Robert Cummings Neville

An Imaginative Glimpse

Theology

“An Imaginative Glimpse is a multifaceted gem. It engages with sharp clarity and scholarly rigor a host of contemporary theologians thinking about the Trinity and world religions. . . . Despite its range, however, the book develops a coherent argument, sympathetic but dialectical, leading a new way forward for Christians to think about religions other than their own.”

Behold the Lilies

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“H. Paul Santmire's Behold the Lilies is shocking theology. In a day when theology is responding to crises on every side, up and down, he commands us (as Jesus did) to look at creation and see its beauty, God's beauty, in nature. The power of beauty to move us is greater than the power of worry, fear, and rage at injustice to draw us into a more graceful relation to God, nature, and each other. Santmire's beautiful meditations are among the beauties through which we are brought into a better state as good creatures.”

God Is . . .

Theology

“When I heard Wildman give the first sermon of this book, in 1993, I was so moved by its fierce courage to say what most people only fear is true about God that I wept. Its original title was ‘God the Destroyer.’ The second sermon, then called ‘God the Friend,’ was just as shaking: who would imagine friendship so weirdly deep? Wildman is a naturalist, which is explained in these sermons, though not in so many words. But he is also a biblical preacher and a rhetorical genius, a Christian preacher in the great tradition. His fervent piety inspires as it breaks common symbols and symbolizes what most Christians barely grasp. These sermons are dangerous and oh so loving.”

Majesty and Meekness

World Religions

“Majesty and Meekness is the outstanding example to date of the emerging genre of world theology — that is, theology in a religious tradition written in reference to the theologies of other world religious traditions. Carman has the sensitivity of a profound scholar of Hinduism and brings it to the Christian theological themes explored in this book.”

Metaphysics and the Modern World

Philosophy

“With the astonishing erudition we have come to expect from him, Professor Verene has produced an extraordinary essay on metaphysics in the European tradition. From Plato and Aristotle, Anselm and Cusanus, Vico and Hegel, to Cassirer and Whitehead, he shows how metaphysics in the sense of thinking the whole, or thinking being, rests upon mythic imagination as mediated by poetry, including both within itself as reformed by reason. He has served us ancient wisdom made fresh and compelling.”

Religions in the Making

World Religions

“Cobb has assembled important essays from scholars representing the major world religions, some senior in their fields and others speaking with the voice of the future. These essays demonstrate the ever-increasing usefulness of Whiteheadian metaphysics for the intellectual life of religion today.”

Sharing Wisdom

World Religions

“Alon Goshen-Gottstein has assembled a collection of gem-like essays on the theme of ‘sharing wisdom,’ with contributions from brilliant scholars on the nature of wisdom and whether it can be shared outside the traditions, in Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Islam, and Judaism, with a fine summary essay by the editor. The authors are critically sharp about the real differences among the traditions and work hard, as the result of working together, to address one another’s concerns. Love and forgiveness seem to be common conditions for sharing, though even these are interpreted in interestingly different ways. This volume is accessible to beginners and enlighteningly fresh for scholars.”

The Contemplative Counselor

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“In The Contemplative Counselor, Rolf Nolasco has brought together three worlds that are rarely conjoined in the counseling profession: the clinical practice of counseling, of course, a deep appreciation and integral use of the contemplative traditions in Christianity, and an edgy social commentary on our society. Moreover, he has a sure grasp of the relevant theoretical materials and yet is able to integrate these fields in terms of the intimacy of his own personal experience. Christian counselors and pastors can find in this book a seed–bed of ideas with which to nourish their own further contemplative integration and professional lives. This book is far better than a treatise on what constitutes "Christian counseling"; it is an exhibition of it.”

The Courageous Gospel

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In a series of striking sermons Hill models the hermeneutics of preaching from John for our situation. The sermons alone are worth the price of the book. It is an extraordinary resource for those who want to preach on John, listen to sermons on John, read the text, or teach students about John.”

The Divine Matrix

World Religions

Foreword

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The Least of These

History & Biography

“"Severson's The Least of These is a unique and brilliant contribution to theological pedagogy. Taking a central biblical text, it illustrates the development, twists, and turns of Christian theology from the beginning up to the eighteenth century with commentaries on that text from a host of extremely diverse theologians. Although intended for beginners, this volume is even more helpful to students (and professors!) with enough background to say, 'Aha! Wesley's sermon on this one text expresses his entire sanctification theology.'”