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CONTENTS

THEOLOGY 1

BIBLICAL STUDIES 4

NEW TESTAMENT 4

BAYLOR HANDBOOK ON THE GREEK BIBLE 6

CHURCH HISTORY 6

ETHICS 8

RELIGION & LITERATURE 8

AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY 9

RELIGION & POLITICS 10

THEOLOGY

BLACK PRACTICAL THEOLOGYEdited by Dale P. Andrews, Robert London Smith

Dale Andrews and Robert Smith combine the voices of constructive theologians, practicaltheologians, and those ministering in black churches to craft a rich and expansive black practicaltheology.

Black Practical Theology brings together the hermeneutical conversation between scholarsworking within the traditional disciplines of theological education (systematic theology, ethics,biblical studies, history) and those scholars working within practical theology (homiletics,pastoral care and counseling, Christian education, spirituality). To this ongoing conversation,Andrews and Smith add the voices of pastors of black congregations and para-church leaderswho serve the communities of faith who daily confront the challenges this work addresses—youth and intergenerational divides, education and poverty, gender and sexuality, globalism,health care, and incarceration and the justice system.

Black Practical Theology sets the standard for practical theology. Embodying its ownmethodological call—to begin with the issues of the black church, as well as its resources andpractices—it does not rest content but returns immediately to the communities from which itemerged. Black Practical Theology is a gift to both teacher and student.

PB 9781602584358 £41.99 August 2015 Baylor University Press 360 pages


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AFTER WE DIETheology, Philosophy, and the Question of Life after DeathStephen T. Davis

In After We Die, philosopher Stephen T. Davis subjects one of Christianity’s key beliefs—thatChristians not only will survive death but also will enjoy bodily resurrection—to searchingphilosophical analysis. Facing each critique squarely, Davis contends that traditional, historicbelief about the eschatological future is philosophically defensible.

Davis examines personal extinction, reincarnation, and immortality of the soul. By juxtaposingtwo systems of salvation—reincarnation/karma and resurrection/grace—Davis explores theChristian claim that humans will be raised from the dead, as well as the radical Christianassertions of Jesus’ resurrection, ascension, and long-anticipated return. Davis finally addressesChristian thinking about heaven, hell, and purgatory.

The philosophical defense of Christianity’s core beliefs enables Davis to render a reasonableanswer to the eternal question of what happens to us after we die. After We Die is essentialreading for teachers and students of philosophy, theology, and Bible, as well as anyoneinterested in a reasoned analysis of historic Christian faith, particularly as it pertains to theinevitable end of each and every human being.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Stephen T. Davis is Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy,

Claremont McKenna College. He is the author and editor of 15 books, including, ChristianPhilosophical Theology (2006), The Redemption: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Christ asRedeemer (2004), and The Incarnation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Incarnation ofthe Son of God (2002).

HB 9781481303422 £29.50 July 2015 Baylor University Press 175 pages

CHRISTOLOGYOrigins, Developments, DebatesGerald O'Collins

The study of Jesus remains central to Christianity. “Who was and is Jesus?” and “What has hedone for us and for our world?” are crucial questions that demand careful considerationand perennial answers. These Christological questions reach to the heart of Christian identity—both in its understanding of itself and in its relation to other world religions.

In Christology: Origins, Developments, Debates Gerald O’Collins continues his groundbreakingwork in Christology by first tracing its major developments over the last fifty years. He next turnsto a theology of resurrection—Christology’ s central event—and the foundational roles playedby its two great witnesses, Peter and Paul. O’Collins then masterfully constructs a "theology ofreligions" that explores the relationship of Christianity to other living faiths precisely in light ofthe priesthood of Jesus Christ.

Christology engages the riches of the tradition and the challenges of the present to aid scholarsand students alike who wish to grasp the centrality of the second person of the Trinity to theChristian faith.



