integrity of 

this indispensable 

apostolic witness. 

While most scholars 

today interpret 

biblical texts in terms 

of their individual 

points of composition, 

David Nienhuis and 

Robert Wall argue 

that a theological 

approach to this part 

of Scripture is better served by attending to 

these texts’ historical point of canonization. 

They treat all seven of the Catholic Epistles in 

their final canonical form, arguing that the 

collection should be viewed as an interpreting 

whole greater than the sum of its parts. 

This is the only treatment of the Catholic 

Epistles that approaches these seven letters as 

an intentionally designed and theologically 

coherent canonical collection. 

“In this groundbreaking book, Nienhuis and Wall 

show that the collection called the ‘Catholic Epistles’ 

has a structure and a rationale that profoundly 

impact the way its individual texts should be read. 

Like the fourfold canonical Gospel, this collection 

represents a new and decisive intervention in the 

process of creating a well-ordered Christian scripture 

out of the mass of early Christian writing.” 

— Francis Watson 

Durham University 

“An eloquent challenge to current exegetical communis 

opinio.” 

— John H. Elliott 

University of San Francisco 

David R. Nienhuis is associate professor 

of New Testament studies at Seattle Pacific 

University. 

Robert W. Wall is Paul T. Walls Professor 

of Scripture and Wesleyan Studies at Seattle 

Pacific University. 



$30.00 [£19.99] / November 


i b l i c a l s t u d i e s 

Now in paperback 

Apocalypse against Empire 

Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism 

Anathea E. Portier-Young 

Foreword by John J. Collins 

Originally published in hardcover in 2011, this groundbreaking book 

takes a fresh look at the historical events and key players in a traumatic 

episode of early Jewish history — the period of religious persecution 

under Antiochus IV Epiphanes — and offers a sophisticated treatment 

of resistance in early Judaism. 

“Portier-Young’s volume is a remarkable achievement 

in terms of its theoretical sophistication, 

historical sensibility, and textual rigor.” 

— Themelios 

“An excellent study of Judea during the Seleucid 

period. . . . Apocalypse against Empire is not just 

for those with an interest in apocalyptic literature. 

Portier-Young’s in-depth look at apocalypses in 

relation to the Seleucid Empire and Judaism is a 

substantial work in the field of biblical studies.” 

— Review of Biblical Literature 

Anathea E. Portier-Young is associate professor of Old Testament at 

Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. 

978-0-8028-7083-4 / paperback / 488 pages / $35.00 [£23.99] / November 

Jesus Research 

New Methodologies and Perceptions 

James H. Charlesworth, editor 

with Brian Rhea and Petr Pokorný 

This volume explores nearly every facet of 

Jesus research — from eyewitness criteria to 

the reliability of memory, from archaeology 

to psychobiography, and from oral traditions 

to literary sources. Written by internationally 

renowned Jewish and Christian scholars, this 

collection of never-before-published articles 

comes from the second (2007) Princeton- 

Prague Symposium on Jesus Research. It 

summarizes the significant advances in understanding 

Jesus that scholars have made 

in recent years through the development of 

diverse methodologies. 

James H. Charlesworth is George L. Collord Professor of New 

Testament and director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton 

Theological Seminary, New Jersey. 

978-0-8028-6728-5 / paperback / 1058 pages / $70.00 [£46.99] / December 

Old Testament Pseudepigrapha 

More Noncanonical Scriptures 

Volume 1 

Richard Bauckham, James R. Davila, and Alexander 

Panayotov, editors 

Foreword by James H. Charlesworth 

“With the proliferation of newly discovered ‘Pseudepigrapha’ in the last fifty years, 

it was necessary to bring them together in an accessible way. This new volume 

does that in a magnificent way. The fine text editions and analyses in this volume 

are very well written and encourage further study. 

Highly recommended for both the nonspecialist and 

the connoisseur!” 

— Emanuel Tov 

Hebrew University, Jerusalem 

“A monumental work, vital to the study of the early 

history of Judaism and Christianity in general, and 

to the history of ancient biblical interpretation in 

particular. Anyone who owns one of the earlier compilations 

of Old Testament pseudepigrapha will have 

to supplement it with this one, which fills in much 

of what’s missing in the others. This is a scholarly 

achievement for the generations.” — James Kugel 

Bar-Ilan University 

Richard Bauckham is professor emeritus of New Testament at the 

University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and senior scholar at the University 

of Cambridge, England. James R. Davila is professor of early Jewish 

studies at the University of St. Andrews. Alexander Panayotov is 

research associate in the Divinity Faculty at the University of Cambridge. 

978-0-8028-2739-5 / hardcover / 848 pages / $90.00 [£59.99] / November 

The Tomb of Jesus and His Family? 

Exploring Ancient Jewish Tombs Near Jerusalem’s Walls 

James H. Charlesworth, editor 

About twenty-five years ago archaeologists discovered a tomb near 

Jerusalem that contained a family’s ossuaries inscribed with some 

familiar New Testament names: Mary, Joseph, James, Mary Magdalene, 

and Jesus. In 2007 the Discovery Channel produced and broadcast a 

documentary on “The Lost Tomb of Jesus,” raising interest — and controversy 

— among the public and specialists 

alike. Could this really be the tomb of Jesus 

and his family? 

In January of 2008 an eminent group of 

some thirty scholars met in Jerusalem to discuss 

that very question. Covering the archaeological 

facts about the discovery, Jewish burial 

customs during the late Second Temple 

period, first-century inscriptions, the Talpiot 

tomb, and more, this volume presents their 

expert perspectives on a much-publicized 

topic. 



Horizons in Hermeneutics 

A Festschrift in Honor of 

Anthony C. Thiselton 

Stanley E. Porter and 

Matthew R. Malcolm, editors 

“For Anthony Thiselton, longtime professor of New 

Testament interpretation in Sheffield and Nottingham 

and prodigious and profound author and 

thinker, not to receive a Festschrift would be a grave 

injustice. Stanley Porter and Matthew Malcolm have 

not only honored Thiselton appropriately with this 

learned anthology of 

essays; they have also 

collected a series of firstrate 

studies covering the 

hermeneutic waterfront 

systematically and 

with reference to all of 

Thiselton’s main interests. 

This is a special 

gift, with something 

for almost everyone 

in the church and the 

academy.” 

— Craig L. Blomberg 

Denver Seminary 

“There are some heavyweight contributors and some 

heavyweight contributions in this collection of essays. 

They range from constructive engagement with the 

work of A. C. Thiselton, through surveys of current 

issues in theological hermeneutics, to developments 

of themes and ideas taken from Thiselton’s work. 

This is a stimulating and informative collection and 

a worthy tribute to what one contributor calls ‘the 

prince of present-day hermeneuts.’ ” 

— John Rogerson 

University of Sheffield 

Contributors 

Richard H. Bell, Richard S. Briggs, Mark L. Y. 

Chan, James D. G. Dunn, Stephen Fowl, John 

Goldingay, Tom Greggs, Matthew R. Malcolm, 

Robert Morgan, David Parris, Stanley E. 

Porter, John B. Thomson. 

The Bible in Medieval 

Tradition 

H. Lawrence Bond†, Philip D. W. Krey, 

and Thomas Ryan, series editors 

The Letter to the Romans 

Ian Christopher Levy, Philip D. W. 

Krey, and Thomas Ryan, translators 

and editors 

This Romans volume is the second installment 

of the Bible in Medieval Tradition series which 

aims to reconnect the church with part of its 

rich history of biblical interpretation. 

“A judicious selection of medieval Latin commentaries 

on the Epistle to the Romans. . . . A cogent preface 

places the texts in helpful historical, theological, and 

literary contexts. Levy, Krey, and Ryan deserve our 

thanks for making these 

texts available to students 

of the Bible at all 

levels, from undergraduates 

to professors.” 

— E. Ann Matter 

University of 

Pennsylvania 

“This book is a labor 

of love and a gift given 

by three of the world’s 

leading interpreters 

and translators of medieval biblical exegesis. . . . The 

chronological span taken on is breathtaking, with 

translations from late antiquity to the dawn of the 

Reformation. . . . This work altogether successfully 

defies the stereotype that medieval interpretation 

was simply parasitic upon patristic exegesis. It will 

be extremely valuable as a teaching tool.” 

— Kevin Madigan 

Harvard Divinity School 

“One cannot understand patristic and medieval 

theology without careful attention to Romans. This 

volume, with its excellent introduction and wellbalanced 

series of translated texts, is an impressive 

contribution to making the riches of medieval exegesis 

available to contemporary readers.” 

— Bernard McGinn 

University of Chicago Divinity School 

The Psalms as 

Christian Lament 

A Historical Commentary 

Bruce K. Waltke, James M. Houston, 

and Erika Moore 

While much modern scholarship has tended 

to “despiritualize” the Psalms, this collaboration 

by three evangelical scholars carefully 

attends to the two 

voices of the Holy 

Spirit — heard infallibly 

in Scripture 

and edifyingly in the 

church’s response. 

The Psalms as 

Christian Lament, a 

companion volume 

to The Psalms as Christian 

Worship, uniquely 

blends verse-by-verse 

commentary with a 

history of Psalms interpretation in the church 

from the time of the apostles to the present. 

Bruce Waltke, James Houston, and Erika 

Moore examine ten lament psalms, including 

six of the seven traditional penitential psalms, 

covering Psalms 5, 6, 7, 32, 38, 39, 44, 102, 130, 

and 143. The authors — experts in the subject 

area — skillfully establish the meaning of the 

Hebrew text through careful exegesis and 

trace the church’s historical interpretation and 

use of these psalms, highlighting their deep 

spiritual significance to Christians through 

the ages. 

Though C. S. Lewis called the “imprecatory” 

psalms “contemptible,” Waltke, Houston, and 

Moore show that they too are profitable for 

sound doctrine and so for spiritual health, 

demonstrating that lament is an important 

aspect of the Christian life. 

Bruce K. Waltke is Distinguished Professor 

of Old Testament at Knox Theological Seminary, 

Fort Lauderdale, and professor emeritus 

of biblical studies at Regent College, Vancouver. 

c o m m e n t a r i e s 

Stanley E. Porter is president, dean, and professor 

of New Testament at McMaster Divinity 

College in Hamilton, Ontario. 

Matthew R. Malcolm lectures in Greek and 

New Testament at Trinity Theological College 

in Perth, Western Australia. 


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Ian Christopher Levy is associate professor 

of theology at Providence College and translator-editor 

of the BMT volume on Galatians. 

Philip D. W. Krey is president and professor 

of church history at Lutheran Theological 

Seminary at Philadelphia. 

Thomas Ryan is director of the Loyola 

Institute for Ministry in New Orleans and the 

author of Thomas Aquinas as Reader of the Psalms. 

James M. Houston is founding principal 

and former chancellor of Regent College and 

was the college’s first professor of spiritual 

theology. 

Erika Moore is associate professor of Old 

Testament and Hebrew at Trinity School for 

Ministry, Ambridge, Pennsylvania. 


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Deuteronomy 

A Commentary 

Jack R. Lundbom 

This milestone commentary by Jack Lundbom is intended 

for readers who want to better know and understand the 

key Pentateuchal book of Deuteronomy, which has had 

a huge influence on both 

Judaism and Christianity 

over the centuries. 

For Jews Deuteronomy 

contains the Decalogue 

and the Shema — “Hear, O 

Israel, the Lord our God is 

one” (6:4) — supplemented 

by a code of primal legislation. 

Much cited in the New 

Testament, Deuteronomy 

for Christians has come to 

occupy an important place 

in the life and doctrine of 

the church. 

Besides drawing on 

language, archaeology, and comparative Near Eastern 

material, Lundbom’s commentary employs rhetorical criticism 

in explicating the biblical text. Lundbom also cites 

later Jewish interpretation of the book of Deuteronomy 

and makes numerous New Testament connections. An 

appendix contains all citations of Deuteronomy in the 

New Testament. 

“Deuteronomy, though still relatively unknown, is now at the 

center of the discussion of biblical theology. The great merit of 

Lundbom’s commentary is that it will make accessible to a broad 

scholarly readership theological themes that are essential for both 

Judaism and Christianity.” 

— Dominik Markl, SJ 

Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley 

Illuminations 

C. L. Seow, General Editor 

Scott C. Jones, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 

Judith H. Newman, Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha 

Loren Stuckenbruck, New Testament 

Job 1–21 

Interpretation and Commentary 

C . L. Seow 

“A dazzling combination of sophisticated linguistic work and profound theological insights. 

Seow is an ideal commentator on what is arguably the most challenging book — linguistically 

and theologically — in the Hebrew Bible.” 

— James Kugel 

“Leong Seow is arguably the master scholar, researcher, 

teacher, and interpreter of his generation. In this remarkable 

book, his singular capacities are fully on exhibit — mastery 

of the critical apparatus, attentiveness to rhetorical nuance, 

theological sensibility, and acuteness concerning the historical 

spectrum of interpretations.” 

— Walter Brueggemann 

“The appearance of Leong Seow’s marvelous, eclectic commentary 

on the book of Job is an occasion for celebration. It is 

the first critical commentary to give proper weight to reception 

history along with the philological and literary analysis 

necessary to support judicious interpretation. Seow is a 

thorough and learned commentator with a keen eye and ear 

for ambiguity and nuance. In addition, his lucid and elegant 

writing is a pleasure to read.” 

— Alan Cooper 

“Seow’s brilliant Illuminations commentary will have a tremendous influence on all future 

interpretations of the book of Job.” 

— Tremper Longman 

“A breathtaking example of learning and erudition.” — Carol A. Newsom 

“Jack Lundbom has written what is at last the successor to S. R. 

Driver’s 1895 ICC commentary on Deuteronomy. This exhaustive 

work includes a fresh translation kept close to the Hebrew so as to 

bring out rhetorical structures lost in English since the King James 

Version. Each passage is accompanied by commentary, along with 

abundant referrals to further scholarship, focusing especially on 

delimitation, framing, keywords, chiasms, and inclusios determined 

both from the rhetorical criticism Lundbom is known for and 

from evidence in the ancient manuscripts. The extensive supplementary 

material at the start of the volume lays out moderate, 

cautious positions, conversant with the latest critical scholarship.” 

— Robert Miller 

Catholic University of America 

Jack R. Lundbom is a life member at Clare Hall, University 

of Cambridge, England. Among his prior publications 

are Jeremiah Closer Up, The Hebrew Prophets: An Introduction, 

and the three-volume Anchor Bible commentary on Jeremiah. 

978-0-8028-2614-5 / paperback / 1064 pages / $80.00 [£53.99] 

Available 

“A lucid, extraordinarily erudite commentary.” — Michael V. Fox 

“Easily the most comprehensive commentary available on the book of Job. . . . The breadth of 

scholarship is matched by the clarity and attractiveness of presentation. This will be a standard 

work for a long time to come.” 

— Patrick D. Miller 

“An outstanding masterpiece of philology, exegesis, and theological interpretation.” 

— Thomas Krüger 

“As in his masterful commentary on Ecclesiastes, Seow brings to the book of Job a rare combination 

of historical knowledge, linguistic expertise, patient attention to details, and a sense of 

existential and theological perspective. . . . The result is a commentary that is bound to become a 

classic in Job studies.” 

— J. Gerald Janzen 

“One of the very best commentaries in the last hundred years. . . . Much of Seow’s work will not 

need to be redone.” 

