Eerdmans Publishing Spring 2023 Catalog

DEAR READERS,

I am pleased to share with you the Spring/Summer 2023 Eerdmans catalog with our new and upcoming titles. This season’s catalog introduces you to books full of the finest scholarship, the most relevant pastoral resources, and the freshest ideas on culture and politics.

This year I’m especially excited about our publishing program’s expansion into literary nonfiction. Take a look at upcoming books like Lessons and Carols by John West, Shattered by Arthur Boers, and In Thought, Word, and Seed by Tiffany Kriner. You will find your mind and heart engaged by creative writers wrestling with identity, faith, and contemporary life.

We also have fascinating books coming out in our Library of Religious Biography series. This spring we have books on Oral Roberts, Sojourner Truth, and in the fall, Tina Turner!

Another trend in this catalog that I am especially excited about is politics and cultural commentary. This spring, we’re releasing QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross: Christianity and Conspiracy Theories, a volume edited by Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock. This indispensable resource sheds light on the influence of conspiracy theories in our church communities, featuring essays by trusted voices. Faith and Fake News: A Guide to Consuming Information Wisely by Rachel Wightman helps us navigate the information landscape and determine the truth. And The Other Evangelicals: A Story of Liberal, Black, Progressive, Feminist, and Gay Christians—and the Movement That Pushed Them Out by Isaac B. Sharp reveals evangelical history from a different point of view.

We are committed to serving you and providing engaging books for the benefit of the ecumenical church, the academy, and your hearts and minds. And, as always, we are thankful for you.

Sincerely,

QANON, CHAOS, AND THE CROSS

Christianity and Conspiracy Theories

Christianity and conspiracy theories have had a long, complicated relationship. But today conspiracy theories are bringing our already polarized society to the brink of chaos. QAnon, the Big Lie, and antivaccination theories thrive online, disrupting faith communities. This timely essay collection explores the allure of conspiracy theories and their consequences—and offers gospel-based paths forward. Complete with a guide to logic and reasoning outlining both logical fallacies and intellectual virtues, QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross is an indispensable resource for all Christians seeking the truth.

REVIEWS

“This is a long overdue book for Christians around the world. It should be widely read, studied, and preached from the pulpit. I have been frustrated that the media has largely made the disinformation worse. We need more clear-headed scholars to be heard. Faith and not coercion is a believer’s walk. Humility and integrity are vital. Love and truth are the paths forward.”

—STEVE HASSAN author of The Cult of Trump and Combatting Cult Mind Control

“Individuals, churches, schools, and denominational bodies will find QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross an effective tool to protect themselves and their communities from falling prey to a real and present danger while deepening their relationship to what is ultimately and consummately true and good.”

—ROB SCHENCK president of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute

“A generous and substantive engagement with the problem of conservative Christian susceptibility to conspiracy theories. . . . The book is interesting both for the virulent conspiracy thinking that it addresses and for the rhetorical and reasoning strategies now being attempted by scholars within such contexts.”

Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University

CONTRIBUTORS

Chase Andre, Michael W. Austin, Bradley Baurain, Daniel Bennett, Gregory L. Bock, Chad Bogosian, Kevin Carnahan, Jason Cook, Scott Culpepper, Stephen Davis, Garrett J. Deweese, Marlena Graves, Shawn Graves, David Horner, Dru Johnson, Nathan King, Rick Langer, Christian Miller, Timothy Muehlhoff, Michelle Lynn Panchuk, Susan Peppers-Bates, Steven Porter, Kaitlyn Schiess, Aaron Simmons, Domonique Turnipseed, Rachel I. Wightman, Keith Wyma, Eric Yang

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Michael W. Austin is professor of philosophy at Eastern Kentucky University and senior fellow at the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute.

Gregory L. Bock is assistant professor of philosophy and religion and program director for philosophy, religion studies, and Asian studies at the University of Texas at Tyler.

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CHASING THE DEVIL AT FOGGY BOTTOM

The Future of Religion in American Diplomacy

Understanding the role of religion in global politics is crucial for effective diplomacy.

Shaun A. Casey, the founding director of the US Department of State’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs, makes a compelling case for the necessity of understanding global religion in Chasing the Devil at Foggy Bottom. In this fresh and provocative narrative, Casey writes frankly about his work integrating sophisticated, research-driven policy into the State Department under Secretary of State John Kerry. Witty and astute, Casey recounts his team’s challenges in DC politics as well as in the major global events of his tenure, including climate change, the rise of ISIL, and the refugee crisis.

On a global stage with higher stakes than ever, effective diplomacy is imperative. Yet in this critical moment, the United States’s reputation has faltered. Chasing the Devil at Foggy Bottom offers a path forward to better foreign policy.

REVIEWS

“Shaun’s academic expertise speaks for itself. But his passion for foreign policy and his willingness to wrestle with the complexity of sectarian differences to bridge gaps between the world’s religions revealed a practitioner as patient as he was persistent. . . . Now, in the pages of this book, we will all benefit from Shaun’s expertise and perspective.”

“Shaun Casey has done the impossible: he brought a critical new element into our government bureaucracy, demonstrated its success, won at least some grudging acceptance, garnered appreciation from some would-be critics, and lived to write about it with panache.”

“A compelling story of both the obstacles and the opportunities of bringing a more sophisticated approach to religion to bear on the great issues of the early twentyfirst century.”

“This unabashedly candid and honest narrative . . . should be read by all who are interested in addressing the major issues confronting humans today.”

MEET SHAUN CASEY, AUTHOR OF CHASING THE DEVIL AT FOGGY BOTTOM

What led you to write Chasing the Devil at Foggy Bottom?

I wrote Chasing the Devil at Foggy Bottom because I thought it was a great story that runs counter to so much of what we read about at the intersection of religion and politics. We are bombarded with messages of conflict and strife at the intersection of religion and public policy, yet this story demonstrates it is possible to bring the right people together to equip US diplomacy to gain a more sophisticated approach to religion— which yielded a stronger US foreign policy.

What makes your book a unique contribution?

What makes this book unique is that the story is still unfolding. Secretary of State John Kerry invited me to launch the Office of Religion and Global Affairs at the State Department in 2013, but President Trump shuttered it in 2017. As the founder of the office, I am the only one who can tell the full story of what we did. It is my argument the Biden administration should restart the work we did in order to address the foreign policy issues of our day.

What do you hope readers take away from reading it?

My hope is that all of these readers will be convinced that the past clumsiness of our foreign policy when it comes to religion does not have to be the norm in the future. As the influence of religion grows globally, it is even more important today that we recover a stronger approach. The book sets out why this work is important as well as how to do such work. As one of my professors once said, the work of governments to understand and engage religious communities globally is like brain surgery: it may be necessary, but it is fatal if not done well.

What’s something not enough people know about the subject of your book?

I think most people do not realize that the US government has interacted with global religion in various ways throughout its history, usually with less than stellar results for all parties. And this engagement will not stop in the future. I believe it can be done better. We demonstrated that it can be done better, but we have lost that capacity now.

What is something people wouldn’t expect about you?

One little-known fact about me is that I hold the land speed record between my hometown, Paducah, KY, and Busch Stadium in St. Louis, MO, where the St. Louis Cardinals play.

As the department no longer exists as it did, what key things have you been doing since then regarding the area of religion and foreign policy?

Since my time running the Office of Religion and Global Affairs, I have taught at Georgetown University and Harvard Divinity School. I continue to write about religion and global affairs as well as religion in American public life.

Shaun Casey was Special Representative for Religion and Global Affairs at the US Department of State and Director of the Office of Religion and Global Affairs from 2013 to 2017. He has taught at Harvard Divinity School, Wesley Theological Seminary, and the Walsh School of Foreign Service and has directed the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University.

“This unabashedly candid and honest narrative . . . should be read by all who are interested in addressing the major issues confronting humans today.”

—GREGORY E. STERLING Yale Divinity School

A STUDY GUIDE FOR BABY DINOSAURS ON THE ARK?

In Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark? The Bible and Modern Science and the Trouble of Making It All Fit, Janet Kellogg Ray reached out to Christians who struggle to reconcile their creationist commitments and modern science. With this new study guide, she returns to her argument with fresh perspective and an eye toward practical instruction.

Ray approaches her topic with empathy for her readers while maintaining scientific rigor. This discussion guide is the perfect companion for students and nonexpert readers of her book, as it includes notes, discussion questions, and lists of external resources to supplement each chapter. Expanded treatments of each topic encourage thinking with and beyond the concepts introduced in the main text.

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BABY DINOSAURS ON THE ARK?

The Bible and Modern Science and the Trouble of Making It All Fit

“A down-to-earth yet thorough introduction for how science works and how necessary it is to shake off unhelpful and untrue assumptions about the Bible.”

—JARED BYAS cohost of the podcast The Bible for Normal People

“Ray writes with candid humor, a pastoral spirit, and engaging, accessible science.”

—DENNIS R. VENEMA professor of biology at Trinity Western University

“A deeply personal, scientifically informed, and valuable contribution to our troubled conversation on evolution.”

—KARL W. GIBERSON author of Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution

FEATURED AUTHOR: JANET KELLOGG RAY

Janet Kellogg Ray is an enthusiastic science educator, explainer, and communicator. She holds a PhD in curriculum and instruction, with fifteen years of university teaching, both biology majors and nonmajors. Raised a creationist, Janet is a science educator and a practicing Christian who accepts evolution. She is uniquely equipped to explain evolution to questioners, doubters, deniers, and those who just want to know more about the science of origins: she’s been there, and she understands.

THE GOD OF MONKEY SCIENCE

People of Faith in a Modern Scientific World

In this lively follow-up to Baby Dinosaurs on the Ark?, Janet Kellogg Ray covers evolution as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines, climate change, and the frontiers of genetic research. An evangelical Christian and a science educator, Ray explains the facts accessibly and with verve. Along the way, she vividly narrates the scientific achievements—and political and religious drama—that got us to where we are today.

Ultimately, Ray calls for evangelicals to speak to science, rather than deny it. We need Christian ethics now more than ever to determine how best to act in light of current scientific data and for love of neighbor. If you’re afraid of science hurting your faith, this book will show you how to be true to both.

