In this bold volume, George van Kooten reevaluates the dating of the Gospels, situates them anew in their first-century context, and shows why their message still resonates today. In Reverberations of Good News, George van Kooten brings the Gospels to life by situating them in the vibrant, complicated world of the first century. Far from being ......
How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith
The story of five best-selling novels beloved by evangelicals, the book industry they built, and the collective imagination they shaped Who are evangelicals? And what is evangelicalism? Those attempting to answer these questions usually speak in terms of political and theological stances. But those stances emerge from an evangelical world with ......
Christianity Today Book Awards Biblical Studies Award of Merit (2025) What are the key differences between the canonical Gospels and the apocryphal gospels? In this concise and engaging book, New Testament scholar Simon Gathercole shows that crucial theological features link Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John together--and also set them apart from ......
Conceptual, Empirical, and Experimental Approaches
A groundbreaking volume that brings together art, philosophy, theology, and the sciences to explore a new research area: art seeking understanding In this cutting-edge collection, scholars working in the fields of philosophical aesthetics, religious and theological aesthetics, and empirical and neuroaesthetics come together to investigate ......
Christianity Today Book Awards Missions and the Global Church Award of Merit (2025) When Russia invaded Ukraine, an evangelical seminary lost everything--except its commitment to serving God. In this searing eyewitness account, Valentyn Syniy recounts how the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 upended life for students, teachers, and staff of ......
Discover how the Christian contemplative tradition can enhance teaching and learning The goal of Christian education is distinctive: to help students develop into well-integrated human beings and faithful disciples. Yet Christian schools are beset by many of the same challenges that plague virtually all schools today--a culture of distraction and ......
A guide for ordinary Christians seeking to live faithfully in extraordinary times "This is not the first end of the world. Many worlds have ended." In an era of political polarization, eroding democratic norms, and rising authoritarianism, many Christians find themselves disoriented, wondering how their faith should inform myriad daily ......
The long-awaited companion to volume 1 of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures Edited by James Davila and Richard Bauckham, this is the second volume in a series focusing on Old Testament pseudepigrapha--ancient texts that are affiliated in some way with the Old Testament but are not included in any of the major biblical ......
An essential resource for understanding slavery in the New Testament and early Christianity Slavery permeated society in the ancient world. The realities of slavery and its shadows pervade the New Testament and other early Christian texts. Yet enslavement remains an under-taught aspect of the context of the New Testament and early Christianity. ......
