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Dear Reader,
In God’s economy, there’s abundance all around. But in our fallen world, scarcity often jumps out to us, doesn’t
it? Whether the scarcity is real (and it is all too often real) or rather a scarcity of imagination to perceive resources
that could be shared more lovingly, one of the biggest costs of scarcity is the way it distorts our relationships
through lurking fears or mutual suspicion. Scarcity saps community and makes networks and hospitality more
brittle, more subject to retrenchment and gatekeeping. Zero-sum games drain everyone’s balance down.

Keeping an eye open for divine abundance is one of the many reasons I’m so delighted to work with books —
because has anyone ever said, “There just aren’t enough books”? I don’t think so. (Not enough book shelves, yes …)

So as we send you this season’s catalog of new and forthcoming releases, I hope it will feel like a fresh slice of
God’s abundance for you and your communities. In the pages that follow, we want to give you enough of a sample
for you to find something that would help nourish and connect you to God and your neighbors and even an enemy
if necessary.

Our Fall 2023 catalog contains quite a lineup, including:

• Books by biblical scholars on the integral connection between the best readings of Old and New
Testaments with discipleship, justice, and humility. Look for excerpts from Dennis Edwards’s and Michael
Rhodes’s books on pages 13 and 7.
• Groundbreaking research on the identity and cultural resonances of the figure Artemis of the Ephesians,
with rich evidence from Greek and Roman classics and archaeology, not to mention the biblical writings of
Luke and Paul. My interview with Sandra Glahn appears on page 11 (with the “director’s cut” full-length
version online at ivpress.com).
• The question, “What hath Darwin to do with Scripture?” gets a mind-and-faith-expanding answer from the
Old Testament scholar Dru Johnson, and he and I talk about his book on page 17.
• Michael Bird soars to new heights to give us his Bird’s-eye view of Luke–Acts, and IVP Academic associate
editor Rachel Hastings talks with him about the project on page 19.
• How we engage with stories and great storytellers gets spiritual and historical consideration in new books
by Jennifer Holberg and Mark Noll. (See excerpts on pages 29 and 31.)

But we have hundreds, no, make that thousands, of InterVarsity Press titles in print, so as always this slim catalog
is only a fraction of what’s available. The abundance runs deep and broad.

Happy reading!

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BIBLICAL STUDIES
ACADEMIC Creating the Canon by Benjamin P. Laird 5
F E AT URED T I T L E | Ju st D i s c ip l e ship
by Michael J. Rhodes, plus an excerpt 6
CATALOG Treasuring the Psalms by Ian J. Vaillancourt 8
Demystifying Evil by Ingrid Faro 9
F E AT URED T I T L E | N o b o d y ’s M o t her
10
by Sandra L. Glahn, plus an interview with the author 10
V O L U M E 9 5
F E AT URED T I T L E | Humili t y Illuminate d
by Dennis Edwards, plus an excerpt 12
The Minor Prophets by Craig G. Bartholomew
and Heath A. Thomas 14
The Prophets and Apostolic Witness edited by Andrew
T. Abernethy, William R. Osborne, and Paul D. Wegner 15
F E AT URED T I T L E | What H at h D ar win
16
to D o wi t h S c r ip tur e?
by Dru Johnson, plus an interview with the author 16
F E AT URED T I T L E | A B ir d ’s - Eye V iew
of Luke and Ac t s by Michael Bird,
plus an interview with the author 18

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BIBLICAL STUDIES

I A N J . VA I L L A N C O U R T

VA I L L A N C O U R T
T R E A S U R IN G

T REASURING T HE P SALMS
T HE

P SALM S
H O W TO R E A D T H E S O N G S T H AT
SHAPE THE SOUL OF THE CHURCH

5 6 8

9 10 12
The Minor Prophets

The Minor
Prophets
A THEOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION
bartholomew
& Thomas

craig g. bartholomew
& heath a. thomas

14 15 16 18

CO RE T IT L E S I N B I B L I CAL ST UD I E S

E. RANDOLPH RICHARDS
AND R I C H A R D J A M E S

MISREADING
S CR I P T U R E W I T H
I N D I V I DUA LI ST EY E S

Patronage , Honor , a nd
Sh a me in the Biblica l Wor ld

The Story Retold An Introduction to the Misreading Scripture Knowing God Through
978-0-8308-5266-6 New Testament with Individualist Eyes the Old Testament
978-0-8308-5217-8 978-0-8308-5275-8 978-0-8308-5243-7

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A Guide to the New Testament's Composition,

Formation, and Authority
Despite the profound influence of the New Testament, a variety of
questions related to its background and history remain common.
Contemporary readers often find the subject of the canon’s origin
and formation to be complicated and confusing, while scholars
continue to struggle to find agreement about basic elements of the
canon’s development. In this engaging study, Benjamin P. Laird
explores several misunderstood, disputed, and overlooked topics in
order to provide fresh insight and clarity about the canon’s creation
and modern relevance. The volume addresses questions such as:
• Was there a single “original autograph” of each New Testa-
ment writing?
• Who exactly were the “original readers” of the New Testament
writings?
• Did theological controversies play a decisive role in prompting
the canon’s formation?
• How did such a diverse body of writings come together to
form a single canonical collection?
• Is there a basis for the canon’s ongoing authority?
Wide-ranging yet accessible, Creating the Canon offers an illumi-
nating treatment of the composition, formation, and authority of the
New Testament and serves as a valuable guide for all.

"Accessible to the student, yet filled with insights for teachers and
J U LY 2 0 2 3
scholars, Laird's volume will be a helpful reference tool for many
272 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0110-3, $30.00
and provide a gateway into deeper canon studies for others."
DA R I A N R . LOCK ETT
CONTENTS
Talbot School of Theology, Biola University
Abbreviations
"If you are a follower of Christ, then you need to know where Introduction

your New Testament came from. . . . I cannot recommend Part One: Questions Relating to the Composition of the New Testament Writings
this work highly enough." 1. The Composition of the New Testament Writings
2. The Original Autographs of the New Testament Writings
DAV I D A L A N B L AC K 3. The Original Readers of the New Testament Writings
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Part Two: Questions Relating to the Formation of the New Testament Canon
4. Theological Controversies and the Formation of the New Testament Canon
5. The Primary Witnesses to the Early State of the New Testament Canon
6. The Canonical Sub-Collections and the Formation of the New Testament
Canon
B E N J A M I N P . L A I R D (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is associate Part Three: Questions Relating to the Authority of the New Testament Canon
professor of biblical studies at the John W. Rawlings School of Divinity at Liber- 7. Apostolicity and the Formation of the New Testament Canon
8. Apostolic Authorship and the Authority of the New Testament Canon
ty University. His publications include The Pauline Corpus in Early Christianity,
40 Questions about the Apostle Paul, Five Views on the New Testament Canon, and Bibliography
the forthcoming The New Testament Canon in Contemporary Research. He lives Indexes
in Lynchburg, Virginia, with his wife and five children.

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A Biblical Vision for Practicing Justice

Many Christians and churches are rediscovering that God cares
deeply about justice, but opinions abound as to what an approach
to biblical justice might look like in contemporary society. What
exactly does the Bible mean by justice, and what does it have to do
with poverty, racism, and other issues in our world? More impor-
tantly, how do we become the kind of people who practice justice?

Biblical scholar Michael Rhodes argues that the Bible offers a vision
of justice-oriented discipleship that is critical for the formation of
God's people. Grounded in biblical theology, virtue ethics, and his
own experiences, he shows that justice is central to the Bible, central
to Jesus, and central to authentic Christian discipleship. Justice
stands at the heart of Scripture. Following Jesus demands that we
become just disciples in an unjust world.

"The church today urgently needs to be discipled by the Scripture's

vision for justice. Michael Rhodes illuminates passages across
the Old and New Testaments to show how the call to justice
is central to God's vision for the community of faith."
CARMEN IMES
Talbot School of Theology, Biola University

"True to one of his dominant passions, Michael Rhodes

has provided another feast of applied biblical insight on what
it means to live out the justice of God in our fallen world."
CHRISTOPHER J. H. WR IGHT
Langham Partnership, author of "Here Are Your Gods"
AUGUST 2023
"With a deep foundation in theology and a strong grasp of biblical
304 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0600-9, $32.00
scholarship, [Rhodes] skillfully brings texts from across the scriptural
canon to bear on contemporary issues of racial and economic justice."
J O H N B A RCL AY
CONTENTS Durham University
Part I: Just Discipleship: Mapping the Part III: Becoming a Just People
Terrain 8. A (Jubilee) Case for (Ecclesial) "This is a clarion call to faithfully, wisely, and courageously embody
1. The Story Behind (and the Story of) Reparations? God's justice within the socioeconomic and political realities of life.
this Book 9. Justice on the Way: Jubilary
2. "Justice to Victory": Reclaiming the Improvisation in Ever-Changing
A necessary and supremely helpful book!"
Old, Old Story Circumstances M. DANIEL CARROLL R . (RODA S)
3. Becoming Just: Mapping Moral 10. Re-Arranging the Chairs in the Wheaton College and Graduate School
Discipleship Beloved Community: Just Discipleship
Part II: Becoming Just Disciples and the Multi-Ethnic Church
4. Consuming Character: Justice Part IV: Discipling Politics: Just
Begins at the Feast Discipleship Amidst the Nations
5. Singing Our Way Towards Justice 11. Into Egypt: Contemporary M I C H A E L J . R H O D E S (PhD, Trinity College/University of
6. Justice without Wisdom is Evangelical Politics and "The Joseph
Aberdeen) is the lecturer in Old Testament at Carey Baptist College. He is the
Powerless, Wisdom without Justice is Option"
Predatory 12. Embracing the Daniel Option: author of Formative Feasting, Practicing the King's Economy (with Brian Fikkert
7. Becoming Just in the Meantime: Moral Discipleship for the Exercise of and Robby Holt), and numerous articles in outlets like Christianity Today and
The Gift and Task of Discipleship in Political Power
The Biblical Mind. Rhodes has spent more than fourteen years involved in com-
1 John 13. "For the Joy Set Before Us":
Concluding Reflections on Just munity development and urban ministry work, and is an ordained pastor in the
Discipleship Evangelical Presbyterian Church. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand.

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E XCERP T FROM JUS T DISCIPLESHIP

Leviticus 25 offers a breathtaking people (1 Sam 8:11-18). By eliminating the unending acquisition
socioeconomic and theological vision. of economic power by any one group over and against the others,
The politics of the Jubilee aims to ensure the Jubilee interrupts the unending acquisition of social power by
that no family permanently loses their any one group over and against any of the others. The liberty that
family plot. This is what justice looks like the Jubilee declares is political, economic, and social.5
within Leviticus’s politics of holiness, not The theological foundations of this vision cannot be overstated.
AUTHOR least because by arranging themselves in Israel celebrates the Jubilee because Yahweh is the divine king who
MICHAEL J. this way, Israel would reflect Yahweh’s demands they do so. The politics of the Jubilee is one aspect of the
RHODES purposes for all of humanity to play a politics of holiness inaugurated by the Holy One who dwells in
role in co-ruling his world. Israel’s midst. Thus, when the Israelites announce the Jubilee year,
It is important to recognize that the Jubilee does not eliminate they “make the fiftieth year holy” by implementing the economic
the regular functions of an agricultural economy.1 Because of policies of their divine king (Lev 25:10). Such policies would
this, the legislation would eliminate neither temporary poverty allow Israel to give the world a glimpse of God’s just purposes for
for some, nor economic growth for others. Nor does the Jubilee the entire human community and all of creation.
eliminate incentives for economic effort, as is often suggested. On Leviticus 25 repeatedly draws attention to the theological
the one hand, when a kinsperson redeemed their poor brother’s nature of this decidedly political practice. The sabbatical year
land, they would gain the benefit of that land until the Jubilee.2 On belongs to Yahweh (Lev 25:2, 4). Yahweh has the right to announce
the other hand, given the fifty-year time horizon, many household the Jubilee because the land belongs to him (Lev 25:23). No Israelite
heads who lost their land would die family owns their farm; all are merely
before their children regained the “tenants” or “sojourners” who work
family farm. the land of the true King. Similarly, no
“By ensuring that no family could ever
What the Jubilee seeks to prevent Israelite can become a slave because,
permanently lose the farm, the Jubilee
is the emergence of a multigenerational, by liberating the Israelites, Yahweh
permanently poor class, in part by legislation aims at a just, radically had enslaved them to himself. “For they
undermining the processes whereby countercultural economy based on a relatively are my slaves who I brought out from
some households could seek to create equitable distribution of economic assets.” the land of Egypt” (Lev 25:42).
a multigenerational, permanently affluent In the ancient world, the gods gave
class.3 The Jubilee would allow families MICHAEL J. RHODES the king the land.6 Citizens often had
that had fallen into destitution for any the right to what their land yielded,
reason whatsoever to “resume their place but the king retained the official title,
of respect, power, and dignity in the community.”4 By ensuring and therefore “[controlled] the means of production.”7 In contrast,
that no family could ever permanently lose the farm, the Jubilee in Israel, the divine king bypasses any human ruler and takes each
legislation aims at a just, radically countercultural economy based Israelite household as his tenants and servants. Because these laws
on a relatively equitable distribution of economic assets. do not recognize any human, centralized power as having right
But the Jubilee also aims at a certain kind of society, one in to the land, each individual household’s power and responsibility
which economic legislation aimed at economic equity also becomes more important. Because no human being had any
protects the social power of Israelite families. The establishment of ultimate autonomy or absolute power over their land, every single
a monarchy often included the creation of a subservient class on householder gained much greater relative power in the community
which the monarch depended, as the prophet Samuel warned the through their inalienable plot in the Promised Land.8

1Cf. Knauth, “Jubilee Transformation,” 204. 5Weinfeld, Social Justice, 15.

2Milgrom, Leviticus 23–27, 2195. 6See Milgrom, Leviticus 23–27, 2185; Wright, Old Testament Ethics, 89.
3Cf. Berman, Created Equal, 88. 7Berman, Created Equal, 90.
4Brueggemann, “Voices,” 16. 8Berman, Created Equal, 87.

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A Deeper Look at Studying the Psalms

I A N J . VA I L L A N C O U R T
The book of Psalms is a treasure. These one hundred and fifty
VA I L L A N C O U R T

inspired poems have shaped the worship, prayers, and theology of

God's people for thousands of years. While many of its riches are
readily apparent, a deeper look into the nature and purposes of the
book reveals further layers of meaning with abundant implications
for the Christian life.
In Treasuring the Psalms, Ian J. Vaillancourt orients readers to the

T REASURING
Psalms and lays out a pattern for deeper study and application. From
T REASURING T HE P SALMS

the composition of individual psalms through the shaping of the

entire book, he argues, the Holy Spirit guided the creation of a work

T HE
that is truly greater than the sum of its parts. In particular, Vaillan-
court shows how the Psalms point to Christ and provide practical

P SALMS
insights for the church community and individual Christians.
Through these canonical, Christological, and practical emphases,
readers will gain new viewpoints into the flow, context, and
message of the Psalms, as well as gospel-centered applications for
a living faith.

H O W TO R E A D T H E S O N G S T H AT "Judiciously anchored in the latest scholarship, enthusiastically

SHAPE THE SOUL OF THE CHURCH christological, and written with a pastoral heart, this warmly
recommended book will indeed enable readers to treasure the
Psalms and to sing afresh the glories of the Messiah."
L. MICH A EL MOR A LES
Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

"By weaving together personal stories with solid academic study,

AUGUST 2023 Vaillancourt inspires as he enlightens with this accessible book. He
240 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0510-1, $28.00 creates a meaningful reading experience of the Psalms
for students, pastors, and interested people alike."
BETH STOV ELL
CONTENTS Ambrose University
Acknowledgments 6. The Psalms and Christ, Part I
Preface "Ian Vaillancourt offers the church an accessible,
7. The Psalms and Christ, Part II
Introduction: Getting Oriented to the 8. The Psalms and the New theologically rich introduction to reading Psalms as an epic
Book of Psalms Testament story centered around a Torah-observant king. Many will
9. The Psalms and the Christian
Part 1. The Story: Reading the treasure the Psalms more as a result of this book."
Psalms Canonically Part 3. The Soul: Reading the A N DR E W T. A BE R N E T H Y
1. From Individual Psalms to the Psalms Personally and Corporately Wheaton College, author of Savoring Scripture
Book of Psalms 10. Direct Application of Desperation
2. Superscriptions: What is in a Psalms: Lament
Psalm Title? 11. Direct Application of Deliverance
3. The Shape of the Book, Part I: Psalms: Thanksgiving
Psalms 1–2 as Gateway 12. Direct Application of Exaltation I A N J . V A I L L A N C O U R T (PhD, University of St. Michael's
4. The Shape of the Book, Part II: Psalms: Praise College) is associate professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Heritage
The Broad Narrative of Books 1–5
5. The Shape of the Book, Part III: Theological Seminary in Cambridge, Ontario. He is the author of The Dawning
Conclusion: The Treasure Hunt Has
The Portrait of the King Just Begun of Redemption: The Story of the Pentateuch and the Hope of the Gospel and The
Bibliography Multifaceted Saviour of Psalms 110 and 118: A Canonical Exegesis (winner of the
Part 2. The Savior: Reading the Appendices: Digging Deeper
Psalms Christologically 2020 R. B. Y. Scott Award).

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A Personal and Biblical Treatment of the Many

Dimensions of Evil
The evil that afflicts our lives often leaves us confused and direc-
tionless, wounded and powerless. How should we respond to evil's
power to assault us? How can we understand God's work in a world
that seems all too often to be permeated with evil?
Narrating her own wrestling with evil as well as engaging in biblical
and philosophical analysis, biblical scholar Ingrid Faro explores the
many dimensions to evil. Soberly honest, biblically engaged, and
theologically nuanced, Demystifying Evil examines the power of evil
to disrupt and fragment our lives and tempt us to collude with it.
But evil does not have the last word. Faro takes us on a journey into
the book of Genesis, the Ancient Near East culture, the cross, and
her own story of suffering to engage the undoing of evil.

"Demystifying Evil is a masterful treatment of a fundamental

issue from a voice uniquely gifted to write this book.
A truly overwhelmingly powerful book."
DAV I D F I TC H
Northern Seminary

"Blending personal testimony, biblical study, and theological

reflection, Ingrid Faro probes evil—our world's greatest menace.
She is readable, intelligent, chilling, and, at last, reassuring."
COR NELIUS PLA NTINGA
author of Not the Way It's Supposed to Be

"In a wonderful and truly powerful way, Faro draws out the richness DECEMBER 2023

of the biblical text as it speaks to evil in the world and attests to 256 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0493-7, $28.00

God's confrontation of and victory over it in the gospel of Christ. . . .

