Gordon W. Lathrop

An African Tree of Life

Evangelism & Missions

“How do the local cultural riches bring us newly into connection with the universal? . . . [An African Tree of Life] works out a methodology and provides brilliant and moving examples which could enrich the whole church and not just the Gbaya church.”

Christian Liturgy

Preaching & Worship

“Robert W. Hovda †”

Eucharist

Preaching & Worship

“With accessible language and theological depth, Ola Tjørhom has given us a rich, ecumenical survey of eucharistic meaning, wonderfully exploring the profound implications of the real presence of Christ in this meal. While the author does not personally know the characteristics of liturgical recovery in North America, his gracious wisdom about Norwegian practice can suggest ways forward for many regions of the church.”

Finding Our Balance

Theology

“It is to be hoped that the voice of Ron Byars will be widely heard today in mainstream American Protestantism. Here is an important argument for the much-needed authority of a nuanced orthodoxy, for the recovery of word and sacrament at the heart of the life of our churches, for bath, book, meal, and attentiveness to the poor as the unobscured central agenda of our Sunday meetings. If you are thinking about the identity and faithfulness of your own congregation, take and read!”

Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals

Church Leadership & Ministry

“This rare and provocative book, by two of North America’s foremost scholars in the fields of liturgy and pastoral care, brilliantly and accessibly engages in a much-needed conversation between these disciplines.”

Preaching from the Lectionary: An Exegetical Commentary: Stand-alone CD-ROM

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“''Many preachers will find this one-volume commentary on the diverse readings of our shared lectionaries to be just what they have needed. Written by Gerard Sloyan with his characteristic scholarly integrity, literary sensitivity, liturgical awareness, and ecumenical depth, the book should become a standard biblical reference.''”

Sacramental Ethics

“This remarkable little book remains a classic, a wise and concrete reflection on the life of faith as a real way of life, grounded in the communal encounter with the grace of God in public worship. Look here to see again what word and sacrament have to do with daily life. Read here to think again how the paschal movement of Christ from death to life can pull us along, converting us to the care and embrace of the world.”

That Divine and Most Excellent Gift

Preaching & Worship

“If church is an event and the gospel a spoken word, then we need to see that the event takes place in participatory music-making and that the word moves into our hearts in song. In an unfinished but brilliant and accessible essay, and in six eloquent supplementary articles, Mark Bangert gives us Luther on music, opening us to both event and song just as music can open us to the created world. Mark is too soon gone from us. But thanks to the gift of Kristi Bangert and the excellent editing of Martin Seltz, we hear him still in this book.”

Why Did Jesus Die and What Does That Have to Do with Me?

Theology

“Read this book. You will find a magisterial and hugely instructive survey of virtually all the Christian ideas about atonement throughout the centuries. And you will end in exactly the right place: a passionate and ecumenical invitation to participation in word and sacrament as participation in Christ, in whom all the world, including all human sorrow, has been made to participate in God.”