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8 Deuteronomy Jack R. Lundbom

Milestone commentary on a key Pentateuchal book

10 Approaching the End Stanley Hauerwas

The latest offering from a renowned, ever provocative theologian-ethicist

12 Justification Reconsidered Stephen Westerholm

Lively, informed take on recent scholarly debates over justification in Paul

13 Theology for Liberal Protestants Douglas F. Ottati

Original, accessible, revisionary interpretation of Christian belief

17 The Analogical Turn Johannes Hoff

Brilliantly recovers a 15th-century thinker’s original insights for theology and philosophy today

17 Eros and Self-Emptying Lee C. Barrett

A novel, nuanced comparative study of Augustine and Kierkegaard

19 A Political Theology of Climate Change Michael S. Northcott

Uniquely discusses nations as key moral agents in the climate crisis

23 The Torah, the Gospel, and the Qur an Anton Wessels

A well-thought-out Christian plea for interreligious unity

25 Process and Providence Bradley J. Gundlach

Explores how preeminent conservative 19th-century theologians dealt with the evolution question

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Wisdom’sWonderCharacter, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible’s Wisdom Literature

William P. Brown

Wisdom’s Wonder offers a fresh reading of the Hebrew Bible’s wisdom literature with a unique emphasis on “wonder” as the frame-work for understanding biblical wisdom. William Brown argues that wonder effectively integrates biblical wisdom’s emphasis on

character formation and its outlook on creation, breaking an impasse that has plagued recent wisdom studies.

Drawing on various disciplines, from philosophy to neuroscience, Brown discovers new distinctions and connections in

Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes. Each book is studied in terms of its view of moral character and creation, as well as in terms of the social or intellectual crisis each book identifies.

Most general treatments of the wisdom literature spend too much time on issues of genre, poetry, and social context at the neglect of discussing the intellectual and emotional power of the wisdom corpus. Brown argues that the real power of the wisdom corpus lies in its capacity to evoke the reader’s sense of wonder. Central to each book, he says, are certain “texts of tremendum,” which evoke the wide range of wonder’s nuance, from “fear seeking understanding” to confounding perplexity to unbridled joy. These texts serve to transform the reader’s character.

An extensive revision and expansion of Brown’s Character in Crisis (Eerdmans, 1996), this book demonstrates that the wisdom books are much more than simply advice literature: with wonder as the foundation for understanding, Brown maintains that wisdom is a process with transformation of self as the goal.

William P. Brown is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. Other books of his include The Seven Pillars of Creation: The Bible, Science, and the Ecol-ogy of Wonder and Seeing the Psalms: A Theology of Metaphor.

978-0-8028-6793-3 / paperback / 224 pages $25.00 [£16.99] / February

BornofaVirgin?Reconceiving Jesus in the Bible, Tradition, and Theology

Andrew T. Lincoln

Many Christians struggle with the concept of the virgin birth. Andrew Lincoln’s Born of a Virgin? begins by discussing why the virgin birth is such a difficult and divisive topic for Christians. The book then deals with a whole range of literary, historical, and hermeneutical issues from a critical yet positive perspective

that takes seriously creedal confessions and theological concerns.

As part of his exegetical investiga-tion of the New Tes-tament texts, Lincoln considers the literary genre and distinctive characteristics of the birth narratives as ancient biography.

Further, he delineates how changes in our views of history and biography decisively affect any traditional understanding of the significance of an actual virgin birth, and he explores what that means for the authority of Scripture and creed, along with implications for Christology and for preaching and teach-ing from the birth narratives.

“There are topics that are such a focus of controversy and attention that eventually we come to feel that all has been said that can or should be said. Then along comes a groundbreaking book that arrives like a breath of fresh air and allows us to see the familiar with new eyes. Lincoln’s volume on the virginal conception is such a work. . . . This excellent, clear, and comprehensive treatment is sure to be considered the volume to turn to on this topic for many years to come.” — James McGrath

Butler University

“This masterly study will provide essential reading for confessing Christians who struggle with accepting the historicity of the virginal conception. I cannot recommend it highly enough.” — Helen Bond

University of Edinburgh

Andrew T. Lincoln is Portland Professor of New Testament at the University of Glouces-tershire, England. His previous books include Truth on Trial and commentaries on Colossians and John.

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MakingSenseofSexAttitudes towards Sexuality in Early Jewish and Christian Literature

William Loader

This book is about listening to what writers were saying about sex in early Judaism

and Christianity — ancient words surprisingly relevant for today. It functions as both a summary of and a conclusion to William Loader’s five previous books on ancient sexuality; it also contains a useful subject index to those five volumes.

“The capstone of a project that has already produced five volumes of detailed research, this book estab-lishes Loader as the Kinsey of biblical sexuality. Like Kinsey, he has taken a topic that has often been taboo and demystified it. His patient cataloguing of the diverse biblical attitudes to sexuality complicates the issue for anyone who would appeal to biblical authority in a simplistic way. This is a major contri-bution both to biblical scholarship and to practical theology.” — John J. Collins

Yale Divinity School

“Loader’s lucid prose, anchored with references to primary sources, makes this book an indispensable resource for students, but scholars will also find much value in the concise overview. . . . Loader is clearly a worldwide leading expert on sexuality in early Juda-ism and early Christianity, and his command of the material is detectable on every page.”

— Margaret Y. MacDonaldSt. Francis Xavier University

“Much more than a mere distillation of Loader’s magisterial five-volume study of attitudes toward sexuality in ancient Jewish and Christian sources. . . . This scintillating study showcases biblical schol-arship in its finest form.” — Paul Foster

University of Edinburgh

William Loader is professor emeritus of New Testament at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. His other books include Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality; The Dead Sea Scrolls on Sexuality; The Pseudepigrapha on Sexuality; Philo, Josephus, and the Testaments on Sexuality; and The New Testament on Sexuality.

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theinspirationandinterpretationofScriptureWhat the Early Church Can Teach Us

Michael Graves

What is true of Scripture as a result of being inspired? What should divine inspiration cause us to expect from it? The answers to these questions in the early church related not just to the nature of Scripture’s truth claims

but to the manner in which Scripture was to be interpreted.

In this book Michael Graves delves into what Christians in the first five centuries believed about the inspiration of Scrip-ture, based on discus-sions of numerous primary source texts.

Graves presents a nuanced picture of why the church fathers handled Scripture as they did and the diversity of approaches that existed. He carefully lays out the ideas that early Christians considered to be logical implica-tions of biblical inspiration and discusses the relevance of those ideas for the church today.

Many books presume to discuss how some current trend relates to the “traditional” view of biblical inspiration; this one actu-ally describes in a detailed and nuanced way what the “traditional” view is and explores the differences between ancient and modern assumptions on the topic. Students and pas-tors will appreciate the critical, honest engage-ment of the questions surrounding biblical inspiration.

Accessible and engaging, The Inspiration and Interpretation of Scripture presents a rich network of theological ideas about the Bible together with critical engagement with the biblical text.

Michael Graves is the Armerding Chair of Biblical Studies and associate professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, Illinois. He is also the author of Jerome’s Hebrew Philology.

978-0-8028-6963-0 / paperback / 224 pages $24.00 [£16.99] / February

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thedancebetweenGodandHumanityReading the Bible Today as the People of God

Bruce K. Waltke

“Now in his eighties, Bruce Waltke remains one of the sharpest minds in biblical studies today. How won-derful to have this selection of his studies collected

together. . . . I enthusias-tically recommend this volume to all students, teachers, and scholars.”

— Tremper Longman III

Westmont College

“Here is one of the best summaries of a lifetime of dedicated service to our Lord, and to the biblical academy, by a

humble servant of our Lord. These chapters will offer a new generation of biblical readers some of the most creative thinking in the vanguard of Old Testament scholarship during the last half century.”

— Walter C. Kaiser Jr.Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

“The many thousands who have benefited from the teaching and writing of Bruce Waltke over the course of his illustrious career will celebrate this extensive collection of his shorter works. . . . Well researched, incisive, and always instructive, Waltke’s essays invite reading and rereading. Both author and publisher are to be congratulated for making these sometimes hard-to-acquire essays available in such a convenient, substantial volume.”

— V. Philips LongRegent College

“I am happy to recommend as highly as possible this collection of thirty-plus articles gleaned from Bruce Waltke’s writings. . . . Waltke brings intellectual acumen and rigorous scholarship to all his writings. His well-established reputation as an Old Testament scholar notwithstanding, I am impressed with the tone of humility and modesty and restraint that pervades his writings. Bruce writes not to make Bruce look better, but to make Bruce’s Lord look better. And in this he succeeds admirably.”

— Victor Hamilton Asbury University

Bruce K. Waltke is Distinguished Professor of Old Testament at Knox Theological Semi-nary, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and professor emeritus of biblical studies at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia.

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davidRememberedKingship and National Identity in Ancient Israel

Joseph Blenkinsopp

“A wide-ranging exploration of the afterlife of David and the Davidic dynasty in both history and Scripture. Blenkinsopp’s work is, as usual, careful and yet bubbling with new ideas and proposals. An intriguing investigation.” — James L. Kugel

Bar-Ilan University

“In lucid and accessible language but with his charac-teristic deep learning and eminently good judgment, Joseph Blenkinsopp traces the development of Jewish thinking about God’s promise to David in periods

that are crucial for Juda-ism and Christianity alike and yet under-appreciated outside the academy. Both those familiar with the texts he discusses and those unfamiliar with them will find this book illuminating and rewarding — and a pleasure to read. Highly recommended.”

— Jon D. LevensonHarvard University

“Joseph Blenkinsopp’s treatment of the king of Israel who became the prototype for the Messiah is characteristically lucid and informed with intense historical and theological learning. . . . An enthrall-ing read.” — John Barton

University of Oxford

“Much has been written on the historical David in recent years, but there has been a gap in studies of how the David story was later interpreted in the Second Temple period. Blenkinsopp fills that gap with this masterful yet readable account.”

— Lester L. GrabbeUniversity of Hull

“Blenkinsopp’s command of the breadth and depth of evidence from primary and secondary sources, from the Babylonian to the Roman periods, is most impressive. . . . David Remembered is eminently accessible to all readers but packed with detailed information in dialogue with the latest scholarship.”

— Steven L. McKenzieRhodes College

Joseph Blenkinsopp is John A. O’Brien Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His other works include Judaism, the First Phase and the three-volume Anchor Bible commentary on Isaiah.

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John,Jesus,andtheRenewalofisraelRichard Horsley and Tom Thatcher

In this book Richard Horsley and Tom Thatcher trace the Gospel of John’s portrayal of Jesus as a prophet of renewal by reading the text against a double backdrop — the social

history of Roman Palestine and the media world of John.

This innovative study is the first to consider the Gospel of John as story in the ancient media context of oral com-munication and oral performance. Horsley and Thatcher creatively combine

concerns from the fields of Jesus studies and ancient media studies in their analysis. Taking the main conflict evident in John’s story of Jesus as the key to its plot, they discern how this Gospel — usually read as “spiritual” — portrays Jesus engaged in a concrete program of renewal and resistance.

“Two skilled scholars here provide a brilliant and creative synthesis of literary and social-historical-political approaches. Richard Horsley and Tom Thatcher offer fresh ideas in an area of scholarship that has sometimes become stagnant. . . . Their holistic approach to the Fourth Gospel is innovative, well-informed, and informative.”

— Craig S. KeenerAsbury Theological Seminary

“Thoughtfully perceptive and genuinely innovative, this timely book may well change the way we think about the Gospels as historical narratives, the feasi-bility of the Jesus quest, and the conventional divide between the Gospel of John and the Synoptics.”

— Werner H. KelberRice University

Richard Horsley is distinguished profes-sor emeritus of liberal arts and the study of religion at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Among his many previous books is The Prophet Jesus and the Renewal of Israel.

Tom Thatcher is professor of biblical studies at Cincinnati Christian University. His other books include Why John Wrote a Gospel: Jesus — Memory — History.

978-0-8028-6872-5 / paperback / 207 pages $20.00 [£12.99] / November

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AllthingstoAllCulturesPaul among Jews, Greeks, and Romans

Mark Harding and Alanna Nobbs, editors

All Things to All Cultures sets Paul in his first-century context and illuminates his inter-action with Jews, Greeks, and Romans as he spread the gospel in the Mediterranean world. In addition to exploring Paul’s context and analyzing his letters, the book has chapters on the chronology of Paul’s life, the text of the Pauline letters, the scholarly contributions to our understanding of Paul over the last 150

years, and the theol-ogy of the Pauline corpus.

There is no compa-rable introduction to Paul that integrates the Jewish, Greek, and Roman influ-ences on him and the letters that make up a substantial portion of the New Testament.

ContentsForeword Alanna Nobbs

1. Paul in the Twenty-First Century Murray J. Smith 2. Paul: An Outline of His Life David L. Eastman 3. The Archaeology of the Pauline Mission Cavan W. Concannon 4. Pauline Letter Manuscripts Brent Nongbri 5. Paul among the Jews Paul McKechnie 6. Paul among the Greeks Christopher Forbes 7. Paul among the Romans James R. Harrison 8. The Letter to the Romans Michael F. Bird 9. The Corinthian Correspondence L. L. Welborn 10. The Letter to the Galatians Greg W. Forbes 11. The Thessalonian Correspondence Murray J. Smith 12. The Later Pauline Letters: Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon Ian K. Smith 13. The Pastoral Epistles Mark Harding 14. Pauline Theology Timothy J. Harris

Appendix 1: Paul in the Book of Acts Paul W. Barnett

Appendix 2: A Tabular Analysis of Paul’s Asian Epistles Paul W. Barnett

Mark Harding is dean of the Australian College of Theology, an honorary associate of Macquarie University, and the author of Early Christian Life and Thought in Social Context.

Alanna Nobbs is professor of ancient history and deputy director of the Ancient Cultures Research Centre at Macquarie University and coeditor (with Mark Harding) of The Content and Setting of the Gospel Tradition.

978-0-8028-6643-1 / paperback / 426 pages $50.00 [£32.99] / November

SecretScripturesRevealedA New Introduction to the Christian Apocrypha

Tony Burke

Ever since the Christian Apocrypha burst into the public consciousness in 2003, following the publication of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, interest in those texts not included in the Bible has remained strong. Although much has been written and said on the sub-ject, misunderstandings still abound.

Tony Burke’s Secret Scriptures Revealed dis-mantles the many myths and misconceptions about the Christian Apocrypha and straight-forwardly answers common questions like where the apocryphal texts came from, who wrote them, and why they were not included

in the Bible. The book offers an objec-tive, fair-minded dis-cussion of these texts and the ill-informed claims made about them in recent popu-lar scholarship.

Besides relating numerous fascinat-ing apocryphal stories — including many that are not

well known — Burke offers insights into the use of these texts in art, literature, drama, popular culture, and church teachings. He also discusses the formation of the New Testament, how scholars reconstruct apocryphal texts from manuscript sources, and the impact of the Christian Apocrypha on the faith of its readers.

Tony Burke is associate professor of reli-gious studies at York University, Toronto, and author of one of the best-known blogs in the field, www.tonyburke.ca/apocryphicity.

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WhodoPeopleSayiAm?Rewriting Gospel in Emerging Christianity

Vernon K. Robbins

Spanning early Christian writings from the Gospel of Mark to the Acts of John, this book by Vernon Robbins explores the various ways

early Christians explained their understanding of the special nature of Jesus beyond the canonical Gospels.

Who Do People Say I Am? shows how second- and third-century Christian authors of addi-tional Gospels and Gospel-like writings

expanded and elaborated on Jesus’ divinity in the context of his earthly existence. According to Robbins, these Christian authors thought that the New Testament Gospel writers could and should have emphasized the divinity of Jesus more than they did.

Learning activities and a bibliography at the end of each chapter help make this book a valuable resource for students and any other interested readers.

“Jesus seen through many eyes, heard through many voices. That is what this terrific book by Vernon Rob-bins is all about. Robbins sets the more commonly known representations of Jesus in the Bible alongside lesser-well-known portraits of him found in texts like the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Judas, and the Acts of John. . . . Robbins’s careful attention to historical detail and his accessible style make this the best book available on the subject of Jesus and the Gospels.”

— April DeConickRice University

Vernon K. Robbins is professor of New Testa- ment and comparative sacred texts at Emory University, Atlanta. Among his other books are Jesus the Teacher: A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of Mark, The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse, and Exploring the Texture of Texts.

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theOralGospeltraditionJames D. G. Dunn

“Over many years Jimmy Dunn has alerted us all to the importance of taking seriously the presence of oral tradi-tion in and behind our present Gospels. This volume provides many of his key essays on that broad topic, including a number of responses to critiques by others. As

with all of Dunn’s work, the argument is invariably readable, persuasive, and compelling.”

— Christopher TuckettUniversity of Oxford

“This book helpfully brings together a number of significant essays by a leading voice in the study of Jesus, the Gospels, and early Christian tradition. As indicated by the new and very helpful introduction, the collection not only surveys Dunn’s own volu-minous work on the topic but also serves, in many respects, as a recent history of research, tracing trends in the evolution of study on the media history of early Christianity.” — Tom Thatcher

Cincinnati Christian University

“For more than thirty-five years, James Dunn has been a leading voice in New Testament studies regarding the role of oral tradition in the formation of Gospel narratives. This volume affords Dunn the opportunity to respond to criticisms of his various proposals and so to present time-honored ideas afresh for a new generation.” — Mark Allan Powell

Trinity Lutheran Seminary

“Dunn is no doubt one of the most influential New Testament scholars of our time. These collected essays of his build up an impressive view of the oral Gospel tradition.” — Samuel Byrskog

Lund University

James D. G. Dunn is Lightfoot Professor Emeritus of Divinity at the University of Durham, England. His many other books include Jesus Remembered and Beginning from Jerusalem (volumes 1 and 2 of Christianity in the Making); Jesus, Paul, and the Gospels; and com-mentaries on Romans, Galatians, and Colos-sians and Philemon.

