Bill J. Leonard
Biography
Bill J. Leonard has served as Chair of Church History at the Divinity School at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This helpful text offers readers an overview of the content, context, and personalities found in Hebrew and Christian scriptures. It is a valuable resource for Bible teachers and students, those who know a little or a lot about the people, places, and ideas found in specific books and stories. Professor Mayfield “guides” us well.”
History & Biography
“In this outstanding volume, Geldbach utilizes the skills of an impressive and international array of Baptist scholars who know their respective traditions well. Their essays describe the history, practice, and theological diversity of Baptist communions across the globe. The book is an invaluable tool for Baptists and those who study them.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“From his unique position, Daniel Aleshire knows the fascinating history, the changeable present, and the hopeful future of American theological education like few others. In this rich and arresting volume he addresses the enduring evolution of ministerial training with insightful analyses of what lies ahead. A masterful study.”
Christian Living
“A book for our times. In this well-documented, insightful study, Augustine explores the nature of Christian reconciliation in its biblical, theological, social, and contemporary implications. The book surveys the broad concept of reconciliation while providing important implications for recovering it in church and society here and now.”
History & Biography
“Writing a text that surveys Christian history is no easy matter—which individuals, dates, and stories to be included and which to be omitted. In this excellent volume, Professor Robinson rises to the occasion, providing an introduction to Christianity from its Hebrew roots and first century origins to its twenty-first century struggles and possibilities. It could not come at a more opportune moment.”
History & Biography
“This fine collection of essays offers insight and analysis of Baptist history in Eastern Europe, an area largely under-researched in English. It is an important and timely contribution to Baptist and European religious studies.”
Fiction
“This novel is fun and funny, sober and sobering in all the right places. The authors capture the wondrous/frustrating incongruity of Southern, specifically North Carolina, culture, deep in the grass roots.”
Dissenting from Donald Trump While Listening to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This book is a critical study of elements of the life and presidencies of Donald J. Trump, written with insight and excellent documentation. But it is much more than that. It is also about us as Americans, who we are, what we believe, and how we respond as democracy vanishes before our very eyes. (Oh yes, and what Christianity has to do with any of this.)”
Christian Living
“With courage and insight, Ogletree confronts a Christianity in which individual and corporate meanness masquerades as conviction, a religion whose moralistic rhetoric obscures ‘offensive and despicable’ action. He calls us to recognize and repent of such Christian meanness, rediscovering the radical grace of the Jesus Story.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In this intriguing collection of essays, Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton, biblical scholar, gospel preacher, and social justice advocate, explores the unorthodox orthodoxy of progressivism as an expansive vision of the Jesus story. Chapters explore classic Christian themes including justification, sanctification, sacraments, and community as entry points for a grace-filled openness inside and outside the church. It is a powerful study of and for our times.”
History & Biography
“A new treatment of the Salvation Army, [Murdoch's] excellent history captures the tension between 'revivalistic freedom and denominational discipline.' The book offers a serious critical analysis of the successes and failures of the order and its founders, the Booths.”
Preaching Conversations with Scholars
Preaching & Worship
“Rodney Kennedy is a preacher of considerable courage! In this well written work he presents a variety of his own sermons drawn from various biblical texts and pastoral issues, with resulting responses from a group of scholar-analysts. The result is a resource for preachers and congregations alike. Preachers receive insights into sermon content linking scholarship, spirituality, and praxis in the work of the gospel. Congregations may be assisted in 'having ears to hear' both what the sermon says, and what it means.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Andrew Ettin’s intriguing study of these ‘five scrolls’ from the Hebrew Bible provides insightful historical, theological, and literary analysis of timeless texts that reveal ‘how life’s experiences become sacred.’ It is a valuable resource for Jewish and Christian communities, indeed, all who pursue issues of heritage and hope.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This is an amazing, insightful, and prophetic book, at once a commentary on the Gospel of Luke and a political manifesto on the continuing struggle for the freedom of democracy in the face of autocratic control. Through it all, Jesus becomes the Lukan guide, then and now.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
Baptist Questions, Baptist Answers
Theology
The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Church History
History & Biography
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