David J. Lull

Good Faith

Philosophy

“Roger Adams demonstrates what makes for ‘good faith!’ His book—based on his broad knowledge of science, Christian history and theology, psychology, sociology, and economics—is an excellent guide for all who seek to create religious communities dedicated to helping people care for the planet and people in poverty, find meaning and value in life, cope when ‘bad things happen,’ and face death, make moral decisions, and advocate for just public policies and social structures.”

Recovering Protestantism’s Original Insight

Theology

“Paul Capetz argues that proclamation of the Christian message can and must be compatible with commonsense canons of reason and logic, and scientific and historical knowledge. At the center of his case is Protestantism’s ‘original insight’—the distinction between the Bible and the witness within it to the ‘good news’ that Jesus is the decisive representation of God’s pure, unconditional love. This insight is key to a response to both ‘evangelical’ despisers of human intellect and cultural despisers of Christianity.”

The Cave and the Butterfly

Theology

“"Chung's book is at once an epistemological-hermeneutical essay and an essay on the reality of God as physically and socially embodied, with a Theologia Crucis at its center. It offers a creative alternative to 'christomonism,' which undermines the Jewish identity of Jesus and conceals the identity of the God of Jesus Christ, not only as the God to whom Judaism, Christianity, and Islam bear witness, but also as the God to whom 'irregular' witnesses may be found in East Asian religions, and even in non- and anti-religious traditions.”