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Rachel I. Wightman is a librarian, an educator, and a believer in integrating faith and fact-checking. She is the associate director for instruction and outreach at Concordia University, St. Paul. Prior to moving to Minnesota in 2012, she served as a librarian and missionary in Kampala, Uganda.

FAITH AND FAKE NEWS

A Guide to Consuming Information Wisely

Share if you love Jesus. Scroll past if you follow the devil.

Most Christians have encountered phony posts on our feeds meant to rile us up. But not everything we see on social media is so obviously absurd. As online spaces increase in importance, we urgently need to consider how to love our neighbors on the internet—and this includes sharing the truth.

Rachel I. Wightman has seen this problem firsthand as a librarian with over a decade of experience instructing students in information literacy. In Faith and Fake News, she shares her expertise with average Christians. This timely and essential guide explains the information landscape and its tendency toward thought bubbles, discusses techniques for fact-checking and evaluating sources, and offers suggestions on ways to engage with our neighbors online while bearing witness to Christ and the truth.

REVIEWS

“The powers and principalities want us scrolling smartphones in constant anxiety and suspicion. What if we had a wise and kind specialist by our side to help us listen to the Holy Spirit rather than our fears? Rachel Wightman is the sort of guide you want to help you consider the sources, to discern well amidst the information deluge, and even to love your neighbor online.”

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JESUS, JUBILEE, AND THE POLITICS OF GOD’S REIGN

Christian T. Collins Winn

Foreword by Sara

Christian T. Collins Winn argues that the kingdom of God is Jesus himself. Drawing on a wide breadth of liberation theology, this timely monograph amplifies the echoes of salvation history in contemporary struggles for social justice. From Old Testament exilic literature to the Gospels, the key motifs of God’s reign, Jubilee, and apocalypse reveal how God redresses systems that dehumanize persons and distort creation.

REVIEWS

“A must-read for those committed to following the way of Jesus and breaking free of traditional, institutionalized theological missteps.”

Christian T. Collins Winn is adjunct professor of religion at Augsburg University and teaching minister and theologian in residence at Meetinghouse Church in Minnesota.

RESISTING APARTHEID AMERICA

Living the Badass Gospel

Miguel A. De La Torre

Resisting Apartheid America assesses the past and present threads of systemic racism in American politics, from Plymouth Rock to the Capitol on January 6. Sweeping and unsparing in his critique, De La Torre takes on authors revered in Christian theology, including Paul, Augustine, and heroes of the Reformation, aiming to uproot the ideological foundations of racism in Christianity. Following these through lines of oppression, he warns of a decline in democracy and rise in political violence—but equips us with the nonviolent ethical framework to resist this bleak future. Resisting Apartheid America is a clarion call to Christians to remake America in the image of the God of liberation.

REVIEWS

“A provocative analysis of white Christian nationalism.”

Miguel A. De La Torre is professor of social ethics and Latinx studies at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver.

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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN A POLARIZED AGE

As our political and social landscapes polarize along party lines, freedom of religion faces threats from both sides. From antidiscrimination commissions targeting conservative Christians to travel bans punishing Muslims, recent litigation has revealed the selective approach both left and right take when it comes to freedom of religion. But what if religious liberty is part of the cure for our political division?

Drawing on constitutional law, history, and sociology, Thomas C. Berg shows us how reaffirming religious freedom cultivates the good of individuals and society. Protecting Americans’ ability to live according to their beliefs undergirds a healthy, pluralistic society—and this protection must extend to everyone, not just political allies. Lay readers and legal scholars who are weary of partisan quarreling will find Berg’s case timely and compelling.

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DEFENDING DEMOCRACY FROM ITS CHRISTIAN ENEMIES

American democracy is in danger at the hands of authoritarian Christians. In this timely work of Christian political ethics, David P. Gushee calls us to preserve democratic norms of civil rights, rule of law, and shared governance, even as many American Christians grow reactionary and antidemocratic. Broadly surveying global politics and modern history, he analyzes the ways Christians have supported authoritarianism today and in the past, aiming to understand why and how this happens—and how to prevent it. Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies advocates for sane, ethical, and compassionate politics in a world where many Christians are instigating discord and vying for power. Any concerned Christian will leave its pages with eyes clear to the dangers of our current form of political engagement and with insight into what democracy is truly meant to be.

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BEYOND HOMELESSNESS

15th anniversary edition

Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement

Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian J. Walsh

Foreword by Ruth Padilla DeBorst

The rise in homeless encampments. The destruction of our planet. The disconnection from place caused by capitalism and technology. Beyond the unavailability of housing, our culture is experiencing a devastating loss of home. In Beyond Homelessness, Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian Walsh illuminate the relationship between socioeconomic, ecological, and cultural homelessness. With groundbreaking scholarship informed by literature, music, and art, Bouma-Prediger and Walsh show how we can heal the profound dislocations in our society.

In this fifteenth-anniversary edition, the authors return to their work with a new postscript, in which they discuss the evolution of their ideas and share true stories of home and community built anew. This revitalized classic is a must-read for any Christian committed to social justice—and anyone longing for home.

Steven Bouma-Prediger is the Leonard and Marjorie Maas Professor of Reformed Theology at Hope College.

Brian J. Walsh served as a campus minister and adjunct professor of theology at the University of Toronto.

THE KINGDOM OF CHILDREN A

Liberation Theology

R. L. Stollar has spent his career advocating for the rights of children, and he thinks it’s time to stop talking down to children and start listening to them. In The Kingdom of Children, Stollar proposes a liberation theology of the child. Stollar begins with a theoretical framework that centers children in our theology and ecclesial life. Using scriptural examples as well as real studies of children’s spiritual lives, Stollar asserts that children can be priests, prophets, and theologians in our communities. Each chapter concludes with activities and discussion points to include the children in your life in the conversation. The Kingdom of Children is a must-read for youth ministers, parents, and anyone who works with children. By embracing the liberation of children, we can avoid stunting their spiritual growth and passing on trauma. And when we lift up children—truly value and learn from them—we build up the kingdom of God here in our communities.

R. L. Stollar advocates for children and abuse survivors. He holds an MHS in child protection from Nova Southeastern University.

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BLACK THEOLOGY AND BLACK FAITH

In this concise yet thorough volume, Noel Leo Erskine examines Black theology from every angle, seeking to answer the question, Why would Africa’s children turn to the God of their oppressors for liberation? Unpacking the background and distinctive ideas of Black theology, Erskine covers major thinkers and illumines various areas of inquiry: suffering and theodicy, sin and reconciliation, baptism and the sacraments, womanism and Christology, and more.

What unites these strands is the goal of liberation—of a faith that delivers not theoretical orthodoxies but real change in the lives of those buckling under racist oppression. Black Theology and Black Faith is the perfect reading for students and scholars looking to recenter the voices of the marginalized in their theology.

RETHINKING THE FILIOQUE WITH THE GREEK FATHERS

Historically one of the major obstacles to Christian unity across the East-West divide, the Filioque—the part of the Latin translation of the Nicene Creed claiming the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son—still bedevils Trinitarian theologians today. How can the church possibly achieve unity in the face of a dogmatic difference that has been irreconcilable for over a millennium?

With careful historical research and rigorous theological argument, Giulio Maspero tackles the question of how to maintain the Father’s monarchy and the Son’s immanent role in the procession of the Holy Spirit. Maspero’s irenic and thorough work ultimately reveals a way forward for East and West—one based not on centuries of polemics, but on a common tradition established by the Greek Fathers. Essential reading for the ecumenically minded theologian, Rethinking the Filioque with the Greek Fathers takes a crucial step toward Christian unity.

Giulio Maspero is professor of theology of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

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BEYOND IMMANENCE

The Theological Vision of Kierkegaard and Barth

Critical insights into Kierkegaard’s influence on Barth’s theology.

Karl Barth was often critical of Søren Kierkegaard’s ideas as he understood them. But close reading of the works of the two men reveals that Barth owes a lot to the melancholy Dane. Both conceive of God as infinitely qualitatively different from humans, and both emphasize the shocking nearness of God in the incarnation. As public intellectuals, they used this theological vision to protect Christocentric faith from political manipulation and compromise. For Kierkegaard, this meant criticizing the state church; for Barth, this entailed resisting Nazism. Meticulously crafted by a father-son team of renowned systematic theologians, Beyond Immanence demonstrates that Kierkegaard and Barth share a theological trajectory—one that resists cynical manipulation of Christianity for political purposes in favor of uncompromising devotion to a God who is radically transcendent yet established kinship with humanity in time.

REVIEWS

“A major theological statement, which resonates with significance for adjacent philosophical, cultural, and political realms. But then what else would we expect when two of the finest theological minds of our generation explore two of the greatest theological minds of all time?”

“For anyone concerned with the relation between Kierkegaard and Barth, this is the book.”

“By re-equipping contemporary theology with the lessons Barth and Kierkegaard together teach, the authors invite a specific reordering of the Christian mind with profound consequences for faith, life, theology, and ethics.”

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Alan J. Torrance is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the University of St. Andrews.

Andrew B. Torrance is a senior lecturer in theology at the University of St. Andrews.

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BREAKING BREAD

The Emergence of Eucharist and Agape in Early Christian Communities

In Breaking Bread, Alistair C. Stewart cuts through scholarly confusion about early Christian eating. Stewart pinpoints the split in agape and eucharist to the shift in celebrating the eucharist on Sunday morning, leading to the inception of agape as an evening meal. The former sought divine union, the latter, communal harmony. In the final chapter he explores a breadth of Syriac, Greek, and Latin primary sources on a variety of local eucharistic traditions, tracing their development into the familiar prayers and distribution of token amounts of bread and wine, which emerged in the third century.

Nuanced and well-researched, Breaking Bread clarifies the development of the blessed sacrament and its lesser-known counterpart. Theologians and historians of early Christianity will find Stewart’s work foundational in approaching a topic of enduring scholarly interest but elusive consensus.

SCRIPTURE, THE GENESIS OF DOCTRINE

Doctrine and Scripture in Early Christianity, vol. 1

The first of two volumes exploring the emergence of doctrine in the early church, Scripture, the Genesis of Doctrine reframes the relationship between Scripture and Christian doctrine according to the intellectual context of the first few centuries CE. Frances M. Young situates the early Christians’ biblical hermeneutic within the context of GrecoRoman learning without espousing historical relativism.

