Emilie M. Townes
African American Theological Ethics
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Paris provides the reader with a compelling collection of resources that reflect black moral thought and theology from enslavement to segregation to the ongoing challenges of inequality in the United States. Organizing the volume around the practical principles of opposition to white supremacy, enslavement, racial segregation, and racial discrimination, Paris gives representative examples of black resistance to racial oppression and inequality that run the gamut from adaptation to withdrawal. This volume is a rich resource that is sure to become a staple for those interested in the various ways the souls of black folk have articulated the human quest for freedom.”
Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“We live, as all generations before us and after us, in challenging times. Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life recognizes this and provides a clear and welcome guide for how to bring into conversation the relationship of scripture to ethics for Christians as we face these challenges with a strong moral compass and deep biblically-informed witness. Readers will join a rich conversation that the authors challenge us to engage—embodied faith. It is well worth taking up this challenge.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“An excellent collection from progressive Christian voices that offers a thoughtful and profoundly faithful witness to the God-given gift and power of our sexualities.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The authors of this probing volume lead us through the debate between ethics and advocacy as . . . an opportunity for us to see how integrating the two may give us productive and much-needed ways in which we can bridge the polarizations that often divide us and engage in the necessary conversations we must have to build and maintain a vibrant democracy.”
Women
“With her marvelous lyrical voice and laser sharp truth-telling, Nancy Lynne Westfield helps us see Black women and, if we lean in carefully, to hear Black women in our multitude of voices and attitudes. This is gift and challenge.”
Human Nature, Interest, and Power
Philosophy
“Sample deftly moves between theory and practice to produce a lively interpretation of Reinhold Niebuhr focused on his social thought. Using the themes of human nature, interest, and power he guides the reader into Niebuhr's world to ask how he is or is not relevant for the thorny realities of our contemporary world. Grounded by his lifelong pursuit of social justice, this is Tex Sample at his best--probing, candid, rigorous, and relevant.”
Theology
“Kim and Shaw invite us to adopt a theology that embraces differences, disruptions, and the margins by listening beyond our comfort zone and into deeper layers of our faith so that we leave no one out. A gracious invitation that we would do well to take up in troubling times such as these. This book gives us the guide to do so.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Barbara Holmes's conversations with our elders remind us that the freedom we seek today comes from a long line of folk who remembered to reach back for us before they left us. And they have left us with the wisdom to seek freedom.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Pfeifer’s encyclopedia sheds much-needed light on the magnitude and true horror of lynching in the United States. These facts must and should be known to help us all reckon with the grim legacy and so that, armed with the knowledge of what is possible, we can commit to stopping such brutality today. Read to learn; then commit to justice.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“The authors of this series invite us into an exercise of the imagination—to let loose of the theological school models we know so well and instead craft ways that we teach and learn as if we are living in the new Jerusalem. This is daring work. Will we have the will to grasp it? I encourage you to read and see.”
Christian Living
“Krinks reminds us time and again that one life does make a difference—be it our own or another’s—and this is both gift and grace. Our world desperately needs not only our caring but also our actions to heal and to continue to point us to the new heaven and new earth where justice and love find their home. This is a powerful book of stories that will keep you reading.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Thompson gives us a thoughtful and candid look at the dangers and inadequacies of Christian environmentalism when it does not take seriously the various and rich ways in which peoples of color see a technicolor creation that we must save. His anti-oppressive Christian environmentalism calls us to cast a wide vision for transformative ways of knowing that embrace a deeply incarnational theology--one that throws open the doors of typical Christian environmentalism to cherish a world of humans and more-than-humans in order to save us all.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Moe-Lobeda provides a powerful resource for those who want to understand and face structural evil by exploring ways to resist and dismantle it. Written in clear and lucid prose, she provides us a compelling and at times moving testament that we matter in the work for justice and sustainable relationships between humans and the earth. This is an invitation to embrace a future in which we live in ways so that abundant life is available for all and the world no longer groans from the violence we visit upon it. Moe-Lobeda's deep and grounded spirituality moves us away from the fresh hell of human and ecological violence to the abiding hope that we can and must make a difference by changing the ways we live in God's good creation.”
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Two Volume Set
Theology
“This is the reference book I have been waiting for. It is broad in vision and comprehensive in scope, as its contributors represent a variety of Christian perspectives and beliefs. This historical survey from the origins of Christianity to the present provides us with a thick description of the nature of a rich ecumenical religion that is shaped by deep traditions and is ever changing in the cultures in which it finds its various homes.”
History & Biography
“The Imposing Preacher is a rich biography—bringing the master preacher and public theologian Samuel DeWitt Proctor to life for current and future generations. Bond points us to the genius of Proctor's preaching being forged in the powerful matrix of social Christianity and a Black social gospel. Proctor's faith was not personal as he tackled in the thorn of racial inequality as a vexing theological problem that the church must work to eradicate. Bond gives us a marvelous blend of homiletical insights and social witness. A must read for those who care deeply about the craft of preaching in troubling times.”
The Spirituality of African Peoples
World Religions
“Through Paris' characteristic sharp scholarly eye, we are given work that combines a pan-African focus with an enduring quest for values and meanings. This search for a usable African past is a productive one that provides a wider context to explore how the spirituality of the generations of the African diaspora shaped and continue to shape a moral discourse of collective radical social change.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“To our peril, we often do not think of student affairs until something goes wrong institutionally or interpersonally or individually in our schools. This fine collection reminds us that the work of student affairs must be integrated in all that we do in theological education. There is much to learn from these authors.”
True to Our Native Land, Second Edition
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This new edition is a fine biblical resource that reflects the social and cultural shifts we have undergone since the first edition as well as the world in which we now read and hear the New Testament. With their distinctive, powerful scholarship and insights, the authors--old and new--bring this second edition into our present and maintain rigorous and powerful Black biblical hermeneutics. This will continue to be a resource we can turn to time and again.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Water for All is an invitation for us to think more deeply about water as more than something that makes us wet when touched, but also something that sustains us and challenges us to cherish the multitudes of life surrounding us to create healthier lives today and lay the foundation for generations yet to come. More than a splash, Christiana Zenner gives us an ever-flowing stream.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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