Jennifer Newsome Martin

Antimony

Fiction

“Crisply and intelligently written with a deeply creative engagement with Scripture, Amy Richter's Antimony is an entirely fresh take on religious fiction. Her graceful, muscular prose is so evocative and precise sometimes that to read this book is to have a full-bodied sensory experience. Antimony's sympathetic cast of young characters mingles with figures and stories from Jewish apocalyptic, the Hebrew Bible, and the Gospels for a delightfully unexpected, time-bending story of memory, mystery, and friendship.”

Luminous Darkness

Arts & Literature

“Evoking Claudel’s Poet Before the Cross and the erotic poetics of medieval mysticism, Luminous Darkness dwells in the exposed space of divine and human suffering. It invites readers to contemplate both the enfleshed poetry of the dying Christ as well as the glorious miscellany of ordinary life: hawks, honeybees, glaciers, fire, bones, salt, petals, candles, rosary beads, glass—and above all, bodies in the ecstasies of pleasure and pain—are here transfigured by holy desire.”

Nothing Gained Is Eternal

Theology

“At once a celebration, a chastening, and an expansion of conventional formulations of religious tradition, Carpenter's book takes on the ambitious task of integrating a chorus of voices which might not otherwise have had occasion to enrich (and correct!) one another. The book unites detailed theological and philosophical analyses of history and temporality with an exhortative call to action against dark forces of racism and colonialism which shadow Christianity's past and present, making a compelling case that future systematic reflection on Christian tradition ought to be reconfigured to account for a direct confrontation against those powers and principalities.”

Saints

Children & Youth

“With graceful simplicity, this extraordinary little book introduces the communion of saints in a voice brimming over with wonder at and gratitude for the goodness of the Catholic faith. The luminous reality of the lives of these saints—brave, kind, true, and holy—shines through every loving word and beautiful image. An instant classic!”

Subordinated Ethics

Philosophy

“Subordinated Ethics is yet another testament to the ever-surprising mind of its author, characterized equally by an alpine clarity of thought and a sublimely poetic sensibility. Smith Gilson interprets Aquinas’ Five Ways and Dostoevsky’s Idiot together with such deftness, urgency, and joyful effulgence that neither can be read the same way again. The book is an astonishing paean to polyphony, play, contingency, wonder, beauty, virtue, and love in the purity and mystery of its givenness.”

The Sophiology of Death

Theology

“In this judicious selection of Bulgakov’s eschatological essays, which traverse the speculative, political, pastoral, dogmatic, and personal, Roberto De La Noval offers Anglophone readers a true gift. His graceful translation retains throughout the urgency, force, and bright delicacy of Bulgakov’s singular voice as the volume extends an invitation—even an imperative summons—to contemplate together the griefs and consolations of endings in history, time, and death.”

Tregenna Hill

Arts & Literature

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