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Good News Resounding

Essays on Literature and Theology in Honor of Ralph C. Wood

Edited by Rachel Toombs

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481322539

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-05-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-05-01

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...

Flannery O'Connor and the Church Made Visible

A Revolutionary Witness for the Sake of the Gospel

by Ralph C. Wood

Price: $42.99

ISBN: 9781481321877

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-11-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-10-10

Imprint: Baylor University Press

181 Pages

G. K. Chesterton famously claimed that America is "a nation with the soul of a church." He was wrong. In Flannery O’Connor and the Church Made Visible, Ralph Wood argues that our churches have the...

Words for Conviviality

Media Technologies and Practices of Hope

by Jeffrey Bilbro

Price: $47.99

ISBN: 9781481319829

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-09-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-09-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

312 Pages

The industrialization of print technologies in early nineteenth-century America transformed print culture in ways that parallel the transformation wrought by the digital revolution. Understanding how...

Black Contemplative Preaching

A Hidden History of Prayer, Proclamation, and Prophetic Witness

by E. Trey Clark

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481321990

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-07-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-06-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

202 Pages

Stereotypical images of African American Christian spirituality eclipse the profound diversity of Black preaching. As a result, contemplative preaching has become one of the most overlooked streams...

Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy

Wordsworth, Kant, and the Making of the Post-Christian Imagination

by Simon Haines

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781602587809

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-12-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2023-12-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

269 Pages

A biblical understanding of redemption requires the sacrificial death of Jesus. In the post-Christian world envisioned by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his Enlightenment contemporaries, the Christ-centric...

Scripture and Literature

A David Jasper Anthology

by David Jasper

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481319584

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-12-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2023-11-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

256 Pages

For some, the Bible and literature are at odds. The Bible, it is argued, is not properly literature but a piece of outmoded fiction that ought not to be studied or taken seriously. However, the relationship...

Chesterton

The Nightmare Goodness of God

by Ralph C. Wood

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781602584419

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-09-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2023-09-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

358 Pages

G. K. Chesterton is often praised as the "Great Optimist"--God's rotund jester. In this fresh and daring endeavor, Ralph Wood turns a critical eye on Chesterton's corpus to reveal the beef-and-ale believer's...

George MacDonald

Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity

by Daniel Gabelman

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781602587830

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-06-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2023-04-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

272 Pages

The Scottish poet, author, and Christian minister George MacDonald is widely known as an inspiration for the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Lewis Carroll, among others. Nineteenth century...

The Devil as Muse

Blake, Byron, and the Adversary

by Fred Parker

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781602584730

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-11-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

215 Pages

Does the Devil lie at the heart of the creative process? In The Devil as Muse, Fred Parker offers an entirely fresh reflection on the age-old question, echoing William Blake's famous statement: "the...

Gravity and Grace

Seamus Heaney and the Force of Light

by John F. Desmond

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9781481319294

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-09-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-09-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

135 Pages

In this thoughtful and carefully argued book, John Desmond uncovers Christian and transcendent elements in Seamus Heaney's poetry by reading it through the intellectual perspectives of the well-known...

In a Vision of the Night

Job, Cormac McCarthy, and the Challenge of Chaos

by Philip S. Thomas

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481315982

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-11-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2021-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

247 Pages

How is life possible in a world of evil, suffering, and chaos? Christians have historically been inept at offering adequate answers as to why people’s lives are derailed by sudden chaos and, even...

Emerson and Other Minds

Idealism and the Moral Self

by Michael J. Colacurcio

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481311779

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-02-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2021-01-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

371 Pages

In Emerson and Other Minds, Michael J. Colacurcio traces the long arc of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings. While Emerson seldom argues academically in his essays, he intends the essays to be primary...

