John Witte
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“These elegant and erudite essays provide a kaleidoscopic tour of many of the fundamental questions of law, politics, and civil society that have long occupied the O'Donovans. This volume provides a judicious sampling and synthesis of some of their best specialty scholarship in intellectual history, biblical exegesis, theological ethics, and political theory. It also constitutes a welcome scholarly companion to and expansion of their landmark Eerdmans text From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought.”
Work, Money & Leadership
“Faith without works is dead,' the letter of James reminds us. But what works are part of living faith and faithful living — and what work can properly be pursued as a Christian vocation or calling? A whole library of Christian teaching has emerged over the past two millennia to respond to these timeless questions. This volume provides a judicious sampling of the most enduring teachings on the meaning of vocation. Included are writings from the honor roll of Christian luminaries — Augustine and Aquinas, Luther and Calvin, Ignatius and Teresa, Herbert and Wesley, Bonhoeffer and Barth — but also from dozens of lesser-known writers whose insights prove equally provocative. This text will serve at once as a commuter's companion, a devotional primer, a classroom text, and a scholarly resource.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This book is a clear, crisp, and comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of law, politics, and society viewed in biblical perspective. It is a natural for the college and Sunday school classroom, and for any person of faith interested in probing the wisdom of the Reformed Christian tradition.”
Theology
“This original and powerfully argued book is destined to become a standard cite for scholars of theology and ethics. Ellen Charry critically reviews the idea of happiness in Scripture and tradition, with a particularly interesting analysis of Anglican divine Joseph Butler. What makes the book memorable, however, is its innovative teaching of 'asherism.' Asherism avoids the dangers of self-denying agapism and self-serving eudaemonism by confirming our perennial need to love God, neighbor, and self at once and to live out our lives and vocations by the letter, spirit, and telos of both the law and the gospel.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This is a pithy, provocative, and profound meditation on the deep ethical unity of the Bible and its enduring wisdom and guidance for people of faith. You can read this book in an evening—but study it for a long time, particularly its skillful blending of biblical texts and teachings on some of the most controversial moral questions of our day.”
How Luther Became the Reformer
History & Biography
“A century ago, most Protestants viewed Martin Luther as the great prophet of freedom who liberated the West from the oppressive rule of medieval Catholicism and set Western churches, states, and cultures on the road to modernity. Christine Helmer has long shown us that Luther’s reformation was far more medieval, far less revolutionary, and far more complex in influence than the heroic image of Luther would have it. This learned volume exposes the tangled roots and routes of this heroic Luther myth in modern German thought, challenging everyone from Hegel and Schleiermacher to Weber and Holl for their highly selective and present-minded readings of Luther. This is forensic critical historiography at its best.”
Theology
“This volume offers an authoritative and accessible tour of natural law and positive law from the garden of Eden to the latest machinations of the United States Supreme Court. David W. Opderbeck brings both theological discernment and legal acumen to bear on the weightier matters of the law, on the quotidian questions of legal practice, and on the current cultural battles over sexual liberty and religious liberty. Judicious, candid, briskly paced, and cogently argued, this book deserves a wide readership.”
Theology
“This classic title by Johannes Heckel has long been an effective bridge-builder among German Lutheran theologians, jurists, and historians. Drawing on an impressive command of the original sources, Heckel shows how Martin Luther transformed our understanding of Gospel and Law, faith and works, church and state. Luther moved from the early iconoclast who scorned the jurists and burned the canon laws to a mature reformer who reformed the law and built an impressive political theology. Gottfried Krodel has captured the full power and prescience of this masterwork of Lutheran scholarship.”
