David P. Gushee
Introduction to Christian Ethics
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Ellen Ott Marshall’s new Introduction to Christian Ethics is grounded in the novel and timely claim that ‘to study Christian ethics is to study conflict.’ Deploying a methodology which is contextual, feminist, and Wesleyan, she masterfully explores major theological affirmations and methodological claims of Christian ethics through examples and case studies, all of which return again and again to conflict. This is an introductory text pitched as overview and demonstration, as illustrative, humble, and self-revealing rather than comprehensive, proud, and distant. Marshall claims that ‘one cannot pursue the Kingdom of God without entering into conflict.’ She is absolutely right, and this introductory textbook, helps us understand why. Highly recommended.”
Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind
Theology
“Though modest in length, this may be one of Noll's most important scholarly contributions.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This is a significant contribution to the emerging evangelical center in Christian political ethics.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Kingdom Politics offers a critically important, next-generation look at the issue of how some U.S. Christians and congregations are breaking out of destructive paradigms for engaging (or fleeing) public life and finding more constructive models for a new era. Highly recommended!”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In his latest book, the inestimable Rodney Clapp offers a great gift to the Christian community for this moment. With remarkable brevity, drawing on his wide-ranging and eclectic reading interests, and always deeply rooted in the biblical text, Clapp diagnoses a major current Christian problem--a desperate grasp for control--and offers a way to get us to a solution: learning to "live out of control." I learned a great deal from this book and commend it strongly to the global Christian community.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This lovely, winsome book emerges out of the Christian college world to ask this question: what does love look like in a time of fear? The author, Professor Cassie Trentaz, is especially addressing white US Christian fears—of immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ+ persons, and people of color. . . . This is a sweet-spirited book, but also quietly devastating, because the voices she features of young people on the margins, routinely harmed by Christian Americans, have such sad stories to tell. I highly recommend this book.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This book is an exciting romp through postmodern theology and biblical interpretation, laden with contemporary cultural references, at times utterly hilarious—all leading to a serious proposal—that how the Bible is to be read must be in love, for love. Agree or disagree, this is a fascinating new work by an intriguing young scholar to whom 'attention must be paid.'”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This is evangelical Christianity at its best: two young Christian friends, devoted to Christ, rooted in Scripture, following Jesus in new directions, utterly unafraid to go where faithful discipleship requires. This road map to the contemporary practice of Christian peacemaking is an extraordinarily practical and inspiring guide for all of us.”
“In Nature and Creation, Richard H. Hiers offers a thorough treatment of the Bible’s account of creation, other creatures, and their relation to both God and humanity. There are breakthrough readings here, including on the contested issue of human dominion over creation. Overall, Hiers shows that the Bible offers a treasure trove of resources for Christian ecological ethics. I highly commend this crucial work.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“A winsome and effective Christian treatment of how to understand, love, and include transgender people in churches. This book could become the go-to guide for pastors.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“On Moral Medicine is quite simply the single most authoritative sourcebook on Christian medical ethics in the English language today. Not just recommended -- indispensable!”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Kristopher Norris's Pilgrim Practices is a winsome treatment of the Christian life organized around the key themes of pilgrimage and practice. Norris retrieves the ancient understanding of Christianity as not merely a set of doctrines but a people's way of living as an alternative community on missional pilgrimage in the world. The book begins with a helpful exposition of this basic vision, which is followed by a quite rich discussion of key practices of Christian discipleship as these are revealed in the Epistle of James. This book is original, honest, humble, and always engaging. I strongly recommend it.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This is a unique and powerful book. It's only secondarily a book about poverty—primarily it offers a rich biblical theology focused on God's rule and how God's people must respond to that rule in an unjust world. This book is a great example of today's Christian leaders going back to the very core of our faith, equipped by cutting-edge biblical research and theological reflection, in order to respond to the horrendous suffering all around us. Its integrity is only enhanced by knowing that its author, Dewi Hughes, and the organization he serves, Tearfund, are busy each day serving the poor. This book is an indispensable contribution to the life of the global church. Highly recommended.”
Privilege, Risk, and Solidarity
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“An important, well-informed debut from a promising young scholar-minister. Highly recommended.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This collection of essays, largely from evangelical Christian scholars, offers a generous and substantive engagement with the problem of conservative Christian susceptibility to conspiracy theories. Most essays appear to be written by authors who live within contexts in which conspiracy theories such as QAnon have been fairly widely embraced. Thus, the book is interesting both for the virulent conspiracy thinking that it addresses and for the rhetorical and reasoning strategies now being attempted by scholars within such contexts.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“A gritty, honest practical theology rooted in lived experience. A very strong new contribution from the author of the brilliant The Church for the World. Strongly 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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