Scot McKnight
Emotionally Healthy Discipleship
Discipleship & Christian Education
“There is so much to like in Peter Scazzero's Emotionally Healthy Discipleship--he pushes against the 'let's get 'er done' approach to measuring discipleship and advocates instead a slowed-down be-with-God measure to following Jesus. What I like most is his emphasis on getting to know the crucified Jesus and ridding ourselves of the Americanized Jesus.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Endangered Gospel is at the same time a prophetic critique of a church that has lost its way as well as a careful, patient, accessible sketch of what a kingdom-shaped church is designed to look like. John Nugent is a careful scholar, a deep thinker, a judicious critic, and a committed churchman, and in this book he reveals once again why he is becoming a leading Anabaptist voice when it comes to church and society. I have read very few books with which I agreed as much as Endangered Gospel.”
Engaging the Doctrine of Creation
Theology
“Engaging the Doctrine of Creation is the best of Catholic theology by the best of Catholic theologians. What we find is a macroscopic--indeed cosmic--vision of our God's beautiful, explosive creative powers forming an expansive universe in which humans reflect God's glory, and a microscopic examination of details in the Bible, the Catholic tradition, and the wider discussions of important topics germane to understanding creation theology today.”
Apologetics
“'But some doubted' is one of the most jarring expressions in the entire Bible. After hearing Jesus, after watching Jesus, after knowing Jesus up close and personal, after his crucifixion and the apocalyptic moment of his resurrection, some of the disciples still doubted. How could that be? How could those who were so close to Jesus doubt anything about him? That's why Austin Fischer wrote this book, and it's a book for that kind of doubter: the one who knows about Jesus and has experienced Jesus, but still wonders—who still finds gaps instead of connections, who still limps after having run with the saints. In his deceptively perceptive exploration, Fischer focuses on the 'hypocrisy of certainty'—that confidence where none should be had. Honesty demands we admit our doubts; honesty is what this book is about.”
Apologetics
“This book is an argument — Rachel argues with herself, God, the Bible, and Southern fundamentalism. Somehow, though, we are the winners in this argument because we learn and watch as a young woman emerges into a maturing faith that lets the kingdom vision of Jesus reshape her life. I found myself cheering her on.”
Christian Living
“Transformed into freedom is the watchword of this wonderful new book. JP Foster and Matt Williams are not offering yet another theory of transformation into a new creation life that transforms us into confident and hopeful freedom based on what we have done or some new spiritual practice for us. Rather, they present the glorious message of the gospel that in Christ we are loved and shown grace, restored, and set free. This book offers a gospel-based concentration on who Jesus is and what he has done for you and for me.”
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Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Mark Reasoner’s Five Models of Scripture is the mature reflection of a man educated in America’s evangelical Protestant commitment to Scripture who converted to a Roman Catholic hermeneutic in which the church’s tradition guides the interpretation of Scripture. Mark’s wonderful book confirms a long-held conviction of mine: had Catholicism always been this committed to Scripture there would never have been a Reformation. Every chapter in this book flows from years of personal Bible reading and the insights gained from classroom teaching.”
Christian Living
“In Forged we do not read an idealistic, cookie-cutter model of the church; instead, we see real people forging real relationships with real struggles, finding that a forged, kinship family is the context for human realities.”
Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“Forgiving Our Mothers and Fathers is a book of courage—the courage to listen to the Bible and the stories of others who have experienced soul-wrenching forgiveness and reconciliation, the courage to confront pain and bewilderment, the courage to enter into forgiveness in a way that both wounds and heals. Leslie Leyland Fields and Jill Hubbard take us into raw, messy stories so we can be transformed by that mysterious and painful grace in the force called forgiveness.”
Christian Living
“To say From Isolation to Community is reflective is to get it just right, but its eloquence and simplicity enhance its reflectivity. To say something is reflective and eloquent about someone so profound as Bonhoeffer was in Life Together is to give us fresh eyes to read Bonhoeffer’s classic all over again, as if for the first time. Reading Werntz’s reflections on Bonhoeffer amid isolation makes me ache for life together with my brothers and sisters in Christ.”
From Resurrection to New Creation
Theology
“"This is the way to do theology, as rooted in Story, God's own Story that emerges with yearning for resolution at the time of Jesus and which only Jesus Christ resolved. Theology has too often lost sight of this Story, but Michael Pahl's book calls us back once again to the Bible and to the earliest theologians' way of doing theology-let the gospel story be told and let that Story shape how we understand theology.”
Work, Money & Leadership
“In Garden City John Mark Comer takes the reader on a journey — from creation to the final heavenly city. But the journey is designed to let each of us see where we are to find ourselves in God’s good plan to partner with us in the redemption of all creation. Smack-dab in the middle of this set of ideas is Comer’s excellent sketch of work, a sketch I find both pastorally mature and an exhortation to each of us to know that all we do has value before God. There is in Garden City an intoxication with the Bible’s biggest and life-changing ideas.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“One cannot find today a more precise and brief discussion of all the major topics about what happens to a person at and following death. Glimpsing the Future is vintage Murray Harris, as it scans the ancient evidence, dips the Bible in that evidence, and comes out the other side with a marvelous hope for the future for all those who are in Christ. Pastors and lay leaders alike will find here the basics of what they need to know to teach the church and counsel those with questions about what happens when we die. There are no speculations here; what we get is unvarnished glimpses of what God has chosen to reveal to us.”
Apologetics
“I will require my college students to read this book. I became sensitive to the 'God questions' in the Bible because students asked me questions that came straight from troubled hearts. This book is written for students and speaks with wit and wisdom to the questions they have.”
God, Freedom and Human Dignity
Philosophy
“Ron Highfield's book explores the philosophical and theological inner world of the core human temptation--the Promethean quest to challenge and even be god. By unmasking the impulses, desires and arrogance of the modern self, God, Freedom and Human Dignity provides for anyone who cares about the gospel today a guide to the postmodern condition and where the gospel must strike first. If this book were pocket size you'd find a copy in my pocket.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Hidden Criticism is an academically demanding read — including a study of Bayes theorem of probability along with expertise in a few areas, including NT studies, Pauline studies, the Greco-Roman context, as well as a serious contribution to scholarship on empire criticism. This is the first methodologically rigorous examination of how to detect "echoes" of empire in Paul’s writings. At times NT scholars have walked somewhere between the adventurous and the reckless and, because the audience will be receptive, made claims that are not worthy of serious consideration. Hidden Criticism advances this conversation to a new level.”
Christian Living
“This is an anti-autobiography, by which I mean this is Randy’s story of learning to surrender himself to God by learning that in powerlessness we can align with God’s will and be empowered by God’s Spirit and live in the very power that raised Jesus from the dead.”
Theology
“I have a love-hate relationship with this elegant summary of Larry Hurtado's massive scholarly contribution to earliest Christian understandings of Jesus. On the one hand, I can't wait to get Honoring the Son into the hands of my students because it puts in front of them all of his best thinking; on the other hand, I have been reading Hurtado's works for 30 years, book by book, article by article. Need I say it took lots of work to read his body of work? Need I say now that we have all his major thoughts now available in one evening's reading? One generation's efforts are the next generation's beginning points, so start here. You'll rise up and call me blessed!”
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Biblical Studies & Commentaries
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