Sallie McFague

A Feminist Ethic of Risk

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“A Feminist Ethic of Risk is not only a provocative and insightful book but also a very honest one, with an integrity that comes from the author's own experience as a white, middle-class woman who refuses to despair over defeats or escape into the luxury of the privileged. But most of all, it is a book of love and joy.”

Apocalypse Now and Then

“In her brilliant, wide ranging, nuanced study of apocalypse, Keller has written a definitive cultural and theological essay. In this book she is doing the work of the true intellectual: providing learned, passionate guidance for living the good life, all of us together, here and now, on our planet.”

Awake to the Moment

Theology

“An impressive accomplishment: a truly readable introduction to ‘constructive theology’ by twenty-eight authors who, with admirable modesty, work collaboratively. Its title, Awake to the Moment , captures the freshness and clarity of this clarion call for responsible, caring theology in our perilous time of climate change and financial inequality.”

Bound and Free

Theology

“How does someone become a theologian? Douglas John Hall's autobiographical sketch of his theological journey tells how it happened for Canada's premier Protestant theologian. This moving, insightful 'theology of the cross' for overly optimistic North American Christianity is a valuable text for all who want to think through their faith in the 21st century.”

Divine Becoming

Theology

“What Charlene Burns attempts to answer in Divine Becoming is surely one of the knottiest contemporary christological puzzles: how can orthodox christology be understood, that is, made persuasive, really internalized, deeply appropriated? She does so by a creative and credible use of psychological analysis (of empathy and sympathy), showing that God and the human belong together, not only in Jesus, but in all of us. This book will be, I believe, at the center of future christological discussion.”

God is Green

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“If I had to recommend a single recently published text as a must-read for a course on Christianity and ecology, especially climate change, it would be Robert Shore-Goss's wide-ranging and clearly written God Is Green: An Eco-Spirituality of Incarnate Compassion. Not only does he include almost all important books from his preferred 'kenotic theology,' to rituals for embodiment and practice, but he also delivers a one-volume analysis and critique of the 'field.' We are all in his debt for a useful and passionate call for a theological 'conversion' with accompanying radical action to help save our planet.”

God Reflected

Theology

“A thoughtful, clearly written guide for those who wish to reflect on new metaphors and models for God. The author lays out a wide variety of possibilities — from 'father' to 'energy' — with the assets and limitations of each metaphor. Highly intelligent, sober, and available, this book is an excellent introduction to thinking theologically.”

Good News for Animals?

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Good News for Animals? moves what has been a marginal concern for the Christian community to center stage. In its fine essays by outstanding authors, this book lays out the connections between our treatment of other animals and such critical issues as human overpopulation, First World energy consumption, and feminism, with vegetarianism as a symbol of these connections as well as an immediate lifestyle change open to everyone.”

Healing a Broken World

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“This bold, highly readable book gets at the heart of our ethical impasse: we know how to destroy our planet and how to make it flourish, but we do not know how to help ourselves do the latter.”

In the Beginning... Creativity

Science & Faith

“Gordon Kaufman's new book is the one many of us, including myself, have been urging him to write: a version for the educated layperson of his profound and sweeping reconstruction of the symbol of God through the metaphor of serendipitous creativity. As he notes, his theology lies in the tradition of his teacher, H. Richard Niebuhr: a form of radical monotheism, a stern and unsentimental recognition of the mystery of God, and yet at the same time of 'the indwelling of divine spirit in our own spirit.' Gordon Kaufman has been my teacher and I want to thank him for this clear, eloquent, and moving imaginative construction of an understanding of God that can help us live more humanely and more honestly in our evolutionary, ecological world of the 21st century.”

Nature, Human Nature, and God

Science & Faith

“Director, Chicago Center for Religion and Science Professor, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago”

Resisting Structural Evil

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“This book is a gift to all …. consumers looking for a way out of their addiction. Those of us (myself included) who know our excessive consumption is causing ecological and economic disasters should read Professor Moe-Lobeda’s new book. It is the best one-volume analysis of our moral dilemma I know of and, even better, it suggests principles and practices to help deal with it.”

Spirit and the Politics of Disablement

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“A powerful, poignant witness from an author who lives with and works through the lens of disability, Professor Betcher finds through such a perspective hopeful practices for 21st century urban living. This rich, poetic text pleading for “corporeal generosity” is profoundly within the Christian incarnational tradition while commending a radical practice of obligation stemming from Spirit as “prosthesis,” as an aid to neighbor love. I recommend this book as an outstanding example of constructive theology to move us from merely global to planetary citizens, supporting all of life in its diversity, deviancy, and limitation, as well as rejoicing in its joys and delights.”

The Gospel in Parable

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Rarely does one find a book of equal interest to scholar and preacher. This is one. Scholar and preacher will be interested in a book that in exceptionally clear prose adroitly balances current methods of parable interpretation in order to understand the parables in their various contexts that they may be proclaimed again in our context.”

The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the Holy Spirit

Theology

“This is a wide-ranging personal and theological study of the Holy Spirit in all its dimensions, including its relation to Chi and han. One sentence captures the scope of the author’s work: "how the Spirit is the Spirit in the world." I particularly admire the imaginative way the author speaks of the Spirit in her own life story while seeing it also as the Spirit of God that energizes all creation. A good read that is profound but also a delight.”