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TEACHING GLOBAL THEOLOGIESPower and PraxisEdited by Pui-lan KWOK, Cecilia Gonzàlez-Andrieu, Dwight N. Hopkins

Theological education, like theology itself, is becoming a truly a global enterprise. As such,theological education has to form, teach, and train leaders of faith communities prepared to leadin a transnational world. The teaching of theology with a global awareness has to wrestle withthe nature and scope of the theological curriculum, teaching methods, and the context oflearning. Teaching Global Theologies directly addresses both method and content by identifyinglocal resources, successful pedagogies of inclusion, and best practices for teaching theology in aglobal context.

The contributors to Teaching Global Theologies are Catholic, mainline Protestant, andevangelical scholars from different racial and ethnic backgrounds, each with sustainedconnections with other parts of the world. Teaching Global Theologies capitalizes on thisdiversity to uncover neglected sources for a global theology even as it does so in constructiveconversation with the long tradition of Christian thought. Bringing missing voices and neglectedtheological sources into conversation with the historical tradition enriches that tradition even asit uncovers questions of power, race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. Teachers are offeredsuccessful pedagogies for bringing these questions into the classroom and best practices topromote students’ global consciousness, shape them as ecclesial leaders, and form them asglobal citizens.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Dwight N. Hopkins is Professor of Theology at the Divinity School,

University of Chicago.

PB 9781481302852 £29.50 September 2015 Baylor University Press 224 pages

THE PRACTICE OF STORYSuffering and the Possibilities of RedemptionMindy Makant

The grammar of Christian redemption cannot livesolely in the future tense. Despite confidence

about the effects of Jesus’ resurrection in the present, Christians are tempted to depict salvationas a future accomplishment, rather than a present reality. No doubt this failing is well founded,for most Christians know all too well that the power of the past—particularly past suffering—shapes the present.

But as Mindy Makant argues in The Practice of Story: Suffering and the Possibilities ofRedemption, such reserve may cede too much to suffering and grant too little to redemption.Makant admits the horrors of suffering: that suffering damages and destroys, that past suffering

rendersone unable to live in the present, and that profound suffering can make it altogether

impossible to imagine a future.

Yet in the very midst of this impossibility, Makant shows how suffering, even extreme andprofound suffering, does not have the final word. God does. The story of suffering is not the

defining narrative. Redemption wields ultimate power to shape human identity. God has given

the church gifts—specific ecclesial practices—necessary to bear witness to the story of God’sredemptive activity in the world. These practices constitute the practices of story. They re-orderthe lives of Christians and make future redemption present despite the destructive power of thepast.

HB 9781481300704 £33.50 August 2015 Baylor University Press 248 pages


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BIBLICAL STUDIES

GOD OF THE LIVINGA Biblical TheologyReinhard Feldmeier, Hermann Spieckermann

In God of the Living , noted biblical scholars Reinhard Feldmeier and Hermann Spieckermannprovide a comprehensive theology of the God of the Christian Bible. A remarkable achievement,God of the Living joins together the very best of Old and New Testament scholarship to craft acomprehensive biblical theology. Feldmeier and Spieckermann wrestle with the whole ofscripture to give a definitive and decisive voice to the church's central mission--bearing witnessto the living God.

Both historical and systematic, God of the Living explores God's multifaceted, complex, andsometimes contradictory character presented in the scriptures. Yet, whether in wrath orreconciliation, judgment or justification, suffering or salvation, God has given and shares divinelife in the person of Jesus Christ. Thus, Feldmeier and Spieckermann uncover God's profoundaffirmation of human life, as the God of the living--the God of the Bible--finds fulfillment inrelation to the living partners of his own creation.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Reinhard Feldmeier is Professor of New Testament at the Georg-

August-University of Gottingen and the author of several books, including The First Letter ofPeter: A Commentary on the Greek Text .Hermann Spieckermann is Professor of Old Testament at the Georg-August-University ofGottingen. The author of several books, he is also the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of the Bibleand Its Reception (EBR).