Young argues that the scriptural canon and the rule of faith emerged concurrently in the early church, and both were received as apostolic. The perceived gap between the two may in fact be the product of our modern assumptions rather than an ancient reality. Nuanced and ecumenical, Young’s magisterial study holds widespread implications for not only patristics but also exegesis and systematic theology.

Frances M. Young is emeritus professor of theology at the University of Birmingham and a fellow of the British Academy.

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“SON OF MAN”

Volume One: Early Jewish Literature

Richard

Among those studying messianism in Second Temple Judaism, consensus about the valences of “Son of Man” in Scripture remains elusive. In the first volume of this landmark study, Richard Bauckham pushes the conversation forward, explicating the phrase “Son of Man” as it appears in Jewish interpretations of the book of Daniel and in the apocryphal book of 1 Enoch. With philological precision and sensitivity to his sources, Bauckham attunes us to the realities of early Jewish eschatology. Thorough and comprehensive, “Son of Man,” vol. 1, offers scholars a solid basis for understanding the context of the messiah in the centuries leading up to Jesus. Along with the forthcoming second volume, which parses the meaning of “Son of Man” in the Gospels, Bauckham’s work is essential for understanding one of the most widely used yet misunderstood phrases in the Bible.

NEW TESTAMENT APOCRYPHA, VOLUME 3

More Noncanonical Scriptures

New Testament Apocrypha, vol. 3, continues to unearth the vast diversity of Christian scripture outside of the traditional canon. This new collection encompasses a broad range of languages—Greek, Church Slavic, Old English, Coptic, and more—and spans centuries, from the formation of the canonical New Testament to the high Middle Ages. The selections here represent some of the least-studied apocryphal texts, many of which have not previously received an English translation or even a critical edition. Scholars of apocrypha, Scripture, and hagiography from a breadth of disciplines will find this an indispensable reference for their research and teaching.

REVIEWS FOR PREVIOUS VOLUMES

“This is an incredibly rich, informative, and highly scholarly presentation of little-known texts.”

—THE EXPOSITORY TIMES

Tony Burke is professor of humanities at York University.

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Brent A. Strawn is D. Moody Smith Distinguished Professor of Old Testament and professor of law at Duke University. He is also a senior fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and an ordained elder in the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Collin Cornell is a postdoctoral teaching fellow at Candler School of Theology, Emory University.

M. Justin Walker is assistant professor of Old Testament and Christian ministry at Lee University.

THE INCOMPARABLE GOD

Readings in Biblical Theology

Brent A. Strawn; edited by Collin Cornell and M. Justin Walker

Essays from a master of biblical theology.

That God is unlike anyone or anything else is a truth lodged deep within Christian Scripture. In The Incomparable God, Old Testament scholar Brent A. Strawn offers thoughtful insight into this theological mystery.

This volume collects eighteen of Strawn’s most provocative essays on the nature of God, several of which are published for the first time here. Encompassing close readings of Scripture, biblical-theological argument, and considerations of praxis, The Incomparable God is essential reading for Old Testament scholars and students.

REVIEWS

“I’m sure I’m not the only one who has wondered about the secret Strawn sauce, its intriguing ingredients and high production rate. Cornell and Walker have finally provided us the recipe: biblical theological reflection, drawing from a host of interests and expertise, has been marinated with various great minds . . . and inspired by the ever-yielding staple ingredients, divine and scriptural incomparability. Throw in the odd garnish of a rarely used or difficult text, and you have a unique dish that serves both the academy and the church.”

“A grand articulation from one of our most generative interpreters.”

“A collection that offers a feast of the finest of biblical scholarship, spreading before the hungry reader a meaty and robust fare along with occasional delicacies, all for the nourishment of the mind, and for the receptive reader, for the heart as well.”

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RECRUITING THE ANCIENTS FOR THE CREATION DEBATE

Recruiting the Ancients for the Creation Debate examines how theologians and exegetes from history are invoked in the modern creation debate. Covering Philo, Basil, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley, and more, Andrew J. Brown carefully interprets great thinkers’ readings of Genesis 1 in their intellectual contexts. He then assesses how these authors have been subject to cherry-picking and misappropriation in one of the most polarizing debates in the contemporary church. By studying the intellectual history of the church in this way—to revisit rather than recruit the ancients—we can enrich our own biblical interpretation. Irenic and magisterial, Brown’s guide will interest both scholars of historical theology and anyone invested in the creation debate.

Andrew J. Brown is Old Testament Lecturer at the Melbourne School of Theology. He is the author of The Days of Creation: A History of Christian Interpretation of Genesis 1:1–2:3

THAT I MAY DWELL AMONG THEM

Incarnation and Atonement in the Tabernacle Narrative

Gary A. Anderson

The Tabernacle Narrative comprises passages in Exodus and Leviticus that detail the construction, furnishing, and liturgical use of the tabernacle. Gary Anderson shows how these passages shed light on incarnation and atonement both in ancient Israel’s theology and in Christian theology. God’s “indwelling” in the tabernacle offers a unique witness to the nature of incarnation, supplementing the story told in the Gospels. Likewise, analysis of the purpose of sacrifice at the tabernacle deepens our understanding of Christ’s passion. Far from connoting penal substitution, sacrifice in the Old Testament demonstrates self-emptying as an antidote to sin.

Theologians, pastors, and serious readers of the Bible will appreciate how Anderson’s canonical and literary analysis of the Tabernacle Narrative illuminates Christian theology.

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Susan E. Hylen is professor of New Testament at Emory University and a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Her previous books include Women in the New Testament World and A Modest Apostle: Thecla and the History of Women in the Early Church.

FINDING PHOEBE

What New Testament Women Were Really Like

Forget what you think you know about women in the early church.

In this learned yet accessible book, Susan E. Hylen introduces firstcentury primary sources to illuminate readers’ understanding of New Testament women. Perfect for clergy, spiritual reading groups, and all curious minds, Finding Phoebe combines incisive scholarship and instructional sensibility to encourage readers to develop their own informed interpretations of Scripture.

Contrary to popular conceptions of “biblical womanhood” as passive and silent, women often served as leaders and prophets in their communities. Women owned one-third of all property during the period, granting them access to civic power through patronage. Many women worked outside the home and were educated according to the needs of their professions. Through careful examination of “modesty” and “silence” in the Greco-Roman world, Hylen reveals the centrality of these virtues to both men and women practicing self-control in service of communal good.

Hylen’s work will challenge readers to consider New Testament women on their own terms. This practical book includes historical context, scriptural evidence, and questions for discussion.

REVIEWS

“Instructive, insightful, innovative, and interactive, . . . this volume will inform, if not transform, the way you perceive women in the New Testament and its environs in general and in Paul and his letters in particular.”

“A welcome correction to stereotyping of ancient Mediterranean women as passive and helpless.”

“Accessible and engaging, Finding Phoebe is an educator’s dream.”

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MARK’S GOSPEL

History, Theology, Interpretation

A culmination of contemporary scholarship on the Gospel of Mark.

A preeminent scholar of the Gospel of Mark, C. Clifton Black has been studying and publishing on the gospel for over thirty years. This new collection brings together his most pivotal work and fresh investigations to constitute an all-in-one compendium of contemporary Markan scholarship and exegesis.

The essays included cover scriptural commentary, historical studies, literary analysis, theological argument, and pastoral considerations. Scholars, advanced students, and clergy alike will consider this book an indispensable resource for understanding the foundational gospel.

REVIEWS

“With sophistication and candor, C. Clifton Black provides a masterly guide to the wild and mysterious terrain of Mark’s Gospel, bursting with both sophisticated scholarship and personal reflections. A must-read for scholars, students, and ministers of religion.”

“I can think of no other volume that would be better placed in the hands of beginning students, who will find themselves returning to it year after year for insight, illumination, and inspiration.”

“This volume marks something of a watershed in Markan studies (and much else).”

—FRANCIS

“This may well be the best and most thorough survey of and engagement with contemporary Markan scholarship to date.”

978-0-8028-7918-9 • 558 pages • Hardcover • $59.99 US £45.00 UK • $80.99 CAN AVAILABLE MAY 2023

C. Clifton Black is Otto A. Piper Professor of Biblical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is an ordained elder in the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church and president of the American Theological Society (2022–2023).

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978-0-8028-7915-8 • 240 pages • Paperback

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WOMEN WHO DO

Female Disciples in the Gospels

Holly J. Carey

In Women Who Do, Holly J. Carey examines what it means to be a disciple—and contends that it’s the women who best embody discipleship in the Gospels. Carey describes the expectations and social roles for women in first-century Greco-Roman and Jewish contexts. Then she offers a close reading of each of the four Gospels, as well as Acts of the Apostles.

What emerges is a cohesive narrative-critical case that the Twelve are not an equivalent group to the disciples. In fact, the Twelve are set as foils against the faithful, active, and often nameless disciples who populate the narratives—many of whom are women. Women Who Do is essential reading for students and scholars seeking a fuller understanding of women’s roles in Jesus’s ministry.

Holly J. Carey is professor of biblical studies and chair of the Biblical Studies Department at Point University.

JESUS TRADITION, EARLY CHRISTIAN MEMORY, AND GOSPEL WRITING

The Long Search for the Authentic Source

In Jesus Tradition, Early Christian Memory, and Gospel Writing, Alan Kirk guides us through the history of biblical scholars’ quest for the authentic source. Kirk reveals that outdated assumptions about ancient media realities have caused the past two centuries of deadlock on the Synoptic problem. Using cutting-edge scholarship on orality, memory, and tradition formation, he shows how the origins of the Gospels may be found in the memory practices of the earliest Jesus communities. This fresh volume is an essential resource for scholars and students looking to better understand this complex and rapidly changing field.

REVIEWS

“A landmark in scholarship on the Gospels.”

Alan Kirk is professor of religion at James Madison University, Virginia, where he teaches a range of courses in New Testament and early Christianity.

978-0-8028-8295-0 • 380 pages • Hardcover

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AVAILABLE AUGUST 2023

SHAPING THE PAST TO DEFINE THE PRESENT

Luke-Acts and Apologetic Historiography

Rethinking early Christian identity with the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.

