Walter Brueggemann
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Norman Habel is a long-running authority on the book of Job with all its difficulties. Now he reads the book again, making good use of his vast learning. He rereads Job through the lens of trauma so that the book in his hands draws very close to our current society in crisis. His attention to trauma is no passing fad; it is, rather, letting our current context be connected to this most awesome of all biblical books. The end result, for many readers, will be a most helpful impetus toward a new practical theology that aims at therapeutic transformation.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Methodological and interpretive questions concerning Old Testament theology remain vexing and unresolved. Happily Professor Barth does not linger over these formidable issues and does not permit them to obstruct his address of the substantive issues of Old Testament faith. . . . He gives his energy effectively to the central texts and lets them have their own powerful say.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“Mesters provides an 'introduction' to the Bible that genuinely 'introduces' the literature itself, and its great religious resources . . . with freshness and genuine accessibility.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“The question mark in this title points to the fact that sadness, loss, and grief are now the order of the day in Western culture. For that reason the book of Lamentations now draws great attention and energy among us. This book, with its long historical sweep of interpretations and its broad ecumenical reach in rereading Lamentations, is sure to become a point of reference for our continuing response to the question. The question of the title requires endless, continuing engagement among us. These pages provide guides and models for continuing answering.”
Preaching & Worship
“Tim Slemmons has written a 'thick,' passionate study of the fruitful grounding for preaching. His advocacy pivots on the verdict of Isaiah that 'my ways are not our ways.' With appeal to Barth and Kierkegaard (and a glance at Gadamer), he lines out the radical, defining 'infinite qualitative difference between the divine and the human, between eternity and temporality' that permits the good news from 'there' to 'here.' Before he finishes, Slemmons offers two sermons exemplifying his bold theology in bold practice. Readers will, as a result of reading, preach differently and/or listen differently.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“I know of no one in our discipline who pays such close and sustained attention to the detail of the text as does Nancy Lee. . . . In a culture of rushed reading and skimming of texts, Lee shows us the immense gain in slowing down. . . . The fact that this study is concerned with woman-power in the tradition of the text is of great importance for our ongoing work. I anticipate that this book will evoke a fresh wave of scholarship among those who take the text seriously.”
Bible Studies & Devotionals
“What better Lenten discipline and exercise than to ponder well, carefully, and daily our premier text on emancipation—the book of Exodus! Mary Alice Birdwhistell and Tyler D. Mayfield have written a study guide that is hands-on, quite personal for them, and readily accessible for daily use. Surely Christians in Lent have no more important work to do than to engage the scriptural promises of and mandate to emancipation, especially in our world that is so bent on enslavement, the practice of cheap labor, and the systemic abuse of vulnerable lives. This book makes one wish: that Lent were longer in order to do more of the Exodus. This is a most winsome invitation to fresh faith.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In this remarkable book...the author mobilizes immense learning about global context and about Gospel tradition. The impact of the book is one of authorization and empowerment. It is a book much needed now, and surely to be well received.”
Theology
“Deeply grounded in evangelical faith and committed to evangelical categories of theological interpretation, Jersak probes the meaning of 'Final Judgment' in Christian faith and tradition. The phrase, for Jersak, must be kept in quote marks, because he sees that what is 'final' is not 'judgment' but the openness of God. The book traces the way in which Christians, and the author, 'exchange certainty for hope.' In the end the residue of evil will not have the last word; what prevails is the goodness of God's love. Readers will be greatly instructed by this thoughtful book.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Jesus was an artful master storyteller. He kept his stories close to lived reality, but he was enigmatic enough to require his listeners to do some of the work. Andrew Walton is one of his faithful listeners who is willing and artfully able to do some of the work to which Jesus' parables summon us. Walton manages to bring these ancient stories to contemporary accessibility. His background in theater performance permits him to imagine and perform these narratives in a fresh way.”
Preaching & Worship
“Strawn brings his singular gifts to the reality and crisis of preaching. These include his deep, wide attention to Scripture, his deep reading in collateral disciplines, and his passion for the church. The church has spent too much energy being 'the friendliest place in town' and too much time being 'the happiest place in town.' And now, says Strawn, it is called to be 'the most honest place in town.'”
Human Nature, Interest, and Power
Philosophy
“Tex Sample has written a shrewd and penetrating critique of Reinhold Niebuhr. With reference to recent critical theory, he goes beneath the generalizing abstractions to contextual work; he traces the way in which our attentiveness to contextual differences has advanced since Niebuhr. Future work on Niebuhr will want to take Sample's study into close consideration.”
Ideology, Class, and the Hebrew Bible
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Norman Gottwald is perhaps the most influential Old Testament scholar of his generation; his social scientific perspective plus his passionate erudition has decisively changed how we do our work. This volume is fully representative of his work and a great source for future work. We may be grateful that Wipf and Stock have offered us this most significant work.”
Theology
“Ron Sider is a rare bird among biblical interpreters: he combines well-grounded scholarly attentiveness with a lively practical passion for a world of just peace. He has, moreover, been at it for a long, grace-filled lifetime. It is no surprise then that this book comes at just the right moment for us. It is a moment in which American Christians, across the theological spectrum, are recognizing that our widely shared historical accommodation to cultural religion is a shameful failure and that we must return to Jesus’s radical core claims. Sider’s exposition of transformative pacifism is based on the cruciality of Jesus, his teaching, and the witness of his life. Many Christians will want to take a deep (spirit-filled!) breath with this book and embrace new resolve about being faithfully present in the world alongside Jesus. Our long-term debt to Sider is deep and beyond calculation. This book is a summons to discipleship in a way that matters.”
Illuminating Humor of the Bible
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“There is nothing here of slapstick or cheap stuff. Rather, this humor concerns the mocking of Jonah and the reversal of Esther. Such humor subverts commonplace assumptions about our ordered, controlled world. Walker is a good reader who shows us how much we have yet to learn about the text and how much we have yet to unlearn.”
Theology
“Humberto Casanova has walked boldly into the thick complexity of biblical language. He is deeply informed by the claim and function of metaphor and invites his readers to a quite fresh discernment of their potential. He deals with the trickiness of catching the inscrutable holy God in human articulation and does so with an alert critical edge. This book will be of immense value for those who work at the communication of serious faith in an increasingly skeptical culture. Casanova’s careful scholarship is a great service to our common work of interpretation.”
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“This collection of textual studies is a welcome contribution to our continued learning. The focus on wisdom takes up a much neglected part of scripture and opens for us large theological affirmations and demanding ethical summonses. In a society that has majored in foolishness on a large scale, the book is a reminder that wisdom that can generate life is rooted elsewhere in a hidden governance that is nonnegotiable and cannot be outflanked. The reader will find these several studies suggestive and accessible, grounded good scholarship but addressed to a church audience that seeks practical guidance for faith.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Having spent a lifetime at the convergence of Scripture, faith, ministry, and justice, Sehested brings to voice what he has seen and heard and known in that long, faithful life. Readers will be led beyond themselves in this poetry in the way worship-filled utterance has always led afresh. No doubt good poetry comes from suffering. This poetry exhibits both suffering and the hope that does not give in to it.”
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