Walter Brueggemann
The Imperial Cruise:A Secret History ofEmpire and War
There is some high irony in the fact that the United States has come to be commonly recognized as an empire (for good or i...
America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story
Feiler is already well known for his readable account of the stream of faith derived from Father Abraham....
Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the GodDebate
Terry Eagleton is many things, all of which converge into intelligent passion and a command of thinking beyond ideolo...
Sin: A History
Gary Anderson, professor of Old Testament at the University of Notre Dame, has written an astonishing book that, in ways typical of his work, moves from close text...
Command performance
When people get around to prioritizing Old Testament scholars of this generation who have made significant contributions to textual i...
Saving Creation: Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston III
The tombstone, already in place though happily not yet in use, reads, “Philosopher Gone Wild.” Philosopher<...
Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine
On the face of it, it does not seem difficult to state the contradictions that beset a doctrine of predestination....
The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future
Martha Nussbaum is perhaps the most generative public intellectual of our time....
Reading the Hebrew Bible After the Shoah: Engaging Holocaust Theology
In the film The Reader, Kate Winslet, playing an SS guard accused of great brutality, says to her mea...
Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism/The Eucharist
These two books have in common only the fa...
Approaching Yehud: NewApproaches to the Study of the Persian Period
Before considering the specific content of this book, it is useful to recognize the importance of its having ...
Does the promise still hold? Israel and the land: A response to Gary Anderson
Professor Anderson takes up what must be the most vexing problem facing us wherein faith collides with political reality....
Absence of thought
Susan Jacoby is a formidable social critic who writes from a progressive stance and in an accessible style....
After death
Jon Levenson, a biblical interpreter to whom attention must be paid, has coauthored this book with Kevin Madigan, a profess...
Imperial assumptions
Every contemporary theological interpreter must come to terms with the fact that every interpretation is local and informed by ...
Isaiah as the 'fifth Gospel'
This extraordinary volume is among the first in a new series of commentaries from Eerdmans that invites attention...
The Book of Psalms
Though not reckoned as a scripture scholar in any conventional sense, Robert Alter has affected the study of the Hebrew Bible in...