William T. Cavanaugh
Mysticism and Witness in Koinonia
History & Biography
“This book is a timely reflection on the relationship of contemplation and action. Maria Clara Bingemer gives us a window into a new style of mysticism that is open to the divine in the other and simultaneously immersed in a violent world. The witness of these two communities inspires a profound hope that living for others is possible.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This concise and accessible analysis takes us beneath the fear, inequality, war, hunger, and environmental devastation of the present age and shows us how they operate. Rodney Clapp unpacks the ideologies that try to convince us that the world must be so, and then offers resources from the Christian tradition to enact a more livable world. No one is more skilled at bridging the scholarly and pastoral contexts than Rodney Clapp.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“A serious attempt to help a church with one foot in this world and one foot in the next to achieve balance. . . . Bushlack connects his work on Aquinas with a sensitive and holistic reading of Vatican II's ecclesiology and thereby points a way beyond a church consumed by culture wars. This book is a significant contribution to Catholic political thought, but its generous spirit will appeal to anyone interested in common goods.”
Reading Scripture as a Political Act
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“Tapie and McClain have put together a fascinating collection of essays that span the ages from the ancient to the postmodern, thus showing that the political is a perennial theme. The essays are steeped in both political theology and the theological interpretation of scripture, and bring the two fields—largely separated until now—into fruitful conversation. As a whole, the volume addresses not only the question of how scripture can be read politically, but what politics are necessary to enact scripture well.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“I know of no other book like this one. Santos has taken his training as a sociologist and combined it with astute theological analysis. The book is fascinating because macro-observations about the larger contest and cooperation between the church and the nation-state are rooted in microanalyses of empirical data and interviews of ordinary people responding to disasters. This book will add to social theories about the 'states of emergency' under which we live. It will also add to theological reckonings with the idea that the whole of the Christian life is a response to disaster.”
Theology
“If Charles Taylor's diagnosis of our secular age is on the mark, what should the Church do? Carolyn Chau takes on this important question with great insight, sympathy, and clarity. The result is an account of the Church's mission that is neither defensive nor capitulative, but offers Christ as a way of helping people realize their best selves. At the same time, Chau cuts through polarization in the Church to help the Church realize its best self. For the Church trying to find its footing in late modernity, this is a remarkably helpful and hopeful book.”
Theology
“More than just another exposition of Bonhoeffer's thought or examination of his life, this book is a creative appropriation of Bonhoeffer for our times. Harvey uses his sensitive and thorough understanding of Bonhoeffer to show the irony of modernity's claim to have reached maturity, and to guide Christians toward the kind of worldliness necessary to deal with the worldliness of a secular age. This book is a fascinating read.”
The Fullness of Time in a Flat World
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In this book Waalkes brings the best of political science and theology to bear on the question of globalization. Waalkes understands that there is more than one way to imagine globalization. In the face of ideologies that treat globalization as fate, Waalkes provocatively argues that Christian liturgical practices provide a truer way of narrating the world. Liturgy can thus help Christians and others to understand and resist the negative effects of globalization. This is an excellent work of practical theology.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Reading the martyrs well means that Christians are to enact a heavenly kind of politics that is simultaneously an earthly alternative to the despair of ‘secular’ politics, both left and right. Deftly weaving historical and contemporary narratives with theological analysis, York shows how martyrs overcome the dichotomy of religion and politics and restore hope to God’s good creation. This book is clearly written and ecumenically minded. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the relevance of martyrdom to contemporary discipleship.”
Theological Ethics in a Neoliberal Age
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
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Theology
“This book represents the next step in the fascinating and relatively new field of ethnographic ecclesiology, which seeks to bring theological reflection on the church out of the library and integrate it with qualitative fieldwork. . . . The book is full of engrossing and theoretically sophisticated reflections on the excitement and messiness of engagement with real church communities. I recommend it highly to anyone interested in how theology is done.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“In this fascinating book, Oleg Dik examines the myths and rituals around which all societies, even ‘secular’ ones, are organized. Dik weaves a panoramic view of the scholarship together with his own experiences and encounters living in the West as a refugee from the Soviet Union. The result is full of deep and surprising insight, bridging the gap between ‘believers’ and ‘unbelievers,’ which argues that Christianity is a source of both decay and renewal.”
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Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
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