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GospelWritingA Canonical Perspective

Francis Watson

That there are four canonical versions of the one gospel story is often seen as a problem for Christian faith. In Gospel Writing, however, Francis Watson argues that differences and tensions between canonical gospels represent opportunities for theological reflection, not problems for apologetics. In exploring this claim, he proposes nothing less than a new

paradigm for gospel studies — one that engages fully with the available non-canonical material so as to illuminate the historical and theo-logical significance of the canonical.

“A wonderfully wide-ranging book, full of learning and insight.

One of the most significant books on the gospels in the last hundred years, this work will undoubtedly shake up the current study of the gospels.”

— Simon GathercoleUniversity of Cambridge

“Francis Watson offers here a striking and powerful argument for the importance of reading Scripture as a canon. The argument is constantly historical as well as theological, exploring the character of the early church’s decision to accept a fourfold symphonic gospel.” — Lewis Ayres

University of Durham

“The scope of this major contribution is breath-taking. Watson expertly moves from Augustine to Lessing to Q to Thomas to the synoptic problem to the sources of John’s Gospel to the Gospel of Peter to the emergence of the fourfold gospel canon to Origen to early Christian art and liturgy. The upshot is a slew of new observations and intriguing proposals that open up fresh lines of inquiry. Required reading for all students of the gospel tradition.”

— Dale C. Allison Jr.Princeton Theological Seminary

Francis Watson holds a research chair in biblical interpretation at Durham University, England. Well known for his work in both theological interpretation and Pauline studies, he is also the author of Text and Truth: Redefin-ing Biblical Theology; Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith; and Paul, Judaism, and the Gentiles: Beyond the New Perspective.

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theunrelentingGodGod’s Action in ScriptureEssays in Honor of Beverly Roberts Gaventa

David J. Downs and Matthew L. Skinner, editors

In this book sixteen accomplished bib-lical scholars and theologians engage in theologically in- formed interpre-tation of Scripture, exploring how vari-ous biblical writers, especially Luke and Paul, describe God’s unrelenting commit-ment to and activity in the world.

ContentsPreface David J. Downs and Matthew L. SkinnerA Personal Word J. Louis MartynBody Piercings Revisited: Piercings and Profanations of “Bodies” and the Character of God in Ezekiel Jacqueline E. LapsleyConversion in Luke-Acts: God’s Prevenience, Human Embodiment Joel B. Green“Not Knowing What Will Happen to Me There”: Experiences of the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts John B. F. MillerThe Word of God and the Church: On the Theological Implications of Three Summary Statements in the Acts of the Apostles Matthew L. SkinnerLost in Translation: A Reflection on Romans in the Common English Bible Richard B. HaysIs Paul a Covenantal Theologian? Francis WatsonSin’s Corruption of the Knowledge of God and the Law in Romans 1–8 Shane BergTime in Romans 5–8: From Life to Life L. Ann Jervis“Who Hopes for What Is Seen?” Political Theology through Romans Douglas HarinkCreation, Gender, and Identity in (New) Cosmic Perspective: 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 Alexandra R. BrownAshes on the Frontal Lobe: Cognitive Dissonance and Cruciform Cognition in 2 Corinthians Susan Grove EastmanCross and Cosmos in Galatians Martinus C. de BoerUnity in the Community: Rereading Galatians 2:15-21 William Sanger CampbellThe God Who Gives Life That Is Truly Life: Meritorious Almsgiving and the Divine Economy in 1 Timothy 6 David J. DownsJesus Christ, the End of the Law Katherine SondereggerRole Model — God’s Image — Life-Giving Spirit: Who Is Jesus Christ for Us Today? Michael Welker

David J. Downs is associate professor of New Testament studies at Fuller Theological Semi-nary, Pasadena, California.

Matthew L. Skinner is associate professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, Minnesota.

978-0-8028-6767-4 / paperback / 336 pages $45.00 [£29.99] / November

ReadingtheEpistlesofJames,Peter,John,andJudeasScriptureThe Shaping and Shape of a Canonical Collection

David R. Nienhuis and Robert W. Wall

Through a detailed examination of the historical shaping and final canonical shape of seven oft-neglected New Testament letters, Reading the Epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude as Scripture introduces readers to the historical,

literary, and theo-logical integrity of this indispensable apostolic witness.

While most schol-ars today interpret biblical texts in terms of their individual points of composition, David Nienhuis and Robert Wall argue that a theological approach to this part

of Scripture is better served by attending to these texts’ historical point of canonization. They treat all seven of the Catholic Epistles in their final canonical form, arguing that the collection should be viewed as an interpreting whole greater than the sum of its parts.

This is the only treatment of the Catholic Epistles that approaches these seven letters as an intentionally designed and theologically coherent canonical collection.

“In this groundbreaking book, Nienhuis and Wall show that the collection called the ‘Catholic Epistles’ has a structure and a rationale that profoundly impact the way its individual texts should be read. Like the fourfold canonical Gospel, this collection represents a new and decisive intervention in the process of creating a well-ordered Christian scripture out of the mass of early Christian writing.”

— Francis WatsonDurham University

“An eloquent challenge to current exegetical com-munis opinio.” — John H. Elliott

University of San Francisco

David R. Nienhuis is associate professor of New Testament studies at Seattle Pacific University.

Robert W. Wall is Paul T. Walls Professor of Scripture and Wesleyan Studies at Seattle Pacific University.

978-0-8028-6591-5 / paperback / 320 pages $30.00 [£19.99] / November

FollowingJesusBiblical Reflections on DiscipleshipSecond Edition

N. T. Wright

This second edition of N. T. Wright’s popular Following Jesus — originally published in 1995 — includes a new preface by the author. In twelve wonderfully insightful meditations

Wright explores what it truly means to follow Jesus today.

Wright first outlines the essential messages of six major New Testa-ment books — Hebrews, Colossians, Matthew, John, Mark, and Revela-tion — looking in particular at their

portrayal of Jesus and what he accomplished in his sacrificial death. In the second part of the book Wright takes six key New Testament themes — resurrection, rebirth, temptation, hell, heaven, and new life — and considers their significance for the lives of present-day disciples.

“A beautiful meditative work on Christian disciple-ship.” — Lawrence Cunningham in America

“The slender size of this book belies its deep content. . . . A book to be read, reread, pondered, and lived.”

— Christian Library Journal

“Many unarguably sound insights.”

— Publishers Weekly

“Encouraging, startling, unnerving — but always inviting. . . . The richly biblical fruit of much working through of ‘the meaning of the life and death of Jesus and the gift to his people of the Spirit’ in the modern world. . . . Tom Wright offers insights valuable to Christians across the spectrum between literalism and mere metaphor in their view of Scripture.”

— Anglican Journal

N. T. Wright is Chair in New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and one of the most highly respected biblical scholars in the world today.

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ApocalypseagainstEmpireTheologies of Resistance in Early Judaism

Anathea E. Portier-YoungForeword by John J. Collins

Originally published in hardcover in 2011, this groundbreaking book takes a fresh look at the historical events and key players in a traumatic episode of early Jewish history — the period of religious persecution under Antiochus IV Epiphanes — and offers a sophisticated treatment of resistance in early Judaism.

“Portier-Young’s volume is a remarkable achieve-ment in terms of its theoretical sophistication, historical sensibility, and textual rigor.”

— Themelios

“An excellent study of Judea during the Seleucid period. . . . Apocalypse against Empire is not just for those with an interest in apocalyptic literature. Portier-Young’s in-depth look at apocalypses in relation to the Seleucid Empire and Judaism is a substantial work in the field of biblical studies.”

— Review of Biblical Literature

Anathea E. Portier-Young is associate professor of Old Testament at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina.

978-0-8028-7083-4 / paperback / 488 pages / $35.00 [£23.99] / November

JesusResearchNew Methodologies and Perceptions

James H. Charlesworth, editorwith Brian Rhea and Petr Pokorný

This volume explores nearly every facet of Jesus research — from eyewitness criteria to the reliability of memory, from archaeology to psychobiography, and from oral traditions to literary sources. Written by internationally renowned Jewish and Christian scholars, this collection of never-before-published articles comes from the second (2007) Princeton-Prague Symposium on Jesus Research. It summarizes the significant advances in under-standing Jesus that scholars have made in recent years through the development of diverse methodologies.

James H. Charlesworth is George L. Collord Professor of New Testament and director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey.

978-0-8028-6728-5 / paperback / 1058 pages / $70.00 [£46.99] / December

OldtestamentPseudepigraphaMore Noncanonical ScripturesVolume 1

Richard Bauckham, James R. Davila, and Alexander Panayotov, editorsForeword by James H. Charlesworth

“With the proliferation of newly discovered ‘Pseudepigrapha’ in the last fifty years, it was necessary to bring them together in an accessible way. This new volume does that in a magnificent way. The fine text editions and analyses in this volume

are very well written and encourage further study. Highly recommended for both the nonspecialist and the connoisseur!” — Emanuel Tov

Hebrew University, Jerusalem

“A monumental work, vital to the study of the early history of Judaism and Christianity in general, and to the history of ancient biblical interpretation in particular. Anyone who owns one of the earlier com-pilations of Old Testament pseudepigrapha will have to supplement it with this one, which fills in much of what’s missing in the others. This is a scholarly achievement for the generations.” — James Kugel

Bar-Ilan University

Richard Bauckham is professor emeritus of New Testament at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and senior scholar at the Univer-sity of Cambridge, England. James R. Davila is professor of early Jew- ish studies at the University of St. Andrews. Alexander Panayotov is research associate in the Divinity Faculty at the University of Cambridge.

978-0-8028-2739-5 / hardcover / 848 pages / $90.00 [£59.99] / November

thetombofJesusandHisFamily?Exploring Ancient Jewish Tombs Near Jerusalem’s Walls

James H. Charlesworth, editor

About twenty-five years ago archaeologists discovered a tomb near Jerusalem that contained a family’s ossuaries inscribed with some familiar New Testament names: Mary, Joseph, James, Mary Magdalene, and Jesus. In 2007 the Discovery Channel produced and broadcast a documentary on “The Lost Tomb of Jesus,” raising interest — and con-

troversy — among the public and specialists alike. Could this really be the tomb of Jesus and his family?

In January of 2008 an eminent group of some thirty scholars met in Jerusalem to dis- cuss that very question. Covering the archaeo-logical facts about the discovery, Jewish burial customs during the late Second Temple period, first-century inscriptions, the Talpiot tomb, and more, this volume presents their expert perspectives on a much-publicized topic.

978-0-8028-6745-2 / paperback / 605 pages / $48.00 [£31.99] / December

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HorizonsinHermeneuticsA Festschrift in Honor of Anthony C. Thiselton

Stanley E. Porter and Matthew R. Malcolm, editors

“For Anthony Thiselton, longtime professor of New Testament interpretation in Sheffield and Not-tingham and prodigious and profound author and thinker, not to receive a Festschrift would be a grave injustice. Stanley Porter and Matthew Malcolm have not only honored Thiselton appropriately with this

learned anthology of essays; they have also collected a series of first-rate studies covering the hermeneutic waterfront systematically and with reference to all of Thiselton’s main inter-ests. This is a special gift, with something for almost everyone in the church and the academy.”

— Craig L. BlombergDenver Seminary

“There are some heavyweight contributors and some heavyweight contributions in this collection of essays. They range from constructive engagement with the work of A. C. Thiselton, through surveys of current issues in theological hermeneutics, to developments of themes and ideas taken from Thiselton’s work. This is a stimulating and informative collection and a worthy tribute to what one contributor calls ‘the prince of present-day hermeneuts.’ ”

— John RogersonUniversity of Sheffield

Contributors

Richard H. Bell, Richard S. Briggs, Mark L. Y. Chan, James D. G. Dunn, Stephen Fowl, John Goldingay, Tom Greggs, Matthew R. Malcolm, Robert Morgan, David Parris, Stanley E. Porter, John B. Thomson.

Stanley E. Porter is president, dean, and pro-fessor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario.

Matthew R. Malcolm lectures in Greek and New Testament at Trinity Theological College in Perth, Western Australia.

978-0-8028-6927-2 / paperback / 317 pages $40.00 [£26.99] / Available

thePsalmsasChristianlamentA Historical Commentary

Bruce K. Waltke, James M. Houston, and Erika Moore

While much modern scholarship has tended to “despiritualize” the Psalms, this collabora-tion by three evangelical scholars carefully

attends to the two voices of the Holy Spirit — heard infal-libly in Scripture and edifyingly in the church’s response.

The Psalms as Christian Lament, a companion volume to The Psalms as Chris-tian Worship, uniquely blends verse-by-verse commentary with a

history of Psalms interpretation in the church from the time of the apostles to the present. Bruce Waltke, James Houston, and Erika Moore examine ten lament psalms, including six of the seven traditional penitential psalms, covering Psalms 5, 6, 7, 32, 38, 39, 44, 102, 130, and 143. The authors — experts in the subject area — skillfully establish the meaning of the Hebrew text through careful exegesis and trace the church’s historical interpretation and use of these psalms, highlighting their deep spiritual significance to Christians through the ages.

Though C. S. Lewis called the “imprecatory” psalms “contemptible,” Waltke, Houston, and Moore show that they too are profitable for sound doctrine and so for spiritual health, demonstrating that lament is an important aspect of the Christian life.

Bruce K. Waltke is Distinguished Professor of Old Testament at Knox Theological Semi-nary, Fort Lauderdale, and professor emeritus of biblical studies at Regent College, Vancouver.

James M. Houston is founding principal and former chancellor of Regent College and was the college’s first professor of spiritual theology.

Erika Moore is associate professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Trinity School for Ministry, Ambridge, Pennsylvania.

978-0-8028-6809-1 / paperback / 336 pages $28.00 [£18.99] / February

The Bible in Medieval TraditionH. Lawrence Bond†, Philip D. W. Krey, and Thomas Ryan, series editors

thelettertotheRomansIan Christopher Levy, Philip D. W. Krey, and Thomas Ryan, translators and editors

This Romans volume is the second installment of the Bible in Medieval Tradition series which aims to reconnect the church with part of its rich history of biblical interpretation.

“A judicious selection of medieval Latin commentar-ies on the Epistle to the Romans. . . . A cogent preface places the texts in helpful historical, theological, and literary contexts. Levy, Krey, and Ryan deserve our

thanks for making these texts available to stu-dents of the Bible at all levels, from undergradu-ates to professors.”

— E. Ann MatterUniversity of Pennsylvania

“This book is a labor of love and a gift given by three of the world’s leading interpreters

and translators of medieval biblical exegesis. . . . The chronological span taken on is breathtaking, with translations from late antiquity to the dawn of the Reformation. . . . This work altogether successfully defies the stereotype that medieval interpretation was simply parasitic upon patristic exegesis. It will be extremely valuable as a teaching tool.”

— Kevin MadiganHarvard Divinity School

“One cannot understand patristic and medieval theology without careful attention to Romans. This volume, with its excellent introduction and well-balanced series of translated texts, is an impressive contribution to making the riches of medieval exege-sis available to contemporary readers.”

— Bernard McGinnUniversity of Chicago Divinity School

Ian Christopher Levy is associate professor of theology at Providence College and transla-tor-editor of the BMT volume on Galatians.

Philip D. W. Krey is president and profes-sor of church history at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.

Thomas Ryan is director of the Loyola Institute for Ministry in New Orleans and the author of Thomas Aquinas as Reader of the Psalms.

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deuteronomyA Commentary

Jack R. Lundbom

This milestone commentary by Jack Lundbom is intended for readers who want to better know and understand the key Pentateuchal book of Deuteronomy, which has had

a huge influence on both Judaism and Christianity over the centuries.

For Jews Deuteronomy contains the Decalogue and the Shema — “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one” (6:4) — supplemented by a code of primal legisla-tion. Much cited in the New Testament, Deuteronomy for Christians has come to occupy an important place in the life and doctrine of the church.

Besides drawing on language, archaeology, and comparative Near Eastern material, Lundbom’s commentary employs rhetorical criti-cism in explicating the biblical text. Lundbom also cites later Jewish interpretation of the book of Deuteronomy and makes numerous New Testament connections. An appendix contains all citations of Deuteronomy in the New Testament.

“Deuteronomy, though still relatively unknown, is now at the center of the discussion of biblical theology. The great merit of Lundbom’s commentary is that it will make accessible to a broad scholarly readership theological themes that are essential for both Judaism and Christianity.” — Dominik Markl, SJ

Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley

“Jack Lundbom has written what is at last the successor to S. R. Driver’s 1895 ICC commentary on Deuteronomy. This exhaustive work includes a fresh translation kept close to the Hebrew so as to bring out rhetorical structures lost in English since the King James Version. Each passage is accompanied by commentary, along with abundant referrals to further scholarship, focusing especially on delimitation, framing, keywords, chiasms, and inclusios deter-mined both from the rhetorical criticism Lundbom is known for and from evidence in the ancient manuscripts. The extensive supple-mentary material at the start of the volume lays out moderate, cautious positions, conversant with the latest critical scholarship.”

— Robert MillerCatholic University of America

Jack R. Lundbom is a life member at Clare Hall, Univer-sity of Cambridge, England. Among his prior publications are Jeremiah Closer Up, The Hebrew Prophets: An Introduction, and the three-volume Anchor Bible commentary on Jer-emiah.