It is a compelling book, and I highly recommend it." CONTENTS
PAU L COPA N Acknowledgements 8. Human Responsibility and
Palm Beach Atlantic University Authority
Part 1: Wrestling with Evil 9. Human Freedom and the Path to
1. Entering the Conflict Restore the World
"Ingrid Faro offers readers a gift—of her scholarship as well as her life."
2. Distinguishing Between Evil,
DEN N IS EDWA R DS Suffering, and Pain, and the Part 4: Unseen Causes: Spiritual
North Park Theological Seminary Ambiguity of Evil Forces at Work
3. Defining Evil—Biblically 10. Malevolent Forces and the Rise
of the Satan
Part 2: Natural Causes: Cosmic 11. Demons, Angels, and Other
Seed and Natural Evil Spiritual Entities
I N G R I D F A R O (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is coordina- 4. Action-Consequence and the 12. The Divine Council and the Rules
Cosmic Seed of Engagement
tor of the MA in Old Testament program and visiting professor at Northern
5. Nature: Are All Natural Forces
Seminary in Lisle, Illinois. She previously served as dean of academic affairs at Natural? Part 5: God at Work
Northern Seminary, dean of theology at the Scandinavian School of Theology, 13. The Power of Mercy and Grace
Part 3: Human Causes: Surprising 14. The Costly Work of Forgiveness
and director of masters programs at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She is 15. For Those Who Mourn: Turning
Ways We Participate in Evil and
the author of Evil in Genesis and coauthor of Honest Answers. Additionally, she Good Ashes into Beauty
serves on the editorial board of the Bulletin for Biblical Research. She speaks and 6. Human Need and Desire: The
Misuse of Intended Good Bibliography
preaches internationally and lives just outside Chicago, Illinois. General Index
7. Self-Sufficiency: The Root of Pride
and Insecurity Scripture Index

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Are Women Saved Through Childbearing?

Some Christians think Paul's reference to "saved through child-
bearing" in 1 Timothy 2:15 means that women are slated primarily
for delivering and raising children. Alternate readings, however,
sometimes fail to build on the best historical and textual evidence.
Sandra Glahn thinks that we have misunderstood Paul by misun-
derstanding the context to which he wrote. A key to reading and
applying 1 Timothy, Glahn argues, lies in getting to know a myste-
rious figure who haunts the letter: the goddess Artemis.
Based on groundbreaking research and new data about Artemis of
the Ephesians, Nobody's Mother demonstrates how better background
information supports faithful interpretation. Combining spiritual
autobiography with scholarly exploration, Glahn takes readers on a
journey to ancient Ephesus and across early church history. Unveiling
the cult of Artemis and how early Christians related to it can give us
a clearer sense of the type of radical, countercultural fellowship the
New Testament writers intended Christ's church to be.
Through Paul's advice to Timothy—and the surprising help of an
ancient Greek myth—Nobody's Mother lays a biblical foundation for
men and women serving side by side in the church.

"This book is a game changer."

CHR ISTA L. MCK IR LA ND
executive director of Logia International

"This eye-opening book evaluates all the available evidence—literary,

archaeological, and biblical—to help us better understand not only
OCTOBER 2023 the historical context of Paul's words but also how the spiritual
200 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0592-7, $24.00 worth of a woman is not tied to the physical state of motherhood."
BETH A LLISON BAR R
Baylor University, author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood
CONTENTS
"Everyone who is interested in what Paul was trying to say in 1
Introduction
Timothy 2:8-15 must wrestle with Glahn's scholarly, responsible work."
1. Why Take a Fresh Look? PR ESTON SPR INK LE
2. The Story of Ephesus in Stone and Scripture author, speaker, and host of the Theology in the Raw podcast
3. Artemis in the Literary Sources
4. Artemis in the Epigraphic Sources
5. Artemis in Architecture and Art
"It seemed highly unlikely to me that anyone could say anything
6. Saved Through Childbearing fresh about 1 Timothy 2. Sandra Glahn has proven me wrong."
A MY PEELER
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Wheaton College
Bibliography
General Index
Scripture Index S A N D R A L . G L A H N is professor of media arts and worship at Dallas
Ancient Writings Index
Theological Seminary, where her emphases are first-century backgrounds re-
lated to women, culture, gender, and the arts. She has authored or edited more
than twenty books, including Vindicating the Vixens, Earl Grey with Ephesians,
Sanctified Sexuality (coeditor), and Sexual Intimacy in Marriage (coauthor).

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told us a harrowing tale of a little boy who barely escaped death at the
hands of the Nazis in Poland. Then he told of a little girl who hid with her
mother and baby sister in the muck of an outhouse hiding from the Nazis.
The baby died of suffocation in the arms of her mother. But the little girl
AUTHOR IVP EDITOR
lived. And both she and the boy relocated to Israel. And they grew up and
SANDRA L. JON
GLAHN BOYD married. And they had a baby named Karl.
He told us he could not accompany us any further—or he would end
up curled into the fetal position for a week. But he felt it essential that we
J O N B OY D : How should Christians approach the study of
Greco-Roman mythology? have a personal narrative on our minds as we considered the millions
who died. He did not want us to think impersonally of “those millions”
SA N D R A L . G L A H N : Sometimes people twitch when I start telling
but rather of that boy and that girl and the guide we had grown to love.
Artemis’s back story—as if even uttering the names Artemis, Zeus, Hera,
He felt that by viewing the facts through that story, we would be more
Leto, and Apollo is somehow disloyal to Christ. But the goal is to exalt
ethical “tourists.” That experience has deeply affected my approach to
Christ! And of course studying is not the same as embracing. The biblical
communicating facts.
authors certainly didn’t shy away from Greek mythology.

J B : What are your highest hopes for

J B : You’ve spent considerable time
what readers will get from the book?
in the Mediterranean world yourself, “1 Timothy does have timeless application,
including Ephesus. How has such “feet S G : I pray, I literally do pray, that the work
on the ground” time enriched your but not necessarily the application we will set people free. I hope they will see
scholarship? have often thought Paul was making.” that God’s pattern book has a wide range
S G : My husband and I once celebrated a of options for human thriving and that, as
SANDRA L. GLAHN
big anniversary by taking a cruise on an old important as parenting is, it’s not the ideal
boat in the Mediterranean, which included that the apostle Paul is holding forth for
a stop in Ephesus. I knew some scholars everyone—especially for every woman. I
said Ephesus had a “pro-woman feel” to it related to Artemis and the hope people will see that 1 Timothy does have timeless application, but
Amazons there. I’d also heard others completely discount any such not necessarily the application we have often thought Paul was making.
Amazonian presence. So imagine my surprise when I stood in Ephesus,
feet on the ground, staring up at stone reliefs on a temple—and its art J B : What's next for you? Anything we should watch for from
featured Amazon women. Our guide said these reliefs told the city’s you in the future?
story and Amazon women played a key role. When I learned they dated S G : I’m intrigued by something I hint at in Nobody’s Mother—that
to about 138 AD—within a century of Paul and Timothy—I knew I the word “widow” in the world of the earliest Christians was broad
had to explore the connection for myself. So it was “feet on the ground” enough to include a woman who had never married. And that evidence
that started this whole project. tells us an “order of widows” existed in the early church, complete with
an ordination prayer. So that’s probably my next journal article, which
J B : Your book unapologetically blends autobiographical reflec- may make its way into book form.
tions with deep-dive research into antiquity.
Also, two colleagues and I recently founded the Visual Museum of
S G : As a journalist on a press junket that took me to Jerusalem, I stood Women in Christianity to document women in the visual record of the
at the entrance to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum. Karl, an Israeli church. It’s already online in beta at www.visualmuseum.gallery but
guide who accompanied our Gentile group for the entire trip, had us sit the project will require further international travel and fundraising.
near the area that honored The Righteous Among the Nations—non-
Jews who took great risks to save Jews during the Holocaust. There Karl
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A Biblical and Pastoral Look at Humility

The modern church is immersed in a competitive, polarized, and
status-driven society. It's hard to have conversations about impor-
tant issues when so many are defensive and unwilling to learn. The
health and witness of the church urgently depend on recovering an
essential biblical virtue: humility.
New Testament scholar Dennis R. Edwards illuminates humility
as a, if not the, distinctive identity marker of followers of Jesus.
Tracing the theme throughout Scripture, he demonstrates how true
humility is grounded in submission to God and becomes manifest
in all areas of life. Edwards defuses common misconceptions about
humility and explores its role in Christian community, conflict,
leadership, suffering, worship, and stewardship.
As we learn from and honor the humble instead of the power-
hungry, humility paradoxically empowers God's people—including
those who are often marginalized. Filled with stories from the
author's ministry experience, this book addresses common areas
of leadership failure and how to avoid them, applies biblical texts
on humility to multiethnic ministry and justice work, and issues a
compelling challenge to the church.

"Well-researched, wise, and highly readable, this is a timely book for

all Christians in an age of competition, self-promotion, and division."
MICH A EL J. GOR M A N
St. Mary's Seminary & University in Baltimore, Maryland

"Infused with astute biblical analysis and proficient pastoral experience,

N OV E M B E R 2 0 2 3 Edwards is a practitioner of humility who the church ought to follow."
208 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0044-1, $22.00 ROSE LEE-NOR M A N
Sanctuary Covenant Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota

"This book serves as an invitation to let American

CONTENTS
competitiveness fall by the wayside as we embrace
Foreword by Marlena Graves
Acknowledgments the humble posture of the marginalized among us."
Introduction: Rediscovering Humility for Our Times R . G . A . "T R E Y " F E R G U S O N
1. Yielding: Where Humility Starts cohost of Three Black Men podcast and author of Theologizin' Bigger
2. Embodying: The Example of Jesus
3. Communing: Mutual Love Instead of Self-Promotion "Edwards points out that Christian humility is not episodic but a
4. Reconciling: Navigating Conflict
5. Shepherding: Setting an Example Through Service
whole way of life, a vital necessity for the life of discipleship."
6. Enduring: Putting Our Suffering into Perspective NIJAY K. GUPTA
7. Worshiping: Glorifying God with Our Whole Selves Northern Seminary
8. Stewarding: Attitude More Than Obligation
9. Empowering: Power to the People Who Are Poor in Spirit
Conclusion
Bibliography
D E N N I S R . E D W A R D S (PhD, Catholic University of America) is as-
Scripture Index sociate professor of New Testament as well as vice president for church relations
and dean of North Park Seminary, Chicago. He has worked in urban ministry
for over three decades, including serving as a church planter in Brooklyn and
Washington, DC. His books include Might from the Margins and the Story of God
Bible Commentary on 1 Peter.

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To embody humility as those who Some people have teased me about the medal for perfect attend-
live in Christ, we must rely on the Lord ance that I received at my junior high school graduation. Each
Jesus as our source. Furthermore, our morning over the course of three school years, I had to ride two
corporate identity as believers who are public buses, traveling for about an hour to school while most of
all in Christ together means that instead my classmates could start later because they walked, rode their
of self-centeredness, mutuality and bicycles, or got rides from their parents. The hour-long return
interdependence ought to characterize home meant I had less time for after-school activities than most
AUTHOR
DENNIS R. our communion. We must mind the of my classmates. I suspect that some would say I won at attend-
E D WA R D S interests of others and not merely our ance, but to me the award communicated that my presence
own (Phil 2:4) because we are bound mattered—that my participation was valued—even if I wasn’t the
together and situated in the same place—in Christ. . . . valedictorian.
Communing in Practice Humility shifts my focus away from clamoring for personal
My rejection of self-promotion does not mean denying God- accolades as if they signify my worth to God and others. Self-
given abilities, minimizing accomplishments, or refusing to strive promotion may not thwart all communion between Christians,
for excellence. Rather, I intend for us to examine why we find it so or prevent the building of meaningful relationships, but we need
important to prove ourselves to be better than others. The partici- to be careful not to focus on self-serving connections meant to
pation trophy has become a joke, especially among some parents enhance our status in some way. Many of us do not give our time
who want their children to stand out and coaches who strive to to people who cannot help us get ahead at work, in our neighbor-
develop exceptional athletes. Our society places an emphasis on hoods, or even in our churches. Humility contradicts such utili-
winning, as exemplified in the adage tarian connections, pushing us to
associated with legendary football develop sibling bonds with all sorts
coach Vince Lombardi: “Winning “Many of us do not give our time to people of people, especially those who
isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.” desire to be in Christ (Gal 6:10).
who cannot help us get ahead at work, in our
Lombardi may not have been the Many of my ideas and interactions
neighborhoods, or even in our churches. Humility
originator of the saying, but it speaks as a pastor failed to yield the fruit I
contradicts such utilitarian connections.”
to the nature of competition in the had hoped. In fact, depending on
sports arena and beyond. D E N N I S R . E D WA R D S the day, it is much easier to recall
For example, whenever there is a my many failures rather than what
gathering for pastors, some feel a might be viewed as successes. But
pressure to report ever-increasing attendance numbers or new from my experiences as a high
construction as evidence of success—or winning—in ministry. school math and science teacher, pastor, and college and seminary
Church attendees are consumers and will often leave a congre- instructor, I discovered that helping people feel that they belong is
gation for a different one with better programming or facilities. something God has enabled me to do well. Whether it is a student
For those churches who lose members, ministry can feel like a struggling in the classroom, a church attendee who seems alone
competition they are losing. Perhaps we can shift our emphases even in a crowd, or a stranger who appears lost, I want to see them
and conversations to stories of transformations in people’s lives or as Jesus does—as people whose participation in life matters.
practices we’ve found helpful for our own maturation in the faith. Relationships are rewarding in so many ways—spiritually,
Winning is important, certainly, but in the Christian race we emotionally, pragmatically—but they are also difficult in those
run together, not against one another. Winning the Christian race same ways. Humility works to create community, to develop
means running faithfully and with perseverance (Phil 3:12‑14; relationships—even with people ethnically and socially different
Heb 12:1). Perhaps because I’m part of an ethnic minority group from ourselves. And it enables us to sustain those relationships
and also an introvert, I’ve appreciated awards for showing up when they face inevitable conflict.
because it is easy to overlook people—especially those facing
obstacles that make participation nearly impossible.

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A Practical Guide to the Minor Prophets

While the Minor Prophets are among the most succinct books of
The Minor Prophets

The Minor the Old Testament, their theological richness has much to offer us
today. And not only did they have something to say to their original

Prophets
audience, but God continues to speak through their words in ways
that are of utmost importance for the continued flourishing of
God's people. In this unique introduction to the Minor Prophets,
A THEOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION biblical scholars Craig Bartholomew and Heath Thomas survey
the twelve books and explore the theological themes of each. Filled
with helpful exegetical insights, this book is an invaluable guide for
students, pastors, and scholars looking for a cohesive exploration of
these often-overlooked books of the Hebrew Bible.
More than a survey of the text, each chapter offers theological
insights that help frame the message of the Minor Prophets for
preaching and living in our world today. This introduction contex-
tualizes the Minor Prophets within a larger biblical-theological
framework, illuminating these twelve books as masterful works of
bartholomew

literature that address the realities of human life.

& Thomas

"This book should become indispensable for serious study

craig g. bartholomew of the Prophets."

& heath a. thomas GOR DON MCCON VILLE

University of Gloucestershire

"Christians of every stripe will find this volume invaluable as an entry

point to these undervalued prophetic books."
COLIN TOFFELMIR E
SEPTEMBER 2023 Ambrose University
400 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0168-4, $45.00
"This book deserves to be read widely and should have a place on
any reading list on the Minor Prophets. Highly commended!"
CONTENTS DAV I D F I R T H
Trinity College, Bristol
Preface 12. Micah: Divine Forgiveness and
Abbreviations the Remnant
Introduction 13. He Has Told You What Is
1. Reading the Minor Prophets Good: Micah 6:6-8
with the Church and in the 14. Nahum and Zephaniah: God, C R A I G G . B A R T H O L O M E W is director of the Kirby Laing Centre
Academy the Nations, and Israel for Public Theology in Cambridge, UK. His books include Contours of the
2. The Ancient Word of Prophecy 15. Habakkuk: A Protesting and
3. Hosea: YHWH: Lover and Lion Kuyperian Tradition, Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics, Beyond the Modern Age
Patient Faith
4. Hosea 2:14-23[16-25]: A Tale of 16. Faith in the Faithful God: (with Bob Goudzwaard), The Drama of Scripture (with Michael Goheen), The
Two Futures: Part Two Habakkuk 2:2-4 Doctrine of Creation (with Bruce Ashford), and The Old Testament and God.
5. Joel: The Valley of Decision 17. Zechariah: Prisoners of Hope
6. The Day of the LORD 18. Zechariah 9:9-10: The King
7. Amos: YHWH, the Master of H E A T H A . T H O M A S is president and professor of Old Testament
Receives His Kingdom
Geopolitics, and the Affliction of 19. Haggai and Malachi: at Oklahoma Baptist University. He is an associate fellow of the Kirby Laing
Joseph Restoration and Remembrance Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge, UK. He has written and edited
8. Amos and Creation: The Hymn 20. The Theology of the Minor
Fragments numerous books, including commentaries and monographs on Habakkuk,
Prophets
9. Obadiah: Edom's Fall and 21. The Minor Prophets and Jesus Lamentations, as well as Holy War in the Bible (edited with Paul Copan and
YHWH's Kingdom 22. The Theology of the Minor Jeremy Evans). He serves as editor for the Hobbs College Library Series and is
10. Jonah: The Patient God Prophets for Today
11. Spiritual Formation: Jonah and an Old Testament editor for the Christian Standard Commentary series.
His Canticle 2:3[2]-10[9]
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Expert Contributions on Prophetic Interpretation

How should Christians read prophetic literature? Questions abound
both in the academy and the church as to how to engage the prophets,
particularly in light of the New Testament. The Gospel writers and the
church fathers all read and appealed to the Old Testament, but are we
as modern-day readers supposed to take the same approach?
This volume is a dialogue among scholars that identifies the interpre-
tive methods used throughout history while also charting a construc-
tive way forward for our own approach to reading the Major Prophets.
This collaborative endeavor offers fresh and helpful insights to
scholars, students, and pastors alike, bringing together experts on
Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel to illuminate the following topics:
• How the Apostles Read the Major Prophets as Christian
Scripture
• Limits on Reading the Major Prophets as Christian Scripture
• Reading the Major Prophets in the Footsteps of the Apostles
• The History of Interpretation of the Major Prophets as Christian
Scripture
• Preaching the Major Prophets as Christian Scripture

"An outstanding book . . . extremely helpful for Christians seeking to

interpret and apply the Old Testament Prophets."
J. DA NI EL H AYS
Ouachita Baptist University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

"In this one volume, readers can enjoy exposure to different views
OCTOBER 2023
on key interpretive questions."
352 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0058-8, $40.00
MICH A EL A. GR ISA NTI
The Master's Seminary
CONTRIBUTORS
Andrew T. Abernethy
Lissa M. Wray Beal
A N D R E W T . A B E R N E T H Y (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity Daniel I. Block
Iain M. Duguid
School) is professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College. He has written several
Mark S. Gignilliat
books, including Eating in Isaiah, The Book of Isaiah and God's Kingdom, God's Dana M. Harris
Messiah in the Old Testament with Greg Goswell, Discovering Isaiah, and Savoring John W. Hilber
Alicia R. Jackson
Scripture.
William R. Osborne
John N. Oswalt
W I L L I A M R . O S B O R N E (PhD, Midwestern Baptist Theological
Nicholas G. Piotrowski
Seminary) is associate professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at College of Philip Graham Ryken
the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Missouri. He is the author of Trees and Kings, Divine Andrew G. Shead
Paul D. Wegner
Blessing and the Fullness of Life in the Presence of God, and co-edited with Mark
Gary E. Yates
Boda and Russell Meek Riddles and Revelations.

