Joel B. Green
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“It's unthinkable that students and scholars have found it nearly impossible to find Max Turner's book Power from on High: The Spirit in Israel's Restoration and Witness in Luke-Acts. There's simply nothing better on the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts. I require it in my classes and now my students will be able to have a copy. I'm delighted that Wipf & Stock has made this modern classic available again!”
Science & Faith
“Newson and Kallenberg are to be congratulated for putting together this stimulating collection of essays, brimming with philosophical and theological insights that expand on numerous significant conversations we've come to associate with Nancey Murphy's creative work. This is a most fitting tribute!”
Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Johnson reflects theologically with the evangelist on the nature of the church and its message, then and now, with the result that we find ourselves confronted with the radical nature of the gospel. Through these pages, Luke's voice continues to speak, inviting renewed contemplation and ongoing conversion.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“We need more books like this one! From the first page to the last, Joshua Jipp demonstrates his profound regard for the Acts of the Apostles, as well as his intimacy with its narrative progression and theology. The result is a wonderful entryway into the study of Acts that takes seriously its importance to the church and its mission.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Michael Gorman has given us an extraordinary gift. He has written an eminently readable introduction to Paul's message that neither diminishes the apostle's practical wisdom nor domesticates it. He communicates the profound depth of Paul's thought in ways that are as inviting as they are challenging. Reading Paul is that rare book that deserves the widest possible readership.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“What can we learn from studying how the saints who have gone before us read Scripture? Tracing the 'afterlife' of selected biblical texts in the hands of interpreters from ancient to modern times, David Parris underscores the importance of the tradition of biblical interpretation for our own practices as wise readers of the Bible.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Receiving 2 Thessalonians provides an eminently useful orientation to the promise of theological reception history, followed by lively examinations of how John Chrysostom (early church), Haimo of Auxere (medieval church), and John Calvin (Reformation) read 2 Thessalonians. Talbert explores how these readers of the letter actualize its interpretive potential in different historical moments, together with the potential, ongoing significance of these 'receptions' of the letter.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“Toddy Holeman weaves stories of betrayal and reconciliation out of and into the story of God's good news. The result is a message that is both down-to-earth in its grappling with the hurts of human relationships and profound in its appropriation of the gospel. Here is the plain and hopeful talk we desperately need.”
Recovering the Full Mission of God
Evangelism & Missions
“Dean Flemming is not satisfied with the hardened divisions we so often encounter in talk about the church's job description--divisions like evangelism or social witness, proclaiming the message or living it. Reading the two disciplines together, biblical studies and missiology, he insists that the discussion must start in the basic recognition of the church's missional identity. The result is a missional reading of the Bible, especially the New Testament, that provides the coordinates for hearing Scripture anew as witness to God's call to his people to participate in God's mission.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“The significance of conversion to the Acts of the Apostles is indisputable, so it is surprising that this motif historically has attracted so little scholarly attention. We can therefore celebrate all the more Babu Immanuel's joining the small but growing ranks of those who of late have turned their critical attention to this important literary and theological theme in Acts. Adopting a narrative-critical approach, Immanuel urges that, working in tandem, miraculous activity and missionary proclamation are effective means for effecting conversion of Jew and Gentile alike. The result is a welcome emphasis on the role of Luke not only as theologian or historian, but also, and centrally, as 'mission strategist.'”
Theology
“Jesus’s resurrection marks the transformation of all things. How this is so is the focus of Murray Rae’s refreshing study, which works intimately with Christian Scripture to show what we might say and how we might live because Jesus has been raised from the dead. Resurrection and Renewal is both learned and theologically formative, even edifying, as befits theological engagement with the central claim that ‘Christ is risen.”