— Michael D. Coogan 

C. L. Seow is Henry Snyder Gehman Professor of Old Testament Language and 

Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. A recognized expert in Old Testament 

studies, he is also the author of the Anchor Bible commentary on Ecclesiastes. 

978-0-8028-4895-6 / hardcover / 31 photos & drawings / 999 pages / $95.00 [£62.99] / Available 


The New International 

Commentary on the Old 

Testament 

Robert L. Hubbard Jr., series editor 


Commentary on the New 

Testament 

Joel B. Green, series editor 

24 hardcover NICOT volumes available — 

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The Two Horizons Old 

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J. Gordon McConville and Craig 

Bartholomew, series editors 

5 paperback THOTC volumes available — 


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Joel B. Green and Max Turner, 

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Rolf P. Knierim, Gene M. Tucker, and 

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5 paperback FOTL volumes available — 


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Robert Louis Wilken, series editor 

4 hardcover CB volumes available — 


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D. A. Carson, series editor 

14 hardcover PNTC volumes available — 



Greek Testament 

Commentary 

I. Howard Marshall and 

Donald A. Hagner, editors 

NOTE: This well-established and highly 

acclaimed series is in the process of converting 

from hardcover to paperback as commentary 

volumes reprint. 

13 NIGTC volumes published and 

available — see www.eerdmans.com 


t h e o l o g y 

Interventions 

Conor Cunningham and 

Peter M. Candler Jr., series editors 

Hauerwas 

A (Very) Critical Introduction 

Nicholas M. Healy 

Stanley Hauerwas is one of the most important 

and robustly creative theologians of our 

time, and his work is well known and much 

admired. But Nicholas Healy — himself an 

admirer of Hauerwas’s thought — believes 

that it has not yet been subjected to the kind 

of sustained critical analysis that is warranted 

by such a significant and influential Christian 

thinker. As someone interested in the broader 

systematic-theological implications of 

Hauerwas’s work, 

Healy fills that gap 

in Hauerwas: A (Very) 

Critical Introduction. 

After a general 

introduction to 

Hauerwas’s work 

with a discussion 

of why and how 

it is centered on 

the church, Healy 

examines three main 

areas of Hauerwas’s 

thought: his method, his social theory, and 

his theology. According to Healy, Hauerwas’s 

overriding concern for ethics and churchbased 

apologetics so dominates his thinking 

that he systematically distorts Christian 

doctrine. Healy critiques Hauerwas’s use of 

Alasdair MacIntyre’s concept of a tradition 

and contends that it is inadequate to address 

the necessary theological considerations 

involved in a church practice. 

Healy also explores what he takes to be 

theological inadequacies in Hauerwas’s 

reading of Scripture and his view of grace, 

salvation, authority, and the church. Throughout 

his book Healy illustrates what he sees as 

the deficiencies of Hauerwas’s theology and 

argues that it needs substantial revision. 

Nicholas M. Healy is professor of theology 

and religious studies at St. John’s University, 

Jamaica, New York. His other books are Church, 

World and the Christian Life: Practical-Prophetic 

Ecclesiology and Thomas Aquinas: Theologian of the 

Christian Life. 


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Approaching the End 

Eschatological Reflections 

on Church, Politics, and Life 

Stanley Hauerwas 

In this book Stanley Hauerwas explores the 

significance of eschatological reflection for 

helping the church negotiate the contemporary 

world. 

In Part One, “Theological Matters,” Hauerwas 

directly addresses his understanding of 

the eschatological character of the Christian 

faith. In Part Two, “Church and Politics,” he 

deals with the political reality of the church in 

light of the end, addressing such issues as the 

divided character of the church, the imperative 

of Christian unity, and the necessary 

practice of sacrifice. End, for Hauerwas, has a 

double meaning — both chronological end 

and end in the sense of “aim” or “goal.” 

In Part Three, “Life and Death,” Hauerwas 

moves from theology and the church as a 

whole to focusing on how individual Christians 

should live in light of eschatology. What 

does an eschatological 

approach to life 

tell us about how 

to understand suffering, 

how to form 

habits of virtue, and 

how to die? 

“Reading Hauerwas 

is like walking in on 

a family argument. 

You don’t always know 

when and how the fight 

started, but you can’t take your eyes off it, you’re galvanized 

by the energy in the room, you suddenly find 

the fight is about things you’ve always been troubled 

by — and you sure as hell will stay rooted to the spot 

until you see how the argument comes out. Hauerwas 

writes unputdownable theology — because he believes 

in a God who will never put us down until it’s clear 

how our story comes out.” — Samuel Wells 

King’s College London 

“Once again the master brings out of his treasure 

what is new and what is old — essays to which I shall 

return with gratitude for their grace and insight.” 

— Fergus Kerr 


Stanley Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor 

of Theological Ethics at Duke University. 

Among his many books are Resident Aliens, 

A Community of Character, Living Gently in a 

Violent World, and A Cross-Shattered Church. 


$24.00 / November 

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The Nonviolent God 

J. Denny Weaver 

This bold new statement on the nonviolence 

of God challenges the long-standing assumptions 

of divine violence in theology, the violent 

God pictured in the Old Testament, and the 

supposed violence of God in Revelation. In 

The Nonviolent God J. Denny Weaver argues that 

since God is revealed in Jesus, the nonviolence 

of Jesus most truly reflects the character of God. 

According to Weaver, the way Christians 

live — Christian ethics — is an ongoing 

expression of theology. Consequently, he suggests 

positive images of the reign of God made 

visible in the narrative of Jesus — nonviolent 

practice, forgiveness and restorative justice, 

standing up against racism and sexism, and 

more — in order that 

Christians might live 

more peacefully. 

“Violent images of 

God in Scripture and 

in Christian theology 

have been used to 

sanction and inspire 

violence throughout 

history. In this powerful, 

insightful, and practical 

book Denny Weaver 

makes a significant contribution to the growing 

chorus of Christian leaders who are proclaiming the 

urgent need for Christians to put an end to this by 

rethinking our views of God and our interpretations 

of Scripture. . . . The profound challenge presented in 

this book is one that every follower of Jesus needs to 

wrestle with.” 

— Gregory A. Boyd 

author of The Myth of a Christian Nation 

“Those who seek biblical and theological grounding 

for a God who resists cultures of guns, violence, and 

war will be profoundly nourished by this careful, 

revelatory study of the nonviolent God revealed in 

Jesus Christ and his story.” 

— Rita Nakashima Brock 

Brite Divinity School 

J. Denny Weaver is professor emeritus of 

religion at Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio. 

His other books include The Nonviolent Atonement 

and Defenseless Christianity: Anabaptism for 

a Nonviolent Church. 


$25.00 [£16.99] / November 


Living for Jesus 

and Japan 

The Social and Theological 

Thought of Uchimura Kanzō 

Shibuya Hiroshi and Chiba Shin, 

editors 

Uchimura Kanzō (1861–1930) was an independent, 

original, and thought-provoking 

pioneer of Christianity in modern Japan. His 

inner theological convictions were organically 

linked with his aspirations for living out such 

evangelical and social values as prophetic witness, 

neighborly love, social justice, pacifism, 

patriotism, and internationalism. Uchimura 

passionately loved 

both Jesus and Japan, 

and this interdisciplinary 

volume 

shows the continuing 

relevance of his 

wide-ranging Christian 

thought for our 

present world. 

“In these essays on 

Uchimura Kanzō, 

readers will discover 

fresh perspectives on the United States, love of God 

and nation, pacifism, missionary movement, Bible, 

church, and Christian doctrine from one of the most 

extraordinary Christians of late Meiji and Taishō 

Japan. Written mainly by scholars working in Japan, 

this collection represents an outstanding contribution 

to Uchimura scholarship in English.” 

— Thomas John Hastings 

Japan International Christian University Foundation 

“The topical approach of this volume complements 

more biographical approaches to Uchimura Kanzō, 

resulting in a compelling account of his struggle to 

articulate and live a biblical faith during a turbulent 

era of nation-formation and imperial expansion.” 

— Trent Maxey 

Amherst College 

Contributors 

Andrew E. Barshay, Chiba Kei, Chiba Shin, 

Lee Kyoungae, Miura Hiroshi, Ohyama 

Tsunao, Shibuya Hiroshi, Shogimen Takashi, 

Takahashi Yasuhiro, Yagyu Kunichika. 

Shibuya Hiroshi is professor emeritus at 

Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan. 

Chiba Shin is a professor at the International 

Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. 

Prophetic Christianity 

Bruce Ellis Benson, Malinda Elizabeth 

Berry, and Peter Goodwin Heltzel, 


Prophetic Rage 

A Postcolonial Theology 

of Liberation 

Johnny Bernard Hill 

In this fourth volume of the rapidly emerging 

Prophetic Christianity series, Johnny Bernard 

Hill argues that prophetic rage, or righteous 

anger, is a necessary response to our present 

culture of imperialism and nihilism. The most 

powerful way to resist meaninglessness, he 

says, is refusing to accept the realities of structural 

injustice, such 

as poverty, escalating 

militarism, genocide, 

and housing 

discrimination. 

Hill’s Prophetic 

Rage is interdisciplinary, 

integrating art, 

music, and literature 

with theology. 

It is constructive, 

passionate, and provocative. 

Hill weaves 

through a myriad of creative and prophetic 

voices of protest — from Jesus to W. E. B. 

DuBois, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, 

and President Barack Obama — as well as 

multiple approaches, including liberation theology 

and black religion, to reflect theologically 

on the nature of liberation, justice, and 

hope in contemporary culture. 

“This book is a powerful and prophetic expression of 

the new generation of ‘Freedom Fighters’ — on fire 

for justice and casting much light on the wickedness 

in high places. Don’t miss it!” — Cornel West 

Union Theological Seminary 

“Hill offers a fresh trajectory of black theology. 

Resituating black theology in the context of empire is 

a gain, as it brings to the fore urgent economic issues.” 


Columbia Theological Seminary 

Johnny Bernard Hill is associate professor 

of philosophy and religion at Claflin University, 

Orangeburg, South Carolina, and the 

author of The First Black President: Barack Obama, 

Race, Politics, and the American Dream. 

Reality, Grief, Hope 

Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks 

Walter Brueggemann 

Walter Brueggemann is one of the most highly 

regarded Old Testament scholars of our time; 

talk-show host Krista Tippett has even called 

him “a kind of theological rock star.” In this 

new book Brueggemann probes the tasks performed 

by the ancient prophets of Israel and 

points out striking 

correlations between 

the destruction of 

Jerusalem in 587 

b.c.e. and the catastrophic 

crisis of 9/11 

in a.d. 2001. 

Brueggemann 

identifies a characteristic 

ideology of 

“exceptionalism” — 

chosenness, entitlement, 

privilege 

— present both in our society and in ancient 

Jerusalem. He also sees a common proclivity 

to denial about the realities of history and 

a subsequent despair when that dominant 

ideology turns out to be unreliable. Brueggemann 

contrasts this sequence of ideologydenial-despair 

with a prophetic counterpoint 

of realism-grief-hope. 

Challenging the church “to walk our society 

into the crisis where it does not want to go, 

and to walk our society out of that crisis into 

newness that it does not believe is possible,” 

Brueggemann takes on principalities and 

powers that vie for our souls and boldly confronts 

the dominant forces of our time. 

The dynamic sequence of ideology-realism, 

denial-grief, and despair-hope that Brueggemann 

deftly identifies corresponds to his 

unpacking of the books of Jeremiah, Lamentations, 

and Isaiah. Thoughtful readers will find 

provocative fare aplenty in Brueggemann’s 

Reality, Grief, Hope. 

Walter Brueggemann is professor emeritus 

of Old Testament at Columbia Theological 

Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. His many other 

books include A Social Reading of the Old Testament, 

The Threat of Life, Theology of the Old Testament, 

and The Prophetic Imagination. 


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Lutheran Quarterly 

Books 

Paul Rorem, series editor 

The Early Luther 

Stages in a Reformation Reorientation 

Berndt Hamm 

Translated by Martin Lohrmann 

The development of Martin Luther’s thought 

has commanded much scholarly attention 

because of the Reformation and its remarkable 

effects on the history of Christianity in the 

West. But much of that scholarship has been 

so enthralled by certain later debates that it 

has practically ignored and even distorted the 

context in and against which Luther’s thought 

developed. In The Early Luther Berndt Hamm, 

armed with expertise 

both in late-medieval 

intellectual life and 

in Luther, presents 

new perspectives 

that leave old debates 

behind. 

A master Luther 

scholar, Hamm provides 

fresh insights 

into the development 

of Luther’s 

theology from his 

entry into the monastery through his early 

lectures on the Bible to his writing of the 95 

Theses in 1517 and The Freedom of a Christian in 

1520. Instead of identifying a single breakthrough, 

Hamm carefully outlines a series of 

significant shifts in Luther’s late-medieval 

theological worldview over the course of his 

early career, demonstrating how Luther slowly 

but surely left behind the medieval theology 

of love for the certainty of faith. The result is a 

more accurate, nuanced portrait of Reformation 

giant Martin Luther. 

From a review of the German edition 

“A fascinating and convincing tour through the varied 

currents of medieval theology and piety and of Luther’s 

development — in stages — from Augustinian friar 

to evangelical Reformer.” — John A. Maxfield in 

Lutheran Quarterly 

Berndt Hamm is professor emeritus of 

modern church history at the University of 

Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and the 

author of The Reformation of Faith in the Context 

of Late Medieval Theology and Piety. 


$36.00 [£23.99] / January 

Justification 

Reconsidered 

Rethinking a Pauline Theme 

Stephen Westerholm 

Much has been written of late about what 

the apostle Paul really meant when he spoke 

of justification by faith, as opposed to the 

works of the law. This short study by Stephen 

Westerholm carefully examines proposals on 

the subject by Krister Stendahl, E. P. Sanders, 

Heikki Räisänen, N. T. Wright, James D. G. 

Dunn, and Douglas A. Campbell. In doing so, 

Westerholm notes weaknesses in traditional 

understandings that have provoked the more 

recent proposals, but he also points out areas 

in which the latter 

fail to do justice to 

the apostle. 

Readers of this 

book will gain not 

only a better grasp 

of the ongoing theological 

debate about 

justification but also 

a more nuanced overall 

understanding of 

Paul. 

“Reading Stephen Westerholm’s sketch of justification 

in Paul is a duty and a joy. It introduces the 

subject clearly and elegantly to students. But it also 

throws down the gauntlet to the New Perspectivists. 

How will they respond?” — Simon Gathercole 


“Every student wrestling with ‘justification’ will be 

grateful for this highly engaging book. Westerholm 

nimbly develops the mainstream interpretation, 

while critiquing popular current alternatives (including 

those by Campbell and Wright). Here is ready 

ammunition for an important continuing debate.” 

— John M. G. Barclay 


“Anything Stephen Westerholm writes on ‘justification 

by faith’ is not just worth reading; it is 

essential reading.” — R. Barry Matlock 

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 

Stephen Westerholm is professor of early 

Christianity at McMaster University, Hamilton, 

Ontario. His other books include Perspectives 

Old and New on Paul: The “Lutheran” Paul and 

His Critics and Israel’s Law and the Church’s Faith: 

Paul and His Recent Interpreters. 


