Ephraim Radner
Biography
Ephraim Radner is an ordained Anglican priest and has served as Professor of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. Radner has served as series editor for volumes on 1 Corinthians, Philippians and Joshua, published in 2026.
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A Companion to the Theology of John Webster
Theology
“This is a superb introduction to a major, if still underappreciated, theologian whose reputation will only continue to grow. Webster’s constructive powers grew out of careful and creative study of earlier modern Protestant systematicians, whose work he was able to reconfigure within broader catholic and evangelical perspectives, profoundly scriptural and Trinitarian. He produced one of the richest and most rigorous theological visions of our era. Allen and Nelson have assembled a group of theologians, significant in their own right, to provide a us with a well-lit entry into Webster’s sophisticated project. Helpfully ordered, crystal clear, yet also filled with appropriate detail, this volume will define the shape of future research on Webster and is indispensable for scholar and student alike.”
History & Biography
“Winsome and wise, this compactly told story of printing and the English Reformation offers a clear window onto the period's intellectual challenges and personal costs associated with the shifting religious struggles. Confusion there was, but also courage, creativity, and cunning among the printers whose words and images presented the conflicted commitments that, after much agony, finally gave rise to British religious pluralism and toleration. Carefoote's elegantly written volume does his subject proud.”
Theology
“In this penetrating study, Ahn offers an acute and discerning analysis of ‘nonviolent atonement’ theories in comparison with traditional ‘substitutionary’ approaches and persuasively argues for the tradition’s more holistic reach. Ahn employs a generous and appreciative reading of the tradition’s contemporary critics, using them to help reframe and broaden his Chalcedonian vision of the God-Man’s redemptive work. This is a work of classical theological reflection of exemplary vitality and pertinence and deserves a wide readership.”
A Theology of the Christian Life
Theology
“This is a magnificently theological reflection on Christian existence. Books about the Christian life often devolve into banal how-to manuals. Here, however, Holmes explores how the life of a Christian opens up to the reality of God himself, in a way that exposes the deepest truths of divine life. In serious but lucid prose, Holmes’s skills as a master systematician are movingly deployed in the service of a mind and spirit suffused with the love and adoration of God. Shaped by the classic wisdom of the fathers and of Thomas Aquinas especially, with Scripture at its root, Holmes carefully opens up for the reader the astonishing promise by which God’s perfections are shared with us. Dogmatic and spiritual theology are wedded here in an incomparable contemporary fashion that calls for the urgent attention of every Christian, whether student or scholar, lay or ordained.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Through a disarmingly engaging study of the Venerable Bede, Furry provides a subtle Christian apologetic about the nature of history. Taking history back for legitimate Christian interpretation, Furry steps nimbly through scriptural exegesis, Augustinian metaphysics, medieval theology, and contemporary philosophy, despoiling the Egyptians as he goes. This is a wonderfully creative re-appropriation of the tradition, which reopens a fertile space for a Christian reading of the past.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Turner’s elegant volume casts a welcome light on the Anglican Christian Socialist tradition, from the nineteenth century to the present. While the book lays bare some of the flaws of this movement, more importantly Turner illuminates the positive challenges and promises that its proponents—people like Maurice, Tawney, Gore, or Williams and Milbank—still offer to the diseased and fractured life of contemporary liberal society. Turner’s approach is theological and ethical—just as our social lives in Christian terms ought to be framed—and he brings to bear the sharply honed tools of a master thinker and teacher. Compact, accessible, and penetrating, this is a book for scholars and students alike, and one that demands the attention of the wider church.”
Theology
“Church Doctrine promises to be a major contribution to theological synthesis for our day. His opening volume on canon is a unique and wonderful down payment that examines the way Scripture and its proclamation frame the entire context of our theology and life in Christ. McGlasson writes concretely, pertinently, and practically, applying his vast learning judiciously and with a perfect pitch. Catholic in scope, robustly Protestant in sensibility, this is a gift to the whole church.”
