Marguerite Shuster

Blessed and Beautiful

Preaching & Worship

“Here is help for those who are dissatisfied with quick, shallow, and finally ineffectual 'y'all come' approaches to the important, difficult task of forming healthy multi-ethnic churches. Lamb provides challenging but hope-giving guidance for thoughtful preachers and congregational leaders who take seriously their calling to honor congregants' diverse histories. Especially noteworthy is her theologically sensitive exploration of the role of memory for ethnic and Christian identity.”

On Thinking the Human

Philosophy

“What a stimulating book! Seldom have I been provoked to scribble quite so many marginal notes. Taking a genuinely fresh look at human characteristics we tend merely to assume in our everyday conversation, Robert Jenson demonstrates that we quite literally do not know what we are talking about. And insofar as he succeeds in showing that we cannot even conceive fundamental aspects of our humanity without reaching well beyond ourselves (specifically, to our relationship to the triune God who made and sustains us), he decisively undercuts all reductionism. This slender volume is too probing and original to be a quick read, but it is gracefully — even playfully — written by a man who wears his considerable learning lightly. It richly repays careful attention.”

Psalms for Preaching and Worship

Preaching & Worship

“Here is something even better than a simple completion of The Lectionary Commentary, which would be cause enough for gratitude. . . . Serious attention paid to this one book could go a long way toward remedying the scandalous neglect of the treasure of the Psalms in too much contemporary worship.”

The Passionate Intellect

Apologetics

“In The Passionate Intellect, Alister McGrath provides engaging, accessible, energetic help for Christians who are skeptical about the existential relevance of Christian theology, or who have come to doubt its credibility in the face of the attacks of new atheists and those wedded to a shallow scientism. This series of essays not only provides important support for believers seeking their footing in the current cultural morass, but can also stimulate a new curiosity about the intellectual and spiritual fruitfulness and integrity of the theological enterprise as a whole. It is obviously written by one who, well informed about alternatives to Christian faith, finds in that faith a source of life and of intellectual pleasure.”