Ron Highfield

Hope in the Age of Climate Change

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“. . . Doran creatively draws on the Bible, the church fathers, and modern theologians to develop a thoughtful Christian ethics of creation care. Perhaps his most creative and enduring contributions to the contemporary dialogue on the environment are his discussions of frugality as a Christian virtue and his development of a eucharistic understanding of eating. . . .”

Papal Infallibility

Theology

“Mark Powell's lucid and insightful study makes an important contribution to current discussions of religious epistemology and ecumenical dialogue on religious authority. In bringing the insights of canonical theism to bear on the Roman Catholic doctrine of papal infallibility, Powell highlights the essentially epistemic function of this teaching and shows its weaknesses in fulfilling this role. But this work is not just for Roman Catholics. Protestants too have quested futilely for certainty of knowledge and indisputability of interpretation. Powell's criticisms of Catholic efforts to bypass these problems apply equally to Protestant strategies. And his constructive proposal for discerning and maintaining Christian identity—that is, canonical theism—pertains to Protestants as much as to Roman Catholics. This book begs to be followed by a study of how an infallible and perspicuous scripture functions in Protestant theology.”

ReSourcing Theological Anthropology

Theology

“Marc Cortez has done it again! Produced another brilliant study of theological anthropology! The publication of ReSourcing Theological Anthropology spotlights Cortez as a go-to author for insight on this important subject. Working from texts in John, Paul, and the author of Hebrews in dialogue with contemporary exegetes and systematic theologians, he builds a solid case that the New Testament views Jesus Christ not only as a complete and true human being but as the true human being; indeed, Jesus’s humanity is the creational and teleological ground and goal for all other human beings. Cortez contends that Jesus is the “image of God” not only in his eternal relation to the Father but precisely in his concrete human identity given and achieved between Christmas and Easter. In keeping with his emphasis on the historical concreteness of Jesus’s true humanity, Cortez boldly puts his theory to the test in his final three chapters on gender, race, and death. Students, pastors, and teachers will find in Cortez a reliable guide to take them safely through the maze of contemporary theories of theological anthropology. I recommend the book highly!”

The Death of Classical Theism and the Subsequent Rise of Atheism

Theology

“This book merits careful study by anyone who wishes to understand the present sorry state of Christian apologetics and the ascendancy of modern atheism. The author argues persuasively that abandonment of classical theism in favor of theistic personalism lies at the root of the impotence of contemporary apologetics. Only a return to the doctrine of divine simplicity and the principle of sufficient reason—principles at the heart of classical theism—can ground our conviction that God, who is being itself and the ground of all being, truly exists and cannot fail to exist.”

The New Evangelical Subordinationism?

Theology

“I commend the editors for making available in one place this collection of provocative essays, many written by the chief disputants in a debate now raging among evangelical theologians . . . Evangelical theologians, theology students and anyone interested in contemporary evangelical discussions of the Trinity could profit greatly from reading these stimulating, vigorously argued, sometimes maddening and always intelligent essays.”