M. Shawn Copeland

Each in Our Own Language

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Ben Durheim takes everyday life in rural agrarian and small-town America as the starting point for a thoughtful and provocative theological exploration of symbolization, social ethics, human communication, and relationality. Durheim reminds us of our ongoing need to develop, expand, and practice skills in social literacy--that is, the practice of reading and responding to the varied symbols that mediate our integral human connectedness. This skill and its practice are crucial, laying the groundwork for both ethical action and communal worship, and for sustaining our grasp of what it means to live together on the way to God's reign.”

Fugitive Saints

History & Biography

“In this book, Katie Walker Grimes makes a clear-eyed, brilliant, theoretically sophisticated analysis of the failure of the Roman Catholic Church to understand virtue as the resistance to suffering and death, life as the embrace of power and struggle, and holiness as the rejection of slave-making, whether in the seventeenth, eighteenth, or nineteenth centuries—and especially in the twenty-first!”

Notes of a Native Daughter

Discipleship & Christian Education

“Keri Day writes with incisive intelligence, grace, and eloquence, testifying in hope for the transformation of theological education. Wrapped in the enfleshed experience of the Pentecostal Church, Day shows us what it means to desire the flourishing of others, to act ‘otherwise’ for that flourishing, to yearn and long and become ‘undone’ for the reign of God now.”

Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made

Theology

“In Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made, Diana Hayes combines personal reflection and commitment with theological analysis to enrich our grasp of womanism, to deepen our understanding of black Catholic experience, to widen our horizons and hearts for a more inclusive ecclesial life.”

Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Juárez

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“In Suffering and Salvationin Ciudad Juárez, Nancy Pineda–Madrid goes beyond the prevailing theories of the atonement to develop the long–neglected dimension of social salvation. In this work of theological rigor, theoretical sophistication, and deep empathy, she argues that salvation is necessarily linked to active resistance against evil and to active solidarity for justice and good. Pineda–Madrid's constructive soteriology is a bold step forward in Latina/Latino theology that is in the service of all God's creation.”

We Have Been Believers

Theology

“In this work, James Evans works out a critical and engaged systematic theology in the context of African American religious, cultural, historical, and social experience. This work stands as a vital and provocative gift to the whole of Christian theological reflection.”