Philip G. Ziegler

Romans

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This is a landmark of contemporary biblical exegesis. Written with great economy and even greater understanding, Gaventa’s commentary sparkles with insight, argument, and instruction. Here serious scholarship serves a singular purpose, namely, that we might hear again what Paul’s Roman auditors heard in his words and so confront afresh the truly urgent occasion of the apostle’s letter: the advent of the redeeming power of God in the gospel of Christ Jesus. Gaventa’s achievement as an interpreter of Paul places her firmly among those ‘sisters of Phoebe’ to whom the book is dedicated.”

Systematic Theology, Volume 2

Theology

“This second volume of Sonderegger's Systematic Theology is a marvel. Refusing the soteriological tethers of much recent trinitarian theology, Sonderegger continues to provide readers a profound schooling in both the piety of thought and the practice of unabashedly metaphysical theology. Her study invites us to contemplate the thrice holy God of Israel anew and aright from a place firmly rooted in the witness of Scripture. The result is a truly incomparable, creative, and contrarian contribution to contemporary trinitarian theology.”

Taking Hold of the Real

Theology

“Harvey's fine study offers a mature and highly responsible interpretation of the central elements of Bonhoeffer's theology in creative conservation with leading theologians and theorists of our day . . . Here is a work from which we can learn what ought never to have been forgotten: that following where Christ leads drives Christians ever more profoundly into the realities of the world for its sake.”

Taking Kierkegaard Back to Church

Theology

“Edwards has written a lively, insightful, and hugely readable study of Kierkegaard’s genuine significance for contemporary Christian self-understanding amidst the ever-threatening condition of ‘Christendom.’ Taking Kierkegaard Back to Church, it turns out, involves taking the church to school with Kierkegaard. The author’s vivid case for the ‘kerygmatic Kierkegaard’ looks to ensure that today’s churches are not left without the salutary provocation of Kierkegaard’s summons to the serious joy of Christian life.”

The Aesthetics of Discipleship

Christian Living

“Coates’s study is engaging and ambitious. Drawing together insights won from Kierkegaard, Bonhoeffer, as well as contemporary theology and neuropsychology, he pursues a theologically informed aesthetics of everyday experience in the hope of winning a new ‘fundamental theological basis for practical theology’ and thereby also a fresh appreciation of discipleship in the midst of ordinary life.”

The Apocalypse of God in Christ

Theology

“This account of the nature of Christian doctrine—a ‘theology of theology’—represents a consummate articulation of Paul Hinlicky’s vision of the church’s theological task, its nature, focus, and practice. At its heart is the Spirit-enabled labor of hearing, discerning, and thinking the gospel in a world awash in propaganda. Hinlicky reminds us that what is at stake in the struggle to confess Christian teaching from the trenches of embattled faith is the very identity of Christ and the meaning of the word ‘God’ in our mouths. His wide-ranging, erudite, and energetic study issues its decisive challenge not only to Lutheran theology but to any Christian dogmatics keyed to the apocalypse of God in Christ.”

The Apocalyptic Paul

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Anyone perplexed by talk of the ‘apocalyptic Paul’ could do no better than to take up and read Davies’ clear, engaging, and insightful account of this recent scholarship. This companion is a fine introduction for those keen to explore Paul’s strange new world and its significance for today.”

The Crucifixion

Theology

“To read this book is to share in a work of joyful, honest, evangelical thinking done right at the foot of the pulpit steps for the sake of the one thing that finally matters in the church — the hearing and proclamation of the word of the cross in all its scandalous power.”

The Culture of Theology

Theology

“How wonderful to have Webster's Culture of Theology edited and made available to a new generation of readers in this fine book. I count myself fortunate to have had the challenge in these chapters--to strive to think of theology, its methods, aims, and practices, theologically--put to me during my student days and to have been compelled to wrestle continuously with the possibilities and perils of doing theology in the eschatological space created by 'the staggering good news of Jesus Christ.' This book stands as a winsome invitation to others to do the same.”

The Early Barth – Lectures and Shorter Works

Theology

“The latest fruit of the collective labor of an industrious and committed group of skilled translators, this volume will provide English-language readers with new and direct insight into the very beginnings of Karl Barth’s theological existence. This is another fine and welcome contribution to theological scholarship from Westminster John Knox Press.”

