Robin A. Leaver

God Against Religion

Theology

“In the 1960s various theologians attempted to come to terms with Bonhoeffer's concept of ‘religionless Christianity' and concluded that ‘God' was dead. Here Matthew Myer Boulton, by a reexamination of Karl Barth's theology, shows that the concept was not new with Bonhoeffer but was known to such Reformers as Luther and Calvin. It is the rightness of righteousness rather than the religiosity of religion, the death of sin rather than the death of God, that lies at the heart of Christianity and is experienced in the reality of worship and is central to theology. A timely message in an age that tends to consign worship to the periphery of theological concerns.”

Singing Church History

History & Biography

“This is an unusual book, since we often associate hymns with worship, what we do on Sundays--those powerful songs that connect us with special times and special people in our lives. But as Paul Rorem creatively explores, the hymns we sing in the present also have a significant past. And it is in coming to terms with that past that our singing in the present takes on new meaning.”

That Divine and Most Excellent Gift

Preaching & Worship

“In Luther's generation and the one that followed, a basic question was a preoccupation: What is music? In the small Latin treatises on music used in schools, it was often the first question asked: Quid est musica? The answer in German is not one we would expect: Singekunst, the art of singing, that human element that expresses the inexpressible. This illuminating collection of essays by the late Mark Bangert is an intriguing exploration of this basic question. It begins with Luther but reflects our own day by the use of striking metaphors. A stimulating read!”