Jeffrey Stout
History & Biography
“If you want to see why Albert Raboteau is among the most elegant writers now contemplating the most important things, begin with his brief spiritual autobiography, A Sorrowful Joy. Next read the epilogue A Fire in the Bones. Then return to Slave Religion, the book for which he is famous, and you will understand why it first moved you as deeply as it did.”
Theology
“After the Spirit is a learned, eloquent, gracious response to the dearth of theological reflection on the Holy Spirit in the modern Christian West. If you have been wondering where the Spirit went, or what it might mean for the Spirit to befriend the body, or how Barth, Coakley, and Rahner might be brought into fruitful conversation with Bulgakov, Florensky, and Simeon the Elder, then read this book.”
Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This book gives me hope. It takes the conversation over Christianity and democracy in a most welcome direction: away from ism-mongering and abstractions, down to earth, where instructive and inspiring examples can be found. In the practices of people like Ella Baker, Ernesto Cortes, and Jean Vanier, Hauerwas and Coles find intimations of a politics worth emulating. That, it seems to me, is exactly where we should be looking.”
“God Gardened East is an essay in the tradition of Thoreau and Wendell Berry. It is about important things, such as empire, the responsibilities of a citizen, the joys of getting one's knees dirty in the soil, and the Book of Genesis. Reading Ruprecht is like taking a walk with a wise friend. He appears to meander, and wears his considerable learning lightly, but he is in fact moving artfully from the personal to the public, from the conflicted present to the conflicted past, and back again.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“I am hoping that James Logan's book will begin a badly needed discussion of the ethics of punishment. Logan gives a disturbing account of imprisonment in contemporary America: the purposes it is officially meant to serve, its manifest failure to serve those purposes, the people who suffer directly from imprisonment, the people who suffer indirectly from it, and the people who benefit from it. He also expounds a Mennonite view of what our practice of punishment should look like and, along the way, enters into an interesting critical dialogue with Stanley Hauerwas. An important contribution to theological ethics.”
History & Biography
“Hannah's Child might well be Stanley Hauerwas's best book. It is must reading for everyone who knows him, either firsthand or through his other writings.”
History & Biography
“How should one live? The question sounds abstract, as if a treatise were the expected answer. But the life for which you actually bear responsibility is your response, as the particular person you are, to the wonders and horrors in your midst, in a world that will not let you wait until all the evidence is in. This memoir by Nicholas Wolterstorff invites us to listen in while he reflects on what he has experienced and done. Here are the births, deaths, relatives, loves, associates, schools, churches, injustices, homes, struggles, projects, ideals, and patches of sedge that have mattered to him. If you have found any of his other books rewarding, you should certainly read this one.”
Philosophy
“In this collection, Wetzel gives readers the sense of being in a series of leisurely conversations with a wise and learned friend who refuses to simplify life's joys, mysteries, and sorrows, but still manages to shed light on them.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Here is a baker's dozen of learned, rigorous, elegant essays on what Christian love implies for our understanding of liberal democracy. . . . The chapters on sanctity and dignity and the concluding reflections on Martin Luther King Jr. are among the best things ever written on those topics.”
Theology
“Hans Frei's hard sayings about the Bible, theology, and the church won him a major following. His critics reject those sayings as obviously false. Jason Springs has done something quite different and original. He has recast Frei's central claims in a way that frees them from paradox. This book will require theologians to rethink the options they have been debating for the last thirty years.”
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