Allen Verhey

Preaching & Worship

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

“These finely crafted lectures would have delighted Henry Stob. He would have been glad for the attention to the narrative of creation, fall, and redemption. He would have delighted in the retrieval of Augustine's notions that we know only as we love and that a community is formed by its common objects of love. He would have liked the criticism of modernity as the tradition that ‘concealed its own transmission of tradition by a tradition of scorn for tradition.' He would have been grateful for the account O'Donovan gives of the ‘evangelical discipline' of the anti-iconoclasts and for the contrast he makes with the undisciplined image-making of modern publicity. And in all of that Henry Stob would remain a model, for we should all delight in O'Donovan's profound and engaging reflections on community and politics.”

Grief’s Liturgy

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Postema's remarkable book invites us into his grief, his mourning, and his hope in God. Those who accept the invitation will be blessed. The poetry and art, the songs and Scripture, the honesty and fidelity will not eliminate grief, of course, but they will bless it and point toward the comfort of baptism and the promise of God's love.”

Imitating Jesus

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Richard Burridge's Imitating Jesus is a welcome addition to the literature on New Testament ethics. I commend it — and recommend it — for its attention to the story of Jesus as the foundation of New Testament ethics, for its attention to genre, for its emphasis on both the rigorous moral teachings and the radically inclusive acceptance of the New Testament, and for its emphasis on the hermeneutical significance of reading the Bible in an inclusive community.”

Journey toward Justice

Theology

“Nick Wolterstorff is one of my ‘heroes of the faith’—not just because he is a brilliant philosopher (although he is that), and not just because he is a careful and attentive reader of Scripture (although he is that too), but because he is an advocate for justice. His concern with justice is a lived concern, not just a theoretical one. His encounters with people who had been treated unjustly decisively shaped his life and re-formed both his analysis of the concept of justice and his reading of Scripture. I hope this book is widely read. It just may prompt others to listen both to the oppressed and to God—and to hunger for justice.”

Receiving the Gift of Friendship

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“This wonderful book helps us to understand not only the humanity of persons with profound disabilities but also our own humanity as cherished children of God. Moreover, it helps us to understand how a friendship with a profoundly disabled person, whose very humanity is sometimes questioned, might remind us of our own humanity, for we too are dependent on God's grace from first to last.”

Testing the Medical Covenant

Science & Faith

“William F. May is one of our most valuable and sensitive commentators on bioethics and the human condition. In this splendid book he ties together the burning issues of physician-assisted suicide and health care. These two issues have an enormous impact on each other, and May very nicely brings out the connections. A valuable and timely book." DANIEL CALLAHAN The Hastings Center "In his wonderful new book May describes prudence, fidelity, and public-spiritedness as virtues for health care professionals - and he displays them as virtues for moral theologians . . . The continuing conversation about assisted suicide and access to health care will be better if this book gets a wide audience.”

The Moral Disciple

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Van Til's primer on Christian ethics introduces students not only to the vocabulary of Christian ethics but also to a broader range of issues surrounding moral agency, moral norms, and moral consequences - and offers a variety of ways of dealing with those issues. No less importantly, The Moral Disciple attends to Scripture and invites readers to a richer practice of 'moral discipleship.'”

The Protestant Ethic or the Spirit of Capitalism

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“In this wonderful book, Kathryn Blanchard issues a winsome invitation to a more humane capitalism and a serious call to narrate and to practice capitalism in a morally and socially responsible way. By her engaging and sympathetic accounts of John Calvin and Adam Smith, by her theologically astute criticisms of the 'the Chicago School,' and by her attention to new voices in economics, she points Christians beyond the options of simply tithing or simply uttering prophetic jeremiads against capitalism. She points all of us toward a more virtuous economic life.”

Wealth as Peril and Obligation

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“A splendid book that describes and displays the relevance of the New Testament to contemporary Christian reflection about wealth. This book should make a significant contribution to churches gathered around Scripture in an effort to discern the shape of lives 'worthy of the gospel.' Wheeler brings important questions to the text, and to her great credit her reading of the New Testament allows the text to question us about our possessions.”