J. Gerald Janzen

A Goodness I Cannot Explain

History & Biography

“This book is an honest, searching, reflective account of how its author met the crisis of a life-changing condition, and through the resources of her religious tradition and the support of friends old and new, lived that crisis with courage and faith.”

A Lover’s Quarrel

Theology

“Intellectual piety, moral and social passion, and pastoral concern--all informed by a profound sense of the grace of God and conveyed in arresting language--animate these essays, personal memoirs, and sermons. When Jones writes that under the preaching and teaching of his late beloved pastor one gained 'an inescapable sense that we had been lovingly unmasked and forgiven and challenged to live differently,' those words could also be taken to describe the cumulative effect of this book on the reader.”

Confronting Religious Absolutism

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Wallace displays an enviable ability to present in reader-friendly terms her thorough grasp of fields as diverse as social and intellectual history, literary theory, and cognitive science, all in the service of a sympathetic evaluation of spiritual experience.”

The Covenant

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“[This is] a bold rereading of Scripture as the story of the conflict between the covenant of Abraham and the covenant of Phineas, and a summary reading of their fateful trajectories within Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Again and again, I am challenged to reconsider the meaning of texts I had thought I understood.”