P A U L D . W E G N E R is distinguished professor of Old Testament at

Gateway Seminary, Ontario, California, with a specialty in the study of Isaiah.
Previously he taught at Phoenix Seminary and Moody Bible Institute. His books
include A Student's Guide to Textual Criticism of the Bible and the Tyndale Old
Testament Commentary on Isaiah.

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How Darwinism and Biblical Thought Connect

Can the ideas of Scripture and evolutionary science be mutually
illuminating? Believe it or not, the book of Genesis might have been
the most Darwinian text in the ancient world.
Biblical scholar Dru Johnson calls us beyond typical crea-
tion-versus-evolution debates to explore the conceptual worlds
underlying both Scripture and evolutionary science. He points
toward remarkable continuities and discontinuities between the
Bible's central concerns and those of Darwin and modern science—
ideas so fundamental that they can easily escape our notice.
The Hebrew creation accounts, Johnson argues, weave together
three key themes on the origins and development of humans and
animals, themes that are also essentially Darwinian:
• the connection among scarcity, cooperation, and violence
• the fitness of creatures to their environments
• the genealogical aims of sexual reproduction
When we enter deeply into the metaphysical imagination of the
biblical authors, we discover surprising ways in which the two
accounts converge—and conflict.

"In this highly readable and fascinating book, Dru Johnson offers
readers an intriguing, imaginative, and eye-opening account that
offers a window into two disparate worlds—a world of evolutionary
science and a world of (some of) the biblical authors—while also
showing them to be, in many ways, complementary to one another."

J A N UA RY 2 0 1 8 A NDR EW TOR R A NCE

University of St. Andrews

DECEMBER 2023
"I revel in the idea of understanding some things anew and
224 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0361-9, $24.00
pondering deeper things still in tension, and I appreciate Johnson's
faithful scriptural exegesis to aid me in my considerations."
CONTENTS A N J E A N E T T E "A J " R O B E R T S
Acknowledgments Part 3: Fit molecular biologist, author, and chaplain
8. Evolutionary Fit and Location
Part 1: Two Conceptual Worlds 9. Fit and Dislocation from Garden "Johnson demonstrates that Moses and Darwin dealt with many of
1. This Is Not the Creation- to New Earth
Evolution Debate You're Looking the same subjects but came to very different conclusions."
For Part 4: Generation K ENNETH K EATHLEY
2. What Hath Darwin to Do with 10. Evolutionary Sex and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Scripture Extinction
11. Sex and Generation Across
Part 2: Scarcity Genesis
3. Darwin's Scarcity and the 12. Generation Across the Hebrew
"Struggle for Life" Bible and the New Testament D R U J O H N S O N (PhD, University of St. Andrews) directs the Center
4. Scripture's Own Intellectual
World for Hebraic Thought and has been a research fellow at the Herzl Institute ( Jeru-
Conclusions: Through Two Glasses,
5. Scarcity Across Genesis Darkly salem), Logos Institute (St. Andrews), and Henry Center (Trinity Evangelical
6. Scarcity Beyond Genesis
Divinity School). He is the author or editor of numerous books, including
7. Between Evolutionary Scarcity Scripture Index
and Scripture's Provision Biblical Philosophy, Human Rites, and Knowledge by Ritual. He is ordained as an
EPC minister and is cohost of the OnScript podcast.

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his and the biblical authors’ ideas about natural selection are some-
times in conflict (as I do), but he would do so in an apples-to-apples
comparison. The points of overlap might even be gratifying to him.

J B : The theologian Andrew Torrance has described your book

AUTHOR IVP EDITOR
as "at once both cautious and creative.” What’s most cautious,
DRU JON
JOHNSON BOYD
and what’s most creative about it?
DJ: I rely heavily on scientists themselves to describe the field and
J O N B OY D : You’re a biblical scholar, but of a sort different
from most others. How would you sum up your approach to the their own internal debates, and I also had working scientists review
study of the Old Testament? the manuscript. I’m trying to express what I’ve studied in these two
conceptual worlds, and I assume I can’t have gotten every detail perfect,
DRU JOHNSON: I’m most interested in how the biblical authors
so I await constructive criticism from the relevant guilds. This book is
conceptualize the world, especially how they build their conceptual
meant to start a conversation. But because I’m not pretending to be
schemes into their audiences. They do this through texts, of course,
an expert, I am able to go wide and think creatively. I also presume
but also by tugging upon the frames of real life and the prescriptions
Torrance is referring to my discussions of such “out there” topics as
of Israelite ritual to do some of that intellectual work. Because theirs
psychedelics, sex in the eschaton, and life extension.
is a rich intellectual tradition, it’s worth
putting in conversation with other intellec-
J B : Anything especially surprising you
tual traditions. That’s what excites me about “Once we notice that the biblical came across while working on the
the biblical literature and gets foregrounded book?
authors were also intensely interested
in my work. DJ: Definitely! The dark side of sexual prop-
in the pressures that give rise to natural
agation in evolutionary theories was really
J B : The split among Christians over selection, it’s hard to turn that switch off.”
Darwinism and evolution has been so tough to read and write about. I thought
deeply divisive over the last century. D R U J O H N S O N the chapter on sex would be more enjoy-
What are the fresh ideas we need able, but it just ended up depressing me. I
most? was a bit shocked to read that biological sex
DJ: Once we notice that the biblical authors were also intensely inter- differentiation is so embarrassing for evolution and yet so central for
ested in the pressures that give rise to natural selection, it’s hard to turn Scripture. If evolution had gone more successfully, sexual reproduction
that switch off. They talk about the concepts of fittedness, scarcity, and might have been an aberration rather than the vast majority (roughly
sexual propagation incessantly in Genesis and continue to weave this 99% of animals on earth reproduce sexually). Sexual reproduction is
discussion of selection throughout the biblical canon. Once I grasped costly, fatal even, and creates all kinds of problems for multiplying one’s
that, I was dissatisfied with all the attempts to reconcile evolutionary offspring. So the fact that God’s image is made “male and female” is a
science and Scripture by making apples-to-oranges comparisons, a radical claim from the conceptual world of Scripture.
mentality that writes off the Bible as being disjointed from the topics
J B : What kind of questions do your students ask when you’re
of science.
teaching on this topic?
J B : What would Darwin think about your book if you could sit DJ: I tend to think the modernism/postmodernism debates really
down to talk it over with him? ended in the 1990s and my students are caught up in what some are
DJ: I think he’d need to experience the same paradigm shift most calling “hypermodernism.” It’s no longer about what is absolutely
readers will, changing his ideas about the nature of the task of biblical true and who has the power to shape the narrative. Rather, they are
literature. Most of his references to Scripture treat science and religion confronted with tidal waves of perspectives and data, a morass so thick
as if they are doing two completely different things: “science tells us that they seem to crave a guide who will help them navigate through
how but religion tells us why.” I hear many well-meaning science popu- all the information more than “the truth.” In some ways, this is much
larizers (and Christians) saying the same thing today. But if Darwin closer to the biblical view, that truth always entails guidance over time
could make the shift, I think he’d be fascinated. He might still see that in order to see it.

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Michael Bird's Introduction to Luke–Acts

What do the books of Luke and Acts teach us about God, Jesus, and
the early church? How do these two books relate to each other? And
what do they mean for us today?
In this accessible and compelling introduction, Michael Bird draws
us into the wide-ranging narrative of Luke-Acts to discover how Luke
frames the life of Jesus and of the first disciples who set out from
Jerusalem to "the ends of the earth" proclaiming the Good News. Bird
shows us how these two books, when read together, tell a cohesive
narrative about Jesus, the Church, and the mission of God—with
implications for the whole of our lives today. Situating both books in
their historical and literary context, Bird moves through an explora-
tion of their central theological themes and culminates with consid-
eration of the books' relevance for contemporary social issues.

"Michael Bird's thoughtful, thorough, engaging, and accessible study

of Luke–Acts should be a go-to source for all New Testament readers."
DEN N IS R . EDWA R DS
North Park Theological Seminary

"This overview of Luke and Acts will delight the reader with
its accessible detail, helpful questions for discussion,
and engaging Birdwinian turn of phrase."
SARAH HARRIS
Carey Baptist College

"Michael Bird has the rare talent of communicating dense

J A N UA RY 2 0 1 8 and often stodgy academic issues in an exuberant spirit
and user-friendly fashion."

N OV E M B E R 2 0 2 3
M . S Y DN E Y PA R K
344 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0809-6, $36.00 Beeson Divinity School

"Those reading Luke's two-part narrative will find themselves

CONTENTS enriched by the way Bird follows Luke's story and attends to
Preface 9. Luke the Feminist? Jesus, its themes. But he also follows the twists and turns of Lukan
Abbreviations Women, and the Church
scholarship—discussing big ideas and principal controversies,
10. Luke the Socialist? Wealth and as well as naming some key voices in contemporary study.
1. What's So Special About
Possessions
Luke–Acts? What more could we ask for in an introduction to Luke–Acts?"
11. The Promise of the Father: Luke
2. Luke–Acts: The Origins Story JOEL B. GR EEN
and the Holy Spirit
3. The Purposes of Luke–Acts Fuller Theological Seminary
12. Luke on Jesus, the Jews, and the
4. Luke: Historian or Theologian? Gentile Churches
5. "This Jesus": The Christology of 13. Turning the World Upside Down:
Luke–Acts Luke and Empire
6. Luke and the Way of Salvation 14. A Hope in God: Luke and the M I C H A E L F . B I R D (PhD University of Queensland) is academic
Future dean and lecturer in New Testament at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia.
7. "Beginning with Moses": The Old
Testament in Luke–Acts Michael is an ordained Anglican priest and author of over thirty books on the
Bibliography
8. On the Road with Jesus: Lucan Indexes Bible, theology, and history. Among them are Introducing Paul, Jesus is the Christ,
Discipleship and with N.T. Wright, The New Testament in its World.

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creating anti-Judaism/anti-Semitism. What does Luke really believe

about Jewish communities and their relationship to the church? I think
it’s a complex topic; Luke is either disappointed or pessimistic about
Jewish responses to the church’s gospel, but he does not write off the
AUTHOR IVP EDITOR Jews in total.
MICHAEL RACHEL
BIRD HASTINGS Finally: Luke and eschatology, end-times stuff. For ages Luke was
regarded as trying to explain the delay of Jesus to return. I think that
R AC H E L H A S T I N G S : Tell me about your motivation to write
totally misses the point. Luke has a form of Jewish restoration escha-
this volume. How did the idea for this project come about?
tology; he believes a transformed Israel will transform the world. I
M I C H A E L B I R D : I have been teaching, preaching, researching, could add other stuff too, Luke and possessions is always challenging.
and writing on Luke and Acts for more than twenty years. There are There’s much to learn from Luke’s account of Jesus and even the very
a few good “theologies” on Luke and Acts, but I felt like there wasn’t nature of discipleship itself.
anything around that I thought would be a good textbook or class
companion for an exegesis course on Luke and Acts. So, I decided to R H : You are surveying a lot of content in this book. How did you
write my own, specifically, to summarize my own lectures on Luke– decide what themes to focus on for this book? Were there any
Acts, and to provide a supplement to any exegesis courses I taught on less prominent themes that you wish you could have included?
(or another way we could ask this would be, “What theme did
these two books. So that’s the big idea, to introduce the historical back-
you address in this book that you feel has been largely ignored
ground issues, tackle the hairy subjects, and explore the big themes and in Luke–Acts scholarship?”)
Luke–Acts.
M B : My conclusion in the book is based

R H : In your research on Luke and on the questions about Luke–Acts that

Acts, what were some of the most “Luke–Acts is one of the most important either scholars are wrestling with (like
exciting or surprising themes or resources we have for cultivating deep Luke and the Roman Empire) or topics
insights that came out of your that students are always asking me about
discipleship, proclaiming the gospel of Jesus,
research? (Should we have a common pool of
and thinking about the church’s mission today.”
M B : I never cease to be amazed as to possessions and property like the Jeru-
how much one can keep learning even MICHAEL BIRD salem church did?). As for what I wish I
after decades of reading, researching, and could have included, well, it would have
writing on the same topic. You pick up been great to include something on the
new things just by working through the text or else by reading classic reception history of Luke–Acts. How has Luke–Acts shaped every-
and contemporary works on Luke–Acts. I guess for me, the topics that thing from the later Christological Controversies, Christian Socialism,
made me think the hardest were (1) Luke and women; (2) Luke and the and the establishment of Pentecostalism, and more. There’s also more
Jews; and (3) Luke and eschatology. to say on Luke–Acts and ethics and mission in a postmodern and post-
To break that down, I’ve learned to better appreciate feminist critics Christian world.
wrestling with Luke. To me, Luke sounds pro-women, but not everyone
R H : What do you hope your readers take away from this book?
reads Luke that way; that’s a view I want to understand, address, and
figure out. M B : I want readers to come away with an understanding that Luke–
Acts is the single largest corpus in the New Testament. Luke–Acts
Similarly, Luke clearly puts a lot of blame at the feet of the Jews of
is really the New Testament in miniature: Jesus and the apostolic
Jerusalem and the Diaspora for the death of Jesus and for the persecu-
mission. Luke–Acts is one of the most important resources we have
tion of the apostles. Now, much of this is really intra-Jewish sectari-
for cultivating deep discipleship, proclaiming the gospel of Jesus, and
anism, but we have to ask painful questions about Luke’s role in
thinking about the church’s mission today.

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CO RE T IT LES I N MI N I ST RY & L EAD ERSHI P

BENJAMIN T. CONNER
Together in PLANTING
E NGA GE M E NTS
M I S S I OL OGI C AL

MINISTRY A CHURCH

WITHOUT
Nin e
DISABLING MISSION, ENABLING WITNESS

Questions
DISABLING MISSION,
LOSING for th e
ENABLING WITNESS
Sp iritually

YOUR
Form ed

SOUL Pastor

Exploring Missiology Through

Women and Men
the Lens of Disability Studies
in Flourishing
Partnerships
CONNER

TIM MOREY
ROB DIXON FOREWORD BY
S C O T T W. S U N Q U I S T
Foreword by RU T H H A L E Y B A RTO N

Churches, Cultures, and Together in Ministry Planting a Church Without Disabling Mission,
Leadership 978-1-5140-0070-0 Losing Your Soul Enabling Witness
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A Theology of Disability and Church Leadership

People with disabilities are often excluded from full participation
in church communities. Accessibility is not enough—to truly work
toward reconciliation, churches must both consider the theological
implications of disability and also become places where people with
disabilities lead.
Disabling Leadership presents a practical theology of disability for
thoughtful church leaders and congregants. Written by practitioners
and a scholar-pastor who are engaged in ministry together, this book
encompasses cutting-edge theological ethics as well as stories of
how such commitments are embodied in a real church community.
Moving beyond paternalistic views of disability that seek to extract
"inspiration" from another's story, the authors equip readers to
explore key themes such as:
• what it means to be human
• how to understand suffering and healing
• how churches can be welcoming and accessible communities
• how to face common challenges and issues in resisting ableism
When we foster genuinely inclusive leadership teams and engage in
the difficult work of just and dignifying relationships, our churches
will be less likely to treat anyone as a "project" and will better reflect
God's love as the body of Christ.

"This book shifts the goalpost: mere inclusion of disabled

people is not what the church needs. What it needs—and needs
desperately—is the leadership of differently abled members DECEMBER 2023
of Christ's broken and gloriously resurrected body." 192 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0335-0, $24.00

BR IAN BROCK
University of Aberdeen
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
A N D R E W T . D R A P E R (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is founding
teaching pastor at Urban Light Community Church in Muncie, Indiana, and Introduction

adjunct theology faculty at Anderson School of Theology and Winebrenner 1. A Theology of Leadership and Disability
Seminary. He is the author of A Theology of Race and Place, Christian Mission and 2. Learning from People with Disabilities
Poverty, and numerous articles on race, disability, and the church. 3. Inclusive Church Leadership
4. Creating an Accessible Community
J O D Y M I C H E L E (BS in sociology, Ball State University) is a locally
licensed minister at Urban Light Community Church and an independent Conclusion

consultant on issues related to disability. She has served on numerous boards, Index
including the Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities and the
Muncie Human Rights Commission.

A N D R E A M A E is a leader at Urban Light Community Church, where she

serves on the church board and chairs the pastor/parish committee. She works
in special education and advocacy for the disability community, presenting at
multiple organizations and universities.

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CO RE T I T L ES I N T HE O LO G Y
GonzÁlez

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G onz ález
The M e s t i z o A u G u s t i n e

S P E C T R U M M U LT I V I E W B O O K S

B R E N T E . P A R K E R and The M e s t i z o
AuGustine
R I C H A R D J . L U C A S , EDS.

COVENANTAL AND
DISPENSATIONAL
THEOLOGIES
F O U R V I E W S O N T H E
C O N T I N U I T Y O F S C R I P T U R E A Theologian
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM Between two Cultures
Michael Horton, Stephen Wellum, Darrell Bock,
and Mark Snoeberger

Covenantal and Majority World Theology The Doctrine of Creation The Mestizo Augustine
Dispensational Theologies 978-0-8308-3180-7 978-0-8308-5490-5 978-0-8308-5150-8
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Neo-Holiness from a Wesleyan Perspective

The Christian life includes many demands, but perhaps none are
as challenging or as misunderstood as the biblical command to "be
holy" (Lev. 11:44 and 1 Pet. 1:16) or to "be perfect" (Matt. 5:48).
How should we understand these charges?
In this volume, three scholars from the Wesleyan tradition offer a
collective treatment of the theme of holiness that includes:
• exegesis of key biblical passages
• a survey across church history
• theological reflections on the relationship between entire sancti-
fication and other doctrines
In addition, the coauthors constructively argue for a "neo-holiness"
model that encourages the pursuit of Christian perfection but
avoids the pitfalls of Pelagianism by incorporating historic under-
standings of grace and the work of the Holy Spirit with the best of
the Wesleyan tradition. Here, the commands to "be holy" and to "be
perfect" take on new meaning.

