Walter Brueggemann

“In this welcome book, Meindert Dijkstra has painstakingly traced the long complex demography of the land of promise. By an appeal to historical and archaeological evidence, Dijkstra shows the continued existence of other non-Jewish peoples in the land of promise, including Palestinians. Long habitation in the land is sufficient, in the judgment of this author, to justify a Palestinian state alongside the Jewish state of Israel. This important study requires that we fully face the reality and demand of a people too long neglected in their right to a land of promise.”

Path of the Purified Heart

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“Laura Dunham invites the reader to share in the rich convergence in her own life. That convergence includes deep rootage in Reformed faith, alert participation in the great tradition of spirituality, engagement with contemporary masters of spiritual disciplines, and her own critical angle on her own experience. She lines out this convergence according to the liturgical year of the church, giving access that may lead the reader, along with the author, closer to the heart of God.”

Peasants, Prophets, and Political Economy

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In ways almost unnoticed by the larger interpretive community, Marvin Chaney has worked relentlessly and tirelessly and with great erudition and theological sensibility to contribute to a major revolution in Old Testament study. Against the uncritical practice of modernist reading marked by individualism and romantic spirituality, Chaney has insisted on the materiality of the Bible and its defining concern for political economy. The essays in this volume bear witness to his thought and growing conviction about this radical interpretive reorientation. The collection is of immense importance not only for historical reason, but because it constitutes a wake-up call in our own highly contested political economy to read the Bible knowingly and critically. Our debt to Chaney is very great for bringing these great essays back into our contemporary conversation. They continue to challenge our reading habits in important ways.”

Physician of Souls

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner has reflected long and well on the interface of healing and faith. Now she brings her great wisdom to a winsome expression. She sees that the membrane between faith and medicine is entirely permeable, and she easily crosses the line between the two. This book will be both a welcome instruction and a moving motivation for those who seek to find well-being in the wise, generative practice of faith.”

Playing with Dragons

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Andy Angel has written an honest, perceptive probe of the way in which faith wrestles with the deep reality of evil and death. His textual interpretation is spot on. I especially appreciate his quite fresh read of the book of Job. Real-life people will find this a valuable guide for real-life issues of faith.”

Plunging into the Kingdom Way

Church Leadership & Ministry

“It is one thing to 'talk the talk.' It is quite another to 'walk the walk.' This book exhibits the way in which Grandview Calvary Baptist Church (led by Tim Dickau) walks the walk in freedom and courage and wisdom. The current crisis in the church leads us to fall back on specific narratives, so that we may learn what is true and transferable from one community of discipleship to another. Dickau offers a full measure of practical theology that is permeated with justice, generosity, hospitality, and forgiveness. This book will guide and empower others to walk by faith where our sight increasingly fails us.”

Political Trauma and Healing

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Mark Brett addresses himself to the tricky, complex work of restorative justice that is to be accomplished through dialogic engagement. He brings to this task immense learning and personal engagement; the realities of colonial history and the prospect of postcolonial well-being permeate his study. This work is nothing less than a tour de force.”

Poor Banished Children of Eve

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Gale Yee has written a book that significantly advances our critical thinking about the ways in which ideology permeates scripture. The power of her analysis is that she offers . . . grounded, well-articulated critical theory alongside a careful, attentive reading of texts . . . a rare combination in current discussions!”

Portraits of a Mature God

Theology

“McEntire has plunged into a most intractable issue in Old Testament theology, namely, the character of God. While he fully appreciates the “God who acts” who has occupied much previous interpretation, he focuses on the “mature” God of the later tradition who has largely withdrawn from the arena of action. This important book will surely be a major reference point for time to come. With his close attention to the text, McEntire requires a deep rethink of the assumptions and categories of our expository work.”

