Amos Yong

Varieties of Christian Universalism

Theology

“The title of this book is invitational, as are most presenting multiple views or the variations of perspectives on theological topics, but those who pick up and read will be introduced to four strong sets of arguments by thinkers who have been exploring these matters substantively over extended periods of time. Come ready to engage with the warrants and justifications for these various universalist options, and if you do, you might become a better theologian, if not a better Christian, even if you remain unconvinced about becoming a universalist in any of the ways invited to in these pages.”

Vulnerable Communion

Theology

““Vulnerable Communion is subversive theology in the tradition of the prophets speaking from the margins of society. It calls the church to confront and dismantle the (world’s) ‘cult of normalcy,’ within which the church has uncritically worshipped. It also calls for a theology of disability that not merely insists on caring for people with disabilities but that allows the experience of disability to interrogate its theology of power. The result is a long-awaited and much-needed theological revisioning of the traditional doctrines of God, Christ, creation, redemption, and church so that the true power of the gospel is released from the underside of history once again.”

Welcome as a Way of Life

Theology

“'Welcome,' 'hospitality,' 'community'--while trite in some theological discourses, Wall has retrieved these notions from deep within the Christian tradition with help from a source not expected to yield theological and conceptual robustness: the L'Arche 'way of life.' It's the radical otherness of L'Arche realities that moves practical theology from the margins of applicability to the center, where it will transform Christian imagination and praxis from within. Difference and vulnerability here do real theological work to generate new forms of human relationality, thanks to Welcome as a Way of Life.”

What Women Want

Women

“Alexander and Bowers and their colleagues in this volume insist that whatever their provenance, the voices of Pentecostal women ministers can no longer be ignored. Perhaps more than two or three prophetesses are speaking in these pages, calling attention to injustices and exploding the myths perpetuated by some of the sons who claim the Spirit. If so, then now the congregation of readers must judge and discern what is said—may those with ears to hear respond to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.”

What’s So Liberal about the Liberal Arts?

Discipleship & Christian Education

“This inaugural volume of the Frameworks series marks it as a go-to set of books for those working in Christian universities. Its contributors here connect the liberal arts tradition to Christian formation in provocative and thoughtful ways, and Lewis and Mittelstadt's editorial oversight is suggestive for how interdisciplinarity will continue to facilitate the integration of Christian faith and learning in the present higher education ferment.”

Why Didn’t Evangelicals “See Him Coming”?

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“The corruption of human nature lifted up in these pages is a biblical truth that touches all of us, not only those who are manipulators and deceivers (the focus here is on Donald Trump) but also those who (to paraphrase 2 Tim 4:3–4) would have itching ears, be inclined to turn away from the truth and embrace myths and conspiracy theories, and everyone in between. If nothing else, this book should invite evangelicals to continue to revisit their Scriptures and to consider that the enemy is not others in flesh and blood (whether immigrants, people of color, Republicans, Democrats, or the like) but the father of lies itself.”

Why Evangelical Theology Needs the Global Church

Theology

“Why Evangelical Theology Needs the Global Church is at once a theology of culture, a theology of plurality, and even a theology of ethnicity and the nations (the Greek ethnos, in the New Testament, is often translated ‘nations’), although it is not a theology of nationalism (in the West or anywhere!). Pardue writes out of a hermeneutic of charity that welcomes the many voices from the global church to engage with the biblical and historic theological traditions, and hence invites us all to consider our own posture toward others that we may before have held at arm’s length.”

World Christianity

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Graham Joseph Hill went to and from the ends of the earth—crossing theological traditions, cultures, and even oceans and continents—to bear witness to the gospel through the many perspectives of world Christianity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. World Christianity unfolds the many tribes, languages, peoples, and nations that anticipate the coming reign of God, while providing a theoretical and methodological frame for comprehension and analysis.”