Michael Allen
Augustine on the Christian Life
Christian Living
“Augustine told us that only God can be enjoyed for his own sake; all others must be considered as they relate to God. How fitting that Gerald Bray leads us to consider Augustine not for his own sake, but as a gateway to a vision of the one true God and the life lived more deeply in his triune presence. With a teacher’s wisdom and a scholar’s facility with the primary texts, Bray helps guide readers more deeply into the Christian life through the great bishop’s interaction with a host of challenges—real, cruel threats to Christian faithfulness—ranging from the Manichaeans to the Donatists and the Pelagians. Take up and read, and let Bray take you to school.”
Theology
“Theology needs to be exegetical and contemplative, though a whole host of pressures draw attention elsewhere. Biblical Reasoning helps alert us to where we should focus and equips us to do so with competence and care. I hope it’s read widely by students and those who long to go back to school with the Scriptures.”
Theology
“Evangelism and conversion are topics of perennial concern, perhaps especially in a post-Christian society. Given the significant contributions of anthropology and sociology to such areas of study in recent years, we need solid help in developing a robust theological account of spiritual change—one that is rooted in careful reading of God's Word. To that end, Jonathan Hoglund helps us listen carefully—patiently, attentively, and with the communion of saints—to what Holy Scripture might say regarding God's action in summoning us into his saving lordship. This volume models dogmatic thinking on the effectual call that is attentive to the shape of doctrinal debate through the centuries and around the globe and, for just that reason, is resolutely exegetical in its orientation to the questions at hand. Much wisdom can be found and much gain can be had in going to school with Hoglund.”
Theology
“Tyler Wittman guides us to understand creation aright. He introduces us afresh to what it means to be a creature. He also shows why our creatureliness is gracious good news as he reflects on the wonder of God as our Creator. To know self, world, and God better, take and read this little gem of a book.”
Theology
“Engaging Ecclesiology alerts us to questions, texts, conversations, and challenges that are important for ecclesiology in the twenty-first century. It will be a help to Reformed Christians of various stripes and even to many from other traditions as it models a multi-aspectival analysis of the doctrine of church.”
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“God and Soul Care shows how Christian theology characterizes human flourishing, and it alerts us to the cure of all ills and the cultivation of all facets of our human condition in and through Jesus Christ. We need counselors today—trained professionals, alert pastors, and wise laypersons—with deeper theological formation in the Catholic and Reformation traditions of doctrinal and exegetical reflection as well as a discerning engagement with the psychological field. Eric Johnson proves yet again to be a model and guide of the first order in summoning us to consider the ways in which knowing God reorients and renews our concern for faithful soul care.”
Theology
“Gerald Bray delivers on his promise—he teaches Christians about the God who is love and about the love that this triune God shows to others. He keeps this promise by pointing insistently to God’s gracious speech in the Bible, and by showing consistently how it all hangs together in the story of this God and his gospel. This book is a gripping lesson from a master teacher. For introduction to biblical doctrine—its sources and its implications—Christians will find no better aid than this new treasure.”
God's Glory Alone—The Majestic Heart of Christian Faith and Life
Theology
“The Protestant Reformation was driven by a renewed appreciation of the singular fullness of the triune God and his unique sovereignty in all of human life. But that profound reality expressed itself with regard to many questions and in a number of forms, ranging from facets of the liturgy to soteriological tenets and back again. I’m delighted to see this new series expositing the five most influential expressions of that God-centeredness, the pivotal solas of the Protestant Reformation. By expounding the biblical reasoning behind them, I hope these volumes will invigorate a more profoundly theological vision of our lives and callings as Christians and churches.”
Christian Living
“Cameron Cole invites readers to the heavenward life, and this book equips them for a journey of eschatological sanctification. He shows how looking upward in Christ helps humanize us and grants us resilient hope for times both good and bad. He writes as a fellow pilgrim of the transforming vision that he’s seen and longs to share.”
