Ellen F. Davis
Christian Living
“Chris Wright offers a biblically and theologically grounded, unsparing analysis of the idolatrous character of contemporary Western Christianity, formed in collusion with our wider cultures. His focus on idolatry bears on Christian thought and practice in areas as seemingly diverse as mission, creation care, justice work, addiction treatment, and the cultivation of theological maturity and ethical integrity. This timely book is a sobering call to repentance and the renewal of Christian vocation.”
A Journey through the World of Leviticus
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“In this unlikely yet thoroughly engaging book, Scarlata refocuses us on holiness as the heartbeat of community life, in contemporary society no less than in the world of the Bible. Scarlata sees the crucial point that most Christian biblical scholars and readers of the Bible have missed: that the embodied theology of Leviticus is indispensable for making a living connection between the reality of God and our concrete human lives.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Stinson argues that food language is the key to unlocking the ‘enigmas’ of the strangely under-examined poem that stands—not by coincidence—at the precise center of the Hebrew Psalter. Through lucid rhetorical, sociological, and agrarian analysis, she shows how a great poet, reflecting on the most basic human need, discloses the pattern of Israel’s experience of God and place, through blessing and bane, across the long course of history. The topic is as urgent as the exegesis is exemplary.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“What is the revelatory potential of the corpse? Sanders and Parsons boldly confront us with the neglected question of an incarnational theology, and they address it with deep pastoral wisdom and critical historical awareness. Ironically, while Jews and Muslims find ready answers to that question in their own traditions, most Christians have forgotten even how to ask. This book belongs on the teaching agenda for every church.”
Theology
“This is a rare find: a concise work of historical and constructive theology on an urgent topic. In this highly readable book, Fergusson makes fresh sense of core theological doctrines, even as he pushes against some established boundaries of western theology. The carefully annotated bibliography is itself a major contribution and guide for further study, for beginners or those advanced in the field.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“What does it look like to read the Hebrew Bible with both socio-economic sophistication and theological depth, while also reckoning with the human and planetary realities of the Anthropocene Epoch? This book may be the first serious attempt to answer that complex question. Simkins makes the bold and timely proposal that Israel’s Scriptures in their social specificity offer an alternative vision to guide our own ineluctably economic existence.”
Creation’s Slavery and Liberation
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Although Paul’s groaning creation is now proverbial in treatments of the ecological crisis that are informed by Christian Scripture, this is the first study to set that concept in its full biblical, historical, and geopolitical contexts. Burroughs works with exegetical precision and imagination, as well as sound knowledge of ancient Roman economics and the science of modern agriculture. Thus, she shows what Paul understood: the earth is the ultimate victim of the greed and failed promises of idolatrous imperial systems.”
Preaching & Worship
“Stanley Hauerwas is always full of insight, but it is a rare treat to hear him speaking in a relaxed mode. Here he steps away from argument and takes time to be awed by beauty, to love good books and good friends, to delight in marriage and grieve at death--and he does all that consciously in the presence of God. This is a wonderfully fresh book.”
Arts & Literature
“"A fish called Methuselah and a cat called JOY, the Babel and beauty of the church, the joys of family and of study, and the anguish of cancer--James Crenshaw beautifully articulates these and many more aspects of a rich life, viewed by a mind that is sharply critical and yet humble. The poems are both complex and lucid; many are peopled by the characters of Scripture. These are poems to share with other Christians, and to read again and again.”
Christian Living
“This is a book of honest, truth-seeking stories and practices emerging from and leading to a life of spiritual alertness. In a time when many of us are going numb, with consequences that can only be fatal on a massive scale, Chris Rice is throwing us a lifeline. Read this book slowly, in the company of others, to explore how the personal, relational, political, and structural dimensions of essential change connect for each one of us.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This is commentary in a completely new key—arresting, disruptive, and above all, wise. Working exegetically from the heart of Judges, that cauldron of biblical violence, Stulac offers an unabashed testimony of Christian faith. He writes compellingly, and often beautifully, as a biblical scholar who has not forgotten what Scripture is for: to break our hearts and give us life in abundance.”
Glorification and the Life of Faith
Theology
“This is the kind of book that makes one want to be a theologian—in all the varied ways we might realize that vocation to love God with our minds—because it is clearly such a joy-filled thing to do. Cocksworth and Ford eschew triumphalism but not exuberance as they invite fresh, courageous encounters with the endless surprise of God’s glory in the face of every temptation to despair.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“With a style both learned and witty, Petrotta ranges through the biblical canon, illuminating from a surprising angle texts that are often overlooked or dismissed. He shows that an expanded notion of humor is vital for probing exegesis, that biblical humor is itself a mode of theological reflection. This is serious scholarship of the most pleasurable kind, suitable for a wide audience of scholars, students, and readers, both Jews and Christians.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“THE REV’D DR JOHN DICKSON, author and speaker; Founding Director of the Centre for Public Christianity; Senior Minister of St Andrew’s Roseville; Honorary Fellow of the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University, Australia “This eminently accessible volume shows how Daniel, far from being a children’s book or a biblical oddity, speaks directly to the most difficult ethical questions for contemporary Christians. Wright’s careful attention to words and literary details, as well as his pastorally informed imagination, enable him to draw a genuine connection between Scripture and the lived experience of people in both Majority-world and Minority-world cultures, so that we may ‘know the story we are in.’”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Every page of this fascinating book imbues the Scriptures with smell and taste, a living landscape and rich cultural tradition. Nabhan's gift for telling true stories and his keen insight into the practices of extractive economies then and now open our eyes to the gospel imperative of food justice.”
Theology
“Here Brock undertakes nothing less than the conversion of common sense in our industrialized, militarized society. By locating creatureliness at the heart of a biblically grounded Christian ethos, he points to the only genuine possibility for human flourishing into the future. The creativity, breadth, and thoroughness of this study, as well as the gracefulness of its exposition, will reward those who accept his challenge to think deeply and live differently in this God-formed world.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Hamm writes not just about one difficult book in the Bible but about what a curious and profoundly humanizing thing it is to try to make sense of difficult books at all. Thus, she demonstrates how patient and persistent practices of interpretation shaped ancient Israel as a community. Lucidly argued, this is a book for a wide range of serious readers, even those who are not disposed to find the Bible interesting.”
Preaching & Worship
“Turning to the Prophet who speaks most directly to our contemporary moment, this master exegete demonstrates what the church has largely forgotten over the last century: Imaginative, biblically shaped preaching is the most consequential form of Christian utterance. Attentive to Jeremiah, Jesus, and Paul, Brueggemann offers practical guidance for preachers desperate to speak the truth and the hope that matters.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Cook has enriched our understanding of the theology of the postexilic Temple cult by showing that it has pronounced eschatological perspective.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
Preaching & Worship
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