John B. Cobb Jr
A History of Japanese Theology
Theology
“This book not only provides interesting historical information but also helps all Christians to understand what is involved in believing the gospel in an Eastern culture. It shows that until recently Japanese theologians exhausted most of their efforts in adapting to their context discussions shaped by the Western experience. But now they are doing genuinely original work in the understanding of God that may prove to be in advance of what is taking place in the West.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Sallie McFague has brought the fruits of decades of thinking about God and the world, about individual and community, about humanity and nature, about reality and metaphor, about the sacramental and the prophetic, to bear on the critical issue of climate change. She calls Christians to new feeling, new acting, and new thinking. Perhaps as the threat to our world that she describes so well presses more obviously upon us, the church will begin to listen.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Kelsey demonstrates his gifts as a judicious, fair, and comprehensive reporter on an important discussion which is in danger of being treated as merely 'academic.' Perhaps this interpretive summary can reinvigorate the discussion of theological education in such a way as to generate some actual change.”
Theology
“With scholarly rigor and intellectual acumen, Yong's theology takes seriously and appreciatively the diversity of the work of the universal Spirit in the cultures and religious communities of the world. His position is fully evangelical but is richly informed by his Pentecostal roots and context. He sets this Pentecostal-evangelical theology of religions in the center of the ongoing discussion, not only among evangelicals, but also in the whole church.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The political parties in the United States continue to ignore the twin, globally decisive, questions of income distribution and ecological catastrophe. These questions are central to this book. Most Christian responses to these apocalyptic challenges talk about what other people, governments, or corporations should be doing. This book addresses us as Christians and invites us to live as Christians. If thousands of readers take this challenge seriously, we may yet be effective workers with God in the salvation of the world.”
Theology
“Fifty years ago Valerie Saivings noted the congeniality between the process critique of the philosophical and theological tradition and the insights of Christian women. This remarkable volume shows how the work of women process theologians and of feminists and womanists who found process categories useful together constitute a single richly textured movement. From the perspective of this male process theologian, this movement is today the most promising expression of process theology. Indeed, I view it as embodying the cutting edge of Christian theology as a whole.”
Divine Grace and Emerging Creation
Science & Faith
“These essays locate Wesley's view of the natural sciences in its eighteenth-century context in a way that shows how his followers should, and to some extent do, locate themselves in relation to current debates. It shows why we eschew both Kantian dualism and anything resembling anti-scientism, while remaining critical of some of the philosophical ideas with which so much science has associated itself.”
Theology
“McDaniel . . . achieves a rare inclusiveness by drawing together the contributions of others and enriching them through his own originality. What emerges is something genuinely new and fully authentic to the best of our contemporary understanding. If a healthy new piety is coming to birth in our time, this is it.”
Theology
“Thinking is part of living. But we often abstract the conclusions of thinking from the context in which it occurred and present them as a systematic set of ideas. Ingram relocates his ideas in the context of his life. Reading this book brings his experience and thinking into the reader’s life and encourages fresh thinking there too.”
Theology
“Ingram has brought his wide knowledge of the world’s religions and his own Lutheran faith to bear on the vexed question about how to write about what eludes and transcends our efforts at supposed literal language. Despite the elusiveness of his topic, he writes clearly and communicates well. . . . The book contributes theoretically to the discussion but speaks also to faithful people in many traditions.”
Theology
“How one thinks about scarcity, property, work, and needs cannot remain unchanged after reading this book. Most Christian reflection on the economy has been in terms of social ethics and has focused on inequitable distribution of jobs and goods in the market economy. Meeks writes on the economy as a Trinitarian theologian, and a very good one. The result is a more searching critique with more radical implications for individual Christians and for the churches. God the Economist should edify and challenge liberal and conservatives alike.”
Theology
“Goddess and God makes clear that women's experience and perspectives enrich and transform theology and also that some of the central theological debates continue. Do we think of God as the impersonal ground of everything or as the personal embodiment of cosmic love? Is one view more feminine or more feminist than the other?”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“An increasing number of Christians recognize, at least vaguely, that the global economy is hurting a lot of people. But few are clear of how and why, and fewer still are moved to engage in serious resistance. This book first makes clear that and why economic globalization is to be resisted and then tackles head-on the deeply Christian question of whence come the strength and courage to resist. She finds an answer in features of the thought of Martin Luther. ... May the church be moved by her words to act against the principalities and powers of this world, and may we find the courage to do so steadfastly and effectively! The fate of billions of people depends on this.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The twentieth century was one in which deconstruction held sway. Some Christians held ever more tightly to earlier ideas. Many saw Christianity as irrelevant or worse. Some modified Christianity to disconnect it from what was being deconstructed and relate it to the new situation. Prozesky insightfully and movingly recounts his own path through these options and beyond them to calling all to a total commitment to the good, which in his case is deeply inspired by the historical Jesus. Conservative and liberal Christians, atheists and those who are spiritual but not religious, and members of other faith communities will all profit from his appreciative analysis and sensitive criticisms. Following his journey is a moving and even gripping experience. Learn from his journey and think for yourself.”
Language, Hermeneutic, and History
Theology
“The New Frontier Series had a particular meaning for the time the volumes were published. We live today at a very different time. But in each volume there was one long essay of enduring value, a detailed and insightful study of the history of the Continental theology out of which the theological developments of the 1960s came. Nowhere else has the theology of this period been so thoroughly explained. This volume brings these essays together.”
Christian Living
“Santiago writes beautifully and engagingly. It is certainly a processive view of life and its meaning, and the use of creative synthesis is helpful and careful. It is a kind of process existentialism, certainly wise and encouraging of the quest for wisdom.”
Theology
“Paul Ingram writes as a Christian deeply sensitive to the mystery that surrounds us all and is wisely explored, by many traditions. He locates his own faith in this large context and invites the reader to join in this fresh perspective. What emerges is a vivid sense of living by the grace of God.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
A Christian Natural Theology, Second Edition
Philosophy
World Religions
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Theology
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
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Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
Church Leadership & Ministry
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
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