Jonathan A. Linebaugh

Biblical Reasoning

Theology

“This book is an invitation to another book: Holy Scripture. In Biblical Reasoning, Jamieson and Wittman make what might be called an exegetical confession: Scripture is God’s word that reveals and redeems to the end that readers are brought into relationship. God speaks so God’s creatures finally see God. Trinitarian and christological doctrine, in this economy, is not a movement away from the biblical texts but rather the theological grammar that flows from and returns the reader to the canonical voice of God, the Father who sends the Son and the Spirit. Tolle lege, tolle lege: take up and read this book, for the sake of taking up and reading the other one.”

Easter

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“Christ is risen. In these pages, this first and fundamental announcement sounds afresh as good news. Readers are taken into the scripture promises and accounts of resurrection, addressed with the gospel of the crucified and yet living one, and invited to participate in the church’s festal celebration of Easter. This informed and honest study is finally a hopeful sermon and a joyous song: because Jesus lives with death behind him, sorrow and fear are not the final word, wrongs and losses will be redeemed, and the grave has lost its sting.”

Luther's Outlaw God, Volume 1

Theology

““Seek the Lord while”—and where, adds Luther—“he may be found.” In this book, Steven Paulson follows Luther’s finger as it points to this time and place: God is given to sinners while they are sinners through a sermon. The distinction between God not preached and God preached is, for Paulson, the difference between fear and faith, between death and life. Anchored in Scripture and in conversation with Luther’s writings, Luther’s Outlaw God practices what it preaches—it preaches! Preaching is the saying of God’s promise in which God stops hiding from us and we find ourselves hidden in God. To read this book is not only to hear about this promise; it is to hear this promise—it is to be addressed by the Lord where and when he may be found: now, for you, in “the word of the cross” that gives God to the dead and makes them alive.”

Romans

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This commentary on Romans is more than a resource; it is a reading born of a sustained relationship. Beverly Gaventa’s lifetime of engagement with Paul’s letter results in something other than a record of possible interpretations. This is an encounter: an encounter with Romans, and also, by way of Gaventa’s patient and deep historical and theological interpretation, an encounter with what Paul calls ‘the power of God’ that, through Romans, encounters us in the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

The Word as word

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The Word as word is a gift: from an experienced translator of the New Testament comes a rich consideration of the art of translating Holy Scripture. The labor of and reflection upon the translation of ancient texts is often separated by specialization. In The Word as word, Michael Straus offers a rare and needed combination of philological and contextual precision, historical and theological awareness, and humane and pastoral sensitivity. Translation, as The Word as word explores it, lives with and moves from ancient words that have and continue to announce the Word.”