$15.00 [£10.99] / Available 

Sacra Doctrina: 

Christian Theology 

for a Postmodern Age 

Alan G. Padgett, series editor 

Being Promised 

Theology, Gift, and Practice 

Gregory Walter 

Foreword by Patrick R. Keifert 

Promise, along with gift, is among the predominant 

metaphors in the Western Christian 

tradition for describing God’s gracious 

actions. Being Promised argues that promise 

is itself a kind of 

double gift — one 

when the promise 

is given, one when 

it is fulfilled — and 

analyzes the power, 

time, and place of 

God’s promise. 

Gregory Walter 

offers a theologically 

rich analysis of 

promise, anthropological 

and 

phenomenological reflection on gift exchange, 

and a critical appreciation of other theological 

appropriations of gift to support his argument. 

Walter clarifies the phenomenon of promise as 

gift and shows its theological, hermeneutical, 

and ethical significance. No other book theologically 

examines promise and gift exchange 

like this one does. 

“The title Being Promised works both ways: How 

does promising work? And what sort of being does 

promise open? Gregory Walter takes us through the 

intertwining postmodern problems of promise and 

gift with a penetrating eye and with patient teasing 

and tweaking. An amazing achievement.” 

— Robert W. Jenson 

Institute for Theological Inquiry 

“Walter’s Being Promised is brilliant. Drawing on 

analyses of gift exchange from cultural anthropology 

and phenomenology, it provides a theological account 

of promise as gift that moves beyond speech-act 

theory. . . . After reading this book, you will never 

again speak glibly about hospitality or forgiveness.” 

— Lois Malcolm 

Luther Seminary 

Gregory Walter is associate professor of religion 

at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. 


$25.00 [£16.99] / Available 


Inspired 

The Holy Spirit and 

the Mind of Faith 

Jack Levison 

In this book Jack Levison speaks a fresh 

prophetic word to the church, championing 

a unique blend of serious Bible study and 

Christian spirituality. With rich insight, he 

shows Christians of any church or denomination 

how they can take the Spirit into the 

grit of everyday life. Levison argues for an 

indispensable synergy between spontaneity 

and study, ecstasy and restraint, inspiration 

and interpretation. Readable and relevant, 

winsome and wise, 

Levison’s Inspired sets 

a bold agenda for 

today’s church that 

will replace quick-fix 

spiritualities with 

a vibrant, durable 

experience of the 

Holy Spirit. 

“Jack Levison’s newest 

entry on the place of the 

Holy Spirit in the church 

and the Christian life is a tour de force. Levison is, in 

my experience, the most competent scholar and clearest 

writer on the Holy Spirit that I have known.” 

— Eugene Peterson 


“Levison here gives us a brilliant line of argument 

that is lucidly and almost affectionately delivered 

— brilliant in that it scintillates with insight after 

insight and connection after connection, lucid in that 

Levison writes with the simplicity and directness 

of genuine authority, and affectionate in that he 

approaches both his content and us as his readers 

with the warmest regard. Beyond all that, ‘An Agenda 

for the Future of Pneumatology,’ which serves as the 

concluding section of Inspired, should be required 

reading for every thoughtful Christian today.” 

— Phyllis Tickle 

founding editor of Religion 

Department of Publishers Weekly 

“Levison’s Inspired, aptly titled, will not only 

inform readers about the spirit but activate, nurture, 

and enable a spirit-filled way of life, learning, and 

virtue.” 

— Amos Yong 

Regent University 

Jack Levison is professor of New Testament 

at Seattle Pacific University. His previous books 

include Filled with the Spirit and Fresh Air: The 

Holy Spirit for an Inspired Life. 

The Holy Spirit — 

In Biblical Teaching, 

through the Centuries, 

and Today 

Anthony C. Thiselton 

“Magisterial! Brilliant! Erudite! Anthony Thiselton 

offers a sure-handed overview of the biblical 

teachings on the Spirit, maps the major historical 

streams of pneumatological reflection, and charts the 

important trajectories 

going forward. . . . This 

book bridges heretofore 

divergent polemics and 

opens up new dialogical 

horizons and possibilities 

for the contemporary 

theological task.” 

— Amos Yong 

Regent University 

“In this crucial and 

practical work Thiselton 

provides expert guidance through the variety of topics 

pertinent to a theology of the Holy Spirit. . . . I know 

of nothing comparable. This volume is something 

every pastor and student should have in his or her 

library.” 

— Klyne Snodgrass 

North Park Theological Seminary 

“Respectfully engages a wide range of literature. 

Even cessationists and classical Pentecostals, who 

will argue with various elements, will find numerous 

points valuable for reflection and exegesis. All will 

appreciate and profit from the helpful engagement 

with secondary literature and survey of historical 

perspectives.” 

— Craig Keener 

Asbury Theological Seminary 

“I have often thought that I would like to round off 

my writing career with a fuller or more complete 

study of the Holy Spirit. Rather to my relief I need no 

longer champ at that bit. Tony Thiselton has already 

done it and left me nothing to do. Thank you, Tony.” 

— James Dunn 

University of Durham 

Anthony C. Thiselton is professor emeritus 

of Christian theology at the University of Nottingham, 

England, and the author of numerous 

other books, including The Two Horizons: 

New Testament Hermeneutics and Philosophical 

Description, The Hermeneutics of Doctrine, two 

acclaimed commentaries on 1 Corinthians, and 

Life after Death: A New Approach to the Last Things. 


$46.00 / Available 

UK & Europe rights: SPCK 

Theology for 

Liberal Protestants 

God the Creator 

Douglas F. Ottati 

A two-volume work by Douglas Ottati, Theology 

for Liberal Protestants presents a comprehensive 

theology for Christians who are willing to 

rethink and revise traditional doctrines in the 

face of contemporary challenges. It is Augustinian, 

Protestant, and liberal, recognizing the 

importance of critical 

arguments and scientific 

inquiries. 

This first volume 

contains sections on 

method and on the 

doctrine of creation. 

Ottati’s method envisions 

the world and 

ourselves in relation 

to God as Creator, 

Judge, and Redeemer. 

The bulk of the book 

offers an in-depth discussion of God as Creator, 

the world as creation, and humans as good, 

capable, and limited creatures. 

“In this stunning volume Douglas Ottati presents a 

historically rich and religiously nuanced account of 

Christian faith that decisively reorients contemporary 

theology. . . . This book is a treasure trove of 

insight into the dynamics of the Christian life. Ottati 

is a distinctive theological voice, and this volume 

establishes him as one of the foremost theologians 

working today. It should be widely read, carefully 

pondered, and deeply treasured.” 

— William Schweiker 

University of Chicago Divinity School 

“Theology for Liberal Protestants is a muchneeded 

book by a master teacher. In it Doug Ottati 

recovers something in danger of being lost — a 

systematic account of contemporary life in relation to 

God as Creator-Judge-Redeemer. He succeeds admirably. 

. . . Engagingly written and accessible to a wide 

range of readers.” 

— Roger J. Gench 

The New York Avenue Presbyterian Church 

Douglas F. Ottati is Craig Family Distinguished 

Professor of Reformed Theology and 

Justice at Davidson College in North Carolina. 

Among his other books are Hopeful Realism: 

Reclaiming the Poetry of Theology and Theology for 

Liberal Presbyterians and Other Endangered Species. 


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Guides to Theology 

Alan G. Padgett, David A. S. Fergusson, 

Iain R. Torrance, and Danielle Nussberger, 


The Blessed Virgin Mary 

Tim Perry and Daniel Kendall, SJ 

Coauthored by an evangelical Anglican 

priest and a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, 

this volume provides a concise, nontechnical 

historical introduction to the church’s thinking 

about Mary, the mother of Jesus. The first 

part of the book sketches the development of 

Marian thought from 

the second century 

to the twentieth century. 

The second part 

contains an annotated 

bibliography 

of the most important 

and accessible 

English-language 

works on Mary. 

“A delightfully wellwritten 

account of 

Marian theology, unique in the extent to which it 

addresses the concerns of Protestants while also refusing 

to minimize Mary’s importance in God’s work of 

salvation. This book will be of great value to students, 

pastors, and general inquirers. It should appear on 

every undergraduate theology reading list.” 

— Sarah Jane Boss 

Centre for Marian Studies, 

University of Roehampton 

“This accessible book on Marian doctrine and devotion 

should be warmly welcomed. It reflects the growing 

and constructive ecumenical convergence on the significance 

of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the lives of 

Christians and their churches.” 

— Gerald O’Collins 

Jesuit Theological College 

“Before we begin arguing theologically about Mary, 

we should hear what Scripture and Christians in past 

ages have had to say on the subject. Now we can do 

just that, thanks to this splendid book by Tim Perry 

and Daniel Kendall. The writing is balanced and 

thoughtful, and the annotated bibliography is a gold 

mine of information.” — Joseph Mangina 

Wycliffe College, University of Toronto 

Tim Perry is rector at the Church of the 

Epiphany in Sudbury, Ontario. He also teaches 

theology at Thorneloe University College of 

Theology and religious studies at Laurentian 

University, both in Sudbury. 

Daniel Kendall, SJ, is professor of theology 

at the University of San Francisco and book 

review editor for Theological Studies. 

Christ and Reconciliation 

A Constructive Christian Theology 

for the Pluralistic World, Volume 1 

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen 

“In continuous dialogue with global theology and 

world religions, Pentecostal theologian Veli-Matti 

Kärkkäinen sheds new light on trinitarian Christian 

faith in all its aspects. . . . Openness to all forms of 

contextual theology is 

for him not a matter 

of political correctness 

to be expressed in a 

footnote, but lies at the 

heart of his methodology. 

. . . Christ and 

Reconciliation is a 

must-read for all theology 

students.” 

— Peter DeMey 

University of Leuven 

“This volume demonstrates a groundbreaking project 

of reframing constructive and systematic theology in 

search of a coherent vision in post-Western Christianity 

— inclusive, dialogical, and hospitable.” 

— Paul S. Chung 


“A vigorous understanding of Christ as reconciler 

that is solidly rooted in the Bible and the Christian 

tradition and at the same time sympathetic to 

contem po rary insights. With awe and admiration 

readers of this comprehensive and lucid book will no 

doubt link its author’s name with Thomas, Calvin, 

Barth, Moltmann, and other theological luminaries. 

After the completion of Kärkkäinen’s five-volume 

project, theology will not be the same.” 

— Peter Phan 

Georgetown University 

“Kärkkäinen brings an extraordinary breadth of 

theological learning and sympathy to this unique 

project. Though his canvas is vast, his patience 

and care in representing the views of all he engages 

are exemplary. . . . I am grateful both for what this 

volume delivers to its readers and for all that it 

promises to come.” 

— S. Mark Heim 

Andover Newton Theological School 

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen is professor of 

systematic theology at Fuller Theological 

Seminary, Pasadena, California, and docent 

of ecumenics at the University of Helsinki. 


$40.00 [£26.99] / Available 

Thomas Aquinas 

and Karl Barth 

An Unofficial Catholic-Protestant 

Dialogue 

Bruce L. McCormack and 

Thomas Joseph White, editors 

“This is a delightful and stimulating book, full of 

careful exegesis of two of the most profound theologians 

ever to have written. Barth and Aquinas are 

often caricatured or expounded in such a way as to 

blunt their thought. Not here. Here their thought is at 

work in its fullness, and 

in genuine and lively 

debate. The result is a 

surprising degree of rapprochement, 

but also the 

sharpening and deepening 

of some old disagreements. 

Above all, what’s 

here is good theological 

thinking done with passion. 

There’s no higher 

praise.” 

— Paul J. Griffiths 

Duke Divinity School 

“The distinguished essays collected in this book form 

a rare example of the demanding and much-needed 

art of theological diplomacy.” — John Webster 

University of St. Andrews 

“It must be acknowledged that White’s brilliant 

introduction is alone worth the cost of the volume. 

Add to this an array of richly developed essays by 

leading Protestant and Catholic scholars, treating the 

central domains of theology, and one has a book that 

will stand as a touchstone of ecumenical dialogue for 

years to come.” 

— Matthew Levering 

University of Dayton 

“Remarkable points of convergence combine with 

strong disagreements throughout the dialogue of 

this volume. . . . A profound contribution to genuine 

ecumenical dialogue.” — Hans Boersma 


Contributors 

John R. Bowlin, Holly Taylor Coolman, Robert W. 

Jenson, Keith L. Johnson, Guy Mansini, Amy E. 

Marga, Bruce L. McCormack, Richard Schenk, 

Joseph P. Wawrykow, Thomas Joseph White. 

Bruce L. McCormack is Charles Hodge 

Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton 

Theological Seminary. 

Thomas Joseph White, O.P., is director 

of the Thomistic Institute at the Dominican 

House of Studies in Washington, D.C. 


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Now in paperback with new cover design 

Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind 

Mark A. Noll 

Already an acclaimed Christocentric theology for contemporary evangelical 

intellectual life, Mark Noll’s Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind 

(2011) significantly updates Noll’s critical assessment of evangelical 

Christian scholarship in his landmark Scandal 

of the Evangelical Mind (1994). In this newer 

book Noll charts a positive way forward for 

evangelical thinking and learning. 

“By drawing constructively on poets, theologians, 

philosophers — and especially on the great historic 

creeds and confessions of the faith — Noll has crafted 

a challenging, inspiring christological philosophy of 

Christian education for the twenty-first century. This 

is a major contribution.” — David Lyle Jeffrey 

Baylor University 

“Noll draws on an impressive breadth of material from sources as diverse as B. B. 

Warfield and Vatican II. This accessible book will appeal to those interested in the 

idea of Christian learning and in the relationship between Christian faith and the 

liberal arts and sciences. . . . Recommended.” 

— Choice 

“Though modest in length, this may be one of Noll’s most important scholarly 

contributions.” 

— David P. Gushee 

Mercer University 

Mark A. Noll is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University 

of Notre Dame. 

The Human Being 

A Theological Anthropology 

Hans Schwarz 

This overview of Christian anthropology by Hans Schwarz uniquely 

emphasizes three things: (1) the biblical testimony, (2) the historical 

unfolding of Christian anthropology through the centuries, and (3) the 

present affirmation of Christian anthropology in view of rival options 

and current scientific evidence. 

Schwarz begins by elucidating the special place occupied by human 

beings in the world, then ponders the complex issue of human freedom, 

and concludes by investigating humanity as a community of men 

and women in this world and in the world 

beyond. While maintaining a strong biblical 

orientation, Schwarz draws on a wide range 

of resources, including philosophy and the 

natural sciences, in order to map out what it 

means to be human. 

Schwarz’s Human Being will interest 

scholars, seminary and college students, and 

anyone who is concerned with how in the 

face of fascinating scientific insights we can 

intelligently talk today about human sinfulness, 

human freedom, and human beings as 

children of the God who created us. 

Hans Schwarz is chair of the Institute of Protestant Theology at the 

University of Regensburg, Germany, and the author of Theology in a 

Global Context: The Last Two Hundred Years. 



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The Witness of Bartholomew I, 

Ecumenical Patriarch 

William G. Rusch, editor 

“A fitting tribute to one of the most independent and creative church leaders in our 

age, who has done so much to renew our vision of the human calling in the context 

of the material creation.” 

— Rowan Williams 


“This book provides fascinating insights into the 

mind and priorities of this Ecumenical Patriarch, one 

of the leading churchmen of our times. . . . A pleasure 

to read.” 

— John A. Radano 

Seton Hall University 

Contributors 

Anna Marie Aagaard, Peter C. Bouteneff, 

Günther Gassmann, Dale T. Irvin, Ronald G. 

Roberson, William G. Rusch, Joseph D. Small, 

Mary Tanner. 

