Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision
10 best books like Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision (Randy Woodley): The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier, A Community Called Atonement, God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now, Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination, Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible, Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology, From Nature to Creation: A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving Our World, An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land, Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus, God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time
| Author | Tony Jones |
| ISBN | 0787994715 |
What the "Emergent Church Movement" is all about-and why it matters to the future of Christianity Following on the questions raised by Brian McLaren in A New Kind of Christian, Tony Jones has written an engaging exploration of what this new kind of Christianity looks like. Writing "dispatches" about...
| Author | Scot McKnight |
| ISBN | 0687645549 |
Over the centuries the church developed a number of metaphors, such as penal substitution or the ransom theory, to speak about Christ's death on the cross and the theological concept of the atonement. Yet too often, says Scot McKnight, Christians have held to the supremacy of one metaphor over against...
| Author | John Dominic Crossan |
| ISBN | 0060843233 |
At the heart of the Bible is a moral and ethical call to fight unjust superpowers, whether they are Babylon, Rome, or even America.
From the divine punishment and promise found in Genesis through the revolutionary messages of Jesus and Paul, John Dominic Crossan reveals what the Bible has to...
This is the third volume of Walter Wink's trilogy on the "principalities and powers" mentioned in the New Testament. Like the other volumes, it is written in a scholarly style with copious footnotes that can make it a difficult read at times. After getting about half way through this book, I got a little...
| Author | Ellen F. Davis |
| ISBN | 0521732239 |
This book examines the theology and ethics of land use, especially the practices of modern industrialized agriculture, in light of critical biblical exegesis. Nine interrelated essays explore the biblical writers' pervasive concern for the care of arable land against the background of the geography,...
| Author | Patrick S. Cheng |
| ISBN | 1596271329 |
Contextual theologies have developed from a number of perspectives including feminist theology, Black theology, womanist theology, Latin American liberation theology, and Asian American theology and a wide variety of academic and general introductions exist to examine each one.
However,...
How does Christianity change the way we view the natural world? In this addition to a critically acclaimed series, renowned theologian Norman Wirzba engages philosophers, environmentalists, and cultural critics to show how the modern concept of nature has been deeply problematic. He explains...
An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land
| Author | William Stringfellow |
| ISBN | 1592448747 |
Identifying America as a fallen nation with the parable of Babylon in the Book of Revelation — not with Jerusalem the holy nation, as Americans are naively and vainly wont to do — Dr. Stringfellow issues a trenchant indictment of our society.
Shockingly prophetic, dismaying, and sobering,...
Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark's Story of Jesus
| Author | Ched Myers |
| ISBN | 0883446200 |
"Bound to become a classic in the field of gospel studies... Ched Myers has produced a commentary that is potentially as revolutionary as the very gospel account it portrays." — Sojorners
"Myers has produced a commanding and coherent political commentary on the Gospel of Mark, distinguished...
God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time
| Author | Desmond Tutu |
| ISBN | 0385483716 |
Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu has long been admired throughout the world for the heroism and grace he exhibited while encouraging countless South Africans in their struggle for human rights. In God Has a Dream, his most soul-searching book, he shares the spiritual message that guided him through those...
Soul Making: The Desert Way of Spirituality
| Author | Alan W. Jones |
| ISBN | 0060641797 |
A leading spiritual writer recovers "The Desert Way of Believing" -- the spiritual pathway discovered by early Christian monks who lived in the Egyptian desert that is still relevant to Christians today. Alan Jones distills the elements that made this fully orthodox way of inner transformation a...
The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community
| Author | Paul Sparks |
| ISBN | 0830841156 |
2015 Christianity Today Award of Merit (The Church/Pastoral Leadership)
2014 Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention
2014 Best Books About the Church from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Bookstore
"When . . . faith communities begin connecting together, in and for the neighborhood,...
Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus
| Author | C. Christopher Smith |
| ISBN | 0830841148 |
Fast food. Fast cars. Fast and furious. Fast forward. Fast . . . church? The church is often idealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of a bygone era, dragging our feet as we're pulled into new moralities and new spiritualities. We guard our doctrine and our piety with great vigilance. But we often...
Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer
| Author | Rowan Williams |
| ISBN | 0802871976 |
In this simple, beautifully written book Rowan Williams explores four essential components of the Christian life: baptism, Bible, Eucharist, and prayer. Despite huge differences in Christian thinking and practice both today and in past centuries, he says, these four basic elements have remained...
Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Mortality
"I desire mercy, not sacrifice." Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the "unclean" in the Gospel of Matthew, seeming to privilege the prophetic call to justice over the Levitical pursuit of purity. And yet, as missional faith communities are well aware, the tensions and conflicts between...
| Author | George A. Lindbeck |
| ISBN | 0664246184 |
This was a pretty heavy book. Not literally heavy, as its only 120 pages. It was a slow-going and challenging read. And it has been very influential in theology for the last few decades. Lindbeck puts forth a "post-liberal" view of theology. He discusses two different approaches to theology. First is...
Do All Lives Matter?: The Issues We Can No Longer Ignore and the Solutions We All Long for
| Author | Wayne Gordon |
| ISBN | 0801075335 |
Something is wrong in our society. Deeply wrong.
The belief that all lives matter is at the heart of our founding documents--but we must admit that this conviction has never truly reflected reality in America. Movements such as Black Lives Matter have arisen in response to recent displays of violence...
A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good
| Author | Miroslav Volf |
| ISBN | 1587432986 |
Debates rage today about the role of religions in public life. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, various religions come to inhabit the same space. But how do they live together, especially when each wants to shape the public realm according to the dictates of its own sacred texts and...
Reading the Bible with the Damned
| Author | Bob Ekblad |
| ISBN | 0664229174 |
Exploring the challenges that both the churched and the unchurched have faced regarding giving and receiving the word of God, Bob Ekblad encourages us all to learn to read the Bible together as a whole. In this compelling book, he reflects on how Christians have often found it difficult to proclaim God's...
God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality
| Author | Phyllis Trible |
| ISBN | 0800604644 |
Focusing on texts in the Hebrew Bible, and using feminist hermeneutics, Phyllis Trible brings out what she considers to be neglected themes and counter literature. After outlining her method in more detail, she begins by highlighting the feminist imagery used for God; then she moves on to traditions...
| Author | Makoto Fujimura |
| ISBN | 9781495131 |
"Culture is not a territory to be won or lost but a resource we are called to steward with care. Culture is a garden to be cultivated."
Many bemoan the decay of culture. But we all have a responsibility to care for culture, to nurture it in ways that help people thrive. In Culture Care artist Makoto...
Chosen?: Reading the Bible Amid the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
"The conflict is only 'seemingly' beyond solution, because all historical-political problems have solutions, if there is enough courage, honesty, and steadfastness."
In Chosen?, Walter Brueggemann explores the situation in modern-day Israel that raises questions for many Christians...
