David P. Gushee
A Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This formidable collection of conference papers offering Mennonite theological, ethical, and practical perspectives on peace- and justice-making reminds me once again of the extraordinary gifts, commitments, and reflections that Mennonites bring to the global church. In a time of European war and rumors of global conflagration, this collection could hardly be timelier. Highly recommended.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Joel Hollier's A Place at His Table is an important new resource in the Christian discussion about LGBT inclusion, especially in conservative Protestant contexts. Hollier brings a unique and invaluable background to this book—he was a closeted big-church pastor who has now come out and can speak both from the pastoral perspective and the perspective of the church's closeted, suffering gender and sexual minorities. The resulting book follows what is becoming a classic evangelical paradigm: the bulk of attention in the book goes to offering fresh readings of what I have called the ‘big six’ and others call the ‘clobber’ passages. These exegetical chapters are bracketed on the front end by a contextualizing of the current discussion and on the back end by suggestions for how the church, and LGBT Christians, might move forward. An especially innovative appendix offers deeply thoughtful and heartfelt open letters: to Christian parents of young LGBT people, to pastors and church leaders, to allies, and to LGBT brothers and sisters. The tone throughout is devout, serious about Scripture, and respectful to all sides. This book should take its place in the discussion of LGBT/Christian intersections, not just in Australia but around the world.”
History & Biography
“In my view, Victoria Barnett is the world's foremost Bonhoeffer scholar. This brief new work elevates Dietrich Bonhoeffer's 'After Ten Years' essay to the central place in the Bonhoeffer canon that it deserves. Barnett's new introduction to this seminal Bonhoeffer text helps readers understand it better in its own context -- and in the context of our own troubled times. Highly recommended.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Lutheran ethicist Jim Childs offers a theologically rich, pastorally sensitive, morally serious, and deeply dignified treatment of Christian sexual ethics for senior adults. The most thoughtful moral analysis is required especially as Christian seniors, and those who accompany them and care for them, seek to discern the way forward. This book could become the indispensable resource for the next stage of that conversation.”
Philosophy
“The massive post-evangelical community around the world includes many millions who remain open to a path of following Jesus that is morally credible and intellectually honest. Keith Mascord offers a path forward that is both. One does not have to agree with all of his proposals—I do not—to deeply appreciate the contribution he makes here towards a post-evangelical Christian future.”
Animals Are Not Ours (No, Really, They’re Not)
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Animals Are Not Ours is riveting and convicting. A major contribution to the neglected topic of animal liberation and animal rights, from an exciting new voice, this book is essential reading for all Christians.”
World Religions
“Becoming Whole and Holy is important not just in its content but in the unique, collaborative way in which it was composed. Three scholars who are also friends have created a new way of working at the intersections of their disciplines to offer immensely rich reflections on the process of spiritual formation. Readers will benefit both from the cutting-edge insights into human wholeness and holiness and from watching the collaboration toward this goal unfold in the pages of the book. I highly recommend this work.”
Being Christian After the Desolation of Gaza
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Concerned for all peoples of the land, committed to Christ-centered ethics, free of Christian Zionist distortion, rooted in the authors’ lived experience in Israel/Palestine, this book critiques Israel’s morally disastrous devastation of Gaza since October 7 but doesn't minimize Hamas’s morally disastrous attacks on October 7.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This fine debut book by leading post-evangelical pastor Zach Lambert is a profound combination of memoir, biblical storytelling, and scriptural interpretation. It will be a major resource for the rapidly growing community of post-evangelicals. I highly recommend this work!”
Christian Living
“Beyond Deconstruction is a pastoral and practical, commonsensical and compassionate guide to faith reconstruction for post-evangelicals and post-fundamentalists. A significant contribution to the religious landscape!”
Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In an age in which Christians are unsure if the Bible is equipped to handle postmodern problems, such as bioengineering and global warming, the authors of a classic text have recruited two new voices to offer a path forward in Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life: A New Conversation. The book emphasizes faith communities as incubators for Christian moral development and as contexts for the reading of Scripture. This text not only serves as a useful introduction to the discipline of Christian Ethics but also offers a paradigm for approaching multiple moral dilemmas. Recognizing that ethics requires stepping out of one’s context to see what is invisible to oneself, this text provides a framework with which to do so. Highly recommended.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This masterful work does many things well. At one level it offers a critical historical review of two millennia of Christian thought about war and peace. At another level it elevates the concept of irreducible moral dilemmas to a more central place in the ethics of war. Most importantly, it moves practical peacebuilding to the central place in the Christian ethics of war, with numerous inspiring examples offered. Blessed Are the Peacemakers should become the starting point for the next generation of Christian moral reflection on this pivotal, perennial, issue.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Christ and the Common Life is a monumental achievement in Christian political theology. Demonstrating mastery of a huge literature and multiple, diverse sub-traditions of Christian political thought, and offering a disciplined constructive theological vision of his own, Luke Bretherton offers important, often breakthrough reflections on the most significant issues in this field. In the end, the book offers hope for the renewal of Christian engagement with democratic politics, all over the world. An indispensable contribution.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“It isn’t every day that a Christian ethicist offers a comprehensive new proposal for the entire discipline. That is what Fuller Seminary professor Hak Joon Lee does in this formidable book. Christian Ethics: A New Covenant Model does more and better work with the biblical theme of covenant than I have ever seen in our discipline. Lee goes beyond scholastic Reformed treatments of covenant to a ‘new covenant’ approach with a thoroughgoing justice-oriented Christocentrism. One does not have to agree with every social-ethical proposal here—I dissent on same-sex relations, for example—to be very much impressed by the theological, biblical, and methodological seriousness of this stimulating new book, which deserves very close consideration by scholars, pastors, and students alike.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This evocative book is an elegy over white evangelical church camp culture from one who was once among the leaders of this multibillion-dollar industry. Church Camp deconstructs the theology and culture of this industry, making it a significant contribution to the comprehensive reconsideration of white evangelicalism currently taking place. Highly recommended!”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Rob Arner offers an important new approach to the issue of Christian participation in violence through a striking combination of contemporary and historical study . . . I personally have become convinced that followers of Christ give up their sacred birthright when they walk away from the radical nonviolence of Christ and his earliest followers. Arner's very important book will help many reach the same conclusion.”
Covenant Relationships for Radicals
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This book offers an authoritative, fresh treatment of community organizing as it has intersected, and failed to intersect, with Christian communities. Weaver shows that UK and Welsh Baptists, while periodically offering advocacy for social justice, have never engaged the proven strategies for social justice pioneered by community organizing. He aptly describes ways in which deep Baptist moral and ecclesial commitments can and should connect with community organizing. This is a study with promise to enrich both community organizing and Baptist social ethics. Highly recommended.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
History & Biography
Christian Living
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
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