Walter Brueggemann

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Well grounded in scholarship, accessible, and intensely contemporary. The series is a most welcome one!”

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Burke Long has written a shrewd, discerning, and comprehensive study that will become an enduring point of reference for future study. It is evident that Long knows all the literature in a thorough and masterful way. He is, moreover, intentional about method, and works his method with power and insight. . . His book is a model for mobilizing detail into a sensible and illuminating whole.”

2 Samuel

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This volume in the FOTL commentary series shows an imaginative and well-informed push beyond form criticism into newer, more dynamic methods of interpretation. Antony Campbell is a master of this narrative material and is able to exhibit the deep artistic character of the text, making for a most welcome and fresh read. His commentary is informed on critical data but lingers with that data only in order to see the artistic force of the text itself.”

A Biblical History of Israel, Second Edition

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“A sober, disciplined, well-reasoned response to the so-called minimalists who have dominated recent discussion of the history of ancient Israel. A Biblical History correctly insists that the ‘historical reliability’ of ancient texts largely depends on which testimonies to trust. The consequence is that the skepticism that has long dominated Old Testament discussion can no longer claim a privileged position—either epistemologically or morally—but in fact is an ideological advocacy. This book will need to be taken seriously and will be welcomed by all those who engage such issues of the historicity of the biblical text.”

A Dramatic Pentecostal/Charismatic Anti-Theodicy

Theology

“Stephen Torr has written a rich, thoughtful, and critical exposition on the reality of suffering in the vista of faith. . . . This will be an important study for those in Pentecostal traditions; beyond that it merits the close attention of the wider community of faith as a contribution to our thinking about the problem of evil in the context of actual church practice.”

A Guide to Bible Basics

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Everyone knows that the church in our culture faces a dreadful growth in biblical illiteracy wherein allusions to the Bible go increasingly unrecognized. Tyler Mayfield has written a terrific antidote to that illiteracy. His book-by-book, chapter-by-chapter introduction to the Bible provides easy access for fresh learning. With a generous use of charts, maps, outlines, and prompt questions his book is user-friendly and pedagogically effective. I anticipate wide use of this book in congregation that “want more Bible” and aim to advance biblical literacy that will in turn eventuate in a more knowing church.”

A Handbook to Old Testament Exegesis

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Bill Brown brings both his vast erudition and his meticulous attentiveness to the art and craft of Bible reading. The outcome of his prodigious work is a book that has no parallel among our current resources. Brown walks us through the conventional modes of critical reading with impressive textual specificity. Beyond that he offers access to his signature scholarship concerning science, evolution, and ecology with immense learning and acute artistic sensitivity. Potential readers should not be misled by the ordinariness of the book’s title. In addition to being an introduction for new students, it will be a welcome resource for those trapped in so-called ‘objective’ criticism and for those who have been at it so long that they think they know ahead of time what texts will say. Brown brings his own wonder and capacity for surprise that will be contagious for his readers. It may be that the book will evoke a new epidemic of excitement and engagement for Bible readers; it is in any case an enormous gift to us all!”

A Human-Shaped God

Theology

“Charles Halton has written a bold, wide-ranging exposition concerning the imaginative, constructive dynamics of doing theology. His more specific, granular analysis concerns the way of language in the rendering of God in the Old Testament. This exposition moves in two riffs concerning, in turn, the ‘body parts’ of Israel’s humanly rendered God and the emotive practices attributed to God. The sustained insistence of the biblical text, fully appreciated by Halton, is that God is rendered to be jarringly and winsomely ‘humanlike’!”

A Journey in Imagination

Foreword

(wrote the foreword)

A Journey through the World of Leviticus

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Leviticus attests to an alternative world that has God’s holiness at its center. Scarlata . . . shows us why attentiveness to an alternative world of holiness is urgent among us. . . . It is clear enough now that our present path of technological exploitation, predatory debt, and individualistic consumerism is not sustainable. If you may be wondering about a very different way to live well, free, and responsibly in the world, you may indeed find Scarlata’s wise discussion particularly helpful and illuminating.”

A Lay Preacher’s Guide

Preaching & Worship

“This book teems with wise reflection based on lived experience and great appreciation for the preaching enterprise. While the book instructs, it does so in a way that affirms, encourages, and empowers its readers. This book invites fresh thinking and faithful focus on the work of preaching. It communicates the conviction that faithful preaching is the most urgent of all pastoral opportunities--one that merits disciplined attention.”

A Modern Jewish Perspective on the Gospel of John

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“From a Jewish perspective, Charles Isbell wades into the hard problems of anti-Jewish polemics in the Fourth Gospel. He joins sharp issue with major Christian interpreters of that Gospel and finds Christian ‘solutions’ to the anti-Jewishness quite inadequate. . . . Isbell is a careful, knowledgeable scholar who does not shrink from the hard issues we all face in these texts. Attention must be paid!”

A Pelican of the Wilderness

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“It is remarkable that the Psalms are transportable from ancient context to contemporary context. Robert Griggs has deftly transported them into his own story of depression, anguish, and recovery of health, life, and faith. This book offers honest, courageous testimony, the telling of a life that will encourage others to tell their lives with truth and live in hope.”

A Pilgrim in Rome

Arts & Literature

“Al Staggs knows about words and puts them to fresh and suggestive use. He knows about brutality that shows its ugly face in too many places. And he knows about phoniness that supports evil by its default. With his words he conducts guerilla warfare, leaving us unsettled, seeing more clearly than we might wish, inviting us to decide anew. No easy slumbers here!”

A Theology of the Old Testament

Theology

“A primary aim of the book, beyond the usual suspects in Old Testament theology, is to reach 'members of the general public' to show that 'the more humane humans become...the closer they become to what the Old Testament calls the image of God.' His effort is a daring one, sure to engage both his peers in the field and a broader readership among those who care about the future of the world.”

Abraham

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Learned historian that he is, Joseph Blenkinsopp here brings his best critical eye to the Abraham narratives, paying primary attention to the ongoing role and function of the Abraham tradition. . . . Blenkinsopp's brief, disciplined commentary provides us with a sound critical summary of the text, its claims, and its rich resources for faith. Much of the force of the book comes from observing how this master interpreter goes about his work.”

All Saved Great and Small

Fiction

“David Howell is a consummate storyteller. He brings to the task a generative memory, an ear for how real people talk to each other, and an eye to clearly see the quotidian realities of sex, alcohol, God, college, football, cars and, as of late, conspiracy theories. The outcome of his imagination is a story that smacks of specificity, but that at the same time reiterates the recurring realities of intimate human community. You will want to hear this tale of faith, honesty, and human frailty.”

Alphabet of Faith

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“Alphabet of Faith Prophetic Prayers for a Chaotic World”

Appreciate These Things

Bible Studies & Devotionals

“Duffield offers a combination of thorough theological grounding, a rich capacity for storytelling, and a deep attentiveness to the everyday reality of our lives. Here she is guided by Paul’s ethical catalog in Philippians. The outcome of her generative work is ethical instruction concerning the most practical of work done for the well-being of our neighbors. Her book is a welcome summons to the good, sustainable work of transformative faith.”

Arguing with God

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Bernd Janowski (University of Heidelberg) is not yet much known to English-speaking readers. He will be now! He is a world class scholar who has written a world class book that will promptly become the bench-mark for theological interpretation of the Psalms. Janowski, in a dense, complex genuinely inviting book, combines acute theological sensibility, close exegetical alertness, and attention to the large human questions now before us concerning life and hope in a failed world. The result of his work is a study that will reward close, careful, sustained reading. We may be grateful to Westminster John Knox for bringing this fresh and judicious book into English translation.”