Baker Academic imprint: 719 books
God's Missionary People
Rethinking the Purpose of the Local Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1991
The author advocates a closer identification between the local congregation and the universal church. He works through the realities of church life and denominational organizations before challenging church leaders to redefine ecclesiology.
Jesus Have I Loved, but Paul?
A Narrative Approach to the Problem of Pauline Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Readers of the Bible are often drawn to Jesus's message and ministry, but they are not as positively inclined toward Paul. What should people who love Jesus do with Paul? Here Pauline scholar J. R. Daniel Kirk offers a fresh and timely engagement of the debated relationship between Paul's writings...
A New Heaven and a New Earth
Reclaiming Biblical Eschatology
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
In recent years, more and more Christians have come to appreciate the Bible's teaching that the ultimate blessed hope for the believer is not an otherworldly heaven; instead, it is full-bodied participation in a new heaven and a new earth brought into fullness through the coming of God's kingdom....
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
A Western Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
In this reliable and engaging survey, Daniel Clendenin introduces Protestants to Eastern Orthodox history and theology with the hope that the two groups will come to see their traditions as complementary and learn to approach one another with a "hermeneutic of love" that fosters "mutual...
A Hermeneutic of Wisdom
Recovering the Formative Agency of Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
This book develops an integrated hermeneutic that connects the Bible to spiritual formation and the development of Christian virtues. The author shows how the whole Bible can be understood as a wisdom text that directs its readers morally, shapes them in their deepest affections and convictions, and...
by Tremper III Longman
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Leading Old Testament scholar Tremper Longman III provides students and pastors with expert guidance on choosing a commentary for any book of the Old Testament. The fifth edition has been updated to assess the most recently published commentaries, providing evaluative comments. Longman lists a number...
Fieldwork in Theology (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
Exploring the Social Context of God's Work in the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
In this addition to the acclaimed The Church and Postmodern Culture series, leading practical theologian Christian Scharen examines the relationship between theology and its social context. He engages with social theorist Pierre Bourdieu to offer helpful theoretical and theological grounding to those...
Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
The philosophies of French thinkers Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault form the basis for postmodern thought and are seemingly at odds with the Christian faith. However, James K. A. Smith claims that their ideas have been misinterpreted and actually have a deep affinity with central Christian claims.
Each...
Introducing Radical Orthodoxy
Mapping a Post-secular Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Although God is making a comeback in our society, popular culture still takes its orders from the Enlightenment, a movement that denied faith a prominent role in society. Today, many are questioning this elevation of reason over faith. How should Christians respond to a secular world that continues...
Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies)
Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans--as Augustine noted--are "desiring agents," full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love.
James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy...
Imagining the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies)
How Worship Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
How does worship work? How exactly does liturgical formation shape us? What are the dynamics of such transformation? In the second of James K. A. Smith's three-volume theology of culture, the author expands and deepens the analysis of cultural liturgies and Christian worship he developed in his well-received...
Awaiting the King (Cultural Liturgies Book #3)
Reforming Public Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In this culmination of his widely read and highly acclaimed Cultural Liturgies project, James K. A. Smith examines politics through the lens of liturgy. What if, he asks, citizens are not only thinkers or believers but also lovers? Smith explores how our analysis of political institutions would...
Who's Afraid of Relativism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture)
Community, Contingency, and Creaturehood
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Following his successful Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? leading Christian philosopher James K. A. Smith introduces the philosophical sources behind postliberal theology. Offering a provocative analysis of relativism, Smith provides an introduction to the key voices of pragmatism: Ludwig Wittgenstein,...
by Eugene H. Merrill
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
From the origins and exodus to the restoration and new hope, Kingdom of Priests offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of Old Testament Israel. Merrill explores the history of ancient Israel not only from Old Testament texts but also from the literary and archeological sources of the ancient...