Matthew J. Milliner

Bezalel’s Body

Arts & Literature

“The old wineskins of art history, visual culture, and traditional theology are unable to contain the wine served up in this volume. Simply put, Bezalel’s Body is the most satisfying account of the emergence of art that I have encountered. In conversation with art theory but not captive to it, Kresser is adventurous and faithful to the extreme, offering both an assault on our selfishness and a summons to joy.”

Christ Is Time

Theology

“The academic captivity of theology is a scandal that deprives the uninitiated of the best that has been said about God. By setting the most demanding (and true!) theology to the soundtrack of a generation, Mark Edwards has smashed the academy’s decorative pumpkins and made from them a delectable and nourishing meal.”

Contemporary Art and the Church

Arts & Literature

“In the art world, it's always October (October being the name of the Marxist journal that has long dominated the field). This essay collection shows that many are ready to flip the calendar to see what a new season will bring. Contemporary Art and the Church affords further evidence that glasnost ('openness') and perestroika ('restructuring') are challenging the enduring Cold War between art and religion, which requires rethinking from both sides of the divide. The authors shout in unison, 'Tear down this wall,' and it finally feels like 1989.”

Makers by Nature

Arts & Literature

“'Make out of love, not fear.' 'You must unmake in order to make.' 'Time to bring out the dynamite.' These gems of artistic counsel—the antithesis of cheap praise—have enhanced the lives of students, colleagues, and friends fortunate enough to know Bruce Herman. The epistolary wisdom in this volume ensures that more lives will be ornamented with such rugged counsel as well.”

Naming the Spirit

Theology

“This adventurous volume evidences that theology and the arts is no longer an emerging field, but an established one—a field that sets the pace for theology as a whole.”

Receiving 2 Thessalonians

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This book is the San Brizio Chapel of biblical studies. Just as the Renaissance painter Luca Signorelli there unfurled the drama of the Antichrist with undeniable beauty, Talbert accomplishes the same in this remarkable and unexpected scholarly achievement. In full command of a demanding field, Talbert restores to readers the aesthetic delight that draws so many to the Bible in the first place, and brings Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant thinkers into fruitful conversation over a matter that has famously divided them.”

Spiritual Friendship

Marriage, Family & Relationships

“Too gay for some and too chaste for others, for many Wesley Hill is not supposed to exist. But exist he does, even to flourishing. Challenging settled convictions on all sides of the sexuality debate, he testifies here—alongside countless celibate Christians before him—to the richness of intimate friendships that dare violate our society’s sole remaining commandment: ‘Thou shalt have sex.”

Spiritual Traces

Arts & Literature

“By what wizardry Aaron Rosen manages to consistently find such attention worthy artistry, which he then engages with a supremely charitable eye, I cannot fathom; but I am so here for it.”

The Art of New Creation

Arts & Literature

“What Marxist views of art have so long tried to accomplish is actually realized in this sparkling volume: a view of art propelled by confident hope in tomorrow that still crackles with justice today.”