Gavin D'Costa

A Jewish Trinity

Theology

“Alan Brill is a master of Jewish and Christian sources, and this is a breakthrough book. He examines key Christian doctrines showing commonality, difference, and intriguing unanswered questions arising from his comparative exercise. Brill keeps the conversation open and avoids any facile assimilation.”

A New History of Redemption

Theology

“Gerald McDermott celebrates and builds on Jonathan Edwards’s great vision of the history of salvation. McDermott’s voice carefully unites the Reformed tradition with key Roman Catholic theologians to write an ecumenically compelling theology of God’s redemption, from before creation to the end of time. He pays special attention to ‘Israel’ (both Jews who follow Jesus and those who do not) and to Israel’s enduring role in salvation history. A genuine contribution to theology, ecclesiology, and Christian-Jewish relations. A compelling and challenging book.”

An Apology for Apologetics

Apologetics

“Refreshing, lucid, and penetrating. . . . Griffiths sets a rigorous new agenda for interfaith dialogue.”

An Imaginative Glimpse

Theology

“Adiprasetya interestingly draws from Moltmann's 'open Trinity' and Kearney's 'God who may be' to think beyond the solutions that Panikkar, Heim, and I have proposed in using the Trinity to reflect on religious pluralism. Adiprasetya opens up new creative avenues in freshly employing perichoresis in this field. His work is stimulating and raises significant questions.”

Azusa, Rome, and Zion

History & Biography

“Hocken is opening a prophetic, challenging, and ecumenical door in this book. He explores the deep connections of ecumenism between Catholics and Pentecostals, the importance of the charismatic movement for all Christians, and the rebirth of Jewish expressions of following Christ. Put these together and out jumps a form of Catholic 'restoration' theology. Hocken is either reading the signs of the time or he is eccentric. I think he is the former.”

Being Consumed

Work, Money & Leadership

“Rampaging retail therapy in our Western economics requires a radical analyst. We have an Augustinian prophetic voice in William Cavanaugh, who subjects the free market, consumer culture, globalization, and scarcity to Catholic interrogation. He employs the traditions of Augustine, Aquinas, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and John Paul II, proposing an alternative desire that transforms the church and our practices. Envisioning a eucharistic justice that leaves us rich in community-caring and prosperous in our constant sharing, Cavanaugh is lucid, personal, practical, and theologically wise.”

Buddhism

World Religions

“This is interfaith dialogue at its best. Netland and Yandell provide a thoughtful understanding of Buddhism, followed by a careful pressing of internal problems within Buddhism, followed by a constructive summary of real differences between Christianity and Buddhism. They also succeed in establishing the plausibility of Christianity in the light of various possible Buddhist critiques. No reader, Christian or Buddhist, will be left unchallenged by this lucid exposition, critique and proclamation.”

Do We Worship the Same God?

World Religions

“Do we worship the same God? This is such an important question today. These groundbreaking high-quality essays from Christians, Jews, and a Muslim open important doors onto new paths.”

Engaging the Doctrine of Israel

Theology

“This is systematic and biblical theology at its best, thought through in the company of some of the greatest modern Jewish thinkers. Levering manages to keep intact fulfillment without supersessionism, reverence and respect toward the Jewish people with a deeply confessional Catholic-ecumenical approach. Levering does this walking a daring tightrope addressing the most difficult topics that are unresolved between Jews and Catholics. A landmark book.”

Faiths and Faithfulness

Evangelism & Missions

“Wood's book is important for its critical survey of key twentieth-century theologians dealing with the theology of religions. Wood constructively develops a Baptist theology of mission by balancing together the contributions of Kenneth Cragg and Lesslie Newbigin, fusing a theology of continuity with a Christological missiological approach. Bringing back mission to the center of theology of religions is Wood's special achievement.”

Humble Confidence

Apologetics

“This is a fine and sensitive study of the dynamics of engaging in faithful Christian witness to different religious traditions—and the complex tasks and demands in each new situation. It is written with deep learning and wide experience. It is an eloquent and much-needed apology for the importance of humble apologetics.”

Israel

Theology

“This is a visionary proposal from Paul Griffiths, with all the wisdom, precision, and erudition we have come to expect from him. It sets out a map for how Christians might see themselves as part of Israel along with the Jewish people--and the many implications this has. It is exacting, profound, and very provocative.”

Jerusalem Crucified, Jerusalem Risen

Theology

“Kinzer’s work is ground breaking. He focuses especially on Luke and Acts to show that Jerusalem then, now, and in the future is central to the hope of the Jewish messiah, Jesus—and thus to his ecclesial body, both Jew and gentile. The good news is geographical. Kinzer develops a new form of Christ-centred Zionism, eschewing millenarianism, and bloody battle scenarios. His work is changing and challenging theological maps for Jewish and gentile Christians.”

Jerusalén crucificada, Jerusalén resucitada

Theology

“«El trabajo de Kinzer es innovador. Se enfoca especialmente en Lucas y Hechos para mostrar que Jerusalén, entonces, ahora y en el futuro, es central para la esperanza del mesías judío, Jesús; y, por tanto, también para su cuerpo eclesial, tanto judío como gentil. La buena noticia es geográfica. Kinzer desarrolla una nueva forma de sionismo centrado en Cristo, evitando el milenarismo y los escenarios de batallas sangrientas. Su trabajo está cambiando y desafiando los mapas teológicos a judíos y cristianos gentiles».”

Lying

Theology

“This book shakes the foundations. Griffiths is a modern-day Augustine in rhetorical power, social analysis, textual rigor, and theological vision. Reading Griffiths requires steely never as the persuasion of his prose, the elegance and rigor of his argument, leave the reader in the dock, with only God as our witness. This is a masterful essay in philosophical theology--erudite, scholarly, and graceful in its simplicity.”

One of a Kind

Theology

Foreword

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Participation and Atonement

Theology

“Crisp does what the best theologians have always done: engage critically and sympathetically with the tradition and constructively develop it in conversation with old and new questions. Crisp has a finely honed theological and philosophical mind. This is one of the most important recent treatments of the doctrine of the atonement.”

Ransomed, Redeemed, and Forgiven

Theology

“McIlroy, with forensic and lucid precision, illuminates one of the most difficult doctrines regarding the manner of Christ’s redemption of the world. His sensitivity to language is akin to the poet, and his precision is akin to the advocate—and in both, his roots are biblical.”

Revelation in Christian Theologies of Religions

Theology

Foreword

“This is an original book, important to the field and very engaging due to Iain McGee’s elegant, sophisticated, and accessible style. I commend it to all serious Christians reflecting on the relationship of Christianity to the religious and non-religious cultures within which we live.”

Stones the Builders Rejected

Theology

“Mark Kinzer’s essays in this collection show how both Jews who follow Jesus and gentiles who follow a Jewish messiah need to rethink together doctrines of Christ, church, and eschatology. This book continues Kinzer’s contribution to biblical, doctrinal, and ecumenical theology. It is challenging, prophetic, and required reading.”