William G. Rusch, a Lutheran pastor, is professor of Lutheran studies 

at Yale Divinity School and professor of church history at New York 



God the Revealed 

Christology 

Michael Welker 

Translated by Douglas W. Stott 

“God revealed himself in Jesus Christ!” Christian faith has confessed 

and proclaimed this message for nearly two thousand years. But what 

does it really mean? 

In God the Revealed Michael Welker delves into this declaration and 

shows how it offers genuine insight into Christian faith. He asks 

“Who is Jesus Christ for us today?” and approaches the answer from 

five different angles — the historical Jesus, 

the resurrection, the cross, the reign of Christ, 

and eschatology. 

Michael Welker is professor and chair of 

systematic theology and executive director 

of the Research Centre for International and 

Interdisciplinary Theology at the University 

of Heidelberg, Germany. His previous books 

include The Spirit in Creation and New Creation: 

Science and Theology in Western and Orthodox 

Realms and What Happens in Holy Communion? 



p h i l o s o p h i c a l t h e o l o g y 

The Tradition of 

Liberal Theology 

Michael Langford 

Many of the early apologists, including Justin 

Martyr and Origen, presented a defense of the 

Christian faith that sought to combine the 

message of the Gospels with respect for the 

kind of rationality associated with Socrates 

and his followers. Michael Langford argues 

that, despite many 

misunderstandings, 

the term “liberal theology” 

can properly 

be used to describe 

this tradition. 

Langford’s Tradition 

of Liberal Theology 

begins with a historical 

and contemporary 

definition of 

“liberal theology” 

and identifies eleven 

typical characteristics, including a nonliteralist 

approach to interpreting Scripture, a rejection 

of original guilt, and the joint need for 

faith and works. Langford then gives vignettes 

of thirteen historical Christian figures who 

personify the liberal tradition. Finally, he 

explores some contemporary alternatives 

to liberal theology — fundamentalism, the 

Catholic magisterium, Karl Barth’s theology 

— and presents a rational defense of the tradition 

of liberal theology. 

“Michael Langford gives a clear and accessible 

account of liberal theology’s quest to strike the appropriate 

balance between faith and reason in the search 

for truth. . . . A very helpful contribution to current 

debate about the reasonableness of belief.” 

— John Polkinghorne 

author of Belief in God in an Age of Science 

“A readable, clear, jargon-free exposition and defense 

of liberal theology. . . . The book is outstanding in its 

rationality, its clarity, and its charitable tone.” 

— Keith Ward 

author of Is Religion Dangerous? 

Michael Langford is professor emeritus of 

philosophy and bioethics at Memorial University 

of Newfoundland. His previous books 

include A Liberal Theology for the Twenty-First 

Century: A Passion for Reason and Unblind Faith. 

Ressourcement: Retrieval & Renewal 

in Catholic Thought 

David L. Schindler, series editor 

The Catholicity of Reason 

D. C. Schindler 

“Ressourcement and modern Augustinian philosophical 

theology have been called on their apparent 

‘fideism’: Schindler’s response is a resounding 

philosophical ‘Come at me, bro!’ The Catholicity of 

Reason is the most stimulating text in philosophy 

of religion to appear for many years. . . . It’s the ‘must 

read’ book of 2013.” — Francesca Murphy 

University of Notre Dame 

“D. C. Schindler celebrates and brilliantly defends 

the life that is reason, a life threatened by reason’s 

claim to be autonomous and equally by reason’s 

claim to be limited. . . . 

Against the reduction of 

reason to its discursive 

operations characteristic 

of the Enlightenment, 

Schindler insists on the 

infinitely rich activity of 

reason in pursuit of the 

trinity of the irreducibly 

distinct but always 

interrelated objects of 

reason — truth, goodness, 

and beauty. . . .” 

— Montague Brown 

St. Anselm College 

“Schindler goes a long way toward restoring the 

metaphysical scope of reason. . . . Much of the discussion 

in this exploration of the catholicity of both 

reason and being takes place at the hinge where 

philosophy and theology join hands. . . . Anyone interested 

in all such questions of catholicity and analogy 

both in reason and in being will find much to take 

into consideration here.” — Oliva Blanchette 

Boston College 

D. C. Schindler is associate professor of 

metaphysics and anthropology at the Pontifical 

John Paul II Institute, Catholic University 

of America, Washington, D.C. His other 

books include The Perfection of Freedom: Schiller, 

Schelling, and Hegel between the Ancients and the 

Moderns and Plato’s Critique of Impure Reason: 

On Good and Truth in the Republic. 

Analogia Entis: 

Metaphysics 

Original Structure and 

Universal Rhythm 

Erich Przywara 

Translated by John R. Betz and David Bentley Hart 

Although Erich Przywara (1889–1972) was 

one of the preeminent Catholic theologians 

of his time and a profound influence on 

such people as Hans Urs von Balthasar and 

Joseph Ratzinger, he has remained virtually 

unknown in North America. This volume 

includes Przywara’s groundbreaking Analogia 

Entis, originally published in 1932, and his 

subsequent essays on the concept analogia entis 

— the analogy between God and creation — 

which has currency 

in philosophical and 

theological circles 

today. 

“The publication of this 

excellent translation of 

Przywara’s difficult and 

contentious book is an 

important event. Analogia 

Entis poses an 

inescapable problem for 

theologians, that of how 

we must understand the relationship of God’s being 

to human beings. . . . Przywara was a notable influence 

on some of the greatest Protestant and Catholic 

theologians of the twentieth century. We need to learn 

from him if we are to understand them.” 

— Alasdair MacIntyre 


“The arguably most brilliant and simultaneously 

most enigmatic Catholic intellectual of the earlier 

part of the twentieth century, Erich Przywara argued 

eye to eye with Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler, and 

Martin Heidegger, challenged Karl Barth, and 

inspired a host of influential Catholic thinkers. . . . 

Finally, his magnum opus, Analogia Entis, is 

available in lucid English prose — an intellectual 

event of the first order.” — Reinhard Hütter 



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Erich Pryzwara (1889–1972) was an influential 

German theologian who himself was 

strongly influenced by Augustine, Aquinas, 

Newman, and the phenomenological philosophy 

of Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler. 


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God as Love 

The Concept and Spiritual 

Aspects of Agape in Modern 

Russian Religious Thought 

Johannes Miroslav Oravecz 

Nineteenth-century Russian religious intellectuals 

devoted a great deal of attention to 

the concept of agape, or Divine Love, arguing 

that the Christian church is a reflection of the 

triune, self-sacrificing God and his love for all 

of creation. On account of their deliberations, 

these intellectuals 

played a key role in 

mediating between 

the Orthodox Church 

and modern society 

at large. 

In God as Love 

Johannes Oravecz 

presents a comprehensive 

summation 

of twenty-five 

prominent Russian 

thinkers and their 

thought on the concept of agape, showing in 

detail how they broke new ground in their 

various affirmations of the truth that God is 

love. No other book in any language treats this 

topic with such breadth and depth. 

Some sample chapter titles 

Encounter with Modernity under the Censorship 

of the Tsar 

The Debate between the Slavophils and the 

Westernizers 

Russian Philosophy and Theology of Exile 

(after 1917) 

Filaret of Moscow: The Theology of the Heart 

and the Duties of Love 

Nikolai Platonovich Malinovskii: We Love Whom 

We Know 

Alexei Stepanovich Khomiakov: The Church 

as a Living Organism of Truth and Love 

Alexis Matveevich Bukharev: Living Communion 

with the Sovereign Love 

Vladimir Sergeievich Solov’ev: The Meaning of Love 

and All-Unity in the Divine 

Pavel Iakovlevich Svetlov: Golgotha as Veritable 

Explanation of Love 

Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov: God’s Love-Humility 

for His Creation 

Lev Platonovich Karsavin: Love as a Dialogue 

of Suffering 

Viacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov: Love Sings to Me: 

“You Are!” 

Nikolai Nikolaevich Afanas’ev: The Power That 

Leads to Kenosis 

Aleksander Dmitrievich Schmemann: To See 

the World as God Sees It 

New Hermeneutics: “God Is Love” as the Ontological 

Fundament of Our Faith 

Catholicity-Universality: The Mutual Theological 

Consciousness of East and West 

Johannes Miroslav Oravecz is a lecturer 

at the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Pittsburgh 

and a parochial vicar at St. Thomas 

More Church in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. 


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Interventions 

Conor Cunningham and 

Peter M. Candler Jr., series editors 

The Analogical Turn 

Rethinking Modernity 

with Nicholas of Cusa 

Johannes Hoff 

Societies today, says Johannes Hoff, are 

characterized by their inability to reconcile 

seemingly black-and-white scientific rationality 

with the ambiguity of postmodern pop 

culture. In the face of this crisis, Hoff's Analogical 

Turn recovers the fifteenth-century 

thinker Nicholas of Cusa’s alternative vision 

of modernity to develop a fresh perspective 

on the challenges of our time. 

In contrast to his mainstream contemporaries, 

Cusa’s appreciation of individuality, 

creativity, and scientific precision was deeply 

rooted in the analogical rationality of the 

Middle Ages. He revived and transformed the 

tradition of scientific realism in a manner that 

now, retrospectively, offers new insights into 

the “completely ordinary chaos” of postmodern 

everyday life. Hoff’s original study offers 

a new vision of the history of modernity 

and the related secularization narrative, a 

deconstruction of the basic assumptions of 

postmodernism, and 

an unfolding of a 

liturgically grounded 

concept of commonsense 

realism. 

“In this fascinating 

book Johannes Hoff 

shows us how Nicholas 

of Cusa sought to 

express the insights of 

the classical and medieval 

worldview in the 

conceptuality of the modern. With enormous learning 

and great insight, Hoff ’s Analogical Turn illuminates 

some of the urgent problems of philosophy and 

theology today.” 

— Andrew Louth 


“Much more than a monograph on a historical figure, 

this imaginatively crafted and extremely scholarly 

volume constitutes one of the most significant works 

of theology in the twenty-first century so far. I believe 

that it will exert a very considerable influence on 

future theoretical reflections both within theology 

and without.” 

— John Milbank 

University of Nottingham 

Johannes Hoff is professor of systematic 

theology at Heythrop College in the University 

of London. 


$38.00 [£25.99] / Available 

Kierkegaard as a 

Christian Thinker 

C. Stephen Evans and 

Paul Martens, series editors 

Eros and Self-Emptying 

The Intersections of 

Augustine and Kierkegaard 

Lee C. Barrett 

In this book — the first volume in the 

Kierkegaard as a Christian Thinker series — 

Lee Barrett offers a novel comparative interpretation 

of early church father Augustine and 

nineteenth-century philosopher-theologian 

Søren Kierkegaard. 

Though these two 

seminal thinkers 

have often been 

paired by historians 

of Western culture, 

the exact nature of 

their similarities and 

differences has never 

before been probed 

in detail. Barrett 

demonstrates that 

on many essential 

theological levels Augustine and Kierkegaard 

were more convergent than divergent. Most 

significantly, their parallels point to a distinctive 

understanding of the Christian life as a 

passion for self-giving love. 

Approaching Kierkegaard through the 

lens of Augustine, Barrett argues, enables the 

theme of desire for fulfillment in God to be 

seen as much more central to Kierkegaard’s 

thought than previously imagined. 

“One could hardly ask for a finer or more highly 

nuanced treatment of the convergences and divergences, 

both direct and indirect, between Augustine 

and Kierkegaard than Barrett has given us in this 

rich comparative study of these two great theologians 

of love. . . . Barrett pays close attention to the theological 

contexts, dialectical tensions, rhetorical strategies, 

and pastoral purposes of each thinker that enable 

them to transcend the binary oppositions between 

Catholicism and Protestantism in the mutual affirmation 

of both human eros and divine agape.” 

— Sylvia Walsh 

Stetson University 

Lee C. Barrett is the Mary B. and Henry P. 

Stager Professor of Theology at Lancaster 

Theological Seminary. He is also the author of 

the Abingdon Pillars of Theology volume on 

Kierkegaard and coeditor of the two-volume 

work Kierkegaard and the Bible. 


$48.00 [£31.99] / November 

p h i l o s o p h i c a l t h e o l o g y 


p r a c t i c a l t h e o l o g y 

Encountering Jesus, 

Encountering Scripture 

Reading the Bible Critically in Faith 

David Crump 

Foreword by James K. A. Smith 

“This book is part bombshell, part pastoral epistle. . . . Both Kierkegaard and 

Crump have a way of chopping a path through all the brush of hermeneutical 

debates and academic wrangling about historical criticism to remind us of a 

simple but still disconcerting truth — that the point of Scripture is to encounter 

Jesus. . . . Students and other interpreters need to read this book to be reminded 

that what’s at stake in biblical studies is an encounter 

with the Lover of our souls.” 

— James K. A. Smith (from foreword) 

“David Crump’s book is far more than a learned piece 

of New Testament scholarship. He shows how it is 

possible for a person who knows about the critical 

issues to read the Bible as God’s word for today, 

addressed to existing human beings. Crump carries 

on a continual conversation with Kierkegaard that 

I found illuminating and that the great Danish 

thinker would have found gratifying.” 

— C. Stephen Evans 


David Crump is a professor in the Religion Department of Calvin College, 

Grand Rapids, Michigan. Among his other books are An Introduction 

to the Gospels and Acts and Knocking on Heaven’s Door: A New Testament 

Theology of Petitionary Prayer. 


Straining at the Oars 

Case Studies in Pastoral Leadership 

H. Dana Fearon III 

with Gordon S. Mikoski 

“This book is a treasure, written out of a lifetime of faithful and very effective 

ministry, full of hard-earned wisdom, grace, and practical insight. I wish I had 

read this book years ago.” 

— John Buchanan 

Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago 

“Why didn’t the seminary teach us the things we needed to know? 

Stirred by that enduring question, this gem of a book offers wise and faithful 

reflections on pastoral leadership and pastoral life. Exploring numerous pastoral 

situations and challenges, it aptly points to the necessary partnership between 

seminaries and faith communities for the education and formation of their leaders 

— a never-ending process.” 

— Allan Hugh Cole Jr. 

Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary 

H. Dana Fearon III is pastor emeritus of the Presbyterian Church of 

Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and was a longtime guest lecturer at Princeton 

Theological Seminary. Gordon S. Mikoski is associate professor 

of Christian education at Princeton Theological Seminary and editor of 

Theology Today. 

Bringing the Word to Life 

Engaging the New Testament through Performing It 

Richard F. Ward and David J. Trobisch 

“This is a superbly written and readily accessible introduction to the new framework 

for the Bible as performance literature. David Trobisch and Richard Ward 

integrate a comprehensive description of ancient performance of the Bible with 

clear guidance for the performance of the Bible in the modern world. . . . An ideal 

required book for college and seminary courses, a great text for study groups in 

local churches, and a valuable resource for pastors and scholars.” 

— Thomas E. Boomershine 

founder of Network of Biblical Storytellers 

“The book many of us teachers have been waiting for! 

This dynamic little volume succeeds in overcoming 

the eclipse of biblical orality and captures an imaginative 

rethinking of the New Testament writings as 

performance. . . . Informative for scholars. Essential 

for teachers and students. Foundational for preachers 

and worship leaders.” 

— David Rhoads 

Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago 

“Scholarly, readable, usable!” 

— Charles L. Bartow 


“An awesome resource for worship, preaching, and biblical exegesis in church, college, 

or seminary settings.” 

