J. Richard Middleton
Biography
J. Richard Middleton wrote A New Heaven and a New Earth, and co-wrote The Transforming Vision and Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be with Brian J. Walsh.
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Theology
“This is a dangerous book. These eminently readable essays--by turns personal, exegetical, theological, and historical--have the potential to change the minds and hearts of the contemporary church on the question of final judgment. Read at your own risk!”
Theology
Foreword
“You could think of Being God's Image as a primer in biblical theology, but one directed especially to lay Christians. You don't need to be a theologian or a pastor to understand Carmen's lucid writing. Yet Carmen has sneakily woven serious biblical scholarship into what seems to be a breezy, conversational book addressed to ordinary readers.”
Science & Faith
“Loren Wilkinson is a capacious thinker, exploring the immensity and complexity of the cosmos and the human role in it, while digging down deep to the roots of his Christian faith. This book is the fruit of a lifetime of honest reflection, teaching, and (more importantly) living an incarnational, cross-shaped, hope-filled life in the midst of a cosmos of pain and beauty.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This book is a Molotov cocktail lobbed into the midst of contemporary biblical studies and the American empire. It is full of illuminating exegesis of Colossians, rooted in solid knowledge of the Old Testament background and the first-century Roman imperial context of the New Testament. Its most helpful--and controversial--feature is that it demonstrates how a faithful reading of Colossians addresses head-on our contemporary idolatry of consumerism and the postmodern suspicion of truth that characterizes our culture.”
Theology
“Raymond Hausoul has written a fascinating and wide-ranging study of the place of animals in God’s world. Although his ultimate goal is to explore the possibility of animals in the eschaton, along the way the book mines Scripture (Old and New Testaments) and the Christian tradition for their teaching about animals and their value to God. Without dogmatism and with a healthy dose of humility, yet with immense learning, Hausoul has prepared a wonderful treat for those interested in this topic.”
Science & Faith
“Jon Garvey’s astounding thesis, that the Bible does not teach the fall of nature due to human sin, seems on first hearing simply misguided. But his tour though biblical creation texts and the history of Christian theology is a revelation. Not only does Scripture clearly teach God’s providence in creation’s wildness—including animal predation—but the idea of nature’s fall becomes popular only in the sixteenth century onwards. This is a brilliant book!”
Hesed, the Seed of the Biblical Story
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“What if instead of trying to find a central theme that summarizes the entire Old Testament, we started from the idea of ḥesed (often translated 'loving-kindness' or 'steadfast love') and traced how both God and humans embodied this core value in action? Jennifer Matheny's heuristic proposal is that from this generative 'seed' the relational story of Scripture germinates through the diverse genres of the Old Testament, evident in the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings.”
Theology
“Andy Johnson has written a theologically rich study of God's purposes for embodied holiness, tracing the pattern of this holiness throughout the biblical narrative of the missio Dei from creation to eschaton. Along the way, he takes 'soundings' in the Old Testament, focuses on the revelatory event of the incarnation, and sketches the development of 'contagious communities' of shalom in the New Testament. Johnson helpfully explores the biblical roots of a crucial theological theme with sensitivity and depth, to the benefit of the contemporary church.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Having plowed my way through many Isaiah commentaries, both critical and devotional, I am struck by the rare balance that McConville manages to maintain, addressing the complex literature of Isaiah with clarity and pastoral sensitivity. Here is a commentary that elucidates the rhetoric and literary nuances of this ancient prophetic book while attending to its theological and ethical claims for ancient Judah and our contemporary world. This is now my recommended commentary for seminary students.”
World Religions
“Brian Walsh has invited Bruce Cockburn—and us the readers—into a thoughtful and profound theological engagement about the meaning of life and art, through a conversation with the lyrics of Cockburn’s songs. Along the way Walsh quotes C. S. Lewis’s comment that ‘what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.’ This book both illuminates the depth of Cockburn’s spirituality and gives us a glimpse of where Brian Walsh stands and what sort of person he is. For those who know and love Bruce Cockburn’s music, this is a rich feast provided by a master teacher; for those who are new to Cockburn, this could be just the invitation to get them hooked.”
Theology
“In this intensely personal, yet thoroughly researched book, Sean Finnegan invites us to join him on a journey of exploration to discover the authentic biblical vision of the kingdom of God—and why it matters. Interweaving his own story with biblical exposition and historical investigation, Finnegan challenges the reader to embrace God’s marvelous plan to transform this broken world into the new heavens and the new earth.”
Theology
“Knowing Creation is a wide-ranging resource for those who want to think more deeply about the complexity and wonder of the created world. We are indebted to the authors of these essays for their stimulating—and often challenging—reflections about our knowledge of God’s creation.”
Christian Living
“Chris Williams's intertwining of the exile, suffering, and hope of Judah in the book of Jeremiah with his own personal tragedy and the slow process of healing yields powerful insights into Scripture and human experience. His blend of raw honesty and passionate hope is the fabric of true biblical faith. I doubt that anyone who reads this book with an open heart can remain in despair.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Frank Spina mines Old Testament narratives, exploring the fracturing of ancient Israel, which began when the tribes entered the Promised Land, culminating in the ‘Great Schism’ between the North and South after Solomon. Spina’s attention to textual details and complexities is fascinating, but he presses on to the church’s continuing complicity in multiplying divisions, ending with the hope that the God who never abandoned Israel in their divisions is still at work today to bring healing and reconciliation.”
Theology
“Rodney Clapp has a knack for making complex subjects not only clear, but exciting. Touching on topics like zombies, the heat death of the universe, and sex in heaven, he adeptly guides the reader through the core biblical vision of God’s desire to renew the cosmos and restore human flourishing. His reflections on the implications of this vision for living in the present are especially inspiring. This is a book to share widely with others.”
New Creation Eschatology and the Land
Theology
“Steven James is among a small group of dispensationalist theologians who affirm a fully holistic vision of a new heaven and new earth as the eschatological future. In this incisive book, James questions those theologians or biblical scholars who hold to this vision without any specific role for the nation or land of Israel. His theological and exegetical probes amount to a full-fledged challenge to proponents of holistic eschatology (like myself) to address the role of the biblical land promises for historical Israel in God’s future renewal of all things.”
New Explorations in the Lost World of Genesis
Science & Faith
“John Walton is a master teacher. Here he makes his approach to Genesis 1–3 crystal clear, explaining advances in his thinking about both method and substance since his previous Lost World books. Careful attention to this book will make scholars better communicators and lay Christians much better readers of the Bible.”
On the (Divine) Origin of Our Species
Science & Faith
“Darrel Falk has provided a theologically thick reflection on the evolution of Homo sapiens into the complex beings we are today. Drawing on his expertise in biology and genetics, while appealing to the contributions of biblical scholars and the church’s orthodox theological tradition, Falk suggests ways in which the triune God has been working within the evolutionary process to fit human beings for social interaction, ethics, and spirituality—thus attaining their telos as the image of God. This is a rich feast, indeed!”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“If you want to hear—and experience—Paul’s letter to the Jewish and gentile Christ-followers in Rome as you never have, read this book. And re-read it. Study it in your church circles. Talk about it with your friends. Assign it in your courses. As with their earlier Colossians Remixed, Keesmaat and Walsh have once again interwoven close textual reading of the New Testament (they clearly love the Scriptures!) with its unabashedly Jewish roots and its explosive relationship to the Roman imperial context. Most importantly, they bring the message of Romans into dialogue with our lives today, as we struggle to be faithful to the good news of Messiah Jesus in our own imperial context.”
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