Joel B. Green

The Disciples according to Mark

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“As a whole, this study is a tribute to its author's remarkable capacity to engage in sustained, penetrating critique. . . . [Black's] dissection is accomplished with a measured evenhandedness.”

The Drama of Scripture

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The Drama of Scripture is just what we would expect, and need, from the partnership of an accomplished biblical scholar and a noted missiologist. This is an entrée into the grand sweep of God’s story told with a keen eye for Christian formation and the mission of God’s people. Though Bartholomew and Goheen are obviously in conversation with relevant scholarship, their narrative is uncluttered and disarmingly transparent in its invitation for us not only to grasp but also to be grasped by the big story of God’s project.”

The Early Christians in Ephesus from Paul to Ignatius

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“With considerable finesse, Trebilco explores Christian developments in Ephesus from their beginning to the early second century and produces an extraordinarily suggestive social-historical mapping of house churches in Ephesus. This exemplary study of the diversity of early Christianity in one center of the movement has far-reaching implications — theologically, politically, and socially — for our understanding of the early church.”

The Fiction of Our Lives

Christian Living

“This is Sandra Levy-Achtemeier at the height of her craft -- not only as a writer, but as a wise encourager who invites deep and meaningful reflection on life. Elegantly weaving together insights from such diverse sources as contemporary neuropsychology, hit songs from the 1960s and '70s, and scriptural meditation, she inspires us to mark our life journeys with integrity, faithfulness, and gratitude, to weave lives well-lived.”

The God of the Gospel of John

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This study makes an immediate and profound contribution on three fronts. First, it brings much-needed clarity to the larger question of what it means simply to speak of God. Second, it overturns the widespread consensus that the Gospel of John is focused on Jesus by locating christology within theology. Third, it undertakes a genuinely theological reading of a central New Testament book while taking seriously at the same time the historical and ecclesial location of John's narrative. Characterized throughout by gracious, penetrating engagement with the Fourth Gospel and its modern readers and by maturity of reflection and insight, The God of the Gospel of John is a most welcome harbinger of the future of New Testament studies.”

The Good Samaritan

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“As Powery tells the story, Jesus's parable of the good Samaritan is brimming with possibilities and challenges for reflection and action, especially regarding the way our theology shapes how we relate to people who are not like us. This is a timely, engaging, and provocative book--well suited to the classroom and the church--that demonstrates again and again how interpretation and ethics are tightly intertwined.”

The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas

Apologetics

“Imagine Paul preaching in first-century Athens. Now imagine stepping into Paul's shoes and proclaiming the gospel in the twenty-first-century Western world. In this thought-provoking book, a Christian apologist and a New Testament scholar join forces to read Luke's famous story of Paul on Mars Hill, and the result is as compelling as it is remarkable. Copan and Litwak issue a robust invitation for God's people to read Scripture and our increasingly post-Christian world together in the service of communicating well the good news.”

The Hermeneutics of Social Identity in Luke-Acts

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Nickolas Fox brings a fresh approach to the labyrinthian question of the purpose of Luke-Acts. Putting social identity theory to good use, he urges that Luke’s principal aim was to form an insider-identity within the first-century Christian movement among former outsiders—God-fearers.”

The New Adam

Theology

“Another book on the atonement? This one, we certainly need! Ron Highfield weaves theological arguments and biblical sensibilities into a message of salvation in Jesus that is faithful to the scriptural gospel and aimed at engaging our contemporaries as good news. The New Adam sets the question of the Christian doctrine of salvation fully in conversation with the human condition, in its misery and hope, with the long history of Christian sense-making of Jesus’s death, and with the biblical narrative. The result is a bold and welcome proposal that depicts Jesus’s story as the true human story, Israel’s story reworked, and our story remade.”

The Way according to Luke

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In this exploration of Luke's literary art, Paul Borgman displays his significant gifts as sensitive reader and trusted guide. Although fully engaged with contemporary study of Luke-Acts, he is no slave to 'the experts' as he demonstrates again and again how Luke's narrative works to shape our grasp of Luke's literary and theological agenda. Biblical studies is the richer on account of this sort of interdisciplinary work.”

The Way of the Lord: Plotting St. Luke’s Itinerary

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In this guide to reading Luke’s Gospel, Gene Lemcio impressively displays the gifts a biblical scholar can bring to classrooms and small groups. Avoiding the role of The Bible Answer Man, he adopts a different posture: ‘Did you notice this?’ ‘Here’s some helpful background.’ ‘What do you see Luke the Evangelist doing in this scene?’ This is a welcome invitation to read Luke’s Gospel well.”

Theology in the Flesh

Theology

“John Sanders shows that human embodiment is far more than an interesting theological claim. It actually shapes and constrains how we read Scripture, conceptualize God, experience conversion and forgiveness, and reflect ethically. This innovative study is a rare invitation to one aha moment after another!”

Vox Petri

Theology

“Gene Green puts hard-nosed historical inquiry in the service of the church’s faith and life as he excavates Peter’s contribution to Christian theology. His robust study identifies the apostle as the church’s theologian, mediating and contextualizing Jesus’s message for communities of Christ-followers after Jesus’s resurrection. This maximal reading of the New Testament witness is a noble contribution to contemporary study of Peter.”

Why Science and Faith Belong Together

Science & Faith

“Too often today we hear reductionist claims: I have faith so don’t need science! or I have science so don’t need faith! With an astonishing breadth of perspective, Malcolm Jeeves dispels both myths—and he does so with such easy-to-read and humble prose that we do well to stop and reflect on this book’s practical wisdom. Here is an invitation to take up fresh, robust, and faithful ways of making sense of God’s good creation.”

Women in the World of the Earliest Christians

History & Biography

“This is an important book for all students of the New Testament, however novice or advanced. Cohick's historical sensibilities and sympathetic reading of the whole range of available evidence overturn a number of caricatures that have for decades plagued claims about women (and men) in the world of the early church. Her presentation of the life of the ordinary Roman woman from Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian sources is a model of careful exploration and nuanced reconstruction. It deserves to be read attentively and consulted often.”

Women Who Do

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“If asked to name Jesus’s disciples, most of us would focus on the well-known men—Peter, James, John, and the rest. In this important, well-crafted study, Holly Carey fills out that picture by emphasizing Jesus’s overlooked female disciples while demonstrating how the women in Jesus’s life exemplified best the nature of faithful discipleship. If we want to talk about what it means to follow Jesus, we do well to take her advice: Follow the women!”