David P. Gushee
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Harold Heie is one of the few people in evangelical Christianity who could manage what he will be able to do in this book—host and synthesize a thoughtful conversation about LGBT issues among evangelicals. . . . His track record is impeccable.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This is one of those exceedingly rare 'big books' in Christian ethics that traces a crucial concept historically while advancing the normative discussion for today. Andrew DeCort does that with the crucial pair of othering on the problem side andneighbor love on the solution side. What makes the book even more rare is that it really marks reflection on the radical practice of neighbor love as a movement, innovated by the author in the hard crucible of Ethiopia. So impressive. I highly recommend this book.”
Theology
“Safeguarding the Stranger is an immensely important addition to the literature on hospitality, notably protective hospitality as practiced in the Abrahamic faith traditions. The work reflects extraordinarily deep research and years of interfaith and cross-cultural experience, as well as time logged in some of our world's most conflicted regions. The author combines fluency in feminist and liberationist Christian thought with competence in Hebrew Bible and Quranic studies--and more than a bit of continental philosophy as well. A major contribution by an important new voice, both in its substance and in its method. Highly recommended.”
Salt, Light, and a City, Second Edition
Theology
“It is increasingly clear to me that Christian understandings of both the nature and the mission of the church are in considerable disarray today. Graham Hill's highly important book offers the beginnings of a profoundly important exploration of both questions, together. Salt, Light, and a City is a must-read.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Lee Camp’s Scandalous Witness is balm for the politically weary Christian’s soul. In a series of astringent commentaries, Camp impales pretty much every Christian sacred cow, whether right or left politically. Operating from a robust eschatological-ecclesial vision, Camp diagnoses much of what has gone wrong with US Christian politics from within his disciplined theological outlook and offers a contrarian statement that is up to the minute in its relevance. I highly recommend this brief but extremely helpful book.”
Second Thoughts about the Second Coming
Theology
“A brisk, competent review from a mainline Protestant perspective of historic Christian teaching about eschatology and the afterlife. I learned much from this book, including that this area of Christian thought is among the most difficult and muddled. But Second Thoughts about the Second Coming at least brings descriptive clarity. I recommend this book and will keep it on hand as a reference work.”
Sexuality and Holy Longing, 2nd Edition
Marriage, Family & Relationships
Foreword
(wrote the foreword)
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In the face of the most profound partisan division, we need a cause that can once again unite us. Ending hunger can be that cause. This is a huge book, compelling in its argument, morally urgent, the culminating contribution of one of America’s most important, practical, Christian moral leaders of the last fifty years. I recommend this book with the highest enthusiasm.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“An essential book for everyone who cares about the suffering of the innocent and the moral worthiness of this religion called Christianity.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Highly visible US evangelicals endorsed and still support Donald Trump, some doing so in the name of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, to the horror of the vast majority of serious students of the great German theologian and resister. Stephen Haynes long ago carved out a niche as the single best scholarly interpreter of the American reception of Bonhoeffer. Here he not only updates his scholarly work but also enters the Bonhoeffer-Trump-evangelicals debate himself with an impassioned warning to evangelicals to reverse their surrender to Trump before it is too late. This is a riveting book that every US Christian should read—immediately.”
Theology
“Carroll’s The Bible and Borders is the best available treatment of how Christians should feel, think, and act concerning the issue of immigration. In a remarkably concise way, Carroll offers key biblical considerations relevant to Christian engagement with immigration—and immigrants. This is the book that needs to be in every Christian’s hands right now.”
The Gospel of Inclusion, Revised Edition
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
Foreword
(wrote the foreword)
The Minister as Moral Theologian
Theology
“This lovely book offers wise and mature reflections on the moral dimensions of Christian pastoral ministry. An indispensable contribution, The Minister as Moral Theologian will henceforth join the short list of required books in my introductory seminary ethics course.”
History & Biography
“This sad, aching, beautifully written book is part memoir, part investigative report, part exposé--not just about what it is like to be a missionary kid, but about the distorted, misguided white US evangelical imagination that has produced the missionary enterprise as it now exists. The discussion of sexual predation in overseas missionary contexts is stunning and horrifying. This book is a must-read, and a crucial addition to the post-evangelical literature that is rapidly growing these days.”
The Myth of the Saving Power of Education
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Practical theologian Hannah Adams Ingram offers here a brief but dense and highly provocative analysis of America’s mythological/ideological understanding of education, with a modest but liberative set of proposed alternatives. She shows from historical research that the project of education in the United States historically has been dominated by white Christian redemptive projects that still amount to salvation by making everyone conform to white middle-class norms. Ingram gently but firmly proposes a better way forward, for Christians, educators, and America. Highly recommended!”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This collection of letters is at once a summation of the major themes of Larry's work, an accessible body of moral teaching to offer all who are willing to learn, and a beautiful offering of love to his beloved grandchildren. And his beloved country. And his beloved cosmos. This book is a benediction. I respond by saying: Amen.”
History & Biography
“An admirable short introduction to the life and thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer from Germany's leading Bonhoeffer scholar. Accurate in its history, readable in its prose, and wise in its judgments, this book should become the new standard concise biography of the towering German theologian of Christian discipleship and resistance. Strongly recommended.”
Theology
“Demonstrating tremendous intellectual range and depth of scholarly research, Ruben Rosario Rodriguez here offers a robust assortment of ‘theological fragments’ that ought to amply nourish the hungry souls of many searchers in our time, including but not limited to the young ‘Nones’ who are his primary audience. Highly recommended!”
World Religions
“The essays collected here focus on very different kinds of issues, sometimes going deep into theological problems, such as Catholic understanding of Judaism's ongoing validity, and other times attending to chronic political challenges, such as how the State of Israel complicates Muslim-Jewish relations. The book is an important contribution to a vitally significant conversation in our time.”
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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