David W. Gill
Biography
David W. Gill wrote Doing Right, The Word of God in the Ethics of Jacques Ellul, and It's About Excellence.
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Abortion Policy and Christian Social Ethics in the United States
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Mako Nagasawa’s book is an extraordinary contribution to the longstanding, deeply divisive, seemingly irresolvable debate over abortion in Christian ethics. No significant angle on abortion fails to receive Nagasawa’s painstaking, detailed, convincing attention: biological science, biblical exegesis, theological and pastoral history, legal history and debate, ethical analysis, practical implications. This is a study that loves God, loves the miracle of life, and calls on Christians to promote responsible sexual and parenting behavior by men as much as women.”
Accounting and Money for Ministerial Leadership
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Accounting and Money for Ministerial Leadership is a truly original, valuable, even essential contribution. Thoughtful, learned, and practical, this introduction should be read not only by pastors, seminarians, treasurers, and church finance committees, but equally by CFOs, investment managers, bankers, and accountants. It is anchored in state-of-the-art accounting, in broad-ranging economic and theological perspectives, and in convincing biblical authority.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
Foreword
“Unfazed by the deeply rutted and predictably interpretive pathways established in Romans 9-11, Ellul is massively open to hearing what God might actually be saying.”
Work, Money & Leadership
“Kenman Wong and Scott Rae have followed up their best-in-class business ethics textbook, Beyond Integrity, with a superb, comprehensive reflection on work and business within a biblical Christian worldview. They stand on the shoulders of their colleagues and predecessors and take the discussion to a new level. A wonderful guide for business practitioners as well as their academic and pastoral colleagues.”
Theology
“Matthew Prior’s Confronting Technology: The Theology of Jacques Ellul is nothing less than a masterpiece by a brilliant young emerging scholar. . . . Prior’s command of the truly massive and complex Ellul oeuvre (new discoveries coming almost every year since Ellul’s death in 1994) is matched by his critical-appreciative interaction with a comprehensive gallery of secondary research and authorship, in both French and English. Confronting Technology is a brilliant tour through the creative thought of Ellul but moves beyond Ellul to suggest exciting directions for today’s theological confrontation with technology. All readers of Ellul and all students of theology and technology should put this book on the top of their reading list. It really is that good.”
Death and Life in America, Second Edition
Science & Faith
“Death and Life in America is—hands down—the boldest, deepest, most helpful exploration of health, sickness, and healing available. Ray’s long career studying and practicing Western technological medicine was matched step-by-step with careful, appreciative attention to other healing traditions and to the ways these matters are addressed in the Bible, especially in the life of Jesus. No book shows greater insight into the strengths and weaknesses of today’s biomedicine. No book comes close to mining the brilliant contributions the biblical perspectives can bring.”
Desert, Wilderness, Wasteland, and Word
Theology
“Desert, Wilderness, Wasteland, and Word is a wonderful collection of essays, a gift not just to Jacques Ellul scholars but to thoughtful readers, especially Christians, everywhere. As Ellul provided us with a fully-developed biblical study of The Meaning of the City in 1970, so he provides here an insightful collection of insights and challenges about ‘the meaning of desert and wilderness’—thanks to the careful reconstruction of his notes by Jean-Philippe Qadri and Jerome Ellul. This is an extraordinary and timely book.”
Dialectical Theology and Jacques Ellul
Theology
“Jacob Van Vleet is exactly right that a failure to understand French social critic Jacques Ellul's multilayered dialectic is responsible for the relative neglect of this powerful and insightful voice so needed in our technology-mad era. Anyone thinking in the typical linear or monistic ways of Anglo-American rationalism is lost in the presence of a dialectic like Ellul's and doesn't usually even know it. Van Vleet helps readers begin to understand and appreciate the dialectical interface and tension in Ellul's fifty-plus volume oeuvre between theology and sociology, the individual and collective, freedom and necessity, reality and truth, and indeed, the yes and no, sin and sainthood internal to every human being, every human phenomenon. The result of reading Van Vleet is like throwing open the shades in a dark room, like the moment a new language sinks in and one actually begins to communicate.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“In a world--and a church--where education (at all levels) is devolving toward basic technological skills training, random encounters with disconnected factoids on the internet, and subjectively preferred propaganda, Matthew Etherington's fine collection of essays on the foundations of education is most timely and welcome. Educational administrators, teachers, homeschoolers, pastors, parents--and thoughtful adults wishing to redress the weaknesses in their own education--are well-advised to reflect deeply on the ideas in this volume.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In a world of wild promises and growing concerns about AI, Dawn Sutherland’s From Babel to AI leaps to the top among the best analyses available. As a work of sociology, philosophy, and history of technology it is impressive and learned. Her theology ranges through the best sources, classic and contemporary. Her biblical studies of creation, fall, idolatry, communication, life, death, and—above all—the image of God, are fresh, insightful, and convincing. Her case studies and discussion questions are stimulating and practical. Of course, there is more to be said on this important topic but there can be no better foundation than what Sutherland provides. A great read for academics as well as lay folk in the trenches.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Hyperreality is about a lot more than ‘how our tools control us,’ as its subtitle promises. ‘How our modern culture has gone badly wrong—and a possible way back for people’ is the bigger message I read. Mulder’s superb journalistic skills describe how our mad desires for wealth and consumer goods, for security and safety, and for social affirmation and acceptance are doomed to fail in our lived reality. . . . The ‘hyper’ reality on our screens seduces and distracts us away from the actual reality of people and nature all around us. . . . I will be recommending Hyperreality to all of my thoughtful, reflective friends.”
Theology
Foreword
“As always, Ellul is full of bold ideas and assertions, brilliant and original flashes of insight, and debatable conclusions. But this is vintage Ellul in that we encounter a free, creative, thoughtful, passionate, and controversial wrestling with the biblical foundations of the faith. . . . No one leaves Ellul without being challenged to their roots, but at the same time helped to better understand and more fully appreciate the Bible and its central figure.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
Christian Living
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
Work, Money & Leadership
Bible Studies & Devotionals
The Opening of the Christian Mind
Discipleship & Christian Education
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