978-0-8028-2614-5 / paperback / 1064 pages / $80.00 [£53.99] Available

IlluminationsC. L. Seow, General Editor

Scott C. Jones, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

Judith H. Newman, Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha

Loren Stuckenbruck, New Testament

Job1–21Interpretation and Commentary

C . L. Seow

“A dazzling combination of sophisticated linguistic work and profound theological insights. Seow is an ideal commentator on what is arguably the most challenging book — linguistically and theologically — in the Hebrew Bible.” — James Kugel

“Leong Seow is arguably the master scholar, researcher, teacher, and interpreter of his generation. In this remarkable book, his singular capacities are fully on exhibit — mastery of the critical apparatus, attentiveness to rhetorical nuance, theological sensibility, and acuteness concerning the histori-cal spectrum of interpretations.”

— Walter Brueggemann

“The appearance of Leong Seow’s marvelous, eclectic com-mentary on the book of Job is an occasion for celebration. It is the first critical commentary to give proper weight to recep-tion history along with the philological and literary analysis necessary to support judicious interpretation. Seow is a thorough and learned commentator with a keen eye and ear for ambiguity and nuance. In addition, his lucid and elegant writing is a pleasure to read.” — Alan Cooper

“Seow’s brilliant Illuminations commentary will have a tremendous influence on all future interpretations of the book of Job.” — Tremper Longman

“A breathtaking example of learning and erudition.” — Carol A. Newsom

“A lucid, extraordinarily erudite commentary.” — Michael V. Fox

“Easily the most comprehensive commentary available on the book of Job. . . . The breadth of scholarship is matched by the clarity and attractiveness of presentation. This will be a standard work for a long time to come.” — Patrick D. Miller

“An outstanding masterpiece of philology, exegesis, and theological interpretation.”

— Thomas Krüger

“As in his masterful commentary on Ecclesiastes, Seow brings to the book of Job a rare combina-tion of historical knowledge, linguistic expertise, patient attention to details, and a sense of existential and theological perspective. . . . The result is a commentary that is bound to become a classic in Job studies.” — J. Gerald Janzen

“One of the very best commentaries in the last hundred years. . . . Much of Seow’s work will not need to be redone.” — Michael D. Coogan

C. L. Seow is Henry Snyder Gehman Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. A recognized expert in Old Testament studies, he is also the author of the Anchor Bible commentary on Ecclesiastes.

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The Forms of the Old Testament LiteratureRolf P. Knierim, Gene M. Tucker, and Marvin A. Sweeney, series editors

5 paperback FOTL volumes available — see www.eerdmans.com

The Church’s BibleRobert Louis Wilken, series editor

4 hardcover CB volumes available — see www.eerdmans.com

The Two Horizons Old Testament CommentaryJ. Gordon McConville and Craig Bartholomew, series editors

5 paperback THOTC volumes available — see www.eerdmans.com

The Pillar New Testament CommentaryD. A. Carson, series editor

14 hardcover PNTC volumes available — see www.eerdmans.com

The New International Greek Testament CommentaryI. Howard Marshall and Donald A. Hagner, editors

NOTE: This well-established and highly acclaimed series is in the process of converting from hardcover to paperback as commentary volumes reprint.

13 NIGTC volumes published and available — see www.eerdmans.com

The New International Commentary on the Old TestamentRobert L. Hubbard Jr., series editor

24 hardcover NICOT volumes available — see www.eerdmans.com

The Two Horizons New Testament CommentaryJoel B. Green and Max Turner, series editors

5 paperback THNTC volumes available — see www.eerdmans.com

The New International Commentary on the New TestamentJoel B. Green, series editor

18 NICNT volumes available — see www.eerdmans.com

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InterventionsConor Cunningham and Peter M. Candler Jr., series editors

HauerwasA (Very) Critical Introduction

Nicholas M. Healy

Stanley Hauerwas is one of the most impor-tant and robustly creative theologians of our time, and his work is well known and much admired. But Nicholas Healy — himself an admirer of Hauerwas’s thought — believes that it has not yet been subjected to the kind of sustained critical analysis that is warranted by such a significant and influential Christian thinker. As someone interested in the broader systematic-theological implications of

Hauerwas’s work, Healy fills that gap in Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction.

After a general introduction to Hauerwas’s work with a discussion of why and how it is centered on the church, Healy examines three main areas of Hauerwas’s

thought: his method, his social theory, and his theology. According to Healy, Hauerwas’s overriding concern for ethics and church-based apologetics so dominates his thinking that he systematically distorts Christian doctrine. Healy critiques Hauerwas’s use of Alasdair MacIntyre’s concept of a tradition and contends that it is inadequate to address the necessary theological considerations involved in a church practice.

Healy also explores what he takes to be theological inadequacies in Hauerwas’s reading of Scripture and his view of grace, salvation, authority, and the church. Through-out his book Healy illustrates what he sees as the deficiencies of Hauerwas’s theology and argues that it needs substantial revision.

Nicholas M. Healy is professor of theology and religious studies at St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York. His other books are Church, World and the Christian Life: Practical-Prophetic Ecclesiology and Thomas Aquinas: Theologian of the Christian Life.

978-0-8028-2599-5 / paperback / 160 pages $23.00 [£16.99] / February

thenonviolentGodJ. Denny Weaver

This bold new statement on the nonviolence of God challenges the long-standing assump-tions of divine violence in theology, the violent God pictured in the Old Testament, and the supposed violence of God in Revelation. In The Nonviolent God J. Denny Weaver argues that since God is revealed in Jesus, the nonviolence of Jesus most truly reflects the character of God.

According to Weaver, the way Christians live — Christian ethics — is an ongoing expression of theology. Consequently, he sug-gests positive images of the reign of God made visible in the narrative of Jesus — nonviolent practice, forgiveness and restorative justice, standing up against racism and sexism, and

more — in order that Christians might live more peacefully.

“Violent images of God in Scripture and in Christian theol-ogy have been used to sanction and inspire violence throughout history. In this powerful, insightful, and practical book Denny Weaver

makes a significant contribution to the growing chorus of Christian leaders who are proclaiming the urgent need for Christians to put an end to this by rethinking our views of God and our interpretations of Scripture. . . . The profound challenge presented in this book is one that every follower of Jesus needs to wrestle with.” — Gregory A. Boyd

author of The Myth of a Christian Nation

“Those who seek biblical and theological grounding for a God who resists cultures of guns, violence, and war will be profoundly nourished by this careful, revelatory study of the nonviolent God revealed in Jesus Christ and his story.”

— Rita Nakashima BrockBrite Divinity School

J. Denny Weaver is professor emeritus of religion at Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio. His other books include The Nonviolent Atone-ment and Defenseless Christianity: Anabaptism for a Nonviolent Church.

978-0-8028-6923-4 / paperback / 336 pages $25.00 [£16.99] / November

ApproachingtheEndEschatological Reflections on Church, Politics, and Life

Stanley Hauerwas

In this book Stanley Hauerwas explores the significance of eschatological reflection for helping the church negotiate the contempo-rary world.

In Part One, “Theological Matters,” Hauer-was directly addresses his understanding of the eschatological character of the Christian faith. In Part Two, “Church and Politics,” he deals with the political reality of the church in light of the end, addressing such issues as the divided character of the church, the impera-tive of Christian unity, and the necessary practice of sacrifice. End, for Hauerwas, has a double meaning — both chronological end and end in the sense of “aim” or “goal.”

In Part Three, “Life and Death,” Hauerwas moves from theology and the church as a whole to focusing on how individual Chris-tians should live in light of eschatology. What

does an eschatologi-cal approach to life tell us about how to understand suf-fering, how to form habits of virtue, and how to die?

“Reading Hauerwas is like walking in on a family argument. You don’t always know when and how the fight

started, but you can’t take your eyes off it, you’re gal-vanized by the energy in the room, you suddenly find the fight is about things you’ve always been troubled by — and you sure as hell will stay rooted to the spot until you see how the argument comes out. Hauerwas writes unputdownable theology — because he believes in a God who will never put us down until it’s clear how our story comes out.” — Samuel Wells

King’s College London

“Once again the master brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old — essays to which I shall return with gratitude for their grace and insight.”

— Fergus KerrUniversity of Edinburgh

Stanley Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Profes-sor of Theological Ethics at Duke University. Among his many books are Resident Aliens, A Community of Character, Living Gently in a Violent World, and A Cross-Shattered Church.

978-0-8028-6959-3 / paperback / 272 pages $24.00 / NovemberUK & Europe rights: SCM-Canterbury

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livingforJesusandJapanThe Social and Theological Thought of Uchimura Kanzo

Shibuya Hiroshi and Chiba Shin, editors

Uchimura Kanzō (1861–1930) was an inde-pendent, original, and thought-provoking pioneer of Christianity in modern Japan. His inner theological convictions were organically linked with his aspirations for living out such evangelical and social values as prophetic wit-ness, neighborly love, social justice, pacifism, patriotism, and internationalism. Uchimura

passionately loved both Jesus and Japan, and this interdis-ciplinary volume shows the continu-ing relevance of his wide-ranging Chris-tian thought for our present world.

“In these essays on Uchimura Kanzō, readers will discover

fresh perspectives on the United States, love of God and nation, pacifism, missionary movement, Bible, church, and Christian doctrine from one of the most extraordinary Christians of late Meiji and Taishō Japan. Written mainly by scholars working in Japan, this collection represents an outstanding contribu-tion to Uchimura scholarship in English.”

— Thomas John HastingsJapan International Christian University Foundation

“The topical approach of this volume complements more biographical approaches to Uchimura Kanzō, resulting in a compelling account of his struggle to articulate and live a biblical faith during a turbulent era of nation-formation and imperial expansion.”

— Trent MaxeyAmherst College

Contributors

Andrew E. Barshay, Chiba Kei, Chiba Shin, Lee Kyoungae, Miura Hiroshi, Ohyama Tsunao, Shibuya Hiroshi, Shogimen Takashi, Takahashi Yasuhiro, Yagyu Kunichika.

Shibuya Hiroshi is professor emeritus at Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.

Chiba Shin is a professor at the International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.

978-0-8028-6957-9 / paperback / 237 pages $25.00 [£16.99] / Available

Reality,Grief,HopeThree Urgent Prophetic Tasks

Walter Brueggemann

Walter Brueggemann is one of the most highly regarded Old Testament scholars of our time; talk-show host Krista Tippett has even called him “a kind of theological rock star.” In this new book Brueggemann probes the tasks per-formed by the ancient prophets of Israel and

points out striking correlations between the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 b.c.e. and the cata-strophic crisis of 9/11 in a.d. 2001.

Brueggemann identifies a charac-teristic ideology of “exceptionalism” — chosenness, entitle-ment, privilege

— present both in our society and in ancient Jerusalem. He also sees a common proclivity to denial about the realities of history and a subsequent despair when that dominant ideology turns out to be unreliable. Brueg-gemann contrasts this sequence of ideology-denial-despair with a prophetic counterpoint of realism-grief-hope.

Challenging the church “to walk our society into the crisis where it does not want to go, and to walk our society out of that crisis into newness that it does not believe is possible,” Brueggemann takes on principalities and powers that vie for our souls and boldly con-fronts the dominant forces of our time.

The dynamic sequence of ideology-realism, denial-grief, and despair-hope that Bruegge-mann deftly identifies corresponds to his unpacking of the books of Jeremiah, Lamenta-tions, and Isaiah. Thoughtful readers will find provocative fare aplenty in Brueggemann’s Reality, Grief, Hope.

Walter Brueggemann is professor emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia. His many other books include A Social Reading of the Old Testa-ment, The Threat of Life, Theology of the Old Testa-ment, and The Prophetic Imagination.

978-0-8028-7072-8 / paperback / 144 pages $15.00 [£10.99] / February

Prophetic ChristianityBruce Ellis Benson, Malinda Elizabeth Berry, and Peter Goodwin Heltzel, series editors

PropheticRageA Postcolonial Theology of Liberation

Johnny Bernard Hill

In this fourth volume of the rapidly emerging Prophetic Christianity series, Johnny Bernard Hill argues that prophetic rage, or righteous anger, is a necessary response to our present culture of imperialism and nihilism. The most powerful way to resist meaninglessness, he says, is refusing to accept the realities of struc-

tural injustice, such as poverty, escalating militarism, geno-cide, and housing discrimination.

Hill’s Prophetic Rage is interdisciplin-ary, integrating art, music, and litera-ture with theology. It is constructive, passionate, and pro-vocative. Hill weaves

through a myriad of creative and prophetic voices of protest — from Jesus to W. E. B. DuBois, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and President Barack Obama — as well as multiple approaches, including liberation the-ology and black religion, to reflect theologi-cally on the nature of liberation, justice, and hope in contemporary culture.

“This book is a powerful and prophetic expression of the new generation of ‘Freedom Fighters’ — on fire for justice and casting much light on the wickedness in high places. Don’t miss it!” — Cornel West

Union Theological Seminary

“Hill offers a fresh trajectory of black theology. Resituating black theology in the context of empire is a gain, as it brings to the fore urgent economic issues.”

— Walter BrueggemannColumbia Theological Seminary

Johnny Bernard Hill is associate professor of philosophy and religion at Claflin Univer-sity, Orangeburg, South Carolina, and the author of The First Black President: Barack Obama, Race, Politics, and the American Dream.

978-0-8028-6977-7 / paperback / 192 pages $25.00 [£16.99] / December

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Lutheran Quarterly BooksPaul Rorem, series editor

theEarlylutherStages in a Reformation Reorientation

Berndt HammTranslated by Martin Lohrmann

The development of Martin Luther’s thought has commanded much scholarly attention because of the Reformation and its remarkable effects on the history of Christianity in the West. But much of that scholarship has been so enthralled by certain later debates that it has practically ignored and even distorted the context in and against which Luther’s thought developed. In The Early Luther Berndt Hamm,

armed with expertise both in late-medieval intellectual life and in Luther, presents new perspectives that leave old debates behind.

A master Luther scholar, Hamm pro-vides fresh insights into the develop-ment of Luther’s theology from his

entry into the monastery through his early lectures on the Bible to his writing of the 95 Theses in 1517 and The Freedom of a Christian in 1520. Instead of identifying a single break-through, Hamm carefully outlines a series of significant shifts in Luther’s late-medieval theological worldview over the course of his early career, demonstrating how Luther slowly but surely left behind the medieval theology of love for the certainty of faith. The result is a more accurate, nuanced portrait of Reforma-tion giant Martin Luther.

From a review of the German edition

“A fascinating and convincing tour through the varied currents of medieval theology and piety and of Luther’s development — in stages — from Augustinian friar to evangelical Reformer.” — John A. Maxfield in

Lutheran Quarterly

Berndt Hamm is professor emeritus of modern church history at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and the author of The Reformation of Faith in the Context of Late Medieval Theology and Piety.

978-0-8028-6924-1 / paperback / 320 pages $36.00 [£23.99] / January

Sacra Doctrina: Christian Theology for a Postmodern AgeAlan G. Padgett, series editor

BeingPromisedTheology, Gift, and Practice

Gregory WalterForeword by Patrick R. Keifert

Promise, along with gift, is among the pre-dominant metaphors in the Western Chris-tian tradition for describing God’s gracious actions. Being Promised argues that promise

is itself a kind of double gift — one when the promise is given, one when it is fulfilled — and analyzes the power, time, and place of God’s promise.

Gregory Walter offers a theologi-cally rich analysis of promise, anthro-pological and

phenomenological reflection on gift exchange, and a critical appreciation of other theological appropriations of gift to support his argument. Walter clarifies the phenomenon of promise as gift and shows its theological, hermeneutical, and ethical significance. No other book theo-logically examines promise and gift exchange like this one does.

“The title Being Promised works both ways: How does promising work? And what sort of being does promise open? Gregory Walter takes us through the intertwining postmodern problems of promise and gift with a penetrating eye and with patient teasing and tweaking. An amazing achievement.”

— Robert W. JensonInstitute for Theological Inquiry

“Walter’s Being Promised is brilliant. Drawing on analyses of gift exchange from cultural anthropology and phenomenology, it provides a theological account of promise as gift that moves beyond speech-act theory. . . . After reading this book, you will never again speak glibly about hospitality or forgiveness.”

— Lois MalcolmLuther Seminary

Gregory Walter is associate professor of reli-gion at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.

978-0-8028-6415-4 / paperback / 128 pages $25.00 [£16.99] / Available

JustificationReconsideredRethinking a Pauline Theme

Stephen Westerholm

Much has been written of late about what the apostle Paul really meant when he spoke of justification by faith, as opposed to the works of the law. This short study by Stephen Westerholm carefully examines proposals on the subject by Krister Stendahl, E. P. Sanders, Heikki Räisänen, N. T. Wright, James D. G. Dunn, and Douglas A. Campbell. In doing so, Westerholm notes weaknesses in traditional understandings that have provoked the more recent proposals, but he also points out areas

in which the latter fail to do justice to the apostle.

Readers of this book will gain not only a better grasp of the ongoing theo-logical debate about justification but also a more nuanced over-all understanding of Paul.

“Reading Stephen Westerholm’s sketch of justifica-tion in Paul is a duty and a joy. It introduces the subject clearly and elegantly to students. But it also throws down the gauntlet to the New Perspectivists. How will they respond?” — Simon Gathercole

University of Cambridge

“Every student wrestling with ‘justification’ will be grateful for this highly engaging book. Westerholm nimbly develops the mainstream interpretation, while critiquing popular current alternatives (includ-ing those by Campbell and Wright). Here is ready ammunition for an important continuing debate.”

