Kendall Soulen

God Draws Near

Theology

“Collin Cornell has written a wonderful piece of critical and constructive theology that can positively transform how we understand what the Bible is all about. He shows how a scripturally dubious instrumentalism has obscured important dynamics in the biblical text, and he helps us reimagine the Bible’s unity in a way that focuses on the God who draws near. This is an impressively learned and original work by one of our most promising younger theologians.”

Israel

Theology

“There are at the end of the day perhaps only a handful of ways Christians can understand the place of Israel in God's economy. Of these, some have proven to be deeply flawed, while others have yet to be fully explored and tested. In this book, Paul Griffiths puts us in his debt by displaying the logic of an account in which "Israel" names God's elect beloved, jointly constituted by the synagogue and the church. Everyone who cares about a rightly ordered Christian doctrine of Israel will want to read and weigh this original and provocative book.”

Perichoresis and Personhood

Theology

“I recently set out looking for a reliable guide to the concept of perichoresis in the thought of John of Damascus, only to discover with surprise and disappointment that such a book seemed not to exist. How could that be given the concept's popularity and John's undisputed importance in its shaping? I still have no answer to that question, so far as the past is concerned, but I am delighted to report that on this score the future is brighter. There is a sure-footed, intelligent, and thorough guide on this topic. You are holding it in your hands.”

Risking Proclamation, Respecting Difference

Theology

“Can Christian proclamation be made ethically safe for the Jewish neighbor? Or does the question itself harbor a hidden danger as serious as the one it seeks to remedy? In Chris Boesel's skillful hands, these questions become highly sensitive diagnostic tools for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of two major approaches to a Christian theology of Judaism, those exemplified by Rosemary Radford Ruether and Karl Barth. In clear, surefooted, and subtle prose, Boesel shows that the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches are seldom what they appear to be at first glance. Boesel makes an important contribution to our understanding of systematics, ethics, and homiletics at the intersection of Jewish-Christian relations.”

Trinitarian Ontology and Israel in Robert W. Jenson’s Theology

Theology

“Sang Hoon Lee exposits the post-supersessionist Trinitarian theology of Robert W. Jenson with an intellectual elan that recalls Jenson himself. Surefooted and insightful, this is one of the best monographs yet on America's foremost living theologian.”