John L. Thompson
A Thousand More Amens, Revised Edition
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“The invitation to pray to our Creator can feel daunting to the novice and repetitive to the practiced. Jeff Voth simplifies the journey and deepens the experience for all. This one-year prayer journey includes a beautiful, thought-provoking prayer prayed over you or through you, a scriptural anchor, and an easy-to-use prayer exercise for each day. This book provides an engaging and transformational answer to the request ‘Lord, teach us to pray.’”
Calvin and the Reformed Tradition
Theology
“Written with Muller's usual candor and suffused with a mastery of the original sources, these essays are a welcome defense of the integrity and independence of the Reformed tradition's sixteenth- and seventeenth-century exponents against those who would distort the historical record or reduce them to a series of footnotes to a Calvin who never existed. Sensitive to historical context and literary genre as well as to the influence of theological traditions and biblical exegesis, these essays are a clinic in responsible historical-theological method.”
Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms
Theology
“A must-have for students and professors. Of the thousands of books in my academic library, there are only three titles that I treasure so highly that I keep one copy at my office and another at home. In the early years of my academic career, Richard Muller's dictionary was the very first to attain such esteemed status. Not only is it a repository of information impossible to find so quickly anywhere else, it is just a darn good read. It's a primer of Latin syntax and at the same time a sophisticated introduction to careful theology. It's a thrill to see it newly improved, some thirty years later! Serious students of Latin, serious students of theology, and--frankly--serious students of clear thought will be in Richard's debt for another generation to come. Well done!”
Infant Baptism in Historical Perspective
History & Biography
“Wright's expertise in patristic, reformation, and ecumenical theology comes to full fruition here, yielding an invaluable resource for reflection among historians, theologians, exegetes, and church leaders. David Wright has bequeathed a sterling example of how historical theology can and must inform systematics and practical theology today.”
John Calvin as Biblical Commentator
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“"One of the first dissertations I ever bought was John Walchenbach's study of Calvin's use of Chrysostom, which was regarded as a kind of classic for the way it framed the history of exegesis questions in Calvin studies in terms of Calvin's use of this influential church father. Appearing in 1974, it was largely ahead of the pack in its field and served as a model for many of us who were cutting our teeth on Calvin and exegesis in the decade that followed. Students today can still benefit from studying Walchenbach's approach, arguments, and conclusions.”
John Calvin, Refugee Theologian
Theology
“Taking its cue from Heiko Oberman’s proposal to understand Calvin’s reform as a ‘reformation of the refugees,’ Ken Woo’s introduction goes well beyond to disclose how Calvin’s own identity as a refugee molded his program for ministry and reform in Geneva (and even throughout Europe) and can be traced, like the proverbial red thread, throughout his varied and voluminous writings. Calvin was acutely aware that all of God’s people are called—even if they never leave their homeland—to live as refugees, strangers, sojourners, and exiles, and to work out their discipleship accordingly. Woo has given us not only a winsome introduction to Calvin but also a timely example of how to read Calvin contextually, not as a disembodied intellect but as one truly shaped by the turmoil and sufferings of his age.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Given the growing discontent and dissatisfaction with historical-critical exegesis among many biblical interpreters of our own generation, de Lubac's prescient essay offers a timely stimulant for those who wish to reconnect historical exegesis with the proclamation of the gospel.”
Reading Scripture with the Saints
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Clifton Black's career as a New Testament scholar has ever been marked by his restlessness to understand also how the Bible changes its readers. What he says of Augustine's biblical exegesis is true of his own book as well: Reading Scripture with the Saints can lead us to transformative insights that are 'wiser and deeper than much of our current fare.' Highly recommended!”
“Robinson has written an ingenious and graceful book. Taking his cue from Gregory the Great's classic work on pastoral care, he has reinvented and recontextualized those lessons in ways that urge the reader into a relationship with both authors at once. Far from a paraphrase and yet remarkably faithful to Gregory's original series of meditations and admonitions, Robinson's own wisdom simultaneously disarms and equips aspiring mentors as well as those whom they serve.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“A compendium of medieval interpretations of the book of Genesis could hardly select better representatives than the seven writers who appear here. Joy Schroeder's original translations are equally admirable for presenting not just a variety of writers but also distinct exegetical genres as well as comments on every chapter of the Bible's first book. Consequently, this work may well claim to be the missing link that now enables a continuous English-based survey of the history of Genesis interpretation, filling the gap between patristic and Reformation sources. Well done!”
History & Biography
“The Gospel According to Eve builds on a sophisticated recognition of the incredibly varied role played by Eve—as a biblical character and, potentially, as Everywoman—in the writings of Christian women from the Middle Ages to the present. Throughout its narrative, the book deftly exposes how reflection on Eve was insinuated within diverse social and theological arguments and how those reflections addressed crucial questions of the role and dignity of women long before even the firstwave of feminism. It is especially gratifying to see women writers of the later Middle Ages and Renaissance receive some long-overdue recognition for having produced works that are not only eloquent plaint and polemic but also, as Benckhuysen shows,works of serious theological reflection and exegetical reasoning. Clearly, these women paid attention to Scripture and were prepared to engage their detractors with wit and intellect. Benckhuysen's book should be welcomed by all who wish to learn what the other half of the church was thinking about the Bible and women long before we discovered these questions for ourselves.”
Fiction
“Elizabeth Genovise’s stories have amazing staying power—her imaginatively created scenes aren’t soon forgotten. In The Numismatist, we glimpse life through a ten-year-old boy’s eyes: hopeful and trusting, but also seething with anger at his father’s infidelity. Genovise sketches this young boy’s family and his dreams with incredible skill, and as she opens up his world, she illuminates our lives too. Very highly recommended.”
Theology
“John Calvin is well known for dismissing medieval Roman Catholic liturgical practices as pandering to superstition and idolatry and as distracting the people of God from the purer forms of worship and proclamation that were inaugurated by Christ. In The Theater of God’s Glory, however, David Taylor goes behind the curmudgeonly caricatures of Calvin to offer a nuanced reading and a critical recovery of Calvin’s theology of embodiment as a surprisingly rich resource for contemporary liturgical arts. Taylor’s dialogue with Calvin is judicious and fair, and his proposals admirably extend Calvin’s own concerns for worship that is not only biblical and orderly but also beautiful and joyful.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“A spectacular corrective to stereotypes about 'women's writing' about the Bible. . . . These women's writings are passionate and compassionate, yet they also transcend sentiment to display an advocacy for women, children, and the marginalized of their own day. Clearly, these writers unflinchingly took possession of the Bible — and the women of the Bible — for themselves and for their readers. The results are too impressive to be forgotten or ignored, too perceptive of the Bible's tales of human worth and woe for us not to be moved.”
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