— John M. G. BarclayDurham University

“Anything Stephen Westerholm writes on ‘justi-fication by faith’ is not just worth reading; it is essential reading.” — R. Barry Matlock

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Stephen Westerholm is professor of early Christianity at McMaster University, Hamil-ton, Ontario. His other books include Perspec-tives Old and New on Paul: The “Lutheran” Paul and His Critics and Israel’s Law and the Church’s Faith: Paul and His Recent Interpreters.

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theologyforliberalProtestantsGod the Creator

Douglas F. Ottati

A two-volume work by Douglas Ottati, Theol-ogy for Liberal Protestants presents a comprehen-sive theology for Christians who are willing to rethink and revise traditional doctrines in the face of contemporary challenges. It is Augus-tinian, Protestant, and liberal, recognizing the

importance of critical arguments and scien-tific inquiries.

This first volume contains sections on method and on the doctrine of creation. Ottati’s method envi-sions the world and ourselves in relation to God as Creator, Judge, and Redeemer. The bulk of the book

offers an in-depth discussion of God as Creator, the world as creation, and humans as good, capable, and limited creatures.

“In this stunning volume Douglas Ottati presents a historically rich and religiously nuanced account of Christian faith that decisively reorients contem-porary theology. . . . This book is a treasure trove of insight into the dynamics of the Christian life. Ottati is a distinctive theological voice, and this volume establishes him as one of the foremost theologians working today. It should be widely read, carefully pondered, and deeply treasured.”

— William SchweikerUniversity of Chicago Divinity School

“Theology for Liberal Protestants is a much-needed book by a master teacher. In it Doug Ottati recovers something in danger of being lost — a systematic account of contemporary life in relation to God as Creator-Judge-Redeemer. He succeeds admi-rably. . . . Engagingly written and accessible to a wide range of readers.” — Roger J. Gench

The New York Avenue Presbyterian Church

Douglas F. Ottati is Craig Family Distin-guished Professor of Reformed Theology and Justice at Davidson College in North Carolina. Among his other books are Hopeful Realism: Reclaiming the Poetry of Theology and Theology for Liberal Presbyterians and Other Endangered Species.

978-0-8028-6967-8 / paperback / 377 pages $38.00 [£25.99] / Available

inspiredThe Holy Spirit and the Mind of Faith

Jack Levison

In this book Jack Levison speaks a fresh prophetic word to the church, championing a unique blend of serious Bible study and Christian spirituality. With rich insight, he shows Christians of any church or denomi-nation how they can take the Spirit into the grit of everyday life. Levison argues for an indispensable synergy between spontaneity and study, ecstasy and restraint, inspiration and interpretation. Readable and relevant,

winsome and wise, Levison’s Inspired sets a bold agenda for today’s church that will replace quick-fix spiritualities with a vibrant, durable experience of the Holy Spirit.

“Jack Levison’s newest entry on the place of the Holy Spirit in the church

and the Christian life is a tour de force. Levison is, in my experience, the most competent scholar and clear-est writer on the Holy Spirit that I have known.”

— Eugene PetersonRegent College

“Levison here gives us a brilliant line of argument that is lucidly and almost affectionately delivered — brilliant in that it scintillates with insight after insight and connection after connection, lucid in that Levison writes with the simplicity and directness of genuine authority, and affectionate in that he approaches both his content and us as his readers with the warmest regard. Beyond all that, ‘An Agenda for the Future of Pneumatology,’ which serves as the concluding section of Inspired, should be required reading for every thoughtful Christian today.”

— Phyllis Ticklefounding editor of Religion

Department of Publishers Weekly

“Levison’s Inspired, aptly titled, will not only inform readers about the spirit but activate, nurture, and enable a spirit-filled way of life, learning, and virtue.” — Amos Yong

Regent University

Jack Levison is professor of New Testament at Seattle Pacific University. His previous books include Filled with the Spirit and Fresh Air: The Holy Spirit for an Inspired Life.

978-0-8028-6788-9 / paperback / 240 pages $24.00 [£16.99] / November

theHolySpirit—inBiblicalteaching,throughtheCenturies,andtodayAnthony C. Thiselton“Magisterial! Brilliant! Erudite! Anthony This-elton offers a sure-handed overview of the biblical teachings on the Spirit, maps the major historical streams of pneumatological reflection, and charts the

important trajectories going forward. . . . This book bridges heretofore divergent polemics and opens up new dialogical horizons and possibili-ties for the contempo-rary theological task.”

— Amos YongRegent University

“In this crucial and practical work Thiselton

provides expert guidance through the variety of topics pertinent to a theology of the Holy Spirit. . . . I know of nothing comparable. This volume is something every pastor and student should have in his or her library.” — Klyne Snodgrass

North Park Theological Seminary

“Respectfully engages a wide range of literature. Even cessationists and classical Pentecostals, who will argue with various elements, will find numerous points valuable for reflection and exegesis. All will appreciate and profit from the helpful engagement with secondary literature and survey of historical perspectives.” — Craig Keener

Asbury Theological Seminary

“I have often thought that I would like to round off my writing career with a fuller or more complete study of the Holy Spirit. Rather to my relief I need no longer champ at that bit. Tony Thiselton has already done it and left me nothing to do. Thank you, Tony.”

— James DunnUniversity of Durham

Anthony C. Thiselton is professor emeritus of Christian theology at the University of Not-tingham, England, and the author of numer-ous other books, including The Two Horizons: New Testament Hermeneutics and Philosophical Description, The Hermeneutics of Doctrine, two acclaimed commentaries on 1 Corinthians, and Life after Death: A New Approach to the Last Things.

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Guides to TheologyAlan G. Padgett, David A. S. Fergusson, Iain R. Torrance, and Danielle Nuss-berger, series editors

theBlessedVirginMaryTim Perry and Daniel Kendall, SJ

Coauthored by an evangelical Anglican priest and a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, this volume provides a concise, nontechnical historical introduction to the church’s think-ing about Mary, the mother of Jesus. The first part of the book sketches the development of

Marian thought from the second century to the twentieth cen-tury. The second part contains an anno-tated bibliography of the most impor-tant and accessible English-language works on Mary.

“A delightfully well-written account of

Marian theology, unique in the extent to which it addresses the concerns of Protestants while also refus-ing to minimize Mary’s importance in God’s work of salvation. This book will be of great value to students, pastors, and general inquirers. It should appear on every undergraduate theology reading list.”

— Sarah Jane BossCentre for Marian Studies, University of Roehampton

“This accessible book on Marian doctrine and devotion should be warmly welcomed. It reflects the growing and constructive ecumenical convergence on the sig-nificance of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the lives of Christians and their churches.”

— Gerald O’CollinsJesuit Theological College

“Before we begin arguing theologically about Mary, we should hear what Scripture and Christians in past ages have had to say on the subject. Now we can do just that, thanks to this splendid book by Tim Perry and Daniel Kendall. The writing is balanced and thoughtful, and the annotated bibliography is a gold mine of information.” — Joseph Mangina

Wycliffe College, University of Toronto

Tim Perry is rector at the Church of the Epiphany in Sudbury, Ontario. He also teaches theology at Thorneloe University College of Theology and religious studies at Laurentian University, both in Sudbury.

Daniel Kendall, SJ, is professor of theology at the University of San Francisco and book review editor for Theological Studies.

978-0-8028-2733-3 / paperback / 124 pages $18.00 [£11.99] / Available

thomasAquinasandKarlBarthAn Unofficial Catholic-Protestant Dialogue

Bruce L. McCormack and Thomas Joseph White, editors

“This is a delightful and stimulating book, full of careful exegesis of two of the most profound theolo-gians ever to have written. Barth and Aquinas are often caricatured or expounded in such a way as to blunt their thought. Not here. Here their thought is at

work in its fullness, and in genuine and lively debate. The result is a surprising degree of rap-prochement, but also the sharpening and deepen-ing of some old disagree-ments. Above all, what’s here is good theological thinking done with pas-sion. There’s no higher praise.”

— Paul J. GriffithsDuke Divinity School

“The distinguished essays collected in this book form a rare example of the demanding and much-needed art of theological diplomacy.” — John Webster

University of St. Andrews

“It must be acknowledged that White’s brilliant  introduction is alone worth the cost of the volume.  Add to this an array of richly developed essays by leading Protestant and Catholic scholars, treating the central domains of theology, and one has a book that will stand as a touchstone of ecumenical dialogue for years to come.” — Matthew Levering

University of Dayton

“Remarkable points of convergence combine with strong disagreements throughout the dialogue of this volume. . . . A profound contribution to genuine ecumenical dialogue.” — Hans Boersma

Regent College

Contributors

John R. Bowlin, Holly Taylor Coolman, Robert W. Jenson, Keith L. Johnson, Guy Mansini, Amy E. Marga, Bruce L. McCormack, Richard Schenk, Joseph P. Wawrykow, Thomas Joseph White.

Bruce L. McCormack is Charles Hodge Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Thomas Joseph White, O.P., is director of the Thomistic Institute at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.

978-0-8028-6976-0 / paperback / 312 pages $36.00 [£23.99] / Available

ChristandReconciliationA Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World, Volume 1

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen

“In continuous dialogue with global theology and world religions, Pentecostal theologian Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen sheds new light on trinitarian Christian faith in all its aspects. . . . Openness to all forms of

contextual theology is for him not a matter of political correctness to be expressed in a footnote, but lies at the heart of his methodol-ogy. . . . Christ and Reconciliation is a must-read for all theol-ogy students.”

— Peter DeMeyUniversity of Leuven

“This volume demonstrates a groundbreaking project of reframing constructive and systematic theology in search of a coherent vision in post-Western Christian-ity — inclusive, dialogical, and hospitable.”

— Paul S. ChungLuther Seminary

“A vigorous understanding of Christ as reconciler that is solidly rooted in the Bible and the Christian tradition and at the same time sympathetic to contem po rary insights. With awe and admiration readers of this comprehensive and lucid book will no doubt link its author’s name with Thomas, Calvin, Barth, Moltmann, and other theological luminaries. After the completion of Kärkkäinen’s five-volume project, theology will not be the same.”

— Peter PhanGeorgetown University

“Kärkkäinen brings an extraordinary breadth of theological learning and sympathy to this unique project. Though his canvas is vast, his patience and care in representing the views of all he engages are exemplary. . . . I am grateful both for what this volume delivers to its readers and for all that it promises to come.” — S. Mark Heim

Andover Newton Theological School

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen is professor of systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, and docent of ecumenics at the University of Helsinki.

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theHumanBeingA Theological Anthropology

Hans Schwarz

This overview of Christian anthropology by Hans Schwarz uniquely emphasizes three things: (1) the biblical testimony, (2) the historical unfolding of Christian anthropology through the centuries, and (3) the present affirmation of Christian anthropology in view of rival options and current scientific evidence.

Schwarz begins by elucidating the special place occupied by human beings in the world, then ponders the complex issue of human free-dom, and concludes by investigating humanity as a community of men

and women in this world and in the world beyond. While maintaining a strong biblical orientation, Schwarz draws on a wide range of resources, including philosophy and the natural sciences, in order to map out what it means to be human.

Schwarz’s Human Being will interest scholars, seminary and college students, and anyone who is concerned with how in the face of fascinating scientific insights we can intelligently talk today about human sinful-ness, human freedom, and human beings as children of the God who created us.

Hans Schwarz is chair of the Institute of Protestant Theology at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and the author of Theology in a Global Context: The Last Two Hundred Years.

978-0-8028-7088-9 / paperback / 384 pages / $35.00 [£23.99] / December

theWitnessofBartholomewi,EcumenicalPatriarchWilliam G. Rusch, editor

“A fitting tribute to one of the most independent and creative church leaders in our age, who has done so much to renew our vision of the human calling in the context of the material creation.” — Rowan Williams

University of Cambridge

“This book provides fascinating insights into the mind and priorities of this Ecumenical Patriarch, one of the leading churchmen of our times. . . . A pleasure to read.” — John A. Radano

Seton Hall University

Contributors

Anna Marie Aagaard, Peter C. Bouteneff, Günther Gassmann, Dale T. Irvin, Ronald G. Roberson, William G. Rusch, Joseph D. Small, Mary Tanner.

William G. Rusch, a Lutheran pastor, is professor of Lutheran studies at Yale Divinity School and professor of church history at New York Theological Seminary.

978-0-8028-6717-9 / paperback / 158 pages / $22.00 [£14.99] / Available

GodtheRevealedChristology

Michael WelkerTranslated by Douglas W. Stott

“God revealed himself in Jesus Christ!” Christian faith has confessed and proclaimed this message for nearly two thousand years. But what does it really mean?

In God the Revealed Michael Welker delves into this declaration and shows how it offers genuine insight into Christian faith. He asks “Who is Jesus Christ for us today?” and approaches the answer from

five different angles — the historical Jesus, the resurrection, the cross, the reign of Christ, and eschatology.

Michael Welker is professor and chair of systematic theology and executive director of the Research Centre for International and Interdisciplinary Theology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. His previous books include The Spirit in Creation and New Creation: Science and Theology in Western and Orthodox Realms and What Happens in Holy Communion?

978-0-8028-7157-2 / paperback / 347 pages / $29.00 [£19.99] / November

Now in paperback with new cover design

JesusChristandthelifeoftheMindMark A. Noll

Already an acclaimed Christocentric theology for contemporary evan-gelical intellectual life, Mark Noll’s Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind (2011) significantly updates Noll’s critical assessment of evangelical

Christian scholarship in his landmark Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994). In this newer book Noll charts a positive way forward for evangelical thinking and learning.

“By drawing constructively on poets, theologians, philosophers — and especially on the great historic creeds and confessions of the faith — Noll has crafted a challenging, inspiring christological philosophy of Christian education for the twenty-first century. This is a major contribution.” — David Lyle Jeffrey

Baylor University

“Noll draws on an impressive breadth of material from sources as diverse as B. B. Warfield and Vatican II. This accessible book will appeal to those interested in the idea of Christian learning and in the relationship between Christian faith and the liberal arts and sciences. . . . Recommended.” — Choice

“Though modest in length, this may be one of Noll’s most important scholarly contributions.” — David P. Gushee

Mercer University

Mark A. Noll is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the Uni-versity of Notre Dame.

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thetraditionofliberaltheologyMichael Langford

Many of the early apologists, including Justin Martyr and Origen, presented a defense of the Christian faith that sought to combine the message of the Gospels with respect for the kind of rationality associated with Socrates and his followers. Michael Langford argues

that, despite many misunderstandings, the term “liberal the-ology” can properly be used to describe this tradition.

Langford’s Tradi-tion of Liberal Theology begins with a histori-cal and contempo-rary definition of “liberal theology” and identifies eleven

typical characteristics, including a nonliteral-ist approach to interpreting Scripture, a rejec-tion of original guilt, and the joint need for faith and works. Langford then gives vignettes of thirteen historical Christian figures who personify the liberal tradition. Finally, he explores some contemporary alternatives to liberal theology — fundamentalism, the Catholic magisterium, Karl Barth’s theology — and presents a rational defense of the tradi-tion of liberal theology.

“Michael Langford gives a clear and accessible account of liberal theology’s quest to strike the appro-priate balance between faith and reason in the search for truth. . . . A very helpful contribution to current debate about the reasonableness of belief.”

— John Polkinghorneauthor of Belief in God in an Age of Science

“A readable, clear, jargon-free exposition and defense of liberal theology. . . . The book is outstanding in its rationality, its clarity, and its charitable tone.”

— Keith Wardauthor of Is Religion Dangerous?

Michael Langford is professor emeritus of philosophy and bioethics at Memorial Uni-versity of Newfoundland. His previous books include A Liberal Theology for the Twenty-First Century: A Passion for Reason and Unblind Faith.

978-0-8028-6981-4 / paperback / 176 pages $18.00 [£11.99] / January

Ressourcement: Retrieval & Renewal in Catholic ThoughtDavid L. Schindler, series editor

theCatholicityofReasonD. C. Schindler

“Ressourcement and modern Augustinian philo-sophical theology have been called on their apparent ‘fideism’: Schindler’s response is a resounding philosophical ‘Come at me, bro!’ The Catholicity of Reason is the most stimulating text in philosophy of religion to appear for many years. . . . It’s the ‘must read’ book of 2013.” — Francesca Murphy

University of Notre Dame

“D. C. Schindler celebrates and brilliantly defends the life that is reason, a life threatened by reason’s claim to be autonomous and equally by reason’s

claim to be limited. . . . Against the reduction of reason to its discursive operations characteristic of the Enlightenment, Schindler insists on the infinitely rich activity of reason in pursuit of the trinity of the irreduc-ibly distinct but always interrelated objects of reason — truth, good-ness, and beauty. . . .”

— Montague BrownSt. Anselm College

“Schindler goes a long way toward restoring the metaphysical scope of reason. . . . Much of the discus-sion in this exploration of the catholicity of both reason and being takes place at the hinge where philosophy and theology join hands. . . . Anyone inter-ested in all such questions of catholicity and analogy both in reason and in being will find much to take into consideration here.” — Oliva Blanchette

Boston College

D. C. Schindler is associate professor of metaphysics and anthropology at the Pontifi-cal John Paul II Institute, Catholic Univer-sity of America, Washington, D.C. His other books include The Perfection of Freedom: Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel between the Ancients and the Moderns and Plato’s Critique of Impure Reason: On Good and Truth in the Republic.

