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PaperbackA Community Called Taize
A Story of Prayer, Worship and Reconciliation
by Jason Brian Santos
Foreword by Desmond TutuTaizé--the word is strangely familiar to many throughout the contemporary church. Familiar, perhaps, because the chanted prayers of Taizé are well practiced in churches throughout the world. Strangely, however, because so little is knownabout Taizé--from its historic beginnings to how the word itself is pronounced.
The worship of the Taizé community, as it turns out, is best understood ...
PaperbackLife After Church
God's Call to Disillusioned Christians
by Brian Sanders
Life without church. It's getting easier to imagine.And maybe you already left. A leaver, then. Committed to Jesus, not an institution. Perhaps you've left your church in spirit, remaining in the pew. Outwardly silent. Secretly bored. Ineither case, Brian Sanders has a word for you.Out of his own experience as a leaver, Brian distills the complex problem into two viable options:
- Stay. ...
PaperbackMisquoting Truth
A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman's "Misquoting Jesus"
by Timothy Paul Jones
"What good does it do to say that the words [of the Bible] are inspired by God if most people have absolutely no access to these words, but only to more or less clumsy renderings of these words into a language? . . . How does it help us to say that the Bible is the inerrant word of God if in fact we don't have the words that God inerrantly inspired? . . . We have only error-ridden copies, and ...
PaperbackMere Theology
A Guide to the Thought of C. S. Lewis
by Will Vaus
Foreword by Douglas GreshamWhat did C. S. Lewis believe about God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, heaven, hell, creation, the Fall, the forgiveness of sins, marriage and divorce, war and peace, the church and sacraments, masculinity and femininity?Lewis was not a professional theologian, but anyone who has read his writings--whether fiction or nonfiction, essays or correspondence--knows that profoundly Christian convictions ...
HardbackAn Infinite Fountain of Light
Jonathan Edwards for the Twenty-First Century
by George M. Marsden
Christians need to pause once in a while to get their bearings. For perspective on our own times and how we got here, it helps to listen to wise guides from other eras. In An Infinite Fountain of Light, the renowned American historian George Marsden illuminates the landscape with wisdom from one such mentor: Jonathan Edwards.
Drawing on his deep expertise on Edwards ...
PaperbackEvangelical Postcolonial Conversations
Global Awakenings in Theology and Praxis
Edited by Kay Higuera Smith, Jayachitra Lalitha, and L. Daniel Hawk
Colonialism involves more than just territorial domination. It also creates cultural space that silences and disenfranchises those who do not hold power. This process of subjugation continues today in various forms of neocolonialism, such as globalization. Postcolonialism arose in the latter half of the twentieth century to challenge the problem of coloniality at the level of our language and our ...
PaperbackSplendour in the Dark
C. S. Lewis's Dymer in His Life and Work
Hansen Series
by Jerry Root
Notes by David C. Downing"... Root has done us all an immense service, by rescuing this neglected poem from obscurity and presenting us with an excellent, scholarly edition. ... Everyone who loves Lewis will not only enjoy this book but also find that Root's commentary on Dymer enhances their reading of Lewis's other works as well." – Malcolm Guite, Girton College, Cambridge
Several years ...
PaperbackGeorge MacDonald in the Age of Miracles
Incarnation, Doubt, and Reenchantment
Hansen Series
by Timothy Larsen
The Bible is full of miracles. Yet how do we make sense of them today? And where might we see miracles in our own lives?
In this installment of the Hansen Series, historian and theologian Timothy Larsen considers the legacyof George MacDonald, the Victorian Scottish author and minister who is best known for his pioneering fantasy literature, which influenced authors such as ...
PaperbackC. S. Lewis in America
Readings and Reception, 1935–1947
Hansen Series
by Mark A. Noll
Contributions by Kirk D Farney"An invaluable assessment of Lewis's reception in the United States, offering important insights into both Lewis's significance and the distinctives of the American religious mind." – Alister McGrath, Oxford University
Perhaps no other literary figure has transformed the American religious landscape in recent history as much as C. S. Lewis. Even before the ...
