Harvey Cox
Biography
Harvey Cox wrote Common Prayers and When Jesus Came To Harvard, and co-wrote Lamentations and the Song of Songs: A Theological Commentary on the Bible with Stephanie Paulsell.
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Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“It is daily becoming more clear that consumer capitalism is not just an economic system. It is a fully developed culture and, as Gustafson shows in this skillfully researched book, a full-blown religion. Replete with its own rituals, doctrines, sacraments, and theology, Economics has become the most powerful alternative to Christianity, all the more threatening because few people recognize its spiritual pretensions. No one who reads this extraordinary account will be able to think about religion or economics in the same way again.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“''Once again 'the hopes and fears of all the years' seem to focus on Bethlehem. Its painful history, stubborn hopefulness, and indefatigable spirit shine through the pages of this remarkable but deeply troubling book. It is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its importance for the whole world.''”
Christian Living
“Between Heaven and Mirth is delicious, well-crafted and well-paced. Martin draws on his own experience as a priest and demonstrates both a light touch and an impressive command of his subject.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In her previous writing Marcia Pally has demonstrated keen insight into the American religious situation. In this well-crafted and highly readable book she takes a central principle in the American spiritual heritage — the covenant — and relates it with impressive skill to the psychological and political dimensions of our lives. This book advances the discussion in many ways and should not be missed.”
Communities of Resistance and Solidarity
Theology
“How many times have we asked what would be an appropriate North American equivalent to the base communities and the liberation theology of Latin America? Now in Sharon Welch's fluent but solid book we have an answer. Drawing on a wide variety of philosophical and theological sources and viewing the whole from a critical feminist perspective, Welch suggests how subjugated forms of knowledge can be recuperated as human communities learn to support each other in resisting our socio-cultural death wish. A passionate and poetic book, which strikes a new chord in theology both in style and in substance.”
World Religions
“Sathianathan Clarke has skillfully enlarged the focus of the term ‘fundamentalism’ from its current near-obsession with the Islamic variety and demonstrated the global scale of the phenomenon. Each chapter is tight and well researched (and engagingly written), and the final comparative chapter is elegant and illuminating. The book will be useful to those interested in international relations, as well as in religion and theology.”
Theology
“To say that Margaret Miles's 'New Reading of Augustine's Confessions' is 'better than the original' might seem an overstatement, but only just. It is a 'new' reading, not just a feminist reading, though that angle of course does not come through. It took me back to the Confessions (which I have not read for years) and will no doubt be used extensively by people alongside the bishop of Hippo himself as a kind of Virgil-and-Beatrice guide to that forerunner of the Divine Comedy.”
“Do we really need yet another book about Jesus? If the book is this one, the answer is yes, we do. Jim Martin’s approach to a well picked–over subject is unique and original, and it will net the reader a glimpse into the Nazarene not available elsewhere.”
World Religions
“Since Jesus never met a Buddhist or a Muslim, the people who seek to 'follow Jesus' have sometimes thought that his teaching and example provide no guidance for interaction with adherents of other faiths today. This book, however, demonstrates that Jesus . . . does provide just such an example, one that is invaluable for us today in our spiritually pluralistic world.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Does prayer have to be stilted or sentimental? Can it express real feeling without getting weepy? Ted Loder shows how prayer can escape these pitfalls and become authentic. One could well start or end each day with one of these.”
Christian Living
“Like some long lost gospel found in a desert cave, this book is fragmentary, pungent, and absorbing. Its personal directness and lyrical style capture the reader and lead to a fascinating journey through a constantly searching life. It will appeal to believers, skeptics, and researchers.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Cornel West is a man of stunning intellectual breadth who leads the reader with uncanny sure-footedness through nearly all the most pressing religious, philosophic, and political hotpoints of our time. Prophetic Fragments is the work of a restless, luminous intellect informed by a heartfelt compassion for society's losers, and inspired by the God whose spirit binds the Afro-American Christian Church into a source of compassionate protest in an icy technocratic era. Unlike most assemblages of occasional writings, this book has a consistency and coherence no one can miss.”
Reconstructing the Common Good
Theology
“In the post-Reagan years it is surely time to reconstruct a sound theological basis for dealing with the larger social whoe. . . . An important book.”
“By far the most detailed and nuanced description of the dramatically new religious and political landscape in the enormous and growing cities of Latin America . . . Well-informed ad thorough.”
The Churches and the Third Reich
History & Biography
“This is a magnificent work of historical writing that reads in places like a novel. Yet one cannot peruse it without a feeling of immense sadness. . . . The scar of the Nazi epoch with the Holocaust it created still stands as the great moral catastrophe of our century. How did it happen? Professor Scholder has cast considerable and very uncomfortable light on this vexing question. To read him, as a Christian, is to be sobered and humbled.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“I continue to be a fan of John Dominic Crossan's work. His presentation of Jesus's sayings in The Essential Jesus has his typical erudition and his readable style; when you add the illustrations it makes for an unusually informative and useful book.”
Theology
“Koo Dong Yun's work is simply brilliant and beautiful! It is written by an author who accurately knows both Western and Eastern theology and philosophy. I applaud it sincerely. Yun's work escaped many perils of 'post-colonial' theology and has opened a promising new way to move ahead with a genuinely Korean Christian theological vision. This is an authentic contextual theology rooted in the East Asian soil. Instead of trying to write something 'universal' and 'totalitarian' that stands against the post-modern era, Yun has created something that is really 'chiological' and original. If I teach my seminar here on Asian theology or Pentecostalism again, I will surely make use of this book.”
Theology
“Nimi Wariboko is quickly becoming one of the most original and creative voices in contemporary theology. An African and a Pentecostal, he draws on and transcends these dimensions of his personality in this pioneering work. . . . No student of ethics today can ignore this tour de force.”
There Is No God and Mary Is His Mother
Theology
“Cathcart has written just the kind of book I have been trying to write for many years, but have only rarely succeeded. I know that I will recommend it.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This is it—the one indispensable resource for anyone seriously interested in understanding the hundreds of women who appear in the Bible. Balanced, accurate, and fascinating to peruse and consult.”
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God’s Revolution and Man’s Responsibility
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
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