978-0-8028-6933-3 / paperback / 372 pages $30.00 [£19.99] / Available

AnalogiaEntis:MetaphysicsOriginal Structure and Universal Rhythm

Erich PrzywaraTranslated by John R. Betz and David Bentley Hart

Although Erich Przywara (1889–1972) was one of the preeminent Catholic theologians of his time and a profound influence on such people as Hans Urs von Balthasar and Joseph Ratzinger, he has remained virtually unknown in North America. This volume includes Przywara’s groundbreaking Analogia Entis, originally published in 1932, and his subsequent essays on the concept analogia entis — the analogy between God and creation —

which has currency in philosophical and theological circles today.

“The publication of this excellent translation of Przywara’s difficult and contentious book is an important event. Ana-logia Entis poses an inescapable problem for theologians, that of how

we must understand the relationship of God’s being to human beings. . . . Przywara was a notable influ-ence on some of the greatest Protestant and Catholic theologians of the twentieth century. We need to learn from him if we are to understand them.”

— Alasdair MacIntyreUniversity of Notre Dame

“The arguably most brilliant and simultaneously most enigmatic Catholic intellectual of the earlier part of the twentieth century, Erich Przywara argued eye to eye with Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler, and Martin Heidegger, challenged Karl Barth, and inspired a host of influential Catholic thinkers. . . . Finally, his magnum opus, Analogia Entis, is available in lucid English prose — an intellectual event of the first order.” — Reinhard Hütter

Duke Divinity School

Erich Pryzwara (1889–1972) was an influ-ential German theologian who himself was strongly influenced by Augustine, Aquinas, Newman, and the phenomenological philoso-phy of Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler.

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GodasloveThe Concept and Spiritual Aspects of Agape in Modern Russian Religious Thought

Johannes Miroslav Oravecz

Nineteenth-century Russian religious intel-lectuals devoted a great deal of attention to the concept of agape, or Divine Love, arguing that the Christian church is a reflection of the triune, self-sacrificing God and his love for all of creation. On account of their deliberations,

these intellectuals played a key role in mediating between the Orthodox Church and modern society at large.

In God as Love Johannes Oravecz presents a compre-hensive summa-tion of twenty-five prominent Russian thinkers and their

thought on the concept of agape, showing in detail how they broke new ground in their various affirmations of the truth that God is love. No other book in any language treats this topic with such breadth and depth.

Some sample chapter titlesEncounter with Modernity under the Censorship of the TsarThe Debate between the Slavophils and the WesternizersRussian Philosophy and Theology of Exile (after 1917)Filaret of Moscow: The Theology of the Heart and the Duties of LoveNikolai Platonovich Malinovskii: We Love Whom We KnowAlexei Stepanovich Khomiakov: The Church as a Living Organism of Truth and LoveAlexis Matveevich Bukharev: Living Communion with the Sovereign LoveVladimir Sergeievich Solov’ev: The Meaning of Love and All-Unity in the DivinePavel Iakovlevich Svetlov: Golgotha as Veritable Explanation of LoveSergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov: God’s Love-Humility for His CreationLev Platonovich Karsavin: Love as a Dialogue of SufferingViacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov: Love Sings to Me: “You Are!”Nikolai Nikolaevich Afanas’ev: The Power That Leads to KenosisAleksander Dmitrievich Schmemann: To See the World as God Sees ItNew Hermeneutics: “God Is Love” as the Ontological Fundament of Our FaithCatholicity-Universality: The Mutual Theological Consciousness of East and West

Johannes Miroslav Oravecz is a lecturer at the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Pitts-burgh and a parochial vicar at St. Thomas More Church in the Diocese of Pittsburgh.

978-0-8028-6893-0 / paperback / 528 pages $40.00 [£26.99] / December

Kierkegaard as a Christian ThinkerC. Stephen Evans and Paul Martens, series editors

ErosandSelf-EmptyingThe Intersections of Augustine and Kierkegaard

Lee C. Barrett

In this book — the first volume in the Kierkegaard as a Christian Thinker series — Lee Barrett offers a novel comparative inter-pretation of early church father Augustine and nineteenth-century philosopher-theologian

Søren Kierkegaard.Though these two

seminal thinkers have often been paired by historians of Western culture, the exact nature of their similarities and differences has never before been probed in detail. Barrett demonstrates that on many essential

theological levels Augustine and Kierkegaard were more convergent than divergent. Most significantly, their parallels point to a distinc-tive understanding of the Christian life as a passion for self-giving love.

Approaching Kierkegaard through the lens of Augustine, Barrett argues, enables the theme of desire for fulfillment in God to be seen as much more central to Kierkegaard’s thought than previously imagined.

“One could hardly ask for a finer or more highly nuanced treatment of the convergences and diver-gences, both direct and indirect, between Augustine and Kierkegaard than Barrett has given us in this rich comparative study of these two great theologians of love. . . . Barrett pays close attention to the theologi-cal contexts, dialectical tensions, rhetorical strategies, and pastoral purposes of each thinker that enable them to transcend the binary oppositions between Catholicism and Protestantism in the mutual affir-mation of both human eros and divine agape.”

— Sylvia WalshStetson University

Lee C. Barrett is the Mary B. and Henry P. Stager Professor of Theology at Lancaster Theological Seminary. He is also the author of the Abingdon Pillars of Theology volume on Kierkegaard and coeditor of the two-volume work Kierkegaard and the Bible.

978-0-8028-6805-3 / paperback / 432 pages $48.00 [£31.99] / November

InterventionsConor Cunningham and Peter M. Candler Jr., series editors

theAnalogicalturnRethinking Modernity with Nicholas of Cusa

Johannes Hoff

Societies today, says Johannes Hoff, are characterized by their inability to reconcile seemingly black-and-white scientific rational-ity with the ambiguity of postmodern pop culture. In the face of this crisis, Hoff's Ana- logical Turn recovers the fifteenth-century thinker Nicholas of Cusa’s alternative vision of modernity to develop a fresh perspective on the challenges of our time.

In contrast to his mainstream contempo-raries, Cusa’s appreciation of individuality, creativity, and scientific precision was deeply rooted in the analogical rationality of the Middle Ages. He revived and transformed the tradition of scientific realism in a manner that now, retrospectively, offers new insights into the “completely ordinary chaos” of postmod-ern everyday life. Hoff’s original study offers a new vision of the history of modernity and the related secularization narrative, a deconstruction of the basic assumptions of

postmodernism, and an unfolding of a liturgically grounded concept of common-sense realism.

“In this fascinating book Johannes Hoff shows us how Nicholas of Cusa sought to express the insights of the classical and medi-eval worldview in the

conceptuality of the modern. With enormous learning and great insight, Hoff ’s Analogical Turn illumi-nates some of the urgent problems of philosophy and theology today.” — Andrew Louth

Durham University

“Much more than a monograph on a historical figure, this imaginatively crafted and extremely scholarly volume constitutes one of the most significant works of theology in the twenty-first century so far. I believe that it will exert a very considerable influence on future theoretical reflections both within theology and without.” — John Milbank

University of Nottingham

Johannes Hoff is professor of systematic theology at Heythrop College in the Univer-sity of London.

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EncounteringJesus,EncounteringScriptureReading the Bible Critically in Faith

David CrumpForeword by James K. A. Smith

“This book is part bombshell, part pastoral epistle. . . . Both Kierkegaard and Crump have a way of chopping a path through all the brush of hermeneutical debates and academic wrangling about historical criticism to remind us of a simple but still disconcerting truth — that the point of Scripture is to encounter Jesus. . . . Students and other interpreters need to read this book to be reminded

that what’s at stake in biblical studies is an encoun-ter with the Lover of our souls.”

— James K. A. Smith (from foreword)

“David Crump’s book is far more than a learned piece of New Testament scholarship. He shows how it is possible for a person who knows about the critical issues to read the Bible as God’s word for today, addressed to existing human beings. Crump carries on a continual conversation with Kierkegaard that I found illuminating and that the great Danish thinker would have found gratifying.”

— C. Stephen EvansBaylor University

David Crump is a professor in the Religion Department of Calvin Col-lege, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Among his other books are An Introduc-tion to the Gospels and Acts and Knocking on Heaven’s Door: A New Testament Theology of Petitionary Prayer.

978-0-8028-6466-6 / paperback / 155 pages / $20.00 [£12.99] / Available

StrainingattheOarsCase Studies in Pastoral Leadership

H. Dana Fearon IIIwith Gordon S. Mikoski

“This book is a treasure, written out of a lifetime of faithful and very effective ministry, full of hard-earned wisdom, grace, and practical insight. I wish I had read this book years ago.” — John Buchanan

Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago

“Why didn’t the seminary teach us the things we needed to know? Stirred by that enduring question, this gem of a book offers wise and faithful reflections on pastoral leadership and pastoral life. Exploring numerous pastoral situations and challenges, it aptly points to the necessary partnership between seminaries and faith communities for the education and formation of their lead-ers — a never-ending process.” — Allan Hugh Cole Jr.

Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

H. Dana Fearon III is pastor emeritus of the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and was a longtime guest lecturer at Prince-ton Theological Seminary. Gordon S. Mikoski is associate professor of Christian education at Princeton Theological Seminary and editor of Theology Today.

978-0-8028-6866-4 / paperback / 138 pages / $18.00 [£11.99] / Available

BringingtheWordtolifeEngaging the New Testament through Performing It

Richard F. Ward and David J. Trobisch

“This is a superbly written and readily accessible introduction to the new frame-work for the Bible as performance literature. David Trobisch and Richard Ward integrate a comprehensive description of ancient performance of the Bible with clear guidance for the performance of the Bible in the modern world. . . . An ideal required book for college and seminary courses, a great text for study groups in local churches, and a valuable resource for pastors and scholars.”

— Thomas E. Boomershinefounder of Network of Biblical Storytellers

“The book many of us teachers have been waiting for! This dynamic little volume succeeds in overcoming the eclipse of biblical orality and captures an imagi-native rethinking of the New Testament writings as performance. . . . Informative for scholars. Essential for teachers and students. Foundational for preachers and worship leaders.” — David Rhoads

Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

“Scholarly, readable, usable!”

— Charles L. BartowPrinceton Theological Seminary

“An awesome resource for worship, preaching, and biblical exegesis in church, col-lege, or seminary settings.” — Susan R. Garrett

Louisville Presbyterian Seminary

Richard F. Ward is Fred B. Craddock Associate Professor of Homilet-ics and Worship at Phillips Theological Seminary. David J. Trobisch is internationally recognized as a scholar for his work on Paul’s letters, the formation of the Christian Bible, and biblical manuscripts.

978-0-8028-6885-5 / paperback / 124 pages / $18.00 [£11.99] / Available

The Missional Church SeriesCraig Van Gelder, series editor

CreatedandledbytheSpiritPlanting Missional Congregations

Mary Sue Dehmlow Dreier, editor

“Finally — the absolutely necessary conversation between missional theology, church planting, and the divine agency of the Holy Spirit! Those who plant new churches, or facilitate those plantings, or educate and mentor planters, dare not miss a careful reading of this fresh articulation of what is happening as the Spirit births new churches and what that means.” — George R. Hunsberger

Western Theological Seminary

Contributors: Daniel Anderson, Leith Anderson, Paul Chung, Mary Sue Dehmlow Dreier, Todd Hobart, Harvey Kwiyani, Lois Malcolm, Susan Tjornehoj, Miroslav Volf.

Mary Sue Dehmlow Dreier is associate professor of pastoral care and missional leadership at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina.

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Neil Messer

We use such words as “health,” “disease,” and “illness” all the time without stopping to consider exactly what we understand by them. Yet

their meanings are far from straightforward, and disagreements over them have significant practical ramifications in health care and bioethics.

In this book Neil Messer develops a distinc-tive, innovative theological account of these concepts and, in so doing, addresses key areas neglected by medical ethicists. Messer engages with debates in the philosophy of medicine and disability studies and draws on an array of theological resources including Barth, Bonhoeffer, Aquinas, and recent disability theologies.

Through careful definition and by presenting health in the wider perspective of the flourishing and ultimate destiny of human beings, Messer’s Flourishing and sheds new light on a wide range of practical bioethical issues and dilemmas.

Neil Messer is professor of theology at the University of Winchester, United Kingdom, and a minister of the United Reformed Church.

978-0-8028-6899-2 / paperback / 272 pages / $35.00 [£23.99] / December

APoliticaltheologyofClimateChangeMichael S. Northcott

Much current commentary on climate change focuses on the duties of individual citizens to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels. In A Political Theology of Climate Change, however, Michael Northcott points

to nations as key agents in the climate crisis.Against the anti-national trend of contem-

porary political theology, Northcott renarrates the origins of the nations in the divine order-ing of history. In dialogue with Giambattista Vico, Carl Schmidtt, Alasdair MacIntyre, and other notable writers, he argues that nations have legal and moral responsibilities to rule over limited terrains and to guard a just and fair distribution of the fruits of the earth within the ecological limits of those terrains.

As part of his study, Northcott brilliantly reveals how the prevalent nature-culture

divide in Western culture, including its notion of nature as “private property,” has contributed to the global ecologi cal crisis. Even as he addresses very real difficulties and controversies surrounding climate change, Northcott presents substantive and persuasive food for thought in this book.

Michael S. Northcott is professor of ethics at the University of Edinburgh. His previous books include The Environment and Christian Ethics and A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming.

978-0-8028-7098-8 / paperback / 344 pages / $30.00 [£19.99] / November

Self,World,andtimeEthics as Theology, Volume 1

Oliver O’Donovan

“In this splendidly dense yet lucid first volume of his new project, Oliver O’Donovan richly succeeds in re-connecting a neo-orthodox stress upon dogma with an earlier pietist stress upon personal formation.” — John Milbank

University of Nottingham

“O’Donovan here challenges how we do ethics, and what we say of ethics, across the board, from alpha to omega. The book is brief but elegant, erudite, judicious, its proposals matured by decades of reflection on what ethics can and cannot do. Its poetically dense, richly thought-provoking style invites one to leisurely reflection.

After reading the first paragraph I was intrigued; halfway through the second I was hooked. You will be too: taste and see.” — Charles Mathewes

University of Virginia

“The achievement of Self, World, and Time lies, to my mind, in its much welcome purism: it is bright theology and moral theology, and moral theology as biblical theology. The well-known sin of moral theol-ogy, since the Latin Middle Ages, has been its philo-sophical proclivities. . . . O’Donovan has written one more contribution to a non-philosophical theological ethics. This may be his best contribution to it. In any case, it is a splendid book.” — Jean-Yves Lacoste

Clare Hall, Cambridge

Oliver O’Donovan is a fellow of the British academy and professor emeritus of Christian ethics and practical theology at the University of Edinburgh.

978-0-8028-6921-0 / paperback / 151 pages / $25.00 [£16.99] / Available

ShapingPublictheologySelections from the Writings of Max L. Stackhouse

Scott R. Paeth, E. Harold Breitenberg Jr., and Hak Joon Lee, editors

One of the most prolific and influential American theologians of the last half century, Max L. Stackhouse has been widely recognized for his contributions to the emerging field of public theology.

This volume compiles some of Stackhouse’s most significant shorter writings. These selections make clear his cen-tral role in the development of public theology as a distinct disciplinary perspective in the fields of Christian theology and theological ethics. Shaping Public Theology serves as an excel-lent introduction to Stackhouse’s extensive corpus; readers will see the depth and breadth of Stackhouse’s comprehensive public theology while also gaining insight into his singular importance in the field.

Scott R. Paeth is associate professor of reli-gious studies at DePaul University. E. Harold

Breitenberg Jr. is associate professor of religious studies at Randolph-Macon College. Hak Joon Lee is professor of theology and ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary.

978-0-8028-6881-7 / paperback / 296 pages / $40.00 [£26.99] / January

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dareWeSpeakofHope?Searching for a Language of Life in Faith and Politics

Allan Aubrey BoesakForeword by Nicholas Wolterstorff

Since the spectacular rise of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela and the remarkable election of Barack Obama as president of the United States, the phrase “hopeful politics” has dominated our public discourse. But what happens when that hope disappoints? Can it be salvaged? What is the relationship between faith, hope, and politics?

In this book seasoned South African scholar Allan Boesak meditates on what it really means to hope in light of present political realities and growing human pain. Dealing with such timely issues as the killing of the Marikana miners in August 2012 and problems with

Obama’s presidency, Boesak argues that hope comes to life only in situations of vulnerability — in struggles for justice, dignity, and the life of the earth. Dare We Speak of Hope? is a critical, provocative, prophetic — and, above all, hopeful — book.

Allan Aubrey Boesak is the first holder of the Desmond Tutu Chair for Peace, Global Justice, and Reconciliation Studies, a joint position at Butler University and Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis. His previ-ous books include Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism and The Tenderness of Conscience: African Renaissance and the Spirituality of Politics.

978-0-8028-7081-0 / paperback / 192 pages $18.00 [£11.99] / February

ChristianHigherEducationA Global Reconnaissance

Joel Carpenter, Perry L. Glanzer, and Nicholas S. Lantinga, editors

This book offers a fresh report and interpreta-tion of what is happening at the intersection of two great contemporary movements — the rapid growth of higher education worldwide and the rise of world Christianity. It features

on-site, evaluative studies by scholars from Africa, Asia, North America, and South America. Very little research until now has examined the scope and direc-tion of Christian higher education throughout the world, so this volume fills a real gap.

