Jason Byassee
Biography
Jason Byassee wrote Surprised by Jesus Again, An Introduction to the Desert Fathers, and Praise Seeking Understanding.
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History & Biography
“Leighton Ford has been a giant in the evangelical world for two-thirds of a century. In this memoir we hear of the many voices that have produced his gentle, wise, and kind voice. Reading it is like spending time in his luminous presence, emerging with a voice both affected by Leighton's, and strangely, more profoundly our own.”
Christian Living
“Theology has not often been done at the bedside of a dying friend. Jeff Vogel offers us here fragments of grace, in vocative voice and interrogative mood, allied with Dame Julian’s promise that ‘all shall be well.’ We have long needed someone to take up the theme of heaven without the otherworldly escapism—and now we have that book.”
An Introduction to Child Theology
Theology
“Jim Houston has had a remarkable career: friend of C. S. Lewis, founding principal of Regent College, networker extraordinaire with remarkable gifts for creating scholarly community. But on the church’s accounting, Jim is more remarkable still. Now in his centenary year, he is not only still teaching and writing original material. He is, more importantly, fast becoming the child that Christ commands us all to be: full of wonder, never met a stranger, in love with the kingdom Jesus is bringing.”
Evangelism & Missions
“There are many scholars who do history, others who do theology, others who do missions. Ross Lockhart braids these three together and the resultant chord is strong indeed. I not only learned more history and more about God, I put the book down encouraged to take part in God’s mission of renewing the cosmos. A fantastic book.”
Theology
“Theologians influenced by Stanley Hauerwas are often derisively asked, 'Where is this church of yours?' Budde's book shows that one answer is to look no further than the Catholic Church. As a Protestant theologian, I am often envious of a Church that perennially sits astride national and ethnic boundaries. And, as these eminent theologians make clear, the legacy of Catholicism's resistance to nationalism is not unmixed. It would be enough for this volume to showcase the important work of the Center for World Catholicism at DePaul. These ambitious essays go a good deal further. Their beauty will reshape your view of what the church is and could be.”
Theology
“I am often surprised when I preach how often listeners want to talk about demons. The liberal in me wants to demythologize. Samantha Miller, drawing on St. John Chrysostom, shows me a better way. Demons can't make you do anything. In fact, God uses our struggle against evil to hasten salvation. What a timely word she brings, addressing even the prosperity gospel and Americans' present penchant for demonizing one another.”
Christian Living
“Most Christians in the United States still tune their hope to the rhythm of the election cycle. For Reba Place Fellowship, Living Water Community Church and these other contributors, hope is tuned to quieter things a noisy world cannot hear--things like friendship, gardening, sitting down with enemies, and ultimately, Jesus. This collection is bracing in its timeliness.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The powers and principalities want us scrolling smartphones in constant anxiety and suspicion. What if we had a wise and kind specialist by our side to help us listen to the Holy Spirit rather than our fears? Rachel Wightman is the sort of guide you want to help you consider the sources, to discern well amidst the information deluge, and even to love your neighbor online.”
Christian Living
“Laura Heikes is one of the best communicators I’ve ever met. She shows the gospel’s wisdom, pertinence, and its deep joy. I envy those congregations that have gotten to sit at her feet. With this first book we all get to. Read, devour, dog-ear, underline, and pass it on.”
World Religions
“So much theology is written as though nothing much is at stake. But to read Jen Rosner, the stakes could not be higher: draining Christianity of the poison of anti-Judaism and showing her fellow Jews that she can be a loyal daughter of Sarah and follower of Jesus. I'm not sure which is the taller task! But I do know this: she has written a beautiful and brave and learned book, and you should read it.”
Theology
“The vision for theology presented here is simple but not easy. Volf and Croasmun think our task as theologians is to be about the flourishing not only of the academy or the church but also of all peoples. Their work is tested in the hard laboratory of professors' classrooms and church planters' living rooms. I challenge you to read this book and not come away encouraged, enlightened, and renewed for our task of contemplating God for the good of humanity. So much of what passes for theology dies in intramural food fights and name calling. This book calls us to a task more urgent, more dangerous, and more life-giving by far than that.”
Christian Living
“A deep dive into friendship with Christ, about which we have had far too little theological engagement. Vissers’s key passages from the Gospel of John are surprisingly underexplored theologically. His manner of exploration—in conversation with the fathers, the ancients, the Reformers, and the moderns—is deeply helpful. His style is learned but not remote, and the book can be read with profit by fellow scholars, pastors, and laypeople. I especially love the sections comparing friendship and priesthood. This is not only a work of theology done well; it is a model for how the rest of us should be working. I heartily recommend it.”
Christian Living
“For some time we North Americans have celebrated our freedom. It turns out that what we have gotten is loneliness, meaninglessness, and, in Werntz’s language, isolation. When we come to church, we just bring our isolation with us. What’s the cure? Community, carved out by Christ among his disciples, here refracted through Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s luminous witness. Werntz sees clearly what ails us and the cure God has already given.”
Christian Living
“I expected a “how-to” manual. I got a primer in how to be counter-culturally Christian in these strange days after the deterioration of Christendom. This is the best of pastoral theology: wise at discerning the times, gentle in its recommendations for the care of souls, incendiary as it fires the pastoral vocation all over again. Reading Funerals will remind you why you wanted to be a pastor in the first place.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Chanon Ross sees connections the rest of us cannot--between spectacle, then and now, between metaphysics and youth culture, between postmodern theology and demons (of all things!). But once he shows us, we cannot not see them. This book shows the mind of a theologian and the heart of a pastor.”
Theology
“A pneumatology at once biblical, orthodox, evangelical, and Wesleyan? Beth Felker Jones's lovely book signals a way past the West's common forgetfulness of the Spirit toward recognition and worship of the one Augustine called our 'perpetual comforter.' Highly recommended for teaching at all levels of church and academy.”
Preaching & Worship
“Preachers: Look no farther for your next sermon series (I won't). Professors: Look no farther for your next homiletics text (I won't). This is no book to sit back and passively consume. It is an invitation to the courage necessary to risk ecclesial confession and restoration. Who's with me?”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
An Introduction to the Desert Fathers
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
Church Leadership & Ministry
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
Theology
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
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