Andrew T. Walker
Theology
“This marvelous book by Nigel Wright puts the devil in his place by stripping him of his unwarranted personhood and exaggerated power. Nigel does not in any way play down the reality of evil, but he does show that those who have a tendency to see demons under every bed are more likely to be guilty of a paranoia in which the spirits are imaginative creations from inside their heads.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“This is the real McCoy--Kay comprehensively covers the new church networks in a way no one has done before.”
Men
“Authentic Masculinity offers a clear-eyed, biblical account of manhood at a time when both bravado and confusion pass for insight. Seth Troutt avoids the usual clichés and instead presents masculinity as a moral calling shaped by humility, discipline, responsibility, and service. This is not a reactionary manifesto or a self-help manual, but a serious and grounded vision of male maturity rooted in Scripture and ordinary faithfulness. It is a book that treats men as capable of more—and calls them to it.”
C.S. Lewis: Revelation, Conversion, and Apologetics
Theology
“"Comments and publications on C. S. Lewis have become increasingly sterile since his death in 1963--mere footnotes to the champion of 'mere Christianity.' So what a joy it is to find, as we do in this first volume of Paul Brazier's painstaking study of Lewis's thought, a genuine work of scholarship that is not only worthy of the great man but also provides for us what Lewis never did himself: a systematic philosophical theology of his religious method and beliefs.”
Christian Living
“Secular man is trying to supplant the divine Creator with a false one—the almighty algorithm. As Samuel James argues, we utilize digital tools believing that through them, we can make the world into our own image. With careless passivity, digital tools end up conforming us into its Silicon Valley–engineered image—alienated, fragmented, compulsive, and angry. There is no evangelical thinker I am aware of who has thought as critically, cautiously, and self-critically about the toll of digital life on our spirituality, psychology, and embodiment as Samuel James. From one of the most talented writers of his generation of evangelical thinkers, Digital Liturgies is one of the smartest books I’ve read from one of evangelicalism’s brightest lights.”
Divine Healing: The Formative Years: 1830–1890
History & Biography
“"This new study opens up vistas that enable us to see twentieth-century enthusiasm with new eyes: the revivals of Azusa Street in California, the excitation in the Celtic fringes of Britain, and the growing acceptance in Britain that the God of the bible could still heal had its roots in movements from the beginning of the nineteenth century, many of which have been neglected, marginalized, or forgotten. James Robinson, in this excellent book, traces their origins and influence. Theologically and sociologically they are a mixed bag, but this makes them more interesting and sometimes surprising.”
Divine Healing: The Years of Expansion, 1906–1930
History & Biography
“A good read crammed with larger than life characters brought vividly to life, Robinson's account . . . is masterly.”
Christian Living
“Kevin DeYoung’s Do Not Be True to Yourself is a helpful antidote to a culture of self-obsession. If we’re learning anything about human nature in the age in which we live, it is that outsized focus on oneself produces disabling anxiety, disorienting ‘identities,’ and dizzying confusion about man’s ultimate end. It turns out, secular man’s chief end of glorifying himself is producing the very opposite of joy. This book shows why and shows a better, godward way forward.”
Christian Living
“Jed Coppenger's Fake Christianity is one of those books that makes you wonder why it hasn't been written before because its truths seem so self-evidently true. But I'm glad it finally has and that someone like Jed, whom I have known for so long, has written it! Fake Christianity will put you on the path of understanding the heart of authentic Christianity by understanding what it is not.”
History & Biography
“From Fire, By Water is a book that I would place in the hands of any young, over-confident, over-zealous skeptic. It's a book that college-age kids need to read as they flirt, perhaps for the first time, with new ideas that sound avant-garde and rebellious for rebellion's sake, but only end up disappointing.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Hopeful Realism is a welcome conversation partner in the current renaissance of Protestant natural law theory. What stands out in this volume is the careful drawing of important categories that allow for principled distinctions to be drawn in how a society reasons morally. While not every one of their policy considerations are options I would personally adopt, what the authors have done is to help bring sobriety, restraint, and realism to the realm of Protestant political thought. This book is measured, clear, and thoughtful.”
History & Biography
“What makes this book very special is Glyn Ackerley himself. His pastoral concern for 'refugees' who had been damaged spiritually--and sometimes financially--and had landed up in his parish was his primary motivation for exposing the sub-Christian theology and practice of the Neo-Gnostic subcultures that in the name of Christianity peddle a different gospel . . . [T]his is a daring book written by a brave man.”
In the Highest Degree: Volume One
Theology
“This book is a tour de force: it is replete with observations and reflections on C. S. Lewis as a philosopher-theologian. Brazier does not duck the limitations of Lewis’s philosophical method. . . . Treating Lewis as a practitioner of philosophical theology is inspired, for it gives an insight to his strengths and weaknesses as a Christian apologist that other collections rarely do. In short, don’t take my word for the excellence of this book: buy it now and see for yourselves.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Casey Hough's Known for Love is a wonderful one-volume resource that Christians need in this urgent hour. With the heart of a pastor and the mind of a professor, Casey brings great interpretive care to arrive at conclusions that are as full of grace as they are of truth.”
Theology
“What is really impressive about this book is that the author has thrown in firecrackers of originality--an iconographic theory of time, the utilization of the Jewish 7 day week as a template for increasing the intensity and mystery of Christ's suffering, death, and resurrection--without letting this originality swamp the pastoral and educational focus of his narrative. He is able to do this because his originality is tempered by his allegiance to Christian tradition--admittedly in a very sacramentalized way. Perhaps most important of all, he has (with others) translated the Christian year and its mysteries into a weekly set of practices.”
Evangelism & Missions
“Mandatory reading for serious practitioners of mission. Nothing less.”
Christian Living
“Dr. Leithart endlessly fascinates me, whether in agreement or disagreement. What he cannot be is ignored. The Theopolitan Vision is but another example for why Peter Leithart is one of Protestantism’s most creative thinkers.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“and religious liberty demonstrates that Protestant Christians understand that these issues are not unique to liberal democracy but pertain to the order of creation. Advocating for a broad framework rather than rigid prescriptions for society, VanDrunen argues lucidly that society is constrained by a politics of creation that every political community, regardless of geography or culture, finds itself living within. Politics after Christendom helps explain and resolve the intractable disputes of human societies. The exhausted trope that Protestants lack a clear, coherent, compelling, and translatable political theology can be put to rest with the publication of this volume.”
Christian Living
“Contemporary evangelicalism is obsessed with social justice and loving one's neighbor. But when it comes to the topic that is literally destroying people's lives inside and outside the church, sexuality, so few are willing to speak up. Dean Inserra's Pure is. So few are as willing to be as clear, bold, and unapologetic about the Bible's witness on sexuality as Dean, and that's chiefly because Dean believes biblical sexuality is for our good, not for our harm or for repressing our desires. If the church is to love its neighbor and seek society's welfare, there are few more practical ways to do so than to the tell the truth about God's design for sexuality.”
Reinventing English Evangelicalism, 1966-2001
History & Biography
“Based on inside knowledge as well as telling statistics and sound sociological method, Rob Warner's study of English evangelicals in the late twentieth century tells a masterly though sobering tale of an era of evangelical entrepreneurs who had great success in gathering together the evangelical clans but suffered from a seeming inability to separate reality from hype, or what Dr. Warner calls 'vision inflation.' The book is a must for every serious Evangelical leader as well as seasoned sociological scholars.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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