Science & Faith
“"The importance of this new book by Paul Markham lies both in his constructive proposal concerning the nature of Christian conversion and in the process by which he achieves his proposal. Working at the interface of neurophilosophy and Wesleyan theology, he presses for a more fully integrated theological method at the same time that he demonstrates its fruitfulness. The resulting portrait of a fully embodied and ecclesially centered Christian conversion is a welcome contribution to our understanding of spiritual life.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“In this challenging book, Jennifer Garcia Bashaw exercises an uncanny ability to invite her readers into the story of the Gospels—as if we were there, sometimes watching and sometimes participating in Jesus’s encounters with others. She is equally adept in her invitation to hear Jesus’s provocative message within our horizons in the West, not least when doing so is uncomfortable, even painful. Her reading of ‘the gospel through the eyes of victims’ urges us to cultivate communities of faith that overturn our tendencies toward scapegoating, instead embracing and championing those who live on society’s margins.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“There's a lot going on in this well-crafted book. Catherine Wright wants us to read Luke's Gospel as Christian Scripture. She wants us to learn habits of reading Luke faithfully from the early church. She wants us to take seriously first-century expectations for a narrative like Luke's lest we overwhelm the text with twenty-first-century assumptions. Above all, though, she wants us to be shaped decisively through encountering Jesus in Luke's Gospel. Focusing on the coherence of Jesus' life and teaching around spiritual practices, Wright invites us to apprentice ourselves to Jesus, our teacher and royal model. Here is a book you will want to read slowly, perhaps with others, taking in and becoming like the scriptural Jesus.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Congregational leaders don't need to be told that the context of Christian ministry has radically changed in our lifetime, nor that, for many of us, these changes continue at a dizzying pace. The contributors to this book are neck deep in these realities, so they're well-positioned to invite us into an important conversation about what it means to be the church in mission today. We would be suspicious if a book like this offered easy answers, but we have much to learn from these stories about hearing the voice of the Spirit in our local contexts as we envision and cultivate missional churches.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Working especially with the New Testament writings of Luke and Paul, Streett demonstrates the surprisingly political significance of the Lord's Supper. That is, the Supper had not only to do with the church's internal life, but it spoke profoundly of the church's rejection of Roman imperial ideology and the practices by which it was propagated. The consequences of this study are both historically important and theologically challenging, since Streett's work participates in the ongoing destruction of the walls that separate theology and practice, and worship and politics.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The rise of Christian nationalism has exposed how our imagination as Americans has been shaped by stories of conflict and conquest: might makes right. But what if our patterns of life were shaped instead by the whole of Scripture? What if we confronted evil with peaceable means to make peace? Scot McKnight's insightful book takes us into the heart of God's agenda in Scripture as it propels us along the path of living out a peaceful imagination.”
The Church's Guide for Reading Paul
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This is vintage Childs. Who else among modern Old or New Testament scholars turns so easily to and converses so effortlessly with the other Testament and its critical scholarship? From whom else would we expect so arresting an analysis of the historical development and theological significance of 'the canonical Paul'? It is as if Childs has hit the 'reset' button on Pauline studies — sometimes resurrecting interpretive issues long neglected, sometimes casting contemporary discussion in fresh light, always pressing for renewed discussion of the role of the canon for reading the wider Pauline corpus in and for the church.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“The ending of Acts has long perplexed students of the Lukan narrative. Why this abruptness? Why not a more satisfying sense of closure for Luke's literary project? In concert with recent studies that find in Acts a defense of Paul, Charles Puskas urges that, with Acts 28:16-31, Luke makes a strong literary-theological case supporting Paul as one who carries on the work of Jesus. What is more, in this well-documented study he presses for the importance of the witness of Acts for the life and mission of the church that continues beyond its pages.”
The Death of the Messiah and the Birth of the New Covenant
Theology
“With this biblically and theologically mature study, Michael Gorman shifts our focus away from fascination with the how of the atonement and toward reflection on the what: What does Jesus's death accomplish? The result is a richly textured statement of how the atonement reaches deeply into the scriptural story of God's mighty acts in order to present the consequences of the cross for the church's faith, hope, and love.”
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