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Under the Olive Tree

Palestinian Christian Theology from the 1980s to the Present

by Maayan Karen Raveh

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481323703

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-10-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

247 Pages

"If Jesus were to be born today, he would be born under the rubble of Gaza."This powerful statement of Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac captures the physical and spiritual landscape of Palestinian Christians....

A Handbook to Second-Century Christianity

Edited by Michael F. Bird and Scott Harrower

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481314152

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-10-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2025-10-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

744 Pages

The second century of the Common Era was a time of significant transition, innovation, and upheaval for the Greco-Roman world. In the midst of great societal changes the relatively new religious movement...

Medieval Spirituality

An Introduction

by Volker Leppin

Translated by Samuel Brandt

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481320382

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-09-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-09-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

200 Pages

Exploring medieval spirituality invites us to delve into a remote world. This introduction is a guide to understanding how medieval believers experienced divine presence in manifold ways. God became...

The Materiality of Early Christ Devotion

Artistic Innovation at Four Archaeological Sites

by Bruce W. Longenecker

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481321631

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-09-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-08-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

349 Pages

In the fourth and fifth centuries CE, Christian artistry began to flourish, as elite patrons sponsored decorative initiatives for basilica churches throughout the Mediterranean basin. But what about...

History of Early Christianity

Religion, Culture, Identity

by Markus Öhler

Translated by Jason Valdez

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481313957

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-08-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2025-08-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

320 Pages

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....

The Gospel in the Past

Essays on the Historiography of the Evangelical Movement

Edited by David W. Bebbington

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481322621

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-04-15

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...

Jesus, the Essenes, and Christian Origins

New Light on Ancient Texts and Communities

by Simon J. Joseph

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781481307772

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-03-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2025-03-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

248 Pages

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the caves near Qumran in 1947 sparked near endless speculation about the possible connections between the Essenes--purportedly the inhabitants of the settlement--and...

The Wesleyan Theological Heritage

Past, Present, and Future

Edited by Jason E. Vickers, Steven T. Hoskins and Laura Dahl

Price: $74.99

ISBN: 9781481324236

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-03-01

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...

Exploring Christian Heritage

A Reader in History and Theology (Third Edition)

Edited by C. Douglas Weaver and Rady Roldán-Figueroa

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481321945

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-08-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2024-08-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

343 Pages

Exploring Christian Heritage provides students and teachers with a rich and substantial introduction to the texts that have shaped the Christian faith. Including works by Augustine, Aquinas, Martin...

The Kaleidoscopic City

Hong Kong, Mission, and the Evolution of Global Pentecostalism

by Alex R. Mayfield

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481318976

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-11-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

279 Pages

The Kaleidoscopic City explores the development of Pentecostalism in Hong Kong between 1907 and 1942. Focusing primarily on Pentecostal missionaries and the Chinese leaders who worked alongside them,...

Sola Scriptura

Scripture's Final Authority in the Modern World

by Ben Witherington III

Price: $21.99

ISBN: 9781481320467

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-10-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

230 Pages

In modern times, evangelical Protestants have advocated for the belief that the Bible is the only real standard of truth and true Christian praxis for the church. But is this how the early Jews and...

A Storm of Images

Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World

by Philip Jenkins

Price: $42.99

ISBN: 9781481318228

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-09-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-09-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

287 Pages

In the eighth century, the Byzantine Empire began a campaign to remove or suppress sacred images that depicted Christ, the Virgin, or other holy figures, whether in paintings, mosaics, murals, or other...

The West African Revival

Faith Tabernacle Congregation on the Guinea Coast, 1918–1929

by Adam Mohr

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481318655

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-08-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-08-31

Imprint: Baylor University Press

244 Pages

In eleven short years, from 1918 to 1929, Faith Tabernacle Congregation, a small divine healing church in Philadelphia, spread over the Guinea Coast, garnering over 250 branches and nearly 11,000 members...

After Paul

The Apostle's Legacy in Early Christianity

by James W. Aageson

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481318693

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-08-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-07-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

279 Pages

After Paul: The Apostle’s Legacy in Early Christianity focuses on the many ways Pauline thought and tradition were reinterpreted, reused, reframed, and reconstructed in the first centuries of Christianity....

The Gospel and Religious Freedom

Historical Studies in Evangelicalism and Political Engagement

Edited by David W. Bebbington

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481319300

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-07-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-06-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

240 Pages

Religious freedom as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights remains a perennial concern across the globe. Over the centuries many evangelicals have not enjoyed this right in practice,...

Visions of Salvation

Chinese Christian Posters in an Age of Revolution

Edited by Daryl R. Ireland

Price: $69.99

ISBN: 9781481316248

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-04-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-09-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

302 Pages

Between the May Fourth Movement of 1919 and the Communist Revolution of 1949, Chinese Christians had to compete with Nationalist and Communist ideologies over how best to save the nation. They, along...

Greco-Roman Associations, Deities, and Early Christianity

Edited by Bruce W. Longenecker

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481315166

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-10-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-09-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

484 Pages

Understanding associations in the Greco-Roman world enhances the study of the rise of early Christianity--whether at the micro-level of interpreting particular texts or at the macro-level of assessing...

In the Image of Her

Recovering Motherhood in the Christian Tradition

by Amy E. Marga

Price: $42.99

ISBN: 9781481317382

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-09-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

207 Pages

The body of the mother is both everywhere and nowhere in the Christian imagination. Western Christianity has long viewed the mother's body as a vessel. Through her, nothing less than the sin and...

Christ Groups and Associations

Foundational Essays

Edited by Richard S. Ascough

Price: $59.99

ISBN: 9781481318211

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-08-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-08-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

432 Pages

The use of voluntary associations as a way to begin understanding Christ groups has become accepted practice in much of modern New Testament scholarship. This consensus has been decades in the making,...

Christianity Remade

The Rise of Indian-Initiated Churches

by Paul Joshua

Edited by Joel A. Carpenter

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481304054

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-08-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-07-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

263 Pages

If there is one question that haunts Indian Christians, it is this: "What does it mean to be Indian and Christian?" This matter of identity presents a unique challenge, especially today, in the face...

The Gospel in Latin America

Historical Studies in Evangelicalism and the Global South

Edited by David W. Bebbington

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481317221

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-06-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2022-06-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

256 Pages

The shift of the center of gravity in world Christianity from the Global North to the Global South was arguably the most important development in the faith during the twentieth century. One of the most...

Ethiopian Christianity

History, Theology, Practice

by Philip F. Esler

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481306751

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-11-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2021-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

326 Pages

In Ethiopian Christianity Philip Esler presents a rich and comprehensive history of Christianity’s flourishing. But Esler is ever careful to situate this growth in the context of Ethiopia’s...

A Dangerous Parting

The Beheading of John the Baptist in Early Christian Memory

by Nathan L. Shedd

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481315227

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-11-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2021-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

228 Pages

Execution by beheading is a highly symbolic act. The grisly image of the severed head evokes a particular social and cultural location, functioning as a channel of figurative discourse specific to a...

The Good Shepherd

Image, Meaning, and Power

by Jennifer Awes Freeman

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481315371

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-09-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2021-09-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

205 Pages

A statuette of Egyptian King Pepi formidably wielding a shepherd's crook stands in stark contrast to a fresco of an unassuming Orpheus-like youth gently hoisting a sheep around his shoulders. Both...

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