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New Poems
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
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
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
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...
Hope for a Tree
Artistic Afterlives of Job
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
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
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...
Making Good
Creation, Creativity, and Artistry
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
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...
Lyric Theology
Art and the Doctrine of Creation
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...

New Poems
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
Truth's Consuming Ecstasy
Literary and Philosophical Investigations of the Apocalypse of John
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
Between Different Cultures
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
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
Hope for a Tree
Artistic Afterlives of Job
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
Art Seeking Understanding
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
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
Making Good
Creation, Creativity, and Artistry
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
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
Lyric Theology
Art and the Doctrine of Creation
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
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
Bridge to Wonder
Art as a Gospel of Beauty
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
All Things Beautiful
An Aesthetic Christology
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
Tree of Tales
Tolkien, Literature, and Theology
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
Puritans and Pragmatists
Eight Eminent American Thinkers
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
Religion in Early Stuart England, 1603-1638
An Anthology of Primary Sources
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
The Art of Christian Reflection
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
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
Profane Parables
Film and the American Dream
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