John T. Carroll

A Guide to Bible Basics

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In a time when the Bible is often invoked but without accurate knowledge of its actual content, Tyler Mayfield has provided an extremely helpful resource to introduce another generation to the basic content of the Bible. In a compact yet thorough volume, Mayfield walks readers through the whole Bible, with judicious chapter-by-chapter summaries for each book. With the Bible and this Guide to Bible Basics in tandem, readers will come to know—or rediscover—the key themes, people, places, and events in the biblical texts.”

A Manifesto for Theological Interpretation

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The waning of Christianity as practiced in the West is easy to explain. The Christian churches have comprehensively failed in their one central task—to retell their foundational story in a way that might speak to the times.”

A Year of Slowing Down

Bible Studies & Devotionals

“Under the culture's relentless pressure to hurry, we need a resource that not only reminds us to slow down but also offers a touch point with Jesus that nourishes our souls with the grace and truth of God's kingdom every day of the year. Alan Fadling's latest devotional is that resource—full of daily thoughts and questions that invite us into the life-giving presence of God. I highly recommend it!”

Buried Treasure

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“What do you get when you combine pastoral wisdom attuned to the breadth and depth of human experience, a lifelong fascination with Mark’s Gospel, keen literary sensibility, and lucid prose? The result is Buried Treasure. This wonderful book invites first-time readers of Mark into that intriguing story and offers fresh insight to seasoned readers as well.”

Luke

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“With this outstanding commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Paideia: Commentaries on the New Testament adds another stellar volume. This lucid, concise commentary displays the distinctive strengths that Mikeal Parsons has brought to a distinguished career as scholar and author. With a keen eye for the literary artistry of Luke's narrative, impressive knowledge of Luke's cultural environment, and an ear carefully tuned to the rhetorical design and impact of this Gospel, Parsons provides a reliable guide for readers of Luke. I am pleased to give this book my enthusiastic endorsement.”

Many Things in Parables

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“[A] stimulating and provocative little book….It provides helpful oreintation to recent study of the parables and cahllenges readers to rethink traditional and perhaps too-comforatable interpretations.”

Missional Economics

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Drawing from his extensive teaching experience, cross-cultural immersion in contexts of poverty, and specialized knowledge in both biblical interpretation and the hermeneutics of mission, Michael Barram is just the person to provide this much-needed resource. Missional Economics: Biblical Justice and Christian Formation will help readers think deeply about the ways in which discipleship may and must address economic realities of the twenty-first century.”

Non-Anxious Churches

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Under the relentless weight of anxiety, this is a timely book for churches. Pastor Mark Knight puts his finger on some of the issues that we all feel yet struggle to fully recognize, and offers fresh insights as a road map to vitality and strength. This resource is a must-read for any church leader.”

Rumors of Resistance

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Amanda C. Miller’s new book, Rumors of Resistance: Status Reversals and Hidden Transcripts in the Gospel of Luke, deftly employs multi-disciplinary approaches to cast new light on the intriguing status-reversal texts in Luke’s narrative. Miller’s perceptive social-rhetorical-literary analysis will be of great interest to readers of Luke’s Gospel; her work also offers helpful perspective on the emergence of Christian communities within the Roman imperial context, the fruitfulness of social-scientific models in literary and historical study of early Christian literature, and ethical analysis of topics—such as poverty and wealth, power and resistance—that figure centrally in Luke’s narrative and also matter for contemporary social, economic, religious, and political life.”

The Governor and the King

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“What happens when you combine perceptive literary analysis of John’s Gospel, a keen ear for the rhetorical effects of irony, careful attention to the late-first-century Roman imperial context, and deft use of James Scott’s work on strategies for indirect resistance to imperial domination—all of it conveyed in lucid, engaging prose? The result is Arthur M. Wright’s excellent new book, The Governor and the King: Irony, Hidden Transcripts, and Negotiating Empire in the Fourth Gospel. This is a welcome addition to scholarship on the Fourth Gospel, especially its passion narrative, and on early Christian responses to the realities of empire.”

The Temptations of Jesus in Mark's Gospel

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Garrett offers a probing and subtle reading of Mark's narrative informed by her extensive and knowledge of Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions relating to suffering and temptation, and enriched by judicious use of anthropological models. For its lucid interpretation of Mark's Gospel and its perceptive analysis of the portrayals of Jesus, the disciples, and the religious authorities in Mark, this study is to be highly recommended. But readers will also find here a stimulus to serious theological reflection on the source, meaning, and purposes of temptation and suffering.”

The Vehement Jesus

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Do the Gospels present Jesus as committed to the practice of non-violence? Tackling a set of especially challenging texts in the Gospels and vigorously engaging the counter-arguments of other scholars, David Neville makes a convincing case for a vehement, yet non-violent Jesus. This is an important book on a topic of biblical interpretation and ethics that has urgent relevance for our time.”