REVIEWS: God of the Living is a profound volume, worthy of careful study.

Michael Chan, Luther Seminary -- Word & World

PB 9781602583955 £49.99 August 2015 Baylor University Press 500 pages

NEW TESTAMENT

CHRIST'S FIRST THEOLOGIANThe Shape of Paul's ThoughtLeander E. Keck

For half a century Leander Keck thought, taught, and wrote about the New Testament. He firstserved as a Professor of New Testament at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Emory University’sCandler School of Theology before becoming Dean and Professor of Biblical Theology at YaleDivinity School. Keck’s lifelong work on Jesus and Paul was a catalyst for the emerging discussionsof New Testament Christology and Pauline theology in the Society of Biblical Literature and theStudiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. Keck wrote a staggering number of now industry-standardarticles on the New Testament. Here, they are all collected for the first time. In Christ's FirstTheologian and Why Christ Matters, readers will discover how Keck gave new answers to oldquestions even as he carefully reframed old answers into new questions. Keck’s work is atreasure trove of historical, exegetical, and theological interpretation.



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PAULAn Outline of His TheologyMichael Wolter Translated by Robert L. Brawley

In this newly translated volume, Michael Wolter (University of Bonn, Germany) outlines thearchitecture of the Apostle’s theology. Wolter contends that it is indeed possible to discoverPaul’s core theological commitments, despite the fact that the sources for Paul’s theology—hisletters—are diverse, contextually dependent snapshots of the Apostle’s thinking at a particularmoment in time.

Wolter frames Paul’s enterprise as a theology of mission and conversion—a mission thataccounts for the life and preaching of Paul and a conversion that highlights the experience ofChrist shared by all believers. Pauline theology finds expression in the phrase “faith in Christ,”which refers to the complete reorientation and exclusive new identity of the Christian.

Wolter places Paul’s theology into a narrative context, often referred to by Paul himself, thatemphasizes the time before Paul’s conversion, Paul’s encounter with the risen Christ, and thecomplex events leading to the Antioch incident. Wolter then explores the theology of Paul’sGospel and the response to this good news—faith—before detailing eleven interlocking andoverlapping elements of Paul’s thought.

Wolter’s outline successfully delineates a theology common to all of Paul’s letters, and does sowithout collapsing the texts into a timeless whole. By using the language of Paul himself, Wolterreveals the unity of Paul’s theology while simultaneously unpacking it via categories drawn frommodern scholarship. Wolter’s Paul is as vibrant as it is careful—as compelling as it is relevant.

REVIEWS: This book on the theology of the Apostle serves as a milestone of Paul interpretation

to which all future scholarly work must pay attention. The author is due grateful respect and highrecognition for the outstanding achievement that he has rendered.Eduard Lohse -- Theologische Literaturzeitung

HB 9781481304160 £66.99 November 2015 Baylor University Press 464 pages

THE PROBLEM WITH EVANGELICAL THEOLOGYTesting the Exegetical Foundations of Calvinism, Dispensationalism,Wesleyanism, and Pentecostalism, Revised and Expanded EditionBen Witherington

There is no doubting the legacy of Protestant Reformers and their successors. Luther, Calvin, andWesley not only spawned specific denominational traditions, but their writings have beeninstrumental in forging a broadly embraced evangelical theology as well. Ben Witheringtonwrestles with some of the big ideas of these major traditional theological systems (sin, God’ssovereignty, prophecy, grace, and the Holy Spirit), asking tough questions about their biblicalfoundations. Advocating a return to Protestantism’s sola scriptura roots, Witherington arguesthat evangelicalism sometimes wrongly assumes a biblical warrant for some of its more popularbeliefs.