Poverty in the Promised Land

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Poverty in the Promised Land Neighborliness, Resistance, and Restoration”

Power and Marginality in the Abraham Narrative - Second Edition

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Gossai is a bold poser of new questions. And when new questions are asked of the text, fresh readings become available. In Gossai's capable hands, there are no innocent texts. Now there are hidden writs of power that pervade the text. Gossai invites the reader to the thickness of the text that cuts beneath surface meanings to where real life-and-death issues are exposed. Abraham and the cast of characters around him are shown to be, like the reader, summoned to hard choices to make and real risks to run.”

Power and the Powers

Theology

“Power and the Powers”

Powers, Weakness, and the Tabernacling of God

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Marva Dawn has become a powerful interpretive force of late, and this book advances significantly the weightiness of her contribution. In the wake of Jacques Ellul she asks hard questions about the church's carelessly and eagerly embracing too much of the world's notions of success and power. Into the middle of that gigantic misstep in the church, Dawn points yet again to the cross. She agilely moves back and forth between sharp theological critique and the concrete practice of the church. In her hands the disciplines of the early church in Acts become accessible and credible. She has the real church and real pastors in purview; and to us she speaks the reality of the gospel that has been so much distorted. Dawn is gifted in clearing the deck of old carelessnesses and inviting us to fresh and urgent, yet not complex, decisions. An important read!”

Practice of the Presence

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“In this welcome new edition Carmen Acevedo Butcher has made the work of Brother Lawrence freshly available in a most accessible and compelling way. In our world marked by speed, convenience, and hostility, no doubt Brother Lawrence is a persuasive antidote and alternative to a culture of alienation. We may be grateful to Acevedo Butcher for her careful, attentive work in this contemporary offer of ancient trustful wisdom.”

Practicing the King's Economy

Church Leadership & Ministry

“The authors show how biblical mandates work justice and equality in the real world. Their testimonies, grown out of their own experiences, will be life-giving for any reader who cares about economic neighborliness.”

Principalities in Particular

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“From the right, we now face conspiratorial theories of a “deep state” that aims to undermine our social status quo. In contrast, this astonishing book is unmistakable evidence of a “deep church,” in which the author is a passionate participant along with Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jacques Ellul, William Stringfellow, Walter Wink, and Daniel Berrigan, to name only its more prominent members in whose orbit the author lives. Wylie-Kellermann, as a man of that “deep church,” speaks in innocent seriousness concerning the radical claims of the gospel; he shows, moreover, how those claims impinge on public policy and summon to a life of glad serious obedience. This is an urgently required book just now because the contemporary church is so absorbed in accommodation to culture and worried about survival that it too often has only feeble words and acts in the world. Wylie-Kellermann shows that there is decisive news to be performed around our most vexing concrete public issues. Every page of this book is an invitation to obedient imagination that leads beyond despair, fatigue, and cynicism.”

Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“With this book, Robert R. Wilson establishes himself as a central contributor to the study of the prophets. His book will surely become a standard point of reference for subsequent work. Wilson reflects a major move in methods and perspectives now being made in Old Testament studies, a move which seeks to go beyond the American and the German syntheses of the last generation.”

Proverbs and the Formation of Character

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Dave Bland has written a compelling study of the book of Proverbs to which attention will be paid. His discussion is closely text-based and the reader will learn a great deal both about the Bible and about current scholarship on the Bible. Bland engages critically with contemporary analyses of narcissistic autonomy in our society, and advocates 'character formation' as a definitive antidote to the collapse of the responsible self. He has written a book that is pedagogically alert, that invites us into the thickness and dynamism of the Proverbs as a guide for our work of nurture. His book pivots on the important interface between the biblical offer and the crucial human issues that we face in our society.”

Psalms for Preaching and Worship

Preaching & Worship

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Psalms in an Age of Distraction

Christian Living

“Ethan Jones plunges us directly into a contemporary form of the ‘human condition.’ He recognizes that the Psalter offers a compelling, powerful response to that condition. In a discussion tautly guided by attention to textual specificity and fully informed about current scholarship, Jones invites the reader to be alert to the rich resources of the Psalter. Readers can expect to find in these pages suggestive connections between the imaginative claims of faith and the day-to-day reality of our common life.”