David Jasper

Theology

Foreword

“This book is about two great mysteries—God and that human condition which we call autism—and how they are linked. As we read this extraordinary work, our narrow band of social normality and comprehension is expanded and we are called to be attentive to new, broader, and more profound ways of seeing and knowing.”

The Heart Could Never Speak

Philosophy

“There are many ways to read a poem and some of them allow a poem to read us. This beautiful short meditation on a late poem by Edwin Muir is rooted in a lifetime's scholarship in Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and existentialist thought. . . . Written with clarity yet moving and profound, this engagement with one poem explores the nature of faith in our technological world, yet a world that still breathes with the wonder of poetry and faith.”

The Last Romantic

Arts & Literature

“This beautifully crafted book sets the religious writings of Lewis within the context of German idealism and English Romanticism. Barbeau brilliantly draws upon the marginalia in books from Lewis's own library to place him within the tradition of Methodism, the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge, and the philosophy of Schleiermacher, Hegel, and Feuerbach. In the construction of theological language, Lewis is revealed afresh as a deeply learned, sensitive, and serious Christian thinker.”

The Mountain of Gold

Fiction

“The Mountain of Gold is a marvelous and vast poetic achievement filled with echoes and resonances of the medieval quest romance, Dante, Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, folk tale, the Bible, Tolkien, and much more. It is a deeply religious poem that digs back into cultural antiquity, a remarkable and imaginatively sustained achievement in verse that provokes much meditation.”

The Scandal of Sacramentality

Theology

Foreword

“In the texts addressed by Hancock here we return to the body in all its messy complexity, and therefore to the mystery that lies at the very heart of the incarnation, the Word made flesh. . . . For some, this may seem a profane book--but it is in its heart deeply sacramental and, perhaps, even devout. Yet it is timely and challenging, a reminder that religion, and the Christian sacramental tradition, remains a central part of our world and our experience of what it is to be human.”

The Theology of George MacDonald

Theology

“A study not only of the nineteenth century, de Jong’s book on George MacDonald is also a warning for our own time and its religious tendencies. MacDonald is often known for little more than his influence on C. S. Lewis and Tolkien, but here he emerges as a serious voice, not a theologian but through literature an explorer of central theological ideas and their influence for good and, too often, ill. De Jong’s knowing and informed revisiting of the theme of the child after Wordsworth and Romanticism is a welcome reminder of its continuing importance today, of the importance of literature, and of the dangers of the vampire of fundamentalism.”

The Translatability of the Religious Dimension in Shakespeare from Page to Stage, from West to East

Arts & Literature

Foreword

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The Voice of Jesus

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“At a time when there is renewed interest in the study of parables, both biblical and in other literature, Dr. Wright's book is at the cutting edge of scholarship. He is equally at home in the Classics of the Christian tradition, in contemporary biblical studies and literary theory as well as the study of rhetoric. His recovery of the 'voice' of the great parables of Luke's Gospel is a masterpiece of interdisciplinarity and should be widely read by both students and scholars.”

Treasure in Earthen Vessels

Arts & Literature

“Saints are not perfect people. They are people who know their need of God. In Ambrose Mong’s fine book, modern novelists portray the interior lives of priests who have fought to keep alive the light of Christ in an often-dark world. Mong explores the remarkable commitment of priests and bishops in China, Japan, and San Salvador, using also the insights of fiction from Willa Cather, George Bernanos, and Graham Greene to illuminate the faith and courage of men, not perfect but extraordinary in their faith and love for suffering humanity.”

Wounded Images

Theology

“This book is deeply theological, beginning with Karl Barth and Paul Tillich followed by more contemporary feminist theologians, yet also rooted in the wounded female characters of Jean Rhys’ fiction. It weaves complex strands of argument to suggest how God connects to us through the wounds. There are no easy solutions, but the end is not despair, rather a reminder that even the oppressed and broken are made in the image of God who is bound to us in love.”