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God’s Adversary and Ours

A Brief Theology of the Devil

by Philip G. Ziegler

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9781481324137

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2025-09-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

180 Pages

The devil—styled by Calvin as "God’s adversary and ours"—is ubiquitous in the witness of the New Testament. Yet contemporary Christian doctrine generally remains dumbfounded about what to do with...

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...

Luther under Scrutiny

Knowledge, Will, and Metaphysics

by Olli-Pekka Vainio

Price: $47.99

ISBN: 9781481319119

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-03-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2025-02-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

236 Pages

The reformer Martin Luther is one of the most influential and controversial theologians in the history of the church. While his ideas are rooted in the currents of medieval theology, he frequently seems...

Anglican Identities

Logos Idealism, Imperial Whiteness, Commonweal Ecumenism

by Gary Dorrien

Price: $74.99

ISBN: 9781481320931

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-04-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-04-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

656 Pages

The Anglican Communion currently finds itself at an inflection point as it weighs its future prospects in light of discordant social, political, ecclesiological, and theological commitments. In this...

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...

Baptists and the Kingdom of God

Global Perspectives

Edited by T. Laine Scales and João B. Chaves

Price: $69.99

ISBN: 9781481319652

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-09-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

365 Pages

Throughout the history of Christianity, the concept of the "kingdom of God" has been constructed and understood in a multiplicity of ways. From direct identifications of the kingdom with the church...

A Reader in Chinese Theology

Edited by Chloë Starr

Translated by Chloë Starr

Price: $79.99

ISBN: 9781481312097

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2023-03-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

524 Pages

From the writings of Jingjing, a monk in the eighth century, to essays from contemporary church leaders and academics, Chinese theology offers distinct perspectives within the world church on matters...

Inventing Authority

The Use of the Church Fathers in Reformation Debates over the Eucharist

by Esther Chung-Kim

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781602584709

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-10-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-09-23

Imprint: Baylor University Press

208 Pages

Adding great historical insight to the events of the sixteenth century, Inventing Authority uncovers how and why the Protestant reformers came, in their dissent from the Catholic church, to turn to...

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...

A Media Ecology of Theology

Communicating Faith throughout the Christian Tradition

by Paul A. Soukup, S.J.

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9781481317757

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-09-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-09-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

240 Pages

In the Christian tradition, the faithful do theology--defined in Anselm’s phrase as "faith seeking understanding"--in different media. The contemporary emphasis on written or academic theology obscures...

Believing into Christ

Relational Faith and Human Flourishing

by Natalya A. Cherry

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481315432

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2021-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2021-09-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

212 Pages

Across lines of tradition and denomination, many Christians express a purely propositional sense of belief, focused primarily on the existence of God and facts about Christ, contributing to a transactional...

Reformation in the Western World

An Introduction

by Paul Silas Peterson

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481315074

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

288 Pages

The Reformation was the single most important event of the early modern period of Western civilization. What started out as a pastoral conflict about the sale of grace for money ultimately became a...

Fashion Theology

by Robert Covolo

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481312738

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-08-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-08-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

216 Pages

What is fashion? Where does it come from? Why has it come to permeate modern life?In the last half century, questions like these have drawn serious academic reflection, resulting in a new field of...

A Profound Ignorance

Modern Pneumatology and Its Anti-modern Redemption

by Ephraim Radner

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481310796

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2019-11-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2019-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

463 Pages

In the march of modernity and the opening of global boundaries, the face of the world changed. How we understood the world, and our place in it, changed. And with that great shift, our concept of the...

In Him Was Life

The Person and Work of Christ

by Trevor Hart

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781481310154

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2019-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2019-10-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

427 Pages

The consideration of the person of Christ is often disentangled from his 'work.' But this doctrinal tidying can be misleading and theologically dangerous. Christians contend that humans need to be...

Analyzing Doctrine

Toward a Systematic Theology

by Oliver D. Crisp

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481309868

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2019-07-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2019-06-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

280 Pages

In Analyzing Doctrine Oliver Crisp carefully considers the relationship of systematic theology to analytic philosophy, arguing that the tools of analytic philosophy can be fruitfully applied to traditional...

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...

The End of the Psalter

Psalms 146–150 in the Masoretic Text, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Septuagint

by Alma Brodersen

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481308991

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2018-08-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2018-08-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

332 Pages

Psalms 146-150--sometimes called the "Final Hallel"--are often thought to comprise an end to the Psalter. Frequently seen as connected to other psalms through catchwords that act as both literary and...

Justification in the Second Century

by Brian J. Arnold

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481308984

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2018-08-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2018-08-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

236 Pages

T. F. Torrance’s influential The Doctrine of Grace in the Apostolic Fathers (1948) relegated the collection of Christianity’s earliest noncanonical witnesses to a fall from grace. According to...

The Making of Evangelicalism

From Revivalism to Politics and Beyond

by Randall Balmer

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9781481304887

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2017-06-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2017-05-17

Imprint: Baylor University Press

97 Pages

With impressively clear prose and a superb command of history, best-selling author Randall Balmer offers a spirited history of evangelical Christianity in the United States. Effortlessly situating developments...

Evangelicalism in America

by Randall Balmer

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9781481305976

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2016-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2016-09-13

Imprint: Baylor University Press

215 Pages

Evangelicalism has left its indelible mark on American history, politics, and culture. It is also true that currents of American populism and politics have shaped the nature and character of evangelicalism....

An Introduction to Practical Theology

History, Theory, and the Communication of the Gospel in the Present

by Christian Grethlein

Translated by Uwe Rasch

Price: $39.99

ISBN: 9781481305174

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2016-08-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2016-07-17

Imprint: Baylor University Press

278 Pages

Serious theology is systematic theology. Or so the story goes. Practical theology--with its focus on the church, its life and its practices--has sometimes been understood as the second order application...

Alms

Charity, Reward, and Atonement in Early Christianity

by David J. Downs

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781602589971

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2016-04-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2016-03-31

Imprint: Baylor University Press

350 Pages

Christianity has often understood the death of Jesus on the cross as the sole means for forgiveness of sin. Despite this tradition, David Downs traces the early and sustained presence of yet another...

Christian Theology and Its Institutions in the Early Roman Empire

Prolegomena to a History of Early Christian Theology

by Christoph Markschies

Series edited by Wayne Coppins and Simon Gathercole

Translated by Wayne Coppins

Price: $89.99

ISBN: 9781481304016

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2015-09-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2015-08-31

Imprint: Baylor University Press

520 Pages

Tension between unity and diversity plagues any attempt to recount the development of earliest Christianity. Explanations run the gamut--from asserting the presence of a fully formed and accepted unity...

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