Rowan Williams
Biography
Rowan Williams wrote Tokens of Trust, Christ on Trial, and Being Christian.
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Preaching & Worship
“The body is his book’ said the poet John Donne about human love, and in this excellent, nuanced, and well-timed study, David Taylor explains how the body is indeed the ‘book’ of our relationship with the love of God. The bodily dimensions of worship are explored with comprehensive empathy and scholarly depth. As we wrestle with the long-term impact of the pandemic on our worship practices, this work is an indispensable resource.”
A Companion to the Theology of John Webster
Theology
“John Webster was probably the most creative and intellectually rigorous Protestant theologian in the English-speaking world in the last few decades, and his tragically early death robbed us of a uniquely joyful, insightful, and nourishing perspective on Christian revelation. This first-class collection of essays shows how his prolifically diverse writings converge toward a truly comprehensive and magisterial theological vision of apostolic faith for our generation.”
Theology
“A worthy sequel to Torrance's magisterial lectures on the incarnation, this book takes us through a series of major themes in Christian theology with immense authority and clarity. Detailed exegetical study of the biblical meanings of substitution, clear teaching on the centrality of the resurrection and the church in a theology of redemption, and fresh thinking about the relation of divine and human agency in the writing of Scripture--these are just some of the treasures to be found here.”
Arts & Literature
“A finely written and deeply perceptive examination of the roots and resonances of the transcendentalist tradition in American literature, this book makes a strong case for a quite fresh reading of this tradition in the light of the wider religious traditions of East and West, and with a keen ear for echoes of some surprisingly central theological themes. It is a rich and original essay by a writer with a keen poetic sensibility.”
Fiction
“I’ve now read Chasing Francis twice and found it equally compelling both times. It’s challenging, disarming, and delightful, and the vision behind it is a serious one. It’s a remarkable book.”
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Arts & Literature
“This is a genuinely unique book. David Martin—probably the greatest British sociologist of religion in recent decades—maps out the basic tensions between Christianity's innate urge to construct an alternative reality, and its accommodations to that world. . . . A treasury for intellect and imagination alike.”
Christianity for the Rest of Us
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Church renewal isn’t only about the dramatic and large-scale. It’s about transformations quietly maturing in local communities nourished by profound prayer, pastoral commitment and imagination, and readiness to learn from a wide spectrum of Christian wisdom. This excellent and timely book celebrates a vastly important phenomenon that has been too little noticed.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Oliver O'Donovan's reflections on the current troubles of the Anglican Church are quite simply of unique significance. He consistently takes us to the questions others are not asking and refuses the ready-made questions and answers that paralyze our thinking about the sexuality debates. Anyone wanting to understand what is most deeply at stake theologically ought to read and meditate on this invaluable book.”
Theology
“Nuanced, humane, and above all culturally and theologically literate, this is a wonderful contribution to Christian reflection both within and beyond the Orthodox Church. It is not some indiscriminate plea for Enlightenment ethics to take over from theology, but a fresh, careful sifting and highlighting of the tradition itself, manifestly seeking the integrity and spiritual health of the body of Christ.”
Community as Church, Church as Community
Church Leadership & Ministry
“While church institutions often seem consumed with anxiety about their future, many local congregations quietly and imaginatively find ways forward that work where they are. Michael Plekon’s book reflects that grassroots critical confidence which grows out of the contexts where lives and communities are actually being changed by God in Christ. Honest and theologically acute, this book should help nurture such critical confidence more broadly.”
Arts & Literature
“An unusually lucid survey of Dostoevsky's major fiction, written from a robustly theological perspective, this will be a most useful contribution to the study of one of Europe's greatest Christian imaginations. There are arguments here that will undoubtedly provoke debate, but the discussion is careful and well documented, and makes a real contribution to the study of the subject.”
History & Biography
Foreword
“This moving and unpretentious memoir charts a journey of education in faith, not least through times of deep challenge in personal life. It shows us a scholar always willing to put the resources of his remarkable learning at the disposal of the Christian community. . . . This book has the capacity to rekindle faith in the theological vocation in the fullest sense of the word 'theological' and to renew a confidence in the possibility of interweaving human honesty and Christian depth.”
Theology
“This is a really welcome addition to the fast-growing literature on Maximus the Confessor. It is a first-class study of the original texts, but is distinctive in its willingness to bring Maximus' thought into fruitful conversation with contemporary philosophical discussions, so that the implications of this study will be of interest to many more than Byzantine specialists.”
Preaching & Worship
“Theologically rich, spiritually perceptive, humanely contemporary, and informed by the great common heritage of Christian tradition, these homilies are a treasury of wisdom and clarity.”
Christian Living
“Sadly, it’s unusual to encounter a book on Christian faith that simply conveys the ‘unbearable lightness’ of that faith—not with the dire fixed jollity of the sales rep, but with the wit, realism, and loving wonder that speaks of a lifetime’s delighted discovery, as a woman married for forty years might speak of a partner or a child. Patrick Henry draws on an immense range of learning—as well as offering theological reflections on Star Trek: The Next Generation—to chart for us a territory where we can explore in confidence, expecting at every turn the completely unexpected and completely committed grace of God in Christ.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Richard Burridge's book packs an enormous amount into a relatively small space - solid scholarship, theological acumen, imaginative and sensitive interpretation, a real gift for the telling analogy, all grounded in a manifest passion for the gospels and their unique subject. It is very good to have a fresh edition of this indispensable classic, as learned as it is accessible.”
Work, Money & Leadership
“shrewdness, hopefulness—in short, it is a wise book, and a delight and profit to read.”
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