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Christianity in the Non-Western World Christianity in the Non-Western World: A Study in the Serial Nature of Christian Expansion
Andrew Walls · 2002 · Essay
This is a programmatic essay by the Scottish missiologist Andrew Walls, who taught in Sierra Leone and Nigeria before founding the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, first…
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Andrew Walls · 2002 · Book
A collection of essays by the Scottish historian and missiologist Andrew Walls, gathered as a companion volume to his earlier The Missionary Movement in Christian History. Walls came to these questions in…
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Thomas Oden · 2002 · Book
The Justification Reader emerged from Thomas Oden's broader project of recovering and synthesizing the theological wisdom of the early church fathers and ecumenical tradition. Writing at a time when Protestant-Catholic dialogue had…
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Rebirth of Orthodoxy The Rebirth of Orthodoxy: Signs of New Life in Christianity
Thomas Oden · 2003 · Book
Thomas Oden's The Rebirth of Orthodoxy emerged from his observation of a remarkable shift in late twentieth and early twenty-first century Christianity. Writing as a Methodist theologian who had himself moved from…
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Adele Ahlberg Calhoun · 2003 · Book
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's dictionary emerged from the growing hunger for spiritual depth in contemporary Christianity and the accompanying confusion about traditional practices and terminology. Published by The Upper Room, the Methodist devotional…
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Lamin Sanneh · 2003 · Book
Lamin Sanneh wrote this short book in the form of answers to questions — the questions he had spent years fielding from Western audiences, students, journalists, and colleagues who could not quite…
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Ruth Haley Barton · 2004 · Book
Ruth Haley Barton's Invitation to Solitude and Silence emerged from her own experience of spiritual burnout and the discovery that traditional evangelical approaches to spiritual growth had left her feeling empty despite…
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Liberating Image The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1
J. Richard Middleton · 2005 · Book
J. Richard Middleton's theological study emerged from his recognition that traditional Christian interpretations of the imago Dei had become detached from their ancient Near Eastern context, leading to overly spiritualized or individualistic…
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Adele Ahlberg Calhoun · 2005 · Book
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's Spiritual Disciplines Handbook emerged from her work as a spiritual director and her recognition that many Christians desire deeper intimacy with God but lack practical guidance for cultivating spiritual…
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Dallas Willard · 2006 · Book
The Great Omission emerged from Dallas Willard's decades of observing what he saw as a fundamental failure in contemporary Christianity: the church's systematic neglect of Jesus' command to make disciples. Writing as…
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Ruth Haley Barton · 2006 · Book
Ruth Haley Barton's Sacred Rhythms emerged from her recognition that contemporary Christian life often lacks the structured spiritual practices that have sustained believers across centuries. Writing as a spiritual director and retreat…
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How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
Thomas Oden · 2007 · Book
Thomas Oden's historical investigation emerged from his decades-long engagement with early Christian texts and his growing recognition that Western Christianity had systematically obscured its African foundations. Writing as a Methodist theologian who…
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International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies scholars; editors Albert Pietersma and Benjamin G. Wright · 2007 · Scripture
A New English Translation of the Septuagint is a landmark modern scholarly English rendering of the Septuagint and related Greek versions. The Septuagint, the ancient Greek form of the Jewish Scriptures, was…
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Acedia & Me Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Kathleen Norris · 2008 · Book
Kathleen Norris's deeply personal exploration of acedia emerged from her own devastating encounter with this ancient spiritual malady during her husband's prolonged illness and her own struggles with depression and creative paralysis.…
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Lamin Sanneh · 2008 · Book
Lamin Sanneh's Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity is a history of Christian expansion written against the grain of how that history is usually told. Sanneh, born in Gambia and…
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Richard Foster · 2008 · Book
Richard Foster's Life with God serves as the interpretive companion to the Renovaré Spiritual Formation Bible, emerging from Foster's conviction that most Christians lack a coherent understanding of how spiritual formation actually…
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Space Between The Space Between: A Christian Engagement with the Built Environment
Skye Jethani · 2008 · Book
Skye Jethani's exploration of how physical spaces shape spiritual formation emerged from his recognition that modern evangelicalism had largely ignored the profound influence of architecture and urban planning on Christian discipleship. Writing…
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Ruth Haley Barton · 2008 · Book
Ruth Haley Barton's exploration of leadership through the lens of spiritual formation emerged from her own journey of burnout and recovery in Christian ministry. Writing as both a spiritual director and organizational…
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Divine Commodity The Divine Commodity: Discovering a Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity
Skye Jethani · 2009 · Book
Skye Jethani's cultural critique emerged from his observation that American Christianity had become thoroughly entangled with consumer capitalism, treating faith as a product to be marketed and spiritual experiences as commodities to…
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Dallas Willard · 2009 · Book
Dallas Willard's final major work addresses the crisis of knowledge in contemporary Christianity, written as secularism increasingly relegated religious claims to the realm of private opinion rather than accessible truth. Willard, a…
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Philip Johnston · 2009 · Book
This scholarly collection emerged from a 2008 conference at St. John's College, Nottingham, addressing the complex theological and political questions surrounding the land of Israel in contemporary Christian thought. Editor Philip Johnston…
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Refractions Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture
Makoto Fujimura · 2009 · Book
Refractions emerged from Makoto Fujimura's decades-long experience as a professional artist navigating the intersection of faith and contemporary culture. Writing as both a practicing Christian and an internationally exhibited painter working in…
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Some Later Medieval Theories of the Eucharist Some Later Medieval Theories of the Eucharist: Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham
Marilyn McCord Adams · 2010 · Book
This theological study emerged from Marilyn McCord Adams's decades-long engagement with medieval philosophy and her commitment to rigorous ecumenical dialogue. Writing as both a philosopher of religion and an Episcopal priest, Adams…
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More than 120 scholars across numerous faith traditions · 2011 · Scripture
The Common English Bible is a large cross-denominational translation project, completed in 2011 and sponsored by an alliance of denominational publishers, designed for both public reading and broad accessibility. In scope it…
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