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New Poems

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Translated by John Greening

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9781481323543

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-11-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2025-11-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

272 Pages

A century and a half after his birth, Rainer Maria Rilke remains woven into English-speaking culture in ways unexpected for a difficult modern poet, and especially one writing in German. Many readers...

Truth's Consuming Ecstasy

Literary and Philosophical Investigations of the Apocalypse of John

by Sean M. McDonough

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481323345

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-09-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-08-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

272 Pages

The book of Revelation is strange, to put it mildly. An informed reading reveals John’s pastoral intent is very much in keeping with typical New Testament instruction regarding God, Jesus, and the...

Between Different Cultures

Edited by David Jasper and Jing (Cathy) Zhang

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481322201

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-08-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2025-08-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

253 Pages

The significance of the work of Yang Huilin (Professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing) is widely recognized in numerous scholarly fields. Professor...

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...

Hope for a Tree

Artistic Afterlives of Job

by Philip S. Thomas

Price: $52.99

ISBN: 9781481321082

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-07-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-07-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

200 Pages

There is a complex relationship between the meaning of Scripture and the ways it is used. Sometimes the meaning constrains Scripture's use, and sometimes Scripture's use casts new and fresh light onto...

Art Seeking Understanding

Edited by David Lyle Jeffrey and Robert C. Roberts

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481320436

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-03-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2024-02-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

270 Pages

Fides quaerens intellectum is the idea that living faith naturally seeks a more complete understanding of God in relation to his creation. It has motivated Christian education from the very start. Although...

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...

Making Good

Creation, Creativity, and Artistry

by Trevor Hart

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781602589896

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-06-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2023-06-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

380 Pages

God spoke, and all that is and all that ever will be came into existence. God alone can be called uncreated and Creator, and creation can only accomplish that which already exists within God's imagination....

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...

Lyric Theology

Art and the Doctrine of Creation

by Thomas Gardner

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481316200

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-10-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

256 Pages

Art is an outworking of God's creative process, a tangible participation in the shaping of the world. Through our artistic endeavors, we both express our understanding of creation and imbue that...

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...

Bridge to Wonder

Art as a Gospel of Beauty

by Cecilia González-Andrieu

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9781602583535

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-04-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-04-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

258 Pages

It is often difficult to describe beauty or even justify attempts to experience something beautiful. Yet if artists--whether painters or poets, actors or musicians, architects or sculptors--teach us...

All Things Beautiful

An Aesthetic Christology

by Chris E. W. Green

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481315586

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-09-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2021-09-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

221 Pages

God calls humans to be creative. The human drive to represent transcendent truths witnesses to the fact that we are destined to be transfigured and to transfigure the world. It is worth asking, then,...

Tree of Tales

Tolkien, Literature, and Theology

Edited by Trevor Hart and Ivan Khovacs

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481314671

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

144 Pages

This work examines the theological relationship between creation and creativity in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. It does so by bringing together a synthesis of various disciplines and perspectives to...

Puritans and Pragmatists

Eight Eminent American Thinkers

by Paul Conkin

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481314633

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

505 Pages

Eight brilliant and original American thinkers - Edwards, Franklin, John Adams, Emerson, Peirce, William James, Dewey, and Santayana - are the subject of this widely admired book by one of America's...

Religion in Early Stuart England, 1603-1638

An Anthology of Primary Sources

Edited by Debora Shuger

Price: $99.99

ISBN: 9781481304146

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-02-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-02-13

Imprint: Baylor University Press

1021 Pages

This collection of primary sources from Early Stuart England, compiled by the acclaimed Deborah Shuger, reflects the varieties of religious expression, theological conviction, and spiritual experience...

The Art of Christian Reflection

by Heidi J. Hornik

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481304269

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2018-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2018-09-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

272 Pages

Contemporary Christians interact with art very differently than Christians of centuries past. Christian art was never intended for mere enjoyment, but was used to express the most important features...

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...

Profane Parables

Film and the American Dream

by Matthew S. Rindge

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481304290

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2016-04-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2016-03-04

Imprint: Baylor University Press

191 Pages

The sacred ethos of the American Dream has become a central pillar of American civil religion. The belief that meaning is fashioned from some mixture of family, friends, a stable career, and financial...

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