"This readable, concise, and scholarly book on Christian

sanctification is a 'three-in-one' approach, including contributions
from biblical, historical, and systematic theology. . . . This is
necessary reading for all within the tradition and a helpful primer
for all pastors, teachers, and laity across the church."
THOM AS A. NOBLE
Nazarene Theological Seminary

"This long overdue and thoroughly accessible volume describes

OCTOBER 2023
with perfect clarity both the scriptural basis for and the practical
400 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0230-8, $45.00
manifestations of holiness doctrine. It will encourage individual believers
to claim the privilege of a growing relationship with Christ, and it is just
what the church needs to minister more effectively in a hurting world."
CONTENTS
K ENNETH HODDER
national commander of The Salvation Army Acknowledgments Part Three: "Let Those of Us Who Are
Abbreviations Perfect Think This Way": Holiness in
Introduction Christian History
7. Early Foundations for Holiness
M A T T A Y A R S (PhD, St. Johns College of Nottingham) is president and as- Part One: "Be Holy Because I Am 8. Holiness in the Middle Ages
Holy": Holiness in the Old Testament 9. Holiness in the Premodern and
sistant professor of Old Testament at Wesley Biblical Seminary. His books include 1. Holiness in the Pentateuch Modern Era
The Shape of Biblical Hebrew Poetry and Salvation in Fresh Perspective. 2. Holiness in the Historical Books
and the Prophets Part Four: "May the God of Peace
C H R I S T O P H E R T . B O U N D S (PhD, Drew University) is dean of the 3. Holiness in the Wisdom Sanctify You Entirely": A Theology of
Literature Holiness
School of Theology and Ministry and professor of theology at Indiana Wesleyan
10. Holiness and Human Sin
University. His books include Holiness for the Real World, Selecting Worship Songs, Part Two: "Be Perfect as Your 11. Holiness and Redemption
and Unholiness: Overcoming the Forces that Attack Your Soul. Heavenly Father Is Perfect": Holiness 12. The When and How of Holiness
in the New Testament
4. Holiness in the Gospels and Conclusion
C A L E B T . F R I E D E M A N (PhD, Wheaton College) is David A. Case
Acts Appendix: Recommended Reading
Chair of Theology and Ministry and associate professor of New Testament at 5. Holiness in the Letters of Paul on Holiness
Ohio Christian University. He is the author of The Revelation of the Messiah and 6. Holiness in the General Epistles Name Index
and Revelation Scripture Index
the editor of A Scripture Index to Rabbinic Literature and Listen, Understand, Obey.

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THEOLOGY | DIVINE IMMUTABILIT Y

A New Look at Kierkegaard and Immutability

Danish theologian and philosopher Søren Kierkegaard was not
afraid to express his opinions. Living amid what he perceived to
be a culturally lukewarm Christianity, he was often critical of his
contemporary church.
But that does not mean Kierkegaard rejected traditional Chris-
tian theology. Indeed, at a time when many of his contemporaries
were questioning the classical doctrine of God, Kierkegaard swam
against the stream by maintaining orthodox Christian beliefs.
In this New Explorations in Theology volume, Craig A. Hefner
explores Kierkegaard's reading of Scripture and his theology to
argue not only that the great Dane was a modern defender of the
doctrine of divine immutability (or God's changelessness) in
response to the disintegration of the self, but that his theology can
be a surprising resource today.

"Craig Hefner shows a mastery of Kierkegaard's writings and

Kierkegaardian scholarship . . . This is an important book!"
M ATTHEW LEVER ING
Mundelein Seminary

"Mining the depths of Kierkegaard's thought to retrieve his

existentially profound insights, Hefner shows how Kierkegaard's
understanding of immutability serves as the ground for the
integration of the human self. . . . A significant and profound study."
KYLE STROBEL
Talbot School of Theology
AUGUST 2023
232 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0544-6, $45.00
"Hefner retrieves Kierkegaard to show another way forward:
a biblical and theological case for a classical definition
of God's immutability but without metaphysics.
CONTENTS This is retrieval theology at its best!"
Foreword by Daniel J. Treier KENT EILERS
Acknowledgments Huntington University, coauthor of Theology as Retrieval
Abbreviations

1. Retrieving Kierkegaard
"In this important and thought-provoking study . . . Hefner
shows that Christian theology can successfully retrieve
2. The Disintegrated Self
classical teaching and yet speak to modern concerns."
3. The Reintegrated Self
CHR ISTOPHER B. BAR NETT
4. Returning Again to James 1:17
Villanova University
5. Immutability Without Metaphysics

Bibliography

C R A I G A . H E F N E R (PhD, Wheaton College Graduate School) is the

Head of School at Covenant School in Huntington, West Virginia. His work has
appeared in publications such as the International Journal of Systematic Theology
and the Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America.

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N E W E X P L O R AT I O N S I N T H EO L O G Y

Theology is flourishing in dynamic and unexpected ways in In an age of media proliferation and academic oversaturation,
the twenty-first century. Scholars are increasingly recognizing there is a need to single out the best new monographs. IVP
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N E W E X P LO RAT I O N S N E W E X P LO RAT I O N S
IN THEOLOGY IN THEOLOGY
THE MAKING OF STANLEY HAUERWAS

THE MAKING OF T. F. T O R R A N C E
S TA N L E Y H A U E RW A S AS MISSIONAL
THEOLOGIAN

B R ID GIN G BA RTH A N D THE ASCENDED CHRIST AND

HUNSICKER

P O ST LIBE RA L I S M T H E M I N I S T RY O F T H E C H U R C H

D AV I D B. H U N S I C K E R JOSEPH H. SHERRARD
FOREWORD BY S TA N L E Y H AU E RWA S FOREWORD BY ALAN TORRANCE

“New Explorations in Theology “The New Explorations in Theology series provides ADVISORY BOARD
provides a platform for the very a much-needed space for both emerging and senior • Daniel Castelo, Duke Divinity School
best of the discipline—exciting scholars to engage in the many rich conversations
• Tom Greggs, University of Aberdeen
scholars addressing classic taking place within the broad range of theological
theological topics with questions discourse today. . . . Both the individual volumes • Kristen Johnson, Western Theological Seminary
of contemporary relevance in and the series as a whole are making significant • Beth Felker Jones, Northern Seminary
new, cutting-edge ways.” contributions to shaping the future of the
• Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Fuller Theological Seminary
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Jonathan Edwards and Deification: Reconciling Theosis Martin Luther and the Rule of Faith: Reading God’s Word T. F. Torrance as Missional Theologian: The Ascended
and the Reformed Tradition for God’s People Christ and the Ministry of the Church
James R. Salladin, 978-1-5140-0046-5, $40.00 Todd R. Hains, 978-1-5140-0296-4, $40.00 Joseph H. Sherrard, 978-0-8308-4920-8, $40.00
Karl Barth’s Infralapsarian Theology: Origins and Reading Scripture as the Church: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s
Development, 1920–1953 Hermeneutic of Discipleship
Shao Kai Tseng, 978-0-8308-5132-4, $40.00 Derek W. Taylor, 978-0-8308-4918-5, $40.00
NEW Kierkegaard and the Changelessness of God: A The Reality of God and Historical Method: Apocalyptic
Modern Defense of Classical Immutability Theology in Conversation with N. T. Wright
Craig A. Hefner, 978-1-5140-0544-6, $45.00 Samuel V. Adams, 978-0-8308-4914-7, $44.00

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 THEOLOGY | DOCTRINE OF CREATION

A Distinctly Theological Look at Genesis 1

The Christian claim that the triune God is the creator of the
universe is both exegetically grounded and theologically rich.
Yet discussions about God's work of creation are often over-
whelmed by questions such as the age of the earth and the relation-
ship between divine creation and evolution. Without completely
ignoring such issues, Peter Leithart offers a decidedly theological
interpretation of the creation account from Genesis 1.
By engaging with classic discussions of creation, including those of
Plato and Aristotle, as well as Christian articulations as varied as those
of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Sergius Bulgakov, Karl
Barth, and Robert Jenson, Leithart embraces the challenge of talking
about God and God's first work. Here, readers will discover what it
means to articulate a theology that is rigorously grounded in the first
chapter of the Bible and the creedal affirmation of God the Father
almighty, who is the creator of the heavens and earth.

"Creator is theological exegesis at its finest. . . . To read Genesis 1

with Leithart is an exhilarating, even intoxicating experience."
K E V I N J . VA N HO O Z E R
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

"Few prolific theologians are always worth reading,

but Peter Leithart is the rare exception. . . . His construal
of Aquinas's perspective is itself worth the price of the book
and will stimulate a rich debate!"
M ATTHEW LEVER ING
DECEMBER 2023
Mundelein Seminary
360 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0216-2, $40.00

"Yes, this is a theological interpretation of Genesis 1—but it is

CONTENTS so much more. . . . Leithart's scintillating composition makes for
joyful music, echoing the triune song that sings creation into being."
Preface
Acknowledgments H A NS BOERSM A
Nashotah House Theological Seminary
1. Apophaticism, Accommodation, Anthropomorphism

2. Logos, Mythos, Creation "Peter Leithart's voice is fresh and refreshing. . . .

3. Simplicity, Partially Baptized This book is a must-read for any thoughtful Christian."
4. Creator WILLIAM EDGAR
5. Triune Creator
Westminster Theological Seminary, author of A Supreme Love

6. Metaphysics of Genesis

7. God Speaking and God Seeing

P E T E R J . L E I T H A R T (PhD, University of Cambridge) is president of
Conclusion
Bibliography Theopolis Institute in Birmingham, Alabama and teacher at Trinity Presbyte-
Indexes rian Church. He is the author of many books, including Defending Constantine,
Delivered from the Elements of the World, Baptism, and On Earth as in Heaven.

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ARTS & HUMANITIES | LITERATURE

A Celebration of Story, Both Literary and Biblical

Humans are story-shaped creatures.
We make sense of our world, pattern our lives, and reflect on what is
ultimately significant through language and the words that compose
our stories. But how does this relate to the narrative of the Bible and
the story that God is writing through history?
In Nourishing Narratives, writer and professor Jennifer Holberg
engages with words from the likes of Dante, Gerard Manley
Hopkins, Flannery O'Connor, Marilynne Robinson, and more
while also offering some of her own stories to reflect on the impor-
tance of story to our lives and our faith.
Here, readers are encouraged not only to understand how stories
nourish our faith, but to discover how our stories are part of God's
great story.

"I can't remember the last time I read a book that made my heart
sing along as this one did. Nourishing Narratives will open
your eyes, grow your faith, and feed your soul."
K A R EN S WA L LOW PR IOR
author of The Evangelical Imagination

"Funny and approachable, erudite and smart, this book is not

merely a celebration of literature—it is an invitation to learn
how to read as if our faith lives depend on it."
JAMES K. A. SMITH
editor in chief of Image journal, author of You Are What You Love

"Holberg is a wise guide to the faithful, life-giving stories

J U LY 2 0 2 3
240 pages, paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 978-1-5140-0524-8, $25.00 that Christians are called to inhabit."
JEFFR EY BILBRO
Grove City College, author of Reading the Times
CONTENTS
"Threading her own stories with rich reflection on biblical
1. Complicated Narratives and Important Failures
narratives and on the novels and poems she has taught and loved,
2. Enough
Jennifer Holberg offers here a beautiful way of understanding
3. Graced with the Ordinary what it means to live by stories."
4. Assessing the Hill M A R I LY N MCEN T Y R E
5. A Witness Ready to Serve author of Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

6. Our Little Systems

7. Small Steps at Very Great Cost

J E N N I F E R L . H O L B E R G (PhD, University of Washington) is
8. Root-Room
professor and chair of the English department at Calvin University and codirec-
9. Our Hope for Years to Come
tor of the Calvin Center for Faith and Writing, the home of the Festival of Faith
Acknowledgments and Writing. She is a founding coeditor of the academic journal Pedagogy and
Notes
also the editor of Shouts and Whispers: Twenty-One Writers Speak About Their
Credits
Writing and Their Faith.

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This book, then, is not just Henry Zylstra has argued, the discernment of stories
for bookworms like me: it is should generally give us “more to be Christian with”
for everyone hoping to think but because the old, old story must be fundamental to
more deeply about what our very understanding of the world.
it means to be fundamen- I once attended a conversation between the poet
tally story-shaped people, Christian Wiman and the theologian J. Todd Bill-
people hungry for narratives ings, both living with incurable cancers. At one point,
AUTHOR
JENNIFER L. that are life-giving. Many the moderator asked why they were both interested
HOLBERG wonderful books exist already in poetry. Billings responded by noting that he had
to persuade you of the merits turned to the Psalms because they were Scripture
of reading certain books first, rather than because
(often the “classics,” for they were poetry. But then
example) or journeying he framed what he called
“I am not going to claim that reading makes
with certain writers. All the “more interesting ques-
you somehow 'better,' but rather that
good. But though the tion”: “Why did God choose
becoming a better reader—more attuned to
coming pages will invite you poetry with the Psalms,
into a conversation with the narrative assumptions and strategies and
with Job, with other parts
work of many writers, this is expectations—is critical.”
of divine self-revelation in
not a book so much meant JENNIFER L. HOLBERG Scripture?” Yes, why is God
to prescribe what or who to a literary God? In Beyond
read, but more about how Words, Frederick Buechner
and why. I am not going to begins to suggest at least one answer:
claim that reading makes you somehow “better,” but
It is absolutely crucial, therefore, to keep in
rather that becoming a better reader—more attuned
constant touch with what is going on in your own
to narrative assumptions and strategies and expecta-
life’s story and to pay close attention to what is
tions—is critical.
going on in the stories of others’ lives. If God is
And for people of faith, for people of the Book, this present anywhere, it is in those stories that God is
book considers how the larger story to which we present. If God is not present in those stories, then
give allegiance, the gospel—the overarching story they are scarcely worth telling.
of God’s good creation; humanity’s fall; and our
Surely, then, it’s good work for us to carefully
redemption through the life, death, and resurrection
examine the multifaceted stories of all of our lives
of Jesus Christ—interacts with the smaller stories
and learn to notice the infinite richness of the story of
in which we participate. Not only because, as critic
the Word made flesh.

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ARTS & HUMANITIES | INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

Mark Noll on C. S. Lewis's American Reception

Perhaps no other literary figure has transformed the American
religious landscape in recent history as much as C. S. Lewis. Even
before the international publication and incredible success of his
fictional works such as The Chronicles of Narnia or apologetic
works like Mere Christianity, Lewis was already being read "across
the pond" in America. But who exactly was reading his work? And
how was he received?
With fresh research and shrewd analysis, this volume by noted histo-
rian Mark A. Noll considers the surprising reception of Lewis among
Roman Catholic, mainline Protestant, and evangelical readers to see
how early readings of the Oxford don shaped his later influence.

"In this prophetic and timely book, preeminent historian Mark A.

Noll has uncovered the secret of Lewis's success: he was deeply
learned, theologically focused, and unusually creative. Noll himself
brilliantly models how to embody these traits today."
TIMOTHY LARSEN
Wheaton College

"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."
A LISTER MCGR ATH
Oxford University

"Mark Noll sheds light on the various ways American readers

received Lewis's early works and, in so doing, illuminates the state
N OV E M B E R 2 0 2 3 of Christianity throughout the United States more generally during
176 pages, paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 978-1-5140-0700-6, $20.00
the period under examination. A fascinating snapshot and a cleverly
oblique approach to the study of church history."
CONTENTS M ICH A E L WA R D
University of Oxford, author of After Humanity
Preface by G. Walter Hansen
Introduction "Mark Noll offers the definitive account of Lewis's reception in mid-
twentieth-century America. He skillfully uses that story as a window
1. Surprise
Roman Catholics as Lewis's First and Most Appreciative Readers on the overall state of Christianity in America during an era."
Response: Karen J. Johnson GEORGE M ARSDEN
University of Notre Dame, author of C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity: A Biography
2. "Like a Fresh Wind"
Reception in Secular and Mainstream Media
Response: Kirk D. Farney

3. Protestants Also Approve (But Evangelicals, Only Slowly) M A R K A . N O L L is emeritus professor of history at Wheaton College
Response: Amy E. Black
and the University of Notre Dame. His many book include America's Book, Jesus
List of Contributors Christ and the Life of the Mind, Clouds of Witnesses: Christian Voices from Africa
and Asia, The New Shape of World Christianity, The Rise of Evangelicalism, The
Civil War as a Theological Crisis, Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History
of Christianity, and The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.

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E XCERP T F ROM C. S. LE WIS IN AMERICA

Imagine that in the 1930s and 1940s Lewis’s apology and exposition of the Christian faith, which he
transatlantic air travel had been as assembled from pamphlets of radio talks he had delivered during
routine as it is now. Imagine also that the Second World War.
C. S. Lewis had journeyed to the United The years 1935 through 1947 also mark a distinct period for
States to converse in person with those showing what American critical reactions to Lewis reveal about
who were reading his books on this side Americans. This was an era dominated by pervasive national
of the Atlantic. Through 1942, it was only crises—first the Depression, then World War II, and then uncer-
AUTHOR
MARK A. a small number of mostly academics and tainties after the war about charting a national course as the
NOLL reviewers for the nation’s newspapers world’s dominant superpower. These same years also witnessed
of record. But after early 1943 and the a crucial cultural transition—from a past in which Christian
American publication of The Screwtape Letters, that number grew values could be more or less taken for granted by wide swaths of
rapidly and from every intellectual, religious, and cultural corner the American people to a future in which those values became
of the land. These readers in America included well-regarded increasingly contested.
literary scholars, theologians, historians, and philosophers;
In trying to make sense out of critical reactions to C. S. Lewis in
figures destined for renown, such as Thomas Merton and W. H.
the years surrounding the Second World War, this book follows
Auden; masters of the radio, such as Alister Cooke, who would
outstanding recent studies by K. Alan Snyder, George Marsden,
later become a fixture on public television; reviewers for the New
and Stephanie Derrick. By researching how, when, where, and
York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, the Saturday Review,
why Lewis’s writings became so popular, these books have greatly
and other well-positioned periodicals;
helped to understand the remarkable
and many Roman Catholics, many
extent of the C. S. Lewis phenomenon.
mainline Protestants, and a few—
C. S. Lewis in America goes further by
but only a few—fundamentalists and “By bringing together what Lewis wrote and differentiating in considerable detail
evangelicals.
what Americans wrote about Lewis, we gain among the various American groups
In actual, as opposed to imagined, deeper insight into both Lewis and America.” that responded to Lewis in the first
history, we know only a little about years of his public visibility: first, the
how Lewis responded to what his MARK A. NOLL many Roman Catholics who wrote
American readers wrote about his about Lewis and his works; second,
works. Yet we know in detail how Lewis’s reception in journals, maga-
Americans from these various constit- zines, and newspapers intended for
uencies regarded his books because of the many reviews they general audiences or the academic world; and third, responses to
published—at first a steady trickle and then, after The Screwtape Lewis from mainline Protestants and fundamentalist or evangel-
Letters, a rapidly expanding deluge of critical engagement. ical Protestants. The chapter devoted to each group shows how
This book examines that engagement from before the New York the critical reception of C. S. Lewis sheds light on the history of
Times published the first American review on December 8, 1935, that particular constituency in the years surrounding World War
through 1947, the year that Time magazine celebrated Lewis with II. In other words, by bringing together what Lewis wrote and
a cover portrait and laudatory article in its September 8 issue. what Americans wrote about Lewis, we gain deeper insight into
The logic for treating this span of years as a period unto itself is both Lewis and America.
twofold. Documenting the reception of Lewis’s writing during this early
For Lewis, these were the years when he first gained a significant period underscores the enduring qualities that have kept these
audience in the United Kingdom and the United States. But they works alive for so many readers in so many places. Attending to
came before the stratospheric recognition that followed the publi- this reception history may in turn suggest how the approaches
cation in 1950 of the first Narnia tale (The Lion, the Witch, and Lewis modeled decades ago might assist believers in addressing
the Wardrobe) and the appearance in 1952 of Mere Christianity, the public today.