ContentsChristian Universities and the Global Expansion of Higher Education Joel CarpenterRevolution in Higher Education in Nigeria: The Emergence of Private Universities Musa A. B. GaiyaDevelopment of Christian Higher Education in Kenya: An Overview Faith W. NguruRise, Fall, and Redevelopment of Christian Higher Education in China Peter Tze Ming NgKorean Christian Higher Education: History, Tasks, and Vision Kuk-Won ShinChristian Higher Education in India: The Road We Tread J. DinakarlalWill the Parent Abandon the Child? The Birth, Secularization, and Survival of Christian Higher Education in Western Europe Perry L. GlanzerResurrecting Universities with Soul: Christian Higher Education in Post-Communist Europe Perry L. GlanzerChristian Higher Education in Mexico: Past, Present, and Future José Ramón Alcántara MejíaChristian Higher Education in Brazil and Its Challenges Alexandre Brasil Fonseca and Cristiane Candido SantosQuest for Identity and Place: Christian University Education in Canada Harry FernhoutA Renaissance of Christian Higher Education in the United States George MarsdenThe Place and Prospects for Christian Higher Education Perry L. Glanzer

Joel Carpenter is professor of history and director of the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity at Calvin College.

Perry L. Glanzer is professor of educational foundations at Baylor University and a resident scholar with Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion.

Nicholas S. Lantinga is a professor at Han-dong Global University in South Korea and former director of International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education.

978-0-8028-7105-3 / paperback / 360 pages $36.00 [£23.99] / February

ChristacrossthedisciplinesPast, Present, Future

Roger Lundin, editor

In Christ across the Disciplines distinguished scholars covering the theological spectrum explore the dynamic relationship between the Christian faith and the life of the mind. Although rooted in a rich understanding of the past, these essays focus primarily on how

Christian students, teachers, and schol-ars might best meet the present and future challenges of intellectual and cul-tural life in a global world.

“This pace-setting volume offers a most helpful account of the effort to ‘integrate faith

and learning’ as that effort has been understood by Christian scholars and Christian colleges since mid-century. Even more, it shows many and varied ways for moving beyond ‘integration’ to other fruitful prac-tices for promoting scholarship as faithful believers. It is a compelling book of unusual insight.”

— Mark NollUniversity of Notre Dame

“An engrossing and enchanting collection filled with surprising sparklers, unsettling firecrackers, and even fireworks that explode in reframed conversations and new horizons of insight.” — Leonard Sweet

Drew University

“Roger Lundin has assembled a stellar cast of Christian intellectuals to reflect on the difference that the lordship of Jesus Christ makes, or can make, to academic endeavors. . . . An indispensable resource for those who want to discern the most fruitful paths available for Christian intellectual life.”

— Alan JacobsBaylor University

Contributors

Stephen M. Barr, Katherine Clay Bassard, David Bebbington, Jeremy S. Begbie, David N. Living- stone, Roger Lundin, John Schmalzbauer, Sujit Sivasundaram, Eleonore Stump, John Webster.

Roger Lundin is the Arthur F. Holmes Pro-fessor of Faith and Learning at Wheaton Col-lege. His other books include Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief and Believing Again: Doubt and Faith in a Secular Age.

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GKarlBarth’sEmergencyHomiletic,1932–1933A Summons to Prophetic Witness at the Dawn of the Third Reich

Angela Dienhart Hancock

What does a theologian say to young preachers in the early 1930s, at the dawn of the Third Reich? What Karl Barth did say, how he said

it, and why he said it at that time and place are the subject of Angela Dienhart Hancock’s book.

This is the story of how a preaching classroom became a place of resistance in Germany in 1932–1933 — a story that has not been told in its fullness. In that

emergency situation, Barth took his students back to the fundamental questions about what preaching is and what it is for. No other work has so interpreted Barth’s “Exercises in Sermon Preparation” in relation to their theological, political, ecclesiastical, academic, and rhetorical context.

“The question haunts us. How would I have responded to the rise of Nazism? Angela Dien-hart Hancock, with careful scholarship and thorough research, examines the thinking of the dominant theologian of the twentieth century as National Socialism emerged around him. . . . Karl Barth’s Emergency Homiletic is an ambitious, timely, and very important project.” — John Buchanan

editor/publisher of The Christian Century

“On the basis of her careful and detailed research, Angela Hancock sets Barth’s ‘emergency homiletic’ in the ominous political context of Germany in the early 1930s. The result is a moving account of Barth’s efforts in his homiletics classes to liberate preaching from religious platitude and political propaganda and to present it instead as service of the living Word of God rooted in the biblical text and marked by expectancy, humility, and courage.” — Daniel L. Migliore

Princeton Theological Seminary

Angela Dienhart Hancock is assistant pro-fessor of homiletics and worship at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.

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PreachinginHitler’sShadowSermons of Resistance in the Third Reich

Dean G. Stroud, editor

Preaching in Hitler’s Shadow begins with a rivet-ing look at Christian life inside the Third Reich, giving readers a real sense of the danger that opposition pastors faced every time they took the pulpit. Dean Stroud pays special attention to the role language played in the battle over the German soul, pointing out the

use of Christian lan-guage in opposition to Nazi rhetoric.

The second part of the book presents thirteen sermons by various select preach-ers, including Die-trich Bonhoeffer, Karl Barth, Rudolf Bult-mann, and others not as well known but no less courageous.

A running commentary offers cultural and his-torical insights, and each sermon is preceded by a short biography of the preacher.

“Seldom has our generation been so challenged; seldom has the call for prophetic faithfulness been so clearly heard. Preaching in Hitler’s Shadow is simply a towering book. It will inform, provoke, unsettle, move, and inspire.” — Allan Boesak

author of Dare We Speak of Hope? Searching for a Language of Life in Faith and Politics

“At once sobering and inspiring, this book is a treasure.” — John Wilson

editor of Books & Culture

“In this book we see what it is like to proclaim the gospel courageously in the midst of dire political circumstances. The idea that preaching must always avoid being political is exposed for the falsehood that it is. This is a sobering and a heartening book.”

— George Hunsingereditor of Torture Is a Moral Issue

Dean G. Stroud is professor emeritus of German studies at the University of Wisconsin in LaCrosse. A former Presbyterian pastor, he has long been interested in sermons preached by opposition pastors in Hitler’s Germany.

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ReadingforPreachingThe Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists

Cornelius Plantinga Jr.

In Reading for Preaching Cornelius Plantinga makes a striking claim: preachers who read

widely will most likely become better preachers.

Plantinga — himself a master preacher — shows how a wide reading program can benefit preachers. First, he says, good reading generates delight, and the preacher who enters the world of

delight goes with God. Good reading can also help tune the preacher’s ear for language — his or her primary tool. General reading can enlarge the preacher’s sympathies for people and situations that she or he had previously known nothing about. And, above all, the preacher who reads widely has the chance to become wise.

This beautifully written book will benefit not just preachers but anyone interested in the wisdom to be derived from reading.

“Preachers will find in these pages a colleague and fellow traveler who exudes courage and pathos and joy in our common calling.”

— Walter BrueggemannColumbia Theological Seminary

“Reading for Preaching represents the gift of a lifetime. Cornelius Plantinga has spent many years mapping great fiction, poetry, biography, and journalism. In this book he shares that map with technologized, digitalized, busy preachers who badly need what he has to offer. . . . I can’t imagine a preacher who will not benefit from this gift.”

— Richard LischerDuke Divinity School

“With wit, wisdom, and a fresh supply of his own compelling prose, Plantinga invites us into the whitewater adventure of good reading. . . . This book is about delightful reading, and it is itself a delight to read.”  — Thomas G. Long

Candler School of Theology

Cornelius Plantinga Jr. is president emeri-tus of Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and senior research fellow at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.

978-0-8028-7077-3 / paperback / 147 pages $14.00 [£8.99] / November

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ArtsMinistryNurturing the Creative Life of God’s People

Michael J. Bauer

This volume is the best available guidebook to the emerging field of Christian arts ministry. Michael Bauer lays a solid foundation for arts ministry, grounding it in the historic Christian tradition and urging churches to expand their engagement with the creative arts — “to live and worship in full color.” Eighteen illustrative case studies help round out Bauer’s rich discussion.

“There are remarkably few books on arts ministry in the local church, and very few of them do justice to the sheer diversity of expression such ministry can manifest. Ecumenical and warmhearted, practical and positive, Bauer’s book will provide great encour-agement to churches ‘on the ground.’ ”

— Jeremy BegbieDuke University

“An unprecedented exposé on arts ministry — what it is, how it works, and why it succeeds. With unblink-ing, erudite analysis, Michael Bauer elucidates the meaning that is mediated through arts ministries.

His myriad examples are richly ecumenical and resourceful in their capacity to captivate mind, body, and spirit. This must-read book will convince even the disinterested. Through this work Bauer succeeds in undergirding a nationwide movement.” — Catherine Kapikian

Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion,Wesley Theological Seminary

“For anyone wanting to explore the field of arts ministry, this book is a superb and remarkably comprehensive primer.” — Stephan Casurella

Christ Church Cathedral, Cincinnati

“For the growing number of pastors, artists, and lay leaders who love the arts but are unsure of their role in ministry, Michael Bauer here provides just what is needed. Though historically and theologically informed, his Arts Ministry focuses on the practical issues of making the arts an integral part of the worship and ministry of the church. . . . This is the book to put in the hands of your church’s worship committee, or to assign in seminary or college ministry courses.”

— William DyrnessFuller Theological Seminary

Michael J. Bauer is professor of organ and church music at the Uni-versity of Kansas. In addition to teaching, he has served on the music staff of twelve different churches and established arts ministries at three of those churches.

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The Church at WorshipLester Ruth, Carrie Steenwyk, and John D. Witvliet, series editors

longingforJesusWorship at a Black Holiness Church in Mississippi, 1895–1913

Lester Ruth

The Church at Worship is a series of documentary case studies of spe-cific worshiping communities from around the world and throughout Christian history that can inform and enrich worship practices today.

In this third volume, Longing for Jesus, Lester Ruth vividly portrays a promi-nent African-American Holiness church in Jackson, Mississippi, in the early twentieth century.

“Masterfully knitting new strands of research into a rich tapestry of religious history, Lester Ruth brings to life the long-hidden story of the nation’s first African-American Holiness church. . . . By turns narrative history, exege-sis, and study of Christian practice, Ruth’s book brims with insight and wisdom about

how a small church in the Deep South sparked a movement that would sweep the country and start a revolution in worship and preaching.” — John Giggie

University of Alabama

“Ruth’s Longing for Jesus takes the reader inside Christ Temple of Jackson, Mis-sissippi, and the ministry of Charles Price Jones, a central figure in the Black Holi-ness movement. . . . We can experience the richness of worship in that place and imagine enriched worship practices for ourselves. This accessible and innovative introduction to a critical but underappreciated figure in the history of American Protestant worship is a great gift indeed.” — W. Scott Haldeman

Chicago Theological Seminary

“Lester Ruth has unburied the rich treasures and legacy of the Church of Christ (Holiness) USA and its founder, Charles Price Jones. . . . Ruth’s meticulous atten-tion to the documents, music, and worship practices successfully connects us to the songs, prayers, and sermons of these ‘saints on higher ground’!”

— James AbbingtonCandler School of Theology

Lester Ruth is research professor of Christian worship at Duke Divin-ity School and professor of worship history at the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies. He is also the coauthor of the first Church at Worship volume, Walking Where Jesus Walked: Worship in Fourth-Century Jerusalem.

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Anton WesselsForeword by Nicholas Wolterstorff

Discussing the Bible and the Qur an in one breath will surprise some Jews, Christians, and Muslims. But Anton Wessels argues in this book that all three of these monotheistic traditions must read their Scrip-

tures together and not against each other. As his book title suggests, their three books, in the end, actually tell one tale.

Wessels accepts Muhammad as a prophet and takes the Qur an seriously as Holy Scrip-ture along with the Old and New Testaments — without giving up his own Christian con-victions. Respectfully reading the Torah, the Gospel, and the Qur an together, he maintains, is of crucial importance because our world often sees these religious books as the cause of conflicts rather than the solution to them.

“Only an erudite, excellent, and critical scholar like Anton Wessels could have brought such seemingly disparate elements together in such a brilliant and enlightening way. . . . This coherent tour de force invites us to reevaluate our perspectives on truth, history, revelation, and even the divine. As always, Wessels opens up new vistas. I recommend this timely and pertinent book to anyone inter-ested in a peaceful and just world. It is intellectually stimulating and one of the most hopeful books in our current polarized context.” — Charles Amjad-Ali

Luther Seminary

“A remarkable, helpful resource for reading the Torah, the Gospel, and the Qur an in relation to each other focused on central questions that arise in each. . . . The reader will learn a lot about Qur anic and biblical texts and their contexts and will have to rethink some basic assumptions about his or her religious tradition, particularly pertaining to its relationship with the other religious traditions ‘of the book.’ This is just the kind of thought and conversation that we sorely need today in order to build constructive and peaceful relationships across our religious boundaries.” — Heidi Hadsell

Hartford Seminary

Anton Wessels is professor emeritus of religion at the Free University of Amsterdam and an ordained Presbyterian minister. His other books include Europe: Was It Ever Really Christian? and Muslims and the West: Can They Be Integrated?

978-0-8028-6908-1 / paperback / 333 pages / $28.00 [£18.99] / Available

ReinventingliberalChristianityTheo Hobson

In this provocative book Theo Hobson addresses head-on the current crisis of liberal Christianity. In past years liberal Christianity challenged centuries of authoritar ian tradition and gave rise to the secular liberal-ism that we take for granted. But liberal Christianity today is widely

dismissed as a watering-down of the faith, and more conservative forms of Christianity are increasingly dominant. Can the liberal Chris-tian tradition recover its influence?

Writing in a lively journalistic style, Hobson puts forth a bold theory about why liberal Christianity collapsed and how it can be reinvented. He argues that a simple revival is not possible because liberal Christianity actually consists of two traditions — a good tradition that must be salvaged and a bad tradition that must be repudiated. Hobson untangles these two traditions with a fascinat-

ing survey of Christian thought from its origins to the present and, further, aims to transform Christianity through a discriminating redis-covery of liberal faith and cultic ritual.

“Presents a lively, timely, theologically informed, and historically grounded argu-ment for the compatibility of a sacramental Christianity with the traditions of the liberal state.” — David Martin

London School of Economics

“For Christians who appreciate living in a liberal state and despair at ‘postliberal’ theology’s easy dismissal of it, this book is a delight. It argues for a robust version of liberal Christianity that affirms the communal and cultic aspects of Christian-ity, but does not neglect the individual and the institutions that protect his or her freedom.” — Linda Woodhead

Lancaster University

“Theo Hobson is as well-qualified as anyone to set about the task of reinventing liberal Christianity. In this remarkable, wise, and incisive book he sets about that task with outstanding skill, presenting us with an accessible and arresting argu-ment that is as compelling as it is convincing.” — Martyn Percy

University of Oxford

“This is an ambitious work that deals with central issues in contemporary public life and does so by delving into past and present theological debates. . . . It covers a wide range of sources, theological and secular, spanning the modern period, and Hobson’s style, as ever, combines clarity, boldness, and a certain dispatch with a good grasp of the material.” — George Pattison

Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

Theo Hobson is a British theologian and journalist currently serving as lecturer in systematic theology at General Theological Seminary, New York. His other books include Milton’s Vision: The Birth of Christian Liberty.

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SFromtimesSquaretotimbuktuThe Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church

Wesley Granberg-MichaelsonForeword by James H. Billington

“This is a splendid book. Of itself, the growth of Christian numbers in the global South is no longer surprising, nor is the tension with an increasingly secularized post-Christian West. What makes this book so valuable is the author’s ability to stand back and offer an astute and wide-ranging analysis of these trends, rooted in his wide experience and his passionate ecumenical commitment. He presents a

confident, well-judged survey of the emerging face of Christianity. . . . Strongly recommended.”

— Philip JenkinsInstitute for Studies

of Religion, Baylor University

“The most important book anyone can read about the future of the church.”

— Jim Wallispresident and founder of Sojourners

“For people seeking to get a feel for global Christian-ity, banks of statistics are easy to find. What’s harder to find is someone who can wisely integrate data with experience gained on street level with Christians around the world. Wes Granberg-Michaelson is the best tour guide I can imagine to give us all a guided tour of Christianity — not as a Western religion exported globally, but as a religion with many vibrant centers and a circumference as big as the planet.” — Brian D. McLaren

author/speaker/activist

“A timely reminder of the pastoral and theological significance of the wave of the worldwide Christian surge that is breaking on the shores of North America. Granberg-Michaelson offers a helpful frame for action and reflection in a style free of jargon and technical language.” — Lamin Sanneh

Yale Divinity School

Wesley Granberg-Michaelson served as General Secretary of the Reformed Church in America from 1994 to 2011. He was one of the first managing editors of Sojourners magazine and has also worked with the World Council of Churches, the Global Christian Forum, and Call to Renewal. His other books include Unexpected Destinations: An Evangelical Pilgrimage to World Christianity.

978-0-8028-6968-5 / paperback / 189 pages $20.00 [£12.99] / Available

ChristianophobiaA Faith under Attack

Rupert Shortt

More Christians than people of any other faith group worldwide live under threat. Yet this

religious persecution is widely ignored. In Christianophobia Rupert Shortt exposes the wide-spread violent perse-cution of Christians around the world — and the media’s scandalous silence over it.

“Impressive. . . . An excellent study of anti-Christian persecution around the world. . . . Splendidly rich and informative.”

— Philip Jenkins in The Anxious Bench

“Rupert Shortt tells a story as harrowing as it is unforgettable. . . . Christianophobia covers it all. I read the book in one sitting, gripped by every page.”

— William Doino Jr. in First Things

“Points out some very uncomfortable truths in this powerful analysis of the persecution of Christians. . . . [Shortt] has done a remarkable job in compiling this book when so little attention has been given in the mainstream media to the plight of Christians.”

