Jonathan Tran
Theology
“Calvin for the World shows us what it looks like to thoughtfully engage with a theological giant who bears a complicated legacy and yet still says much that may be of value for us today: not pretending or ignoring but also not canceling or forgetting. In Rubén Rosario Rodríguez’s capable hands, Calvin is revealed to be a proto-liberationist by the lights of his own convictions as he is interpreted through the genius of his most radical followers.”
Contextual Theological Interpretation
Theology
“Bo Lim shows us what contextual theological interpretation looks like, where both words—context and theology—do work helping Christians faithfully interpret Scripture. Nothing Professor Lim teaches here promises we will always get it right. But following his lead will keep us honest, which—considering the violence we tend to do to Scripture, including the violence we do in the name of Scripture—means a great deal. Smart, wise, remarkably learned, and much needed.”
Theology
“Angela Carpenter powerfully reminds us that grace is deeper than individual salvation because God is deeper than individual salvation, making redemptive action what individual salvation comes to in the life of God. The gift structure of creation comes with remarkable implications for ethics, ones we’d often rather forget on the way to forgetting ourselves. Grace and Social Ethics calls us back to ourselves by calling us back to divine grace, the first and final site of creaturely possibility.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Confronted with America’s hunger disaster—and its cultural, institutional, and spiritual causes—Everett asked, ‘How can I help?’ The Texas Hunger Initiative (THI) became his answer. I Was Hungry tells this remarkable story as well as the story of the gospel remarkably working its way through the world. Readers of this terrific book will find themselves asking, ‘How can I help?”
Theology
“Brian Brock’s Joining Creation’s Praise is an absolute tour de force. But that’s beside the point. The point that matters is that contemporary Christianity desperately needs a theology of creation that is about all that creation is about. Finally it has one.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“With admirable clarity, wide learning, and practical conviction, Just Discipleship narrates justice as a biblical story, one located in the rich details of Scripture, the deep history of Israel and the church, and the virtuous lives of ordinary people. At once powerfully convicting and unfailingly gracious, this book invites readers to encounter a conversation with God as clear-eyed prophet and gentle teacher.”
Theology
“One could not ask for a better text to introduce theology students to Barth’s work, and even for the well-versed Barth reader, Mangina’s presentation is fresh, astute, and appealing.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Isaac Villegas’s Migrant God isn’t just a book full of powerful, often overwhelming, stories. It is certainly that. But it is also a book that serves as a powerful, often overwhelming, political ‘vision of belonging’—reminding us that amidst the darkness of what nations do daily to God’s migrant people, a light overwhelms the darkness, and the darkness has neither overcome nor comprehended it.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Finally, a pastoral exhortation that connects systemic racism to the climate crisis! David Swanson shows us not only the connections between the two but also how sin caused the disconnect. More importantly, Swanson shows how plunder is itself predatory on a more primary good: creation as a shared gift that can be plundered but never pushed out of a divine economy that naturalizes us into God's sabbath belonging.”
Saving the World and Healing the Soul
Arts & Literature
“Compelling, accessible, provocative, and always entertaining, Saving the World and Healing the Soul shows us how goodness and truth and humanity are always as close as a theater (or tablet screen) near you. In their super-engaging treatment of films like The Hunger Games and The Dark Knight Rises, the authors serve us by both dealing with films people actually watch, and helping us know how to watch them, a treat even better than buttered popcorn.”
Philosophy
“More than any other recent thinker, Peter Ochs answers the basic problematic raised in Anscombe’s great ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’ challenge. Not only does Ochs answer the dilemma of moral education, but in significant measure resolves it. That is what I came to believe while reading the wise and warm essays in this book. Those who know Anscombe’s essay will know what I mean about Ochs. Those who know Ochs will know what Anscombe meant about modern philosophy. This book helps us realize both.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Malcolm Foley continues the radical tradition by showing us how greed produces racism. He calls us away from anti-racist virtue signaling and brings us to the feet of Jesus, where we can either beg God’s mercy for our racist greed or justify ourselves into condemnation. He reminds us that the church’s fight against anti-Black lynching and its struggle for economic justice and solidarity are the same fight.”
Science & Faith
“‘Follow the science’ is the saving message of pandemic times. And for good reason. But how do we follow the science while keeping our souls intact? Better yet, how do we follow science into goodness, truth, and beauty? Legal theorist and theologian David Opderbeck offers a way. Refusing the reductionist terms on offer, he presses toward a wonderfully bodied account of how our moral habits of speech, rather than flattening out as so much epiphenomenal noise, tell us about the sorts of creatures we are and the kind of world we live in. Especially useful is his Thomistic revision of neo-Aristotelian powers and properties to frame what evolutionary theory comes to regarding our most cherished commitments. Learned, sharp, disciplined, and absolutely needed.”
Toward a Micro-Political Theology
Theology
“In this sharp review and analysis, Yin-An Chen separates the Foucauldian wheat from the faux-liberation tares, showing us what genuine resistance entails and how Foucault helps us imagine it. Full of fine distinctions, and the unsparing critiques that come with them, Toward a Micro-Political Theology first clears the ground of so much detritus piling up in Foucault’s wake and then recovers from the ashes something (self)transformative, a political spirituality.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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