The Lord Roars

“The Lord Roars offers a powerful call toward living a prophetically formed ethic grounded in the biblical prophets Amos, Isaiah, and Micah. This call is desperately needed in our fractured world. Carroll’s unique lens of poetics and literary imagination offers a new way to encounter the prophets. Readers are empowered not only to read and learn but to respond responsibly. This means critiquing the structures of human arrogance and injustice in economic and sociopolitical dimensions, identifying the way worship and social responsibility are intertwined, and finding hope in the ashes through the prophetic vision of plenty, justice, and peace. The roar of the Lord is a call we all need to hear and heed.”

Beth M. Stovell

“In The Lord Roars, Daniel Carroll, easily one of our best scholars and teachers on the prophets, offers a concise and erudite—indeed, ideal—introduction to these all-important messengers of God. Carroll focuses on selected texts from Amos, Isaiah, and Micah while at the same time engaging everything from Don Quijote and Charles Dickens to immigration, the Inquisition, liberation theology, and much, much more. The Prophetic Voice for Today, indeed! And it has been fully recovered too, thanks to Carroll’s masterful treatment.”

Brent A. Strawn

“Carroll masterfully portrays the ancient prophetic imagination to contemporary readers through Isaiah, Amos, and Micah, providing a supremely relevant word concerning how prophetic literature must influence the ethical vision of God’s people in God’s world today. Carroll’s book is an invaluable, biblically faithful resource for Christians who wish to embody a contemporary prophetic voice to push back against the ethical failures of the Christian church, speak out against injustice, and confront oppressive authorities and structures. Carroll provides a particularly timely and restorative message for modern communities that have seized, clung to, and identified with factional ideologies that engender impiety. This book is a must-read for those committed to reclaiming the prophetic voice by proclaiming the vision of the prophets.”

Dominick S. Hernández

“Danny Carroll weds his deep engagement with literature and his lifelong attention to justice to recover prophetic imagination for the church. For those who no longer know the language of prophetic imagination, who doubt the Old Testament’s authority on today’s questions of justice, or who misappropriate the prophetic word on behalf of political agendas, Carroll opens the text’s power to critique and to energize toward justice. With scholarly acumen and humility, this exploration is biting but also offers hope. In light of today’s many pursuits of justice, this book provides a clarion call for the church to fire its imagination toward a justice that is truly grounded in the prophetic message, is lived out in the life of Christ, and is now passed on to the church. For anyone praying, speaking, or acting toward a vision of justice, this book is a must-read.”

Lissa M. Wray Beal

“Carroll takes us to the heart of the ancient prophetic message, focusing on justice, worship, and hope. The power of this book lies in the dialogue it creates between ancient and contemporary prophets. As readers we are constantly forced to consider the message of the prophets in light of present realities, and the response demanded echoes that of the prophets themselves: nothing short of repentance.”

Mark J. Boda