Stanley Hauerwas

Church, Society, and the Christian Common Good

Theology

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Common Prayer

Preaching & Worship

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Conflict and the Practice of Christian Faith

History & Biography

“In this wise and erudite book, Bruce Kaye provides a constructive way forward for Anglicans and all Christians to negotiate how to find unity without denying our necessary differences. In particular, Kaye draws us into the mystery of Christ's universal Lordship so that we can see how locality is a necessary expression of the cosmic character of Christ's cross. Kaye also provides an extremely important account of Anglican identity beginning with Bede that frees us from the unhappy political alternatives of modernity. I know of no more hopeful book for the future of the Anglican Communion.”

Constantine Revisited

History & Biography

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Dementia

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“John Swinton has clearly become the premier pastoral theologian of our time. In this book he approaches the troubled topic of dementia with his usual thoroughness, engaging the science with an unapologetic theological voice. Dementia: Living in the Memories of God will become a classic.”

Discipleship in a World Full of Nazis

Discipleship & Christian Education

Afterword

(wrote the afterword)

Diversity and Dominion

Science & Faith

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

Electing Not to Vote

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“People often forget that voting can be a coercive practice, just to the extent it justifies a majority's silencing of minorities. We should therefore be grateful that these essays raise an issue that too often goes undiscussed.”

Engaging Scripture

Theology

“Some books give new answers to old questions. Here is the book that changes the questions themselves. We are therefore extremely fortunate to have Fowl's Engaging Scripture, for this is a book that challenges the presumptions that created the "problem" of the New Testament and its relationship to theology. Fowl's reading of Ephesians on stealing is worth the price of the book in itself. One cannot help but think this book will stand out as the mark of a new beginning.”

Ethics Lost in Modernity

Philosophy

“Drawing on Wittgenstein, Matthew Vest provides an account of the development of bioethics that is at once critical and constructive. You have the sense that this is a book someone needed to write, and Vest has now done it. Hopefully more bioethics will follow his example.”

Evangelism after Pluralism

Theology

“As it turns out, the loss of Christendom makes evangelism possible because now Christians, according to Stone, have an alternative to offer the world. In particular, that witness must be nonviolent, requiring as it does the respect of those who do not choose to be Christian. Accordingly Stone helps us own the vulnerability that comes from following Christ. I hope this book will become the standard in courses on evangelism in our seminaries.”

Faith Speaking Understanding

Theology

“With his extraordinarily imaginative energy, Kevin Vanhoozer’s Faith Speaking Understanding builds on his equally energetic The Drama of Doctrine to help us see how doctrine, like stage direction, helps us live truthfully to the gospel. Without fail, Vanhoozer vivifies the fundamental convictions of Christians by articulating their dramatic character. I suspect this is a book that will soon be deemed a classic.”

Faithful Presence

Church Leadership & Ministry

“David Fitch continues his constructive work in ecclesiology by emphasizing the presence the church makes possible in a world that desperately needs God's presence. The disciplines he calls attention to are life giving because they are the disciplines God has given us to be a faithful presence. Hopefully this book will be widely read and used in churches everywhere.”

Free to Leave, Free to Stay

Christian Living

“Searingly honest and beautifully written, Bennett and Nussbaum have given us a book, an amazingly gentle and peaceful book, about the painfully difficult decision they made when they became Roman Catholic. This book, I believe, is destined to be a classic.”

Freedom for Ministry, rev. ed.

Church Leadership & Ministry

“If there was one book and only one book I could recommend for anyone entering the ministry, it would be Richard John Neuhaus's Freedom for Ministry. Forged in the fires of Neuhaus's own ministry, this book makes clear that the ministry of the church is possible only because God has made it possible. Filled with insight and wisdom . . . the most compelling account of ministry in our day.”

Frozen Institutions

Church Leadership & Ministry

“What do we have to learn from the Anglican church in Australia about how the church faces the challenge of the end of Christendom? The answer is that we have much to learn if our teacher is Bruce Kaye. Kaye is a no-nonsense theologian who makes these essays shine with clarity and wisdom. All who are trying to think through what it means to live as Christians after that is no longer a given will benefit from Kaye’s book.”

God and Gadgets

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Only Brad Kallenberg could have written this book. Drawing on an engineering background, schooled by Wittgenstein's philosophical work, and shaped by Christian theological convictions, he enables us to see how technology can exercise power over us to our detriment without asking us to abandon technology in service to human life.”

God Is Stranger

Christian Living

“For many years, Christians have felt at home in the world. The result of that way of life was the presumption that we knew what we meant when we said 'God.' Drawing on often-ignored passages in the Bible, Kandiah helps us recover how odd the God we worship as Christians turns out to be. It seems God shows up even as a Jewish peasant. Such a God can scare the hell out of us, but I guess that's the point. So read this book as a challenge to our domesticated imaginations.”

Good Punishment?

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“In providing the best assessment available of the current penal practices of our society, Logan has also done nothing less than provide an imaginative, constructive theological account of an alternative way to punish. I learned much from his critical engagement with my work, and I'm in his debt for reminding me that race matters. This book is not only important for how it deals with punishment, but it also should be read as a model for the writing of Christian social thought.”

Green Witness

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Often confronted by the so-called 'environmental crisis,' many are led to despair that nothing can be done. Drawing on profound theological insights, Laura Yordy helps us see that something can be done because Christ's redemption is sure and good. Hopefully this book will find its way into many congregational discussions of how we can better live as witnesses to God's glorious creation.”