Philip Clayton

By Faith and Reason

Philosophy

“'…the Trinity, though it is indeed three persons in one substance, is not three people sitting in a bowl of soup.' Keith Ward is a brilliant intellectual, whether lecturing at Oxford or publicly debating Richard Dawkins …Ward addresses the biggest challenges to Christian belief with simple wisdom and disarming humor. The result will satisfy your mind and deepen your faith.”

Creation and Humanity

Theology

“Kärkkäinen has done it again! With his five-volume theology now more than half complete, Veli-Matti has established himself as one of the leading evangelical theologians for the pluralistic world. With staggering breadth and depth, he engages cutting-edge science, philosophy, and the world's religions, yet never at the cost of obscuring his Christian theological vision. This particular volume is an unrivaled guide to and through the knottiest issues facing theological anthropology and the doctrine of creation today.”

Creation Made Free

Science & Faith

“One of the most significant theological movements of our day, Open theism bridges evangelical commitment and mainline concerns. The leading Open theists come together in these pages to listen and to respond to the sciences. In their respect for the empirical results and their resistance to flat-footed naturalism, these essays model the 'creative mutual interaction' of theology and science in its most sophisticated form.”

Death Before the Fall

Science & Faith

“A beautifully written book! Ron Osborn writes not with spite and ire but with wisdom and generosity of spirit. Where literalism once ruled as the only way to honor Scripture, here the deeper dimensions of God's compassion and Sabbath rest come to light. This is the first book I've read on the evolution-and-creation debate that brought tears to my eyes.”

Emergence Christianity

Christian Living

“Take a heart practiced in faith and trust in God. Add the mind of a finely trained historian and the eye of a keen observer of religion. Add gifted writing, unfailing bluntness, and deep wisdom, and you get Phyllis Tickle. These pages offer you nothing less than the future of the church, chronicled by an author who welcomes this ‘great emergence’ without an ounce of fear. It’s a story you can’t afford to miss.”

Finding All Things in God

Theology

“Enough authors have bemoaned the death of theology; it's time now to midwife her rebirth. In this tour de force, Gustafson unleashes the deeper meanings of symbol and sacrament to reunite theological reflection and spiritual living. Deeply Christian and deeply interreligious, his pansacramentalism destabilizes traditional dichotomies and radically expands the realm of the sacred. A must-read for all who are interested in the future of constructive theology.”

God in an Open Universe

Science & Faith

“"Open theists affirm the same openness of the future that religious believers assume when they pray and almost all humans assume when they act. The open future is intuitive; but can it be rigorously defended? God in an Open Universe shows that it can. Open theism has always been an attractive view of God; now it becomes a philosophically rigorous one as well.”

Lived Theology

Theology

“This little book offers a clear, compelling analysis of lived theology—that personal, practical, ever-shifting, ever-questioning, ever-emerging set of practices and convictions about ourselves, our world, and God. Sabrina Müller beautifully chronicles the ongoing paradigm shift that is lived faith in today’s world, blending life stories, concrete examples, and astute observations. Her narrative will be empowering to all who engage the ‘big questions’ of ultimacy within themselves and their communities.”

Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity

Science & Faith

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Naturally Miraculous

“Peter Stilla’s book is not just a good introduction to the ancient mystical tradition that was central to Christian experience in its early centuries; nor is it just a helpful text to see how the multiple religions can be reconciled with each other and with science as well. It’s also a gentle guide for each reader into a deeper inner awareness of the divine, whether through nature, meditation, or experience of the Christ. Highly recommended!”

Panentheism--The Other God of the Philosophers

Theology

“Here, finally, is a major evangelical response to panentheism, perhaps the most significant movement in twentieth-century theology. John Cooper brings impressive scholarship, masterful summaries, and measured judgments to his topic. One need not agree with his overall evaluation to find this volume an indispensable resource for Christian intellectuals today.”

Participating in God

Theology

“This is the right book on the right topic at the right time. By intimately linking Trinity and creation, Powell successfully integrates recent science with a distinctively Christian view of the nature and acts of God. His profound meditation on the world's participation in God falls neither into a world-abandoning transcendence nor a God-obscuring spirituality of immanence. One by one, the core chapters explore the implications of trinitarian participation in the physical, biological, and human worlds.... I read this book with growing excitement: rarely does one find theology so powerfully and systematically applied to state-of-the-art scientific knowledge of the world.”

Practicing to Aim at Truth

Science & Faith

“Perhaps no scholar has contributed more to the formation of religion/science as a disciplined field than Nancey Murphy. This beautifully structured collection offers the best introduction to her life's work, stretching from the methodology of science and religion to theological anthropology, and from cosmology and Christian theology to the ethical and political implications of her thought. The essays demonstrate the encyclopedic nature of Murphy's scholarship and the enduring significance of her thought.”

Reforming Theological Anthropology

Theology

“A work of breathtaking scope, F. LeRon Shults's new book combines an impressive mastery of the primary sources with an unfailing clarity of exposition. The result is a significant contribution to theological anthropology worthy of study both as a textbook and in its own right. Perhaps here and there a loose end remains; taken as a whole, though, this book offers an impressive overview of what it means to be made 'in the image of God' and to understand humanity in light of Christian revelation.”

Sharing in the Divine Nature

Theology

“Personal idealism is arguably the most plausible expression of the biblical documents in metaphysical terms. Ward’s new book offers the most convincing exposition of personal idealism I have ever read. One by one, he explores the main challenges to this view, responding to each with admirable sharpness and clarity, then gradually drawing them all together in service of the profound spiritual vision of intimate participation in the divine nature.”

Spiritual Being & Becoming

Science & Faith

“An incredible resource! Eric Kyle offers lucid overviews of the major theological and scientific theories of human nature, skillfully fitting them together into a single theological anthropology. He concludes with a fascinating transition from theory to practice, offering general guidelines to foster personal transformation in congregations and classrooms. Few authors on spiritual formation can rival Kyle's synthetic mind and grasp of the data.”

Suffering and the Search for Meaning

Theology

“Never have I read a philosophical reflection that identifies so deeply with the experience of human suffering. Rice explores the greatest answers to the question, why does God allow suffering? in light of that experience. Here, finally, is a resource for caregivers and those who seek to understand how so much pain could exist in a divinely created world.”

The Entangled Trinity

Science & Faith

“These pages interweave the mystery of the God who is Three in One with the mysterious new insights from quantum physics. In Simmons’ hands, ‘entangled’ quantum particles help express the beautiful insight that God has chosen to entangle the divine life with ours. Physicists, theologians, and believers alike are all invited into this vision of a God who works in and through the energies of this natural world without being reduced to them.””

The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus

Theology

“This book is everything it claims to be—and given all that Tripp Fuller claims for it, that's saying a lot! Scholars will find their work accurately represented, but somehow all boiled down to what really matters (in ways that they rarely achieve). Ordinary people, believers or not, will find a clear and compelling account of who Jesus was and why he matters—a beautiful fusion of the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith. I’d say that, in a word, the book is freaking awesome.”

The Impassioned Life

Theology

“It may seem surprising that Christian thinkers would still elevate rationality and view the emotional life with deep suspicion, yet this tendency remains widespread. Samuel Powell here lays that myth to rest. With impeccable scholarship and an engaging narrative, he shows that Bible and theology, philosophy and science, all reveal emotion and reason to be interdependent. The result is a far richer and more attractive theological anthropology, with fascinating implications for our understanding of God.”