David Bentley Hart

Arts & Literature

“Peter Leithart has provided a great service by approaching this film of Terrence Malick--America's greatest filmmaker, and perhaps the greatest of his time--with the seriousness it merits, and by considering it in light of the religious and metaphysical themes it so beautifully and so mysteriously explores. I hope this book is the first of many such treatments.”

Tell Them Something Beautiful

“In this collection, Sam Rocha wanders far and wide, and the wandering is a virtue. Sometimes peregrinations are pilgrimages, ways of seeking out truths that have been scattered or hidden, far from the main roads. What unifies these pieces, for all their mercurial diffuseness, is a deeply contemplative intelligence, a lyrical voice, and a keen eye for the telling detail.”

The Comforter

Theology

“Sergius Bulgakov was among the most original and brilliant of twentieth-century theologians — and among the most controversial. We still have much to learn from him and about him, and Boris Jakim's translations of his major theological works are a marvelous gift to English-speaking theologians. This edition of Bulgakov's learned, profound, and very lovely treatise on the Holy Spirit is especially welcome and especially illuminating.”

The Crucifixion

Theology

“Rutledge's work on the crucifixion is not only broad but also deep. Thought-provoking, often moving, this book offers a genuinely novel approach to a topic on which it often seems nothing new can be said.”

The Death of Classical Theism and the Subsequent Rise of Atheism

Theology

“A book of admirable clarity and cumulative power. Himes has produced not only a primer in classical metaphysics, but a salutary warning against the heedless abandonment of that metaphysics.”

The End of the Law?

Science & Faith

“Opderbeck’s is an argument of great originality and profundity. Modern attempts to reduce the human capacity for law and lawfulness—our capacity, that is, for transcending mere material necessity and evolutionary imperatives, as well as for failing before a standard at once within and beyond our nature—are ultimately as contradictory as all other forms of dogmatic naturalism. Opderbeck bracingly contends that this curious condition instead testifies to our relationship with and participation in a God of boundless love, and that its true and ‘natural’ explanation is found in Christology.”

The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of Being

Philosophy

“This is a radiant book, as beautiful as it is profound. Indeed—as Desmond consistently demonstrates in all his work, but here with a special power—the profoundest philosophical reflection must necessarily be the most beautiful.”

The Lamb of God

Theology

“This book is quite simply the most remarkable and impressive work of Christology produced in the twentieth century, and its appearance in English is long overdue. In Bulgakov's vision of Divine-Humanity, the inner coherence of the doctrines of Incarnation and of the transformation of human beings in Christ becomes startlingly visible, in a way both deeply grounded in patristic tradition and profoundly original.”

The Sophiology of Death

Theology

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What Christ Said

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Much of Christian cultural history has consisted in attempts—individual and collective, social and institutional—to evade or forget what Christ actually required of his followers. At many times and places (such as, say, contemporary America), it has involved more or less entirely inverting the meaning of Christ’s words, and inventing a religion to match the looking-glass reversal of the gospel thus produced. Isaac Portilla’s insistence on adherence to the actual plain content of Christ’s words should not, of course, constitute a challenge to Christian self-understanding; and yet it will, and this by itself attests to its necessity.”

Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church

Women

“Some traditions are old because they are truly valuable, while some are valued only because they are old. The exclusion of women from the priesthood is a practice for which the theological arguments are notoriously weak—to the point of fatuity in many cases—but Orthodoxy’s veneration of the past has usually made it impossible to undertake a serious reconsideration of the issue. A book like this, encompassing essays by such eminent scholars, has long been desperately needed.”