Witherington pushes the reader to engage the larger story and plot of the Bible in order tounderstand the crucial theological elements of Protestant belief. The Problem with EvangelicalTheology casts today’s evangelical belief and practice—be it Calvinistic, Wesleyan,Dispensational, or Pentecostal—in the light of its scriptural origins. Witherington offers acomprehensive description of evangelical theology while concurrently providing an insistentcorrective to its departures from both tradition and text.

PB 9781481304214 £33.50 November 2015 Baylor University Press 320 pages


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WHY CHRIST MATTERSToward a New Testament ChristologyLeander E. Keck

For half a century Leander Keck thought, taught, and wrote about the New Testament. He firstserved as a Professor of New Testament at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Emory University’sCandler School of Theology before becoming Dean and Professor of Biblical Theology at YaleDivinity School. Keck’s lifelong work on Jesus and Paul was a catalyst for the emerging discussionsof New Testament Christology and Pauline theology in the Society of Biblical Literature and theStudiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. Keck wrote a staggering number of now industry-standardarticles on the New Testament. Here, they are all collected for the first time. In Why ChristMatters and Christ's First Theologian, readers will discover how Keck gave new answers to oldquestions even as he carefully reframed old answers into new questions. Keck’s work is atreasure trove of historical, exegetical, and theological interpretation.


BAYLOR HANDBOOK ON THE GREEK BIBLE

ESTHERA Handbook on the Hebrew TextJohn Screnock, Robert D. Holmstedt

This handbook in the Baylor Handbook on the Hebrew Bible series provides students of Hebrewwith the translation of Esther paired with an exhaustive word by word morphological analysis ofthe text. Through careful syntactic and textual investigation, Holmstedt and Screnock bring tolife one of the most loved biblical books. Esther enables a linguistic understanding of the OldTestament Hebrew text through solid contextual interpretation.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Robert D. Holmstedt is Assistant Professor in the Department of

Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto, where he teaches ancientHebrew and Northwest Semitic languages.

PB 9781602586789 £33.50 October 2015 Baylor University Press 299 pages

CHURCH HISTORY

CHRISTIAN OXYRHYNCHUSTexts, Documents, and SourcesLincoln H. Blumell, Thomas A. Wayment

Blumell and Wayment present a thorough compendium of all published papyri, parchments, andpatristic sources that relate to Christianity at Oxyrhynchus before the fifth century CE. ChristianOxyrhynchus provides new and expanded editions of Christian literary and documentary textsthat include updated readings, English translations––some of which represent the first Englishtranslation of a text––and comprehensive notes.

The volume features New Testament texts carefully collated against other textual witnesses anda succinct introduction for each Oxyrhynchus text that provides information about the date ofthe papyrus, its unique characteristics, and textual variants. Documentary texts are grouped bothby genre and date, giving readers access to the Decian Libelli, references to Christians in third-and fourth-century texts, and letters written by Christians. A compelling resource forresearchers, teachers, and students, Christian Oxyrhynchus enables broad access to these crucialprimary documents beyond specialists in papyrology, Greek, Latin, and Coptic.



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CHRISTIAN HISTORIOGRAPHYFive Rival VersionsJay D. Green

Christian faith complicates the task of historical writing. It does so because Christianity is at oncedeeply historical and profoundly transhistorical. Christian historians taking up the challenge ofwriting about the past have thus struggled to craft a single, identifiable Christian historiography.Overlapping, and even contradictory, Christian models for thinking and writing about the pastabound—from accountings empathetic toward past religious expressions, to history imbued withChristian moral concern, to narratives tracing God’s movement through the ages. The nature andshape of Christian historiography have been, and remain, hotly contested.

Jay Green illuminates five rival versions of Christian historiography. In this volume, Greendiscusses each of these approaches, identifying both their virtues and challenges. ChristianHistoriography serves as a basic introduction to the variety of ways contemporary historianshave applied their Christian convictions to historical research and reconstruction. Christianteachers and students developing their own sense of the past will benefit from exploring thevariety of Christian historiographical approaches described and evaluated in this volume.


EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN BAPTISTS OF GEORGIAThe History and Transformation of a Free Church TraditionMalkhaz Songulashvili

Malkhaz Songulashvili, former Archbishop of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia (EBCG),provides a pioneering, exacting, and sweeping history of Georgian Baptists. Utilizing archivalsources in Georgian, Russian, German, and English—translating many of these crucial documentsfor the first time into English—he recounts the history of the EBCG from its formation in 1867 tothe present.

While the particular story of Georgian Baptists merits telling in its own right, and not simply as afeature of Russian religious life, Songulashvili employs Georgian Baptists as a sustained casestudy on the convergence of religion and culture. The interaction of Eastern Orthodox, WesternProtestant, and Russian dissenting religious traditions—mixed into the political cauldron ofRussian occupation of a formerly distinct eastern European culture—led to a remarkableexperiment in Christian free-church identity. Evangelical Christian Baptists of Georgia allowsreaders to peer through the lens of intercultural studies to see the powerful relationships amongpolitics, religion, and culture in the formation of Georgian Baptists, and their blending ofOrthodox tradition into Baptist life to craft a unique ecclesiology, liturgy, and aesthetics.

HB 9781481301107 £66.99 September 2015 Baylor University Press 521 pages


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ETHICS

ASIAN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN ETHICSVoices, Methods, IssuesEdited by Grace Y. Kao, Ilsup Ahn

This groundbreaking volume presents the collective work of twelve Christian ethicists of Asiandescent in the U.S. who map the new and burgeoning field of study located at the juncture ofChristian ethics and Asian American studies. Led by Grace Kao and Ilsup Ahn, these scholarsidentify the purposes and chart the contours of what constitutes a distinctly Asian AmericanChristian ethical approach to moral concerns.

Asian American Christian Ethics rethinks perennial issues in Christian ethics (war and peace,family/marriage/parenting, gender and sexuality, economics and wealth, virtue ethics), pressingsocial matters (race relations, immigration, healthcare, the environment), and issues of specialinterest to Asian Americans (education, labor, plastic surgery). Each chapter utilizes classicalChristian sources read from the particular vantage point of Asian American Christian theology,ethics, and culture. Beginning with a description of the range of Christian responses to theissue, each author describes and enacts a constructive proposal for an Asian American Christianethical response. An ideal volume for researchers, teachers, and students alike, Asian AmericanChristian Ethics articulates the foundations, questions, and goals of this vibrant and flourishingfield of study.


RELIGION & LITERATURE

SCIENCE FICTION THEOLOGYBeauty and the Transformation of the SublimeAlan P. R. Gregory

Science fiction imagines a universe teeming with life and thrilling possibility, but also hidden andhideous dangers. Christian theology, often a polemical target for science fiction, reflects on theplenitude out of which and for which the universe exists. In Science Fiction Theology, AlanGregory investigates the troubled relationship between science fiction and Christianity and, inparticular, how both have laid claim to the modern idea of sublimity.

To the extent that science fiction has appropriated—and reveled—in the sublime, it has persistedin a sometimes explicit, sometimes subterranean, relationship with Christian theology. From itsseventeenth-century beginnings, the sublime, with its representations of immensity, hasinformed the imagining of God. When science fiction critiques or reinvents religion, its writershave engaged in a literary guerrilla war with Christianity over what is truly sublime and divine.

Gregory examines the sublime and its implicit theologies as they appear in early American pulpscience fiction, the horror writing of H. P. Lovecraft, science fiction narratives of evolution andapocalypse, and the work of Philip K. Dick. Ironically, science fiction’s tussle with Christianityhides the extent to which the sublime, especially in popular culture, serves to distort the classicalChristian understanding of God, secularizing that God and rendering God’s transcendence finite.But by turning from the sublime to a consideration of the beautiful, Gregory shows that bothChristian and science-fictional imaginations may discover a new and surprising conversation.