— Catherine Pepinster in The Independent

“Shortt collates useful country-specific evidence of rampant intolerance of Christians from inter-view material, testimonies, written sources and surveys. . . . His flowing narrative, with just enough background and context for each country, allows the poignant testimonies to speak for themselves. The overall impact is shocking.”

— Ian Linden in The Tablet

“This brilliant book stands as a sharp rebuke to those of us who enjoy freedom of religion and freedom of speech but are indifferent to the plight of those who do not. . . . Shortt’s painstakingly researched account should act as a much-needed wake-up call.”

— David Alton in Catholic Times

Rupert Shortt is religion editor of The Times Literary Supplement and a visiting fellow of Black- friars Hall, University of Oxford. His other books include Rowan’s Rule: The Biography of the Archbishop of Canterbury and God’s Advocates: Christian Thinkers in Conversation. He lives in London.

978-0-8028-6985-2 / hardcover / 320 pages $26.00 / AvailableNorth America rights only; Rider elsewhere

theJ.H.BavinckReaderJohn Bolt, James D. Bratt, and Paul J. Visser, editors

This reader contains a choice selection of significant writings by the premier twentieth-century missiologist in the Dutch Calvinist tradition — very few of them previously available in English. The book also includes

the most thorough biographical sketch of J. H. Bavinck any-where.

“Bavinck’s wonderful contributions to mis-siology and the theology of culture have been a well-kept secret in the English-speaking world. Now, however, we have this marvelous reader!

I pray not only that this volume will let the secret out about Bavinck’s genius but also that the gems in this book will stimulate a renewal of creative thinking about the mission to which God calls us in contem-porary life.” — Richard J. Mouw

Fuller Theological Seminary

“Time is a light that exposes both the foolishness and the wisdom of bygone generations. This rich collec-tion of essays testifies to the vigor, versatility, and prescience of J. H. Bavinck’s thought. The essays — some written more than seventy years ago — are as insightful now as anything currently being written by evangelical missiologists on the interplay between Christianity and human religiosity.”

— Jonathan J. BonkOverseas Ministries Study Center

“Bavinck combines a strong biblical orientation with a deep understanding of the human soul. His reflec-tions on God’s revelation to the human community, religious consciousness, and Eastern mysticism can help us to do Christian mission properly in today’s context.” — Jan A. B. Jongeneel

Utrecht University

John Bolt is professor of systematic theology at Calvin Theological Seminary and the author of A Free Church, a Holy Nation: Abraham Kuyper’s Public Theology.

James D. Bratt is professor of history at Calvin College and the author of Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat.

Paul J. Visser is pastor of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (Amsterdam) and chairman of the Foundation for the Promot-ing of Reformed Missiology and Ecumenics.

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Thomas BremerTranslated by Eric W. Gritsch

Russian political history and Russian church history are tied together very tightly. One cannot properly understand Russia’s overall history without considering the role of the

Orthodox Church in Russia.

Thomas Bremer’s Cross and Kremlin uniquely surveys both the history and the contemporary situation of the Russian Orthodox Church. The first chapter gives a con-cise chronology from the tenth century

through the present day. The following chap-ters highlight several important issues and aspects of Russian Orthodoxy — church-state relations, theology, ecclesiastical structure, monasticism, spirituality, the relation of Russian Orthodoxy to the West, dissidence as a frequent phenomenon in Russian church history, and more.

“The Russian Orthodox Church has a complex his-tory, fascinating theology, intriguing saints, and a beautiful panoply of sacred art in icons and music and liturgy. Thomas Bremer does a great service in providing a most accessible, accurate, and informa-tive overview of it all. This will be the best encounter that many readers have with the Russian incarna-tion of Christianity.” — Michael Plekon

Baruch College, City University of New York

“Cross and Kremlin is erudite, concise, and readable. . . . This excellent translation of the 2007 German original (updated to include recent statistics) provides the reader with a reliable introduction to Russian Orthodoxy — the first such volume to appear in recent times.” — Gregory Freeze

Brandeis University

Thomas Bremer is professor of Eastern Church studies and peace studies at the Uni-versity of Münster, Germany. He has written extensively on Eastern Orthodoxy, especially in Russia and the Balkans.

978-0-8028-6962-3 / paperback / 192 pages $26.00 [£17.99] / Available

Emory University Studies in Law and ReligionJohn Witte Jr., series editor

HopesforBetterSpousesProtestant Marriage and Church Renewal in Early Modern Europe, India, and North America

A. G. Roeber“A scholarly tour de force that ingeniously inter-rogates the theological discourse around the seminal institution of marriage. A. G. Roeber interconnects with empirical dexterity sociological developments across the expanse of three continents, with influ-ences ranging from polygamy to pietism during the early modern epoch. A refreshingly insightful comparative study.” — Gita Dharampal-Frick

University of Heidelberg

“Roeber sensitively reconstructs debates over mar-riage within the early modern international pietist movement. He brilliantly synthesizes theology, popular religion, and the day-to-day experience of married life. His story is resolutely transnational, at once embracing theologians at the University of Halle, immigrants in the backcountry of British North America, and pastors in Danish-German mis-

sions in India. . . . This is a historical work of immense learning, broad reach, and endur-ing relevance.”

— Richard J. RossUniversity of Illinois

“Hopes for Better Spouses makes for fascinating reading at a time when half of all marriages end

in divorce. With deep erudition Roeber recounts the struggle of pietists in vastly different societies — early modern Germany, British North America, and South India — to find lasting solutions for the bond between husband and wife, and he sketches the consequence of these attempts for modern conceptions of marriage.” — Hartmut Lehmann

University of Kiel

A. G. Roeber is professor of early modern history and religious studies and codirector of the Max Kade German-American Research Institute at Penn State University. Among his other books is Changing Churches: An Orthodox, Catholic, and Lutheran Theological Conversation.

978-0-8028-6861-9 / paperback / 317 pages $29.00 [£19.99] / Available

ProcessandProvidenceThe Evolution Question at Princeton, 1845–1929

Bradley J. Gundlach

Charles Hodge, James McCosh, B. B. Warfield — these leading professors at Princeton College and Seminary in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are famous for their orthodox Protestant positions on the doctrine of evolution. In this book Bradley Gundlach explores the surprisingly positive embrace of developmental views by the whole community of thinkers at old Princeton, showing how they embraced the development not only of the cosmos and life-forms but also of Scrip-ture and the history of doctrine, even as they defended their historic Christian creed.

From the first American review of the pre-Darwinian Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation to the Scopes Trial and the forced reorganization of Princeton Seminary in 1929, Process and Providence reliably portrays the

preeminent conser-vative Protestants in America as they defined, contested, and answered — pre-cisely and incisively — the many facets of the evolution question.

“Bradley Gundlach has written the best kind of history — deeply researched, beautifully

written, carefully thought through. Its account of how scholars at Princeton Seminary and Princeton University dealt with the evolution question(s) reveals the same qualities that mark this book — balance, learning, nuance, perception, and theo- logical depth. One can only hope that this fine historical study will encourage those in our day who continue to wrestle with the evolution question(s).”

— Mark A. NollUniversity of Notre Dame

“Gundlach opens up a rich vein of interpretation which exposes the superficiality of popular percep-tion and partisan presumption alike. A splendid performance.” — David Livingstone

Queen’s University Belfast

Bradley J. Gundlach is professor of history at Trinity International University, Deerfield, Illinois. He also serves as book review editor for Fides et Historia, the journal of the Confer-ence on Faith and History.

978-0-8028-6898-5 / paperback / 359 pages $39.00 [£25.99] / November

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OepkenoordmansTheologian of the Holy Spirit

Karel BleiTranslated by Allan J. Janssen

“A lucid presentation of Noordmans’s theology, this book extends beyond its presumed narrow readership. It is the content of Noordmans’s thought — bold, sometimes startling, always insightful, and occasion-ally troubling — that makes this volume worthy of attention.” — Paul R. Fries

New Brunswick Theological Seminary

“Oepke Noordmans has to be considered ‘the greatest Dutch theologian of the twentieth century, a teacher for a whole generation of theologians’ (H. Berkhof ). He possessed the charisma to combine fundamental theology (and doctrine) with original, often humor-

ous formulations; in that way he gave an unsurpassed commen-tary on his own era. In this book Karel Blei paints a clear picture of Noordmans’s ideas and writings.”

— H. W. de KnijffUtrecht University

“Recommended for everyone who desires to

know more about the man who is viewed by many as the most important Dutch Reformed theologian and a church father of the previous century. Blei not only considers Noordmans as a theologian but describes his importance in the turbulent events of the Dutch Reformed Church, particularly his role in the struggle for the reorganization of the church in the 1930s, his plea for a sober but genuine liturgy, and his critical view on the renewal of the church following the Second World War.” — J. D. Th. Wassenaar

author of Noordmans in Friesland

Karel Blei is a theologian and minister in the Protestant Church in the Netherlands. Active in ecumenical affairs both nationally and internationally, he is the author of a number of books on theology and history, including The Netherlands Reformed Church, 1571–2005.

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loyaltyandlossThe Reformed Church in America, 1945–1994

Lynn Japinga

“If you love the Reformed Church in America, or just want to understand it, read this book! The denomina-tion’s major events, issues, and conflicts — and what they mean — come to life in Lynn Japinga’s narra-

tive, her questions, even the footnotes (don’t gloss over them!).”

— Edwin MulderReformed Church

in America general secretary emeritus

“A thoroughly scholarly and yet touchingly personal account of the twentieth-century history of the Reformed

Church in America. At times it reads like a bitter-sweet love letter from a daughter of the church who has been sorely aggrieved by its internecine bickering. . . . In the end the author asks this unsettling — and unsettled — question: Will the waning glue of loyalty be sufficient to carry the Reformed Church into the future?” — Donald Luidens

Hope College

“Quite apart from the many insights here that will be of value to people inside the Reformed Church, Lynn Japinga’s Loyalty and Loss stands as a model for the writing of any denomination’s history. Relying heavily on interviews and other first-person sources and focusing on points of tension, she develops an organic and nuanced picture of this denomination that does not ignore its place within the broader cur-rents of late-twentieth-century American religion.”

— John CoakleyNew Brunswick Theological Seminary

Lynn Japinga is professor of religion at Hope College, Holland, Michigan, and an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America.

978-0-8028-7068-1 / paperback / 340 pages $30.00 [£19.99] / Available

Studies in the History of Christian MissionsRobert Eric Frykenberg and Brian Stanley, series editors

theConversionoftheMaoriYears of Religious and Social Change, 1814–1842

Timothy Yates

In this volume Timothy Yates uncovers the history of missions among the Māori people of New Zealand in the early 1800s. After describing the anthropological background of pre-contact Māori society, the book examines the first introduction of Christian mission by

Samuel Marsden and the establishment of a Church Missionary Society base in 1814. Yates proceeds to chart the significant changes in society and religion over the course of nearly thirty years in detail.

Based on painstak-ing archival research, this study shows

how an uncomprehending collection of Māori who heard Marsden’s first sermon became 40,000 members of Church Missionary Society churches alone by the 1840s, with Method-ist and Marist adherents besides. By 1842 the newly arrived Anglican Bishop, G. A. Selwyn, regarded the whole Māori people as con-verted. Yates ends his book with an extended treatment of conversion, both as a general phenomenon and in relation to the Māori.

“In this book Timothy Yates throws fresh light on an important, but little known, part of Christian mis-sion history. His work is to be warmly welcomed.”

— Charles W. FormanYale Divinity School

“Conversion of the Māori and the impact of mission-ary Christianity in New Zealand have been matters of considerable debate among historians. Timothy Yates provides a careful analysis of these areas and offers nuanced insights into these complex issues, taking particular note of indigenous initiatives.”

— Allan DavidsonUniversity of Auckland

Timothy Yates is docent in mission studies at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, an Hon-orary Fellow of St. John’s College, University of Durham, and Canon Emeritus of Derby Cathedral, England.

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Genna Rae McNeil, Houston Bryan Roberson, Quinton Hosford Dixie, and Kevin McGruder

This authoritative, illustrated history of the famous Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York City, tells the story of an extraordinary church over the span of two centuries. Beginning with the church’s formal organization in 1809, Witness continues through its relocations, its famous senior pastors, and its many crises and triumphs, up to the present. The largest Protestant congregation in the United States during the pre-megachurch 1930s, Abyssinian Baptist Church has played a key role in the history of New York City.

“A magnificent history of an outstanding African-American congregation with a national pulpit for its preachers. On the basis of meticulous research, the authors have chronicled the triumphs and the failures, the harmonious unity and the conflicts within the two-hundred-year history of the Abyssinian Baptist Church. . . . This history serves as a model for the history of other church

congregations.” — Lawrence H. MamiyaVassar College

“This much-needed history of the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem is a ‘must-read’ for generations of Americans who want to know the complex and complicated story of the black religious tradition, the black church tradition, and the intersectionality of race, religion, and politics amidst the ever-changing and evolving landscape of life for Africans in New York City — from the days following the Civil War up through the Great Migration and on into the twenty-first century. A debt of gratitude is owed to Genna Rae McNeil, Houston Bryan Roberson, Quinton Hosford Dixie, and Kevin McGruder! These dedicated histo-rians have captured an important segment of black church history and written about it with passion and with care.” — Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.

Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago

“During its 207-year history, Abyssinian Baptist has been central to the development of African American Christianity as a force for social justice. . . . Its pastors have been national figures, especially the controversial Adam Clayton Powell Jr. . . . With its last 227 pages given over to photos (plenty are already in the main text), appendixes, and notes, this is a basic resource in African American history.” — Booklist

Genna Rae McNeil is a professor at the University of North Carolina who special-izes in African-American history and twentieth-century social movements in the United States. Her other books include Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights.

Houston Bryan Roberson is professor of history at The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, and author of Fighting the Good Fight: The Story of the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 1865–1977.

Quinton Hosford Dixie is coauthor of Visions of a Better World: Howard Thurman’s Pilgrimage to India and the Origins of African American Nonviolence.

Kevin McGruder is assistant professor of history at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, and coauthor of Emancipation Proclamation — Forever Free.

978-0-8028-6341-6 / hardcover / 194 b&w photos / 640 pages / $45.00 [£29.99] / November

BlueSkies,OrangeWingsThe Global Reach of Dutch Aviation in War and Peace, 1914–1945

Ryan Noppen

Through a wealth of photographs and color illustra-tions and an informed narrative, Blue Skies, Orange Wings documents the surprisingly strong role of Dutch aircraft, airmen, designers, and airlines in world aviation in the first part of the twentieth century.

This beautiful book by Ryan Noppen offers the most thorough study of the early years of Dutch commercial and military aviation published in the English language. Noppen examines the famed Fokker airliners, the develop-ment of Dutch national airline KLM, and their impact on the world in the pioneering days of flight, including a number of notable individuals — The Red Baron Man-fred von Richthofen, Billy Mitchell, Eddie Rickenbacker, Hermann Göring, Richard Byrd, Juan Trippe, Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, Amelia Earhart, and more.

Noppen details the leading role that the Dutch took in the world of flight: Dutch-built aircraft were respon-sible for the first nonstop transcontinental flight over the United States, the first flight to the North Pole, the first flight across the Pacific Ocean, and the first flight made by a woman across the Atlantic. He also highlights the com-monly overlooked stubborn Dutch defense against the German Nazi aerial assault.

With hundreds of archival photographs and color images, Blue Skies, Orange Wings finally puts the global impact of Dutch aviation into its deserved place of impor-tance in the annals of flight.

Ryan Noppen is a military historian and aviation analyst who has worked as a subject-matter expert for a defense firm on projects involving naval and aviation logistics, and he has taught several courses on World War I and II. He is also the author of Austro-Hungarian Battleships, 1914–18.

978-0-8028-4870-3 / 11” x 8½” hardcover Color photos throughout / 304 pages / $45.00 [£29.99] December

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Jan de Bruijn

This book offers a rich, unprecedented photographic depiction of the life of Dutch statesman and theologian Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920). Substantive, detailed captions accompany all of the nearly four hundred

color illustrations — family photos, political cartoons, posters, pictures of important places in Kuyper’s life — many of them never published before.

“As valuable as Abra-ham Kuyper’s words are in providing a portrait of the man and his

times, they are not enough. A bigger-than-life figure like Kuyper, who was a product of his own time as well as a major influence on it, is understood much better when he and his world are made visible to us. . . . This volume gives us the whole picture. A won-derful companion to Jim Bratt’s recent biography of Kuyper.” — John Bolt

Calvin Theological Seminary

“An inviting, accessible introduction to a man of vast energy and vision, a Christian leader and thinker of the first order. We get to see and hear Abraham Kuyper up close here — his development and character; the people, issues, and events that loomed large in his life — all captured in intriguing pictures, images, and words from close to his heart.” — James Bratt

author of Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat

“Wonderfully brings to life the astonishing career and turbulent times of Abraham Kuyper, and in a way that words alone cannot. Jan de Bruijn has mas-terfully assembled the perfect complement to James Bratt’s equally masterful biography of Kuyper.”

— Gordon GrahamPrinceton Theological Seminary

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, de Bruijn’s pictorial biography of Abraham Kuyper is priceless.”

— Robert P. SwierengaA. C. Van Raalte Institute, Hope College

Jan de Bruijn is professor of political history at the Free University of Amsterdam and the author of several other works on Abraham Kuyper and Dutch Protestantism.

978-0-8028-6966-1 / hardcover / 428 pages 389 photos / $40.00 [£26.99] / November

Library of Religious BiographyMark A. Noll, Nathan O. Hatch, Allen C. Guelzo, series editors

HarrietBeecherStoweA Spiritual Life

Nancy Koester

“So you’re the little woman who started this big war,” Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin converted readers by the thousands to the anti-slavery movement and served notice that the days of slavery were numbered. Overnight Stowe became a celebrity, but to defenders of slavery she was the devil in petticoats.

