Wayne G. Rollins

Theology

“Writing from an innovative hub of biblical scholarship in Finland, Petri Merenlahti offers us a historical, literary, cultural, and psychological page-turner. Echoing the mid-20th century 'discovery' of the 'humanity of Jesus,' Merenlahti urges a 21st century 'discovery' of the 'humanity of Scripture.' He calls forth the testimony from rabbinic, Christian, and secular traditions on the shadowy human dimensions of Scripture, but simultaneously on the light it provides from and for the soul.”

By Grace Alone

Preaching & Worship

“J. Harold Ellens provides a lucid, challenging, and inspiring demonstration of the art of preaching. Every page bears testimony to the professional background and life experience of the author as professor of theology and philosophy, as pastor, as U.S. Army Colonel, as psychologist and founding editor of The Journal of Psychology and Christianity, as research specialist in ancient Near-Eastern studies, as prodigious author, and as past master of the pulpit. He has preached 'the Word' in eleven different countries from India to South Africa, Brazil, Australia, Great Britain, Germany, and Estonia. The sermons in this volume attest to Ellens's controlling theme that the irrepressible human hunger for meaning is universal and that Scripture addresses this hunger in unanticipated, grace-filled, and saving ways.”

Jesus

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Anyone who has wrestled seriously with the question of the personal identity of Jesus of Nazareth will want to wrestle with this book. It is the most ambitious (and demanding) argument to date for the usefulness of psychological theories and concepts in Jesus research. Capps has touched on the historical reality of Jesus of Nazareth in new, sobering ways that lend coherence and powerful illumination to aspects of the gospel record that have been shrouded in mystery and that could not have been illuminated by any other means.”

Jesus at Thirty

“John Miller's Jesus at Thirty adds a new dimension to historical-Jesus research with a judicious application of psychological insight to the task of historical biblical scholarship.... The book is eminently readable, well-documented, and tinged with the excitement of discovering a fresh perspective from which to contemplate the Jesus of the Gospels — and the one who stands behind the Gospel portrait.”

Onslaught against Innocence

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“It was said that William James wrote like a novelist and that his brother, Henry James, wrote like a psychologist. Andre LaCocque writes like both, adding to the mix the perspectives of anthropology, linguistics, historiography, and literary-criticism. Rarely have I stepped into a volume of biblical scholarship with the sense of beginning a journey into undisclosed depths of a tale I had known for years, surrounded by a chorus of voices ranging from Aristotle to Ricoeur, from Freud to Voegelin, from the Yahwist ('the greatest story teller in the Hebrew Bible') to Dostoevsky. The denouement leads to a penetrating, sobering, yet hopeful revisioning of the Cain and Abel saga as a story profoundly embedded within Judaeo-Christian cultural consciousness.”