Elizabeth A. Johnson
History & Biography
“A most unusual and beautiful book! Those remembered are a gallery of diverse characters touched with pathos and illness, humor and creativity, sin and grace. The writing lifts each one up with rich concreteness. Their lives give new meaning to the dignity of being a human person, a child of God, in every kind of circumstance. Read it and be inspired.”
Christian Understandings of Creation
Theology
“What a goldmine of a book! Yes, Christian tradition has contributed its share to a damaging view of nature. But convinced that tradition is relevant for today’s ecological issues, Edwards digs deep to find bright veins of insight. Artful scans of biblical, patristic, medieval, reformation, and contemporary thinkers end in nugget-like 'trajectories' which alone are worth the price of admission. A tremendously useful resource for teachers and students engaged in renewing a theology of the natural world, to practical effect.”
History & Biography
“Tremendously informative! This book opens a new window on the religious influence of early Christian women by decoding over 2,000 artistic remains: frescoes, tomb inscriptions, carved sarcophagi, and the like. As in a detective story, each chapter supplies multiple material clues about “whodunit,” enabling readers to confidently write women back into the history from which they have been erased. The author’s thesis about women’s authority is wonderfully illuminated by photographs, tables, and appendices. What a gift, to have the witness of these women of great faith restored to the memory of the church.”
Theology
“What are they putting in the water at Vanderbilt? Such an excellent book! Clearly written, profoundly learned, shaped by contemporary science as well as the values of piety, it offers an original approach and profound insights into the fundamental question of God, God-symbols, and God's activity in the world.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“John Proctor’s journey through the Corinthian correspondence will help readers pay attention to the apostle, to his first listeners in Corinth, to the questions they raised with him, and to the culture that shaped their relationships. A wise and experienced interpreter, Proctor keeps contemporary as well as ancient religious experience in view and builds thoughtful bridges between them.”
History & Biography
“Facts buried in archives come alive in the living voices of these women who now share the 'dangerous memory' of their presence at Vatican II. Carmel McEnroy tells this story with keen insight into women's oppression in the Church, an eye for the humorous detail, and great narrative flair. Thank goodness she rescued this piece of history before it disappeared over the horizon like so much else.”
Science & Faith
“Written with the clear prose and deft illuminating touch of a master teacher, this book fills a real gap for theologians, other scholars, and lay readers alike. Its engaging trek through the history of thought about the cosmos delivers not only scientific information but also theological insight as to how each cosmology shapes our understanding of the God who creates. A valuable resource for grappling with how today's move from a static to an evolving picture of the world shapes our understanding of the divine.”
“Written in clear, accessible prose and laced with the author’s trademark good cheer, this is a deeply personal narrative. Read this book and be inspired to encounter Jesus in your own way, in the company of a spiritually insightful guide.”
Learning from All the Faithful
Theology
“The essays collected here explode in a kaleidoscope of colorful views that show just how rich this single theme can be. Eminently readable, the book makes a strong contribution to a disputed but vitally important question in ecclesiology today.”
Apologetics
“With astute understanding of faith's difficulties in today's culture, this book presents a view of Christianity as an embrace of joy and grace. Written clearly, the text takes unexpected turns that bear much fruit. It achieves a singular contribution by making Christianity sound so attractive.”
Making Room for the Story to Continue?
Theology
“Tackling one of the most difficult questions imaginable, this book surprises and satisfies with its range and depth of insight. Essays from different cultural and confessional contexts shed a new kind of light on suffering in an ecological world of God’s loving care. A worthy addition to this vitally important series.”
Theology
“Creative, witty, and wise, this book traces an adventure of the spirit for thinking folk, one that doesn’t duck difficult questions but finds new ways through them. Readers will end up with life-nourishing insights.”
Theology
“An excellent, challenging, inspiring book! Anyone who thinks social justice, climate change, and Christian doctrine are separate issues will be enlightened to see how inseparable they actually are as women’s voices uncover the deep connections. Even more valuable, anyone who unthinkingly takes all three to be gender-neutral will be stimulated to realize the opposite. The approach through a gender lens lifts up insights from poor women struggling for life amid ecological damage, women politically active to protect the earth, both connected with women wrestling with the meaning of inherited Christian belief in an ecologically disintegrating world. A breathtaking contribution that cannot be ignored.”
Praying—with the Saints—to God Our Mother
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“"Stramara has resoundingly substantiated that the use of feminine imagery for God springs from the 'heart of the church,' endorsed by ecumenical councils, fathers and doctors of the church, and renowned saints from every century. This book provides a beautiful service in furthering one's experience of God.”
Christian Living
“Well done! No one else has turned their hand to this topic with such surety, calmness, insight, and an urgency that is utterly convincing. A beautiful book.”
Theology
“This beautiful book focuses like a laser on a theology of the body in the concrete. Laced with deep knowledge of Scripture and salted with personal experience, it makes the interesting case that the movement of God's Spirit is expressed not only grandly in public events but also simply through events of the body. The human body — at play, in pain or pleasure, at work, being exceptional, aging — is a locus of divine revelation, and theology would do well to begin from that place. . . . Truly a gift from a wise elder.”
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