This volume comprises both new and revised essays by esteemed New Testament scholar Gregory E. Sterling on Jewish and early Christian historiography. A sequel to his seminal work, Historiography and Self-Definition, this volume expands on Sterling’s reading of Luke-Acts in the context of contemporary Jewish and Greek historiography.

The current volume includes essays on the works of Josephus and Eusebius, the composition and circulation of Luke-Acts, and the Jewish and Greco-Roman influences on Luke-Acts. Engaging with current critical frameworks, Sterling offers readers a comprehensive analysis of early Christian self-definition through Judeo-Christian historiography.

REVIEWS

“Clear, methodical argumentation, command of the ancient sources, energetic engagement of recent classical and biblical scholarship, and intimate familiarity with key interpretive questions relating to Luke-Acts ensure that Shaping the Past to Define the Present will take its place alongside other field-defining works.”

—CARL HOLLADAY Emory University

“An important study on Luke-Acts and ancient historiography by a world-leading scholar that will be read with great profit by scholars and students.”

—JENS SCHRÖTER Humboldt University

“This indispensable sequel—now including treatment of Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History—updates and develops the thesis [of Historiography and Self-Definition] with fresh insights, illustrating how reconstructions of past events respond to various debates in the lives of their authors. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of the early church.”

978-0-8028-4873-4 • 301 pages • Hardcover • $44.00 US £38.00 UK • $58.99 CAN AVAILABLE NOW

Gregory E. Sterling is the Rev. Henry L. Slack Dean and the Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School. A specialist in Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity, he is the author or coeditor of eight books and more than 100 articles in learned journals or scholarly collections.

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978-0-8028-7891-5 • 416 pages • Hardcover $64.99 US • £51.99 UK • $87.99 CAN AVAILABLE AUGUST 2023

THE NEW PERSPECTIVE ON GRACE

Paul and the Gospel after Paul and the Gift

John M. G. Barclay’s contributions to Pauline Studies reached a new height with the publication of his award-winning Paul and the Gift. But where does Pauline scholarship go from here? Featuring a diverse group of internationally renowned scholars, The New Perspective on Grace collects essays inspired by Barclay’s magnum opus. These essays probe the implications of grace and gift across a variety of fields: biblical studies, theology, reception history, and theology in practice. The New Perspective on Grace is essential reading for all students and scholars who want to understand the current state of Pauline scholarship.

CONTRIBUTORS

Edward Adams, Dorothea H. Bertschmann, Ben C. Blackwell, David E. Briones, Marion L. S. Carson, Stephen J. Chester, Susan Grove Eastman, Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Simon Gathercole, Beverly Roberts Gaventa, John K. Goodrich, Judith M. Gundry, Jane Heath, David G. Horrell, Jonathan A. Linebaugh, Joel Marcus, Orrey McFarland, Dean Pinter, Todd D. Still, Paul Trebilco, Michael Wolter.

ISRAEL’S SCRIPTURES IN EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITINGS

The Use of the Old Testament in the New

In this landmark collection of essays, Matthias Henze and David Lincicum marshal an international group of renowned scholars to analyze the New Testament, text-by-text, aiming to better understand what roles Israel’s Scriptures play therein. Comprehensive and foundational, Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings will serve as an essential resource for biblical scholars for years to come.

CONTRIBUTORS

Garrick V. Allen, Michael Avioz, Martin Bauspieß, Richard Bautch, Ian K. Boxall, Marc Zvi Brettler, Jaime Clark-Soles, Michael Benjamin Cover, A. Andrew Das, Susan Docherty, Paul Foster, Jörg Frey, Alexandria Frisch, Edmon L. Gallagher, Gabriella Gelardini, Jennie Grillo, Gerd Häfner, Matthias Henze, J. Thomas Hewitt, Robin M. Jensen, Martin Karrer, Matthias Konradt, Katja Kujanpää, John R. Levison, David Lincicum, Grant Macaskill, Tobias Nicklas, Valérie Nicolet, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, George Parsenios, Benjamin Reynolds, Dieter T. Roth, Dietrich Rusam, Jens Schröter, Claudia Setzer, Elizabeth Shively, Michael Karl-Heinz Sommer, Janet Elizabeth Spittler, Angela Standhartinger, Gert Steyn, Todd D. Still, Rodney Werline, Benjamin Wold, Archie T. Wright

978-0-8028-7831-1 • 895 pages • Hardcover

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AVAILABLE JULY 2023

THE PRONUNCIATION OF NEW TESTAMENT GREEK

Judeo-Palestinian Greek Phonology and Orthography from Alexander to Islam

Benjamin Kantor

How would New Testament Greek have been pronounced?

Benjamin Kantor offers fresh answers to this question in The Pronunciation of New Testament Greek. As the first comprehensive phonological and orthographic study of JudeoPalestinian Koine Greek, this book surveys thousands of inscriptions and papyri to determine its historical pronunciation. Benjamin Kantor covers his cutting-edge methodology, the chosen sources, and their context before explaining the pronunciation of each Greek phoneme individually. Written for interested students and specialists alike, this guide includes both explicatory footnotes for novices and technical analysis for veterans.

A SHORT GUIDE TO THE PRONUNCIATION OF NEW TESTAMENT GREEK

In A Short Guide to the Pronunciation of New Testament Greek, Benjamin Kantor explains how to pronounce Koine Greek authentically, seeking to improve students’ reading proficiency. Based on his magisterial monograph The Pronunciation of New Testament Greek, this primer gives students an overview of the basics of phonology before explaining the pronunciation of each Greek letter and phoneme individually. Perfect for classroom use, this guide explains Kantor’s innovative research accessibly and includes sample texts for reading practice.

978-0-8028-7832-8 • 148 pages • Paperback • $14.99 US • £12.99 UK • $19.99 CAN

AVAILABLE JULY 2023

REVIEWS

“This book displays exceptional learning spread across many centuries and various languages to get at a topic that always intrigues classicists and New Testament scholars. . . . A triumph!”

“Kantor’s work gives us an excellent starting point in studying the emerging topic of Koine Greek pronunciation without overwhelming the novice (or even many Greek teachers). I may have to repent of my lifelong use of Erasmian pronunciation.”

Benjamin Kantor is preceptor in Classical Hebrew at Harvard University. He was previously a research associate in Biblical Hebrew at the University of Cambridge. He earned his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.

978-0-8028-6950-0 • 208 pages • Hardcover

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AVAILABLE JUNE 2023

EXCAVATING THE LAND OF JESUS

How Archaeologists Study the People of the Gospels

James Riley Strange

Foreword by Luke Timothy Johnson

Archaeologists of first-century Roman Galilee aim to understand the lives of ordinary people who lived in the time of Jesus. How do we understand Jesus and his mission as part of a larger world? How do we interpret material culture alongside textual evidence from the Gospels? How do we know where and how to dig?

James Riley Strange teaches students how to address these problems in this essential textbook. Drawing on professional experience as a scientific archaeologist in Israel, Strange explains current methodology for ground surveying, excavating evidence, and interpreting data. Excavating the Land of Jesus is the ideal guide for students seeking answers in the dirt of the Holy Land.

FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING

An Introduction to Christian Theology, 4th ed.

Daniel L. Migliore

Daniel L. Migliore’s classic theology textbook returns in a new edition, revised and supplemented with fresh material. Faith Seeking Understanding covers fundamental topics for budding theologians, from biblical hermeneutics to the incarnation to the life of faith. In addition to updates throughout the text, the fourth edition also includes a new introduction and an additional chapter connecting Christology and ecology. Students will appreciate the textbook’s accessible style, comprehensive reading recommendations, and glossary of theological terms.

REVIEWS FOR THE THIRD EDITION

“This is theology with a sure and sharp pastoral touch. . . . An ideal primer in doctrine for students.”

—THE EXPOSITORY TIMES

Daniel L. Migliore is Charles Hodge Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary.

978-0-8028-8285-1• 568 pages • Paperback

$34.99 US • £28.00 UK • $46.99 CAN

AVAILABLE MAY 2023

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THE LETTER TO THE EPHESIANS

Constantine R. Campbell

Constantine R. Campbell illuminates the Letter to the Ephesians with scholarly precision and pastoral warmth. In line with the christological concerns of the letter, Campbell calls special attention to its theme of union with Christ. His thorough analysis covers a breadth of topics, including salvation and grace, the glory of God, and the church and its mission.

Aimed at students and scholars of the Pauline epistles, Campbell’s commentary carefully explains each verse of Ephesians with attention to historical and linguistic context. Yet the commentary prioritizes imminent theological concerns and remains accessible to any serious reader of the New Testament.

REVIEWS

“A distinguishing feature of this commentary is its more informal English style, which communicates very effectively and makes reading the commentary a refreshing experience.”

THE LETTER TO THE HEBREWS

Sigurd Grindheim

Sigurd Grindheim illuminates the Letter to the Hebrews, paying careful attention to its original context, linguistic features, and history of interpretation—all while centering its relevance to modern readers. Grindheim clearly and comprehensively addresses major issues about the text, including authorship, date, canonicity, formal qualities, and major themes. Following his thorough introduction, he explains each line of the text and its significance for believers today. Grindheim’s commentary offers pastors, students, and scholars the clarity and fresh insights they want in their scriptural study.

REVIEWS

“Grindheim’s commentary . . . is an outstanding contribution to scholarship on Hebrews and at the same time is accessible to readers who desire help in interpreting the letter.”

Sigurd Grindheim is a professor in the Department of Pedagogy, Religion, and Social Studies at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

978-0-8028-7571-6 • 848 pages • Hardcover

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AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2023

THE PILLAR NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARY

The Pillar New Testament Commentary seeks above all to make clear the meaning of the text of Scripture as we have it. Writers of the PNTC volumes interact with the most important contemporary issues yet avoid undue technical detail, blending exegesis and exposition, scholarship and pastoral sensitivity.

Pillar commentaries are profoundly Christian in their reverence for and obedience to the biblical text as the revealed Word of God. Pastors, teachers, and students can look to Pillar commentaries to understand, in clear terms, what the Scripture says and how to apply it to life today.