Jesus and the God of Classical Theism
Theology
“Steve Duby shows that the doctrine of God as interpreted by early, medieval, and post-Reformation orthodox theologians illumines our reading of the scriptural presentation of the incarnate Son. In so doing he helps demonstrate the christological payoff to concepts like immutability, impassibility, eternality, and even the simplicity of God. If the incarnation is the ultimate test case for biblical metaphysics, Duby shows that many have wrongly found the God of so-called classical theism to be evangelically implausible.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Uche Anizor gleans much from biblical theology and the history of doctrine that can inform our thinking about how to engage with God's scriptural communication faithfully in covenant life with God.”
Theology
“Prophet, Priest, and King shows theologians from around the world unified in their pursuit of the whole teaching of the Christian faith. Readers aiming to better understand Christ, to see how his threefold office helps us appreciate him whole, and to glean from many serving thoughtfully in his body today can read with great anticipation and profit.”
Remembrance, Communion, and Hope
Preaching & Worship
“Billings again teaches us regarding the multifaceted sum of the gospel. For many who have turned in recent years to a more sacramental piety, he alerts us to ways in which such practices ought always to express the gospel of Jesus Christ. For others who still find themselves holding the Supper at bay or struggling to see its significance, he suggests ways in which it promises a better grasp of the breadth, length, height, and depth of the love of God. . . . This book will help you remember more gratefully, commune more alertly, and hope more resolutely when you come to the table to receive freely that great gospel promise—the gifts of God for the people of God.”
Christian Living
“Once there was no humility. Then Jesus and the Christian movement instilled humility at the center of public virtue. More recently, discontents have raised a number of serious charges against humility even as wider culture devalues it. Steve Pardue helps all of us retrieve the true nature of humility modelled on Christ’s own and to learn from responding to its varied critics.”
Sanctification and the Life of Faith
Theology
“Strobel and Eilers help us see how the life of faith is shaped by the gift of holiness and, more importantly, by the living God who blesses us by giving that holiness. Here sanctification sings, shows, and shapes one's understanding of the Christian journey. Read to contemplate God's gift of holiness. Pay attention to learn how to do theology.”
Theology
“Biblical exegesis has to be approached amid metaphysical and spiritual commitments attuned to the gospel or else unexamined assumptions will invariably cause even our most disciplined efforts at biblical interpretation to unravel. Hans Boersma helps us think carefully about how we read the Bible by reintroducing us to patristic exegesis. Alerting us to the exegetical practice of Origen, Gregory, and many others, he reminds us that 'they saw the Scriptures as a sacrament and read them accordingly.' For sensitive readings of varied early church fathers and a host of their reading approaches, all rooted in common commitments to the relations of God and the world and of theology and spirituality, take up and read Boersma's book.”
T. F. Torrance as Missional Theologian
Theology
“Missional theology can benefit from engaging the work of the Reformed theologian Thomas F. Torrance, and the theology of Torrance demands perceptive analysis. Joseph Sherrard serves us well by providing both for the introduction of Torrance to missional thought and then also a critical examination of ways in which Torrance's theology should be refined. In so doing, a host of key ideas are put to work in the missional conversation, including the ascension, the threefold office of Christ and the church's participation therein, and apostolicity. Sherrard moves the missional conversation quite a way forward by beginning the examination several theological steps back, not simply with church and mission but ultimately with the triune God of the gospel. Conversant with cultural and churchly trends, patient in its exposition, critical without being censorious, biblical and historical in its orientation, Reformed and yet appreciatively catholic, this is a wise book and a great guide for thinking about mission in theological terms.”
Theology
“Joey Sherrard demonstrates why apprenticing ourselves to Augustine of Hippo offers hope and wisdom to pastors today. Augustine models integrity and fidelity. He models prayer, preaching, and a host of other pastoral activities too. Sherrard shows how reading widely in Augustine’s corpus equips us for the wide breadth of life and ministry. I commend this book to pastors and to all training to be pastors.”
Theology
“Contemporary Protestantism has written therapeutic checks that its moral psychology just can’t cover. One of the most pressing orders of the day is to develop an anthropology and moral psychology that does real justice to the whole counsel of God.”
NOTE: Only includes books currently in our catalog; not necessarily a complete list.
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