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AMERICAN RELIGIOUS HISTORY

MADNESSAmerican Protestant Responses to Mental IllnessHeather H. Vacek

Madness is a sin. Those with emotional disabilities are shunned. Mental illness is not the church’sproblem.

All three claims are wrong.

In Madness, Heather H. Vacek traces the history of Protestant reactions to mental illness inAmerica. She reveals how two distinct forces combined to thwart Christian care for the wholeperson. The professionalization of medicine worked to restrict the sphere of Christian authorityto the private and spiritual realms, consigning healing and care—both physical and mental—tosecular, medical specialists. Equally influential, a theological legacy that linked illness with sindeepened the social stigma surrounding people with a mental illness. The Protestant church,reluctant to engage sufferers lest it, too, be tainted by association, willingly abdicated care forpeople with a mental illness to secular professionals.

While inattention formed the general rule, five historical exceptions to the pattern of benignneglect exemplify Protestant efforts to claim a distinctly Christian response. A close examinationof the lives and work of colonial clergyman Cotton Mather, Revolutionary era physician BenjaminRush, nineteenth-century activist Dorothea Dix, pastor and patient Anton Boisen, andpsychiatrist Karl Menninger maps both the range and the progression of attentive Protestantcare. Vacek chronicles Protestant attempts to make theological sense of sickness (Mather), tocraft care as Christian vocation (Rush), to advocate for the helpless (Dix), to reclaim religiousauthority (Boisen), and to plead for people with a mental illness (Menninger).

Vacek’s historical narrative forms the basis for her theological reflection about contemporaryChristian care of people with a mental illness and Christian understanding of mental illness. Bydemonstrating the gravity of what appeared—and failed to appear—on clerical andcongregational agendas, Vacek explores how Christians should navigate the ever-shifting lines ofcultural authority as they care for those who suffer.

REVIEWS: “By telling the story of mental illness, faith, and ministry through and around the

lives and stories of five prominent leaders since colonial times, Madness will help us recognizeeternal questions and needs as well as the historical foundations on which new collaborationsbetween ministry and medicine can be built for the sake of more holistic care in clinics,communities, and congregations.”Bill Gaventa, Director, Summer Institute on Theology and Disability



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RELIGION & POLITICS

A THEOLOGY OF POLITICAL VOCATIONChristian Life and Public OfficeJohn E. Senior

Power, money, endless competition. A zero-sum game. Politics as usual. Only the hearty orcraven need apply. The political actors have lost sight of the politics of a common good.

A Theology of Political Vocation takes up the question of public life precisely where mostdiscussions end. Proving that moral ambiguity does not exclude moral possibility, author JohnSenior crafts a theology of political vocation not satisfied simply by theologies of sin and graceand philosophical theories of power. For Senior, political theology moves beyond merely stakinga claim within a public conversation, a move that prizes discursive skills and aims at consensusconcerning shared norms and values. Political theology must offer an account of a politicalvocation.

Senior connects political deliberation to moral judgment, explores use and consequence ofpower, analyzes political conflict and competition, and limns the ethics of negotiation andcompromise. In light of this richer understanding of political vocation, Senior developstheological resources appropriate to a variety of ecologies--ordinary citizens, political activists,and elected officials. A Theology of Political Vocation shows how Christian politicians can workfaithfully within the moral ambiguity of political life to orient their work--and indeed, their veryselves--toward the common good.

REVIEWS: “During a time when the doctrine of vocation is looked upon with suspicion and politicswith cynicism, John Senior has crafted a wonderful book that is a thoughtful exploration ofvocation and a compelling view of politics. In a lucid and disciplined way, he brings vocation andpolitics together, not by elevating them beyond belief, but by crafting a theological defense ofthe unavoidable moral ambiguity of both. He thereby shapes an argument for the operationalbenefits and moral significance of treating politics as vocation.”Mark Douglas, Professor of Christian Ethics, Columbia Theological Seminary

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