INDIVIDUAL TITLES INCLUDE

MATTHEW

Leon Morris

MARK

James R. Edwards

LUKE

James R. Edwards

JOHN

D. A. Carson

ACTS

David G. Peterson

ROMANS

Colin G. Kruse

1 CORINTHIANS

Roy E. Ciampa & Brian S. Rosner

2 CORINTHIANS

Mark A. Seifrid

EPHESIANS

Constantine R. Campbell

PHILIPPIANS

G. Walter Hansen

COLOSSIANS, PHILEMON

Douglas J. Moo

1 & 2 THESSALONIANS

Gene L. Green

1 & 2 TIMOTHY, TITUS

Robert W. Yarbrough

JAMES

Douglas J. Moo

2 PETER, JUDE

Peter H. Davids

LETTERS OF JOHN

Colin G. Kruse

978-0-8028-7726-0 • 384 pages • Hardcover $48.00 US • £40.00 UK • $64.99 CAN AVAILABLE NOW

THE BOOK OF RUTH

Peter H. W. Lau

Peter H. W. Lau’s commentary on the book of Ruth explores the relationships between Ruth, Naomi, Boaz, and God at the center of the narrative, as well as the book’s relevance to Christian theology. The Book of Ruth includes detailed notes on the translation and pays careful attention to the original Hebrew and the book’s historical context, all the while remaining focused on Ruth’s relevance to Christian readers today. An indispensable resource for pastors, scholars, students, and all readers of Scripture, Lau’s commentary is the perfect companion to one of the most beloved books of the Old Testament.

REVIEWS

“A must-read for students of Hebrew narrative, pastors preaching this text, and anyone who seeks a culturally aware understanding of this beloved ancient story.”

Peter H. W. Lau is visiting scholar in Old Testament studies at Seminari Theoloji Malaysia.

THE BOOKS OF JOEL, OBADIAH, AND JONAH

James D. Nogalski offers a new translation of and commentary on the books of Joel, Obadiah, and Jonah. This volume includes a robust introduction for each book, delineating its textual transmission, historical context, literary form, and major themes. The commentaries proper explain the texts verse by verse, illuminating each book’s structure and canonical significance, yet always with an eye toward pastoral application. Academically rigorous and accessibly written, The Books of Joel, Obadiah, and Jonah is an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and pastors.

REVIEWS

“Scholars and preachers alike will greatly benefit from this superb resource that Nogalski has produced, which brings Joel, Obadiah, and Jonah to life for modern students of the Bible.”

James D. Nogalski is director of graduate studies and professor of Hebrew Bible and Old Testament at Baylor University.

978-0-8028-6427-7 • 470 pages • Hardcover $54.00 US • £45.00 UK • $72.99 CAN AVAILABLE MAY 2023

NEW INTERNATIONAL COMMENTARY ON THE OLD TESTAMENT

The New International Commentary on the Old Testament combines superior scholarship, an evangelical view of Scripture as the Word of God, and concern for the life of faith today. Each volume features an extensive introduction treating the biblical book’s authorship, date, purpose, structure, and theology. The author’s own translation of the Hebrew text and verse-by-verse commentary follow.

Readers who want to hear God’s voice anew through Scripture will find the New International Commentary on the Old Testament to be a faithful, trustworthy guide to often complicated and foreign texts and contexts. Pastors and scholars can enhance their preaching and teaching by consulting its rigorous scholarship rendered in an accessible style.

NEW INTERNATIONAL COMMENTARY ON THE NEW TESTAMENT

The New International Commentary on the New Testament combines rigorous, current scholarship with a focus on the application of Scripture to the life of faith. In NICNT volumes, renowned international contributors expound on rhetorical features of New Testament texts, the cultural settings within which they were written, and their theological significance for God’s people.

Pastors, scholars, and students will benefit from the latest insights from biblical studies in each volume of NICNT. These accessible and authoritative guides to the New Testament, based in careful examination in the original Greek, will bring greater depth of understanding to scholars’ and pastors’ research or preaching and open new avenues through which to understand the word of God.

978-0-8028-7941-7 • 496 pages • Hardcover $39.99 US • £31.99 UK • $53.99 CAN AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2023

PROVERBS

John Goldingay

What Proverbs meant to its original audience—and what it means to Christians today.

John Goldingay’s fresh commentary untangles Proverbs with an eye toward Christian formation. Examining the text in English, Goldingay explains each verse in its original context without getting bogged down in technical detail. The commentary centers theological insights beneficial to preaching and pastoral work. The wisdom of Proverbs can’t be reduced to platitudes. It requires something of the reader: thought, reflection, and openness to the Lord. The Commentaries for Christian Formation Proverbs guides us in the journey of faith seeking understanding.

John Goldingay is senior professor of Old Testament and David Allan Hubbard Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Fuller Seminary.

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THE WISDOM OF SIRACH

Walter T. Wilson

Study the wisdom of Ben Sira.

A deuterocanonical collection of proverbs from the intertestamental period, the book of Sirach has been treated by many Protestants as a bit of Catholic trivia. Yet careful study of Sirach reveals fascinating insights into Jewish thought two centuries before Jesus. Walter T. Wilson invites scholars and nonspecialists alike to discover the wisdom of this important yet understudied text. Based on the New Revised Standard Version, Wilson’s commentary explicates the translated English text with careful attention to its historical and religious contexts, formal qualities, prevailing themes, and canonicity. The volume includes a helpful bibliography and notes.

REVIEWS

“A valuable and perceptive vade mecum that will expertly guide readers, students, and lay readers alike, chapter by chapter as they work through the complex, engaging, and at times controversial book of Ben Sira.”

Walter T. Wilson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of New Testament at Candler School of Theology, Emory University.

978-0-8028-8176-2 • 636 pages • Hardcover $85.99 US • £69.99 UK • $115.99 CAN

AVAILABLE JUNE 2023

WHY THE GOSPEL?

Living the Good News of King Jesus with Purpose

We know what the gospel is—but do we know why it is?

As Christians, we often ask what the gospel is, when we should be asking why it is. Matthew W. Bates has previously demonstrated that the “good news” of the gospel is that Jesus is King. But in his latest book, he explores why God issued this royal proclamation and what role it can play in our everyday lives.

With examples from Scripture, literature, and personal experience, Bates explains what pledging allegiance to Jesus as ruler of our lives actually looks like. Living authentically according to God’s reign conforms humanity to the image of Jesus and extends his glory and honor to all creation. Perfect for church studies, evangelism, or personal spiritual reading, Why the Gospel? invites readers to consider how we can transform our lives and communities through loyalty and devotion to King Jesus.

“Read and wrestle with this book; I am very glad that I did.”

“Bates masterfully shows how the fully orbed gospel of the biblical witness is still good news for ‘nones’ and ‘dones,’ those without religion, and those who have walked away from it. An ideal book for Bible study groups who want to be reminded of why the gospel is indeed ‘good news.’”

“Matthew Bates has written the book our generation needs. He not only helps us rediscover the radical message of Jesus and his apostles, but he shows why this gospel is far larger than a narrow call to individual salvation. It’s the message the church, and the world, has been waiting for.”

978-0-8028-8168-7 • 198 pages • Paperback • $17.99 US £12.99 UK • $23.99 CAN AVAILABLE MAY 2023

Matthew W. Bates is professor of theology at Quincy University. A Protestant who enjoys the challenge of teaching in a Catholic context, Bates holds an MCS from Regent College (biblical studies) and a PhD from University of Notre Dame (theology, New Testament). He is cofounder of the OnScript podcast.

THE END OF THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION

The dominant model of theological education is coming to an end— but Ted A. Smith looks to its ultimate ends as sources of hope and renewal. Smith locates the challenges facing theological education today in a sweeping history of religion in the United States. He then connects these challenges to shifts in contemporary society, including declining religious affiliation, rising desires for authenticity, and the unraveling of professions.

Smith refuses to tell the story as one of progress or decline. Instead, he puts theological education in eschatological perspective, understanding it in relation to its ultimate purpose: “knowledge of God . . . so deep, so intimate, that it requires and accomplishes our transformation.” This knowledge is not restricted to a professional clerical class but is given for the salvation of all. Seeing by the light of this hope, Smith calls readers to reimagine church, ministry, and theological education for this time between the times.

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978-0-8028-7887-8

• 239 pages

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A. Smith is

“If the future of theological inquiry and thus the future of the church is on your mind, this book must be on your desk.”

“Smith captures our current moment persuasively and truthfully. He testifies to God’s way of doing a new thing at this particular end for theological education, while providing a way of thinking through the new structures and modes that theological schools must inhabit. This is a must-read for those interested in the multiple futures of theological education and what those futures mean for communities of faith.”

THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION BETWEEN THE TIMES

The long-established model of theological education as preparation for professional ministry is groaning under intense pressure—but new possibilities are already emerging. Theological Education between the Times seeks to provoke smart , richly plural conversations about the highest ends of theological education that may be able to help readers understand and imagine what might come next—what might be born out of this time of transition

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ON BECOMING WISE TOGETHER

Learning and Leading in the City

Maria Liu Wong

On Becoming Wise Together explores how to reenvision theological education for diverse urban communities. Maria Liu Wong approaches the topic through the lens of her experience as a British-Chinese immigrant to Long Island, a missionary kid, a wife and mother, and the provost of City Seminary of New York. Liu Wong presents anecdotes and images from her life, with which she thinks broadly about how theological education functions in the city both formally and informally.

What she finds is that theological education is less about individuals accruing knowledge and more about communities growing in wisdom together—as a family, as friends, as colleagues, as coleaders.

978-0-8028-7906-6 • 176 pages • Paperback

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AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2023

Maria Liu Wong is provost of City Seminary of New York, a new institution that is pioneering creative forms of theological education that reach diverse communities across the city.

978-0-8028-8235-6 • 223 pages • Paperback • $19.99 US £14.99 UK • $26.99 CAN

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Charles Kiser is a pastor and theologian with Storyline Christian Community in Dallas, Texas. Kiser also serves as a faculty member of Neighborhood Seminary.

Elaine A. Heath is the author of eleven books, including The Mystic Way of Evangelism and Loving the Hell Out of Ourselves (and Others) (with Jeanine HeathMcGlinn). She formerly served as dean of the Divinity School at Duke University.

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TRAUMA-INFORMED EVANGELISM

Cultivating Communities of Wounded Healers

“We are at the forefront of a new reformation.”

