Mark Noll

Head, Heart and Hands

Christian Living

“This calm, gentle and carefully reasoned book persuasively depicts Christianity as 'a whole faith for the whole person.' Through wise use of Scripture and discerning attention to everyday real life, Dennis Hollinger shows how crucial it is for faithful believers to keep together active use of the mind, deeply ingrained habits of the heart and serious engagement with the world. Head, Heart and Hands is an ideal book for promoting a full-orbed Christian faith.”

How I Changed My Mind About Evolution

Science & Faith

“This collection of firsthand experiences is important for showing that firm belief in the truth-telling character of Scripture can support, rather than undermine, the best scientific investigations. It also provides more solid evidence for the good that BioLogos is doing to transform science and religion from a war zone to an instructive conversation.”

How to Go from Being a Good Evangelical to a Committed Catholic in Ninety-Five Difficult Steps

Theology

“Christian Smith is correct in describing why it usually takes a 'paradigm revolution' for an evangelical to become a Catholic. The 'anomalies' he describes for evangelical life are mostly accurate and his presentation of Catholicism is attractive. But this intriguing book would have been even better if it had paused to reflect on why there are so many paradigm shifts in the other direction--of people born Catholic who become evangelical. Anyone--Catholic, evangelical, or a convert in either direction--who responds thoughtfully to the arguments of this book will be a better Christian for having made the effort.”

Imputation and Impartation

Theology

“This is a well-researched, clearly outlined, and convincingly argued account of several major themes in Reformed theology stretching from Calvin to twentieth-century European and American evangelical theologians.”

In Agony Until the End of the World

Fiction

“When a surgeon with strong historical interests writes a novel about disease, medical practice, and philanthropic organizations during the American Civil War, it is bound to be informative. When the novel is also a good story, the result is captivating as well. Readers will find In Agony Until the End of the World a strong story that, as it develops, also conveys a world of historical insight.”

In This World of Wonders

History & Biography

“The worlds of wonder that Nicholas Wolterstorff opens up in this affecting memoir include rural Dutch-America, a Kuyperian mind-set, analytical philosophy, humane pedagogy, art understood as craftsmanship, the deep realities (joy and sorrow alike) of family, and more. This book is as deeply moving as it is beautifully understated.”

Infant Baptism in Historical Perspective

History & Biography

“Wright's penetrating historical vision is combined with persuasive arguments for the unduly neglected but critical importance of baptism for the whole church. The result is a book that challenges both the received traditions and current practices, but in the most edifying way imaginable.”

John Gerstner and the Renewal of Presbyterian and Reformed Evangelicalism in Modern America

History & Biography

“This well-researched book illuminates the career of a scholar, churchman, and memorable teacher who left a major mark on American Christian life.”

Knowing Creation

Theology

“Editors Torrance and McCall have assembled a first-rate cast of authors writing with unusually sharp insight about God, science, and the created realm. The great achievement of their book is to demonstrate how productive—rather than how contentious—classical Christianity and contemporary scientific investigation can be. The book is accessible, but deeply considered chapters make a stellar contribution.”

Let’s Talk

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“The way that—in this social and political climate—Harold Heie believes it might just be possible to have ‘respectful conversations’ in which ‘listening well’ prevails must make him the Don Quixote of the Christian world. But maybe, instead of being lost in a never-never land of impossibility, Harold is actually walking the narrow path that leads to eternal life. Read the book to find out why that outrageous idea might actually be the truth.”

Life

Children & Youth

“Michael A. G. Haykin, Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary “Jonathan Edwards is widely known as a hellfire-and-brimstone preacher. Serious students, like Dane Ortlund, have long known he was much more. In this book Ortlund puts his careful research to good purpose as he demonstrates convincingly that the center of Edwards’s concern was always and supremely beauty—in God, from God, and for God. Grateful readers will find this book highly informative on Edwards and deeply encouraging for the Christian life today.”

Luther on the Christian Life

Christian Living

“This book illustrates again why Martin Luther remains a nearly inexhaustible resource. Trueman explains why Luther can be such a perceptive, encouraging, human, and even humorous guide to the Christian life. Especially important is Trueman’s clear communication of why the cross of Christ grounded Luther’s approach to almost everything and why a ‘theology of the cross’ might powerfully motivate believers today as well.”

Machen's Hope

History & Biography

Foreword

“The burden of the book is to detail how thoroughly the younger Machen was committed to the ‘modern’ academic fashions he experienced as a student at both Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University, but then how he became a dedicated opponent of theological ‘modernism’ even while retaining some habits of mind from his earlier embrace of ‘modern’ forms of thought. Burnett reveals especially how much Machen’s engagement with contemporary New Testament criticism originating in Germany influenced the shape of his later theological and ecclesiastical commitments. “Machen’s Hope does not so much challenge [earlier biographies] as show how much more can be revealed about Machen’s intellectual life from even more diligent research and by posing a wider array of interpretive questions. . . . Burnett’s clear and often compelling prose only adds to the achievement of this unusually thoughtful, unusually revealing, unusually impressive book.”

Made In America

“This is a bracing challenge to let God be God, even in America, even among evangelicals. It is a word that needs to be heard.”

Marching to Glory

History & Biography

“This second edition of Edward McKinley's history is very welcome indeed. Its revisions and expansions are so extensive as to constitute, in effect, a new book. McKinley's graceful prose provides exactly the right vehicle for a cheerful, but also realistic, introduction to The Salvation Army's American history — a history that in these pages is colorful, self-giving, occasionally messy, always Christ-honoring, and wonderfully down-to-earth. This book can be read with great profit by both Army members and outsiders. It is denominational history at its very best.”

Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered

Church Leadership & Ministry

“It is now old news that the demographic center of Christianity has moved to the Majority World. This unusually insightful book goes well beyond the old news to explain how Mavuno Church in Nairobi, Kenya, became a thriving megachurch in a very short time. Besides an awful lot of fascinating ground-up information, Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered is also rich in cultural insight and social-political wisdom. The book is even more important for its deep theological testimony to the potential of holistic Christianity wherever it takes root.”

Mere Believers

History & Biography

“Marc Baer has written a book that is as thoughtful and insightful as it is encouraging. Mere Believers documents the ordinary humanity of individuals who made extraordinary contributions. It is biography at its best.”

Ministers of a New Medium

History & Biography

Foreword

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Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The authors of Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes make a convincing case that those who trust in the Bible should (for biblical reasons) be more self-conscious about themselves. Their demonstration of how unself-conscious mores influence the understanding of Scripture is as helpful as the many insights they draw from Scripture itself. This is a good book for better understanding ourselves, the Christian world as it now exists and the Bible.”

Models for Christian Higher Education

Discipleship & Christian Education

“Hughes and Adrian have enlisted a stellar crew for a worthy task. The effort to say what difference it makes to carry out higher education within a specific Christian tradition yields sometimes surprising results. As these essays show, there are many and varied ways of promoting learning that is both recognizably Christian and meaningfully academic. . . . As a collection presenting different strategies in different contexts pointing toward different goals, this is a very stimulating book indeed.”