Emerson and Other Minds

Idealism and the Lonely Subject

by Michael J. Colacurcio

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481311793

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-02-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2021-01-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

496 Pages

Flannery O'Connor

Writing a Theology of Disabled Humanity

by Timothy J. Basselin

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781602583986

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-11-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2020-11-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

158 Pages

Flannery O'Connor is one of America's most unique Southern authors. Shortly after she began her writing career she was diagnosed with lupus. Despite her illness, O'Connor authored more than two dozen...

Avenues of Faith

Conversations with Jonathan Guilbault

by Charles Taylor

Translated by Yanette Barbaroux

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781481312509

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-08-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-07-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

104 Pages

Death opens the gates to resurrection. The pathways to faith are diverse, but all carry components of death and renewal. In Avenues of Faith: Conversations with Jonathan Guilbault, Charles Taylor takes...

American Literary Cultures

A Reader

Edited by Elizabeth J. Dell and Joe B. Fulton

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781481312639

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-07-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2020-07-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

661 Pages

American Literary Cultures highlights literature written by regional authors—particularly those of Texas and the Southwest—and includes readings representative of a broad array of American...

What Are the Gospels?

A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography

by Richard A. Burridge

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481308755

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-03-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2020-02-24

Imprint: Baylor University Press

524 Pages

The publication of Richard Burridge’s What Are the Gospels? in 1992 inaugurated a transformation in Gospel studies by overturning the previous consensus about Gospel uniqueness. Burridge argued convincingly...

Experimental Theology in America

Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and Their Readers

by Patricia A. Ward

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481311106

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2018-12-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2018-12-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

296 Pages

In this study of Madame Guyon and, her defender, Francois de Fénelon, the Archbishop of Cambray, Patricia Ward demonstrates how the ideas of these seventeenth-century Catholics were transmitted into...

Undomesticated Dissent

Democracy and the Public Virtue of Religious Nonconformity

by Curtis W. Freeman

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781481306881

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2017-08-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2017-07-31

Imprint: Baylor University Press

288 Pages

On the north end of London lies an old nonconformist burial ground named Bunhill Fields. Bunhill became the final resting place for some of the most honored names of English Protestantism. Burial outside...

The Place of Imagination

Wendell Berry and the Poetics of Community, Affection, and Identity

by Joseph R. Wiebe

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481303866

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2017-02-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2017-01-31

Imprint: Baylor University Press

272 Pages

Wendell Berry teaches us to love our places--to pay careful attention to where we are, to look beyond and within, and to live in ways that are not captive to the mastery of cultural, social, or...

Human in Death

Morality and Mortality in J. D. Robb's Novels

by Kecia Ali

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781481306270

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2017-02-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2017-01-17

Imprint: Baylor University Press

206 Pages

Kecia Ali's Human in Death explores the best-selling futuristic suspense series In Death, written by romance legend Nora Roberts under the pseudonym J. D. Robb. Centering on troubled NYPSD Lieutenant...

Science Fiction Theology

Beauty and the Transformation of the Sublime

by Alan P. R. Gregory

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781602584600

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2015-07-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2015-06-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

328 Pages

Science fiction imagines a universe teeming with life and thrilling possibility, but also hidden and hideous dangers. Christian theology, often a polemical target for science fiction, reflects on the...

John in the Company of Poets

The Gospel in Literary Imagination

by Thomas Gardner

Price: $74.99

ISBN: 9781602584259

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2014-08-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2014-07-17

Imprint: Baylor University Press

236 Pages

Thomas Gardner artistically describes Jesus--"the Word made flesh"--as a poem penned by God for the world, and John--author of the Fourth Gospel--as the poem's interpreter. John's structural patterns,...

Claiming Exodus

A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1774-1903

by Rhondda Robinson Thomas

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9781602585317

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2013-02-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2013-01-17

Imprint: Baylor University Press

208 Pages

During the 18th century, American Puritans introduced migrant and enslaved Africans to the Exodus story. In contrast to the ways white Americans appropriated the texts to defend the practice of slavery,...

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