So declares Elaine Heath in Trauma-Informed Evangelism, aiming to recover the God of love from the structures of hate that pervade Christian communities in America today. In their new guide, she and Charles Kiser work toward bringing this reformation to fruition through ministering specifically to the spiritually traumatized.

Over the course of their study, Kiser and Heath amplify the voices of those who suffered misogynistic, racist, or homophobic abuse at the hands of the church. While carefully listening to these stories, Kiser and Heath bring them into conversation with the passion and resurrection of Jesus. Engaging with womanist and liberation theology, they see in the crucifixion a God who does not valorize suffering but shares the experience of the traumatized. This theodicy leads them to propose a new evangelism—one based not on fear and coercion but on witnessing the unconditional love of God.

REVIEWS

“For anyone in ministry who is trying to reverse the impact of spiritual trauma on multiple generations, this book may be the most important book of our time.”

—SALLY GARY author of Affirming: A Memoir of Faith, Sexuality, and Staying in the Church

“A bold yet compassionate guide for anyone who seeks to understand the impact of trauma on faith and the role the church should take in facilitating healing.”

—TIFFANY YECKE BROOKS author of Gaslighted by God: Reconstructing a Disillusioned Faith

978-0-8028-8303-2 • 318 pages • Paperback

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FEASTS FOR THE KINGDOM

Sermons for the Liturgical Year

Khaled Anatolios

Foreword by Cornelius Plantinga

Khaled Anatolios invites readers to contemplate the rhythms of the church year with thirty-eight homilies, spanning from the Byzantine New Year through Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, and other important holy days along the way. As a patristic theologian, Anatolios illuminates the traditional doctrines of Christology and the Trinity, in a style reminiscent of the sermons of the great fathers of the church. Originally delivered as part of the Eastern Christian Divine Liturgy, the homilies look toward its eucharistic fulfillment.

This volume makes the perfect companion for pastors seeking inspiration for their own preaching and for ordinary Christians aiming to enrich their prayerful preparation for each liturgical season.

Khaled Anatolios is John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and a priest of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.

LEADING CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES

What does it mean to be a Christian community? And what does it mean to lead one? How does a pastor address today’s challenges, from lack of faith in institutions, to conflict in the church, to the tension between tradition and innovation?

C. Kavin Rowe addresses these topics and a multitude of others in this collection of keen essays. Bite-sized and conversational, yet deeply rooted in Scripture and recent pastoral theology, the essays in Leading Christian Communities reflect on the shaping of Christian leaders for the flourishing of their communities. Pastors and seminarians, as well as all those involved in church ministry, will find inspiration and insight in these pages.

REVIEWS

“These concise, highly readable essays stir our imagination and inspire us to more faithful and noble engagement.”

978-0-8028-8272-1 • 144 pages • Paperback

$19.99 US • £15.99 UK

EVANGELISM

Learning from the Past

Beyond his prolific academic career, Michael Green is fondly remembered for his commitment to sharing the gospel with everyone. His passion for evangelism, the heart of his life and work, shines through in Evangelism: Learning from the Past, his last manuscript before his passing in 2019.

Green narrates how evangelists spread the good news, from the first evangelist, Jesus, up through the twentieth century. Throughout the narrative, he focuses on what we can learn from evangelists through history to inform our own practice today. To this end, each chapter concludes with questions to encourage reflection. Those who have been moved by Green’s work will treasure this deeply personal final entry into his extensive oeuvre.

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978-0-8028-8343-8 • 184 pages • Paperback $22.99 US • £18.99 UK • $30.99 CAN AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2023

Michael Green (1930–2019) was one of the best-known British evangelical theologians and preachers of his generation.

THE MISSIONARY MOVEMENT FROM THE WEST

A Biography from Birth to Old Age

In this highly anticipated capstone work, pioneering missiologist Andrew Walls explores every facet of the Protestant missionary movement in the West, including its history, theory, and future. Now that Christianity has become primarily an African, Latin American, and Asian religion rather than a European one, the dynamics of the church’s mission have transformed. Sensitive to this shift, Walls indicates new areas of listening to and learning from this new center of Christianity and speculates on the theological contributions from a truly global church.

Prior to his passing in 2021, Walls entrusted the editing of his lectures to his friends and students. The result of this labor of love, The Missionary Movement from the West is a must-read for scholars of missiology, world Christianity, and church history.

Andrew F. Walls (1928–2021) was a widely esteemed scholar and teacher in the field of missiology.

978-0-8028-4897-0 • 288 pages • Paperback $32.99 US • £26.99 UK • $44.99 CAN AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2023

“I pray that this book is instrumental in equipping a new generation of Christians to share the good news of Jesus Christ with boldness and without hindrance!”

—PAUL AKIN Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

EVEN THE DEVIL QUOTES SCRIPTURE

Reading the Bible on Its Own Terms

“We are meant to take the Bible seriously, not literally.” —from the introduction

In Even the Devil Quotes Scripture, Robyn J. Whitaker looks to the Bible as a guide to interpreting the Bible, and her findings breathe new life into our understanding and use of Scripture. As it turns out, the uses of Scripture within Scripture are flexible, open to frequent reinterpretation, and rarely literal.

But Whitaker ascertains one definitive characteristic of inner-biblical interpretation: love. After all, the Old Testament passage most frequently quoted in the New Testament is Leviticus 19:18: “Love thy neighbor.” Thus, Whitaker proposes a hermeneutic of love—a litmus test for the validity of a scriptural interpretation measured in charity. Ideal for any devoted reader of the Bible, Even the Devil Quotes Scripture opens our eyes to the Bible as a living, loving gift of God’s unfolding revelation.

REVIEWS

“In a world keen on proof-texting and my-way-or-the-highway, Whitaker challenges the ways the Bible is used to condemn and exclude and advocates replacing such use with a hermeneutic of love, inviting readers deeper into conversation with God and following the example of Jesus.”

“This engaging book should be read by any student embarking on the study of the Bible, especially those who come from a conservative background and are anxious about the effects of critical scholarship.”

“A critically important resource for any Christian who wants to encounter God’s love as it is unfolding in history in our present moment.”

978-0-8028-8203-5 • 189 pages • Paperback • $22.99 US £16.99 UK • $30.99 CAN

AVAILABLE MAY 2023

Robyn J. Whitaker is an associate professor of New Testament at the University of Divinity, Melbourne. She is also the author of Ekphrasis, Vision, and Persuasion in the Book of Revelation.

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978-0-8028-8234-9 • 176 pages • Paperback $16.99 US • £12.99 UK • $22.99 CAN AVAILABLE AUGUST 2023

UNEXPECTED ABUNDANCE

The Fruitful Lives of Women without Children

Elizabeth Felicetti

Meet 25 women who generated life without giving birth.

In many Christian communities today, women are expected to have children—to “be fruitful and multiply.” To be childless is to be less of a woman, less of a Christian, or so it can feel. Elizabeth Felicetti is deeply familiar with this pressure as an Episcopal priest who was unable to have the children she hoped would be part of her life. But if she’s “barren,” so is the desert—and if you look closely, the desert teems with unexpected life.

Reflecting on her own experiences as well as those of remarkable women from history, Felicetti explores how childless women make vital contributions in their communities. Women without children, by choice or chance, who have felt frustrated or voiceless in the church will find solidarity and inspiration in the pages of Unexpected Abundance.

Elizabeth Felicetti is an Episcopal priest and the rector of St. David’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia.

THE A TO Z OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

Things Experts Know That Everyone Else Should Too

James F. McGrath

So you think you know the New Testament?

Did you know that Jesus made puns? Did you know that Paul never calls himself or the churches he writes to “Christian”? Did you know that we don’t know who wrote the Letter to the Hebrews, or if it’s even really a letter?

James F. McGrath sheds light on these and many other surprising realities of Scripture in The A to Z of the New Testament. Cutting through common myths and misunderstandings of problematic Bible passages, James F. McGrath opens up expert knowledge to laypeople in his friendly introduction to New Testament studies. Each chapter in this fresh, accessible volume begins with a provocative anecdote or fact and then pulls back the curtain to inform curious readers about how scholars approach the issue. Inquisitive believers will reinvigorate their Bible study with The A to Z of the New Testament as their guide.

978-0-8028-8230-1 • 320 pages •

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A DISCUSSION GUIDE FOR

STUDIES IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT

Rediscover a spiritual classic.

LLOYD-JONES

Since its publication over half a century ago, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones has inspired generations of Christian readers. Now, J. D. Flanagan revisits Lloyd-Jones’s classic work of exegesis with this fresh discussion guide.

Moving chapter by chapter through Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, Flanagan’s detailed study guide encourages readers to consider both what the Scripture passage says and how Lloyd-Jones explicates it. Together, Studies and this guide expound on the meaning of Jesus’s iconic sermon and its implications for the life of faith. Flanagan’s work encourages readers to apply their reflections to issues that face Christians today.

This book includes discussion questions, practical exercises, and scriptural and literary citations.

J. D. Flanagan is a licensed professional who specializes in faith-based counseling. She is a writer, disciple maker, and speaker at women’s conferences on topics such as grief, forgiveness, hope, waiting on God, and more.

STUDIES IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

REVIEWS

“Lloyd-Jones has written some of the best stuff ever. His Studies in the Sermon on the Mount will thrill your soul.”

RESTORATION REVIEW

“Books on the Sermon on the Mount are legion, but Lloyd-Jones’ penetrating work deserves to be classed among the very best of them. . . . These messages deal seriously with the meaning of the biblical text, probe deeply into the human heart, and come to grips with humanity’s profoundest needs.”

SOUTHWESTERN

JOURNAL

OF THEOLOGY

978-0-8028-0036-7 • 593 pages

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AN INVITATION TO JOY

The Divine Journey to Human Flourishing

Jesus came to bring joy to the world. What happened?

In An Invitation to Joy, Daniel J. Denk invites readers to cast off hopelessness and rediscover joy. Yet, as Denk reminds us, “we don’t find joy by pursuing joy; we find it by pursuing something else,” namely, the kingdom of God. This joy is not naive optimism but a profound sense of purpose and peace. Denk approaches the topic of Christian joy with sensitivity and nuance, supporting his argument with Scripture and theological scholarship. But An Invitation to Joy is written for everyone. Denk is just as likely to reflect on his personal experience or his favorite passages from Lord of the Rings. Life-affirming, empathetic, and, above all, joyful, An Invitation to Joy is a salve for the wounds of the world-weary. If you have lost your joy, this book will help you find it again.