Theology
“A major contribution to theological synthesis for our day. . . .”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“O'Donovan is one of the preeminent Christian theologians of our time. Here he brings to bear his acute mind, deep faith, and broad pastoral sensitivities on one of the most pressing challenges facing our churches today.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“This is a rich and sophisticated ars moriendi for our time, drawn from the storehouse of the Christian tradition that Levering has been so profoundly exploring over the past years. . . . His focus upon the divine graces of Christian virtue now shaping the fullness of living and dying in Christ provides extraordinary fruit.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“In this sparkling synthesis of the Christian Church's traditional exegesis of Leviticus, Mark Elliott does what any good theologian should do with the Bible: help us learn how to read it within the Church. More than a collection of past perspectives, Engaging Leviticus is ordered by Elliott's own acute sense of key interpretive questions and of the larger purposes of the scriptural book. His own arguments are historically and intellectually illuminating; but more importantly, they orient us properly to Leviticus' pointed theological challenges in an exciting way. This is necessary scholarship for all students of Scripture.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Stanglin brings his keen mind, Christian rootedness, and lucid writing to this pointed overview of Christian ethics. A wonderfully ordered and accessibly presented discussion of the foundations of the gospel’s love ethic that is then applied to a series of key issues, Stanglin pulls no punches, providing a responsible Scriptural lens on matters ranging from sexuality and race to technology and politics. Wearing its learning lightly and delving into the concrete challenges of Christian life in the world, this illuminating volume will deepen the faith and practice of any serious disciple. It deserves a wide reading throughout the church.”
Theology
“These critically informed reflections, from Catholics and Protestants, provide a unique synoptic vision of the struggles informing ecclesial diversity around the world. The volume’s sensitive focus on the concrete experience of local Christians, coupled with the authors’ theoretical sophistication, moving from rich theology to incisive social politics, provides illuminating judgments about the church’s search for unity in global perspective. Provocative and illuminating, this is contemporary ecumenical writing at its best, and because of that, it lays out the terms of future study with a fresh hope. Highly recommended for scholars and students alike.”
Christian Living
Foreword
“Andrew Barron's book engages directly with some of the most challenging and nagging issues of human life from and with God--family, suffering, death, incapacity, limitation, difference, divine love. It does so with compelling concreteness, at times gripping involvement, and always accessible prose, imagery, and argument. We won't agree with all the moves he makes, but we will ever be brought face to face with unavoidable divine questions, human imperatives, and acknowledged grace.”
Theology
Foreword
“Anyone who goes with [Derek Wiertel] through this journey of theological questioning will emerge, I am certain, with a transformed sense of who they are, of what the world is, and of the fundamental grace and beauty of the God who creates and orders this world of difficult wonders. That is, In the Shadow of Christ is a volume of tremendous hope.”
Invitation to Dogmatic Theology
Theology
“McGlasson’s book is a pointed, powerful, and hard-hitting outline and defense of the way dogmatic theology must grow out of and be defined by the canonical shape of the Word in its witness to the risen Lord. This is a book that will rustle feathers at a time when feathers need rustling in a church that has allowed our grasp of God’s truth to slip away from its scriptural and Christological moorings. Written with clarity and helpful argumentative sweep and summary, McGlasson raises challenges that must be faced by all pastors, seminarians, and theologians.”
History & Biography
“The theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity apply not only to our relationship with God, but to our lives with one another. Seitz movingly depicts how this is so in this tender account of his time with his wife Elizabeth in France during the last years of her life. Imbued with gentle humor, sympathetic if sometimes wry social observation, and the deep current of love, this book is a testimony in miniature to the vivifying and sanctifying power of human affection in the eyes of God.”
Theology
“This remarkable set of well-crafted essays wonderfully expresses the vitality of contemporary Evangelical ecclesiology: layered, diverse, throbbing with Christ Jesus at the center of concern. Organized by the four creedal 'marks,' the volume casts a wide net. There is serious theological discussion here of matters that are usually left to journalists: Internet churches and new monasticism. There is also focus on traditionally queried topics: Johannine narrative, Bonhoeffer, Torrance. Finally, we happily discover themes less familiar to Evangelicals: beauty, kenosis, the Eucharist. What is both apparent and exciting is how ecclesiological reflection is today leading Evangelicals to creative self-critique, even as it uncovers the irrepressible energies of the Evangelical search for ecclesial communion.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“From a giant in systematic thinking about the Bible comes a monumental and generous volume that promises to lead biblical and theological scholars from different traditions together in a task they share with all believers: to hear God speak in the Scriptures and thereby to be changed into the likeness of his Son. The title’s mere has little to do with modesty or limits, but trades on the word’s original sense of “pure” and “gleaming.” For Vanhoozer explores how reading Scripture is properly done in the service of entering into God’s glory. This goal orders his presentation around the reality of Christ’s transfiguration, with Scripture as the divine avenue for participating in this transformative truth. Creatively conceived, richly articulated, and faithfully penetrating, Vanhoozer’s book marks—for Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals alike—a converting invitation as much as a scholarly landmark.”
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