Ted A. Smith
Biography
Ted A. Smith wrote The End of Theological Education and co-edited At This Time with Corwin Malcolm Davis.
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Preaching & Worship
“He calls for preaching not just about the arts or with the arts but as an art that can learn from other art forms—all on the way to evoking deeper and more holistic encounters with God.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Mark Douglas consistently finds ways to surprise the reader--not with gimmicks, but with hope so truthful it reveals the world anew. That hard-won hope lets Douglas make a crucial contribution to academic debates about religion and politics. It also helps him write editorials that crackle with good humor and fresh insight. Douglas calls his readers to believe aloud--and then gives rich samples of what that sounds like for our time.”
Preaching & Worship
“Jesus-centered, biblically learned, and dead-set against white supremacy--even as he retains awareness of his complicity with it--Nibs Stroupe is one of the most important models for preaching in our time.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Practical, provocative, and profound, this wise book invites readers to attend to what it looks like to hold faith and teaching together. It has already shaped the way I teach.”
Discipleship & Christian Education
“Writing with humor and humility, Phillip Camp offers a valuable handbook for people entering seminary. He is both relentlessly practical and always theological, framing hints about things like time management within a larger vision for church, ministry, and life before God. The book will resonate immediately with students coming from more conservative backgrounds. But there is living wisdom here for thoughtful readers from every corner of the church.”
Preaching & Worship
“Her Preaching Body is a very important book for everyone who cares about preaching. It draws on sophisticated theory, careful ethnography, and deep pastoral wisdom in analyzing some of the ways that women exercise embodied agency in preaching. I have learned a lot from this book, and I know I will be sharing it with students, preachers, and academics for years to come.”
Preaching & Worship
“Strawn's bracing call for honesty about sin, suffering, and violence offers an important challenge to contemporary preaching. But what really sets this book apart is its close reading of some of the most difficult texts in the Old Testament. Strawn joins thoughtful exegesis with an integrative vision that illumines the whole.”
Christian Living
“This book shimmers with practical wisdom for loving our neighbors better. It invites readers to reflect on everyday life and discern concrete steps for faithful action. It doesn’t just call us to love—it shows us how.”
Preaching & Worship
“Much ink has been spilled in the name of postmodern homiletics. But Jacob D. Myers’s book lives into that phrase with new and devastating effect. There is something here to trouble just about everybody. This ‘stiff drink of homiletical hemlock’ is all the more unsettling because it goes down so easily.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“The need for some kind of prophetic word is as acute as it has ever been. But the ground has shifted beneath would-be prophets’ feet. This interdisciplinary volume analyzes those shifts, considering prophets from Moses and Jeremiah to Fanny Lou Hamer, Samuel Delaney, and Jon Stewart. But the essays in this book do not just describe prophecy. Especially as they work together, they perform a richly plural prophecy from and for a secular age.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“”This Psalms commentary is like no other; it is also the most needed for today. The product of a generative collaboration, Kvam and Saliers’s commentary explores the sacred tensions, musical depth, theological richness and relevance, liturgical power, and dialogical dynamics of the Psalter. The commentary does not shy away from hard questions because the psalmists themselves did the same. Kvam and Saliers offer a ‘lyrical theology’ of the Psalms, a theology based on aesthetic, affective sensibilities and rooted in a realistic, honest-to-God faith—a truly indispensable resource!” —William P. Brown, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary ”Kvam and Saliers open us to new depth in the Psalms as sung prayer. They go beyond the commonplace that the Psalms are musical to the deeper insight that centuries of performance have become part of the history of the Psalms and so part of what they mean for us today. This is not just a theological commentary that attends to music. This is a musical theology of the Psalms.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Jennifer McBride writes lived theology in the fullest sense of those words. She has lived into the discipleship to which she calls us. And she has listened deeply to disciples she has walked with along the way: imprisoned women, homeless people, long-time activists, and more. The genius of McBride’s work is to respect the theological insights in these lives and to place them in conversation with thinkers like Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The result is a book that is both deeply learned and eminently practical. In its method as much as its content, it is one of this generation’s most thoughtful and powerful calls to radical discipleship.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“"How can activists keep going when nothing seems to change? Jennifer Ayres develops a spirituality of social action by drawing on theories of practice, theologies of sin and hope, social movement theory, and, crucially, the reasons activists already give. Ayres shows how to knit social witness and theological reflection back together in ways that benefit both of them--and all of us.”
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The End of Theological Education
Discipleship & Christian Education
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