Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Theology
“Canonical Theology by John Peckham makes three timely and important contributions: first, it gives a robust account of what Peckham calls 'canonical sola Scriptura'; second, it sets forth a clarifying analysis of the difference between the concepts 'intrinsic' and 'communitarian' as applied to the canon, including a number of compelling arguments as to why the former is superior; third, it provides a platform on which exegetes, biblical theologians, and systematic theologians can meet, hopefully to fellowship and work toward an integrative theological method. In sum, Peckham has written what is perhaps the best account to date of what 'canonical theology' ought to mean and why it matters.”
Christ-Centered Biblical Theology
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“For many years I have admired the good things coming out of Moore Theological College. It's high time that the biblical theology being done down under be put front and center in North America. In an age of increasing specialization and fragmentation where even biblical things come apart, Goldsworthy's approach to the unity of Scripture is an important countercultural blast.”
Theology
“Courses in human flourishing attract hundreds of college students, but a good life is hard to find, much less define. Kelly Kapic sets forth a theological thesis that is as comprehensive as it is concise: The good life, for which men and women were created, is a God-centered life, a life that returns God’s love for us by loving God and everything that God has created. Christian Life is chock full of biblical, historical, and doctrinal direction for wise living with and right worship of the triune God.”
Theology
“Concise Theology is poetry to Christian ears: the best words in the best order about the best news there is—the gospel of grace poured out in Jesus Christ. Packer here sets forth with lucid brevity everything Christians need to know to become biblically literate and to grow in wisdom and understanding. Doctrine and doxology here walk hand in hand. I am delighted to see this new edition, for Packer’s description of the ‘permanent essentials’ of the Christian faith remains as relevant today as when this book was first published.”
Theology
“Trevor Hart’s exposition breathes new life into this ancient creed, essentially a distillation of the story of Scripture, and shows that it is at once the Christian’s belief system, worship hymn, and dramatic script. That this book began as a series of sermons serves as a reminder that the best theology serves the church as a guide to faith’s search for understanding.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
Foreword
“What Taimaya Ragui brings to the fore in this book is the context of the confessing community--the one holy catholic church in its varied local expressions. What happens when the centrifugal force of contextual theology meets the centripetal force of catholicity? The great contribution of this book lies in its demonstration that there need be no final conflict between locality and catholicity: the confessing community, which is to say the local church as interpretive community, can be fully catholic and fully contextual--two natures, as it were, in one ecclesial body.”
Science & Faith
“Creation is vast, the universe an incomprehensible diversity—'worlds without end.' This much is familiar, but who knew the doctrine of creation was equally far-reaching? The essays in Creation and Doxology range far and wide, as do their authors' disciplines, and, while the question of origins is ably represented, the real surprise is the wide array of topics these chapters cover: everything from genes to Genesis, time and truth, matter and medicine. The doctrine of creation looms large over all areas of life. Of the many important takeaways in this book, one is surely the call to pastor-theologians to tear down the dichotomy between the spiritual and the material. These essays remind us that the gospel is good news for the whole creation.”
Theology
“Oh how we need this book! And many more like it. Douglas and Jonathan Moo seamlessly combine their biblical and scientific expertise to achieve two very important objectives. On the one hand, they argue a thorough biblical case for including God’s creation within God’s redemptive mission—that is, within the full biblical meaning of the gospel itself. The Bible has good news for all creation! The great Bible narrative does not begin in Genesis 3 (sin) and end in Revelation 20 (judgment), but begins with creation and ends in new creation. They expose the sheer unbiblical fallacy of popular “theologies” of obliteration (of the cosmos) and evacuation (of the saints) and make abundantly clear the biblical hope of resurrection (of our bodies) and liberation (of creation), so that our future is not to be saved out of the earth (by “going to heaven”) but to be saved with the earth (by God coming here, as the ending of the Bible graphically portrays). On the other hand, they provide abundant scientific evidence to refute the political and corporate myths that so-called “environmental issues” (like the impacts of climate change) are a “hoax” or still in scientific dispute, while calling us to a range of practical measures that will help us move (as this series intends) from biblical theology to life and its fundamental ethical choices. One of the biggest challenges facing the Christian church (especially in the West) is whether or not those who fervently and evangelically claim to ‘love God’ and ‘love our neighbour’ will recognise that you cannot say you love God and trash his property, and you cannot say you love your neighbour and care nothing for neighbours on our planet who are suffering the impact of ecological damage at every level. This book is for those who are willing to be challenged on both counts from the Bible itself. CHRISTOPHER J. H. WRIGHT, Langham Partnership At the heart of Christian theology lies the relationship of God and humanity. Yet this relationship—this heart—takes place in the “body” of our natural world, and it is this material world that is the focus of Doug and Jonathan Moo’s biblical theology of creation care. Creation, what Calvin calls the “theater” of God’s glory, is the stage for the drama of redemption. More than that: the way human creatures engage the natural world, and the way God’s Son enters his creation to redeem it, are themselves important parts of the biblical story. Just as Israel honored God by treating the promised land as a gift, so too Christians honor God by treating the earth itself as a good though fragile gift that will eventually realize the purpose for which God originally intended it: to be a place for divine-human fellowship. This is an important book by two biblical scholars that reminds us that the Bible is good news not only for the church but for the whole material creation to which the human creature is inextricably and forever bound.”