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The Hansen Lectureship Series features reflections related to the

imaginative work and lasting influence of seven British authors, including
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, and Dorothy L. Sayers.
The books in the series are based on the Ken and Jean Hansen Lectureship, an annual lecture series hosted at the Marion E. Wade Center
at Wheaton College, named in honor of former Wheaton College trustee Ken Hansen and his wife, Jean, and endowed in their memory
by Walter and Darlene Hansen. Each book includes three lectures by a Wheaton College faculty member on one or more of the Wade
Center authors with responses by fellow faculty members.
Founded in 1965, the Marion E. Wade Center houses a major research collection of writings and related materials by and about seven
British authors: Owen Barfield, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Dorothy L. Sayers, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles
Williams. The Wade Center collects, preserves, and makes these resources available to researchers and visitors through its reading room,
museum displays, educational programming, and publications. All of these endeavors are a tribute to the importance of the literary,
Chistorical,
O N T E Nand
T S Christian heritage of these writers.

T I T LES INCLUDE:
Choosing Community NEW C. S. Lewis in The Everlasting People George MacDonald in The Messiah Comes to Splendour in the Dark The Wonders of Creation
Christine A. Colón, America Matthew J. Milliner, the Age of Miracles Middle-Earth Jerry Root with David C. Kristen Page,
978-0-8308-5374-8, Mark A. Noll, 978-1-5140-0032-8, Timothy Larsen, Philip Ryken, Downing, 978-1-5140-0435-7,
$16.00 978-1-5140-0700-6, $20.00 978-0-8308-5373-1, 978-0-8308-5372-4, 978-0-8308-5375-5, $22.00
$20.00 $18.00 $20.00 $20.00

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Christian Worldview 978-0-8308-5147-8
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WORLDVIEW & PHILOSOPHY | APOLOGETICS

An Accessible Primer on Seven World Religions

Understanding the beliefs and practices of other faiths is essential
not just to the task of interreligious dialogue, but also to grasping
one's own faith. In this brief volume, philosopher Douglas Groothuis
creatively uses a single sentence representing each of several world
religions as a way to open readers to their depth and complexity:
• Atheism: "God Is Dead."
• Judaism: "I Am Who I Am."
• Hinduism: "You Are That."
• Buddhism: "Life Is Suffering."
• Daoism: "The Dao That Can Be Spoken Is Not the Eternal Dao."
• Christianity: "Before Abraham Was, I Am."
• Islam: "There Is One God, and Mohammad Is His Prophet."
With a sympathetic but not uncritical approach, Groothuis
welcomes readers to a vital and global conversation.

"This work is unique in that it accurately presents the major reli-

gious worldviews; provides fair, hard-hitting criticisms of them; and
accomplishes all this in a brief, easy-to-read way. In my view, this is
now the first book to read for anyone who wants to get at the heart
of important religions and compare them with Christianity."
J . P. M O R E L A N D
Talbot School of Theology, Biola University

"Douglas Groothuis has written a terrific book that introduces us to

the heart of the world's leading faiths, including atheism. Writing
SEPTEMBER 2023
176 pages, paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 inches, 978-1-5140-0582-8, $18.00
from a Christian perspective, he spells out the tenets of seven
world religions in a clear, accessible, and lively manner."
PAU L COPA N
CONTENTS Palm Beach Atlantic University

Introduction
"This innovative primer succeeds where most introductory texts fail,
1. Nietzsche: God is Dead namely in combining a lucid and succinct exposition with accuracy
and precision. . . . All in all, an extraordinary tool for both seasoned
2. Judaism: I AM WHO I AM
and novice students of living faiths and secularism."
3. Hinduism: You Are That
V ELI-M ATTI K Ä R K K Ä INEN
4. Buddhism: Life Is Suffering Fuller Theological Seminary and the University of Helsinki

5. Daoism: The Dao that Can Be Spoken Is Not the Eternal Dao

6. Christianity: Before Abraham Was, I Am

D O U G L A S G R O O T H U I S (PhD, University of Oregon) is professor
7. Islam: There is One God, and Mohammad is His Prophet
of philosophy at Denver Seminary. His many books include Christian Apologet-
Conclusion ics, Fire in the Streets, Philosophy in Seven Sentences, Unmasking the New Age,
Truth Decay, On Pascal, On Jesus, and Walking Through Twilight. He has written
for scholarly journals such as Religious Studies, Sophia, Research in Philosophy
and Technology, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, and Philosophia
Christi, as well as for numerous popular magazines.

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I N T R O D U C T I O N S I N S E V E N S E N T E N CE S

PHILOSOPHY
DOUGL AS GROOTHUIS

PHILOSOPHY

IN SEVEN SENTENCES
IN SEVEN
SENTENCES

A SMALL

GROOTHUIS
INTRODUCTION
TO A VAST TOPIC

What if large topics such as philosophy, theology, and biblical studies could be
boiled down to seven key sentences each?

The accessible primers in this collection act as brief introductions to an academic field, with simple
organization: seven key sentences that give readers a bird’s-eye view of the most pivotal truths on that
subject. With engaging, thoughtful, and sometimes humorous language, these books invite readers to
reflect on quotations that many have heard but perhaps have not explored in depth.

P R A I S E F O R T H E N E W T E S TA M E N T I N S E V E N S E N T E N C E S

“To sum up the New Testament in seven sentences “Gary Burge’s aptly chosen seven sentences and words
seems a daunting task. Gary Burge succeeds in doing show clearly that the New Testament is not just a book
so by engaging its story. He draws on seven central New full of doctrines, promises, or ethics, but has to be under-
Testament statements to retell the story of God’s work in stood within the overarching grand narrative of the Bible
Christ. In the process, he widens the lens to show how as a whole. . . . However well you think you know your
the entire biblical story culminates in Jesus’ person and New Testament, this will help you see it through fresh
work. It is an accessible and inviting book!” eyes and gain many new insights in the process.”

JEA NNINE BROW N CHR ISTOPHER J. H. W R IGHT

Bethel Seminary author of The Old Testament in Seven Sentences

T I T L E S I N C L U D E:
Christian History in The New Testament in The Old Testament in Philosophy in NEW World Religions in
Seven Sentences Seven Sentences Seven Sentences Seven Sentences Seven Sentences
Jennifer Woodruff Tait, Gary M. Burge, Christopher J. H. Wright, Douglas Groothuis, Douglas Groothuis,
978-0-8308-5477-6, $18.00 978-0-8308-5476-9, $18.00 978-0-8308-5225-3, $18.00 978-0-8308-4093-9, $18.00 978-1-5140-0582-8, $18.00

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PHILOSOPHY | ETHICS

A Moral Vision of Personhood for a Multitude of

Ethical Issues
We live in a culture of commodification. People are too often
defined by what they do or own; they're treated as means to an end.
What goes missing is a deep sense of personhood—the belief that all
humans are unique subjects with inherent worth and the right to
self-determination in authentic communion with others.
In a world dominated by things, Paul Louis Metzger argues, we
must work hard to account for one another's personhood. We need
to cultivate relational structures that honor every human's dignity
in vital interpersonal community. The theological and philosophical
framework known as personalism can help guide us toward such a
culture. Drawing from a wide range of thought leaders, including
Martin Luther King Jr. and Pope John Paul II, Metzger presents a
personalist moral vision founded on the Christian ideals of faith,
hope, and love. He demonstrates how this moral compass can help
us navigate a pluralistic world by applying it to a variety of pressing
ethical issues, including abortion, genetic engineering, immigra-
tion, drone warfare, and more.
When we refuse to reduce our fellow humans—and ourselves—to
mere abstractions or objects, we follow the example of Jesus in
honoring the value of every person and of creaturely life as a whole.

"An ecumenical tour de force. . . . Not since Bonhoeffer's Life

Together have I encountered an introduction to Christian morality
AUGUST 2023 that is as exciting and persuasive as this book."
464 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-0-8308-5091-4, $48.00
PETER CASAR ELLA
CONTENTS Duke Divinity School

Acknowledgments 7. More Than the Mere End or

"This book is an exceptional contribution to personalist ethics. Paul
Part One: Compass Navigation Extension of Life: On Physician-
1. The Search for Missing Assisted Suicide Louis Metzger offers a trinitarian personalist philosophy of life to
Persons: The Loss and Recovery of recover the meaning and dignity of human personhood in contem-
Personalism Part Three: From Close to Home and
porary society."
2. More Faith, Hope, and Love: Across the Globe to Outer Space
Metaphysical and Methodological 8. More Than Racial Divisions: Race, F R E DER ICK WA R E
Conditions for a Personalist Moral Power, and the Beloved Community Howard University School of Divinity
Vision 9. More Than Import Market
Value: Immigration Reform Beyond
Part Two: From the Beginning to the Meritocracy
End of Life 10. More Than Just War: Human
3. More Than Abilities: Pro-Life for Value and Drone Warfare
All in a Throwaway Culture 11. More Than Domination of the
P A U L L O U I S M E T Z G E R (PhD, King's College London) is profes-
4. More Than Genetic Perfection: Earth: Humane Care for Creation sor of Christian theology and theology of culture at Multnomah University and
The Value of Imperfect Bodies 12. More Than Space Exploration: Seminary and director of The Institute for Cultural Engagement: New Wine,
5. More Than Sexual Pleasure: A The Ethics of the Final Frontier
Personalist Approach to Sex and
New Wineskins. He is the author of numerous books, including Consuming
Marriage Part Four: Journey's End Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church and Connecting
6. More Than the Battle of the 13. Rediscovering Persons: Finding Christ: How to Discuss Jesus in a World of Diverse Paths, and coeditor of A World
Sexes: Gender, Patriarchy, and the Our Way Home
Imperative for Equality
for All? Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology.

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Q U E S T I O N S I N CH R I S T I A N P H I L O S O P H Y
S E R I E S E D I T O R S: J A M E S K . D E W J R. A N D W. PA U L F R A N K S

QUESTIONS
IN CHRISTIAN
PHILOSOPHY

How do we know? What should we do? What is real? What is art?

Philosophy, which means “the love of wisdom,” asks such questions in

its pursuit of knowledge and understanding of all facets of life: existence,
knowledge, ethics, art, and more. But what does it mean for Christians to
pursue wisdom when Scripture affirms that the crucified and risen Christ
is “the wisdom of God” (1 Cor 1:24)?
IVP Academic’s Questions in Christian Philosophy (QCP) series seeks
to help readers in their pursuit of wisdom from a Christian perspective by
offering introductory textbooks on the various branches of philosophy.
Designed for students with little or no background in the discipline, this
series draws upon experts in the field and lays a solid foundation for
further philosophical reflection in pursuit of divine wisdom.

“The Church has a vital stake in raising up Christians trained in “Designed as undergraduate or graduate texts, as well as
philosophy, the most fundamental domain of thought, who will help providing resources for thoughtful readers everywhere, this series
to create a place at our universities and other cultural spaces for of excellent books, written by well-trained and biblically faithful
Christian ideas. It is my hope that IVP Academic’s Questions in authors, could not be coming at a better time. I urge Christian
Christian Philosophy series will make an important contribution schools to require them as texts and churches to make
to the training of the next generation of Christian them must-reading. With gratitude and enthusiasm,
scholars, leaders, and laypeople.” I highly recommend this wonderful series.”

W ILLI A M LA NE CR AIG J . P. M O R E L A N D
Talbot School of Theology, Biola University Talbot School of Theology, Biola University

T I T LES INCLUDE: FO R T HCO MIN G T O PI C S:

How Do We Know? How Do We Reason? Aesthetics Metaphysics
Second Edition, Forrest E. Baird,
James K. Dew Jr. and Mark W. 978-0-8308-5515-5, $26.00
Foreman,
978-0-8308-5512-4, $24.00

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N E W S T U D I E S I N B I B L I C A L T H EO L O G Y
S E R I E S E D I T O R: D. A . C A R S O N

Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works composing New Studies in Biblical
Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. Edited
by D. A. Carson, they aim to simultaneously instruct and edify, to interact with
current scholarship, and to point the way ahead.
P R A I S E F O R W I T H T H E C L O U D S O F H E AV E N
“This is an important book and a welcome addition to an excellent series (NSBT), and I
commend it for all biblical disciplines. I benefited from reading Hamilton’s book, and I am
grateful for his commitment to doing robust theology and exegesis for the benefit of the church.”

JOSHUA M. PHILPOT
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 57-4

I N D I V I D U A L T I T L E S I N C L U D E:
The Acts of the Risen Lord Jesus From Every People and Nation Original Sin
Alan J. Thompson, J. Daniel Hays, Henri Blocher,
978-0-8308-2628-5, $28.00 978-0-8308-2616-2, $28.00 978-0-8308-2605-6, $25.00
Adopted into God’s Family From Prisoner to Prince Paul and the Law
Trevor J. Burke, Samuel Emadi, Brian S. Rosner,
978-0-8308-2623-0, $28.00 978-1-5140-0546-0, $24.00 978-0-8308-2632-2, $28.00
Biblical Theology According The Glory of God and Paul Piercing Leviathan
to the Apostles Christopher W. Morgan Eric Ortlund,
Chris Bruno, Jared Compton, and and Robert A. Peterson, 978-1-5140-0337-4, $28.00
Kevin McFadden, 978-1-5140-0447-0, $28.00 Possessed by God
978-0-8308-2020-7, $28.00 God the Peacemaker David Peterson,
The Book of Isaiah and God’s Graham A. Cole, 978-0-8308-2601-8, $25.00
Kingdom 978-0-8308-2626-1, $28.00 Preaching in the New Testament
Andrew T. Abernethy, The God Who Became Human Jonathan I. Griffiths,
978-0-8308-2641-4, $28.00 Graham A. Cole, 978-0-8308-2643-8, $25.00
Bound for the Promised Land 978-0-8308-2631-5, $25.00 ‘Return to Me’
Oren R. Martin, The God Who Makes Himself Known Mark J. Boda,
978-0-8308-2635-3, $28.00 W. Ross Blackburn, 978-0-8308-2637-7, $28.00
Calling on the Name of the Lord 978-0-8308-2629-2, $28.00 Righteous by Promise
J. Gary Millar, God’s Mediators Karl Deenick,
978-0-8308-2639-1, $28.00 Andrew S. Malone, 978-0-8308-2646-9, $27.00
Canon, Covenant and Christology 978-0-8308-2644-5, $25.00 The Royal Priest
Matthew Barrett, God’s Unfaithful Wife Matthew Emadi,
978-0-8308-2929-3, $35.00 Raymond C. Ortlund Jr., 978-1-5140-0739-6, $28.00
Changed into His Likeness 978-0-8308-2614-8, $25.00 Salvation to the Ends of
J. Gary Millar, A Gracious and Compassionate God the Earth
978-0-8308-7116-2, $28.00 Daniel C. Timmer, Andreas J. Köstenberger with
Christ, Our Righteousness 978-0-8308-2627-8, $25.00 T. Desmond Alexander,
Mark A. Seifrid, Hear, My Son 978-0-8308-2536-3, $35.00
978-0-8308-2609-4, $28.00 Daniel J. Estes, Sealed with an Oath
A Clear and Present Word 978-0-8308-2604-9, $25.00 Paul R. Williamson,
Mark D. Thompson, Hearing God’s Words 978-0-8308-2624-7, $28.00
978-0-8308-2622-3, $25.00 Peter Adam, The Servant of the Lord and
Contagious Holiness 978-0-8308-2617-9, $28.00 His Servant People
Craig L. Blomberg, Identity and Idolatry Matthew S. Harmon,
978-0-8308-2620-9, $28.00 Richard Lints, 978-0-8308-1035-2, $27.00
Covenant and Commandment 978-0-8308-2636-0, $25.00 Shepherds After My Own Heart
Bradley G. Green, Including the Stranger Timothy S. Laniak,
978-0-8308-2634-6, $28.00 David G. Firth, 978-0-8308-2621-6, $30.00
The Cross from a Distance 978-0-8308-2919-4, $28.00 Slave of Christ
Peter G. Bolt, Jesus and the Logic of History Murray J. Harris,
978-0-8308-2619-3, $28.00 Paul W. Barnett, 978-0-8308-2608-7, $28.00
Death and the Afterlife 978-0-8308-2603-2, $25.00 The Temple and the Church’s Mission
Paul R. Williamson, NEW Life in the Son G. K. Beale,
978-0-8308-2645-2, $28.00 Clive Bowsher, 978-0-8308-2618-6, $35.00
Dominion and Dynasty 978-1-5140-0827-0, $28.00 Thanksgiving
Stephen G. Dempster, A Mouth Full of Fire David W. Pao,
978-0-8308-2615-5, $28.00 Andrew G. Shead, 978-0-8308-2613-1, $28.00
Father, Son and Spirit 978-0-8308-2630-8, $30.00 Unceasing Kindness
Andreas J. Köstenberger and Neither Poverty nor Riches Peter H. W. Lau and Gregory Goswell,
Scott R. Swain, Craig L. Blomberg, 978-0-8308-2642-1, $28.00
978-0-8308-2625-4, $28.00 978-0-8308-2607-0, $30.00 Who Shall Ascend the Mountain
The Feasts of Repentance Now and Not Yet of the Lord?
Michael J. Ovey, Dean R. Ulrich, L. Michael Morales,
978-0-8308-2662-9, $25.00 978-1-5140-0407-4, $28.00 978-0-8308-2638-4, $30.00
Finding Favour in the Sight of God Now Choose Life With the Clouds of Heaven
Richard P. Belcher Jr., J. Gary Millar, James M. Hamilton Jr.,
978-0-8308-2647-6, $28.00 978-0-8308-2606-3, $28.00 978-0-8308-2633-9, $28.00
Five Festal Garments Now My Eyes Have Seen You
Barry G. Webb, Robert S. Fyall,
978-0-8308-2610-0, $25.00 978-0-8308-2612-4, $28.00
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Relational Participation in John's Gospel N e w S t u d i e s i n B i bl i c a l T h e o l o g y

The New Testament writers use spatial language and imagery
to portray our relationship with God, speaking both about God
or Christ in us and us in them. Believers are also described as
possessing and participating in divine qualities such as life and
glory. Both aspects are prominent in John's Gospel and letters.
However, outside the Pauline writings, union with Christ has hardly
been addressed in New Testament scholarship. Clive Bowsher seeks
to redress this balance in this NSBT volume.
Life in the Son
In John's Gospel, the oneness of the Father and Son is described as
Exploring Participation and
the Father and Son being "in one another." Bowsher's study shows Union with Christ in John’s Gospel
that union with Christ in John's Gospel and letters is the in-one- and Letters
another relationship of believers with the Father and Son by the
Spirit—the intimate, loving, relational participation of the believer
and God, each in the life, affections, ways, and work of the other.
Insightful and accessible, this volume also explores connections
with the shape of sonship, covenant, and the life of the age to come.
This volume fills a significant gap in the literature and promises to
be a blessing to pastors, preachers, and scholars alike.