— Susan R. Garrett 

Louisville Presbyterian Seminary 

Richard F. Ward is Fred B. Craddock Associate Professor of Homiletics 

and Worship at Phillips Theological Seminary. David J. Trobisch 

is internationally recognized as a scholar for his work on Paul’s letters, 

the formation of the Christian Bible, and biblical manuscripts. 


The Missional Church Series 

Craig Van Gelder, series editor 

Created and Led by the Spirit 

Planting Missional Congregations 

Mary Sue Dehmlow Dreier, editor 

“Finally — the absolutely necessary conversation between missional theology, 

church planting, and the divine agency of the Holy Spirit! Those who plant new 

churches, or facilitate those plantings, or educate and mentor planters, dare not 

miss a careful reading of this fresh articulation of what is happening as the Spirit 

births new churches and what that means.” — George R. Hunsberger 

Western Theological Seminary 

Contributors: Daniel Anderson, Leith Anderson, Paul Chung, Mary Sue 

Dehmlow Dreier, Todd Hobart, Harvey Kwiyani, Lois Malcolm, Susan 

Tjornehoj, Miroslav Volf. 

Mary Sue Dehmlow Dreier is associate professor of pastoral care 

and missional leadership at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, 

Columbia, South Carolina. 




Flourishing 

Health, Disease, and Bioethics 

in Theological Perspective 

Neil Messer 

We use such words as “health,” “disease,” and “illness” all the time 

without stopping to consider exactly what we understand by them. Yet 

their meanings are far from straightforward, 

and disagreements over them have significant 

practical ramifications in health care and 

bioethics. 

In this book Neil Messer develops a distinctive, 

innovative theological account of these 

concepts and, in so doing, addresses key areas 

neglected by medical ethicists. Messer engages 

with debates in the philosophy of medicine 

and disability studies and draws on an array 

of theological resources including Barth, 

Bonhoeffer, Aquinas, and recent disability 

theologies. 

Through careful definition and by presenting health in the wider 

perspective of the flourishing and ultimate destiny of human beings, 

Messer’s Flourishing and sheds new light on a wide range of practical 

bioethical issues and dilemmas. 

Neil Messer is professor of theology at the University of Winchester, 

United Kingdom, and a minister of the United Reformed Church. 


A Political Theology 

of Climate Change 

Michael S. Northcott 

Much current commentary on climate change focuses on the duties 

of individual citizens to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels. In 

A Political Theology of Climate Change, however, Michael Northcott points 

to nations as key agents in the climate crisis. 

Against the anti-national trend of contemporary 

political theology, Northcott renarrates 

the origins of the nations in the divine ordering 

of history. In dialogue with Giambattista 

Vico, Carl Schmidtt, Alasdair MacIntyre, and 

other notable writers, he argues that nations 

have legal and moral responsibilities to rule 

over limited terrains and to guard a just and 

fair distribution of the fruits of the earth 

within the ecological limits of those terrains. 

As part of his study, Northcott brilliantly 

reveals how the prevalent nature-culture 

divide in Western culture, including its notion of nature as “private 

property,” has contributed to the global ecologi cal crisis. Even as he 

addresses very real difficulties and controversies surrounding climate 

change, Northcott presents substantive and persuasive food for 

thought in this book. 

Michael S. Northcott is professor of ethics at the University of 

Edinburgh. His previous books include The Environment and Christian 

Ethics and A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming. 

Self, World, and Time 

Ethics as Theology, Volume 1 

Oliver O’Donovan 

“In this splendidly dense yet lucid first volume of his new project, Oliver 

O’Donovan richly succeeds in re-connecting a neo-orthodox stress upon dogma 

with an earlier pietist stress upon personal formation.” — John Milbank 

University of Nottingham 

“O’Donovan here challenges how we do ethics, and what we say of ethics, across 

the board, from alpha to omega. The book is brief but elegant, erudite, judicious, 

its proposals matured by decades of reflection on what ethics can and cannot do. Its 

poetically dense, richly thought-provoking style invites one to leisurely reflection. 

After reading the first paragraph I was intrigued; 

halfway through the second I was hooked. You will be 

too: taste and see.” — Charles Mathewes 

University of Virginia 

“The achievement of Self, World, and Time lies, 

to my mind, in its much welcome purism: it is bright 

theology and moral theology, and moral theology as 

biblical theology. The well-known sin of moral theology, 

since the Latin Middle Ages, has been its philosophical 

proclivities. . . . O’Donovan has written one 

more contribution to a non-philosophical theological 

ethics. This may be his best contribution to it. In any 

case, it is a splendid book.” — Jean-Yves Lacoste 

Clare Hall, Cambridge 

Oliver O’Donovan is a fellow of the British academy and professor 

emeritus of Christian ethics and practical theology at the University 

of Edinburgh. 


Shaping Public Theology 

Selections from the Writings of Max L. Stackhouse 

Scott R. Paeth, E. Harold Breitenberg Jr., 

and Hak Joon Lee, editors 

One of the most prolific and influential American theologians of the 

last half century, Max L. Stackhouse has been widely recognized for his 

contributions to the emerging field of public theology. 

This volume compiles some of Stackhouse’s most significant shorter 

writings. These selections make clear his central 

role in the development of public theology 

as a distinct disciplinary perspective in the 

fields of Christian theology and theological 

ethics. Shaping Public Theology serves as an excellent 

introduction to Stackhouse’s extensive 

corpus; readers will see the depth and breadth 

of Stackhouse’s comprehensive public theology 

while also gaining insight into his singular 

importance in the field. 

Scott R. Paeth is associate professor of religious 

studies at DePaul University. E. Harold 

Breitenberg Jr. is associate professor of religious studies at Randolph- 

Macon College. Hak Joon Lee is professor of theology and ethics at 

Fuller Theological Seminary. 

e t h i c s 


978-0-8028-6881-7 / paperback / 296 pages / $40.00 [£26.99] / January 


e l i g i o n & s o c i e t y 

Christ across 

the Disciplines 

Past, Present, Future 

Roger Lundin, editor 

In Christ across the Disciplines distinguished 

scholars covering the theological spectrum 

explore the dynamic relationship between 

the Christian faith and the life of the mind. 

Although rooted in a rich understanding of 

the past, these essays focus primarily on how 

Christian students, 

teachers, and scholars 

might best meet 

the present and 

future challenges of 

intellectual and cultural 

life in a global 

world. 

“This pace-setting 

volume offers a most 

helpful account of the 

effort to ‘integrate faith 

and learning’ as that effort has been understood by 

Christian scholars and Christian colleges since midcentury. 

Even more, it shows many and varied ways 

for moving beyond ‘integration’ to other fruitful practices 

for promoting scholarship as faithful believers. 

It is a compelling book of unusual insight.” 

— Mark Noll 


“An engrossing and enchanting collection filled with 

surprising sparklers, unsettling firecrackers, and even 

fireworks that explode in reframed conversations and 

new horizons of insight.” — Leonard Sweet 

Drew University 

“Roger Lundin has assembled a stellar cast of 

Christian intellectuals to reflect on the difference 

that the lordship of Jesus Christ makes, or can make, 

to academic endeavors. . . . An indispensable resource 

for those who want to discern the most fruitful paths 

available for Christian intellectual life.” 

— Alan Jacobs 


Contributors 

Stephen M. Barr, Katherine Clay Bassard, David 

Bebbington, Jeremy S. Begbie, David N. Livingstone, 

Roger Lundin, John Schmalzbauer, Sujit 

Sivasundaram, Eleonore Stump, John Webster. 

Christian Higher 

Education 

A Global Reconnaissance 

Joel Carpenter, Perry L. Glanzer, 

and Nicholas S. Lantinga, editors 

This book offers a fresh report and interpretation 

of what is happening at the intersection 

of two great contemporary movements — the 

rapid growth of higher education worldwide 

and the rise of world Christianity. It features 

on-site, evaluative 

studies by scholars 

from Africa, Asia, 

North America, and 

South America. Very 

little research until 

now has examined 

the scope and direction 

of Christian 

higher education 

throughout the 

world, so this volume 

fills a real gap. 

Contents 

Christian Universities and the Global Expansion 

of Higher Education Joel Carpenter 

Revolution in Higher Education in Nigeria: 

The Emergence of Private Universities 

Musa A. B. Gaiya 

Development of Christian Higher Education 

in Kenya: An Overview Faith W. Nguru 

Rise, Fall, and Redevelopment of Christian Higher 

Education in China Peter Tze Ming Ng 

Korean Christian Higher Education: History, Tasks, 

and Vision Kuk-Won Shin 

Christian Higher Education in India: 

The Road We Tread J. Dinakarlal 

Will the Parent Abandon the Child? The Birth, 

Secularization, and Survival of Christian Higher 

Education in Western Europe Perry L. Glanzer 

Resurrecting Universities with Soul: Christian 

Higher Education in Post-Communist Europe 

Perry L. Glanzer 

Christian Higher Education in Mexico: Past, Present, 

and Future José Ramón Alcántara Mejía 

Christian Higher Education in Brazil and Its 

Challenges Alexandre Brasil Fonseca and 

Cristiane Candido Santos 

Quest for Identity and Place: Christian University 

Education in Canada Harry Fernhout 

A Renaissance of Christian Higher Education 

in the United States George Marsden 

The Place and Prospects for Christian Higher 

Education Perry L. Glanzer 

Dare We Speak of Hope? 

Searching for a Language 

of Life in Faith and Politics 

Allan Aubrey Boesak 

Foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff 

Since the spectacular rise of South Africa’s 

Nelson Mandela and the remarkable election 

of Barack Obama as president of the United 

States, the phrase “hopeful politics” has 

dominated our public discourse. But what 

happens when that hope disappoints? Can it 

be salvaged? What is the relationship between 

faith, hope, and politics? 

In this book seasoned South African scholar 

Allan Boesak meditates on what it really means 

to hope in light of present political realities 

and growing human pain. Dealing with such 

timely issues as the killing of the Marikana 

miners in August 2012 and problems with 

Obama’s presidency, 

Boesak argues that 

hope comes to life 

only in situations of 

vulnerability — in 

struggles for justice, 

dignity, and the life 

of the earth. Dare 

We Speak of Hope? is a 

critical, provocative, 

prophetic — and, 

above all, hopeful — 

book. 

Allan Aubrey Boesak is the first holder of 

the Desmond Tutu Chair for Peace, Global 

Justice, and Reconciliation Studies, a joint 

position at Butler University and Christian 

Theological Seminary, Indianapolis. His previous 

books include Radical Reconciliation: Beyond 

Political Pietism and Christian Quietism and The 

Tenderness of Conscience: African Renaissance and 

the Spirituality of Politics. 


$18.00 [£11.99] / February 

Roger Lundin is the Arthur F. Holmes Professor 

of Faith and Learning at Wheaton College. 

His other books include Emily Dickinson 

and the Art of Belief and Believing Again: Doubt and 

Faith in a Secular Age. 


$20.00 [£12.99] / Available 

Joel Carpenter is professor of history and 

director of the Nagel Institute for the Study 

of World Christianity at Calvin College. 

Perry L. Glanzer is professor of educational 

foundations at Baylor University and a resident 

scholar with Baylor Institute for Studies of 

Religion. 

Nicholas S. Lantinga is a professor at Handong 

Global University in South Korea and 

former director of International Association for 

the Promotion of Christian Higher Education. 


$36.00 [£23.99] / February 


Karl Barth’s Emergency 

Homiletic, 1932–1933 

A Summons to Prophetic 

Witness at the Dawn of 

the Third Reich 

Angela Dienhart Hancock 

What does a theologian say to young preachers 

in the early 1930s, at the dawn of the Third 

Reich? What Karl Barth did say, how he said 

it, and why he said 

it at that time and 

place are the subject 

of Angela Dienhart 

Hancock’s book. 

This is the story 

of how a preaching 

classroom became 

a place of resistance 

in Germany in 1932– 

1933 — a story that 

has not been told in 

its fullness. In that 

emergency situation, Barth took his students 

back to the fundamental questions about 

what preaching is and what it is for. No other 

work has so interpreted Barth’s “Exercises 

in Sermon Preparation” in relation to their 

theological, political, ecclesiastical, academic, 

and rhetorical context. 

“The question haunts us. How would I have 

responded to the rise of Nazism? Angela Dienhart 

Hancock, with careful scholarship and thorough 

research, examines the thinking of the dominant 

theologian of the twentieth century as National 

Socialism emerged around him. . . . Karl Barth’s 

Emergency Homiletic is an ambitious, timely, 

and very important project.” 

— John Buchanan 

editor/publisher of The Christian Century 

“On the basis of her careful and detailed research, 

Angela Hancock sets Barth’s ‘emergency homiletic’ in 

the ominous political context of Germany in the early 

1930s. The result is a moving account of Barth’s efforts 

in his homiletics classes to liberate preaching from 

religious platitude and political propaganda and to 

present it instead as service of the living Word of God 

rooted in the biblical text and marked by expectancy, 

humility, and courage.” — Daniel L. Migliore 


Angela Dienhart Hancock is assistant professor 

of homiletics and worship at Pittsburgh 



$42.00 [£28.99] / Available 

Preaching in 

Hitler’s Shadow 

Sermons of Resistance 

in the Third Reich 

Dean G. Stroud, editor 

Preaching in Hitler’s Shadow begins with a riveting 

look at Christian life inside the Third 

Reich, giving readers a real sense of the danger 

that opposition pastors faced every time they 

took the pulpit. Dean Stroud pays special 

attention to the role language played in the 

battle over the German soul, pointing out the 

use of Christian language 

in opposition 

to Nazi rhetoric. 

The second part 

of the book presents 

thirteen sermons by 

various select preachers, 

including Dietrich 

Bonhoeffer, Karl 

Barth, Rudolf Bultmann, 

and others not 

as well known but no 

less courageous. 

A running commentary offers cultural and historical 

insights, and each sermon is preceded 

by a short biography of the preacher. 

“Seldom has our generation been so challenged; 

seldom has the call for prophetic faithfulness been 

so clearly heard. Preaching in Hitler’s Shadow 

is simply a towering book. It will inform, provoke, 

unsettle, move, and inspire.” — Allan Boesak 

author of Dare We Speak of Hope? 

Searching for a Language of Life in Faith and Politics 

“At once sobering and inspiring, this book is a 

treasure.” 

— John Wilson 

editor of Books & Culture 

“In this book we see what it is like to proclaim the 

gospel courageously in the midst of dire political 

circumstances. The idea that preaching must always 

avoid being political is exposed for the falsehood that 

it is. This is a sobering and a heartening book.” 

— George Hunsinger 

editor of Torture Is a Moral Issue 

Dean G. Stroud is professor emeritus of 

German studies at the University of Wisconsin 

in LaCrosse. A former Presbyterian pastor, he 

has long been interested in sermons preached 

by opposition pastors in Hitler’s Germany. 


$20.00 [£12.99] / Available 

Reading for Preaching 

The Preacher in Conversation 

with Storytellers, Biographers, 

Poets, and Journalists 

Cornelius Plantinga Jr. 

In Reading for Preaching Cornelius Plantinga 

makes a striking claim: preachers who read 

widely will most 

likely become better 

preachers. 

Plantinga — 

himself a master 

preacher — shows 

how a wide reading 

program can benefit 

preachers. First, he 

says, good reading 

generates delight, 

and the preacher who 

enters the world of 

delight goes with God. Good reading can also 

help tune the preacher’s ear for language — 

his or her primary tool. General reading can 

enlarge the preacher’s sympathies for people 

and situations that she or he had previously 

known nothing about. And, above all, the 

preacher who reads widely has the chance to 

become wise. 

