Rolf A. Jacobson

Afflicting the Comfortable, Comforting the Afflicted

Preaching & Worship

“A prominent teacher of preaching once remarked, 'Only two things are needed to become a good preacher. First, understand law and gospel. Second, have just a little imagination.' Glenn Monson embodies both of those capacities. His book is a fine introduction to law and gospel preaching. A working preacher, Monson explores the continuing vitality of the tried and tested, evangelical law and gospel approach to proclaiming the crucified and risen Christ.”

Charting the Course of Psalms Research

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This invaluable collection of essays is the fruit of Erhard Gerstenberger’s long and distinguished career. Gerstenberger is a formidable scholar and perhaps the most ferocious advocate for a pure form-critical approach to the Psalms. His towering intellect illuminates the Psalms in their historic, ritual, and cultic settings.”

God's People Made New

Church Leadership & Ministry

“With passion, insight, and wisdom, Powell... demonstrates how the Spirit works when the church does two simple things--asks a good question and turns to the Bible with open hearts.”

Luther's Outlaw God, Volume 2

Theology

“Who ever heard of such a thing? Starting a theology of God, not with some abstraction about God--but with the concrete, preached God! Not with some principle about the law, or about revelation, or about the doing of theology--but with the promise spoken aloud! Who ever heard such a thing? Too few people! Far too few. And that is Paulson's point. Here is theology for the preacher. For the one who grasps not for relevance or profundity, but for the promise to speak aloud to those dying in sin.”

Preaching from the Old Testament

Preaching & Worship

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The Peculiar Dialect of Faith

“Quintessential Brueggemann! He has one screen open to the Bible, another to the broader culture, and a third screen open to developing theories in the fields such as economics and sociology. And he has the sound up to eleven on all the screens at once. Yet in the cacophony, Brueggemann hears the word of God and proclaims it with articulate faith and reverent humility.”

The Role of Old Testament Theology in Old Testament Interpretation

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The proper subject of the discipline of Old Testament theology is the God of the Old Testament. The role of the Old Testament theologian is to interrogate the living text of the Old Testament relentlessly and passionately, so that its living God might be sought out, brought out, and thought about. No scholar of the last generation has exhibited more constancy in this high calling than Walter Brueggemann, who has been steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work and word of the Lord. These essays offer a profoundly renewing gift to the field of Old Testament interpretation from one of the finest practitioners of Old Testament theology.”