Robert Benne

Baylor at the Crossroads

History & Biography

“Having watched and written about Baylor's remarkable rise to a research university while simultaneously strengthening its Christian character, I hungered for the story of that ascent by its architect, Provost Donald Schmeltekopf. My hunger was satisfied by this exciting account that reads like a novel while offering important teachings about how schools might achieve quality with soul.”

Christian Higher Education

Discipleship & Christian Education

“What an incredible resource! This book does for our understanding of the worldwide resurgence of Christian higher education what North American scholars have been doing to understand the North American renaissance of the past several decades. It offers informative accounts of the expansion of Christian higher education — with all its challenges and opportunities — in major countries on nearly every continent. As a bonus, some of our best scholars in this field introduce and conclude the studies with illuminative assessments of the whole worldwide project.”

College Identity Sagas

Discipleship & Christian Education

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Conceiving the Christian College

Discipleship & Christian Education

“A remarkably rich and erudite contribution to the burgeoning literature on Christian higher education!”

Engaging God's World

Discipleship & Christian Education

“Would that all church-related colleges were willing to offer this text by Neal Plantinga to their students to make Christian sense of their education. Its argument is biblically grounded, theologically sound, wisely commended, and, as is usual with his writing, beautifully expressed. A great theological framework for Christian education!”

Lutherans in America

History & Biography

“An immensely interesting, comprehensive, and necessary update of American Lutheran history. A good deal of its interesting quality has to do with Granquist’s new interpretative lens—more sober and critical than earlier histories—and with his inclusion of an excursus after each chapter dealing with the ordinary, daily lives of Lutherans in the period under discussion.”

Migrations of the Holy

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Another vigorous — but distinct — voice in the burgeoning conversation about the role of religion generally and the church specifically in political life. . . Worth a careful read.”

Pixilated Practices

Philosophy

“Recently the head of a Christian classical school exclaimed to me: ‘the internet is robbing the kids of their souls!’ In this book, Christopher Miller develops a robust and erudite argument about how this is so. He shows how the media—in all its variety—replaces meaningful ritual with an ersatz version that brings only confusion. He concludes the book by calling for a return to classical Christian ritual.”

Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod

History & Biography

“A riveting account of a perfect storm that did not have to happen, a storm that was reinforced by the political and cultural dynamics of the turbulent 1960s. This massively researched book tells the fascinating story of the destructive clash between scheming conservatives and elitist liberals in the Missouri Synod wars of the 1960s and 70s, with the vast majority of laity and pastors caught between them. An infinitely sad but instructive story indeed.”

Procreative Ethics

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“"In this new book Fritz Oehlschlaeger has made masterful and persuasive arguments about the moral challenges looming at the beginning of human life. And he does this as a highly informed non-specialist--an English professor no less!”

The Old Religion in a New World

History & Biography

“Noll offers a clear, succinct, and accessible account of the European Christian churches' experiences from their arrival in America to the present time. In his own masterful way, Noll provides us with a fresh interpretive angle for seeing how the American experience changed both these churches and this country. A wonderful effort!”