This beautifully written book will benefit 

not just preachers but anyone interested in the 

wisdom to be derived from reading. 

“Preachers will find in these pages a colleague and 

fellow traveler who exudes courage and pathos and 

joy in our common calling.” 


Columbia Theological Seminary 

“Reading for Preaching represents the gift of 

a lifetime. Cornelius Plantinga has spent many 

years mapping great fiction, poetry, biography, and 

journalism. In this book he shares that map with 

technologized, digitalized, busy preachers who 

badly need what he has to offer. . . . I can’t imagine a 

preacher who will not benefit from this gift.” 

— Richard Lischer 


“With wit, wisdom, and a fresh supply of his own 

compelling prose, Plantinga invites us into the 

whitewater adventure of good reading. . . . This book 

is about delightful reading, and it is itself a delight 

to read.” — Thomas G. Long 

Candler School of Theology 

Cornelius Plantinga Jr. is president emeritus 

of Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand 

Rapids, Michigan, and senior research fellow 

at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. 

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Calvin Institute of Christian 

Worship Liturgical Studies 

John D. Witvliet, series editor 

The Church at Worship 

Lester Ruth, Carrie Steenwyk, and John D. Witvliet, 


w o r s h i p 

Arts Ministry 

Nurturing the Creative Life of God’s People 

Michael J. Bauer 

This volume is the best available guidebook to the emerging field of 

Christian arts ministry. Michael Bauer lays a solid foundation for arts 

ministry, grounding it in the historic Christian tradition and urging 

churches to expand their engagement with the creative arts — “to live 

and worship in full color.” Eighteen illustrative case studies help round 

out Bauer’s rich discussion. 

“There are remarkably few books on arts ministry 

in the local church, and very few of them do justice 

to the sheer diversity of expression such ministry can 

manifest. Ecumenical and warmhearted, practical 

and positive, Bauer’s book will provide great encouragement 

to churches ‘on the ground.’ ” 

— Jeremy Begbie 

Duke University 

“An unprecedented exposé on arts ministry — what it 

is, how it works, and why it succeeds. With unblinking, 

erudite analysis, Michael Bauer elucidates the 

meaning that is mediated through arts ministries. 

His myriad examples are richly ecumenical and resourceful in their capacity 

to captivate mind, body, and spirit. This must-read book will convince even the 

disinterested. Through this work Bauer succeeds in undergirding a nationwide 

movement.” 

— Catherine Kapikian 

Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion, 

Wesley Theological Seminary 

“For anyone wanting to explore the field of arts ministry, this book is a superb and 

remarkably comprehensive primer.” 

— Stephan Casurella 

Christ Church Cathedral, Cincinnati 

“For the growing number of pastors, artists, and lay leaders who love the arts 

but are unsure of their role in ministry, Michael Bauer here provides just what 

is needed. Though historically and theologically informed, his Arts Ministry 

focuses on the practical issues of making the arts an integral part of the worship 

and ministry of the church. . . . This is the book to put in the hands of your church’s 

worship committee, or to assign in seminary or college ministry courses.” 

— William Dyrness 

Fuller Theological Seminary 

Michael J. Bauer is professor of organ and church music at the University 

of Kansas. In addition to teaching, he has served on the music 

staff of twelve different churches and established arts ministries at 

three of those churches. 


Longing for Jesus 

Worship at a Black Holiness Church in Mississippi, 

1895–1913 

Lester Ruth 

The Church at Worship is a series of documentary case studies of specific 

worshiping communities from around the world and throughout 

Christian history that can inform and enrich worship practices today. 

In this third volume, Longing for Jesus, 

Lester Ruth vividly portrays a prominent 

African-American Holiness church 

in Jackson, Mississippi, in the early 

twentieth century. 

“Masterfully knitting new strands of research 

into a rich tapestry of religious history, Lester 

Ruth brings to life the long-hidden story of 

the nation’s first African-American Holiness 

church. . . . By turns narrative history, exegesis, 

and study of Christian practice, Ruth’s 

book brims with insight and wisdom about 

how a small church in the Deep South sparked a movement that would sweep the 

country and start a revolution in worship and preaching.” — John Giggie 

University of Alabama 

“Ruth’s Longing for Jesus takes the reader inside Christ Temple of Jackson, Mississippi, 

and the ministry of Charles Price Jones, a central figure in the Black Holiness 

movement. . . . We can experience the richness of worship in that place and 

imagine enriched worship practices for ourselves. This accessible and innovative 

introduction to a critical but underappreciated figure in the history of American 

Protestant worship is a great gift indeed.” 

— W. Scott Haldeman 

Chicago Theological Seminary 

“Lester Ruth has unburied the rich treasures and legacy of the Church of Christ 

(Holiness) USA and its founder, Charles Price Jones. . . . Ruth’s meticulous attention 

to the documents, music, and worship practices successfully connects us to the 

songs, prayers, and sermons of these ‘saints on higher ground’!” 

— James Abbington 

Candler School of Theology 

Lester Ruth is research professor of Christian worship at Duke Divinity 

School and professor of worship history at the Robert E. Webber 

Institute for Worship Studies. He is also the coauthor of the first 

Church at Worship volume, Walking Where Jesus Walked: Worship in 

Fourth-Century Jerusalem. 

978-0-8028-6949-4 / paperback / 15 photos, 1 map / 187 pages 

$24.00 [£16.99] / Available 


Reinventing Liberal Christianity 

Theo Hobson 

In this provocative book Theo Hobson addresses head-on the current 

crisis of liberal Christianity. In past years liberal Christianity challenged 

centuries of authoritar ian tradition and gave rise to the secular liberalism 

that we take for granted. But liberal Christianity today is widely 

dismissed as a watering-down of the faith, and 

more conservative forms of Christianity are 

increasingly dominant. Can the liberal Christian 

tradition recover its influence? 

Writing in a lively journalistic style, 

Hobson puts forth a bold theory about why 

liberal Christianity collapsed and how it can 

be reinvented. He argues that a simple revival 

is not possible because liberal Christianity 

actually consists of two traditions — a good 

tradition that must be salvaged and a bad 

tradition that must be repudiated. Hobson 

untangles these two traditions with a fascinating 

survey of Christian thought from its origins to the present and, 

further, aims to transform Christianity through a discriminating rediscovery 

of liberal faith and cultic ritual. 

“Presents a lively, timely, theologically informed, and historically grounded argument 

for the compatibility of a sacramental Christianity with the traditions of 

the liberal state.” 

— David Martin 

London School of Economics 

“For Christians who appreciate living in a liberal state and despair at ‘postliberal’ 

theology’s easy dismissal of it, this book is a delight. It argues for a robust version 

of liberal Christianity that affirms the communal and cultic aspects of Christianity, 

but does not neglect the individual and the institutions that protect his or her 

freedom.” 

— Linda Woodhead 

Lancaster University 

“Theo Hobson is as well-qualified as anyone to set about the task of reinventing 

liberal Christianity. In this remarkable, wise, and incisive book he sets about that 

task with outstanding skill, presenting us with an accessible and arresting argument 

that is as compelling as it is convincing.” 

— Martyn Percy 


“This is an ambitious work that deals with central issues in contemporary public 

life and does so by delving into past and present theological debates. . . . It covers a 

wide range of sources, theological and secular, spanning the modern period, and 

Hobson’s style, as ever, combines clarity, boldness, and a certain dispatch with a 

good grasp of the material.” 

— George Pattison 

Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford 

The Torah, the Gospel, and the Qur͗an 

Three Books, Two Cities, One Tale 

Anton Wessels 

Foreword by Nicholas Wolterstorff 

Discussing the Bible and the Qur͗an in one breath will surprise some 

Jews, Christians, and Muslims. But Anton Wessels argues in this book 

that all three of these monotheistic traditions must read their Scriptures 

together and not against each other. As 

his book title suggests, their three books, 

in the end, actually tell one tale. 

Wessels accepts Muhammad as a prophet 

and takes the Qur͗an seriously as Holy Scripture 

along with the Old and New Testaments 

— without giving up his own Christian convictions. 

Respectfully reading the Torah, the 

Gospel, and the Qur͗an together, he maintains, 

is of crucial importance because our world 

often sees these religious books as the cause 

of conflicts rather than the solution to them. 

“Only an erudite, excellent, and critical scholar like Anton Wessels could have 

brought such seemingly disparate elements together in such a brilliant and 

enlightening way. . . . This coherent tour de force invites us to reevaluate our 

perspectives on truth, history, revelation, and even the divine. As always, Wessels 

opens up new vistas. I recommend this timely and pertinent book to anyone interested 

in a peaceful and just world. It is intellectually stimulating and one of the 

most hopeful books in our current polarized context.” — Charles Amjad-Ali 


“A remarkable, helpful resource for reading the Torah, the Gospel, and the Qur ͗an 

in relation to each other focused on central questions that arise in each. . . . The 

reader will learn a lot about Qur ͗anic and biblical texts and their contexts and 

will have to rethink some basic assumptions about his or her religious tradition, 

particularly pertaining to its relationship with the other religious traditions ‘of 

the book.’ This is just the kind of thought and conversation that we sorely need 

today in order to build constructive and peaceful relationships across our religious 

boundaries.” 

— Heidi Hadsell 

Hartford Seminary 

Anton Wessels is professor emeritus of religion at the Free University 

of Amsterdam and an ordained Presbyterian minister. His other books 

include Europe: Was It Ever Really Christian? and Muslims and the West: Can 

They Be Integrated? 


r e l i g i o u s s t u d i e s 

Theo Hobson is a British theologian and journalist currently serving 

as lecturer in systematic theology at General Theological Seminary, 

New York. His other books include Milton’s Vision: The Birth of Christian 

Liberty. 

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e l i g i o u s s t u d i e s 

The J. H. Bavinck Reader 

John Bolt, James D. Bratt, 

and Paul J. Visser, editors 

This reader contains a choice selection of 

significant writings by the premier twentiethcentury 

missiologist in the Dutch Calvinist 

tradition — very few of them previously 

available in English. The book also includes 

the most thorough 

biographical sketch 

of J. H. Bavinck anywhere. 

“Bavinck’s wonderful 

contributions to missiology 

and the theology 

of culture have been a 

well-kept secret in the 

English-speaking world. 

Now, however, we have 

this marvelous reader! 

I pray not only that this volume will let the secret out 

about Bavinck’s genius but also that the gems in this 

book will stimulate a renewal of creative thinking 

about the mission to which God calls us in contemporary 

life.” 

— Richard J. Mouw 

Fuller Theological Seminary 

“Time is a light that exposes both the foolishness and 

the wisdom of bygone generations. This rich collection 

of essays testifies to the vigor, versatility, and 

prescience of J. H. Bavinck’s thought. The essays — 

some written more than seventy years ago — are as 

insightful now as anything currently being written 

by evangelical missiologists on the interplay between 

Christianity and human religiosity.” 

— Jonathan J. Bonk 

Overseas Ministries Study Center 

“Bavinck combines a strong biblical orientation with 

a deep understanding of the human soul. His reflections 

on God’s revelation to the human community, 

religious consciousness, and Eastern mysticism can 

help us to do Christian mission properly in today’s 

context.” 

— Jan A. B. Jongeneel 

Utrecht University 

John Bolt is professor of systematic theology 

at Calvin Theological Seminary and the author 

of A Free Church, a Holy Nation: Abraham Kuyper’s 

Public Theology. 

James D. Bratt is professor of history at 

Calvin College and the author of Abraham 

Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat. 

Paul J. Visser is pastor of the Protestant 

Church in the Netherlands (Amsterdam) and 

chairman of the Foundation for the Promoting 

of Reformed Missiology and Ecumenics. 

From Times Square 

to Timbuktu 

The Post-Christian West Meets 

the Non-Western Church 

Wesley Granberg-Michaelson 

Foreword by James H. Billington 

“This is a splendid book. Of itself, the growth of 

Christian numbers in the global South is no longer 

surprising, nor is the tension with an increasingly 

secularized post-Christian West. What makes this 

book so valuable is the author’s ability to stand back 

and offer an astute and wide-ranging analysis of 

these trends, rooted in his wide experience and his 

passionate ecumenical commitment. He presents a 

confident, well-judged 

survey of the emerging 

face of Christianity. . . . 

Strongly recommended.” 

— Philip Jenkins 

Institute for Studies 

of Religion, Baylor 

University 

“The most important 

book anyone can read 

about the future of the 

church.” 

— Jim Wallis 

president and founder of Sojourners 

“For people seeking to get a feel for global Christianity, 

banks of statistics are easy to find. What’s harder 

to find is someone who can wisely integrate data with 

experience gained on street level with Christians 

around the world. Wes Granberg-Michaelson is the 

best tour guide I can imagine to give us all a guided 

tour of Christianity — not as a Western religion 

exported globally, but as a religion with many 

vibrant centers and a circumference as big as the 

planet.” 

— Brian D. McLaren 

author/speaker/activist 

“A timely reminder of the pastoral and theological 

significance of the wave of the worldwide Christian 

surge that is breaking on the shores of North America. 

Granberg-Michaelson offers a helpful frame for 

action and reflection in a style free of jargon and 

technical language.” 

— Lamin Sanneh 


Wesley Granberg-Michaelson served as 

General Secretary of the Reformed Church in 

America from 1994 to 2011. He was one of the 

first managing editors of Sojourners magazine 

and has also worked with the World Council 

of Churches, the Global Christian Forum, 

and Call to Renewal. His other books include 

Unexpected Destinations: An Evangelical Pilgrimage 

to World Christianity. 

Christianophobia 

A Faith under Attack 

Rupert Shortt 

More Christians than people of any other faith 

group worldwide live under threat. Yet this 

religious persecution 

is widely ignored. 

In Christianophobia 

Rupert Shortt 

exposes the widespread 

violent persecution 

of Christians 

around the world — 

and the media’s 

scandalous silence 

over it. 

“Impressive. . . . An 

excellent study of anti-Christian persecution around 

the world. . . . Splendidly rich and informative.” 

— Philip Jenkins 

in The Anxious Bench 

“Rupert Shortt tells a story as harrowing as it is 

unforgettable. . . . Christianophobia covers it all. 

I read the book in one sitting, gripped by every page.” 

— William Doino Jr. in First Things 

“Points out some very uncomfortable truths in this 

powerful analysis of the persecution of Christians. 

. . . [Shortt] has done a remarkable job in compiling 

this book when so little attention has been given in 

the mainstream media to the plight of Christians.” 

— Catherine Pepinster 

in The Independent 

“Shortt collates useful country-specific evidence 

of rampant intolerance of Christians from interview 

material, testimonies, written sources and 

surveys. . . . His flowing narrative, with just enough 

background and context for each country, allows the 

poignant testimonies to speak for themselves. The 

overall impact is shocking.” 

— Ian Linden in The Tablet 

“This brilliant book stands as a sharp rebuke to those 

of us who enjoy freedom of religion and freedom of 

speech but are indifferent to the plight of those who 

do not. . . . Shortt’s painstakingly researched account 

should act as a much-needed wake-up call.” 

— David Alton in Catholic Times 

Rupert Shortt is religion editor of The Times 

Literary Supplement and a visiting fellow of Blackfriars 

Hall, University of Oxford. His other 

books include Rowan’s Rule: The Biography of the 

Archbishop of Canterbury and God’s Advocates: 

Christian Thinkers in Conversation. He lives in 

London. 


