M. Therese Lysaught
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“In accompanying the dying, McEntyre has come to know the myriad moments that mark the dying process. Her short reflections speak to over fifty facets of this journey in poignant and peace-filled prose. Accompanying prayers provide words for the dying to lean into, especially in moments when their own voice falters. A Faithful Farewell should prove equally helpful for family members, friends, chaplains, physicians, and other caregivers. All who walk with the dying in their final days should have a copy of this invaluable book.”
Work, Money & Leadership
“Can a book free Christians from the ‘invisible hand' that seems more and more to dominate every aspect of our lives? William Cavanaugh provides a much-needed how-to manual for just such a liberation. Clearly written and even entertaining, Being Consumed frees us from the ironic position of ‘having no choice' but to live by the rules of free-market consumerism in a globalized world of scarce resources. . . Cavanaugh makes clear that the everyday economic life of Christians can be different and can make a difference. And he sows seeds that could, if taken seriously by Christians and churches, produce well over a hundredfold — produce, that is, a revolution.”
Theology
“In The Borders of Baptism, Michael Budde challenged US Catholics to take seriously the political and practical implications of our usually rote and casual claim--that Jesus is Lord--challenging Catholics to identify the idolatries that shape our lives and to understand the church as our primary location of identity and allegiance. In Beyond the Borders of Baptism, Budde is joined by a chorus of rigorous, theological analysts who explore, challenge, and complexify these claims from diverse global locations, rooting the question in historical contexts and bringing alive the textures of the constant negotiations between the body of Christ and the myriad political and cultural formations in which the church finds herself. This mosaic of analyses elucidates important theoretical questions, provides important examples of ecclesial failure, and converges toward an understanding of these border negotiations as eucharistic--kenotic, exploding tired binaries, and allowing the endlessly creative interruption of God's grace in histories to transform the reified loci we consider natural. Beyond the Borders of Baptism is a must-read for those interested in ecclesiology, Christian formation, and taking discipleship seriously.”
Honoring God with Body and Mind
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Honoring God with Body and Mind shows a master teacher at work. Distilling almost three decades of conversations with undergraduates about sensitive issues of sex and the Christian life, Hoogerwerf accompanies students as they navigate their own questions and the often confusing or inadequate formation provided by youth ministries and congregations. Deeply engaged with the literature, this book provides Christians with a wise, pastoral, and at times humorous starting point for the life-long process of discerning what it means to faithfully embody one’s sexuality.”
Theology
“With uncompromising compassion and clarity, Margaret Adam brings the grammar of the theological tradition to bear on Moltmannian theology. Her theological therapy produces a better theology of hope, one that can engage the contemporary interlocutors of nihilism, lament, disability theology, and feminist theory while also addressing the real sufferings of contemporary persons.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Reconciling All Things is a faithful book, glowing with the joy and hope that come from walking with God and God's people in the world. Inviting all to join in God's reconciling work across the myriads of ways we live in brokenness, Katongole and Rice do a new thing--they retrieve a deeply theological vision of God's gift of reconciliation and show what the inbreaking of this gift looks like in the real stories of people who have embarked on this journey. These stories of pain and hope make clear that the real work of reconciliation is not as much about programs, strategies or fixing all things as it is about the ordinary, mundane, daily work of living faithfully and patiently in our local, particular, face-to-face contexts. And if we do, if we enter humbly into God's work in the world, what can happen? New creation!”
History & Biography
“Remembering traces, with sagacity and humor, the unfolding of Hauerwas’s extraordinary theological corpus. It is suffused with his remarkable capacity for friendship, catalyzed by God’s gift of friendship in Jesus Christ which is the church. It is a crucial book for the current moment. For it distills his key social, political, and theological commitments needed to resist the violences that are fountaining over us anew. As such, Remembering reminds us that Stanley Hauerwas has always been both a friend of God and a prophet.”
Theology
“Removing the contemporary mask that makes us forget that the saints remain alive, here and now, McCarthy excises them from frameworks of misinterpretation (both pious and postmodern) and puts them into context -- both ours and their own. Here we meet the saints in all their messy, material, brilliant, theologically powerful complexity.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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