"Bowsher's illuminating research expertly explores the contours of

in-one-anotherness between God and believers in the Johannine Clive Bowsher
writings of the New Testament. His book is eye-opening, faith-
enriching, and heart-warming; it will affect every aspect of your Series Editor: D. A. Carson
relationship with God and with his people."
DONA LD FA I R BA I R N
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary J U LY 2 0 2 3
200 pages, paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 978-1-5140-0827-0, $28.00

"Everyone interested in the Johannine literature or in the themes of

union and participation should engage with this significant volume."
CONTENTS
MICH A EL J. GOR M A N
Series preface 7. In-one-anotherness with Christ:
St. Mary's Seminary and University, Baltimore, Maryland
Author’s preface the eschatological culmination of
Introduction: Johannine oneness and covenant
"This work is essential reading for understanding and glorying in participation with Christ
8. In conclusion: Johannine oneness
what it means to be united to Christ and thus to be in covenant and participation with Christ
1. ‘In Christ’ in John: setting the
relationship with our triune Creator, Redeemer, and Lord."
scene
Appendix 1: Pauline union with
STEPHEN WELLUM 2. Oneness, participation and life in Christ
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary the Fourth Gospel
Appendix 2: A preliminary look at
3. Oneness, participation and life in oneness and participation with Christ
the Johannine epistles in Revelation
4. Oneness and participation with Appendix 3: An analysis of the Greek
C L I V E B O W S H E R is provost of Union School of Theology, where he Christ in the Johannine Gospel and discourse of John 14:15-24
teaches and researches in New Testament and Biblical Theology. Previously, epistles: a synthesis so far
Appendix 4: Hortatory-imperatival
he served as lead minister of a local church and comentored Union's Learning 5. Participation in the journey of use of the third-person indicative
Community in Oxford, UK. He has held positions at the Universities of Ox- Jesus in New Testament Greek outside
1 John
ford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Bristol. 6. Oneness and participation with
the Son in the Johannine Gospel and
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REFERENCE | BIBLE SPEAKS TODAY

T H E B I B L E S P E A K S T O DAY
C O M M E N TA R Y S E R I E S

Edited by J. A. Motyer and John R. W. Stott, this series is characterized

by what Stott called a “threefold ideal . . . to expound the biblical text
with accuracy, to relate it to contemporary life, and to be readable.”

O L D T E S TA M E N T V O L U M E S N E W T E S TA M E N T V O L U M E S
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The Message of Genesis 12–50 The Message of Esther The Message of Joel, Micah & 978-0-8308-2423-6, $25.00 978-0-8308-1998-0, $20.00
Joyce G. Baldwin, David G. Firth, Habakkuk The Message of Matthew The Message of
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The Message of Exodus The Message of Job 978-1-5140-0647-4, $25.00 978-0-8308-2419-9, $30.00 John R. W. Stott,
J. Alec Motyer, David J. Atkinson, The Message of Amos The Message of Mark 978-0-8308-2444-1, $25.00
978-1-5140-0455-5, $30.00 978-1-5140-0520-0, $20.00 J. A. Motyer, Donald English, The Message of 1 Timothy & Titus
The Message of Leviticus The Message of Psalms 1–72 978-1-5140-0649-8, $20.00 978-0-8308-2420-5, $25.00 John R. W. Stott,
Derek Tidball, Michael Wilcock, The Message of Obadiah, The Message of Luke 978-0-8308-2489-2, $25.00
978-1-5140-0457-9, $30.00 978-1-5140-0625-2, $25.00 Nahum & Zephaniah Michael Wilcock, The Message of 2 Timothy
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Raymond Brown, Michael Wilcock, 978-1-5140-0651-1, $30.00 The Message of John 978-0-8308-2499-1, $20.00
978-1-5140-0459-3, $30.00 978-1-5140-0627-6, $25.00 The Message of Jonah Bruce Milne, The Message of Hebrews
The Message of Deuteronomy The Message of Proverbs Rosemary Nixon, 978-0-8308-2422-9, $30.00 Raymond Brown,
Raymond Brown, David J. Atkinson, 978-1-5140-0653-5, $25.00 The Message of Acts 978-0-8308-2504-2, $25.00
978-1-5140-0461-6, $30.00 978-1-5140-0629-0, $20.00 The Message of Zechariah John R. W. Stott, The Message of James
The Message of Joshua The Message of Ecclesiastes Barry G. Webb, 978-0-8308-2108-2, $30.00 J. A. Motyer,
David G. Firth, Derek Kidner, 978-1-5140-0655-9, $20.00 The Message of Romans 978-0-8308-2510-3, $20.00
978-1-5140-0463-0, $25.00 978-1-5140-0631-3, $20.00 The Message of Malachi John R. W. Stott, The Message of 1 Peter
The Message of Judges The Message of the Song of Songs Peter Adam, 978-0-8308-2159-4, $30.00 Edmund Clowney,
Michael Wilcock, Tom Gledhill, 978-1-5140-0657-3, $20.00 The Message of 978-0-8308-2512-7, $25.00
978-1-5140-0465-4, $20.00 978-1-5140-0633-7, $25.00 1 Corin­thians The Message of 2 Peter & Jude
The Message of Ruth The Message of Isaiah David Prior, Dick Lucas and Christopher Green,
David Atkinson, Barry G. Webb, 978-0-8308-1498-5, $30.00 978-0-8308-2514-1, $25.00
978-1-5140-0467-8, $20.00 978-1-5140-0635-1, $25.00 The Message of The Message of
The Message of Samuel The Message of Jeremiah 2 Corin­thians John’s Letters
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978-1-5140-0469-2, $25.00 978-1-5140-0637-5, $30.00 978-0-8308-1521-0, $20.00 978-0-8308-2517-2, $20.00
The Message of Kings The Message of Lamentations The Message of Galatians The Message of
John W. Olley, Christopher J. H. Wright, John R. W. Stott, Revelation
978-1-5140-0471-5, $30.00 978-1-5140-0639-9, $20.00 978-0-8308-2424-3, $25.00 Michael Wilcock,
The Message of Ephesians 978-0-8308-2521-9, $25.00
The Message of Chronicles The Message of Ezekiel
Michael Wilcock, Christopher J. H. Wright, John R. W. Stott,
978-1-5140-0473-9, $25.00 978-1-5140-0641-2, $30.00 978-0-8308-2443-4, $30.00
The Message of Ezra & Haggai The Message of Daniel The Message of Philippians
Robert Fyall, Dale Ralph Davis, J. A. Motyer,
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T Y N DA L E C O M M E N TA R I E S

Tyndale Old Testament and New Testament Commentaries provide

passage-by-passage interpretation to make the Bible’s message plain to readers
today. Written by some of the world’s most distinguished evangelical
scholars, these volumes offer clear, reliable, and relevant
explanations of every book in the Bible.

“The Tyndale volumes have long been the premier

shorter-length commentary series on both Testaments
throughout the English-speaking world.”

CR AIG BLOMBERG
Denver Seminary

T Y N D A L E O L D T E S TA M E N T C O M M E N TA R I E S ( T O T C)

Genesis (vol. 1) 2 Chronicles (vol. 11) Ezekiel (vol. 22)

Andrew E. Steinmann, Martin J. Selman, John B. Taylor,
978-0-8308-4251-3, $28.00 978-0-8308-4211-7, $25.00 978-0-8308-4222-3, $25.00
Exodus (vol. 2) Ezra and Nehemiah (vol. 12) Daniel (vol. 23)
R. Alan Cole, Derek Kidner, Paul R. House,
978-0-8308-4202-5, $25.00 978-0-8308-4212-4, $20.00 978-0-8308-4273-5, $25.00
Leviticus (vol. 3) Esther (vol. 13) Hosea (vol. 24)
Jay Sklar, Debra Reid, Robin Routledge,
978-0-8308-4284-1, $30.00 978-0-8308-4213-1, $20.00 978-0-8308-4271-1, $25.00
Numbers (vol. 4) Job (vol. 14) Joel and Amos (vol. 25)
Gordon J. Wenham, Francis I. Andersen, Tchavdar S. Hadjiev,
978-0-8308-4204-9, $20.00 978-0-8308-4214-8, $30.00 978-0-8308-4272-8, $25.00
Deuteronomy (vol. 5) Psalms (vols. 15–16) Obadiah, Jonah and Micah
Edward J. Woods, Tremper Longman III, (vol. 26)
978-0-8308-4281-0, $30.00 978-0-8308-4285-8, $30.00 Daniel C. Timmer,
Joshua (vol. 6) Proverbs (vol. 17) 978-0-8308-4274-2, $25.00
Richard S. Hess, Lindsay Wilson, Nahum, Habakkuk and Zephaniah
978-0-8308-4206-3, $30.00 978-0-8308-4267-4, $30.00 (vol. 27)
Judges and Ruth (vol. 7) Ecclesiastes (vol. 18) S. D. Snyman,
Mary J. Evans, Knut Martin Heim, 978-0-8308-4275-9, $20.00
978-0-8308-4257-5, $25.00 978-0-8308-4265-0, $25.00 Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi
1 and 2 Samuel (vol. 8) The Song of Songs (vol. 19) (vol. 28)
V. Philips Long, Iain M. Duguid, Andrew Hill,
978-0-8308-4258-2, $30.00 978-0-8308-4286-5, $20.00 978-0-8308-4282-7, $30.00
1 and 2 Kings (vol. 9) Isaiah (vol. 20)
Donald J. Wiseman, Paul D. Wegner,
978-0-8308-4209-4, $30.00 978-0-8308-4268-1, $30.00
1 Chronicles (vol. 10) Jeremiah and Lamentations (vol. 21)
Martin J. Selman, Hetty Lalleman,
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Matthew (vol. 1) Romans (vol. 6) Philippians (vol. 11) James (vol. 16)
R. T. France, David E. Garland, Jeannine K. Brown, Douglas J. Moo,
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Mark (vol. 2) 1 Corinthians (vol. 7) Colossians and Philemon (vol. 12) 1 Peter (vol. 17)
Eckhard J. Schnabel, Thomas R. Schreiner, Alan J. Thompson, Wayne A. Grudem,
978-0-8308-4292-6, $30.00 978-0-8308-4297-1, $30.00 978-1-5140-0560-6, $25.00 978-0-8308-4247-6, $25.00
Luke (vol. 3) 2 Corinthians (vol. 8) 1 and 2 Thessalonians (vol. 13) 2 Peter and Jude (vol. 18)
Nicholas Perrin, Colin G. Kruse, Leon Morris, Michael Green,
978-1-5140-0535-4, $30.00 978-0-8308-4288-9, $25.00 978-0-8308-4243-8, $20.00 978-0-8308-4248-3, $25.00
John (vol. 4) Galatians (vol. 9) The Pastoral Epistles (vol. 14) The Letters of John (vol. 19)
Colin G. Kruse, R. Alan Cole, Osvaldo Padilla, John R. W. Stott,
978-0-8308-4294-0, $30.00 978-0-8308-4239-1, $25.00 978-1-5140-0673-3, $25.00 978-0-8308-4249-0, $25.00
Acts (vol. 5) Ephesians (vol. 10) Hebrews (vol. 15) Revelation (vol. 20)
I. Howard Marshall, Darrell L. Bock, David G. Peterson, Ian Paul,
978-0-8308-4235-3, $30.00 978-0-8308-4298-8, $25.00 978-0-8308-4299-5, $30.00 978-0-8308-4300-8, $30.00

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F ROM AC CL A IMED S CHOL A R S

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John Goldingay, Scot McKnight,
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Unique among reference books on the Bible, the volumes of the IVP Bible Dictionary
Series bridge the gap between scholars and those pastors, teachers, students, and laypeople
desiring in-depth treatment of select topics in an accessible and encyclopedia format.

Articles cover traditional and contemporary topics, including cross-sectional themes,

methods of interpretation, significant historical or cultural background, and each Old and
New Testament book as a whole.

In part and in whole, the IVP Bible Dictionary Series presents the fruit of evangelical biblical
scholarship at the intersection of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—committed to
the authority of Scripture, utilizing the best of critical methods, and maintaining dialogue
with contemporary research and challenges facing the church.

Dictionary of the Old Testament: Dictionary of the Old Testament: Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels Dictionary of the Later New Testament &
Pentateuch Wisdom, Poetry & Writings General Editor Joel B. Green, Its Developments
Edited by T. Desmond Alexander and David W. Edited by Tremper Longman III and Peter Enns, Associate Editors Jeannine K. Brown and Edited by Ralph P. Martin and Peter H. Davids,
Baker, 978-0-8308-1783-2, $70.00 Nicholas Perrin, 978-0-8308-1779-5, $70.00
978-0-8308-1781-8, $70.00 Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets 978-0-8308-2456-4, $70.00 Dictionary of New Testament Background
Dictionary of the Old Testament: Edited by Mark J. Boda and NEW Dictionary of Paul and His Letters Edited by Craig A. Evans and Stanley E. Porter,
Historical Books J. Gordon McConville, General Editor Scot McKnight, 978-0-8308-1780-1, $70.00
Edited by Bill T. Arnold and H. G. M. Williamson, 978-0-8308-1784-9, $70.00 Associate Editors Lynn H. Cohick and
978-0-8308-1782-5, $70.00 Nijay K. Gupta,
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 SERIES | HOW TO READ

HOW TO RE AD SERIES

How To Read HO W TO
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exo dus JO B
Tremper Longman III John H. Wa
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Tremper Lon
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We should read a poem very differently than we read a history book, and we read
both of them differently than we’d read a novel. The same is true when it comes to our
approach to Scripture. That’s why this series does just what its name describes:
helps you understand the proper way to read various books of the Bible.

You can read the Bible on your own, and its main themes will be clear enough.
But an expert can sharpen your understanding and appreciation of the message,
bringing God’s Word into an even clearer focus.

In this series Bible scholar Tremper Longman III examines books of Scripture
and gives you all the background knowledge, literary analysis, and theological
input to help you read the book as it was meant to be read.

How to Read Daniel How to Read the Psalms How to Read Exodus
Tremper Longman III, Tremper Longman III, Tremper Longman III,
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How to Read Proverbs How to Read Genesis How to Read Job
Tremper Longman III, Tremper Longman III, Tremper Longman III,
978-0-87784-942-1, $25.00 978-0-87784-943-8, $22.00 978-0-8308-4089-2, $25.00

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P R A I S E F O R E X P L O R I N G T H E O L D T E S TA M E N T,
V O L U M E O N E: A G U I D E T O T H E P E N TAT E U C H Up-to-date, reliable, balanced, and clearly organized, these paperback
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scholars currently working on the Pentateuch. Since this section of
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Scripture presents concepts and characters foundational for all
including maps, charts, graphs, timelines, and glossaries.
that follows, this is a very important volume indeed.”

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Ashland Theological Seminary

I N D I V I D U A L PA P E R B A C K V O L U M E S:
Exploring the Old Testament, Volume One: Exploring the Old Testament, Volume Three: Exploring the New Testament, Volume One:
A Guide to the Pentateuch A Guide to the Psalms and Wisdom Literature A Guide to the Gospels and Acts, Third Edition
Gordon J. Wenham, Ernest C. Lucas, David Wenham and Steve Walton,
978-0-8308-5309-0, $35.00 978-0-8308-5311-3, $35.00 978-0-8308-2526-4, $35.00

Exploring the Old Testament, Volume Two: Exploring the Old Testament, Volume Four: Exploring the New Testament, Volume Two:
A Guide to the Historical Books A Guide to the Prophets A Guide to the Letters and Revelation, Third Edition
Philip E. Satterthwaite and J. Gordon McConville, J. Gordon McConville, I. Howard Marshall, Stephen Travis, and Ian Paul,
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B O O K S O N S C I E N CE A N D CH R I S T I A N I T Y

The BioLogos Foundation invites the church and the world to see the harmony between science and
biblical faith as they present an evolutionary understanding of God’s creation. BioLogos Books on Science
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publishing a range of titles from scholarly monographs to textbooks to personal stories.

The books in this series have wide appeal among Christian audiences, from nonspecialists to scholars in
the field. While the authors address a range of topics on science and faith, they support the view of evolutionary
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of life on earth. The series authors are faithful Christians and leading scholars in their fields.
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Phoenix Seminary
I N D I V I D U A L T I T L E S I N C L U D E:
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Christian Perspective Terri S. Watson, Second Edition, Barrett W. McRay, Mark A. Yarhouse and Erica S. N. Tan,
Stephen P. Greggo, 978-0-8308-2863-0, $50.00 Mark A. Yarhouse, and Richard E. Butman, 978-0-8308-2853-1, $55.00
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Christian Counseling Ethics Megan Anna Neff and Mark R. McMinn, Modern Psychotherapies Mark R. McMinn,
Second Edition, Edited by Randolph K. Sanders, 978-0-8308-2867-8, $30.00 Second Edition, Stanton L. Jones, and 978-0-8308-2851-7, $25.00
978-0-8308-3994-0, $50.00 Evidence-Based Practices for Christian Richard E. Butman, Skills for Effective Counseling
Christian Meditation in Counseling and Psychotherapy 978-0-8308-2852-4, $60.00 Elisabeth A. Nesbit Sbanotto, Heather
Clinical Practice Edited by Everett L. Worthington Jr., Eric L. The Person in Psychology and Christianity Davediuk Gingrich, and Fred C. Gingrich,
Joshua J. Knabb, Johnson, Joshua N. Hook, and Jamie D. Aten, Marjorie Lindner Gunnoe, 978-0-8308-2860-9, $55.00
978-1-5140-0024-3, $40.00 978-0-8308-4027-4, $40.00 978-0-8308-2872-2, $30.00 Social Psychology in Christian Perspective
Christianity and Developmental Family Therapies Positive Psychology in Christian Angela M. Sabates,
Psychopathology Second Edition, Mark A. Yarhouse Perspective 978-0-8308-3988-9, $60.00
Edited by Kelly S. Flanagan and Sarah E. Hall, and James N. Sells, Charles Hackney, Theology for Better Counseling
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Couple Therapy Listening to Sexual Minorities
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Baptism: Three Views Divorce and Remarriage: Four Christian Views The Nature of the Atonement: Four Views
Edited by David F. Wright, Edited by H. Wayne House, Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul R. Eddy,
978-0-8308-3856-1, $28.00 978-0-8308-1283-7, $28.00 978-0-8308-2570-7, $28.00
Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views Evangelical Theological Method: Five Views Original Sin and the Fall: Five Views
Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Edited by Stanley E. Porter and Steven M. Edited by J. B. Stump and Chad Meister,
Beth M. Stovell, Studebaker, 978-0-8308-5287-1, $25.00
978-0-8308-3963-6, $28.00 978-0-8308-5208-6, $28.00 Predestination and Free Will: Four Views of
Christian Ethics: Four Views Faith and Reason: Three Views Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom
Edited by Steve Wilkens, Edited by Steve Wilkens, Edited by David Basinger and Randall Basinger,
978-0-8308-4023-6, $25.00 978-0-8308-4040-3, $25.00 978-0-87784-567-6, $28.00
Christian Spirituality: God and the Problem of Evil: Five Views Psychology and Christianity: Five Views
Five Views of Sanctification Edited by Chad Meister and James K. Dew Jr., Second Edition, Edited by Eric L. Johnson,
Edited by Donald L. Alexander, 978-0-8308-4024-3, $28.00 978-0-8308-2848-7, $35.00
978-0-8308-1278-3, $25.00 God and Time: Four Views Two Views of Hell: A Biblical and
Church, State and Public Justice: Five Views Edited by Gregory E. Ganssle, Theological Dialogue
Edited by P. C. Kemeny, 978-0-8308-1551-7, $28.00 Edward William Fudge and Robert A. Peterson,
978-0-8308-2796-1, $35.00 The Historical Jesus: Five Views 978-0-8308-2255-3, $30.00
Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies: Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul R. Eddy, War, Peace, and Violence:
Four Views on the Continuity of Scripture 978-0-8308-3868-4, $35.00 Four Christian Views
Edited by Brent E. Parker and Richard J. Lucas, Justification: Five Views Edited by Paul Copan,
978-1-5140-0112-7, $30.00 Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy, 978-1-5140-0234-6, $26.00
Divine Foreknowledge: Four Views associate editor Steven E. Enderlein, What About Those Who Have Never
Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul R. Eddy, 978-0-8308-3944-5, $28.00 Heard? Three Views on the Destiny of
978-0-8308-2652-0, $28.00 The Lord’s Supper: Five Views the Unevangelized
Divine Impassibility: Edited by Gordon T. Smith, Edited by John Sanders,
Four Views of God’s Emotions and Suffering 978-0-8308-2884-5, $27.00 978-0-8308-1606-4, $22.00
Edited by Robert J. Matz and A. Chadwick Thornhill, The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views Women in Ministry: Four Views
978-0-8308-5253-6, $28.00 Edited by Robert G. Clouse, Edited by Bonnidell Clouse and Robert G. Clouse,
978-0-87784-794-6, $24.00 978-0-8308-1284-4, $28.00

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By drawing on the insights of both academic theologians and artistic practitioners, this series encourages thoughtful
engagement with and critical discernment of the full variety of artistic media—including visual art, music,
literature, film, theater, and more—which both embody and inform Christian thinking.

