Gary Dorrien
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Joel Goza could not have perceived how racism was and is imagined, institutionalized, and ingrained in U.S. American life had he not experienced the black church. America’s Unholy Ghosts is a probing, spirited, edgy, ethical reflection on how both things happened, perceiving a baleful national legacy through the lens of black church faith and struggle.”
Constructing Constructive Theology
Theology
“Jason Wyman's interpretation of the constructivist approach to theology is keenly perceptive, learned, persuasive, and luminous, showing that this recent theological trend already has a richly diverse history and a promising future.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Faith-rooted organizing is big on faithfulness, hanging in there, building relationships, training leaders, changing social structures and asking what it means to follow Jesus in today's world. It thus combines the best aspects of resource mobilization theory with what is now ubiquitously called 'framing,' and in this superb book by Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel, two leading Christian organizers give us a compelling account of what works and what doesn't.”
Theology
“The Christian Century's How My Mind Has Changed series has always offered an invaluable picture of how theologians negotiated the crisis of belief in their time. This illuminating volume, the most theologically diverse in the series, is a compelling and worthy successor to the five that preceded it.”
Karl Barth and the Problem of War, and Other Essays on Barth
Theology
“John Howard Yoder was a theologically rigorous and passionate advocate of Christian pacifism and a perceptive reader of Karl Barth. These attributes were fully displayed in his early book on Barth's ethic of war, now happily reprinted in this new edition edited by Mark Thiessen Nation.”
Karl Barth's Emergency Homiletic, 1932-1933
Theology
“Hancock's learned, perceptive, and compelling work adds significantly to our understanding of an important chapter of modern theology involving the twentieth century's most important theologian.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Matthew 25 Christianity superbly reimagines social-gospel Christianity for our time, with Donald Heinz’s customary lucidity, cogency, and good-spiritedness.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Too many Christian communities cultivate an innocuous church-talk that isn't really about anything and that does not wrestle with the scriptural text. People of the Book offers a rich and compelling alternative in which Christian communities allow themselves to be shaped by their open-ended, holistic, and conversational grappling with the church's book.”
Pocket History of Evangelical Theology
Theology
“A helpful essay that tells the story of his many-sided subject.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This jewel of a book offers a rich conversation between a biblical theologian father and a sociologist son on caring for each other and the world, learning from each other, and making it real. Every Walter Brueggemann book demonstrates the social relevance of profound biblical scholarship. This one, thanks to John Brueggemann, ranks very high for insightful relevance.”
Reinhold Niebuhr against Racism
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Reinhold Niebuhr was the strongest critic of racism—within the historical and cultural limitations of what he understood it to be—of any major theologian of his time, and Ronald Stone is more deeply learned about Niebuhr’s life and thought than any theological scholar of our time. This book is a welcome treasure trove of all that Niebuhr said about racism, drawing winsomely upon Stone’s storehouse of memories of the later Niebuhr.”
History & Biography
“Ronald H. Stone waited until his own retirement years to write about the retirement years of Reinhold Niebuhr. This winsome book is judicious, deeply informed, and generous, like every book that Stone has written about Niebuhr.”
Schleiermacher’s Influences on American Thought and Religious Life, 1835-1920
History & Biography
“Schleiermacher's thought and influence are both too sprawling, rich, and complex to permit capsule assessments, yet summarize we must, while taking select plunges into detail. Here it is done by Jeffrey Wilcox, Terrence Tice, and Catherine Kelsey with deep understanding and discernment, with the scholar's love of a profound subject constantly showing through.”
History & Biography
“"Books about German theology from 1888 to 1919 are usually about the legacy of the Ritschlian School. In this splendidly conceived, researched, and written book, Mark R. Correll helpfully reminds us that there was a formidable and interesting, though sometimes grievously flawed, conservative Protestant establishment during the heyday of Ritschl, Harnack, and Troeltsch.””
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Rebecca Todd Peters has probed deeply the social and economic structures of global divisions and injustices. She proposes an ethic of solidarity to link first- and third-world societies and to help build a more just world." —Rosemary R. Ruether Claremont School of Theology "Rebecca Todd Peters offers us a transformative faith, grounded in ways to eat, work, buy, live, and love each other so that we can move toward a just, peaceful, sustainable earth. It is a must-read for those who seek solidarity across lines of difference and know salvation must include the whole people of God and creation itself." —Rita Nakashima Brock Brite Divinity School “An ethics of solidarity is our salvation from the globalization of the economy, which creates wealth for the very few at the cost of stomach-wrenching poverty for the many. This is why Rebecca Todd Peters' book must be read by all interested in theologically-based models that bring liberation to the least of these. In the hopelessness caused by neoliberalism, Peters helps us imagine what we can do to move closer toward an economically just global society.” —Miguel A. De La Torre Iliff School of Theology "Authentic religions are born in a burst of moral energy, stoked by a passion for compassion and justice. If Christianity is sliding into irrelevance it is because fiery prophetic voices like that of Rebecca Todd Peters have not reached into the chilled hearts of those who without moral warranty call themselves Christians." —Daniel C. Maguire Marquette University "Solidarity Ethics is a model of Christian feminist social ethics—relational, outward-reaching, global, justice-oriented, and spiritually illuminating.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The first edition of this superb book brilliantly deconstructed a gathering nightmare of state vengeance and oppression. Now that we have social movements taking on the nightmare, it is profoundly important that Mark Lewis Taylor has updated and revised this book, a cry of the heart expounding a theology of the cross.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“All books by Larry Rasmussen feature his wonderful blend of encyclopedic knowledge, judicious analysis, and poetic beauty, but this one is a distinct gift: an updated Earth-Honoring Faith in the form of love letters to Larry's grandchildren. This luminous gift will be gratefully received for many years to come, if there are many years to come.”
The Risk of Returning, Second Edition
Fiction
“A luminous, richly layered and beautifully written story about memory and resistance.”
The Tradition of Liberal Theology
Theology
“The Tradition of Liberal Theology is winsomely written, cogently argued, and focused mainly on the early British tradition. Like Michael Langford’s previous books on this subject, it offers a rationalistic perspective and a deeply informed account of where liberal theology came from and why it still matters.”
Theological Education Underground
History & Biography
“This is one of the most absorbing and illuminating volumes of the Bonhoeffer collected works, giving us the Bonhoeffer who struggled under terrible circumstances in Nazi Germany to provide seminary training worthy of the Christian name, even as he struggled with fundamental decisions about his future. We are indebted to the editors and translators for another superb volume in this series.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
Reconstructing the Common Good
Theology
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
The Remaking of Evangelical Theology
Theology
Theology
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