Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen

A Psychology of Hope

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Kaplan and Schwartz have brought together two disciplines that usually have little to do with each other — namely, clinical psychology and the history of ideas. By showing the contrast between Greek and biblical views of life and death, they clearly demonstrate that ideas do indeed have consequences for individuals, families, and cultures. This book should prove equally valuable to clinicians, pastoral counselors, and students of the history of psychology.”

Cup of Water, Bread of Life

Evangelism & Missions

“Sider's case studies demonstrate that God is no respecter of ethnicity, class, or gender when issuing a call to creative, transforming leadership.”

Engaging God's World

Discipleship & Christian Education

“An absorbing and gracefully written introduction to the biblical drama and its importance for education and vocational reflection. Laced also with pithy metaphors and wry but well-placed humor, this is vintage Neal Plantinga.”

Foundations for Soul Care

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“In this volume Eric Johnson combines a strong interdisciplinary background with his vision for a renewed Christian psychology. The result is an analysis that is intellectually sophisticated, while fully respecting the authority of Scripture--particularly its overall narrative power--and the tradition of Christian theologizing that springs from it.”

Living on the Boundaries

Women

“If you have Manichean tendencies--as many traditional evangelicals and mainstream feminists equally do--you will not like this book, since there are no clear villains, heroes or heroines in Living on the Boundaries. Instead we have been given a perceptive look, both empirically and theoretically grounded, at the challenging yet fruitful space inhabited by the first generation of evangelical feminists to study and pursue vocations in the theological academy. The result is an astute, timely and compassionate analysis that remains passionately Christian.”

Marriage Made in Eden

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“Alice Mathews and Gay Hubbard bring together decades of experience in this thoughtful, interdisciplinary volume.”

Origins of Difference

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“With her usual lucid style and keen analytic mind, Elaine Storkey conducts a critical conversation of gender relations. She shows how to separate wheat from chaff in each and demonstrates how powerful the biblical worldview can be as the foundational metanarrative of human history and hope.”

Social Psychology in Christian Perspective

Science & Faith

“Angela Sabates's book is a thorough survey of current social psychological theory and research. It gives credit where it is due because, indeed, social psychologists have taught us much about the negative power of social situations as well as our capacities for distorted social perception. At the same time, her creation-fall-redemption framework suggests places where the current social psychological paradigm falls short and points to a research program that takes better account of our inherently positive--and still redeemable--social tendencies.”

Some Men Are Our Heroes

“This volume documents a veritable underground railroad of Christian males who have encouraged women in the development of their gifts. At a time when both Christian and secular culture remained stubbornly committed to the norms of gender essentialism and gender hierarchy, these men recognized that neither the parable of the talents nor the fruits of the spirit are coded in pink or blue. I finished reading the book with the same reaction I suspect God has had to the women and men described in it--namely, 'Well done, good and faithful servants'--of both sexes!”

The Child in Christian Thought

Theology

“A well-researched and accessible volume that will be useful not only to those in religious studies but also to Christians in the social sciences, social history, and social welfare professions This is a book that manages both to respect various theological traditions about childhood and to build on them in a positive way.”