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Good News Resounding
Essays on Literature and Theology in Honor of Ralph C. Wood
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Flannery O'Connor
Writing a Theology of Disabled Humanity
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,...

Good News Resounding
Essays on Literature and Theology in Honor of Ralph C. Wood
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
Flannery O'Connor and the Church Made Visible
A Revolutionary Witness for the Sake of the Gospel
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
Words for Conviviality
Media Technologies and Practices of Hope
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
Black Contemplative Preaching
A Hidden History of Prayer, Proclamation, and Prophetic Witness
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
Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy
Wordsworth, Kant, and the Making of the Post-Christian Imagination
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
Scripture and Literature
A David Jasper Anthology
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
Chesterton
The Nightmare Goodness of God
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
George MacDonald
Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity
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 Devil as Muse
Blake, Byron, and the Adversary
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
Gravity and Grace
Seamus Heaney and the Force of Light
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 a Vision of the Night
Job, Cormac McCarthy, and the Challenge of Chaos
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
Emerson and Other Minds
Idealism and the Moral Self
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
Emerson and Other Minds
Idealism and the Lonely Subject
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
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
Avenues of Faith
Conversations with Jonathan Guilbault
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
American Literary Cultures
A Reader
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
What Are the Gospels?
A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography
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
Experimental Theology in America
Madame Guyon, Fénelon, and Their Readers
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
Undomesticated Dissent
Democracy and the Public Virtue of Religious Nonconformity
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
The Place of Imagination
Wendell Berry and the Poetics of Community, Affection, and Identity
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
Human in Death
Morality and Mortality in J. D. Robb's Novels
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
Science Fiction Theology
Beauty and the Transformation of the Sublime
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
John in the Company of Poets
The Gospel in Literary Imagination
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
Claiming Exodus
A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1774-1903
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