Brian Brock

Accompanying Disability

“Topher Endress offers a groundbreaking account of accompaniment theology in this moving and personal book. Never before have disability theologians so directly and sensitively addressed the plight of allies who care about and want to speak up for disabled people without speaking over them. This academically rigorous and eminently readable volume marks a new era in disability theology.”

Christian Dying

Theology

“Our deaths are closer than we are used to admitting. By showing us how palpably close death was for the great theologians of the Christian tradition, the first-rank authors of this remarkable volume offer the rich and untapped resources of the Christian tradition to beings who must learn that they too will pass away like the flowers of the field.”

Confronting Technology

Theology

“A fresh breeze is blowing through Ellul scholarship in the wake of the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth. Matthew Prior’s vigorous contribution to that burgeoning discussion highlights the importance of several previously unknown writings by Ellul. He offers a reparative reading of Ellul’s incisive theology that has much to offer contemporary Christians concerned faithfully to navigate the paradoxes of this technological age.”

Disabling Leadership

Church Leadership & Ministry

“I have had the genuine privilege of seeing the team ministry described in this book in action. For Draper, Michele, and Mae the ministry of the differently abled is not aspiration but reality, and in Disabling Leadership they accessibly show how theologically rich and interpersonally rewarding such ministry can be. This book shifts the goalpost: mere inclusion of disabled people is not what the church needs. What it needs—and needs desperately—is the leadership of differently abled members of Christ's broken and gloriously resurrected body.”

Ethics Lost in Modernity

Philosophy

“The emperor has no clothes observes Matthew Vest: contemporary bioethics has evidently lost the ability to say anything new, or even anything very interesting. The crucial question is why the discourse of medical ethics has become so vacuous. Vest’s Wittgenstenian critique of mainstream medical ethicists and their methodological assumptions issues in a rousing and timely call to a more metaphysically and existentially rich discussion of the limits and dilemmas of modern health care.”

Fides and Secularity

Philosophy

“A reasoned faith, a faith in reason, the faith of the reasoner: these three thoughts can never be disentangled. Emilio di Somma's critically insightful engagement with Charles Taylor's magisterial work on secularity is a must read for anyone thinking about faith and secularity today.”

From Walking to Wheeling

Christian Living

“In this bracingly honest memoir, J. D. Kim shows us the many ways in which acquired quadriplegia challenges both its recipient and the church—without quieting the voice of the God who desires every Christian to be a conduit of his love. A riveting and poignant tale of a journey out of a life oriented by self-centered dreams into a living conversation with a God who gives wholly new and lifegiving dreams.”

Genes of Eden

Science & Faith

“For far too long discussions of addiction in Christian theology have positioned addiction as a moral rather than a biological and social problem. Luman Wing harnesses his lifetime of work in the biological sciences to show why such a framing of addiction is so disastrously problematic for individuals as well as the church as a whole. An important work.”

God's Good World

Theology

“Wilson is right; the modern church has been ‘missing basic research on the doctrine of creation.’ As a result, we modern Christians have very often fallen prey to or even been cheerleaders for many of the most self-destructive habits of our age. This book should be mandatory reading for pastors, theological students, and believers who care about the burning moral issues of our day and want to rethink them theologically.”

Heavenly Bodies

Theology

“This book has needed to be written for a long time now — a philosophically robust, historically informed, yet genuinely theological account of human embodiment. Ola Sigurdson offers us a gripping account of how the Christian confession of Christ's incarnation and our embodied condition reciprocally illumine each other. Masterful.”

Imperial Pilgrims

Theology

“Augustine of Hippo thought empires always end up fighting endless wars. Shawn Aghajan, the son of an Iranian immigrant to the United States as well as the Prince of Peace, shows us how devastating it is that American defenders of Augustine’s political theology have ignored this insight. American Christians today must no longer evade asking how Christians come to defend and even love the violence endemic to being the ‘greatest nation on earth.’”

In the Fellowship of His Suffering

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“A truly remarkable and unforgettable book. By narrating life with her daughter with a crisp accuracy and brutal honesty, Elahe Hessamfar brings before us some hard theological questions. Her analysis is full of insight about how we might think about the shape of Christian hope and witness in the shadow of such threatening conditions.”

Living a Theology of Gender

Theology

“In recent decades, most discussions of gender have focused attention on outlier cases, lending an abstractness to discussions of gender that seem simultaneously to demand that Christians take a position in the culture wars and yet to be far removed from ordinary Christians' daily lives. Fellipe do Vale brings the discussion back down to earth with nuance and theological acumen by lingering over the mundane daily practices through which everyone's gender identities are filled out. A lucid and practically helpful contribution to a fraught discussion.”

Minding the Web

Theology

“The role played by oral performance in Stanley Hauerwas' influence as a theologian and Christian has only recently been noticed. This collection is a game changer in highlighting how, at root, Hauerwas main aim has been insistently and creatively to say ‘Jesus is Lord’ out loud and clearly. Robert J. Dean’s appreciative yet critical engagement of his preaching offers much to chew on for those interested in thinking about it in robustly theological terms.”

Pearls of Comfort

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“This letter from a Christian living in a Swiss society where assisted suicide has been legal for decades comes at just the right time for English-speaking Christians wrestling today with these questions. Martina Holder Franz offers deep theological insights and profound human wisdom about how it looks to love well those who are approaching the end of life.”

Plundering Eden

Theology

“Civilization is an idolatrous myth that is literally killing us. For Christians, argues Greg Wagenfuhr, the only plausible antidote to our predicament is the redemption of our imagination of ourselves as creatures. A timely and robustly theological intervention in ecological ethics.”

Reforming a Theology of Gender

Theology

“Judith Butler is far and away the most important queer theorist of the modern world, and her practical influence cannot be underestimated. Most Christians have responded with withering attacks or uncritical embraces. Daniel Patterson offers the first patient, probing, and detailed theological analysis of her work. This biblically and philosophically astute study usefully introduces Butler’s difficult body of work and is critical reading for any church seeking to faithfully engage the turbulence of our newly gender-fluid age.”

Remembering

History & Biography

“The theologian who refused to write an autobiography now offers us a ‘biography of his books.’ This is marvelously fitting because Hauerwas has always insisted that it is God and our words about God that really matter, not the person or inner world of the theologian. We are provided with an amazing insider’s view of how much has changed in theology in the last thirty years—and how critical it is to understand these changes.”

Resurrecting Interpretation

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Exploding biblical hermeneutics from within, Simon Perry shows us why reading Scripture is best understood as an engagement with a God who claims lives entire. Rigorously engaging the whole sweep of modern hermeneutical philosophy, this book shows how serious biblical theology must finally transmute into theology proper, and of the highest order.”

Rhythms of Faithfulness

Theology

“Few theologians display the distinctive witness of contemporary British Baptists so luminously as the life and work of John Colwell. This snapshot of a larger than life figure lets us glimpse an especially winning period of British Baptist theology, beautifully displayed by the volume’s orientation around a theme dear to John’s heart—the great daily liturgy of the church catholic.”