The Early Barth – Lectures and Shorter Works

Theology

“The latest fruit of the collective labor of an industrious and committed group of skilled translators, this volume will provide English-language readers with new and direct insight into the very beginnings of Karl Barth’s theological existence. This is another fine and welcome contribution to theological scholarship from Westminster John Knox Press.”

The God Who Saves

Theology

“Congdon has authored a sophisticated and ambitious dogmatic essay full of insight and bristling with provocation. He invites us to join him in a sustained experiment in radically soteriocentric thinking: what if the work of the God of the gospel on the cross were truly the Archimedean point from which all things are moved and so saved? Congdon's aim is to limn the revolution in Christian theology that should follow when Christian imagination and intelligence are animated and disciplined anew by faith in the God whose very being is at stake in his advent 'for us and for our salvation.' The God Who Saves is an important intervention in contemporary doctrinal debate.”

The Holy Spirit as Communion

Theology

“One of the most important frontiers in contemporary ecumenical theology is the one on which historic Protestantism and global Pentecostalism encounter one another. Harris’ comparative study of the distinctive contributions of Colin Gunton and Frank Macchia to contemporary pneumatology promises to inform this ecumenical encounter in valuable ways, not least by its careful exploration of how our account of the Holy Spirit can and must give shape to our doctrines of God, creation, reconciliation, and redemption.”

The Unassumed Is the Unhealed

Theology

“Kevin Chiarot here offers a critical appreciation of one of the most suggestive of Torrance's soteriological themes, namely Christ's assumption of our humanity in its profound fallenness. . . . Precisely in virtue of the care and precision with which he exposits Torrance's theology, Chiarot's valuable study illuminates some of the most vexing and abiding questions that arise at the intersection of Christology and the doctrine of salvation.”

The Virtue of Bonhoeffer’s Ethics

Theology

“Moberly's careful, instructive, and suggestive study will be of great value not only for those puzzling over the claims and coherence of Bonhoeffer's unfinished Ethics, but equally for all those interested in pursuing a theologically responsible discourse of moral virtues within Christian ethics.”

Theological Ethics in a Neoliberal Age

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Hargaden’s study is as engaging as it is unsettling precisely because he invites us to consider the theological depth and scope of our ‘money troubles’. Working creatively at the intersection of ethics, theology, and economics, Hargaden suggests how attending to the new world attested in Jesus’ parables can break open the seeming inevitability of our current economic regimes and animate a worshipful Christian freedom amidst wealth’s captivity.”

To Will & To Do, Volume One

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Jake Marque Rollison’s careful and fluid translation of these two volumes of Ellul’s introduction to Christian ethics does an immense service to the French scholar’s English-language readers, both new and old. The provision of such a splendid edition of this previously fractured, abridged, and neglected work will allow Ellul’s singular vision of the nature and task of Christian ethics to be considered afresh. That Ellul’s ‘ethics of witness’ is increasingly angular to leading trends in the field of theological ethics only heightens its provocation and makes it restatement in these new volumes all the more welcome.”

To Will & To Do, Volume Two

Theology

“Jake Marques Rollison’s careful and fluid translation of these two volumes of Ellul’s introduction to Christian ethics does an immense service to the French scholar’s English-language readers, both new and old. The provision of such a splendid edition of this previously fractured, abridged, and neglected work will allow Ellul’s singular vision of the nature and task of Christian ethics to be considered afresh. That Ellul’s ‘ethics of witness’ is increasingly angular to leading trends in the field of theological ethics only heightens its provocation and makes it restatement in these new volumes all the more welcome.”

Tradition and Apocalypse

Theology

“Tradition and Apocalypse invites readers to abandon every anxious traditionalism in order to inhabit the only kind of tradition Christianity can actually be: that strange discursive tradition--patient and radical, generous and revolutionary--demanded by the permanent ferment of its apocalyptic origin and its final telos in the coming of the Kingdom of God. We have dogma and history only as we find them suspended between the advent and the final apotheosis of the Gospel apocalypse. That faith must own both dogma and history in this way is the summons of this extraordinary book.”

Trinitarian Ontology and Israel in Robert W. Jenson’s Theology

Theology

“Lee's work points up the real and vital connection between Robert Jenson's revisionist theological metaphysics and his no less revisionist treatment of the question of 'Israel' in Christian theology. The positive possibilities for new thinking concerning the relation between 'Synagogue and Church' opened up by Jenson's account of temporality and embodiment on radically Christian theological grounds are as fascinating as they are important.”