Ann Loades
Arts & Literature
“In this outstanding book Dr. Kanitz negotiates her way via ‘mystical’ Judaism into ‘the abyss of life’s mysteries’ interrogated by Annie Dillard’s unsparing and unsentimental intelligence. Moreover, she shows us Annie Dillard as theologian of divine ‘sacramental’ presence, in a creation of a ‘holy insecurity’ piercing God’s own being.”
Arts & Literature
“It is not often that one comes across a book written about religion that makes one's hair stand on end, but it is Eva Marta Baillie's achievement to have done so! Uniquely well placed to scour through material in several European languages, she has produced a gripping exploration of 'Satan'--liar, corrupter, and adversary, his relatives, doubles, and human counterparts in all their ambiguity--in a splendid range of narratives. Fascinating and unnerving reading!”
History & Biography
“Whilst eminently scholarly and appropriately demanding for the reader, this biography holds one's attention--a significant achievement, and much to be commended!”
Arts & Literature
“This remarkably adventurous book has become possible because two longstanding friends learned to trust one another. Its readers will find themselves indebted to both the authors for their courtesy to one another and the expectations of care and insight they generate in those willing to embark on comparable studies!”
Philosophy
“A theologian with a magisterial grasp of how traditions of religious practice both connect and disconnect with one another, Dr. Khay Lim finds resources for serious ecumenical agreement by proposing how religious believers may steer their conversations with one another along, claims either to inerrancy or infallibility. Both critical and reconstructive, reading this book sharpens up our understanding of the interplay of word and practice expressed in our differences, and consequently how we may relish them in the hunt for truth in theology.”
Work, Money & Leadership
“"Professor Fletcher has written in an engaging style about a neglected dimension of the contribution of Dorothy L. Sayers to serious thinking about work (demolishing some myths about gender on the way). Moreover, she confidently displays Sayers's theological versatility in being at once faithful to the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, while illuminating it for the meaning of work, so central to the lives of human beings.”
Christian Living
“This is an invaluable, one-off book in both form and content. . . . A central insight is that our virtues are pulled out of us by our loves—pets, games, politics included, all explored with abundant humility, humor, and passion.”
Preaching & Worship
“In worship that which we make may re-make us in unpredictable ways if we agree that theology, rooted as it is in the strange activity of liturgy, should engage a full range of human emotion and hopeful imagining, with moments both of fidelity and freedom in liturgical re-enactment. David Jasper is seeking both in the past and in the present for the sensitivity to language to be found in our cultures (if not as yet by ‘liturgists’) to make possible intercession, thanksgiving, and delight in the glorification of God. A book both informative, challenging, and to be taken very seriously.”
Theology
Foreword
“Theology can be profoundly disturbing, shocking, and enticing. In particular, let eucharistic 'body and blood' be explored in sometimes hair-raising texts and we may find the courage to re-engage with dimensions of mystery that we would prefer to marginalize or even forget. Novelists are among our crucial resources for re-engaging religious mystery and our cultures. This book's remarkable achievement is to show us how this may be done.”
Theology of Culture in a Japanese Context
Theology
“Readers of this splendid book will find it to be a masterly guide to the complexities of Japanese responses to Western Christian missionary endeavors in contexts of Japanese nationalism/cosmopolitanism/imperialism and the tragedy of defeat. An acute discussion of Niebuhr, Yoder, and Hauerwas is complemented by analysis of the theologies of Kazoh Kitamori, Yasuo Furuya, and Hideo Ohki . . . to generate a possible theology of culture for Japan and appropriate church structures.”
Christian Living
“What we have in this book is a most extraordinary narrative not just of sheer courage and determination on the part of a young woman who continues to flourish having endured chemotherapy and major surgery on one leg, but a narrative about a truly compassionate family. . . . Granddaughter and grandfather write, pray, and use their anger at the suffering she endures to find a sense of divine presence to her, both in her own honesty about her feelings and in the depth and extent of care she received. . . . This book is indeed 'a grief observed' (to use C. S. Lewis' phrase) and a mode of thanksgiving. Not a book for the sentimental!”
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