ADVISORY BOARD
• Jeremy Begbie, professor of theology and director of Duke Initiatives in • Linda Stratford, professor of art history and history, Asbury University
Theology and the Arts, Duke Divinity School • Karen Swallow Prior, research professor of English and Christianity and
• Craig Detweiler, dean of the College of Fine Arts and Production, Grand Culture, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Canyon University • W. David O. Taylor, associate professor of theology and culture, director
• Makoto Fujimura, artist and author of Art and Faith of Brehm Texas, Fuller Theological Seminary
• Matthew Milliner, associate professor of art history, Wheaton College • Judith Wolfe, lecturer in theology and the arts, Institute for Theology,
• Ben Quash, professor of Christianity and the arts, King’s College London Imagination and the Arts, The University of St. Andrews

“This series is an exciting and critically important development in “Studies in Theology and the Arts provides Christian scholars, artists, and
the burgeoning theology and arts field. It promises to advance church leaders with an opportunity to shape our theological perspective
the discussion in fresh and highly fruitful ways.” on the arts in light of the creative realities of our Maker God.”

JER EMY BEGBIE M A KOTO FUJIMUR A

director, Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts visual artist and author of Culture Care and Silence and Beauty

T I T LES INCLUDE:
The Art of New Creation The Faithful Artist Mariner Placemaking and the Arts Seeing Is Believing
Edited by Jeremy Begbie, Daniel Cameron J. Anderson, Malcolm Guite, Jennifer Allen Craft, Richard Vance Goodwin,
Train, and W. David O. Taylor, 978-0-8308-5064-8, $28.00 978-0-8308-5068-6, $40.00 978-0-8308-5067-9, $32.00 978-1-5140-0200-1, $32.00
978-1-5140-0326-8, $30.00
God in the Modern Wing Modern Art and the Life Resisting the Marriage Plot A Subversive Gospel
Contempory Art and the Church Edited by Cameron J. Anderson of a Culture Dalene Joy Fisher, Michael Mears Bruner,
Edited by W. David O. Taylor and and G. Walter Hansen, Jonathan A. Anderson and 978-0-8308-5071-6, $30.00 978-0-8308-5066-2, $32.00
Taylor Worley, 978-0-8308-5069-3, $30.00 William A. Dyrness,
978-0-8308-5065-5, $30.00 978-0-8308-5135-5, $40.00

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SERIES | MISSIOLOGICAL ENGAGEMENTS

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A Multitude of All Peoples: Can “White” People Be Saved? Explorations in Asian Intercultural Theology, Volume 2: Seeking Church: Emerging
Engaging Ancient Christianity’s Triangulating Race, Theology, Christianity: History, Theology, Theologies of Mission Witnesses to the Kingdom
Global Identity and Mission and Mission Henning Wrogemann, Darren T. Duerksen and
Vince L. Bantu, Edited by Love L. Sechrest, Johnny Scott W. Sunquist, translated by Karl E. Böhmer, William A. Dyrness,
978-0-8308-5107-2, $35.00 Ramírez-Johnson, and Amos Yong, 978-0-8308-5100-3, $50.00 978-0-8308-5098-3, $45.00 978-0-8308-5105-8, $32.00
Apostolicity: The Ecumenical 978-0-8308-5104-1, $40.00 The Gospel and Pluralism Today: Intercultural Theology, Volume 3: Spirit Outside the Gate:
Question in World Christian Disabling Mission, Enabling Reassessing Lesslie Newbigin in A Theology of Interreligious Decolonial Pneumatologies of
Perspective Witness: Exploring Missiology the 21st Century Relations the American Global South
John G. Flett, Through the Lens of Disability Edited by Scott W. Sunquist and Henning Wrogemann, Oscar García-Johnson,
978-0-8308-5095-2, $40.00 Studies Amos Yong, translated by Karl E. Böhmer, 978-0-8308-5240-6, $32.00
The Arts as Witness in Benjamin T. Conner, 978-0-8308-5094-5, $30.00 978-0-8308-5099-0, $45.00 The State of Missiology Today:
Multifaith Contexts 978-0-8308-5102-7, $24.00 Intercultural Theology, Volume 1: Megachurch Christianity Global Innovations in
Edited by Roberta R. King and Intercultural Hermeneutics Reconsidered: Millennials Christian Witness
William A. Dyrness, Henning Wrogemann, and Social Change in Edited by Charles E. Van Engen,
978-0-8308-5106-5, $35.00 translated by Karl E. Böhmer, African Perspective 978-0-8308-5096-9, $38.00
978-0-8308-5097-6, $45.00 Wanjiru M. Gitau,
978-0-8308-5103-4, $30.00

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A WEEK IN T HE LIFE SERIES

Have you ever wanted a first-century view of the world of the Gospels? In entertaining historical
fiction, splashed with informative sidebars and images, the volumes in A Week in the Life Series
capture a view of Jesus’ world from the outer framework looking in.
In these imaginative and entertaining narratives, New Testament scholars lead us behind the
veil of centuries to see and experience the historical and social realities of this important era.
Allowing the light of what we do know to conjure possible events, these books are a fun and
informative journey into the wrinkles and folds of lost stories.
Numerous full-page text boxes expand on a variety of aspects of life and culture as we encounter
them in the narrative.

PRAISE FOR A WEEK IN THE LIFE

OF A ROMAN CENTURION

“Masterfully written and extensively researched, this fast-paced

account invites the reader into the first-century world of the
Gospels even while intriguing the reader as a good story should.
In contrast to some scholars’ wooden portrayals of all Jews or
Romans or Syrians as the same, in this story, the characters
are nuanced and come alive.”
CR AIG K EENER
Asbury Theological Seminary

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A Week in the Life of Corinth A Week in the Fall of A Week in the Life of Rome
Ben Witherington III, Jerusalem James L. Papandrea,
978-0-8308-3962-9, $19.00 Ben Witherington III, 978-0-8308-2482-3, $20.00
978-0-8308-5173-7, $17.00
A Week in the Life of Ephesus A Week in the Life of a Slave
David A. deSilva, A Week in the Life of a John Byron,
978-0-8308-2485-4, $18.00 Roman Centurion 978-0-8308-2483-0, $20.00
Gary M. Burge,
A Week in the Life of a Greco- 978-0-8308-2462-5, $20.00
Roman Woman
Holly Beers,
978-0-8308-2484-7, $20.00

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TO THE CHURCH of Redemption EXILES A Biblical Theology of the Temple A F T E R D E AT H Creation and New Creation
A Biblical Theology A Biblical Theology A Biblical Theology
of the People of God of Sin and Restoration of Resurrection
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BENJAMIN L. GLADD M AT T H E W S . H A R M O N G. K. BEALE M. JEFF BRANNON
AND MITCHELL KIM

Essential Studies in Biblical Theology (ESBT) explores the central or “essential” themes
of the Bible’s grand storyline. Whereas existing series on biblical theology are generally open-
ended, the ESBT will be limited to ten or so volumes. By restricting the entire series,
the scope of the project is established from the beginning.

Taking cues from Genesis 1–3, each author teases out a unique theme throughout the entire sweep
of the history of redemption. Led by series editor, Benjamin J. Gladd, The ESBT project functions as a
whole in that each theme is intentional and each volume does not stand solely on its own merits. The indi-
vidual volumes interlock with one another, and, taken together, form a complete and cohesive unit.
Written for students, church leaders, and laypeople, the ESBT is intended to be an introduction
to core biblical-theological themes of the Bible—accessible, yet rich in content.

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From Adam and Israel to the Rebels and Exiles God Dwells Among Us The Hope of Life After Death
Church Matthew S. Harmon, G. K. Beale and Mitchell Kim, M. Jeff Brannon,
Benjamin L. Gladd, 978-0-8308-5541-4, $24.00 978-0-8308-5535-3, $24.00 978-0-8308-5531-5, $24.00
978-0-8308-5543-8, $24.00 The Beginning and End of All
The Path of Faith Face to Face with God
Exodus Old and New Things
Brandon D. Crowe, T. Desmond Alexander,
L. Michael Morales, 978-0-8308-5537-7, $24.00 978-0-8308-4295-7, $24.00 Edward W. Klink III,
978-0-8308-5539-1, $24.00 978-0-8308-5522-3, $24.00

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DY N A M I C S O F CH R I S T I A N W O R S H I P
Worship of the triune God stands at the heart of the Christian life,
so understanding the many dynamics of Christian worship—
including prayer, reading the Bible, preaching, baptism, the
Lord’s Supper, music, visual art, architecture, and more—is both
a perennial and crucial issue for the church.
With that in mind, the Dynamics of Christian Worship (DCW) series seeks to
enable Christians to grow in their understanding of the many aspects of Christian
worship. By harvesting the fruits of biblical, theological, historical, practical, and
liturgical scholarship and by drawing from a wide range of worshiping contexts
and denominational backgrounds, the DCW series seeks to deepen both the
theology and practice of Christian worship for the life of the church.

ADVISORY BOARD
• Constance Cherry, Indiana Wesleyan University
• Carlos Colón, Baylor University
• James Hart, Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies
• Todd Johnson, First Covenant Church, Seattle
• Trygve Johnson, Hope College
• Glenn Packiam, Rockharbor Church, Costa Mesa
• Melanie Ross, Yale Institute of Sacred Music
• Lester Ruth, Duke Divinity School
• John Witvliet, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
“Designing and leading Christian worship today is both exciting and challenging.
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ranging resource that joins theological reflection with effective practice for leaders
in the pursuit of faithful worship? The Dynamics of Christian Worship series T I T L E S I N C L U D E:
provides just such an invaluable, artful blend.” Recapturing an Enchanted World: Renewal Worship: A Theology of
Ritual and Sacrament in the Pentecostal Doxology
CONSTA NCE M. CHER RY Free Church Tradition Steven Félix-Jäger,
John D. Rempel, 978-1-5140-0014-4, $32.00
Indiana Wesleyan University 978-0-8308-4929-1, $30.00
Worship by Faith Alone: Thomas
Sermons that Sing: Music and the Cranmer, the Book of Common
“In Christian worship, we have the great privilege of telling the world its Practice of Preaching Prayer, and the Reformation of
Noel A. Snyder, Liturgy
true story, bringing it to the right worship of the only God who is ultimately 978-0-8308-4933-8, $30.00 Zac Hicks,
978-1-5140-0522-4, $35.00
true, good, and beautiful. The Christian life finds both its source and summit Worship and the World to Come:
Exploring Christian Hope in
in worship. The Dynamics of Christian Worship Series promises to bring Contemporary Worship
critical and fresh scholarship to the varied aspects and facets of worship Glenn Packiam,
978-0-8308-4931-4, $35.00
that will inspire God’s people as they seek to know, love,
and be reconciled to the triune God.” F U T U R E T I T L E S I N C L U D E:
Christ Our Song: Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs in the
JAMES HART History of Worship from the Early Church to Watts
president, Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies Esther R. Crookshank,
978-0-8308-4930-7, $40.00

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A N C I E N T CH R I S T I A N D O C T R I N E S E R I E S

This exciting five-volume series, edited by Thomas C. Oden, follows up

on the acclaimed Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
to provide patristic commentary on the Nicene Creed.

“The Ancient Christian Doctrine series allows us to think with the church
about the deepest issues of the Christian faith. Tom Oden and his colleagues
have done a superb job in leading us to the wellspring of Christian wisdom
in these classic expositions of the evangelical and apostolic tradition.
A treasury of learning and faith for all followers of Jesus today.”

TIMOTHY GEORGE
Beeson Divinity School

I N D I V I D U A L V O L U M E S I N C L U D E:
We Believe in One God (vol. 1) We Believe in the Crucified and Risen Lord (vol. 3) We Believe in One Holy Catholic and
Edited by Gerald L. Bray, 978-0-8308-2531-8, $60.00 Edited by Mark J. Edwards, 978-0-8308-2533-2, $60.00 Apostolic Church (vol. 5)
We Believe in One Lord Jesus Christ (vol. 2) We Believe in the Holy Spirit (vol. 4) Edited by Angelo Di Berardino, 978-0-8308-2535-6, $60.00
Edited by John Anthony McGuckin, 978-0-8308-2532-5, $60.00 Edited by Joel C. Elowsky, 978-0-8308-2534-9, $60.00

A N C I E N T CH R I S T I A N T E X T S

Ancient Christian Texts is a series of new translations of

full-length commentaries or sermon series based on biblical
books or extended scriptural passages—most of which
are presented here in English for the first time—that
provide readers with the resources they need to study
for themselves the key writings of the early church.

Series editors: Thomas C. Oden, Gerald L. Bray,

and Michael Glerup

I N D I V I D U A L V O L U M E S I N C L U D E:

Commentaries on Genesis 1–3 Commentaries on the Twelve Prophets, Commentary on John, Volume 1 Greek Commentaries on Revelation
Severian of Gabala, Bede the Venerable. Volume 1 Cyril of Alexandria. Translated by David R. Oecumenius, Andrew of Caesarea.
Translated by Robert C. Hill, Carmen S. Hardin. Jerome. Edited by Thomas P. Scheck, Maxwell. Edited by Joel C. Elowsky, Translated by William C. Weinrich.
Edited by Michael Glerup, 978-0-8308-2916-3, $70.00 978-0-8308-2911-8, $70.00 Edited by Thomas C. Oden,
978-0-8308-2907-1, $70.00 Commentaries on the Twelve Prophets, Commentary on John, Volume 2 978-0-8308-2908-8, $70.00
Homilies on Numbers Volume 2 Cyril of Alexandria. Translated by David R. Latin Commentaries on Revelation
Origen. Translated by Thomas P. Scheck. Jerome. Edited by Thomas P. Scheck, Maxwell. Edited by Joel C. Elowsky, Victorinus of Petovium, Apringius of Beja,
Edited by Christopher A. Hall, 978-0-8308-2917-0, $70.00 978-0-8308-2912-5, $70.00 Caesarius of Arles, Bede the Venerable.
978-0-8308-2905-7, $70.00 Incomplete Commentary on Matthew Commentaries on Romans and Edited and translated by William C. Weinrich,
Commentary on Isaiah (Opus imperfectum), Volume 1 1–2 Corinthians 978-0-8308-2909-5, $70.00
Eusebius of Caesarea. Translated by James A. Kellerman. Ambrosiaster. Edited and translated by
Translated by Jonathan J. Armstrong. Edited by Thomas C. Oden, Gerald L. Bray,
Edited by Joel C. Elowsky, 978-0-8308-2901-9, $70.00 978-0-8308-2903-3, $70.00
978-0-8308-2913-2, $70.00 Incomplete Commentary on Matthew Commentaries on Romans, 1–2
Commentary on Jeremiah (Opus imperfectum), Volume 2 Corinthians, and Hebrews
Jerome. Translated by Michael Graves. Translated by James A. Kellerman. Cyril of Alexandria.
Edited by Christopher A. Hall, Edited by Thomas C. Oden, Translated by David R. Maxwell.
978-0-8308-2910-1, $70.00 978-0-8308-2902-6, $70.00 Edited by Joel C. Elowsky,
Commentaries on Job, Hosea, Joel, and Commentary on the Gospel of John 978-0-8308-2918-7, $70.00
Amos Theodore of Mopsuestia. Translated by Marco Commentaries on Galatians–Philemon
Julian of Eclanum. Edited by Thomas P. Conti. Edited by Joel C. Elowsky, Ambrosiaster. Edited and translated by
Scheck, 978-0-8308-2906-4, $70.00 Gerald L. Bray,
978-0-8308-2547-9, $70.00 978-0-8308-2904-0, $70.00

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C O M PL E T E PA PE R B ACK S E T

30 volumes, paperback, 978-0-8308-4335-0, $1,500.00, W

(two boxes per complete set)

Now in paperback for the first time, this complete series from
general editor Thomas C. Oden includes an additional companion
volume featuring biographical sketches, a comprehensive timeline,
HIGHLIGHTS master indexes of Scripture references and authors, and more.
• Now in paperback
• Complete twenty-nine volume set
The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) is a unique series
plus a commentary index and encompassing all of Scripture and offering contemporary readers the opportu-
resources volume
nity to study for themselves the key writings of the early church fathers.
• Fully redesigned covers
• Comes in a beautifully
Arranged by the books of the Bible, each portion of commentary allows the
designed box living voices of the church in its formative centuries to speak as they engage
the sacred pages of Scripture, rendered throughout the series in English in
the ecumenically accepted Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Listen in as
leading pastoral theologians of six centuries gather around the text of Scripture
and offer their best theological, spiritual, and pastoral insights.

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C O M P L E T E H A R D C OV E R S E T

“The conspectus of patristic exposition that this series offers

has been badly needed for several centuries. . . . For the ongoing
ecumenical conversation, and the accurate application of early
Christian thought, and the current hermeneutical debate
as well, the Ancient Christian Commentary will prove
itself to be a really indispensable resource.”

