John B. Cobb Jr
Love in a Time of Climate Change
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Sharon Delgado makes it clear that we, especially we who stand in the Wesleyan tradition, cannot choose between being scriptural in the fullest sense and activity to save as much as possible from destruction through climate change. There is no tension between biblical preaching and preaching on the overwhelming, life-determining issues surrounding climate change. Let's stop hemming and hawing and work with God to save God's creation.”
Theology
“Dr. Chung is engaged in a deeply theological reflection about Buddhism and Protestantism. His work is original and profound.”
My Quests for Hope and Meaning
History & Biography
“This autobiography by one of the most distinguished and influential thinkers of our time transcends the boundaries of autobiography. We learn a lot about Rosemary Ruether, but because so much is about her thought, and her thought is so insightful, we learn a great deal about the world in which we have all been living. Ruether is a severe critic of what has been, but she also offers hope for what may yet be.”
Theology
“On the Mystery Praise for the First Edition At last: deeply Christian theology that is genuinely credible, relevant, important, and also accessible. Catherine Keller’s new work is for students and lay people—and for that vast company of people who have given up on the church but still care!”
World Religions
“This book actualizes what others have pointed toward abstractly. . . . Its commitment to Luther becomes its commitment to the truth that is found beyond Luther, beyond Christianity, and especially in the other great religious traditions. It does not speak abstractly of openness to other traditions, but concretely of what one learns when one crosses over to view reality from specific traditions. And it richly actualizes the return to the Lutheran confession. May this become a model for Christian theologies of the future.”
“John Buchanan has searched the relevant literature with peculiar thoroughness in quest of a developed vision that does justice to both the objective and the subjective worlds. . . . For one who has been testing Whitehead in similar ways in other fields for fifty years, Buchanan’s enthusiasm is profoundly gratifying. It is hard to see what more can be asked of Whitehead before his thought will be recognized as having solved the need for a unified cosmology.”
Reading the Bible for All the Wrong Reasons
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“For much of Western history, the Bible has been the primary source of the wisdom needed to inspire and guide conviction and commitment. Contemporary culture has abandoned that source of wisdom at a time when such wisdom is urgently need for human survival. Some have lost the wisdom by treating the Bible as a sacred object; others, by dismissing it as worthless or worse. Pregeant points the way to recovering and reviving its life-giving power.”
Philosophy
“Dr. Iammarino has formulated an inclusive vision of reality that is thoroughly philosophical but also takes seriously the variety of religious experience and conviction. He shows how his overarching theory makes room for the fundamental truth of diverse religious traditions.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The vast majority of the writing and speaking that surrounds us in the newspapers, magazines, books, radio, television, and university classrooms and lecture halls takes for granted the basic structures and practices of the present world order, despite their rendering billions of people destitute and the planet uninhabitable. The best of it, for the most part, tells us how to moderate the evils of the system without redirecting it. A very small part deals with the system as a whole and its unthinkable consequences. Within that part still less combines unflinching realism with a convincing gospel of hope. This book is a shining example of this tiny body of writing that responds wisely and well to what is incomparably the most important need of our time. May it initiate, at least among Christians, the widespread metanoia apart from which the world will not survive.”
Arts & Literature
“"Fisher is at it again, making the history and literature of the ancient Near East alive for us now. Here are stories from ancient Egypt that transcend historical distance. We recognize our own interests, strengths, and weaknesses in these stories. We see also a deep kinship between the storytellers of Israel and the even earlier storytellers of Egypt. This book is of value both to the ordinary reader and to the scholar.”
World Religions
“Lochhead's book suggests that the theological discussion of dialogue is still young . . . His insistence that dialogue is not an option, but an imperative for the church, that it does not require the modification of existing theology but rather its implementation, and that it is not a sharing of existing understanding between communities but a shared venture in new understanding, are all fresh stimulants that will move the dialogue about dialogue forward.”
The Faith of the Christian Church
Theology
“This book can be recommended to a broad range of readers. Requiring very little previous acquaintance with Christian thought or the intellectual history of the West, it formulates Christian teaching in an attractive and convincing fashion in terms that are acceptable to a wide variety of believers.”
Fiction
“Would that more of us theologians could write in this vein . . . It is one thing to assert that God is utterly compassionate toward every creature and calls us to a like compassion. It is quite another to draw us through the depths of hell and hatred to a realization of that compassion, even for ourselves. Frank Rogers' novel existentially deconstructs the cosmic patriarchy that so distorts the thinking of believers and unbelievers alike--and all the false expectations it has conjured up.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Many writers seek a single unifying thesis in the book of Job. Fisher uncompromisingly insists that it is not a coherent book. By taking it apart he exposes the contrasting views of God and justice. In particular he frees the angry Job to utter his powerful and unqualified attack on the orthodoxy of his day, and of ours.”
History & Biography
“The story of a human life in all its multifaceted complexity holds a fascination for all of us that a philosophical or theological treatise lacks for most. But when the life is itself bound up with ideas as well as with human passions and relationships, ambitions and disappointment, the ideas take on the human meaning they were meant to have. Stephens writes beautifully, exposing a life of suffering that is also infused with joy, a life of doubt also infused with faith.”
Philosophy
“Roland Faber . . . is the first to offer us a comprehensive picture of the mind of Whitehead. He understands Whitehead deeply and comprehensively and combines first-rate scholarship with great skill in explanation. In a time when Whitehead is still excluded from all the academic disciplines but interest in his integrating thinking is exploding, this may be the breakthrough we need to have his voice appreciated in our educational system.”
The Minority Report, 2nd Edition
Fiction
“A novel is a novel way of entering into the world of biblical textual criticism! Fisher's novel about the writing of the Job poem and how its message was largely silenced by locating it within the more ancient story is a likely tale that, in any case, brings to life the world of scholars at David's court. It also shows that modern skepticism is not so modern after all!”
World Religions
“Sanders has zeroed in on the greatest contribution of Hebrew thought to the world, its insistent monotheizing, which overcomes every 'we-they' distinction through including the 'they' within the sphere of divine concern and grace. He fully appreciates the constant failure of the Hebrews themselves and the Christian and Islamic communities to actualize this fundamental principle of their faith, relapsing into exclusivism. The need to monotheize has never been greater or more deeply threatened than today. Hence the importance of this book.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
A Christian Natural Theology, Second Edition
Philosophy
World Religions
Theology
Theology
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
Fiction
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
Church Leadership & Ministry
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