C. C. Pecknold

Building the Benedict Option

Christian Living

“This little book is a kind of Babette's Feast, which takes our hunger for a higher quality faith and feeds us with a hundred delicacies that help connect us to Christ and one another.”

Free Churches and the Body of Christ

Theology

“This work inspires me as a Catholic and fills me with enormous gratitude for . . . [what] God is doing to heal Christian divisions of our own making. By drawing on theologians who ask similar catholic questions in other Christian communions, Cary is able to advance the Free Church tradition as one capable of conjoining the gift of freedom to the gift of being made one in Christ's body, the church. It is a feast of ecumenical hope.”

Resurrection Realism

Theology

“Patrick Fletcher's magnificent study teaches us exactly what it means to call Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI an Augustinian realist in the light of the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. By providing readers with clear and concrete standards for calling Ratzinger's eschatology 'Augustinian,' and by demonstrating the ways in which he developed an increasingly realist account of bodily resurrection, Fletcher has established himself as the foremost authority on Ratzinger's eschatology. Essential reading.”

The Greatness of Humility

Philosophy

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

The Soul of a Nation

Philosophy

“Altieri gives us something rare in theological-political thought: sustained theoretical reflection on the idea of America. What orders and disorders that idea? To hold such a book in your hands, and then to read it, is to participate in fundamental questions about the soul of a nation. It is a sign of its great value that it inspired me to contemplate the representation of an order that also precedes and transcends it.”

The Unknown God

Apologetics

“New Atheists often appeal to reason, as if it were a divine name. The irony is their attempts to pit reason against religion are often charged with irrational vitriol, as well as philosophical and theological naivete. What is the best Christian response? These nine intellectually dazzling sermons speak clearly and charitably to all those who say in their heart 'God does not exist.' A stellar collection!”

Truth and Politics

Theology

“Father Peter Kucer has helped me to think through the fascinating concurrences between the theo-political thought of Joseph Ratzinger and John Milbank precisely by a thorough examination of their polar responses to Giambattista Vico's account of truth. What is most subtle and interesting about the work is that Kucer manages to bring the two theologians into a remarkable theological and political harmony despite serious disagreements concerning the nature of truth. And in an ecumenically alluring turn, Kucer suggests that Milbank is subtly revising his view of truth to align not with Vico but with Ratzinger. The overall result, however, is to help us imagine how we can break out of the debilitating effects of nominalism on our theological and political imaginations and to break back into real participation in the good, the true, and the beautiful. Recommended!”