J. I . PAC K E R

I N D I V I D U A L V O L U M E S I N C L U D E:
Genesis 1–11 (OT vol. 1) Psalms 51–150 (OT vol. 8) Matthew 1–13 (NT vol. 1a) 1–2 Corinthians (NT vol. 7)
Edited by Andrew Louth, Edited by Quentin F. Wesselschmidt, Edited by Manlio Simonetti, Second Edition, Edited by Gerald L. Bray,
978-0-8308-1471-8, $75.00 978-0-8308-1478-7, $75.00 978-0-8308-1486-2, $75.00 978-0-8308-2492-2, $75.00
Genesis 12–50 (OT vol. 2) Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon Matthew 14–28 (NT vol. 1b) Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians
Edited by Mark Sheridan, (OT vol. 9) Edited by Manlio Simonetti, (NT vol. 8)
978-0-8308-1472-5, $75.00 Edited by J. Robert Wright, 978-0-8308-1469-5, $75.00 Second Edition, Edited by Mark J. Edwards,
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy 978-0-8308-1479-4, $75.00 Mark (NT vol. 2) 978-0-8308-2493-9, $75.00
(OT vol. 3) Isaiah 1–39 (OT vol. 10) Second Edition, Edited by Thomas C. Oden Colossians, 1–2 Thessalonians,
Edited by Joseph T. Lienhard, Edited by Steven A. McKinion, and Christopher A. Hall, 1–2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon (NT vol. 9)
978-0-8308-1473-2, $75.00 978-0-8308-1480-0, $75.00 978-0-8308-1418-3, $75.00 Edited by Peter J. Gorday,
Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1–2 Samuel Isaiah 40–66 (OT vol. 11) Luke (NT vol. 3) 978-0-8308-1494-7, $75.00
(OT vol. 4) Edited by Mark W. Elliott, Edited by Arthur Just Jr., Hebrews (NT vol. 10)
Edited by John R. Franke, 978-0-8308-1481-7, $75.00 978-0-8308-1488-6, $75.00 Edited by Erik M. Heen and Philip D. W. Krey,
978-0-8308-1474-9, $75.00 Jeremiah, Lamentations (OT vol. 12) John 1–10 (NT vol. 4a) 978-0-8308-1495-4, $75.00
1–2 Kings, 1–2 Chronicles, Ezra, Edited by Dean O. Wenthe, Edited by Joel C. Elowsky, James, 1–2 Peter, 1–3 John, Jude
Nehemiah, Esther (OT vol. 5) 978-0-8308-1482-4, $75.00 978-0-8308-1489-3, $75.00 (NT vol. 11)
Edited by Marco Conti, Ezekiel, Daniel (OT vol. 13) John 11–21 (NT vol. 4b) Edited by Gerald L. Bray,
978-0-8308-1475-6, $75.00 Edited by Kenneth Stevenson and Edited by Joel C. Elowsky, 978-0-8308-1496-1, $75.00
Job (OT vol. 6) Michael Glerup, 978-0-8308-1099-4, $75.00 Revelation (NT vol. 12)
Edited by Manlio Simonetti and Marco Conti, 978-0-8308-1483-1, $75.00 Acts (NT vol. 5) Edited by William C. Weinrich,
978-0-8308-1476-3, $75.00 The Twelve Prophets (OT vol. 14) Edited by Francis Martin, 978-0-8308-1497-8, $75.00
Psalms 1–50 (OT vol. 7) Edited by Alberto Ferreiro, 978-0-8308-1490-9, $75.00
Edited by Craig A. Blaising and 978-0-8308-1484-8, $75.00 Romans (NT vol. 6) Digital versions available from Logos Bible
Carmen S. Hardin, Apocrypha (OT vol. 15) Second Edition, Edited by Gerald L. Bray, Software, www.logos.com
978-0-8308-1477-0, $75.00 Edited by Sever Voicu, 978-0-8308-1356-8, $75.00
978-0-8308-1485-5, $75.00

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S E R I E S E D I T O R: T I M O T H Y G EO R G E

The Reformation Commentary on Scripture

collects Protestant Reformation reflections on the
entirety of the Bible, chapter by chapter, introducing
readers to the depth and richness of exegetical
ferment that defined the Reformation.
Each volume contains the biblical text in English alongside the
insights of both well-known and lesser-known Reformers, including
Lutherans, Reformed, Radicals, Anglicans, and Roman Catholics.
By drawing from an array of Reformation resources—including
commentaries, sermons, treatises, and confessions—this series
will equip scholars to better understand the depth
and breadth of Reformation commentary.

“Protestant reformers were fundamentally exegetes as much as

theologians, yet (except for figures like Luther and Calvin) their
commentaries and sermons have been neglected because these
writings are not available in modern editions or languages. . . .
This series is far from being an esoteric study of largely forgotten
voices; this collection of reforming comments, comprehending
every verse and provided with topical headings, will serve
contemporary pastors and preachers very well.”

ELSIE ANNE McK EE

Princeton Theological Seminary

“The Reformation Commentary on Scripture is a major

publishing event—for those with historical interest in the
founding convictions of Protestantism, but even more
for those who care about understanding the Bible.”

M AR K A. NOLL
University of Notre Dame

I N D I V I D U A L V O L U M E S I N C L U D E:
Genesis 1–11 Matthew Romans 9–16
Edited by John L. Thompson, 978-0-8308-2951-4, $60.00 Edited by Jason K. Lee and William M. Marsh, Edited by Philip D. W. Krey and Peter D. S. Krey,
Joshua, Judges, Ruth 978-0-8308-2964-4, $60.00 978-0-8308-2971-2, $60.00
Edited by N. Scott Amos, 978-0-8308-2954-5, $60.00 Luke 1 Corinthians
1–2 Samuel, 1–2 Kings, 1–2 Chronicles Edited by Beth Kreitzer, 978-0-8308-2966-8, $60.00 Edited by Scott M. Manetsch, 978-0-8308-2972-9, $60.00
Edited by Derek Cooper and Martin J. Lohrmann, John 1–12 2 Corinthians
978-0-8308-2955-2, $60.00 Edited by Craig S. Farmer, 978-0-8308-2967-5, $60.00 Edited by Scott M. Manetsch, 978-0-8308-2487-8, $60.00
Psalms 1–72 John 13–21 Galatians, Ephesians
Edited by Herman J. Selderhuis, 978-0-8308-2957-6, $60.00 Edited by Christopher Boyd Brown, 978-0-8308-2968-2, Edited by Gerald L. Bray, 978-0-8308-2973-6, $60.00
Psalms 73–150 $60.00 Philippians, Colossians
Edited by Herman J. Selderhuis, 978-0-8308-2958-3, $60.00 Acts Edited by Graham Tomlin, 978-0-8308-2974-3, $60.00
NEW Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs Edited by Esther Chung-Kim and Todd R. Hains, 1–2 Thessalonians, 1–2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon
Edited by David C. Fink, 978-0-8308-2959-0, $60.00 978-0-8308-2969-9, $60.00 Edited by Lee Gatiss and Bradley G. Green,
Jeremiah, Lamentations Romans 1–8 978-0-8308-2975-0, $60.00
Edited by J. Jeffery Tyler, 978-0-8308-2961-3, $60.00 Edited by Gwenfair Walters Adams, Hebrews, James
978-0-8308-2970-5, $60.00 Edited by Ronald K. Rittgers, 978-0-8308-2976-7, $60.00
Ezekiel, Daniel
Edited by Carl L. Beckwith, 978-0-8308-2962-0, $60.00

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S E R I E S E D I T O R S: D A N I E L J. T R E I E R A N D K E V I N J. VA N H O O Z E R

Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture, edited by Daniel J. Treier and Kevin J.
Vanhoozer, promotes evangelical contributions to systematic theology, seeking fresh
understanding of Christian doctrine through creatively faithful engagement with Scripture
in dialogue with catholic tradition(s).
Volumes in SCDS explore the synergy between Scripture and contemporary issues, rooted in the classic evangelical
commitment to Scripture as well as the perpetual need to contextualize with creative fidelity. Likewise, these volumes
promote historically informed engagements with the crucial themes of classic dogmatics and contemporary systematic
theology in order to promote scholarship that is theologically competent and biblically literate.
This series promotes evangelical contributions to Christian doctrine by reflecting different approaches, appealing to
biblical theology, history of interpretation, theological interpretation of Scripture, and more. Some volumes engage in
detailed exegesis while others appropriate broader biblical themes and patterns with the ultimate goal of promoting the
constructive engagement between Scripture and Christian theology.

ADVISORY BOARD
The Trinity in the Book of

Brandon D. Smith
Foreword by

• Oliver Crisp, University of St. Andrews Lewis Ayres

• Stephen R. Holmes, University of St. Andrews The Tri nit y in the

Revelati on

Boo k of Rev elat ion

• Suzanne McDonald, Western Theological Seminary Seeing Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
in John’s Apocalypse
• Paul Nimmo, University of Aberdeen
Smith

• Fred Sanders, Torrey Honors Institute, Biola

STUDIES IN
CHRISTIAN
DOCTRINE I N D I V I D U A L T I T L E S I N C L U D E:
AND

SCRIPTURE God in Himself

Steven J. Duby,
978-0-8308-4884-3, $45.00
Political Church
Jonathan Leeman,
978-0-8308-4880-5, $45.00
Theology and the Mirror of Scripture
Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Daniel J. Treier,
978-0-8308-4076-2, $30.00
The Lord Is Good Seeing by the Light The Trinity in the Book of Revelation
Christopher R. J. Holmes, Ike Miller, Brandon D. Smith,
978-0-8308-4883-6, $27.00 978-0-8308-4885-0, $35.00 978-1-5140-0418-0, $35.00
The Paradox of Sonship
R. B. Jamieson,
978-0-8308-4886-7, $30.00

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W I S D O M F O R FA I T H F U L R E A D I N G
JOH N H . WA LTON
The church has often lost its way in reading the Old Testament for lack of sound
principles of interpretation. John Walton offers a consistent approach to give
us confidence as faithful interpreters, laying out his tried-and-true practices
developed over four decades in the classroom. You may never read the Old
Testament the same way again.
248 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0487-6, $26.00

FLOOD AND FURY

M ATT H E W J. LY NCH

Old Testament violence proves one of the most troubling topics in the Bible.
Without softening or ignoring the most troubling realities of the text, Old
Testament scholar Matthew Lynch addresses violence related to misogyny,
racism, and nationalism in the Old Testament, yielding surprising insights into
the goodness and mercy of God.
256 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0429-6, $24.00

B E I N G G O D ' S I M AG E
CA R MEN JOY IMES
What does it mean to be human? For this timeless question, the Bible offers
truths for the flourishing of all creation. Carmen Imes recovers the theologically
rich creation narratives and explores the implication of our kinship relationship
with God, considering what it means for our work, gender relations, creation
care, and eternal destiny.
248 pages, paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 978-1-5140-0020-5, $22.00

T ELL HER S TORY

NIJAY K . GU PTA
For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders.
But there is ample evidence in the New Testament that women were respected
leaders at the frontier of the gospel ministry. Nijay Gupta shines light on the
inspiring contributions of women like Phoebe, Prisca, Junia, Nympha, and more.
224 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0074-8, $24.00

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T H E B EG I N N I N G A N D E N D O F A L L T H I N G S
E DWA R D W. K L I N K I I I
Edward W. Klink III presents a holistic understanding of creation, one that
is unfolded throughout all of Scripture and is at the core of the gospel itself.
Along with offering rich insights about God and his purposes for the world, a
E
biblical theology of creation guides how we engage nature, culture, and life as
S
B
T embodied beings.
THE BEGINNING AND
END OF ALL THINGS
A Biblical Theology of 200 pages, paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 978-0-8308-5522-3, $24.00
Creation and New Creation

E D WA R D W. K L I N K I I I

T H E S EC O N D T E S TA M E N T
THE Second
SCOTT MCK NIGHT TESTAMENT

Though many translations aim to make Scripture as accessible as possible,

in fact it speaks to us as an ancient text to the modern world. Clever in its
expression and stunning in its boldness, this daring approach to Scripture will
challenge readers to experience God’s Word anew without masking the distance
between the text and modern readers.
312 pages, hardcover, 6 x 9 inches, 978-0-8308-4699-3, $35.00

D I C T I O N A R Y O F PA U L A N D H I S L E T T E R S
(2N D E D I T I O N)
E D I T E D B Y S C O T T M C K N I G H T, LY N N H . C O H I C K ,
A ND NIJAY K. GUPTA
In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of a classic reference work, topics
like Christology, justification, and hermeneutics receive careful treatment by
trusted specialists. New topics like politics, patronage, and different cultural
perspectives expand the volume's breadth and usefulness for scholars, pastors,
and students today.
1,264 pages, hardcover, 7 x 10 inches, 978-0-8308-1785-6, $70.00

T H E S P I R I T, E T H I C S, A N D E T E R N A L L I F E
JA RV IS J. W ILLI A MS
What vision does Scripture cast for living as a follower of Christ? New Testament
scholar Jarvis Williams offers a multifaceted vision of God's saving action in
Jesus Christ for both Jew and Gentile, in both the vertical relationship between
God and humanity as well as the horizontal relationships among people—with
cosmic ramifications.
240 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0232-2, $32.00

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THE MEANING OF SINGLENESS

DA NI ELLE TR EW EEK
Drawing upon ancient and contemporary theologians, Dani Treweek offers
biblical, historical, cultural, and theological reflections to retrieve a theology
of singleness for the church today. Far from being a burden, she shows that
singleness presents the church with a foretaste of the eschatological reality that
awaits all of God's people.
336 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0485-2, $35.00

H E A L I N G C O N V E R S AT I O N S O N R AC E
V E OL A VA Z QU E Z , JO S H UA K N A B B , C H A R L E S L E E-
JOHNSON, A ND K RYSTA L H AYS

Racism complicates our relationships, even when we reject it and seek to walk
a better path. In this book, four experts in psychology and social work present a
Scripturally-grounded model for building and deepening cross-race relation-
ships. These insights and practices will help Christians grow in Christlikeness
and follow his example.
240 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0392-3, $24.00

HOLLY CATTERTON ALLEN,

CHRISTINE LAWTON & CORY L. SEIBEL

IN T E R G E NE R AT I O N A L CHR I S T I A N F O R M AT I O N
(2ND E D I T I O N)
HOL LY CATT ERTON A L L EN, CH R IST I N E L AW TON,
A ND CORY L. SEIBEL
Intergenerational
Christian Formation In a revised and updated edition, this comprehensive, up-to-date text offers a
SECOND EDITION

framework for intentional intergenerational Christian formation. It provides

the theoretical foundation of intergenerationality, then gives concrete, practical
guidance on how worship, learning, community, and service can all be achieved
intergenerationally.
BRINGING THE WHOLE CHURCH TOGETHER

I N M I N I S T R Y, C O M M U N I T Y, A N D W O R S H I P
352 pages, casebound, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0142-4, $40.00

C H U R C H E S, C U LT U R E S, A N D L E A D E R S H I P
(2N D E D I T I O N)
M A R K L AU BR A NSON A N D J UA N F. M A RT I N EZ

In a world that is more culturally diverse than ever, pastors and lay leaders need
skills and competencies to serve in multicultural contexts. This rich blend of
astute analysis and practical guidance offers a praxis of paying attention, study,
and discernment that leads to genuine reconciliation and shared life empow-
ered by the gospel.
296 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0287-2, $30.00

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W O R S H I P B Y FA I T H A L O N E
ZAC HICKS
What does "gospel-centered" worship look like for today's church? Scholar,
worship leader, and songwriter Zac Hicks contends that this idea can be found
in Thomas Cranmer's theology of worship, which was shaped by the Protestant
principle of justification by faith alone and reflected in his 1552 edition of the
Book of Common Prayer.
248 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0522-4, $35.00

A N I N F I N I T E F O U N TA I N O F L I G H T
GEORGE M ARSDEN

Drawing on deep expertise, George Marsden sets Jonathan Edwards within his
historical context and sets forth his key points, unpacking the competing impulses
that have shaped our times. By offering a contrasting view of God's beauty and love,
Marsden shows how Edwards's insights can renew our own vision of creation, the
divine, and ourselves.
176 pages, hardcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 978-1-5140-0662-7, $26.00

T HE MAN BORN TO BE KING

DOROTHY L. SAYERS
In 1943 the BBC broadcast a series of radio dramas by Dorothy L. Sayers on the
life and ministry of Jesus which would go on to become her most beloved works.
In this new annotated edition, scholar Kathryn Wehr brings fresh insights to the
plays, their background, Sayers's creative process, and the ongoing significance of
the life of Christ today.
464 pages, paperback, 6 x 9 inches, 978-1-5140-0533-0, $45.00

W H O A R E Y O U, R E A L LY ?
JOSHUA R ASMUSSEN

What does it mean to be human? Philosopher Joshua Rasmussen offers a step-by-

step examination into the fundamental nature and ultimate origin of persons. Using
accessible language and clear logic, he argues that understanding what it means to
be a person sheds light not only on our own nature but also on the existence of the
one who gave us life.
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KNOWING GOD (50 TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)

J. I . PAC K E R
For half a century, J. I. Packer's classic has helped Christians everywhere
discover the wonder, glory, and joy of knowing God. This fiftieth anniversary
edition of a thought-provoking work seeks to renew and enrich our under-
standing of God, bringing together knowing about God and knowing God
through a close relationship with Jesus Christ.
336 pages, hardcover, 5.5 x 8.25 inches, 978-1-5140-0778-5, $34.00

W H AT J E S U S I N T E N D E D
TODD D. HU NTER

Many of us feel disoriented and unsteady after an endless string of church

scandals. After forty years of ministry, Todd Hunter is no stranger to
betrayal and pain in the church. But by unpacking the purposes of Jesus, we
can expose twisted, toxic religion for what it is and embrace the healing and
goodness we've always longed for.
200 pages, paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 978-1-5140-0495-1, $20.00

T HE OFFENSIVE CHURCH
BRYA N C. LOR ITTS
Crises around race have put the church in a reactive, defensive posture, but
Jesus wants more. He wants Christians to play offense by discipling people
into a new humanity that pushes beyond mere diversity so that the church
becomes the aroma of Christ to our culture and gains ground against the
demonic foothold of racism in all its forms.
192 pages, hardcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 978-1-5140-0597-2, $22.00

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T ISH H A R R ISON WA R R EN
In this short volume, priest and writer Tish Harrison Warren explores the
three "comings" of Christ that Advent is about: the first coming of Christ
at his incarnation, the second coming at the last day, and the coming of
Christ to meet us in the present moment, to make us holy by his Word and
Sacrament.
128 pages, casebound, 5 x 7 inches, 978-1-5140-0018-2, $20.00

I N C H U R C H A S I T I S I N H E AV E N
J A M A A L E . W I L L I A M S A N D T I MO T H Y PAU L
JONES

Heaven is multiethnic, "a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people,
and language." But this diverse community shouldn't have to wait until eter-
nity to begin! It can be a reality now. Here, the authors give biblical warrant
for such a community and show how multiethnic churches provide a unique
apologetic for the gospel.
224 pages, hardcover, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, 978-1-5140-0538-5, $22.00

ON GE T T ING OU T OF BED
A LAN NOBLE
For most people, sorrow, anxiety, and mental illness are everyday experiences.
The burden of living comes down to mundane choices that we each must
make—like the daily choice to get out of bed. In this deeply personal essay,
Alan Noble considers how carrying on amid great suffering is a powerful
witness to the goodness of life, and of God.
120 pages, hardcover, 5 x 7 inches, 978-1-5140-0443-2, $20.00

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