Gordon Preece

Engaging Ethically in a Strange New World

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Brautigam and Asquith's edited book speaks thoughtfully through a range of Australian multicultural accents across a vast landscape of issues: from beauty in Edwards, homosexuality in Islam, to assisted dying legislation in Victoria for starters. It unpacks biblical resources from wisdom to Jesus, to a more virtue-based approach. Such rich resources are applied in creative ways, of interest not only for Australians, but for a secular pluralist world.”

Finding God in Suffering

Christian Living

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Gender Roles and the People of God

Women

“Alice Mathews’s combination of laser-like clarity and loving charity toward the hierarchicalists she disagrees with is enlightening and refreshing. Spanning Scripture, theology, tradition, ecclesiology, and ministry, with a touch of sociology, this is one of the most succinct and yet comprehensive syntheses of the best scholarship you’ll find on the subject. It is truly a liberating book.”

Gender Theory Is Wrong

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Paul Tyson has the critical academic credentials in the relevant areas of philosophy, theology, sociology, science, and politics to address this challenging area of gender theory. He also writes directly and lucidly. For too long the debate about gender theory has been hampered by obscure and dense verbiage designed to mystify its readers. It leads many to surrender to a range of powers aiming to take away their agency. Tyson clears away the undergrowth to empower those open to his and the great philosophical and scientific realist tradition of a ‘meaningful understanding of natural facts.’ I found light-globes going off regularly as Tyson’s genealogy clearly linked movement to movement, finally opening a door through the dark. Having shown how our ‘knowledge elites’ frolicked along in their performative meaning making games, Tyson takes seriously what they do not—people’s lives, especially young people’s lives—are at stake. He draws on a range of practical and radical arguments to show not only that, but how Gender Theory is wrong. It has taken a Kantian and linguistic wrong turn away from reality. But by ‘recovering a lifeworld without Gender Theory,’ Tyson provides a patch for rebooting the Enlightenment and the natural meaning of sex, in all its goodness and familial importance. As law and medicine, the courts and upholders of the Hippocratic Oath slowly seek to recover some sense of scientific sexual sanity, for the sake of a whole generation, this brilliant and courageous book is well-placed to best help so many sufferers from their seemingly never-ending gender nightmare, to recover a route back to a semblance of reality.”

Sabbath as Resilience

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“Sabbath as Resilience boldly engages an area of theological, philosophical, and economic neglect in contemporary capitalist societies. The restlessness of these comes from an intrinsic aspect of capitalism in its urgency to undercut and kill its own creations. The book is not a mere follow-up to Barnes’s earlier Redeeming Capitalism but a promising research project of Mocker scholars with great credentials and an impressive sense of cohesion in tackling the task very expansively. In their hands Sabbath rest offers a whole new perspective on how to live with resilience no longer relegated to a mere bit part in the weeks of our lives, but a whole orientation to life.”

The God Who Plays

Theology

“In The God Who Plays, Brian Edgar presents a wonderful gift to God’s overly serious people . . . The chapter headings are inviting, the writing clear and even playful. Brian clearly had fun writing this book. And the imaginative invitations to play with God, concluding each chapter, are irresistible. Enjoy.”

The Word Became Flesh

Theology

Foreword

“Griffin's ambitious book rejoins the oft-separated classical theological tradition of the Logos and the radical Christocentric Anabaptist tradition. His theological peace-making and robust argument provide a rich synthesis of apparent opposites. Shed your skepticism to see what coherence Griffin uncovers through this rapprochement and what radical theological and ethical fruitfulness potentially follows.”

Transforming Daily Work into a Divine Vocation

Work, Money & Leadership

“This book is vintage Robert Banks, a great pioneer in faith and work integration. He deftly weaves together threads from a lifetime of listening to a wide range of workers globally. Then he reflects biblically and theologically, asking prophetic and practical questions for vocational discernment. Without squeezing, Robert packs in a whole compendium of his many writings on work, but with clarity, stories, questions, and conviction. It is an easy read, but not easy to live.”

Your Body Is Holy

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Paul Tyson is a brave and brilliant author. Brave because he exposes many sexual shibboleths across gender fluidity, Jesus’s alleged sexual silence, modern indifference to procreation, etc. Brilliant in affirming a biblical, creational, and Great Commandment-based re-sacralizing of sexuality from both vertical-divine and horizontal-human beams of Jesus’s Cross.”