James H. Olthuis

"God Is Dead" and I Don't Feel So Good Myself

Apologetics

“A rich, diverse nuanced collection of essays, interviews, musings, poetry, and art that together add up to a generous, engaging response to the New Atheism. Readers will either be shocked or unsurprised to learn that the 'god' declared dead by the New Atheists turns out not to be the God of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, and Jacob that Christians affirm. God is not an explanation. This volume makes a strong case that the appropriate response to the resurgent atheism is not better arguments, but patient humility, and the practice of gratitude with the fruit of wonder, and the honey of love.”

A Beautiful Bricolage

Theology

“A playful scouting report on theopoetics, an exciting camp of religious thinkers . . . who are shaking up the theological world.”

Inerrancy and the Spiritual Formation of Younger Evangelicals

Theology

“Here are the 'recognitions' of a young evangelical scholar whose spiritual formation was stifled, not to say arrested, because he had been led to believe that the only acceptably orthodox way was a belief in biblical inerrancy. The author argues that the dogma of inerrancy left him woefully unprepared for engagement with modernist and postmodern biblical scholarship and plunged him into a fundamental spiritual crisis. This book should be a welcome read for anyone who, like the author, can no longer make sense of the evangelical inerrancy credo.”

Probing the Mind to Free the Soul

Theology

“A most welcome, pioneering, integrated synthesis of Christianity and psychoanalysis.”

The Face of Africa

Theology

“This book is a stirring manifesto for social reconstruction and interior transformation in Africa.”

When the Roll is Called

“A much-needed investigation of the relationship between Dispensational theology and the lives and times of its founding fathers. . . . Their emphasis on the next life in heaven with a de-emphasis on present life in this world was a defensive strategy constructed to justify and excuse their diminishment of feelings and inattention to experienced trauma. The real shame: the untold number of evangelicals who still fail to experience the joy and healing of their life in Christ because of continued inattention to suffered and unworked-through trauma.”