Peter J. Gomes

Christianity for the Rest of Us

Church Leadership & Ministry

“In the spirit of the much exaggerated death of Mark Twain, Diana Butler Bass demonstrates that the so-called mainline neighborhood church is alive and well, which is for so many of us, very good news indeed, given the alienation of fundamentalism or secularism: thank God for this good news.”

Grace in Practice

Christian Living

“Paul Zahl is at it again ? and, as usual, for the good of us all. He has been 'long on grace and short on law' for all of his ministry, and who in these difficult times could want more law and less grace? This is a book for everyday believers ? an act of grace.”

Religion and the Death Penalty

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Informed public discussion of America's obsession with the death penalty is urgently needed, and particularly so among people of religious conviction. This collection goes a very long way toward meeting this need. We cannot afford to be without this resource in this critical conversation.”

Sermons of Arthur C. McGill

“Quite a few of us remember with appreciation and affection the teaching ministry of Arthur Chute McGill when he was at Harvard. His death still saddens us, but how fortunate we are to have this volume of sermons. Now another generation may share in the stimulating pleasure of McGill's mind and heart.”

The Church Enslaved

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Anything these good and learned men have to say on the vexed subject of the scandal of religious segregation is required reading for us all. This work, much needed, provokes us all in the most vital of areas. The credibility of the Christian faith depends on it.”

The Collects of Thomas Cranmer

Preaching & Worship

“How we long for language that inspires as well as instructs, whose economy is both chaste and capacious, and by the use of which we are made aware of holy and lovely things. This was the imperishable gift of Thomas Cranmer to the English church. Now a generation willfully deprived of this great inheritance may receive it again at the careful hands of Barbee and Zahl.”

The First Christian

Theology

“Paul Zahl continues to be one of our most productive, provocative, and prolific theological thinkers. He writes in the best tradition of the learned ministry, and he is at his trenchant best in this, his latest book.”

This Odd and Wondrous Calling

Church Leadership & Ministry

Foreword

“This book gets better the more it is read; it does honor to the church and the ministry. . . We have in it both a classic and a class act.”