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Cross and Kremlin 

A Brief History of the 

Orthodox Church in Russia 

Thomas Bremer 

Translated by Eric W. Gritsch 

Russian political history and Russian church 

history are tied together very tightly. One 

cannot properly understand Russia’s overall 

history without considering the role of the 

Orthodox Church 

in Russia. 

Thomas Bremer’s 

Cross and Kremlin 

uniquely surveys 

both the history and 

the contemporary 

situation of the 

Russian Orthodox 

Church. The first 

chapter gives a concise 

chronology from 

the tenth century 

through the present day. The following chapters 

highlight several important issues and 

aspects of Russian Orthodoxy — church-state 

relations, theology, ecclesiastical structure, 

monasticism, spirituality, the relation of 

Russian Orthodoxy to the West, dissidence as 

a frequent phenomenon in Russian church 

history, and more. 

“The Russian Orthodox Church has a complex history, 

fascinating theology, intriguing saints, and a 

beautiful panoply of sacred art in icons and music 

and liturgy. Thomas Bremer does a great service in 

providing a most accessible, accurate, and informative 

overview of it all. This will be the best encounter 

that many readers have with the Russian incarnation 

of Christianity.” — Michael Plekon 

Baruch College, City University of New York 

“Cross and Kremlin is erudite, concise, and 

readable. . . . This excellent translation of the 2007 

German original (updated to include recent statistics) 

provides the reader with a reliable introduction to 

Russian Orthodoxy — the first such volume to appear 

in recent times.” 

— Gregory Freeze 

Brandeis University 

Thomas Bremer is professor of Eastern 

Church studies and peace studies at the University 

of Münster, Germany. He has written 

extensively on Eastern Orthodoxy, especially 

in Russia and the Balkans. 


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Emory University Studies 

in Law and Religion 

John Witte Jr., series editor 

Hopes for Better Spouses 

Protestant Marriage and Church 

Renewal in Early Modern Europe, 

India, and North America 

A. G. Roeber 

“A scholarly tour de force that ingeniously interrogates 

the theological discourse around the seminal 

institution of marriage. A. G. Roeber interconnects 

with empirical dexterity sociological developments 

across the expanse of three continents, with influences 

ranging from polygamy to pietism during 

the early modern epoch. A refreshingly insightful 

comparative study.” — Gita Dharampal-Frick 

University of Heidelberg 

“Roeber sensitively reconstructs debates over marriage 

within the early modern international pietist 

movement. He brilliantly synthesizes theology, 

popular religion, and the day-to-day experience of 

married life. His story is resolutely transnational, 

at once embracing theologians at the University of 

Halle, immigrants in the backcountry of British 

North America, and pastors in Danish-German missions 

in India. . . . This 

is a historical work 

of immense learning, 

broad reach, and enduring 

relevance.” 

— Richard J. Ross 

University of Illinois 

“Hopes for Better 

Spouses makes for 

fascinating reading 

at a time when half 

of all marriages end 

in divorce. With deep erudition Roeber recounts 

the struggle of pietists in vastly different societies 

— early modern Germany, British North America, 

and South India — to find lasting solutions for the 

bond between husband and wife, and he sketches the 

consequence of these attempts for modern conceptions 

of marriage.” 

— Hartmut Lehmann 

University of Kiel 

A. G. Roeber is professor of early modern 

history and religious studies and codirector 

of the Max Kade German-American Research 

Institute at Penn State University. Among his 

other books is Changing Churches: An Orthodox, 

Catholic, and Lutheran Theological Conversation. 


$29.00 [£19.99] / Available 

Process and Providence 

The Evolution Question 

at Princeton, 1845–1929 

Bradley J. Gundlach 

Charles Hodge, James McCosh, B. B. Warfield 

— these leading professors at Princeton 

College and Seminary in the nineteenth and 

early twentieth centuries are famous for their 

orthodox Protestant positions on the doctrine 

of evolution. In this book Bradley Gundlach 

explores the surprisingly positive embrace of 

developmental views by the whole community 

of thinkers at old Princeton, showing how 

they embraced the development not only of 

the cosmos and life-forms but also of Scripture 

and the history of doctrine, even as they 

defended their historic Christian creed. 

From the first American review of the 

pre-Darwinian Vestiges of the Natural History 

of Creation to the Scopes Trial and the forced 

reorganization of Princeton Seminary in 1929, 

Process and Providence reliably portrays the 

preeminent conservative 

Protestants 

in America as they 

defined, contested, 

and answered — precisely 

and incisively — 

the many facets of the 

evolution question. 

“Bradley Gundlach has 

written the best kind 

of history — deeply 

researched, beautifully 

written, carefully thought through. Its account of 

how scholars at Princeton Seminary and Princeton 

University dealt with the evolution question(s) 

reveals the same qualities that mark this book — 

balance, learning, nuance, perception, and theological 

depth. One can only hope that this fine 

historical study will encourage those in our day who 

continue to wrestle with the evolution question(s).” 

— Mark A. Noll 


“Gundlach opens up a rich vein of interpretation 

which exposes the superficiality of popular perception 

and partisan presumption alike. A splendid 

performance.” 

— David Livingstone 

Queen’s University Belfast 

Bradley J. Gundlach is professor of history 

at Trinity International University, Deerfield, 

Illinois. He also serves as book review editor 

for Fides et Historia, the journal of the Conference 

on Faith and History. 


$39.00 [£25.99] / November 

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h i s t o r y 

The Historical Series of the 

Reformed Church in America 

Donald J. Bruggink, general editor 

Oepke Noordmans 

Theologian of the Holy Spirit 

Karel Blei 

Translated by Allan J. Janssen 

“A lucid presentation of Noordmans’s theology, this 

book extends beyond its presumed narrow readership. 

It is the content of Noordmans’s thought — bold, 

sometimes startling, always insightful, and occasionally 

troubling — that makes this volume worthy of 

attention.” 

— Paul R. Fries 

New Brunswick Theological Seminary 

“Oepke Noordmans has to be considered ‘the greatest 

Dutch theologian of the twentieth century, a teacher 

for a whole generation of theologians’ (H. Berkhof ). 

He possessed the charisma to combine fundamental 

theology (and doctrine) with original, often humorous 

formulations; in 

that way he gave an 

unsurpassed commentary 

on his own era. 

In this book Karel Blei 

paints a clear picture of 

Noordmans’s ideas and 

writings.” 

— H. W. de Knijff 

Utrecht University 

“Recommended for 

everyone who desires to 

know more about the man who is viewed by many as 

the most important Dutch Reformed theologian and 

a church father of the previous century. Blei not only 

considers Noordmans as a theologian but describes 

his importance in the turbulent events of the Dutch 

Reformed Church, particularly his role in the struggle 

for the reorganization of the church in the 1930s, his 

plea for a sober but genuine liturgy, and his critical 

view on the renewal of the church following the 

Second World War.” — J. D. Th. Wassenaar 

author of Noordmans in Friesland 

Karel Blei is a theologian and minister in the 

Protestant Church in the Netherlands. Active 

in ecumenical affairs both nationally and 

internationally, he is the author of a number 

of books on theology and history, including 

The Netherlands Reformed Church, 1571–2005. 


$26.00 [£17.99] / Available 

Loyalty and Loss 

The Reformed Church 

in America, 1945–1994 

Lynn Japinga 

“If you love the Reformed Church in America, or just 

want to understand it, read this book! The denomination’s 

major events, issues, and conflicts — and what 

they mean — come to life in Lynn Japinga’s narrative, 

her questions, even 

the footnotes (don’t gloss 

over them!).” 

— Edwin Mulder 

Reformed Church 

in America general 

secretary emeritus 

“A thoroughly scholarly 

and yet touchingly 

personal account of 

the twentieth-century 

history of the Reformed 

Church in America. At times it reads like a bittersweet 

love letter from a daughter of the church who 

has been sorely aggrieved by its internecine bickering. 

. . . In the end the author asks this unsettling — and 

unsettled — question: Will the waning glue of loyalty 

be sufficient to carry the Reformed Church into the 

future?” 

— Donald Luidens 

Hope College 

“Quite apart from the many insights here that will be 

of value to people inside the Reformed Church, Lynn 

Japinga’s Loyalty and Loss stands as a model for 

the writing of any denomination’s history. Relying 

heavily on interviews and other first-person sources 

and focusing on points of tension, she develops an 

organic and nuanced picture of this denomination 

that does not ignore its place within the broader currents 

of late-twentieth-century American religion.” 

— John Coakley 

New Brunswick Theological Seminary 

Lynn Japinga is professor of religion at Hope 

College, Holland, Michigan, and an ordained 

minister in the Reformed Church in America. 


$30.00 [£19.99] / Available 

Studies in the History 

of Christian Missions 

Robert Eric Frykenberg and 

Brian Stanley, series editors 

The Conversion 

of the Māori 

Years of Religious and Social Change, 

1814–1842 

Timothy Yates 

In this volume Timothy Yates uncovers the 

history of missions among the Māori people 

of New Zealand in the early 1800s. After 

describing the anthropological background of 

pre-contact Māori society, the book examines 

the first introduction of Christian mission by 

Samuel Marsden and 

the establishment of 

a Church Missionary 

Society base in 1814. 

Yates proceeds to 

chart the significant 

changes in society 

and religion over 

the course of nearly 

thirty years in detail. 

Based on painstaking 

archival research, 

this study shows 

how an uncomprehending collection of Māori 

who heard Marsden’s first sermon became 

40,000 members of Church Missionary Society 

churches alone by the 1840s, with Methodist 

and Marist adherents besides. By 1842 the 

newly arrived Anglican Bishop, G. A. Selwyn, 

regarded the whole Māori people as converted. 

Yates ends his book with an extended 

treatment of conversion, both as a general 

phenomenon and in relation to the Māori. 

“In this book Timothy Yates throws fresh light on an 

important, but little known, part of Christian mission 

history. His work is to be warmly welcomed.” 

— Charles W. Forman 


“Conversion of the Māori and the impact of missionary 

Christianity in New Zealand have been matters 

of considerable debate among historians. Timothy 

Yates provides a careful analysis of these areas and 

offers nuanced insights into these complex issues, 

taking particular note of indigenous initiatives.” 

— Allan Davidson 

University of Auckland 

Timothy Yates is docent in mission studies 

at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, an Honorary 

Fellow of St. John’s College, University 

of Durham, and Canon Emeritus of Derby 

Cathedral, England. 


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Witness 

Two Hundred Years of African-American Faith 

and Practice at the Abyssinian Baptist Church 

of Harlem, New York 

Genna Rae McNeil, Houston Bryan Roberson, 

Quinton Hosford Dixie, and Kevin McGruder 

This authoritative, illustrated history of the famous Abyssinian Baptist Church in 

Harlem, New York City, tells the story of an extraordinary church over the span of 

two centuries. Beginning with the church’s formal organization in 1809, Witness 

continues through its relocations, its famous senior pastors, and its many crises 

and triumphs, up to the present. The largest Protestant congregation in the United 

States during the pre-megachurch 1930s, Abyssinian Baptist Church has played a 

key role in the history of New York City. 

“A magnificent history of an outstanding African-American congregation with a national pulpit 

for its preachers. On the basis of meticulous research, the authors have chronicled the triumphs 

and the failures, the harmonious unity and the conflicts within the two-hundred-year history of 

the Abyssinian Baptist Church. . . . This history serves as a model for the history of other church 

congregations.” — Lawrence H. Mamiya 

Vassar College 

Blue Skies, Orange Wings 

The Global Reach of Dutch Aviation 

in War and Peace, 1914–1945 

Ryan Noppen 

h i s t o r y 

“This much-needed history of the Abyssinian Baptist 

Church of Harlem is a ‘must-read’ for generations 

of Americans who want to know the complex and 

complicated story of the black religious tradition, the 

black church tradition, and the intersectionality of 

race, religion, and politics amidst the ever-changing 

and evolving landscape of life for Africans in New 

York City — from the days following the Civil War up 

through the Great Migration and on into the twentyfirst 

century. A debt of gratitude is owed to Genna Rae 

McNeil, Houston Bryan Roberson, Quinton Hosford 

Dixie, and Kevin McGruder! These dedicated historians 

have captured an important segment of black 

church history and written about it with passion and 

with care.” 

— Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. 

Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago 

“During its 207-year history, Abyssinian Baptist has been central to the development of African 

American Christianity as a force for social justice. . . . Its pastors have been national figures, 

especially the controversial Adam Clayton Powell Jr. . . . With its last 227 pages given over to photos 

(plenty are already in the main text), appendixes, and notes, this is a basic resource in African 

American history.” 

— Booklist 

Genna Rae McNeil is a professor at the University of North Carolina who specializes 

in African-American history and twentieth-century social movements in the 

United States. Her other books include Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the 

Struggle for Civil Rights. 

Houston Bryan Roberson is professor of history at The University of the South, 

Sewanee, Tennessee, and author of Fighting the Good Fight: The Story of the Dexter Avenue 

King Memorial Baptist Church, 1865–1977. 

Quinton Hosford Dixie is coauthor of Visions of a Better World: Howard Thurman’s 

Pilgrimage to India and the Origins of African American Nonviolence. 

Kevin McGruder is assistant professor of history at Antioch College, Yellow 

Springs, Ohio, and coauthor of Emancipation Proclamation — Forever Free. 

978-0-8028-6341-6 / hardcover / 194 b&w photos / 640 pages / $45.00 [£29.99] / November 

Through a wealth of photographs and color illustrations 

and an informed narrative, Blue Skies, Orange Wings 

documents the surprisingly strong role of Dutch aircraft, 

airmen, designers, and airlines in world aviation in the 

first part of the twentieth century. 

This beautiful book by Ryan Noppen offers the most 

thorough study of the early years of Dutch commercial 

and military aviation published in the English language. 

Noppen examines the famed Fokker airliners, the development 

of Dutch national airline KLM, and their impact 

on the world in the pioneering days of flight, including a 

number of notable individuals — The Red Baron Manfred 

von Richthofen, Billy Mitchell, Eddie Rickenbacker, 

Hermann Göring, Richard Byrd, Juan Trippe, Charles 

Lindbergh, Henry Ford, Amelia Earhart, and more. 

Noppen details the leading role that the Dutch took 

in the world of flight: Dutch-built aircraft were responsible 

for the first nonstop transcontinental flight over the 

United States, the first flight to the North Pole, the first 

flight across the Pacific Ocean, and the first flight made by 

a woman across the Atlantic. He also highlights the commonly 

overlooked stubborn Dutch defense against 

the German Nazi aerial assault. 

With hundreds of archival photographs and color 

images, Blue Skies, Orange Wings finally puts the global 

impact of Dutch aviation into its deserved place of importance 

in the annals of flight. 

Ryan Noppen is a military historian and aviation 

analyst who has worked as a subject-matter expert for 

a defense firm on projects involving naval and aviation 

logistics, and he has taught several courses on World 

War I and II. He is also the author of Austro-Hungarian 

Battleships, 1914–18. 

978-0-8028-4870-3 / 11” x 8½” hardcover 

Color photos throughout / 304 pages / $45.00 [£29.99] 

December 


i o g r a p h y 

Abraham Kuyper 

A Pictorial Biography 

Jan de Bruijn 

This book offers a rich, unprecedented 

photographic depiction of the life of Dutch 

statesman and theologian Abraham Kuyper 

(1837–1920). Substantive, detailed captions 

accompany all of the nearly four hundred 

color illustrations 

— family photos, 

political cartoons, 

posters, pictures of 

important places 

in Kuyper’s life — 

many of them never 

published before. 