History & Biography
“Ten Catholic critics of Luther and the Reformation come to brilliant light and life in this excellent collection of texts, newly translated into English and crisply introduced. Scholars and students alike of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation will learn from these striking examples of rhetorical and theological hardball played at a furious pace.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“Don S. Browning is America's leading interdisciplinary scholar of marriage and the family. In From Culture Wars to Common Ground Browning offered a riveting diagnosis of the transformation of American marriage and family life in the last century and issued a robust call for reform using the resources of the Western Christian tradition. In this new volume Browning puts the contemporary American crisis of marriage and family in worldwide perspective, demonstrating the extraordinary perils and promises born of the forces of modernization. In response, he summons the methods and insights of theology, ethics, law, and sundry other disciplines ? within and beyond the Christian West ? to press his case for a global marriage revival. This book is a profound intellectual achievement and gift that will edify the specialist and the uninitiated for many years to come.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Few frontiers of world Christianity are more controversial and promising than those in mainland China today. And few scholars are more adept than Professor Zhibin Xie in negotiating the complex dialectics between Western and Chinese Christianity, traditional teachings and modern challenges, flourishing Christian communities and indigenous forms and forums of faith and politics. In this volume, Professor Xie continues to lay important groundwork for a distinct Chinese political theology that skillfully blends Chinese and Western teachings, and speaks powerfully and prophetically to fundamental issues of love, justice, rights, freedom, and legal and political reform. This volume deserves wide readership throughout the world.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“PRAISE FOR Politics after Christendom This volume is a brilliant capstone to David VanDrunen’s project on Reformed political and legal teachings. It again features probing exegesis of biblical teachings and their reception history; creative retrieval and reconstruction of natural law theories, Two Kingdoms ontologies, and covenantal theology; and a bracing engagement with enduring questions of authority and liberty, justice and mercy, custom and community, rights and resistance. This volume and its prequels have earned VanDrunen a place high on the honor roll of law and religion scholarship and of Reformed political theology.”
Quests for Freedom, Second Edition
Theology
“In this well-orchestrated and briskly-paced volume, nineteen leading theologians offer deep and diverse insights into the conditions, contexts, concepts, and categories of freedom in the Bible, and the liberating implications of these biblical teachings and practices for the ancient world and for our own. This is global interdisciplinary religious scholarship at its best.”
Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Thomas Berg is one of the nation’s leading scholars and advocates promoting strong but sensible religious freedom for all faiths—whether ancient or new, large or small, popular or reviled. Here he offers a sobering and penetrating analysis of the dangers of reducing American religious freedom to a cudgel in the culture wars, an enemy of sexual liberty, or a barrier to foreigners. Adducing the prescient insights of the American founders and reconstructing the best of First Amendment jurisprudence, Berg argues that protecting the equal and robust liberty of all faiths—theistic, nontheistic, and antitheist alike—is the surest means of fostering justice, peace, and the common good. Authoritative but accessible, this book is a riveting and rewarding read!”
The 1662 Book of Common Prayer—Pew Format
Preaching & Worship
“The Book of Common Prayer—with its timeless liturgies, lectionary, psalms, and prayers—has long held worldwide Anglicanism together. This splendid new 1662 Book of Common Prayer, International Edition, preserves the beauty, power, and majesty of the original text while making modest linguistic updates throughout and offering judicious amendments to the prayers and psalter. The editors and publisher deserve high praise for presenting this authoritative, affordable, and accessible text for Christians worldwide to use in their private devotions and public worship.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Major Coleman offers a passionate, perceptive, and persuasive case that America is paying massive and unnecessary financial, cultural, moral, spiritual, and emotional costs for failing to end racism for good and to grant racial equality to all. Using his impressive skills as a legal scholar, social scientist, and man of faith, Coleman documents in detail how blatantly unjust, hopelessly inefficient, and spiritually bankrupt it is for us not live up to our founding ideas of liberty, justice, equality for all.”
Marriage, Family & Relationships
“This is an honest, touching, and real-life meditation on the meaning, methods, and manners of a grace-filled and Christ-focused marriage. By generously sharing their story of courtship, marriage, and parenthood—warts and all—Brad and Marilyn Rhoads teach us that marriage is a lifelong covenant of love and sacrifice, not a utilitarian contract of works and performance. The authors further show how a grace-filled Christian marriage practically and realistically plays out in marital communication, sexual exchange, household finance, children's upbringing, crisis management, and more. Wistful singles, courting couples, married spouses, marital counselors, and Christian pastors alike will benefit from this lovely book.”
The Rush for Black Diamonds, Volume One
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
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Work, Money & Leadership
“Martin Luther once said, 'Lawyers are bad Christians.' Robert F. Cochran Jr. is proof positive that Luther was completely wrong. This arresting new volume distills Cochran's lifetime of rich scholarship, teaching, and experience on combining the vocation of the lawyer with the calling to love God, neighbor, and self. Lawyers and clients alike will find much to ponder in these sage reflections on how to counsel, negotiate, arbitrate, and litigate responsibly as Christians, and how to render the law a noble profession that serves the common good.”
Theology
“This is an elegant and erudite map of the various dualistic theories at work in Protestant political theology from Luther and Calvin to our own day. Niebuhr’s famous volume on Christ and Culture now has a sturdy supplement, if not a serious competitor, in Robbie Crouse’s new volume. What an impressive debut for this ‘emerging scholar.’”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
From Sacrament to Contract, Second Edition
History & Biography
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva
History & Biography
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