William S. Kurz

Faith's Freedom

“Faith's Freedom is a refreshingly personal synthesis of key spiritual concepts written in a truly ecumenical way for the contemporary situation. By avoiding most technical terminology, it formulates for intelligent readers an outlook on God and the world that expresses many foundational insights of classic spirituality in terms understandable to the modern mindset. It translates basic notions like creation, freedom, revelation, sin, and faith into contemporary language, then applies them to prayer, power, possessions, anger, sexuality, evil, and life in the Spirit. Among the fluff that characterizes an unfortunate number of books on 'spirituality,' this tough-minded but enjoyable argument and appeal to the evidence of experience stands out from the crowd.”

The Narrative Unity of Luke—Acts

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This volume follows plot order with attention to a wide range of narrative dynamics . . . These different perspectives provide some fresh views of Acts not readily available in standard historical-critical commentaries. . . . With its companion first volume, it must be consulted for any serious narrative study of Luke-Acts.”

The Spirit in Luke-Acts

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Odette Mainville’s…book, The Spirit in Luke-Acts, is a most careful, enlightening, and fresh interpretation of the Holy Spirit’s Role in Luke and Acts, from the surprising starting point of a single verse, Acts 2:33…I wholeheartedly endorse this book….”

Worship in the Letter to the Hebrews

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Professor Heil provides an ecumenical scholarly analysis of the message of Hebrews for intelligent Christians today. His particular focus on worship, both in community and in the individual's moral and faith life, remains faithfully contextualized within the structure of Hebrews' argument. His final Conclusion applies Hebrews to today in a way that fully retains the biblical perspective and transcends contemporary denominational doctrinal differences.”