Gregory Allen Robbins

Kids and Kingdom

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This close, literary analysis is striking because it exposes tensions within the Gospel narratives that challenge modern assumptions about Jesus' doting on, delight in, and welcome of non-adult companions among his entourage. With painstaking care Murphy draws out the implications the Synoptic presentation of Jesus--as eschatological, crucifixion-bound itinerant--portends for the wellbeing of children. Judicious and solicitous, Murphy nevertheless hurls a brickbat at stained-glass notions of Jesus as champion of 'family values.'”

Reclaiming the Radical Economic Message of Luke

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“King maintains that the economic message about wealth and poverty in Luke’s Gospel was radical in the late first and early second centuries and remains radical for today. While his is a closely detailed exegetical analysis, it is also a work of constructive theology, making it doubly valuable. Subsequent scholars of wealth and poverty in Luke will surely need to acknowledge their debt to his sedulous incorporation of cutting-edge postcolonial and liberationist interpretations from the margins.”

Through All the Plain

History & Biography

“We send young men and women to war without thinking. Out of sight, they tend to be out of mind, our yellow-ribbon bumper stickers notwithstanding. What happens when we send thinking soldiers to war? Some come back to us with tales to tell, eyes-wide-open tales that challenge our complicity with, our inurement to violence, the violence we would render and the violence we sustain--personally and corporately--in executing wars's ends. Peters's is one such tale. It goes a long way toward dissipating the 'fog.'”