Victor Anderson

A Reasonable Belief

Apologetics

“In A Reasonable Belief: Why God and Faith Make Sense , William Greenway offers an apology for the reasonableness of Christian faith against its secular cultured detractors, from early modern philosophy to the late twentieth century. The author creatively illustrates how spiritual realities feed back into the substantive beliefs and sources of Christian faith through expositions of scripture and doctrine, especially the parables and life of Jesus, which are based on his insightful reading of Levinas. Surprisingly, what begins as a strictly philosophical defense of Christian faith, movingly invites patient readers to travel from the languages of apology, evidences, and warrants to languages of the spiritual sphere where Christians and non-Christians alike may reasonably affirm that ‘God is Love and love is God.’ Greenway offers an insightful, constructive, and passionate journey into such a faith.”

Liberation and the Cosmos

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Barbara Holmes performs the power of conjuration that set the study of Black religion in motion. Liberation and Cosmos excites mimetic powers of imagination for contemporaries for whom the elders are not only remembered and venerated but intimately present and available for our ongoing projects of liberation and moral fulfillment. An ingenious Afrofuturist contribution to African American religious ethics.”

The Last Blues Preacher

History & Biography

“Mills’s biography of the Reverend Clay Evans brings into cultural focus the sound, passion, and commitments of one of the most recognized voices in the history of black preaching and gospel musicology of the twentieth century. Rev. Evans reminded many of us growing up in Chicago every Sunday evening that 'there is room at the cross for you.' Mills’s biography is a monumental gift to the black religious and cultural legacy of Rev. Evans.”

Their Own Receive Them Not

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Griffin gives critical voice to thousands of black lesbians and gays whose sexual identities and practices in black churches render them shunned and ostracized, their desires and loves unfulfilled, and their silence all too often deadly.”