Hans Boersma
Biography
Hans Boersma wrote Heavenly Participation, Scripture as Real Presence, and Sacramental Preaching.
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Theology
“Hollon offers the best introduction to date on de Lubac's spiritual interpretation of Scripture. His bold recovery of Henri de Lubac's participatory hermeneutic offers an excellent contribution to the rapidly growing scholarship on the French Catholic theologian. The book argues for a hermeneutic that avoids the dual trap of isolating Jesus' biblical identity from the life of the Church (the post-liberal tendency) and of reducing Christology to ecclesiology (the fallacy of Radical Orthodoxy). Hollon convincingly argues that the Church's ontological participation in Christ is mediated through the practice of spiritual interpretation along the lines advocated by de Lubac. The result is both an incisive, sympathetic-critical engagement with contemporary hermeneutics and a superb introduction to one of the central concerns of de Lubac.”
Philosophy
“Christianity is incomprehensible without Platonism. Such is the inescapable conclusion upon reading From Plato to Christ. Deeply committed to the continuing relevance of Plato's dialogues for today's world, Louis Markos takes us both to Plato himself and to key Christian Platonists, instilling in us the same longing for truth, goodness, and beauty that animated Plato and his Christian heirs through the centuries. Here is a book that will inspire you to ascend the rising path and find the higher purpose for which you were born.”
Theology
“Recognizing that both Christ and Christians are already present in the book of Genesis, Mary Healy elucidates the book's types, figures, and foreshadowings with deftness and lucidity. The result is that primeval and patriarchal history sparkle anew in the themes of blessing, sin, seed, covenant, family healing, and divine providence. Healy is a prolific author and biblical expositor, and her latest foray into the Old Testament is a remarkable accomplishment that preachers and lay folk will explore with immense spiritual benefit.”
Give Us This Day Devotionals, Volume 1
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“Convinced that Jesus is the Bread of Heaven, Charles Erlandson guides his readers to the traditional practice of lectio divina—meditative and prayerful reading—so as to nourish us with daily spiritual sustenance. The first of eight volumes of Give Us This Day (that will take us through the entire New Testament!), Erlandson’s meditations on Matthew’s Gospel are themselves well worth meditating on. Follow the Advent prayer: read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest these meditations, and they too will become for us the Gospel of Bread.”
Theology
“Did Nietzsche have it right? Has Christianity poisoned eros? Melbourne's JP II Institute demonstrates the opposite: the Christian faith treats eros as the great 'wing-giver,' motivating every human project, and it honors the body as the sacramental marker of this restlessness for the mystery of Love. In a world preoccupied with sex, this book takes us to the true profundity of the human person.”
Philosophy
“Charles Taylor's daunting tome, A Secular Age, has just turned a great deal less intimidating. Combining his usual lucid style, his love for literature, and his passion for the church's future, Jamie Smith offers a faithful guide through the pages of Taylor's monumental work. Along the way, he wisely cautions his co-religionists against facile responses to the `disenchantment' of modernity, but he also insists that the Christian faith may have much more going for it than many recognize.”
Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition
Theology
“I love this book! Carter unequivocally starts out with the Christian Platonism that informed the Nicene tradition and unabashedly takes aim at the naturalism that undergirds biblical exegesis in modernity. Carter's contemplative logic is irrefutable: if Scripture participates in the Word of God, then we are surely right to see Christ sacramentally present also in the Old Testament Scriptures.”
Jean Danielou’s Doxological Humanism
Theology
“Jean Danielou is one of the less-studied figures in the twentieth-century Catholic movement of nouvelle theologie. Nicholas remedies this by holding him up as a theologian who successfully reintegrates theology and spirituality, giving voice to an integral humanism that does true justice to the doxological essence of humanity. Jean Danielou's Doxological Humanism is a patient and careful account of many of Danielou's writings, which sheds light on the French Jesuit's deepest motivations.”
Jonathan Edwards and Deification
Theology
“Reformed theology must embrace divinization. Such is Jim Salladin's conviction, grounded in his extensive study of Jonathan Edwards. Salladin persuasively argues that the Northampton pastor saw all of creation as participating in the being of God, while divinization fills us with the fulness of God. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of Salladin's proposal is that Edwards's embrace of theosis left his Calvinism intact. Jonathan Edwards and Deification is a significant contribution to the ongoing debate on Edwards's Reformed credentials.”