REVIEWS

978-0-8028-8308-7 • 243 pages• Paperback • $24.99 US £14.99 UK • $33.99 CAN

AVAILABLE APRIL 2023

Daniel J. Denk is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America. Dan has ministered in forty-five countries around the world and also served as theological director with InterVarsity.

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“Refreshing, rebuking, reviving, rewarding, and richly biblical and practical.”

—CHRISTOPHER J. H. WRIGHT Langham Partnership (from the foreword)

“Daniel Denk’s winsome and thoughtful reflections on the place of joy in Christian life are illuminating and enriching. It is a book that will be appreciated not only in the reading but also for the lasting reminders to cultivate joy in all that one does.”

—GEORGE MARSDEN University of Notre Dame

“An Invitation to Joy . . . is a powerful tool in these times of tremendous sorrow and pain, a book grounded in the word of God and in all we know as the foundation of our faith in Jesus Christ.”

—PATRICIA JABBEH WESLEY author of Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems

SHATTERED

A Son Picks Up the Pieces of His Father’s Rage

A sensitive and penetrating reflection on coming of age in a Dutch immigrant family scarred by violence.

Arthur Boers’s earliest memory was of shattered glass. His father threw a potted plant at his mother, and she ducked as the plant crashed through a window of the family home. His mother cleaned up the shards that day; later in life, he would find himself called upon to pick up the pieces as well.

In Shattered, Boers reflects on coming of age in a family scarred by violence. The son of Dutch immigrants, Boers illuminates the generational trauma of the Nazi occupation of Holland, refracted in vignettes of his boyhood in postwar Canada. His hard-working, Calvinist family is endearing but ultimately unable to address the insidious cycle of abuse that passed from father to son. Breaking with this silence and complicity, Boers reflects candidly and empathetically on his tumultuous relationship with his father. Intertwined with this narrative is his emerging vocation to ministry, more mystical and expressive than the Reformed tradition in which he was raised.

Forthright and authentic, Boers extends a hand in solidarity to readers who have been wounded by those who were meant to protect them. With Shattered, he charts a path toward healing through faith.

REVIEWS

“One of those rare memoirs that is both honest and fair, that pulls no punches yet lands at a place of hard-earned light and repose.”

FROM THE FOREWORD BY ANDRE DUBUS III

“This brave and wonderful book made me feel gratitude, care, and something like quiet awe.”

978-0-8028-8246-2 • 216 pages • Hardcover • $22.99 US £16.99 UK • $30.99 CAN

AVAILABLE MAY 2023

Arthur Boers is an Anglican priest and author of several award-winning books, including The Way Is Made by Walking, Living into Focus, and Servants and Fools. He holds a DMin from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and an MFA from Seattle Pacific University.

“In an era as rightly concerned as ours about violence—collective, familial, natural, political—I can’t imagine a more important story.”

978-0-8028-8249-3 • 207 pages • Hardcover • $25.00 US £19.99 UK • $33.99 CAN AVAILABLE MAY 2023

LESSONS AND CAROLS

A Meditation on Recovery

Maybe redemption is not a place you find, but a system of mapmaking. Sketch a land. Pencil in dragons. Imagine it real, resplendent, and broken under a waxing moon.

Lessons and Carols is a genre-bending memoir that explores the aftershocks of alcoholism and mental illness through a fresh look at the powers of poetry, ritual, and community. As a new parent, West grapples with his own fragmented recovery and grief for the friends he lost to addiction, asking if anyone can really change, or if we are always bound to repeat the past.

Echoing the form of a traditional Anglican Christmas service of stories and songs, West’s lyrical prose invites readers into an unorthodox rendition of the liturgy called Lessons and Carols. Each December, a faithful circle of irreligious friends assembles to eat and sing and reimagine an old story about love made flesh. In that gathering’s glow, resentments turn to quiet wonder at the ways a better world can appear.

Both tender and bracing, West’s poetic meditation of the possibilities of change will resonate deeply with anyone who has tired of their own destructive loops. In this stirring account of recovery, redemption remains elusive—and as tangible as the promise of a newborn.

REVIEWS

“Lessons and Carols is a beautiful book, a heartbreaking book, a book that with its fullness reaffirms life, and so it is a gift of a book.”

“These haunted, humane meditations are at once elegy and hymn, psalms of ascent and lament. West finds possibilities for language that birth possibilities for how to be.”

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“Smart, potent, and fearless writing.”

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MEET JOHN WEST, AUTHOR OF LESSONS AND CAROLS

Tell us a little about yourself.

I currently work as the lead technologist in the R&D Lab of the Wall Street Journal, where I report the news with code. My work there has won multiple awards and been a finalist for a Pulitzer. I’ve worked at the intersection of news and technology for a while, previously at the MIT Media Lab, and before that at the digital magazine Quartz.

But I never really planned on this career. I have degrees in philosophy and historical performance (roughly, music written before 1750) from Oberlin College. I don’t think the dream was realistic, but at some point I did sort of think I would end up as a kind of itinerant philosopher/recorder player.

For a while, I did compose music, though—even as I worked in journalism. I set some friends’ poetry for Baroque ensemble (voice, recorder, violin, and basso continuo), and we did a whole operatic experience called King of that Also, which we performed in a few cities.

Why did you write Lessons and Carols?

I wish I had a good answer to this question! I mean, I think I have a bunch of good answers, and I’m not sure which one is the right one, if that makes sense. I think, if I had to pick, it’s this: I wanted my experience to be legible to people like me—and please do think of that “people like me” broadly. Sometimes, I would try to explain some detail of my life to a friend or acquaintance— my faith or my addiction or my experience of fatherhood—and I would get into this mode of saying “to understand that, you need to know this other thing,” and on and on it would go. This book, at its core, is an effort to explain myself.

What do you hope readers will get out of your book?

I’ve never been too sure about the adage that the universal is found in the specific, but maybe it’s true. I hope that readers, in seeing my attempt to bridge a spiritual life with secular concerns, might see ways they can similarly bridge those parts of their lives.

I hope that readers, in watching me through the paradoxes of mental health and addiction on the page, might become attuned to the paradoxes in their lives. I hope they will find beauty in what I wrote. Of course, if a reader gets any one of these things, that would be a small miracle, I think—but that’s the promise of literature: we’ll see our own lives reflected in someone else’s.

What are you interested in now?

Right now, maybe because I’ve started writing about it, I’m obsessed with the idea of archiving—what it means to keep artifacts—in this digital world. I think we don’t often interrogate the structures that surround our digital lives. Or maybe we do, but we often ask the wrong questions. We might ask “Is social media good or bad?” but we don’t necessarily ask “What are the effects of the specific choices made by social media?”

When it comes to digital archiving, we have this whole web of contingency—all these humans making their little human, fallible decisions—about how to build the suite of technologies we currently have. Their decisions led to the ability to store and save some thing but not others.

But what we remember matters. And with so much moving online, the specifics of these technologies are going to guide what we’re able to remember. And too few people are thinking about that.

John West is a technologist and writer, currently reporting the news with code at the Wall Street Journal, where his work has won multiple awards and been a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Previously, he worked at the MIT Media Lab and the digital publication Quartz. He holds an MFA in writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars and degrees in philosophy and music performance from Oberlin College. He lives in Boston with his partner, their daughter, and a cat.

978-0-8028-8344-5 • 214 pages • Paperback

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AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2023

SCENES WITH MY SON

Love and Grief in the Wake of Suicide

Robert Hubbard

Foreword by Nicholas

A celebration and an elegy, Scenes with My Son sensitively renders the terrible privilege of grief in the wake of suicide.

After years battling clinical depression exacerbated by autism, Auggie Hubbard died by suicide at the age of 19. His family was left with sorrow and grief, but also gratitude and joy. In this poignant tribute to his son, Robert Hubbard—a theatre scholar and actor—captures this spectrum of emotions as if on stage.

Through this series of scenes from Auggie’s life and the days following his death, readers journey with a family shaken by mental illness and share in their hard-won joys in defiance of depression. Hubbard’s honesty and vulnerability—and his tender portrait of Auggie—are gifts to all who live on in the wake of a loved one’s death.

IN THOUGHT, WORD, AND SEED

Reckonings from a Midwest Farm

In this brilliantly crafted essay collection, Tiffany Eberle Kriner weaves together literary criticism, nature writing, and memoir to explore what grows when we plant texts in the landscape of our lives.

From her 60-acre farm in northern Illinois, Kriner reads James Baldwin, Virgil, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, T. S. Eliot, William Langland, and others. She weaves reflections into the warp and woof of her life: coaxing growth from neglected land, embracing the frustrations and joys of family life, reckoning with racism in a small town. Along the way she cultivates an awareness of interdependence and mercy as they appear in the particulars of her rooted life.

Connecting culture, ecology, faith, and literature, In Thought, Word, and Seed also invites readers to cultivate fruitful conversations between literature and the environments in which they live.

Tiffany Eberle Kriner is associate professor of English at Wheaton College.

978-0-8028-8290-5 • 208 pages • Paperback

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AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER

PEOPLE GET READY

Twelve Jesus-Haunted Misfits, Malcontents, and Dreamers in Pursuit of Justice

Peter Slade, Shea Tuttle, and Jacqueline A. Bussie, eds.

Foreword by Charles Marsh

Meet twelve activists whose faith transformed twentieth-century America.

In a political climate where Christianity is increasingly seen as reactionary, People Get Ready offers a revolutionary alternative. Narrated by some of the most galvanizing voices of the current moment, this collection of succinct and evocative biographies tells the stories of twelve modern apostles who lived the gospel mission and unsettles what we think we know about Christianity’s role in American politics. As the spiritual successor to Can I Get a Witness?, People Get Ready presents a diverse cast of twentieth-century “saints” who bore witness to their faith with unapologetic advocacy for the marginalized. From novelists to musicians to scientists, these courageous men and women rose to the challenges of their times. Just so, readers will reflect on their legacies in light of the challenges of today.