Theology
“Creator is theological exegesis at its finest. Leithart brings forth from the oldest of biblical wineskins startling fresh insights, enabling him to critique classical and process theism alike with his alternative 'metaphysics of Genesis.' Creation here becomes the site for a new battle for the Bible and for the doctrine of God. To read Genesis 1 with Leithart is an exhilarating, even intoxicating experience.”
Theology
“The most challenging question facing the church today is not ‘Does God exist?’ or ‘Who do you say Jesus is?’ but rather ‘Who are you and what does it mean to be human?’ Iain Provan’s book is no joy ride over the cuckoo’s nest (his metaphor for unbiblical ideas that have crept into the church) but a surgical air strike. Here is sound biblical and Christian thinking about what it is to be human, and about the practical implications for all areas of life.”
Theology
“El libro de Iain Provan no es un paseo por el nido del cuco, sino un ataque quirúrgico preciso. Aquí encontrarás un sólido pensamiento bíblico y cristiano sobre lo que significa ser humano, y sobre las implicaciones prácticas para todos los ámbitos de la vida.”
Apologetics
“I have long known that culture is a powerful means of spiritual formation. It is also a tacit means of shaping what people consider plausible, and what they feel to be true, good, and beautiful. Paul Gould’s Cultural Apologetics works not a paradigm change so much as a paradigm expansion on our concept of what apologetics is and does, but it is nonetheless revolutionary for that. This is the book on apologetics for which I have long been waiting.”
Theology
“Readers who have benefited from Dallas Willard's writings on spiritual formation will find here an outline of his theology of God as Spirit that underlies and funds it. Michael Stewart Robb painstakingly unites two Willards who are often kept apart: the disciple-maker and the metaphysician. It is an apt pairing, for the reality of the God who is love and Spirit--an "unbodily personal power"--is what ultimately enables, sustains, and completes the Christian life.”
Theology
“The best scientists know that their theories (stories) catch only certain aspects of reality. Isaac Newton once said that ‘what we don’t know is an ocean.’ Hans Madueme rightly insists that the ocean of human reality contains mysterious currents and depths that evolutionary biology cannot reach, hence the need for a robust, biblically grounded account of the human condition and an equally robust doctrine of sin. This is a brave and bracing argument for prioritizing dogma over Darwin—and for retaining the doctrine of original sin as essential to biblical realism, coherent systematic theology, and the gospel itself.”
Discipleship in a Post-Christian Age
Discipleship & Christian Education
“It is fitting that Thiago Silva casts a vision for discipleship in our increasingly post-Christian age by drawing from C. S. Lewis. The mission of the C. S. Lewis Institute—in which Silva is a city director—is to carry on Lewis’s legacy by developing ‘wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ who will articulate, defend, share, and live their faith in personal and public life.’ Silva has set forth a vision for making what Lewis called ‘little Christs’: right-hearted worshipers intent on following Jesus and on corresponding to his radical teaching about the kingdom of God—the new humanity and real world inaugurated by Christ—with all their heart, soul, body, mind, and imaginative strength.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“'He is risen!' This is a joyful indicative than which none greater can be received, hence the Easter Alleluias. Words are not able to do full justice to what Easter commemorates, the climax of the centuries' long drama of redemption. Readers will nevertheless benefit from Wesley Hill’s personal, poetic, and uplifting reflections on its Passover plot – the wondrous transformation of Jesus’ death into new life – and on how baptism, liturgy, and the gift of the Holy Spirit enable the faithful even now to experience the first fruits of their new humanity in the risen and ascended Christ, everything they need for their everyday Christian mission of turning the world upside down. 'He is risen indeed!'”
Engaging the Doctrine of Creation
Theology
“Levering's engaging book on the doctrine of creation goes well beyond discussions about 'in the beginning.' Protestant and Roman Catholic theologians alike will find here a thick description not only of the cosmos and the human creature but also of the creator--the good, wise, and transcendent source of everything that is. Levering mines a number of other doctrinal shafts as well in an inspired effort to retrieve the riches of the much-neglected biblical and theological perspectives (especially Aquinas's) on creation. He convincingly shows in the process that rumors of dogmatic theology's death at the hands of modern science and cosmology are much exaggerated. If that were not enough, he also displays how the doctrine of original sin functions to preserve the goodness of God's creation and how the atonement restores it. This is a fine guide for Christians who want to understand what it means to be in the world and of it (in a good sense).”
Evangelical Theological Aesthetics
Theology
“It is not easy to speak cogently about beauty, much less the beauty of God—particularly from an evangelical perspective. Ryan Currie here succeeds in doing all three by giving a theological account of how we perceive the beauty of God supremely in Christ and secondarily in art and all creation. It may be an exaggeration to say that ‘beauty will save the world,’ but this work saves beauty from its unwarranted evangelical neglect.”
Evangelical Theology, Second Edition
Theology
“gospel is front and center in all eight parts of this thoroughly revised, wiser, wider, and wittier work. With its persistent focus on the meaning and significance of the gospel of Jesus Christ, this book may be the tonic we need to rescue the term evangelical from being either drained of meaning altogether or linked to something less than the cause of Jesus and his coming kingdom.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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