Douglas A. Sweeney

Retrieval for the Sake of Renewal

History & Biography

“This marvelous encomium to my friend Timothy George is very well deserved. A faithful gospel preacher, a fine church historian, an expert ecumenist, a worldwide leader in theological education, and a pioneer of Baptist and free church catholicity, George is one of the most influential Christians at work today. Chris Hanna has done excellent work telling George’s story. This is a true labor of love that deserves a broad hearing.”

Revival Preaching

Preaching & Worship

“I am so pleased to commend this book to my brothers and sisters in the English-speaking world. Those of us who live in the West stand in great need of God. . . . We need revival and what Jonathan Edwards called ‘regeneration.’ The book you hold in your hands is full of advice from Edwards himself on earnest preaching for revival. . . . May God stir your hearts and elevate your minds as you read, redirecting your desires and filling your life with divine things—the only things that really satisfy.”

Sermons by Jonathan Edwards on the Epistle to the Galatians

History & Biography

“Many thanks to our friends at Yale for producing yet another fine volume of Edwards's sermons. This is a treasure trove of eighteenth-century biblical exegesis that will be used by parish pastors, Bible teachers, and historians for many years to come. Wilson Kimnach's introduction alone is worth the price of the book. But please don't stop there, for Edwards's sermons on Galatians proved central to his thinking, and should be central to our thinking about his thought and its significance.”

Tending Soul, Mind, and Body

Theology

“This marvelous collection of thoughtful, well-researched essays will prove a boon to pastors and others engaged in spiritual formation. Though deeply rooted in the details of theological anthropology and modern psychology, they offer practical advice for tending to the needs of the whole person in the context of the church. Many thanks to the up-and-coming Center for Pastor Theologians for leading the way in the promotion of profound and utterly relevant ecclesial theology.”

The Art of Living in Advent

Bible Studies & Devotionals

“Sylvie Vanhoozer is a marvelous guide to the art of living in Advent. Her experience as a child during Advents in Provence; her theological pilgrimage in Paris, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Chicago, and beyond; her passion and work as an artist; and her many years of ministry as a homemaker, mother, and host to hundreds in her home during Advent and Christmas have prepared her to write this very book. Follow her lead as you ask the Lord to come into your context. You and your loved ones will be forever grateful.”

The Devil's Redemption

Theology

“As Michael McClymond demonstrates in this timely magnum opus, the overwhelming majority of Christians down through the ages have rejected universalism. However, very few Christians know the history of this rejection--not to mention the reasons some have favored universalism and often suffered for it. This book is now the best place to start learning this history. It is a tour de force of historical theology.”

The Federal Theology of Jonathan Edwards

Theology

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

The First American Evangelical

History & Biography

“Cotton Mather is widely seen as a moralistic hypocrite, a one-dimensional bad guy we moderns love to hate. But in this lively new biography, he takes on flesh and blood and, more importantly, a heart. . . . This courageous little book offers readers a better feel for Mather's vibrant, quirky, learned, evangelical spirituality than anything before.”

The Global Edwards

History & Biography

“This is a superb collection of essays, which goes further than any volume on Edwards to date to underscore his truly international reach. Featuring chapters on Edwards' legacies in Britain and North America, Eastern Europe, southern Africa, and the land down under, along with interpretations of Edwards’ thought by first-rate scholars from every continent on the globe (except Antarctica, of course), it represents the first fruits of the global Edwards Centers and, more importantly, the up-and-coming scholarship on Edwards by many working outside of Western Europe and North America.”

The Gospel After Christendom

Apologetics

“the way of Jesus Christ.”

The Great Theologians

Theology

“This handy volume offers an excellent introduction to some of the leading theologians in the history of the church--a wonderful guide to what the theologians call the 'Great Tradition.' If you have been looking for something to help you understand the thought of these titans, search no further. McDermott's book is what you need.”

