David Lyle Jeffrey
A Beginner's Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Jason Baxter has written a wonderfully readable introduction to Dante's Divine Comedy. Learned yet lively, it will delight as well as richly instruct first-time readers of the poem. I highly recommend this book as a companion to Dante's text both in the classroom and for the general reader.”
A Complete Handbook of Literary Forms in the Bible
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This extremely useful book will be warmly welcomed by teachers, not only within churches, but also in college and university settings. A highly practical vade mecum for any serious reader of the Bible, for students of the Bible in its literary dimension it will become practically indispensable. Leland Ryken has made yet another superb contribution to our textual resources for biblical learning.”
Arts & Literature
“Margaret Avison, in the very best sense a regional writer, is deeply rooted in a specific community which has nourished her thought and shaped her deepest meditation week by week. Elizabeth Davey, herself an intimate of that community, expertly situates Avison's poetry in the rich milieu of her religious and communal life, and in so doing helps the reader understand the acute angularity and spiritual resonances of Avison's verse. For many readers it will be most helpful that Davey shows how thoughtfully Avison reads and innovatively evokes biblical language and thought in her poetry.”
Arts & Literature
“"In this tidy collection several of the most astute and theologically competent readers of C. S. Lewis and his friends tackle the role and register of the imagination as a theological property of mind. The result is a thoughtful, mature, and illuminating insight for any serious readers of this group of writers.”
Theology
“Hans Boersma makes a superb contribution to evangelical theological reflection in this well-designed book, and it goes a long way to drawing us back from the brink of a fashionable evangelical tendency to reductive historicism. His re-situation of the doctrine of the Incarnation in its historic sacramental language and thought opens up the way to a deeper understanding of the truths of faith that evangelicals and Catholics alike seek to comprehend and nurture.”
Arts & Literature
“Maillet . . . offers here a sweeping genealogy of Catholic Humanism, tracing it from the Bible through Augustine and medieval great texts to the writings of such as Erasmus and Thomas More. This worldview, honed by elegant Renaissance rhetoric, provides the lens through which he surveys the beauties of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Learned but highly accessible, Maillet’s book offers a valuable introduction to Christian humanism plus a probing yet engaging account of Shakespeare’s winsome comedy.”
Liberal Arts for the Christian Life
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Clement of Alexandria, one of the earliest proponents of Christian liberal arts education, observed that excellence in such educational attainment was widely regarded in the second century as evidence that a person was a Christian. The authors of this volume likewise affirm that liberal learning centered in Christ ought to be the trademark of Christians in any walk of life today. In a fitting tribute to the life work of Leland Ryken, they have created a lively and accessible introduction to the advantages of such an education for a young Christian who wishes to grow in maturity and wisdom.”
Christian Living
“The concept of ‘Christian worldview,’ let alone ‘biblical worldview,’ has more often been invoked than helpfully defined. In this stimulating, well-informed, and practical sequel to The Drama of Scripture, Goheen and Bartholomew once again demonstrate their remarkable effectiveness at articulating accessibly an understanding of Christian identity in the West that is both scripturally grounded and, notably, shaped by the Reformed intellectual tradition in its ecumenical context.”
Arts & Literature
“Gregory Maillet, a well-established scholar of Shakespeare and Tolkien, is a literary critic of unusual depth of spiritual insight. This book, his second major study of the major novels of Michael O’Brien, is brim-full with well-attuned critical insight and learned Catholic wisdom. In many ways an ideal reader of O’Brien’s fiction, Maillet offers here an intelligently conceived, warmly sympathetic introduction to O’Brien who, notwithstanding his already enthusiastic readership, deserves a much wider appreciation. Maillet’s Living Logos goes a long way to making that possible.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Curtis Freeman has composed a wonderful book of basic Christian teaching that is timely, accessible and gracious. It is timely because free church people are at last beginning to realize how much has been lost by abandoning older classics of instruction and need something to fill the gap. It is highly accessible, written not to impress academics, but without condescension, in prose an intelligent child of ten can understand. It is gracious in the author's humble and loving tone, his rich but distilled wisdom blessedly free of self-righteousness. This book will be a godsend for parents, grandparents and even pastors.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“David Parris has written a genuinely useful conspectus on the good that follows from reading the Scriptures in the company of faithful readers of the Bible across the centuries. This book is to be highly recommended to any who have the responsibility of teaching Scripture or leading Bible study in both church and secular contexts. Particularly valuable is the practicality and clarity of his opening up fundamental matters of truth and method.”
Arts & Literature
“Greg Maillet has provided a thorough examination of Tolkien’s Catholic worldview as it shapes his writing. In his focus on Sam Gamgee as an example of humble Christian discipleship, Maillet gives us a touchstone; this is a fresh and deeply informed perspective on the greatest modern epic in Western literature which helps explain how, even for non-Christian readers, Tolkien’s fiction has successfully communicated a sense of abiding truth and, withal, deep consolation.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Os Guinness has written another terrific book, at once a zinging indictment of cultural idolatry in the Christian West and a clarion call to renewal on the model of Christ in the Gospels and the witness of the apostles. This is a highly readable, big-picture book, eminently suitable for discussion in groups, not least because it calls for a collective examination of conscience. His incisive eloquence and lucid prose, his witty, trenchant turn of phrase and zest for critical and theological realism mark this little volume as vintage Guinness; his call to a renaissance of authentic evangelical Christianity will renew in many their will to hope in a dark time, spero in Deo.”
Theology
“’Calling things by their proper names,’ as eighteenth-century writer Hannah More put it, is one of the obligations of faithfulness. Marva Dawn likewise calls us to reconsider the theological language we use, abuse, and take for granted. Her book introduces an examination of conscience for the contemporary church that is timely and vital for coherence in the community of faith.”
Apologetics
“Mangalwadi’s perspective is that of a widely-read Christian from the “Global South.” From it he provides a sober, unflattering assessment of our identity crisis, showing how it results from an under-nourished, severely atrophied world-view, increasingly divorced as we are from the biblical foundation that once gave us both coherence and a self transcending sense of purpose.”
Fiction
“In this epic tale of the complex and mysterious workings of love, O'Brien takes his readers on a harrowing intercontinental odyssey, offering them an inside view both of brutal torture and mystical transport in which the dark incongruities of divine providence reorder faith and hope so that love becomes fully possible.”
Christian Living
“In this perceptive, thoughtful and very readable book, Brad Green shows that historic Christian witness is always accompanied by an intellectual awakening. Where the Christ life is authentically present, it proves to be intrinsically fruitful for education because to be a Christian, essentially, is to think as well as act in a new way. Anti-intellectualism, by contrast, is a sign that full obedience to the Gospel is lacking. Green provides a very helpful perspective on what has become a central issue for the Church in our time.”
Fiction
“The Lighthouse is as deeply moving as anything Michael O'Brien has written. In this brief, lyrical ode to the hidden mysteries of life that shall one day be revealed, truly amiable character is shaped and drawn to mirror its eternal form.”
The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis
Arts & Literature
“Following closely on his well-received works on Dante and on Christian mysticism, Jason Baxter here opens a window onto the bookshelves and study habits of C. S. Lewis, finding rightly that medieval authors have much more profoundly shaped his imagination and theology than most contemporary criticism has noticed. This well-written volume will be of interest both to seasoned scholars and undergraduate students; for the latter it will prove an invaluable introduction to a rich body of great Christian writing.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature
Arts & Literature
A Testament of Witnesses and Other Poems
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