Brian Brock

Second Tolstoy

“Everyone knows that Tolstoy’s nonviolence inspired Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and millions of others. Far fewer know how directly Tolstoy’s vision was rooted in the Sermon on the Mount, though thinkers as diverse as Bonhoeffer, Wittgenstein, and Dorothy Day certainly did. Steve Hickey’s recovery of this forgotten Christian tradition is a reminder that when we think of nonviolent movements for justice around the globe, we are in fact reconsidering the truth of the teaching of Jesus.”

Simul Sanctification

Theology

“Birthed in the fires of real world missional controversy, this book crackles with the urgency of the gospel. Drawing from the deep well of Barth’s Church Dogmatics, Jeff McSwain offers a refreshing vision of Christian life freed to live wholly in this world by seeking the true life hidden in Christ.”

The Bible, Disability, and the Church

Theology

“This long-overdue biblical theology of disability is clearly the pinnacle of modern Christian attempts to reclaim texts that have often been seen as offensive to people with disabilities. Readable and winsome, it is just the book to open up disability issues for today's church.”

The Church after Innovation

Christian Living

“There’s something satisfying about a story that is this big, bold, and revealing about how our cultural presumptions came to be—especially when so beautifully told. Root’s grand narrative offers the significant benefit of showing in fine-grain detail why Christians who do not account for the shaping effects of our economic practices evacuate the content of the Christian confession. When Christians fall in love with ideas of leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship, we can be sure they have ignored for too long the secular economic context in which they live and breathe. A timely wake-up call.”

The Church and Work

Work, Money & Leadership

“The Church and Work is a deeply theological and very timely reminder that neither work nor the worship of the church stands still. Thinking about work always is, or rather should be, to re-examine in great concreteness who and how we worship.”

The Eschatological Economy

Theology

“Dense, erudite, and provocative, this work confirms the vitality of British, indeed European, doctrinal theology. . . . The reader opening to any page will be rewarded with startling and original theological insights.”

The Making of Stanley Hauerwas

Theology

“David Hunsicker ends his delightfully lucid account of Hauerwas's theology with the assurance that his will not be the last word. But his book has definitively raised the standard for all future treatments of the main sources and impulses of Hauerwas's theological ethic.”

The Pursuit of Safety

Theology

“Jeremy Lundgren's remarkably rich theology of safety offers Christians today a gateway into true Christian freedom. It is often hard to decide whether the modern world is safer than ever before or saturated with frightening risks earlier generations could never have imagined. Helpfully locating our experiences by tracing their historical genesis, Lundgren shows us how we came to be constantly bombarded by safety messages and risk warnings. What might it look like to live with confidence in Christ in such a cultural context? Christians living in developed nations today cannot afford to ignore the ways in which safety has become the idol of our time. Lundgren's work offers a long-overdue account of what true Christian freedom looks like in a world where we are constantly told that we are at risk.”

To Will & To Do, Volume One

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“This is a landmark publication. This would be true if only for the vast improvement on a fifty-year-old translation and new scholarly apparatus. But the real buzz is that this first volume will be followed by a previously unavailable second volume of the work that Ellul himself understood as his theological masterwork. Jake Rollison masterfully explains why this book offers Christians today a wholly new, and genuinely exciting, Jacques Ellul.”

To Will & To Do, Volume Two

Theology

“The appearance of this lost volume is the publishing event of the decade in theological ethics. Finally we have Ellul’s own account of his relation to Barth as well as his understanding of Christian ethics as a prophetic vocation, to take two of the most exciting topics covered. Jacob Marques Rollison tells the remarkable story of how this volume resurfaced fifty years on, as well as why our understanding of Ellul will never be the same.”

Too Expensive to Treat?

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“In this crisply argued and tightly focused book, Charles Camosy strips away contemporary evasions of the rationing that is already taking place in American medicine. By asking what Christians owe to imperiled' rather than 'disabled' newborns, he is able to make powerful links between ancient Christian views and today's debates about health-care rationing for fragile newborns. Perhaps most importantly, Camosy goes far beyond most medical ethics in insisting that these questions be faced as part of a larger moral analysis of the amazing inequalities that characterize contemporary health care in the United States.”

Understanding Friendship

Philosophy

“In this wise, wide-ranging, and philosophically astute treatment of friendship, Gary Chartier offers what precious few theologians have dared in the modern period: an account of friendship that does not begin by trying to update Aristotle. We are offered instead a marvelously stimulating proposal: that friendship is ‘vulnerable co-creation,’ an opening of oneself to embrace life with beloved people one cannot control.”

Welcome as a Way of Life

Theology

“Benjamin Wall has made an invaluable contribution to our understanding of how the life and writings of Jean Vanier cohere in a precisely articulated vision of Jesus Christ. Wall shows why welcome and responsiveness must be central to any human community, Christian or otherwise, that we want to label 'caring.'”