Most writing about Stowe treats her as a literary figure and social reformer while downplaying her Christian faith. But Nancy Koester’s biography highlights Stowe’s faith as central to her life — both her public fight against slavery and her own personal struggle through deep grief to find a gracious God.

Having meticulously researched Stowe’s own writings, both published and un-published, Koester traces Stowe’s faith pilgrimage from evangelical Calvin-ism through spiri-tualism to Anglican spirituality in a flowing, compelling narrative.

“The daughter, sister, and wife of prominent clergy- men and theologians, Harriet Beecher Stowe outshone them all in her impact on American religion and reform. Her life and work were framed by a spiritual quest that led from her ancestral Calvinism to high-church Episcopalianism and even spiritualism. Nancy Koester’s lucid narrative, with its penetrating analysis, carries the reader along unfailingly on this fascinating quest.” — James M. McPherson

author of Battle Cry of Freedom

Nancy Koester teaches religion at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. An ordained Lutheran minister, she has also written Fortress Introduc-tion to the History of Christianity in the United States and Journeying through Lent with Luke.

978-0-8028-3304-4 / paperback / 384 pages $24.00 [£16.99] / November

Francis,anewWorldPopeMichel CoolTranslated by Regan Kramer

After Pope Benedict XVI’s historic resignation of the papal office in February 2013, the College of Cardinals elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires — now Pope Francis — as the new leader of the world’s estimated 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.

But who is this new Pope — really?In Francis, a New World Pope, Michel Cool sur-

veys Pope Francis’s journey to the papacy, his convictions, his personality, his writings, and the daunting challenges facing him — gover-

nance of the church, interfaith relations, new evangelization in secularized socie-ties, the worldwide economic crisis, and many more.

Peppered through-out with anecdotes that demonstrate the humanity of Pope Francis — and his sensitivity to those

who are most distant from the Church — this book paints a vibrant portrait of the man whose motto is Miserando atque eligendo: “lowly but chosen.”

“Here is a book on the new pope to be enjoyed now and cherished later. . . . What makes this book such a pleasure to read is that it includes selections from his earlier speeches and writings — on the city of Buenos Aires, on the economy, on a girlfriend of his before he ‘discovered [his] religious vocation,’ on humility, on single mothers, on the tango, on soccer, and more. And then there are illuminating comments on the man from people in Argentina — a lawyer, a student, a priest, and others. Francis, a New World Pope is a unique introduction to the man who is now Pope Francis.” — Robert Louis Wilken

Michel Cool is a French journalist who spe-cializes in religious affairs. His other books include the award-winning Conversion au silence: Itinéraire spirituel d’un journaliste.

Regan Kramer is an American living in Paris who has distinguished herself as an indepen-dent French-English translator.

978-0-8028-7100-8 / paperback with French flaps 12 b&w photos / 128 pages / $14.00 [£8.99] Available

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Calvin R. Stapert

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) has been called the father of the symphony and the string quartet. A friend of Mozart and a teacher of Beethoven, “Papa” Haydn composed an amazing variety of music — sympho-nies, string quartets, concerti, masses, operas, oratorios, key-board works — and his prolific output celebrates the heights and depths of life.

In this fascinating book Calvin Stapert combines his skills as a biographer and a musicologist to recount Haydn’s life as a composer — one of the great “rags to riches” stories in music history. Unlike other biographers, Stapert stresses that Haydn’s music was a product of his devout Catholic faith, even though he worked mainly as a court musician and composed mostly in popular genres. In addition to telling Haydn’s life story, Stapert includes accessible listener guides to The Creation and to portions of other well-known works to help Haydn listeners more fully appreciate the brilliance of his music.

Calvin R. Stapert is professor emeritus of music at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan. His previous books include My Only Comfort: Death, Deliverance, and Disciple-ship in the Music of Bach; A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church; and Handel’s Messiah: Comfort for God’s People.

978-0-8028-6852-7 / paperback / 272 pages / $24.00 [£16.99] December

throughyourEyesDialogues on the Paintings of Bruce Herman

G. Walter Hansen and Bruce Herman

A beautiful blend of fine art and probing dialogue, this book exhibits a special con-versation between two friends — biblical scholar G. Walter Hansen and contempo-rary artist Bruce Herman — as they reflect on and interpret artwork created over the past thirty years.

Between 1982 and 2012 Bruce Herman produced over 500 works of art reflect-ing his personal journey of creativity and faith. In a series of brief meditations and essays in accessible language, accompanied by full-color reproductions of the art, the authors explore major themes relevant to Herman’s pilgrimage in the often-confusing current art culture. Their dialogue reveals many layers of intention and possible interpretation of Herman’s art, enabling readers to come to a richer under-standing and appreciation of contemporary art in general.

“This is not a book for the fainthearted. It is searching, demanding, exhilarating. It will take you into the glorious and ancient questions that attend art. . . . This exchange between two intel-ligent men, one the artist and the other the patron (it takes one back to the Renaissance), will both instruct and delight.” — Thomas Howard

author of Dove Descending: A Journey into T. S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”

“Bruce Herman is one of the wisest practitioners of art today, and Walter Hansen one of the key influencers and patrons of Christians in the arts. This book is a treasure chest full of wisdom for those serving in the world of art and faith.” — Makoto Fujimura

artist

“Since the fifteenth century, patrons — collectors, critics, and dealers — have played a crucial but often overlooked role in the development of artists’ work. In Through Your Eyes artist Bruce Herman and collector Walter Hansen allow us privileged access into this unique relationship between an artist and a collector, a relationship born from a single question: ‘What do you see?’ ”

— Daniel A. Siedellart historian

G. Walter Hansen is a writer, biblical scholar, and philanthropist whose work has taken him all over the world for teaching and ministry.

Bruce Herman is a painter who lives and works in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He also holds the Lothlórien Distinguished Chair in Fine Arts at Gordon College.

978-0-8028-7117-6 / 12½” x 9½” hardcover / full-color art throughout / 148 pages $50.00 [£32.99] / Available

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Throughout his many years of pastoral min-istry, almost everything Eugene Peterson has done — preaching, teaching, praying, coun-

seling, writing — has involved words. To keep himself attuned to the power of words and to help himself use language with precision and imagination, Peter-son both reads and writes poetry.

Holy Luck presents, in one luminous volume, seventy

poems by Peterson, most of them not previ-ously published. Speaking to various aspects of “Kingdom of God” living, these poems are arranged in three sets:

� Holy Luck — poems arising out of the Beatitudes

� The Rustling Grass — poems opening up invisible Kingdom realities through particular created things

� Smooth Stones — occasional poems about discovering significance in every detail encountered while following Jesus

Echoing the language of Peterson’s popular Bible translation, The Message, the poems in Holy Luck are well suited for devotional purposes. An ideal gift item, this volume is one that readers of all kinds will look to again and again.

Sample poem titles“The Lucky Hungry”“Feast”“Question”“Uncle Ernie”“Assateague Island”“Lazarus in Spring”“Maranatha”“Let No Man Put Asunder”“Ballad to the Fisher King”“Sermons from Figs”“A Cave of Marriage”“Resurrection Flower”

Eugene H. Peterson is professor emeritus of spiritual theology at Regent College, Vancou-ver, British Columbia. Among his many other books are The Jesus Way, Eat This Book, Tell It Slant, Practice Resurrection, and the popular con-temporary Bible translation The Message.

978-0-8028-7099-5 / paperback with French flaps 104 pages / $12.00 [£7.99] / Available

notesfromtheHouseofthedeadFyodor DostoevskyTranslated by Boris Jakim

Introduction by James P. Scanlan

First published in 1861 and based on Dosto-evsky’s own experience as a political prisoner in the horrific Siberian labor camps, Notes from the House of the Dead is a forerunner of his famous novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. This totally new transla-tion by Boris Jakim captures Dostoevsky’s semi-autobiographical narrative — at times

coarse, at times intensely emotional, at times philosophi-cal — in rich Ameri-can English.

“As usual, Boris Jakim offers a fluent and acces-sible translation, giving us a new opportunity to encounter one of Dostoevsky’s most seminal works. So much

of the vision and insight of the great novels has its roots here in his nightmare experience in the Siberian penal camps, and here we have a first-class new rendering of this unique chronicle.”

— Rowan Williamsauthor of Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction

“This startling book was a sensation in its day and became the source of all of Dostoevsky’s mature fictions. . . . Leo Tolstoy wrote that he did not know ‘a better book in all modern literature.’ One hundred and fifty years later, Notes from the House of the Dead still retains the quality of a literary experi-ment capable of shocking and moving its readers. Boris Jakim’s new translation vividly and sensitively communicates the sense of discovery the work had for its first readers.” — Robert Bird

author of Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Jakim captures Dostoevsky’s voice with an imme-diacy and power that is perhaps a little uncanny. This should by all rights become the standard English edition of this book.” — David Bentley Hartauthor of The Beauty of the Infinite and Atheist Delusions

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a promi-nent Russian novelist and writer and is widely regarded as one of the most outstanding and influential authors of modern literature.

978-0-8028-6647-9 / paperback / 344 pages $24.00 [£16.99] / Available

theOx-HerderandtheGoodShepherdFinding Christ on the Buddha’s Path

Addison Hodges Hart

“It has been a long time since a book has brought me as much pleasure as this one has.”

— Huston Smithauthor of The World’s Religions

“A refreshing introduction to what one might call Zen Christianity.” — Jim Forest

author of Praying with Icons

Twelfth-century Chinese Zen master Kakuan Shien produced the pictures, poems, and commentaries that we know as the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures. They trace a universally

recognizable path of contemplative spirituality, using the metaphor of a young ox-herder looking for his lost ox.

According to Addi-son Hodges Hart, the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures and the teachings of Christ, the Good Shepherd who guides us to

God, share a common vision. In The Ox-Herder and the Good Shepherd Hart explores how this ancient Buddhist parable can enrich and illu-mine the Christian way.

“Hart’s goal to find Christ on the Buddhist path is without pretension and is a respectful, honest endeavor to discover an underlying commonality in disparate religious systems. For the Christian who is not well acquainted with the Zen Buddhist tradition, Hart’s book serves as an introduction to this Eastern religion/spirituality; it can also be a primer for how to approach non-Christian faiths from a compassion-ate and sympathetic point of view.”

— Publishers Weekly

“Most highly recommended for all seekers no matter their preferred path.” — Library Journal

(starred review)

Addison Hodges Hart is a retired pastor and university chaplain presently living in Norway. He has also written Taking Jesus at His Word: What Jesus Really Said in the Sermon on the Mount and The Yoke of Jesus: A School for the Soul in Solitude.

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learningtodreamAgainRediscovering the Heart of God

Samuel Wells

“It is impossible to read this commanding book without being put on the spot and recalled to Jesus’ teaching with new authenticity. Sam Wells is a rare preacher and teacher who tugs at the heart as much as he snags at the critical intelligence of the reader who seeks for truth.” — Sarah Coakley

University of Cambridge

“With self-deprecating humor, Wells disarms us just enough to get us to consider the most countercultural matters of faith — like why wisdom is unfashion-able, how shame can play a useful role in our lives, and why discipline may do us more good than relentless self-expression. . . . He guides us out of our own egos and into a dazzling divine reality where learning and dreaming meet.” — Lillian Daniel

author of When “Spiritual but Not Religious” Is Not Enough

“Samuel Wells has written a book so searching, so winsome, so wise that it will find your heart and dwell there. A beautiful piece of work.”

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr.author of Engaging God’s World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living

“This very wise and moving book about renewal, identity, and the hopeful shape of the Christian life is a rare accomplishment. Wells helps us to think deeply about the ordinary round of life — relationships, marriage, work, leisure, politics, death — while at the same time encouraging us to lift our sights and to dream again, even the dream of God.” — Thomas G. Long

Emory University

Samuel Wells is Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, and Visit-ing Professor of Christian Ethics at King’s College London. He was for-merly Dean of Duke Chapel and Research Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke Divinity School. His other books include Be Not Afraid: Facing Fear with Faith and Power and Passion: Six Characters in Search of Resurrection.

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theSpiritualPracticeofRememberingMargaret Bendroth

This beautifully written book summons readers anew to remember and honor the past. The Christian tradition, says Margaret Bendroth, gives

us the powerful image of a vast communion of saints, all of God’s people, both living and dead, in vital conversation with each other.

Although connecting with our ancestors in the faith is crucial for us today, it does not happen, Bendroth maintains, by wishing or by accident. She argues that remembering must become a regular spiritual practice, part of the rhythm of our daily lives as we recognize our world to be, in many ways, a gift from others who have gone before. The Spiritual Practice of Remembering offers rich, thought-provoking fare for thoughtful readers.

“Abounding in colorful anecdotes, and laced with wry and sympathetic humor, this memory book reads like a good diary — a page-turning adventure through sacred history. . . . Meaningful remembering is a matter of the will — choosing to engage people from the past with generous hearts and warm interest. Such choosing situates the living in authentic relationship with the dead, engenders textured conversation across the generations, and initiates us into the communion of saints.” — Nancy S. Taylor

Old South Church in Boston

“At once learned, thought-filled, and wonderfully engaging.” — Grant WackerDuke Divinity School

Margaret Bendroth is director of the Congregational Library in Boston, Massachusetts, and a historian of American religion. Her other books include Growing Up Protestant: Parents, Children, and Mainline Churches and A School of the Church: Andover Newton across Two Centuries.

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? Barrett Eros and Self- Emptying (kct) 17

Bauckham et al Old Testament Pseudepigrapha 6

Bauer Arts Ministry (cicw) 22

? Bendroth The Spiritual Practice of Remembering 31

? Blei Oepke Noordmans (hsrca) 26

Blenkinsopp David Remembered 2

? Boesak Dare We Speak of Hope? 20

Bolt et al The J. H. Bavinck Reader 24

? Bremer Cross and Kremlin 25

? Brown Wisdom’s Wonder 1

? Brueggemann Reality, Grief, Hope 11

? Burke Secret Scriptures Revealed 3

? Carpenter et al Christian Higher Education 20

Charlesworth Jesus Research 6

Charlesworth The Tomb of Jesus and His Family? 6

? Cool Francis, a New World Pope 28

Crump Encountering Jesus, Encountering Scripture 18

de Bruijn Abraham Kuyper 28

Dostoevsky Notes from the House of the Dead 30

? Downs & Skinner The Unrelenting God 5

Dreier Created and Led by the Spirit (mcs) 18

Dunn The Oral Gospel Tradition 4

Fearon Straining at the Oars 18

Granberg-Michaelson From Times Square to Timbuktu 24

? Graves The Inspiration and Interpretation of Scripture 2

? Gundlach Process and Providence 25

? Hamm The Early Luther (lqb) 12

? Hancock Karl Barth’s Emergency Homiletic, 1932–1933 21

? Hansen & Herman Through Your Eyes 29

? Harding & Nobbs All Things to All Cultures 3

? Hart The Ox-Herder and the Good Shepherd 30

? Hauerwas Approaching the End 10

? Healy Hauerwas (ints) 10

? Hill Prophetic Rage (pc) 11

? Hobson Reinventing Liberal Christianity 23

? Hoff The Analogical Turn (ints) 17

? Horsley & Thatcher John, Jesus, and the Renewal of Israel 3

? Japinga Loyalty and Loss (hsrca) 26

Kärkkäinen Christ and Reconciliation 14

? Koester Harriet Beecher Stowe (lrb) 28

? Langford The Tradition of Liberal Theology 16

? Levison Inspired 13

Levy et al The Letter to the Romans (bmt) 7

? Lincoln Born of a Virgin? 1

? Loader Making Sense of Sex 1

? Lundbom Deuteronomy: A Commentary 8

? Lundin Christ across the Disciplines 20

McCormack & White Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth 14

? McNeil et al Witness 27

? Messer Flourishing 19

? Nienhuis & Wall Reading the Epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude as Scripture 5

Noll Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind 15

? Noppen Blue Skies, Orange Wings 27

? Northcott A Political Theology of Climate Change 19

O’Donovan Self, World, and Time 19

? Oravecz God as Love 17

? Ottati Theology for Liberal Protestants 13

? Paeth et al Shaping Public Theology 19

Perry & Kendall The Blessed Virgin Mary (gt) 14

? Peterson Holy Luck 30

? Plantinga Reading for Preaching 21

Porter & Malcolm Horizons in Hermeneutics 7

Portier-Young Apocalypse against Empire 6

Przywara Analogia Entis: Metaphysics (rrrct) 16

Robbins Who Do People Say I Am? 4

Roeber Hopes for Better Spouses (euslr) 25

Rusch The Witness of Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch 15

Ruth Longing for Jesus (cw) 22

Schindler The Catholicity of Reason (rrrct) 16

? Schwarz The Human Being 15

Seow Job 1–21 (illum) 8

? Shibuya & Chiba Living for Jesus and Japan 11

Shortt Christianophobia 24

? Stapert Playing Before the Lord 29

? Stroud Preaching in Hitler’s Shadow 21

Thiselton The Holy Spirit 13

? Walter Being Promised (sacra) 12

Waltke The Dance between God and Humanity 2

? Waltke et al The Psalms as Christian Lament 7

Ward & Trobisch Bringing the Word to Life 18

Watson Gospel Writing 4

? Weaver The Nonviolent God 10

? Welker God the Revealed 15

Wells Learning to Dream Again 31

? Wessels The Torah, the Gospel, and the Qur an 23

? Westerholm Justification Reconsidered 12

? Wright Following Jesus 5

Yates The Conversion of the Māori (shcm) 26

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