George Kalantzis
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“In A Dual Reception: Eusebius and the Gospel of Mark, Clayton Coombs examines in depth the struggles of fourth-century Christians to make sense of the apparent discrepancies in the account of the Resurrection found in the Synoptics, and to reconcile the manuscript traditions of the ending of Mark—is it the long ending or the short that Christians ought to accept as canonical? On the way, Coombs offers a most fascinating look into the Christian communities of fourth-century eastern Mediterranean and shows how attentive they were to the details of Scripture; how sophisticated was their approach to both doctrine and worship; and how pastoral care was at the center of theology. A Dual Reception is an indispensable resource for those interested in early Christian understandings of inspiration, canonicity, and manuscript reception.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“’You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church.’ It is an unfortunate idiom of our contemporary biblical imagination that our attention has neglected the leader of the earliest apostolic community, Peter. Or rather, whenever we have engaged with Peter, we have read him as naïve, impulsive, immature disciple; a cipher for our own shortcomings. The Peter whom we meet in the Bible was none of that. This exceptional collection of essays—at the same time academic and deeply personal—reflects on the actual person, ministry, and writings and reveals Peter to be as he truly was: a faithful, mature disciple, who loved his Lord and yearned for the good of the communities of Jesus. At the end, Peter, the rock, is revealed to be a model from whom we can learn about life and ministry, faithfulness, failure, repentance, reconciliation, and the deep joy of being the followers of Jesus. For Peter had the tensile strength needed to be a true friend of Jesus.”
Biblical Interpretation and Doctrine in Early Christianity
Theology
“Brian Daley is one of the most important historians and theologians of our time. This collection bears witness to the deep delight Christians have taken throughout time in meditating on the God who reveals God’s own self in Scripture and the person of Christ. A careful scholar of early Christianity whose work enlivens the past and nourishes the present, Daley bridges the gap between their time and ours to make manifest the beauty of a life lived in the pursuit of a deeper knowledge of God in Christ. From the Psalms to Origen and the Cappadocians, from Boethius and Leontius of Byzantium to Nouvelle Théologie and the Dei Verbum, Daley’s careful and rigorous scholarship reveals why, for him, the study of Scripture and early Christianity has never been an antiquarian curiosity but rather is a form of worship. This volume and its companion focusing more specifically on Daley’s work on the Incarnation and Trinity will be cherished by scholars and students for many years to come.”
Christian Women in the Patristic World
Theology
“In this exceptional book, Cohick and Hughes bring to the fore the often overlooked protomartyrs, theologians, teachers, ascetics, and politicians of the early church--the women whose stories animated the imagination of Christians for centuries and whose influence, authority, and legacy has been preserved in the literary and material record.”
Theology
“This is a wonderful book. In God’s Many-Splendored Image, Sister Nonna Harrison brings together the spiritual wisdom of the diachronic church and the love for God and God’s creation—all of God’s creation!—to provide a masterful guide for Christian formation that is based on God’s love and care from the very act of creation to the eschaton. Sister Nonna opens for us the Eastern part of early Christianity, providing an alternative to the expected—for Western readers—understanding of postlapsarian ‘human nature’ as inherently ‘bad,’ and shows how early Christians, from theologians to desert mothers and fathers, understood the divine image as inherent in who we are.”
Novatian of Rome and the Culmination of Pre-Nicene Orthodoxy
Theology
“"Bringing to life Novatian of Rome--a figure whose long-lasting effects on orthodox theology have some times been overshadowed by his more famous contemporaries-in a coherent and excellently researched book, James Papandrea offers rich and valuable insights into the development of Trinitarian and christological thought in the Latin West during the crucial pre-Nicene period. This book is a much needed companion to any treatment of Christology and Trinity and will be used by both seminarians and historians alike.”
Retrieving Augustine's Doctrine of Creation
Science & Faith
“What do we who live in the post–industrial revolution twenty-first century have to learn about creation from a fifth-century North African bishop? As it turns out, quite a lot. First and foremost, Augustine helps us learn how to think, not only what to think. In Retrieving Augustine's Doctrine of Creation, Gavin Ortlund invites us into a conversation with one of the greatest minds of late antiquity to explore together the fundamental distinction between 'nature' and 'creation'; the former being the idolatrous attempt to perceive our reality as independent, while the latter restoring what Ortlund terms 'a holistic framework for how to live as God's creatures in God's world.' This is a book that needs to be readslowly, for neither the topic nor the transformative effect can be rushed. And there is no better interlocutor than Augustine to help us move from our autonomous, self-referential idolatry to the Creator of all, whose image we bear. Ortlund has done us a great favor. Tolle, lege!”
The Contemporary Church and the Early Church
History & Biography
“During the past century and a half, evangelical scholarship and practice seems to have neglected much of the richness of the historical Church to the-inevitable-detriment of doctrinal and ecclesial clarity and faithfulness. In more recent decades, however, lone voices have merged into what can only be described as a flourishing movement of ressourcement that seeks to reverse the prevalent historical amnesia among Evangelicals and restore the rightful relationship between contemporary and diachronic Christianity. This collection of essays is an important part of this discussion as it provides a number of valuable examples of that ressourcement. This is a volume that will be read broadly by both students and pastors as it pays particular attention to the contemporary application of ancient discussions-both ancients and moderns, after all, we are united in our common desire for faithfulness.”
Theology
“Can the story of Scripture, the preaching and teaching of the apostles, be summed up in a way that can be passed from one generation to another? And how are Christians to distinguish between varying truth-claims? With the ease and depth of a master craftsman, Ferguson guides us through the regula fidei of the early Church to find an answer. Placing The Rule of Faith as a necessary companion to the well-known creeds, Ferguson brings to life again the vital truth-claims of early Christianity.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
See something wrong on this page? Report a problem