Jason Goroncy
Biography
Jason Goroncy edited Descending on Humanity and Intervening in History, and co-edited Imagination in an Age of Crisis with Rod Pattenden.
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Theology
“The best Christian theologians have always been exemplary exegetes—of history, of the Bible, and of contemporary culture. They have also been those who have understood that ‘merely to narrate the history of Jesus, even if we had the materials for it, would not be to preach Christ.’ Among such stands James Denney, and with the appearance of this well-chosen selection of his writings, it is hoped that an interest in his theological genius might be revived for a new generation of readers.”
Theology
“This encyclopedic but accessible survey stands as witness to the church's ongoing wrestle with an ancient question--'Who do you say that I am?' It demonstrates Professor Sell's acumen as a meticulous researcher, his contagious devotion to the nonconformist tradition, and his aptitude for bringing the dead back to life. With wit and sober-headedness, this bold and theologically informed study records many christological enthusiasms and ecclesiological consequences that this perduring question has birthed--its invitation lingers still.”
Christian Understandings of Christ
Theology
“The Christian community exists in order to keep alive a question once attributed to Jesus of Nazareth—‘Who do you say that I am?’ While every generation is invited to answer that question for themselves, any responsible answer will not ignore how those before us have attempted their own response to and interpretation of this figure who remains uncaptured by any one tradition or time. To that end, Jensen has provided a theologically alert survey of many such voices. Written with extraordinary clarity, this book is a reliable guide for undergraduate students and curious others.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Can and do texts concerned with judgment, suffering, compassion, and hope written thousands of years ago still speak to us today? Nixon de Vera believes that they can, and in this theological reflection on the book of Isaiah he shows us some ways that they might do so—however uncomfortable, unpopular, and chastening the hearing of such might at times be.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“To be human is to be bound to this earth--to its concerns, frustrations, passions, pains, loves, vulnerabilities, and hopes; but to stake all on the claim that the bounds of humanity interplay with the movement of God is to be a theologian. Kim's reflections on a wide range of subjects are an invitation to think further about what this claim looks like in the turbulence of the ordinary.”
Election, Barth, and the French Connection, 2nd Edition
Theology
“From where did Karl Barth ever get the outrageous idea that predestination is the sum and essence of the good news? One place is the work of the lesser-known French pastor-theologian Pierre Maury. This revised and expanded edition re-introduces readers of English to Maury’s fresh and stimulating thinking on this doctrine, and the accompanying essays helpfully locate the significance of such in Barth’s work, and invite fresh opportunities for doing theology after Barth.”
Faith Thinking, Second Edition
Theology
“Twenty-five years on, Trevor Hart’s Faith Thinking remains among the most discerning, intelligent, accessible, and engaging introductions to the Christian faith written during my lifetime. It is thrilling to see it reissued in a second and expanded edition for a new generation of the curious living on the border of things, and for those seeking ways of reading the world as it really might be at a time when truth itself—in its surprising and porous ways of being among us—is a particularly endangered and unloved species.”
Following Faith with P. T. Forsyth
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“P. T. Forsyth is one of the most creative theologians the English language has ever produced. Inspired by Forsyth’s words, Don McKim offers us a set of short and accessible meditations on a range of themes of concern to Christian faith properly oriented towards Christ, ‘the condensation of history.’”
Theology
“H. R. Mackintosh was one of the most influential theologians of his generation. Now, this carefully chosen collection introduces his thought to a new generation of readers, beckoning us to hear again the Christian community’s claim that in Jesus we experience ‘the supreme moral reality’ for whom the contingencies and experiences of history, and of our lives, are neither an embarrassment nor foreign territory. While few will follow Mackintosh at every point, his attention to the character of life and faith as experienced communion invites our consideration still.”
Theology
“This collection of well-chosen and rewarding essays conveniently gathers into one volume both a valuable resource for any student of Forsyth’s and a fitting introduction to some themes of central concern to one of the best theological minds the English-speaking world has produced.”
Theology
“Of all Bishop Robinson's writings, few, if any, are more enduring and timely than this clear articulation of the contours and christo-logic of soteriological universalism. A very fine introduction and profitable appendices also help to clarify what Robinson was, and was not, championing.”
Theology
“In this welcome collection of colorful and stimulating input from young scholars, we get to eavesdrop on some new 'conversations' surveying a diverse range of themes, and in the wake of the fresh questions raised, we are invited to hear again what Barth and others have heard and misheard.”
History & Biography
“This is an affectionate, inspiring, and fluently written account of the life of Ross Langmead, a dedicated and infectious teacher and leader who turned many things upside down. It’s also a striking witness to the redemptive power of the love song that moves the earth toward healing, reconciliation, and wholeness. Very few people could have written this book. That Jeanette Woods has done so has helped us to see—see more and more—what we have loved in and learned from this good mate of a carpenter’s son.”
Theology
“In this well researched and lively essay, Travis McMaken makes a strong case for why there can be no proper Christian theology that is apolitical, for why the gospel and capitalism are antithetical to one another, and for why the kind of democratic socialism championed by Helmut Gollwitzer represents a faithful and theologically-responsible embodiment of the gospel’s revolutionary orientation. There is simply no better introduction to this 'largely forgotten' and 'irregular' theologian’s life and work than this very timely book.”
Preaching & Worship
“The songs gathered here stink. They stink of theology cultivated by the best of the Catholic tradition and sensitive to the hazards of congregational worship. They stink of the holy wit of an indecorous soul set loose. And, most wonderfully, they stink of divinity unashamedly immersed in the blunt realities of being human in the world and delighting in life familiar with, but unconstrained by, death. They also should be sung, loudly and lots.”
Christian Living
“Bruce Hamill’s The God Revolution is a straightforward, learned, and readable introduction to what makes Christianity so challenging, human violence so perennial, and Jesus so weird. A wonderful resource.”
Theology
“This is a bold, clear, and stimulating articulation of the good news. While few will follow Congdon at every point, his account of eschatological theo-actualized universalism provokes in the places where it matters most, and reminds us again why the advent of Jesus Christ is the first article of faith, and the ground that makes Christian dogmatics possible, intelligible, and profoundly hopeful. Dorothee Soelle once insisted that 'when we ask ourselves what God is like, we must answer first by looking at what God does.' This essay takes up that momentous task admirably.”
Arts & Literature
“This is poetry that chronicles the poet’s lived experience; that respects the time; that recognizes life’s transience, incompleteness, choices, and grief; that invites a noticing of the kind that made possible the words themselves; and that moves the reader toward a fuller silence that enlarges our humanity.”
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