Theology
“On Classical Trinitarianism is a breathtaking accomplishment. An astonishing array of contributions maps the field of trinitarian theology—historical, dogmatic, and polemical. The forty chapters, written by prominent theologians from each of three major branches of the church, are a major refutation of the so-called revival of the Trinity in twentieth-century theology. This publication is a serious, in-depth reassertion of classical Nicene theology over against the recent onslaught of social trinitarianism with its rationally comprehensible and compositional (and, often, subordinationist) view of the Trinity. Anyone attempting a return to the social trinitarianism of the previous century will have to reckon with Matthew Barrett's major accomplishment in this volume.”
Theology
“Horizontal relationships may not obscure or replace vertical relationships. This salutary word of caution permeates Andrew Campbell’s refutation of nonviolent atonement theologies, which he argues are centered upon the human Other—women (for feminism), outsiders (for René Girard), or the powerless (for Denny Weaver). Drawing on P. T. Forsyth’s presentation of the cross as satisfying God’s holiness, One for the Other powerfully advances an objective view of atonement without losing sight of its moral implications. A model of clarity, fair-mindedness, and nuance, this book offers a significant contribution to the ongoing atonement debates.”
Theology
“Gregory of Nyssa regards knowledge of the name of Christ as the 'one path' that all must follow to reach the divine life. This marvelous collection of translations and essays unfolds for us the various stages that Gregory locates along this path. With the assistance of two expert guides, Rowan Greer and Warren Smith, the reader moves along from baptism, via the contest of faith--modeled by ascetics, martyrs, and saints--to the completion and perfection of all humanity in Christ.”
Pneumatology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium
Theology
“Australian Catholic theology is alive and well. With an exhilarating array of essays, this book on pneumatology takes us from its scriptural foundations, via patristic and medieval developments, to a variety of thematic and contemporary pneumatological issues. Wagner, McGregor, and Naumann’s faithful editorial yeoman’s work is a gift from the Spirit, with this fourth volume contributing yet again to the status of the Theology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium series as the go-to Fundgrube of twenty-first-century dogmatics.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“All of us are meant to live like monks—committed, together, to a common rule. For nearly a decade now, Paul and Paige Gutacker have invited others to join them in their commitment to eating, praying, studying, and attending together. Drawing on the wisdom of Scripture and tradition, Practicing Life Together offers spiritual guidance to redirect our disordered desires toward the freedom found only in Christ. Paul Gutacker doesn't just help us figure out what the good life is, but he offers practices that themselves are the good life. Read this book and be inspired by his passion for people, his love of language, and his joy in the journey.”
Recapturing an Enchanted World
Preaching & Worship
“This book offers tremendous encouragement for people in search of God's nearness in worship. John Rempel takes his readers beyond words to gestures, beyond preaching to sacraments. Rightly convinced that heavenly things are mediated by earthly things, he challenges us to leave behind the rationalism of the Enlightenment's disenchanted universe and to take seriously the truth that the incarnation places us in a sacramental universe.”
Theology
“The heart of the doctrine of the Trinity is not the puzzle of the one and the three, but the eternal relationship between Father and Son. Such is, quite rightly, Sanders and Swain’s basic claim in the introduction to this book. The stellar essays that follow cogently argue that the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son constitutes the bedrock of the Christian confession of the triune God. This book presents a compelling and timely retrieval of Nicene Christianity.”
Philosophy
“Everyone does metaphysics. For Paul Tyson, therefore, the crucial question becomes whether we fall in line with the one-dimensional (1DM) physicalist outlook of modernity or open our horizons to the three dimensions of morality, physicality, and spirituality that make up the 3DM outlook of Christian Platonism. This is a passionately written book, calling for nothing less than a 'life-world rebellion.' Those gripped by Tyson's uncovering of the mythos of modernity find here a convincing alternative to the amoral instrumentalism that characterizes much of contemporary society.”
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