Charles Amjad-Ali
Arts & Literature
“This book is existentially devastating and theologically critical. It reflects the awful magnitude of the tragedy in Palestine, and profoundly exposes the prejudice, hate, ignorance, and ability to be genocidal and homicidal, all while hiding behind victimhood, survival, and religious bigotry. As Americans we are directly implicated in this tragedy. The poems vociferously demand overcoming complacency and complicity and scream for immediate justice for Palestinians. This book makes it imperative that Christians never be quiet in the face of such evil and devastating injustice (Matthew 25; I John 4:19–21).”
World Religions
Foreword
“A Stranger is Calling . . . is by far [Anton's] richest and most ambitious text yet. It weaves a very colorful and rich tapestry of multivalent and diverse traditions. Only an erudite and critical scholar like Anton could have brought such seemingly disparate elements together in such a brilliant and enlightening way. This coherent tour de force invites us to reevaluate our perspectives on truth, history, revelation, and even the divine.”
Arts & Literature
“S T Kimbrough Jr. raises a myriad of critically poignant questions about justice issues confronting the world, including our own paradigmatic status on democracy and rights. He does not offer platitudes, but stresses an ongoing need for repentance, and a steady course guaranteeing freedom and rights: love kindness, do justice, so it rolls down like water and an ever-flowing river; this is indeed to walk humbly with our Lord.”
World Religions
“This extremely noteworthy book deals with a very critical and thorny issue, which is most often avoided. Highly academic and intellectually stimulating, this is also one of the most hopeful texts I have read on this subject. It is of critical significance for anyone involved in theologies of religion, especially within the 'monotheistic' or 'Abrahamic' tradition. . . . Imperative for anybody who is involved in interfaith dialogue.”
Arts & Literature
Foreword
“As the title indicates, this volume covers one of the deepest crises that we are facing in our contemporary political and moral history, i.e., the all-encompassing, comprehensive, traumatic, and very violent destruction of life, freedoms, institutions, and property in Palestine. S T Kimbrough shows profoundly how the ‘Jewish Question/Problem,’ which was behind the ‘Final Jewish Solution,’ has now morphed into the ‘Final Palestinian Solution.’ Once again, in his inimitable lyrical form, he has covered this whole gamut and spectrum through his highly poetic creativity, while also capturing the biblical narrative of social and ethical norms. The whole book contains absolute gems for insights, moral grammar, and ethical norms.”
World Religions
“An excellent discussion of apocalypse in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures. Wessels sees a single apocalyptic narrative in them—not as predictions or signs of end-times, but as the quest for justice. This apocalypse prophetically reveals injustices and proclaims their end. The old order is dying and the new order is but a vision. This is a radical approach towards apocalypse, challenging the status quo ante and imagining a new world order of justice and righteousness.”
The Torah, the Gospel, and the Qur'an
World Religions
“Only an erudite, excellent, and critical scholar like Anton Wessels could have brought such seemingly disparate elements together in such a brilliant and enlightening way. . . . This coherent tour de force invites us to reevaluate our perspectives on truth, history, revelation, and even the divine. As always, Wessels opens up new vistas. I recommend this timely and pertinent book to anyone interested in a peaceful and just world. It is intellectually stimulating and one of the most hopeful books in our current polarized context.”
Arts & Literature
“Kimbrough’s poetic articulation of the heart-rending dislocations and victimizations of a people shows that where prose fails, poetry’s aesthetics, rhythm, and symbolism succeed magnificently. It invokes in us rage and powerlessness, demanding a dynamic ethical response and a vigorous prophetic and critical mind. S T’s poems reflect his training in Hebrew scriptures, with its prophetic, ethical, and wisdom materials, and he composes these poems as if they were a libretto to be sung, a reminder of his other vocation as an operatic baritone.”
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