Philosophy preaches, and the pulpit preaches philosophy. As with all guilds, homiletics orients itself around a canon that constitutes its ways of being, behaving, and belonging. Part of the process...
Essays on Literature and Theology in Honor of Ralph C. Wood
Edited by Rachel Toombs
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481322539
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-05-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
206 Pages
Ralph C. Wood’s teaching and writing career over fifty years helped readers and students be attentive to the way literature renders the theologically abstract concretely. Wood has modeled serious...
Essays on the Historiography of the Evangelical Movement
Edited by David W. Bebbington
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481322621
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: April 2025
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-04-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
305 Pages
From the dawn of their movement in the eighteenth century, evangelicals composed narratives of the revivals that were drawing in large numbers of new converts. As evangelicals continued to write about...
Ephraim Radner is one of the most creative and imaginative (if at times deeply unsettling) Christian thinkers of our day. He has offered searching analysis of Christian divisions and advocated tirelessly...
In 1966, Michael R. Watts completed his Oxford dissertation on the life of John Clifford (1836-1923). Although Watts intended for the work to be published, he passed away unexpectedly and the dissertation...
Civil disobedience has a tattered history in the American story. Described by Martin Luther King Jr. as both moral reflection and political act, the performance of civil disobedience in the face of...
Edited by Jason E. Vickers, Steven T. Hoskins and Laura Dahl
Price: $74.99
ISBN: 9781481324236
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-02-15
Imprint: 1845 Books
338 Pages
As a living tradition, Wesleyan-Methodism has continued to grow and develop through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Since their establishment in 1965, the Wesleyan Theological Society and...
The reformer Martin Luther is one of the most influential and controversial theologians in the history of the church. While his ideas are rooted in the currents of medieval theology, he frequently seems...
Baptist World Alliance Resolutions and Statements, 1905-2023
Edited by Lee B. Spitzer
Preface by Elijah M. Brown
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781481318341
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-02-15
Imprint: Baylor University Press
794 Pages
Since 1905, the Baptist World Alliance has served as a prophetic witness for Jesus Christ on behalf of the global Baptist family. At its World Congress, General Council, and Executive Committee meetings,...
The period of early Christianity can only be understood in light of the burgeoning Christian movement’s internal diversity and against the background of the religious world of Greco-Roman antiquity....
Translated by Brian McNeil and Alexander Johannes Edmonds
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481308601
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Paperback
Sales Date: 2025-02-16
Imprint: Baylor University Press
359 Pages
You stars of Anu, I call on you! You stars of Enlil, turn to me!You stars of Ea, all of you together, gather around me!I have offered you a pure sacrifice,I have scattered pure incense to you,I have...
The Letter of Ibn al-Layth to the King of the Romans
Edited by Ayman S. Ibrahim and Clint Hackenburg
Translated by Ayman S. Ibrahim and Clint Hackenburg
Price: $69.99
ISBN: 9781481322003
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: February 2025
Format: Hardcover
Sales Date: 2025-02-01
Imprint: Baylor University Press
384 Pages
In the last decade of the eighth century, the longtime caliphal secretary, Ibn al-Layth (d. ca. 819), composed a letter on behalf of the caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd (r. 786-809) to the Byzantine emperor...
God of the Whirlwind is a book about the power of storytelling traditions to carry memories and shape ways of living. It assembles stories from members of the Black Waco community--stories that have...
Baptist Hymnody in America is a collection of primary documents on congregational singing among Baptists in the United States from the eighteenth through the early twenty-first centuries. These documents—many...
According to some of the most influential thinkers of the modern era, it is madness to subordinate all one’s aims to one end. Such thinkers believe that the church in particular should limit itself...
Gathering with other people matters. But what does it mean to gather? When is an experience shared, and when is it something we are doing on our own? These questions have grown more urgent in the aftermath...
