Howard A. Snyder
Drinking from the Wells of New Creation
Theology
“Kerry Dearborn helps us see more fully the role of the Holy Spirit and--very relatedly--the crucial importance of imagination.”
From Aldersgate to Azusa Street
History & Biography
“This remarkable book fills a gap in contemporary understandings of American--even global--Christianity. Scholars such as Vinson Synan and Donald Dayton have shown the genetic kinship of Wesleyan, Holiness, and Pentecostal Christianity; this book fills in the picture. With sensitivity to cultural, gender, and racial dynamics, the book offers essential historical and theological insights. Biographical studies of key leaders add flesh and blood to the account. The book is accessible to general readers, not demanding specialized knowledge of the movements covered.”
Christian Living
“We all live in stories, and in fact each of us is a story. How can we understand this and discover the joy of living inside the greatest of all stories: The gospel of Jesus and the kingdom of God? Through his own story, David Wisener shows the way. God can use this book to help you find the same truth and joy the earliest Christians discovered: The Way, the trail of truth that leads to life.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Debra Hirsch's own story—and what she learned about sex before and after meeting Jesus—is both convincing and convicting. But the book is more than testimony. Debra makes intelligent, faithful use of Scripture and of authors who have engaged with this topic. She also untangles key differences between sexuality and cultural roles. Noting the Bible's extensive 'sexual language and imagery,' Debra affirms that 'our sexuality lies close to our spirituality.' Her book can lead Christians to an integration of sex and sanctity that enriches both—and makes us more faithful and redemptive disciples of Jesus Christ.”
Christian Living
“Kreider's Social Holiness breaks new ground and makes new connections, both in his overview of biblical history and in his application of social holiness to the contemporary church. I hope this book will help many believers today - Wesleyans, Anabaptists, and those from other traditions - become more fully and authentically a part of God's 'holy nation' in the world today.”
History & Biography
“Here is a very useful and thorough analysis of key Roman Catholic mystic sources that John Wesley used in his understanding and articulation of the perfecting work of God’s Spirit in Christian experience. Attentive readers will learn much not only about Wesley, but also about Spanish Christian mystics who form an important part of the Christian tradition. The book also helps readers grasp the nature and significance of Wesley’s Christian Library—the fifty-volume resource Wesley published to help serious Christians in their life and witness.”
The End of Evangelicalism? Discerning a New Faithfulness for Mission
Theology
“In compelling fashion, Fitch digs deep to examine how key U.S. evangelical beliefs actually function as an ideology rather than gospel. He calls us from a Christianity that acts as 'ideology' to one that authentically incarnates Jesus' life and mission. What a book! This one will knock you back on your heels.”
Christian Living
“An amazing work of analysis, synthesis, and application. Hirsch provides a timely, well-informed overview of the range of current thinking and writing on movemental Christianity and draws rich insights that, if ignited by the Holy Spirit, can revolutionize many churches today.”
“What does it mean to be a Christian and also a person shaped by a particular culture? And what if that culture is in fact a hybrid one, a dynamic mix of ancient but very different cultures? The first question relates to every Christian in the world--we are all 'culture Christians' in some sense, often without realizing it. In this carefully researched book, Juliet Lee Uytanlet examines the second question, cultural hybridity, through a study of Filipino Christians of Chinese descent. She discovered that most of the Christians she interviewed 'see themselves as cultural hybrids rather than homogeneous purists.' By careful analysis of her findings, Dr. Uytanlet presents insights that have wide relevance to the question of Christian identity not only in the Philippines, but worldwide.”
Arts & Literature
“Silence, solitude, and poetry can help us cope with trauma and pending disaster. Jonathan Wilson shows this in these heartfelt poems, pain wrestling with hope. These hymns of searching and resting can bring comfort and perhaps illumination to others passing through deep waters and trying times.”
Evangelism & Missions
“In They Shall See His Face, Linda and Robert Banks have rescued an important and fascinating story from the gathering mists of history and made it available to the larger public. Their careful detective work (as they call it) has given us a story of God’s grace in people’s lives that both inspires and instructs.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
Foreword
“Truth Therapy is a helpful antidote to one-sided ideas about healing. In practical and theologically sound ways, Bellini shows how God's truth brings broad-scale healing if soundly understood and applied. The book helpfully blends pastoral insights, psychological perspectives, theology, Scripture, and biblically-informed common sense. It can help bring healing so people may enjoy the fullness of the Spirit and be part of God's healing work in our diseased world.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This book is exceptionally timely. With the return of the imperial idea of Manifest Destiny to the highest level of the US government, the whole idea of one nation manifestly having the right to take over another's land needs a fresh challenge. L. Daniel Hawk forcefully provides this challenge in Undoing Manifest Destiny. Drawing on both history and Scripture, Hawk unmasks the appeal and un-Christian logic of 'destiny' ideology and calls for a return to the ways of Jesus. This book deserves study in classrooms and churches across the country.”
Evangelism & Missions
“Since all creation-care issues are by definition both local and global, this fascinating book is an important new resource. Wild and Wonderful helps Christians in North America especially, see how Christians in other lands are already taking seriously the biblical injunction to 'care for the garden.' Many Christians are concerned about missions but don't see the connection between missions and earth stewardship. For Jesus-followers who may think that Christian ecotourism is a contradiction in terms, this book will both instruct and inspire.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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