J. Jayakiran Sebastian
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J. Jayakiran Sebastian wrote the forewords to Consistently Pro-Life and Vision in Progress.
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Theology
“This book continues a tough, yet engaged, conversation in which probing questions are asked, enduring issues and themes looked at again, the gains of forty years reexamined, and current topics identified, all in the service of recognizing and reaffirming Dalit theology as relevant and responsive public theology amidst the chaotic realities of life today, wherever and with whomsoever we live, work, study, and worship at the frontiers of our commitment to upholding the humanity of all God’s children.”
Christianity in a Time of Climate Change
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This remarkably prescient book comes to us at a time when a global pandemic unleashes unprecedented consequences on our vulnerable earthly home as we scramble to comprehend how the long-term consequences of this will forever alter how we relate to each other and to the damaged ecosystem that has been almost irreparably altered by human rapacity and indifference. This book addresses the human-caused contagion that results in climate change with urgent and sobering realism; insightful biblical re-reading, forthright probing of the Christian traditions; all enveloped within a vision of justice that challenges our complacency and shatters our smugness.”
Christians and Christianity in India Today
Evangelism & Missions
“This edited volume brings together a set of substantial essays that offer a range of trajectories through the incredibly multifaceted reality of Christianity in India, placing the lived experiences of practicing Christians at the forefront of the investigation. Most of the writers assembled represent a new generation of scholar-practitioners. Their acumen and ability to handle the big-picture questions, without losing sight of the practitioners who have inhabited and continue to dwell in the local religious spaces of multicultural and multifaith India, is laudable.”
Church and Ethical Responsibility in the Midst of World Economy
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Challenging shallow sloganeering and simplistic and superficial analysis, Chung offers in this thoughtful and thought-provoking work a serious and sustained investigation of the underpinning and overarching economic structures that are an indispensable part of the world in which we live, a world in which we are constantly impacted by these realities. This is a work that is addressed not only to those who are part of the institution that is called the church, but to all those who are willing to pay heed to, and be transformed by, a movement that was called into being by one who paid with his life for his stance against greed, dominion, and the lack of justice.”
Evangelical Zen, Second Edition
World Religions
“To the rhetorical question posed by the ancient prophet, ‘Do two walk together unless they have made an appointment?’ (Amos 3:3 NRSVue), Paul Louis Metzger with Kyogen Carlson, in this creative, innovative, and courageous book answers not with a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ but with ‘why not?’ This is a learned and wise book and all of us who recognize that the journey itself is the goal will be the better off from using it as an active road map.”
History & Biography
“The convoluted, complicated, multilayered, and omnifaceted subject of church history finds a refreshingly accessible and reliably honest invitation to explore this subject in and through this nuanced and candid book. Drawing upon the 'marks' of the church and using them as a frame to ask stimulating questions, the writer goes on to offer a range of evocative and wide-ranging illustrations and wraps this up with significant methodological observations, all of which open the field to students and scholars alike to engage in creative exploration of the legacy and living reality that is the church in the world.”
Gandhi's Truths in an Age of Fundamentalism and Nationalism
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Gandhi’s ideas have informed and infuriated, inspired and irritated nationalists, social justice practitioners, scholars of religion and society, and those working on issues related to peace and human dignity. Without succumbing to hagiography, the authors of Gandhi’s Truth in an Age of Fundamentalism and Nationalism offer us much to interactively reflect upon and prudently put into practice in these messy and hazardous times. Ideas do travel, and ideas do return home, but they return transformed, and the contributors are to be commended for exploring Gandhi’s ideas from their own locations with bold frankness, knowledgeable thoughtfulness, and forward-looking engagement.”
Theology
“Pachuau offers us a refreshing and reinvigorating theology of our working God, with whom we are called to work in the tasks of renewal, reconciliation, and the rejuvenation of our relationship with God and with one another in the places where we live, study, work, face shared challenges, and worship within an interfaith and ecumenical reality. This book reminds us of the possibilities of sharing, caring, interacting, and witnessing to God’s ongoing love for the world and all people—a task informed by renewed biblical exegesis, the rereading of debates and discussions in the early church, and the reclamation of a theological heritage that testifies to how we can work with our working God in embracing and transforming our world.”
Introduction to World Christian History
History & Biography
“The challenge for those writing a book on this topic is negotiating the question of breadth and depth. How broad should it be, and how deep can one go without risking a superficial overview or selective analysis? To the author's credit he dexterously steers through these challenges and provides us with a work that engages and interacts with the range and diversity of the living realities of the Christian faith in various regions of the world, opening up entryways to wonder at the global expressions of Christianity.”
Songs as Locus for a Lay Theology
Theology
“In this wonderfully evocative work, the writer offers us a head-heart-mouth theology of the song, whereby what one believes, feels, and is passionately committed to, bursts forth in a torrent of acclamation and witness, through songs. Situated geographically and using the oeuvre of two prominent lay thinkers-theologians-musicians, this work offers us the richly filigreed melodies of a sing-able theology, that will linger on in our head, heart, and mouth in joyous wonder and praise.”
Theology
“Atonement, as a concept, has taken on a life of its own and become part of the Christian jargon. It is to the writer’s credit that he tackles this from multiple angles . . . and has unshackled it from confining accretions and ideological posturing. This has enabled it to inhabit a more generous and liberating space, a space where alienation is overcome and union and relationships across all divides at all levels are restored, as true atonement is achieved.”
Theology
“Drawing deep from the wells of Indian Christian theology and Indian religiosity, Nigel Ajay Kumar waters our thinking and refreshes our imagination through his erudite engagement with the question as to what religion is. Refusing to be elbowed aside at the wells by those who would claim that the waters are muddied beyond redemption, he enables us to be rejuvenated by his careful and painstaking analysis, as we drink from this outstanding book.”
Wilhelm Loehe and North America
History & Biography
“At a time when the struggles, missteps, fresh impulses, and contributions of missionaries and missiological thinkers of earlier times are relegated to quick summaries or tucked away in footnotes, it’s gratifying that we have this solid and thorough analysis of the work and witness of Wilhelm Loehe. Dr. Neesan writes with the conviction that amidst the realities of our times, a rediscovery of his legacy will enliven and challenge our thinking as well as energize and kindle our praxis.”
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