David Bentley Hart
A Beginner's Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Most modern readers of Dante are unable to follow the poet's journey except from a great distance, at too great a cultural, historical, and conceptual remove to understand and enjoy his imaginative landscape. Baxter's book provides the inestimable service of conducting the reader safely across that space of separation; it sets one upon the path, right at Dante's side.”
Theology
“Parry (and Ramelli) are to be commended—or, really, praised—for having brought this project to completion with such scrupulous care and comprehensiveness. Taken in its totality, it is a work that reminds us how large and venerable the Christian universalist tradition is, how intellectually and spiritually rich, and how deeply biblically informed. This is an indispensable text.”
Theology
“This volume is the fruit of decades of scrupulous and often inspired scholarship. There is perhaps always more to be said about Augustine, but very few students of his writings continue to unearth theological riches as reliably as Barnes does. This book is a significant contribution to our understanding of the most consequential epoch in the history of Christian thought.”
Between Interpretation and Imagination
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This is a marvelous study: scrupulous, illuminating, and much needed. In part, it goes some way toward rescuing Lewis from many of those who admire him but who have a curiously confused notion of how he viewed Scripture and its exegesis within the embrace of Christian faith. But it also provides a portrait of the development of his thinking that, as far as I know, no one else has given us.”
Arts & Literature
“All truly perceptive writers and readers of literature know that they are engaged in something uncanny—call it magic, sacrament, theurgy, communion with things unseen, or what have you—and that to enter into the depths of language is to practice conjuration and enchantment, or to be possessed and addressed by divine powers. Apparently, Ed Simon was practicing ‘Orphic criticism’ long before he found a name for it. There is a luminous quality to all of these essays that shows he has long been aware that the true experience of literature is an initiation into mysteries, and a glimpse beyond what nature alone can reveal.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“One cannot really understand the New Testament as a whole if one fails to pay attention to how thoroughly the book of Isaiah pervades its language, and specifically that concerning eschatological hope. Nixon de Vera’s book is a wonderfully deep dive into that language, one that brings all sorts of unexpected and lovely treasures back to the surface. And it will almost certainly transform any reader’s vision of the texts of Christian Scripture.”
Early Religious Writings, 1903-1909
History & Biography
“We are yet again indebted to Boris Jakim for his prodigious efforts to bring the best of Russian Christian thought into English, not only with great fidelity but with admirable literary grace. Above all, his translations of the glorious trio of the great Russian 'Sophiologists'--Solovyov, Florensky, and Bulgakov--have opened the world of Anglophone scholarship to the full scope of their truly staggering genius. Florensky was in some ways the most mercurial of the three, and the one whose range of intellectual expertise crossed the greatest number of boundaries. This collection is a true treasure because it sheds remarkable light on Florensky's thought and on the whole of Russian religious philosophy in its golden age.”
Engaging the Doctrine of Creation
Theology
“Once again, the indefatigable Matthew Levering has produced a wonderfully lucid survey of a crucial theological topic--this time the doctrine of creation. The work of a scholar of generous temper and analytic rigor who is in touch with the dogmatic traditions of the whole Christian world, this book provides an ideal introduction to its topic.”
Theology
“Christianity entered the world as a proclamation of radical joy. It has all too often, however, reigned over the Western imagination as a religion whose essential message is more horrifying than most of us like to admit. David Artman has allowed himself to be guided in these pages by two impulses: deep compassion and intellectual honesty. In doing so, he has found his way back to an understanding of his faith that is actually ‘good news.’”
Apologetics
“A book at once incisive, wise, compassionate, and deeply devout. Wells avoids with equal agility the traps of empty dogmatism and empty faddishness, never forgetting that it is the love of God and neighbor—on which depend all the Law and the Prophets—that provides the proper key to any interpretation of the Christian mystery.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Roman Montero has adopted the position—outlandish for most Christians down the ages—of taking Jesus at his word on matters of wealth, poverty, justice, and political order. For those who would prefer a morality consisting chiefly in personal continence, but making no demands upon their comforts and privileges, nothing could be more subversive or threatening. And yet no unprejudiced reader of this book can truly doubt that it captures something essential to the moral beauty of the gospel.”
World Religions
“This is a splendid and genuinely unprecedented book. How easy it is to overlook what should be one of the most conspicuous aspects of kabbalistic tradition: the sheer richness of its imaginative power, its poetry, its literary grandeur and strangeness. And Elbom is to be thanked for capturing so much of that in so economical a form.”
Theology
“A wise, honest, penetrating meditation, guided and shaped throughout by unflagging compassion. Allison is an ideal companion in thinking long and scrupulously about truly final things.”
Notes from the House of the Dead
Fiction
“Jakim captures Dostoevsky's voice with an immediacy and power that is perhaps a little uncanny. This should by all rights become the standard English edition of this book.”
Arts & Literature
“Boris Jakim’s new translation of Notes from Underground . . . should probably now be regarded as the standard version in English.”
Theology
“Andrew Hronich is admirably relentless in making his case, leaving no avenue of biblical, moral, and philosophical reflection unexplored, and leaving no possible objection unaddressed. This is a necessary book, especially for those whose minds and hearts are open.”
Paul’s Three Paths to Salvation
Theology
Foreword
“I find much to admire in Gabriele Boccaccini’s attempt to reconstruct Paul’s own vision of salvation. . . . This is a splendid and necessary book.”
Reimagining the Analogia Entis
Theology
“Erich Przywara is at last gaining the attention he deserves in Anglophone theological circles. For too long, he has enjoyed the status of little more than a repressed memory among us; and yet no figure is more crucial for an understanding of the immense revolutions in systematics and philosophical theology in the twentieth century, and the work of very few remain as perennially pertinent and fruitful as his. Gonzales is to be praised not simply for providing a survey of this remarkable thinker’s contributions, but for bringing them into deep conversation with so much of contemporary theological scholarship and speculation.”
Theology
“Hans Boersma’s Seeing God is the most significant and theologically comprehensive treatment of this topic in English since Kenneth Kirk’s classic The Vision of God. And, far more than Kirk, Boersma provides the invaluable service of breaking down the barriers (mostly barriers of misconception) separating differing Christian traditions, East and West, Orthodox and Catholic and Protestant. This is theological reflection of the most illuminating kind.”
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