David P. Gushee
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“A very carefully argued work that weaves history, political theory, and theology and integrates UK and US examples seamlessly toward the goal of reviewing and re-laying the post-Christendom foundations of democracy. Lusk rejects Christian nationalism as the primary diagnostic category and identifies problems on both the culture war left and right. A brisk, straight-talking, and significant contribution to current Christian thinking about democracy in these troubled times.”
Divorce and Remarriage in the Church
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“David Instone-Brewer knows the Scriptures, and the textual and cultural background to the Scriptures, as well as any biblical scholar in the world today. He combines this scholarship with a pastor's heart for people and a commitment to the church. Out of this powerful mix he has written an authoritative--perhaps the authoritative--treatment of divorce and remarriage in church life today. The crisp, breezy, accessible style of this book is a great strength. It is clearly written by apastor for regular people. But underneath this accessibility is rock-solid scholarship. I think that Divorce and Remarriage in the Church will become an indispensable resource for both scholars and pastors in years to come, and has the promise of reforming church practices in thousands of congregations. I offer this book my highest endorsement.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Every so often a scholar writes a book that has the potential to reshape an academic discipline or at least establish an important new research area or subfield. Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty has done that with this breakthrough Christian ethical engagement with the neglected issue of mental illness. This work... tackles a serious human problem involving profound suffering and injustice, attends to the voices of those most affected, diagnoses societal shortfalls that worsen the problem unnecessarily, brings serious biblical and theological reflection to bear in order to change our moral vision, and offers examples of a path forward for Christian communities.”
Theology
“The central insight of this creative, well-researched, and highly sophisticated book is that the human disgust reaction has been overpowerful yet underexamined in shaping some of the most destructive expressions of traditional Christianity, including, crucially, its historic contempt toward LGTBQIA+ people. The authors coin the term eucontamination to name what is actually a quite prominent theme in the New Testament—God’s grace in Christ is contamination for good. This is why we need not live out of a fearful purity ethic. They also offer reflection on church practices that can train us in seeing and living this way in the world. I highly recommend this breakthrough work.”
“A bravura performance by a promising young scholar, For the Nation challenges my own and other work in Christian ethics for not taking seriously Israel's land when speaking of God's kingdom as proclaimed by Israel's Messiah, Jesus. The work moves on from there to consider the ethical issues raised by territoriality in human existence. Strongly recommended.”
Four (and a half) Dialogues on Homosexuality and the Bible
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Donald Zeyl here offers a creative, engaging, remarkably rigorous imaginary dialogue about key biblical and moral issues associated with LGBTQ inclusion in Christianity. An interesting approach carried out with precision and creativity, bringing fresh energy to a mainly stalemated debate.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“God and Guns offers a serious challenge to American gun culture, informed by rich biblical and moral reflection. The fact that this collection emerges from a conference at a flagship evangelical seminary is extremely encouraging. Our gun culture is a deadly idolatry that has nothing to do with following Jesus, indeed, it cuts directly against it. This book makes that essential point very clear.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This is an important book—comprehensive yet concise, well researched yet accessible, with a balanced treatment of the theological, ethical, and legal issues related to guns.”
Christian Living
“This is an important book, based on a deceptively simple premise: that Christian existence, rightly understood, involves a holistic integration of head, heart and hands. Hollinger's careful exposition of his thesis points out the very many ways in which Christian faith can become unbalanced in the direction of head (mind), heart (emotion) or hands (action), as well as the sometimes disastrous consequences of these various distorted versions of Christianity. This book could serve very well as a programmatic foundation for a local church's preaching and teaching ministry or for Christian educational institutions such as our colleges and universities. I predict that Head, Heart and Hands will be used with great value in a wide variety of such settings. I recommend this book with enthusiasm.”
Christian Living
“An important introduction to issues arising at the intersection of faith and politics, written from a disciplined Kuyperian/Calvinist theoretical stance and resulting in a nuanced centrist-evangelical perspective. This book is reader-friendly, biblical, holistic, and wise.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“A unique, rich, pastoral, and bracing reflection on truth in an era where truthfulness is slipping away from us. Biblical and personal, timeless and timely, this brief book is well worth your attention.”
Rev.
How Western Christianity Got It Wrong
Theology
“Randy Woodley's critique of Western Christianity is so blistering and comprehensive that it would be easy for those of us still committed to some version of it to respond with defensive dismissiveness. Instead, in light of the manifest corruptions of our tradition, in the past and today, it is time to open our minds and hearts even to the most radical critiques. I urge all believers in Jesus to consider seriously both the critique and the winsome constructive account of the way of Jesus that our brother offers here.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“A number of authors have offered important analysis of alarming trends among US white evangelicals. Dave Verhaagen takes a psychologist’s perspective here, and his diagnosis centering on collective vulnerable narcissism is a breakthrough proposal that rings sadly true. This book must be added to a handful of others that constitute essential reading about what has gone so very badly, dangerously wrong with US white evangelicalism.”
Christian Living
Foreword
“We live in a time when many have lost contact with the Way. Three cheers for Michael Austin’s effort to help American Christians meet Jesus again.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“A strikingly original treatment of sexual ethics which uses as its points of departure what the author rather shockingly describes as the interrelated problems of sex trafficking and purity culture. The book engages and is haunted by dominant evangelicalism’s failures while retrieving and creating a richer, distinctively Christian theological vision. Those who understand this book will be either outraged or appreciative. Count me in the latter camp.”
Theology
“Ron Sider has offered a faithful, Christ-centered moral witness over his long and fruitful career. This new book gives his crowning statement: a thoughtful pacifist perspective, deeply rooted in Jesus Christ.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This hugely creative graphic novel helps readers visualize the suffering visited upon LGBTQ+ people in the name of Christ.”
Theology
“Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw offer a crisp, concise, and well-researched introduction to Christian intersectional theology that will take its place as a standard text for this new and increasingly important approach not just to Christian theology but to Christian practice in the world. Intersectional Theology is a primer on theological method that will help to solidify the increasingly nonnegotiable claims, at least in progressive circles, that theology begins in human experience, that human experience involves navigating one’s multiple social identities within lived contexts of simultaneous oppression and power, and that the goal of Christian theology and practice should be justice and liberation for all, with no one left out. Highly recommended, perhaps especially as a first book for those unfamiliar with intersectional theology, and as a textbook.”
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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