“As valuable as Abraham 

Kuyper’s words are 

in providing a portrait 

of the man and his 

times, they are not enough. A bigger-than-life figure 

like Kuyper, who was a product of his own time as 

well as a major influence on it, is understood much 

better when he and his world are made visible to 

us. . . . This volume gives us the whole picture. A wonderful 

companion to Jim Bratt’s recent biography of 

Kuyper.” 

— John Bolt 

Calvin Theological Seminary 

“An inviting, accessible introduction to a man of vast 

energy and vision, a Christian leader and thinker of 

the first order. We get to see and hear Abraham Kuyper 

up close here — his development and character; the 

people, issues, and events that loomed large in his life 

— all captured in intriguing pictures, images, and 

words from close to his heart.” — James Bratt 

author of Abraham Kuyper: 

Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat 

“Wonderfully brings to life the astonishing career 

and turbulent times of Abraham Kuyper, and in a 

way that words alone cannot. Jan de Bruijn has masterfully 

assembled the perfect complement to James 

Bratt’s equally masterful biography of Kuyper.” 

— Gordon Graham 


“If a picture is worth a thousand words, de Bruijn’s 

pictorial biography of Abraham Kuyper is priceless.” 

— Robert P. Swierenga 

A. C. Van Raalte Institute, Hope College 

Jan de Bruijn is professor of political history 

at the Free University of Amsterdam and the 

author of several other works on Abraham 

Kuyper and Dutch Protestantism. 

978-0-8028-6966-1 / hardcover / 428 pages 

389 photos / $40.00 [£26.99] / November 

Library of Religious 

Biography 

Mark A. Noll, Nathan O. Hatch, 

Allen C. Guelzo, series editors 

Harriet Beecher Stowe 

A Spiritual Life 

Nancy Koester 

“So you’re the little woman who started this 

big war,” Abraham Lincoln is said to have 

quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe. 

Her 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin converted 

readers by the thousands to the anti-slavery 

movement and served notice that the days 

of slavery were numbered. Overnight Stowe 

became a celebrity, but to defenders of slavery 

she was the devil in petticoats. 

Most writing about Stowe treats her as 

a literary figure and social reformer while 

downplaying her Christian faith. But Nancy 

Koester’s biography highlights Stowe’s faith 

as central to her life — both her public fight 

against slavery and her own personal struggle 

through deep grief to find a gracious God. 

Having meticulously 

researched Stowe’s 

own writings, both 

published and unpublished, 

Koester 

traces Stowe’s faith 

pilgrimage from 

evangelical Calvinism 

through spiritualism 

to Anglican 

spirituality in a 

flowing, compelling 

narrative. 

“The daughter, sister, and wife of prominent clergymen 

and theologians, Harriet Beecher Stowe outshone 

them all in her impact on American religion and 

reform. Her life and work were framed by a spiritual 

quest that led from her ancestral Calvinism to highchurch 

Episcopalianism and even spiritualism. Nancy 

Koester’s lucid narrative, with its penetrating analysis, 

carries the reader along unfailingly on this fascinating 

quest.” 

— James M. McPherson 

author of Battle Cry of Freedom 

Nancy Koester teaches religion at Augsburg 

College in Minneapolis. An ordained Lutheran 

minister, she has also written Fortress Introduction 

to the History of Christianity in the United 

States and Journeying through Lent with Luke. 


$24.00 [£16.99] / November 

Francis, a New 

World Pope 

Michel Cool 

Translated by Regan Kramer 

After Pope Benedict XVI’s historic resignation 

of the papal office in February 2013, the College 

of Cardinals elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 

Archbishop of Buenos Aires — now Pope 

Francis — as the new leader of the world’s 

estimated 1.2 billion Roman Catholics. 

But who is this new Pope — really? 

In Francis, a New World Pope, Michel Cool surveys 

Pope Francis’s journey to the papacy, his 

convictions, his personality, his writings, and 

the daunting challenges facing him — governance 

of the church, 

interfaith relations, 

new evangelization 

in secularized societies, 

the worldwide 

economic crisis, and 

many more. 

Peppered throughout 

with anecdotes 

that demonstrate the 

humanity of Pope 

Francis — and his 

sensitivity to those 

who are most distant from the Church — this 

book paints a vibrant portrait of the man 

whose motto is Miserando atque eligendo: “lowly 

but chosen.” 

“Here is a book on the new pope to be enjoyed now 

and cherished later. . . . What makes this book such a 

pleasure to read is that it includes selections from his 

earlier speeches and writings — on the city of Buenos 

Aires, on the economy, on a girlfriend of his before he 

‘discovered [his] religious vocation,’ on humility, on 

single mothers, on the tango, on soccer, and more. And 

then there are illuminating comments on the man 

from people in Argentina — a lawyer, a student, a 

priest, and others. Francis, a New World Pope is 

a unique introduction to the man who is now Pope 

Francis.” 

— Robert Louis Wilken 

Michel Cool is a French journalist who specializes 

in religious affairs. His other books 

include the award-winning Conversion au 

silence: Itinéraire spirituel d’un journaliste. 

Regan Kramer is an American living in Paris 

who has distinguished herself as an independent 

French-English translator. 

978-0-8028-7100-8 / paperback with French flaps 

12 b&w photos / 128 pages / $14.00 [£8.99] 

Available 


Playing Before the Lord 

The Life and Work of Joseph Haydn 

Calvin R. Stapert 

Through Your Eyes 

Dialogues on the Paintings of Bruce Herman 

G. Walter Hansen and Bruce Herman 

Franz Joseph Haydn 

(1732–1809) has been 

called the father of 

the symphony and 

the string quartet. 

A friend of Mozart 

and a teacher of 

Beethoven, “Papa” 

Haydn composed an 

amazing variety of 

music — symphonies, 

string quartets, 

concerti, masses, 

operas, oratorios, keyboard 

works — and 

his prolific output 

celebrates the heights 

and depths of life. 

In this fascinating book Calvin Stapert combines his 

skills as a biographer and a musicologist to recount 

Haydn’s life as a composer — one of the great “rags to 

riches” stories in music history. Unlike other biographers, 

Stapert stresses that Haydn’s music was a product of his 

devout Catholic faith, even though he worked mainly as a 

court musician and composed mostly in popular genres. 

In addition to telling Haydn’s life story, Stapert includes 

accessible listener guides to The Creation and to portions 

of other well-known works to help Haydn listeners more 

fully appreciate the brilliance of his music. 

Calvin R. Stapert is professor emeritus of music at Calvin 

College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. His previous books 

include My Only Comfort: Death, Deliverance, and Discipleship 

in the Music of Bach; A New Song for an Old World: Musical 

Thought in the Early Church; and Handel’s Messiah: Comfort for 

God’s People. 

A beautiful blend of fine art and probing dialogue, this book exhibits a special conversation 

between two friends — biblical scholar G. Walter Hansen and contemporary 

artist Bruce Herman — as they reflect on and interpret artwork created over the 

past thirty years. 

Between 1982 and 2012 Bruce Herman produced over 500 works of art reflecting 

his personal journey of creativity and faith. In a series of brief meditations and 

essays in accessible language, accompanied by full-color reproductions of the art, 

the authors explore major themes relevant to Herman’s pilgrimage in the oftenconfusing 

current art culture. Their dialogue reveals many layers of intention and 

possible interpretation of Herman’s art, enabling readers to come to a richer understanding 

and appreciation of contemporary art in general. 

“This is not a book for the fainthearted. It is searching, demanding, exhilarating. It will take 

you into the glorious and ancient questions that attend art. . . . This exchange between two intelligent 

men, one the artist and the other the patron (it takes one back to the Renaissance), will 

both instruct and delight.” 

— Thomas Howard 

author of Dove Descending: A Journey into T. S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” 

h u m a n i t i e s 

978-0-8028-6852-7 / paperback / 272 pages / $24.00 [£16.99] 

December 

“Bruce Herman is one of the wisest practitioners of art today, and Walter Hansen one of the key 

influencers and patrons of Christians in the arts. This book is a treasure chest full of wisdom for 

those serving in the world of art and faith.” 

— Makoto Fujimura 

artist 

“Since the fifteenth century, patrons — collectors, critics, and dealers — have played a crucial but 

often overlooked role in the development of artists’ work. In Through Your Eyes artist Bruce 

Herman and collector Walter Hansen allow us privileged access into this unique relationship 

between an artist and a collector, a relationship born from a single question: ‘What do you see?’ ” 

— Daniel A. Siedell 

art historian 

G. Walter Hansen is a writer, biblical scholar, and philanthropist whose work 

has taken him all over the world for teaching and ministry. 

Bruce Herman is a painter who lives and works in Gloucester, Massachusetts. 

He also holds the Lothlórien Distinguished Chair in Fine Arts at Gordon College. 

978-0-8028-7117-6 / 12½” x 9½” hardcover / full-color art throughout / 148 pages 

$50.00 [£32.99] / Available 


Holy Luck 

Eugene H. Peterson 

Notes from the House 

of the Dead 

The Ox-Herder and 

the Good Shepherd 

h u m a n i t i e s / s p i r i t u a l i t y 

Throughout his many years of pastoral ministry, 

almost everything Eugene Peterson has 

done — preaching, teaching, praying, counseling, 

writing — has 

involved words. To 

keep himself attuned 

to the power of 

words and to help 

himself use language 

with precision and 

imagination, Peterson 

both reads and 

writes poetry. 

Holy Luck presents, 

in one luminous 

volume, seventy 

poems by Peterson, most of them not previously 

published. Speaking to various aspects 

of “Kingdom of God” living, these poems are 

arranged in three sets: 

Holy Luck — poems arising out of the 

Beatitudes 

The Rustling Grass — poems opening up 

invisible Kingdom realities through 

particular created things 

Smooth Stones — occasional poems about 

discovering significance in every detail 

encountered while following Jesus 

Echoing the language of Peterson’s popular 

Bible translation, The Message, the poems in Holy 

Luck are well suited for devotional purposes. An 

ideal gift item, this volume is one that readers 

of all kinds will look to again and again. 

Sample poem titles 

“The Lucky Hungry” 

“Feast” 

“Question” 

“Uncle Ernie” 

“Assateague Island” 

“Lazarus in Spring” 

“Maranatha” 

“Let No Man Put Asunder” 

“Ballad to the Fisher King” 

“Sermons from Figs” 

“A Cave of Marriage” 

“Resurrection Flower” 

Eugene H. Peterson is professor emeritus of 

spiritual theology at Regent College, Vancouver, 

British Columbia. Among his many other 

books are The Jesus Way, Eat This Book, Tell It 

Slant, Practice Resurrection, and the popular contemporary 

Bible translation The Message. 


104 pages / $12.00 [£7.99] / Available 

Fyodor Dostoevsky 

Translated by Boris Jakim 

Introduction by James P. Scanlan 

First published in 1861 and based on Dostoevsky’s 

own experience as a political prisoner 

in the horrific Siberian labor camps, Notes 

from the House of the Dead is a forerunner of his 

famous novels Crime and Punishment and The 

Brothers Karamazov. This totally new translation 

by Boris Jakim captures Dostoevsky’s 

semi-autobiographical narrative — at times 

coarse, at times 

intensely emotional, 

at times philosophical 

— in rich American 

English. 

“As usual, Boris Jakim 

offers a fluent and accessible 

translation, giving 

us a new opportunity 

to encounter one of 

Dostoevsky’s most 

seminal works. So much 

of the vision and insight of the great novels has its 

roots here in his nightmare experience in the Siberian 

penal camps, and here we have a first-class new 

rendering of this unique chronicle.” 

— Rowan Williams 

author of Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction 

“This startling book was a sensation in its day and 

became the source of all of Dostoevsky’s mature 

fictions. . . . Leo Tolstoy wrote that he did not know 

‘a better book in all modern literature.’ One hundred 

and fifty years later, Notes from the House of the 

Dead still retains the quality of a literary experiment 

capable of shocking and moving its readers. 

Boris Jakim’s new translation vividly and sensitively 

communicates the sense of discovery the work had for 

its first readers.” 

— Robert Bird 

author of Fyodor Dostoevsky 

“Jakim captures Dostoevsky’s voice with an immediacy 

and power that is perhaps a little uncanny. 

This should by all rights become the standard English 

edition of this book.” — David Bentley Hart 

author of The Beauty of the Infinite and Atheist Delusions 

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a prominent 

Russian novelist and writer and is widely 

regarded as one of the most outstanding and 

influential authors of modern literature. 


$24.00 [£16.99] / Available 

Finding Christ on the Buddha’s Path 

Addison Hodges Hart 

“It has been a long time since a book has brought me 

as much pleasure as this one has.” 

— Huston Smith 

author of The World’s Religions 

“A refreshing introduction to what one might call 

Zen Christianity.” 

— Jim Forest 

author of Praying with Icons 

Twelfth-century Chinese Zen master Kakuan 

Shien produced the pictures, poems, and 

commentaries that we know as the Ten Ox- 

Herding Pictures. They trace a universally 

recognizable path 

of contemplative 

spirituality, using the 

metaphor of a young 

ox-herder looking 

for his lost ox. 

According to Addison 

Hodges Hart, 

the Ten Ox-Herding 

Pictures and the 

teachings of Christ, 

the Good Shepherd 

who guides us to 

God, share a common vision. In The Ox-Herder 

and the Good Shepherd Hart explores how this 

ancient Buddhist parable can enrich and illumine 

the Christian way. 

“Hart’s goal to find Christ on the Buddhist path 

is without pretension and is a respectful, honest 

endeavor to discover an underlying commonality in 

disparate religious systems. For the Christian who is 

not well acquainted with the Zen Buddhist tradition, 

Hart’s book serves as an introduction to this Eastern 

religion/spirituality; it can also be a primer for how 

to approach non-Christian faiths from a compassionate 

and sympathetic point of view.” 

— Publishers Weekly 

“Most highly recommended for all seekers no matter 

their preferred path.” 

— Library Journal 

(starred review) 

Addison Hodges Hart is a retired pastor 

and university chaplain presently living in 

Norway. He has also written Taking Jesus at His 

Word: What Jesus Really Said in the Sermon on the 

Mount and The Yoke of Jesus: A School for the Soul 

in Solitude. 


11 sepia illustrations / 125 pages / $15.00 [£9.99] 

Available 


Learning to Dream Again 

Rediscovering the Heart of God 

Samuel Wells 

The Spiritual Practice 

of Remembering 

Margaret Bendroth 

“It is impossible to read this commanding book without being put on the spot and 

recalled to Jesus’ teaching with new authenticity. Sam Wells is a rare preacher and 

teacher who tugs at the heart as much as he snags at the critical intelligence of the 

reader who seeks for truth.” 

— Sarah Coakley 


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This beautifully written book summons readers anew to remember and 

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us the powerful image of a vast communion 

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dead, in vital conversation with each other. 

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rhythm of our daily lives as we recognize our 

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“Abounding in colorful anecdotes, and laced with wry and sympathetic humor, 

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to engage people from the past with generous hearts and warm interest. Such 

choosing situates the living in authentic relationship with the dead, engenders 

textured conversation across the generations, and initiates us into the communion 

of saints.” 

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Old South Church in Boston 

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