Scot McKnight
Theology
“Man and Woman, One in Christ subjects every Pauline text that deals with women to careful scrutiny; this means this book is a must-read for anyone doing serious study or preaching about these texts. Simply put, this is the most technically proficient study ever published on women in the Pauline texts.”
Professor.
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Murray Harris was my exegesis teacher, and was the finest teacher I ever had. His gentle voice, his probing questions, his expectation of careful scrutiny of the Greek text, and his leading us to compelling answers set for me a model of education I shall never myself achieve. But I know I’m a better reader of the Greek text because of time spent with him. This book is but a taste of his brilliant classroom teaching. You, the reader, are privileged to listen to one of the great Greek minds of our day.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“This is a memoir of two people, a mother and a daughter, who live in two different worlds and the same world at the same time. Reading this book is a jarring experience as each explores basic ideas, like community and Sunday morning church services, on their own from their own world. They're the same but not, at the same time. It disturbs me because I wonder if I can even know Samantha's world. I know Nancy's world, it's mostly mine. But they are siblings in Christ, and some inner-world reality transcends their two worlds. I needed this book.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“We need Preston Sprinkle’s book because there are too many Christians who haven’t given a moment’s thought to their own violent use of our glorious Scripture’s message of peace by approving and applauding the use of violence to accomplish peace. The contradictions at work are baffling. Bravo to Preston Sprinkle!”
Theology
“Original sin and original guilt—and along with them the conviction by many in the history of the church that everyone is born destined for damnation—these interconnected ideas (and others that follow) have created a hornet's nest of complexities, exegetical conclusions, and theological musings for this generation. That's all to the good; this is a topic worthy of serious thinking by as many diverse thinkers as we can get in the conference room. Stump and Meister have done us all a wonderful service by their careful selection of representative views, and the level of discussion will pave the way for civil conversations for a long time. This will be a great classroom discussion book, but don't expect to end the class on time!”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“Beth Felker Jones provides a series of devotions during the specific seasons of the COVID-19 pandemic that speak into that pandemic, but yet these devotions will continue to speak to us—as acts of memory, as acts of pondering, as acts of lament, as acts of trust, and as acts of hope. Quarantine, she tells us, can’t stop Easter. Pandemic Prayers comes from a Christian, a mother, a professor, and an author. As a theologian Beth Felker Jones takes us to spiritual giants like Julian of Norwich, and as a devotional Christian she expresses her annoyance and her pain with the pandemic, but she opens her heart for all to see who she is, like the Bible’s own prayers and devotions.”
Christian Living
“Apologetics in a postmodern world is looking less for historical proof, scientific demonstration, and systematic omniscience. Rather, it is looking for honest, open, and genuine probings that have less certitude while holding firm to belief in a good God who loves us but who has not created a world where everything ends up with happy emojis. Krish Kandiah explores here the genuine paradoxes of the Bible in an open and honest manner. Paradoxology will bless a new generation with a new kind of apologetics.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Donaldson interacts honestly and incisively with the main lines of thinking that are now current and offers a new dimension of thought that has not yet been presented.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Pauline studies and the church will be indebted to Barclay's Paul and the Gift for decades, and those who read and ponder will never be the same again.”
Theology
“Paul and the Hope of Glory shows the organization of a German monograph, the lucidity of a well-spoken English professor, the nuance of an ancient historian, and the passion of a Protestant evangelical. Where Paul doesn’t clarify, Campbell does not clarify; where Paul speaks, Campbell speaks. Some will be surprised, but all will learn. I expect this book to become a steady source for years to come on Paul’s eschatology.”
Rev.
Peace and Violence in the Ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theology
“Dietrich Bonhoeffer has become a hero to many Christians and denominations, and it seems he is like St. Francis in that everyone thinks he is on their team. Trey Palmisano will rip Bonhoeffer from such customary colonizations and give him back to you--as he was, unadorned, full of complexity, and a man for his context. Bonhoeffer's peace ethic, explored here with exquisite care in a christological center, becomes a challenge not a prescription, a contextualized example not a model to copy, and a theological ethic at its best.”