The Great Tradition of Christian Thinking

Discipleship & Christian Education

“This appeal to Christian educators to take the great tradition of Christian thinking much more seriously, to find our place within it, and to renew it today, has arrived in the nick of time. For despite the common invocation of ‘integration’ language at our Christian universities, our schools are all-too-often led by pragmatists beholden to the forces of the market more than the life of the Christian mind. David Dockery and Timothy George herein remind us of our heritage, our very reason for being. I pray that God will use their efforts in the lives of countless students, teachers, and Christian college leaders, inspiring passionate commitment to the values and the virtues that attracted us to Christian education in the first place.”

The Idea of Tradition in the Late Modern World

World Religions

“Many thanks to Tal Howard for this thought-provoking book on the nature, significance, and prospects for perpetuating religious traditions—and traditionary religion—in the late modern world. Its contributors are insightful representatives of some of the best-known Abrahamic faiths. And their reflections on the challenges of transmitting tradition in our globalizing, pluralistic, and forward-thinking era will spark useful conversations and pedagogical strategies among both religious and secular culture shapers for years to come.”

The Incarnate Word

Theology

“Nevin is one of the most important theologians in all of American history but sadly he is neglected by nearly all but fervent acolytes. The writings in this volume stand at the center of his oeuvre, and deserve a wide hearing from historians of religion, and especially theologians, who still have much to learn from this Christocentric, evangelical-Catholic intellectual (and his colleagues Schaff and Gans, also represented here.) The essays in your hand have been judiciously selected, well introduced, and helpfully annotated. They offer to a new generation of scholars and church folks a treasure trove of thinking on the incarnation of God.”

The Making of a Battle Royal

History & Biography

“This is an excellent addition to the literature on American Baptist history. Well researched and well written, it offers a fine-grained treatment of the rise of liberalism in the country's Baptist seminaries, especially. It is written by a Baptist in defense of conservative Baptists for a series aimed primarily at other conservative Baptists, but it tells a powerful story to which many will relate. Along the way, it sheds light on the ways in which an emphasis on freedom by modern Baptists, untethered from the confessional traditions that gave them birth, turned a people known for the strictness of their Christian faith and practice into typically modern heralds of ‘the right of private judgment’ and justifiers of libertarian freedom in civic life (at least on occasion, for people and groups they favor)—an irony that some take joy in pointing out but that is handled much more wisely as Straub does here: as a cautionary tale for thoughtful Christians in the present.”

The Moral Governmental Theory of Atonement

Theology

“The moral government motif in the New England Theology can be hard to understand. Indeed, the Edwardseans’ doctrine of the atonement in particular is usually misconstrued. Many thanks to Obbie Todd for seeking to set the record straight. This is the best book ever written for traditional Calvinists trying to understand and interpret this doctrine and its ongoing theological significance.”

The Pastor Theologian

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Most of the best theologians in the history of the church worked as pastors. But sadly, this is not true today. Most pastors now spend the bulk of their time on mundane issues, leaving intellectual ministry to specialists in the academy — who all too often work in a way that is lost on the laity. This is a tragedy indeed. Who is feeding God’s people solid theological food (Hebrews 5:12 – 14)? Kudos to Pastors Hiestand and Wilson for focusing on this problem, and for recommending practical steps that all of us can take — in our churches and our schools — to find a better way forward, helping Christians come to know the Lord we say we love so much.”

The People's Book

History & Biography

“Despite what Protestants used to say, medieval Christians did have access to the contents of the Bible. Still, the Protestant Reformation gave them far greater access. It also placed biblical doctrine much closer to the center of the faith and spirituality of many Europeans, both Protestant and Catholic. The People's Book deftly explains how this transformation occurred—without oversimplification or Protestant triumphalism. Anyone interested in the legacy of the biblical reforms of Luther, Calvin, and their colleagues will find in these essays a treasure trove of scholarship and practical Christian wisdom.”

The Power of God

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

The Reformation and the Irrepressible Word of God

History & Biography

“In every corner of the world, millions commemorated the five hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation (1517-2017). But seldom was the Reformers' own emphasis on Scripture as the very Word of God, the norm to norm all others in the teaching of the church, given such clear expression as in the lectures published here. This is a treasure-trove for students, Christian laity, and clergy. It will take you to the engine of the evangelical movement and remind you that its founders still have much to teach us all about the power of the Bible to convict, save, sanctify, and put us in touch with God, showing us how to live and love in ways that truly make a difference.”