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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Theology
“This marvelous study of Luther's early reading of the Psalms discloses the power of the word at work on one of the church's most fertile and acute minds. German's careful, lucid, and groundbreaking reflections allow us to watch Luther as he permits himself to be "taken captive" by the Psalms, and to adjust his reading to conform to "the way the words go" in a manner that finally moves him to a new set of insights about the nature of both Scripture and human faithfulness. Challenging several recent trends in contemporary hermeneutics, German's nuanced analysis reveals especially the unique way Luther came to appreciate the depth and richness of an attuned literal reading of the Old Testament that can speak on its own terms equally to synagogue and church.”
Theology
“This is a striking manifesto, in the form of a gentle, subtle, moving, and encyclopedic tour through the church’s long reflection on our final destiny of gazing upon God’s face given in Christ. Boersma eloquently unveils the powerful truth that we are made in our bones to thirst for such a vision and that the ordering of our lives is properly geared toward this end.”
Theology
“Gary Anderson is one of the church’s most astute, sensitive, learned, and penetratingly faithful readers of the Old Testament in any generation, and That I May Dwell among Them is among his most intricately beautiful studies. Examining the central biblical texts regarding God’s tabernacling presence among Israel, Anderson explores these difficult passages with unusual care and precision. Anderson carefully integrates his interpretation, properly informed by Jewish understandings, with the Christian confession of Jesus’s atoning sacrifice. The result is a nuanced corrective of reductive Christian views of sacrifice and the exposition of a morally ravishing vision of human life itself as joined to Christ. This is a remarkable testament to the transformative power of serious biblical theology.”
Christian Living
“Brad East's The Church wonderfully enhances the already marvelous Lexham series on Christian "Essentials." Building off of the Church's "Mystery" that is Christ's Body, as Ephesians proclaims, East outlines the story of God's people born of Abraham, in its breadth, beauty, imperative, and promise. Lucid, compact, attractive, and appropriately rich with the figures of Scripture's visionary treasure, this book is not only a fine introduction for new Christians of all traditions, but a well from which to draw continued reflection and prayerful praise. Highly commended!”
The Collected Christian Essentials: Catechism
Christian Living
“The three pillars of Christian teaching—Decalogue, Apostles’ Creed, and the Lord’s Prayer—have been the consistent basis of formation in the faith for 1500 years. They represent a foundation shared by Protestants and Catholics alike, built upon across continents and cultures. Lexham’s collection of three sterling presentations of each element mines a deep tradition and deploys the wisdom of three superb Christian teachers and scholars. They have offered the ‘faith once given’ for the people of today in a way that nourishes, illuminates, and challenges. Whether for personal or communal use, this inviting catechism is itself a gift of grace.”
Theology
“A magnificent achievement! Brad East has taken his years of theological reflection upon the Bible and crafted a compelling and synoptic discussion of Scripture’s divinely granted being and place within the Christian church’s life and vision of reality. In the end, East’s volume provides a modernized version of a generally classical view of Scripture’s form and function, respectfully taking up traditional claims with a critical eye, and weaving old and new perspectives into a lucidly ordered whole that is fundamentally grounded in a living and humble faith. Sprightly written, substantively resourced, carefully argued, and pastorally adept, East’s Doctrine of Scripture should be required reading for theological students and scholars alike.”
The Fundamentals of a Recovering Fundamentalist
Theology
“Gabriel Gordon’s book is a courageous and daringly self-revealing witness to the way the God of Israel is still taking hold of the world, even in the twilight of our present culture. It’s a young book: fresh, filled with clear images, riven by the internal combat of someone seeking the truth of God, and, through all kinds of struggles, reveling in the God who has first sought him. We should thankfully read Gordon’s story because, in a basic way, it is all of ours in its promise and wonder.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Through a set of intelligent, well-crafted, and stimulating essays representing a diversity of views, the volume offers constructive tools for a critically faithful Christian engagement with the internet. Ranging from biblical exegesis to political theology and social ethics, Clement of Alexandria to Luther and Levinas, The HTML of Cruciform Love is necessary reading, and should be put in the hands of every seminarian and church leader.”
The Letter and Spirit of Biblical Interpretation
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Interest in premodern ways of reading the Bible has grown so quickly that we now require direction through the territory. Stanglin's guide should become preeminent in the genre. His lucid overview gets at the deeper motives and methods that have shaped traditional ways of reading Scripture. A superb book for students, pastors, and all thoughtful Christians.”
The Trinity in the Book of Revelation
Theology
“Brandon Smith's important work furthers the recent movement to reassert the intellectual integrity of viewing the New Testament as foundational to the church's orthodox doctrinal tradition. With sophistication and care, he engages the interplay between the text of Revelation and its early interpreters as an entry into the text's divinely revealed meaning. Trinity and trinitarian, rather than being conceptual impositions on the text, are convincingly shown to be a dynamic framework for truthfully confessing God's self-offering to the church in his Scriptures. In the process the book of Revelation's historically fraught role in Christian self-understanding is wonderfully focused, enlivened, and empowered. Deploying wide scholarship and lucid writing, Smith provides readers with a rich exegetical and theological feast, on a table set by one of the Bible's most fruitful books.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Books on ministry often end up as ordination gifts that are never read. Harding's book will be read over and over and, I hope, never put away on a shelf. Drawing on--and lucidly explaining--classic Anglican understandings of ministry like Moberly's and Ramsey's, Harding's morally sensitive, Scripturally concrete, and theologically rich reflections on the christologically representative character of ordained service are essential guides to the church's ongoing life and renewal. He compellingly outlines the glorious and costly love of the Christian church's life that finds its personal sign in the priest's vulnerable dependence upon Christ's ministry of sacrifice. Evangelical and Catholic Christians alike will find their personal and common ministries built up by this vision.”
Christian Living
“A compelling Pilgrim's Progress for today, uncovering divine truth in a way that will challenge modern readers, but also invite them into a landscape of powerful beauty they have secretly been longing to inhabit. A book to savor and to share.”
Theology
“The remarkably fruitful and faithful Matthew Levering has offered us a new gift with this small jewel on Why I Am Roman Catholic. Personal, penetrating, humbly forthright, and with a sweeping spiritual vision of the divine life, Levering follows his own ecumenical advice: share joyfully with others what the Lord has given you. The volume marks a testimony, not an apology, for his Christian ecclesial commitments, though it is not without a store of gentle persuasions. Richly adorned with the gleaming traces of one the most profound gifts of his tradition—the communion of saints—Levering's limpid discussion takes us through his own sense of blessing, challenge, and hope in his Christian vocation as a Catholic. Non-Catholics in particular will find this an encouraging witness, and all Christians should receive it with thanks, as do I.”
Theology
“Disagree though I may with Geoffrey Kirk's final position, I must strongly recommend this sparkling volume on women's ordination to the priesthood. Dr. Kirk skillfully engages the pertinent Scriptural texts and historical record, and witheringly exposes the largely flabby arguments still making the rounds in church debate. Along the way, he uncovers logical missteps and conceptual failures that have littered the discussion. This is a book that will make reflection wiser and more honest, and finally, one hopes, more faithful to the integrity of our Christian common life.”
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