Kathryn Greene-McCreight
Biography
Kathryn Greene-McCreight wrote Darkness Is My Only Companion and the foreword to A Quiet Mind to Suffer With.
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Chasing the Shadow—the World and Its Times
Theology
“Chasing the Shadow defies theological classification. Taking up a thoroughly traditional locus (Natural Theology) and shaping his investigation within an unexpected frame (the Apostles’ Creed), Radner breaks through conventional boundaries of exposition and offers us a theological poetics. Chasing the Shadow is deeply personal without self-congratulation, and speaks forward in contemporary voice towards the faith once delivered to the saints.”
Theology
“In this volume, Reformed theologian Paul McGlasson builds on the foundation of the Great Tradition’s witness to and teaching about the Last Things. Throughout Redemption, McGlasson weaves biblical interpretation into his larger systematic frame to offer a vision for how we in our day are faithfully to prepare in hope and joy for Christ’s return in glory. Clearly written, thoughtful, and wise, Redemption extends a piercing theological alternative for professors, their students, and ministers alike.”
Preaching & Worship
“One of the first women to be ordained in the Episcopal church, Fleming Rutledge has had a fruitful career of teaching preachers to communicate the gospel for the formation of the flock in love of God and neighbor. In this volume, Dr. Rutledge focuses on the liturgical season of Epiphany. Incorporating close readings of Scripture (both Greek and Hebrew texts) and Anglican prayers and hymns, she leads us week by week through Epiphany, showing how this season among any other most fully manifests the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. This book joins Dr. Rutledge's other books as a blessing to the church.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Grace for the Afflicted offers the church an account of mental illnesses from a medical and biblical perspective. Stanford speaks a word of hope and grace to those who bear the burden of mental illnesses—patients and families alike. He examines illnesses not often covered in such studies: from traumatic brain injuries caused by accidents, violence, and strokes to personality disorders and dementia. A highly significant addition to the pastor's bookshelf.”
Theology
“The practice of offering assisted dying makes an implicit claim about how we regard the value of human life. How Should We then Die? will help laity to understand the legal, medical, ethical, and theological matters at stake in the debate.”
How the Church Fathers Read the Bible
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“A delightful sketch of the goals and assumptions by which the church fathers read holy Scripture.”
Theology
“Vintage Radner—erudite and incisive—with a twist: at times conversational and even personal. We find in Mortal Goods themes from Radner’s earlier volumes, here with new implications: the thresholds and limits of Christian political engagement, the ‘mortal goods’ that boundary our pilgrimage from birth to death. If you have not yet read Radner, start here. And if you have read him, continue with Mortal Goods.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Alan Noble grapples with a topic of increasingly vital significance in the effects of Covid-19 isolation: mental affliction. Through autobiographical reflections and personal insights on his own suffering, Noble pushes back on the biological model of understanding these illnesses, looking to his life in Christ as his tool for survival.”
Reading the Bible with the Dead
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“A bold encounter with the 'texts of terror.'. . . Will be of profound interest to any scholar of the history of biblical interpretation or of feminist questions and uses of Scripture.”
“From across the English-speaking Anglican communion, lay and ordained writers reflect on words and concepts basic to the Christian life. Personal yet public, intellectual yet accessible, these essays teach us by example how to examine key words of our faith. In their attempt to rescue such words from caricature and near extinction, these writers gently nudge us to do likewise.”
Suicide and the Communion of Saints
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“The loss of a loved one to suicide is, among all other losses, uniquely blistering: it can be fraught with feelings of guilt, rejection, shame, isolation. Living in the wake of her mother’s suicide, Rhonda Mawhood Lee shares hard-won wisdom in this pastorally sensitive and theologically informed book. She unflinchingly stares down the horror of suicide by affirming that the mercy of God extends to those who die at their own hand. In a time when even pre-teen suicides are on the rise, this book is a must read for clergy who will, no doubt at some point, face a suicide in their own flock.”
Theology
“Many contemporary analyses of clergy ethics take a backward-looking view of the power dynamics inherent in pastors’ relationships with their flock. These analyses then offer a rules-based model for the prevention of clergy ethics violations. In Sustaining Ministry, Wheeler points beyond a rules-based model to the necessity of practicing the deeply rooted Christian spiritual disciplines that form emotional and moral health. These practices, Wheeler argues, are the tools that will most fruitfully shield churches and their clergy from ethics abuse and will build abundant communities of faith. Sustaining Ministry, along with Wheeler’s earlier The Minister as Moral Theologian, is a must-read for everyone in ministry, from bishops to lay pastors.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“"Seasoned parish priest and New Testament text critic, Peter Rodgers deftly guides his reader through the complexities of text criticism. He creatively explores the theological and hermeneutical fruits of this often mind-numbing but time-tested method by means of narrative criticism. This is a priceless resource for seminarians, pastors, and priests alike, who want to understand the lay of the land of this classic method, but who often find themselves put off by the method's technical intricacies.”
The Emerging Christian Minority
Theology
“Some tend to view our culture’s increasing secularization as a threat to religious life in the United States. In contrast, the essays in The Emerging Christian Minority embrace this secularization as a potentially liberating moment rich with possibility for increased vitality of religious communities. . . . This volume will enrich all, from academic theologians to pastors, priests, and rabbis. It may also point us beyond our limp ‘interfaith dialogue’ towards truly vital interfaith work.”
The Minister as Moral Theologian
Theology
“The Minister as Moral Theologian is a wise, compassionate, and direct treatment of Christian ethics in the pastoral tasks of preaching, teaching, and counseling. Wheeler reminds us of the challenges, joys, blessings, and wonders of pastoral ministry. This is a must-read for seminarians and seasoned clergy alike.”
Christian Living
“Lively prose, engaging style, and endearing wit. … Highly recommended.”
Theological Interpretation of Scripture
Theology
“Stephen E. Fowl's latest, Theological Interpretation of Scripture, displays gems in the treasure trove of the new-yet-venerable task: reading the Bible as Scripture of the Church. Fowl helps us to think theologically about reading Christian Scripture as the living voice of God. Fowl invites us into a 'cocktail party' with his conversation partners in this renewal of reading sacra scriptura for the Church's life and witness. Entirely accessible, thoroughly convincing, with a sense of adventure and hope. May his tribe increase!”
Theology
“Transfiguring Headship addresses the intra-evangelical Protestant argument over ‘male headship,’ one of the cleavage points between evangelical and mainline Protestant churches. Jost seeks in part to relocate the debate over gender roles from a reliance on reading Scripture as thin prooftext alone to a fuller reading of Scripture as figure. Headship thus becomes the sacramental pointing to the headship of Jesus Christ over his bride, the church. Highly recommended for those interested in the evangelical framing of ‘male headship’ as well as their understanding of the nature of Scripture itself.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Plumbing the language of loneliness and alienation in the Old Testament's major prophets and wisdom literature, Hildebrandt brings to voice its questions of meaning and human existence, looking also to various psychotherapeutic models for healing of mental affliction. The book offers a creative approach to biblical theology.”
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