Perspectives of Jesus in the Writings of Paul
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This advances the discussion about the relationship of Jesus to Paul, or Paul to Jesus, by a decade. I have tired of facile knockdowns of Paul because he doesn't talk often enough about kingdom, or because he doesn't rehearse some of the Sermon on the Mount, and yet those facts won't go away. But deeper than specifics is a pattern of thinking, and Schoberg's proposals show Jesus and Paul were on the same page, even if Paul carried on the conversation Jesus began.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“The apostle Paul is back in vogue! All-too-common criticisms of him are being supplanted with evergreen insights into how to confront pastoral abscesses, intellectual excesses, and megachurch successes. In this wise and timely book Tim Gombis opens up the theological vision of the apostle when it comes to power-mongering leaders in churches and society in a way that makes me even more fond of the apostle himself. The gospel Paul preached carried time bombs that continue to explode pastoral chicanery and ecclesiastical empires.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“We pray the church's liturgical prayers at night—Compline—because they give us words when we don't know what to say, and they give us better words to say than we might give. This little book is holy glow in your hands: read it, savor it, and most of all join Tish Harrison Warren in prayer in the quiet of the night. Those who pray well are honest, vulnerable, frustrated, hopeful, learning, and most of all they are listeners—all on display in Prayer in the Night. But don't let the beauty of this book captivate you; let its subject capture you into becoming a person of prayer.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Paul’s letter to the Ephesians has been one of the top five most influential New Testament books in the history of the church and Christian theology. It deserves to be read with care and prayer by each new generation. With the skill of a clear thinker and writer, Lynn Cohick explains the text succinctly, opens the letter up suggestively for those who are called to teach and preach the text, and—even more—leads us to adore the God of grace who brings together all people in Christ. This commentary will be long recommended for the parish pastor and Bible study teacher.”
Christian Living
“her heart—a racing, fragmented heart that is becoming a contented, loved, and present heart. Reading this book heartened me for her, for her family, for her church, and for her generation. Shauna summons each of us to resist being sucked into the fast-paced draft of saying Yes and offers us a better way: the way of presence, the way of saying No. But this No is a Yes to something far better.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“The news media surround-sounds us with politics and elections, twenty-four/seven. It has become impossible not to take a stand, not to develop a view, not to form a politics. It's also possible to do all this without solid footings in the gospel or the design of God for his people to be witnesses in the world. John Nugent's very clever and compelling model of the fourfold office of Christ as the Christian posture toward politics will prove to be useful to all who listen carefully. Even more, his five dimensions of a Revised Priestly Model challenged me on every page. May God use this book to revive the church into being what the church is designed by God to be and to become agents of redemption in this world.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“The only way to get to the realities of women among the followers of Jesus and in the earliest churches is methodological patience. We must probe the evidence from all angles--social realities, archaeological studies, exegetical examinations, and theological perspectives. What Forbes and Harrower offer in Raised from Obscurity is a profound literary propositional analysis in its many dimensions. This book will become a necessary beginning for all future studies of women in Luke-Acts and will challenge more than a few who are intent on suppressing the voices of women. In this book women in Luke-Acts witness to Jesus with clarity and power.”
Theology
“Character formation reveals one’s theology more than one’s confession of faith. Yet, as many students of theology will be the first to raise a question, it is a sad reality that too much theology is intellectual abstraction that operates far from the world of what some today call ‘lived theology.’ In Eilers’s Reading Theology Wisely students are given a companion volume to accompany their theological studies so that character formation can advance in step with intellectual growth. When I was a theology student the book that did this for me was called A Little Exercise for Young Theologians. This can be that book for the next generation.”
Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Women
“biblical manhood and womanhood” was not really “biblical”? What if I told you that “biblical manhood and womanhood” was in fact an artificial construct of white, suburban, affluent, middle-class culture in the post-World War II era with its weird marriage of consumerism and patriarchy. Curious? Well, if you’re up to it, follow Aimee Byrd down the rabbit hole, and she will deconstruct every mistruth that you’ve been sold about the Bible and women, and then she’ll give you a more biblical and genuinely Christian account of men, women, and ministry. But be warned! Once you go down this trail, there is no going back; you won’t view marriage or ministry the same way ever again. This book could provide the gender reset that evangelical churches have needed for a long time. No, not a dour and dismal descent into liberalism but the beginning of a true recovery of the biblical vision of women as partners in the church of Christ and the gospel. Byrd is bringing down the #GenderReformation to crush “biblical manhood” under the weight of its interpretive incredulity, its pastoral irresponsibility, its refusal to listen to female voices, and its captivity to culture. REV. DR. MICHAEL F. BIRD, academic dean and lecturer in theology at Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia The biblical-manhood-and-womanhood movement has generated more heat than light because it has failed to recognize that its own pet theories of manhood and womanhood derive more from black-and-white TV of the 1950s—think of Timmy’s mom and dad in Lassie—than from the Bible. What makes this obvious are the many studies on what it was like to be a man or a woman in the time of Barak and Deborah, Ruth and David, or the Syrophoenician woman and Jesus, or Priscilla and Paul in their Greco-Roman world. We now know that the so-called manhood-and-womanhood movement is a set of cultural ideas imposed on the Bible itself. Byrd offers here enduring wisdom and wit about how we as Christians ought to relate to one another as “coed colaborers.”
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