FEATURING

Ansley L. Quiros on Florence Jordan

Carolyn Renée Dupont on Bruce Klunder

Jemar Tisby on Tom Skinner

Mallory McDuff on Rachel Carson

Mark R. Gornik on Allan M. Tibbels

Jane Hong on Mary Paik Lee

Jacqueline A. Bussie on Flannery O’Connor

Peter Slade on Pete Seeger

Ann Hostetler on Toni Morrison

Daniel P. Rhodes on Jack Egan

Lauren F. Winner on Sarah Patton Boyle

M. Therese Lysaught on Ramon Dagoberto Quiñones

978-0-8028-7904-2 • 366 pages • Hardcover • $24.99 US £17.99 UK • $33.99 CAN AVAILABLE NOW

Peter Slade is professor of the history of Christianity and Christian thought at Ashland University.

Shea Tuttle is the author of Exactly as You Are: The Life and Faith of Mister Rogers.

Jacqueline A. Bussie is the executive director of the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research.

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LIBRARY OF RELIGIOUS BIOGRAPHY

ORAL ROBERTS AND THE RISE OF THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL

Jonathan Root

Foreword by Daniel Vaca

Jonathan Root weaves together diverse accounts of Oral Roberts’s life in this balanced and engaging narrative. This fresh biography covers Roberts’s early life during the Great Depression in Oklahoma, his family’s financial struggles during his early career as a Pentecostal preacher, his healing ministry’s explosive growth in popularity via the new media of radio and television, and his empire’s eventual collapse. Root pays special attention to how Roberts introduced the “prosperity gospel” to American Proestants with his affirmation that God intends his followers to be both spiritually and physically fulfilled. Ultimately, the Oral Roberts who emerges is both deeply flawed and entirely sincere in his devotion to Christ.

Jonathan Root is an independent scholar. He holds a PhD in history from University of Missouri.

978-0-8028-7727-7 • 271 pages • Paperback

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DANCING IN MY DREAMS

A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner

Ralph H. Craig III

Foreword by Jan Willis

When Tina Turner reclaimed her throne as the Queen of Rock & Roll in the 1980s, she attributed her comeback to one thing: the wisdom and power she found in Buddhism. In this groundbreaking biography, Ralph H. Craig III narrates Tina’s religious journey against the backdrop of large-scale movements in American religion and pop culture. Through critical engagement with Tina’s personal life and public brand, Craig sheds light on how popular culture has been used as a vehicle for authentic religious teaching. Scholars and fans alike will find Dancing in My Dreams as enlightening as the iconic singer herself.

Ralph H. Craig III is a PhD candidate in religious studies at Stanford University.

978-0-8028-7863-2 • 288 pages • Hardcover

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AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2023

WE WILL BE FREE

The Life and Faith of Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth defied the limits placed upon her as a Black woman to become one of the nineteenth century’s most renowned female preachers and civil rights advocates. In We Will Be Free, Nancy Koester chronicles her spiritual journey as an enslaved woman, a working mother, and an itinerant preacher and activist. Though women could not be trained as ministers at the time, Truth developed a charismatic presence and persuasive voice, which she used to advocate for racial justice and women’s suffrage during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Nancy Koester’s carefully researched and lively narrative challenges modern readers to consider how they can continue Truth’s legacy of faith in action.

REVIEWS

“This is more than the biography of a single, remarkable woman, it tells the story of the whole nation—halting steps toward freedom, the risk and rewards of speaking the truth and, most of all, the unflagging hope that change is possible.”

“An engaging and illuminating biography of an American icon.”

978-0-8028-8175-5 • 384 pages • Hardcover • $34.99 US £28.00 UK • $46.99 CAN AVAILABLE APRIL 2023

Isaac B. Sharp is director of online and part-time programs and visiting assistant professor at Union Theological Seminary. He is the coeditor of Evangelical Ethics: A Reader in the Library of Theological Ethics series as well as Christian Ethics in Conversation.

THE OTHER EVANGELICALS

A Story of Liberal, Black, Progressive, Feminist, and Gay Christians—and the Movement That Pushed Them Out

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “evangelical”?

For many, the answer is “white,” “patriarchal,” “conservative,” or “fundamentalist”—but as Isaac B. Sharp reveals, the “big tent” of evangelicalism has historically been much bigger than we’ve been led to believe.

In The Other Evangelicals, Isaac Sharp brings to light the stories of those twentieth-century evangelicals who didn’t fit the mold, including Black, feminist, progressive, and gay Christians.

Though the binary of fundamentalist evangelicals and modernist mainline Protestants is taken for granted today, Sharp shows that fundamentalists and modernists battled over the title of “evangelical” in post–World War II America. In fact, the conservatism characteristic of evangelicalism today arose in reaction to the popularity of evangelical progressivism. Eventually, history was written by the “winners” while the “losers” were expelled from the movement via the establishment of institutions such as the National Association of Evangelicals. Carefully researched and deftly written, The Other Evangelicals offers a breath of fresh air for scholars seeking a more inclusive history of religion in America.

REVIEWS

“Absorbing and authoritative, The Other Evangelicals will quickly establish itself as one of the most important books on American evangelicalism in the modern era. An essential read.”

—KRISTIN KOBES DU MEZ New York Times bestselling author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

“Sharp’s thesis is detailed, substantiated—and utterly persuasive.”

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—RANDALL BALMER author of Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right

“This is a compelling, tightly written account of the evangelical roads not taken. Sharp deftly weaves together the stories of feminist, liberal, gay, and non-white Protestants who fought hard for their claim to American evangelical identity; their stories remind us that history is always contingent, and that dissenter voices are more relevant now than ever.”

—MOLLY WORTHEN University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

THE RISE AND FALL OF DISPENSATIONALISM

How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation

A fascinating history of dispensationalism and its influence on popular culture, politics, and religion.

Daniel G. Hummel illuminates how dispensationalism, despite often being dismissed as a fringe apocalyptic movement, shaped AngloAmerican evangelicalism and the larger American cultural imagination. Though it consistently faced criticism, dispensationalism held populist, and briefly scholarly, appeal—visible in everything from turn-of-thecentury revivalism to apocalyptic bestsellers of the 1970s to current internet conspiracy theories.

As the first comprehensive intellectual-cultural history of dispensationalism, The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism is a must-read for students and scholars of American religion.

REVIEWS

“If you want to learn more about the evangelical fascination with the rapture, Israel, the antichrist, and the prophetic books of the Bible, The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism is the place to start.”

“A tremendous achievement, based on meticulous research and bold synthesis.”

—MOLLY WORTHEN University of North Carolina

“What do you say about a historical study that reads like a whodunit? Dan Hummel’s book is a page turner, shedding light on details that I already knew from dispensationalist pop culture, filling in the gaps through patient analysis and good storytelling.”

“The best and most comprehensive history of dispensationalist theology currently in existence. . . . This is the book for people who want to go beyond the headlines to understand the long historical trajectory of the most influential end-times theology in American evangelicalism.”

978-0-8028-7922-6 • 400 pages • Hardcover • $29.99 US £24.99 UK • $39.99 CAN AVAILABLE MAY 2023

Daniel G. Hummel is a historian of US religion and the author of Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.Israeli Relations. He works at Upper House, a Christian study center located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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978-0-8028-7529-7 • 189 pages • Paperback

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AVAILABLE AUGUST 2023

SONGS I LOVE TO SING

The Billy Graham Crusades and the Shaping of Modern Worship

Foreword by Fernando Ortega

In Songs I Love to Sing, Edith L. Blumhofer chronicles the Billy Graham Crusades and how they changed the face of American music and modern worship. These evangelistic extravaganzas were carefully orchestrated by the “chord of three”: celebrated preacher Billy Graham, Gospel Music Hall of Fame baritone George Beverly Shea, and choral conductor and emcee Clifford Barrows. Lively and detailed, Songs I Love to Sing will delight readers with the fascinating stories behind the soundtrack of American Christianity.

Edith L. Blumhofer (1950–2020) was professor of history and former director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.

REMEMBERING ANTÔNIA TEIXEIRA

A Story of Missions, Violence, and Institutional Hypocrisy

Mikeal C. Parsons and João B. Chaves

Foreword by Bill J. Leonard

In 1894 Steen Morris raped Antônia Teixeira, a student at Baylor University. The assault took place in Baylor president Rufus Burleson’s backyard and was the first of a series of assaults that eventually left the young student pregnant. Rather than hold the guilty party accountable, Burleson and other prominent members of the Baptist community in Waco, Texas, launched a campaign of victim-blaming and cover-up to preserve their institution’s image. This timely history calls attention to how religious institutions have used selective memory to maintain power. In doing so, this book takes first steps toward dismantling those structures of oppression.

Mikeal C. Parsons is professor and Macon Chair in Religion at Baylor University.

João B. Chaves is assistant professor of the history of religion in the Américas at Baylor University.

978-0-8028-8309-4 • 256 pages • Hardcover

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AVAILABLE JULY 2023

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Leo Anderson Academic Library Sales Rep. 616-234-0543 landerson@eerdmans.com

Tom DeVries Senior Subsidiary Rights Manager 616-234-0551 tdevries@eerdmans.com

MARKETING AND PUBLICITY

Sarah Gombis Director of Marketing 616-234-0522 sgombis@eerdmans.com

Natalie Kompik Academic Assoc. Marketing Manager 616-234-0515 nkompik@eerdmans.com

Jason Pearson Publicist 616-234-0513 jpearson@eerdmans.com

US GENERAL MARKET REPRESENTATION

Midwest Fujii Associates 636-528-2546 www.fujiiassociates.com

West and Southwest Imprint Group West 800-738-3961

www.imprintgroupwest.com

New England, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Como Sales, Inc.

508-293-1503

www.comosales.com

INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTORS

Canada *Fitzhenry and Whiteside 195 Allstate Parkway Markham, Ontario L3R 4T8 tel: 905-477-9700

toll free: (1-800-387-9776) (Canada only)

email: bookinginfo@fitzhenry.ca www.fitzhenry.ca

Asia

Suk Lee suk.lee@baker-taylor.com

Australia

Andi Richman arichman@btpubservices.com

United Kingdom and Europe

*Marston Book Services Ltd. 160 Eastern Avenue Milton Park Oxfordshire OX14 4SB

United Kingdom +44 (0) 1235 465500

email: direct.enquiries@marston.co.uk

www.marston.co.uk

* exclusive distributor