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Interprets the life and work of Justo L. González as a metamodern missionary and González's contribution to the formation of a Hispanic theological canon in the United States.

Celebrates the life, social crisis preaching, and ministerial legacy of Kelly Miller Smith, Sr., one of America’s foremost Civil Rights leaders. Gardner compares the effective social crisis preaching of Smith to the rhetorical eloquence of ancient Greco-Roman orators.

An account of the 1927 accident that claimed the lives of ten Baylor University basketball team and the legacy of the tragedy.

A biography of the British Nonconformist minister, evangelist, and activist John Clifford.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) remains one of the most enigmatic figures of the twentieth century. His life evokes fascination, eliciting attention from a wide and diverse audience. Bonhoeffer is rightly...

Most Baptists today have adapted rather well to the modern world--that is, they worship as they live, in ways that don't much deviate from the general cultural milieu. It was not always so. In the past,...

In the summer of 1945, Eberhard Bethge began the search for traces of his colleague and friend Dietrich Bonhoeffer. From as early as September 1945, Hermann Pünder provided Bethge a first-hand account...

Gary Dorrien, the renowned social ethicist, theologian, and intellectual historian whose many books are routinely described as magisterial and definitive, in this book turns to interpret his own life...

Profiles the life, career, influence, and legacy of Contemporary Christian Music artist and composer Kurt Kaiser.

The call came for Tommy Bowman unexpectedly and yet he followed with conviction. It happened at a time when revolution was coming to Southwest Conference football and basketball during the 1966-67 school...

From the Model T to Mars tells the story of Billy Don (Bill) Sherman’s life and sixty-six-year pastoral ministry. It is a journey filled with triumphs and trials along with a hearty side of laughter....

John Paul Newport was perhaps the most influential American Baptist philosopher and apologist of the twentieth century. He became legendary as a Baptist statesman, scholar, peacemaker, and transformational...

For centuries, particular readings of the biblical text have shaped the course of Western history. Scripture, used as a political totem for those in power, gives divine weight to political agendas....

Given the 2005 Award of Merit by Christianity Today, Christopher Evans' The Kingdom is Always but Coming follows the life and career of American theologian Walter Rauschenbusch, the preeminent spokesperson...

This book examines the powerful vortex of John Sung’srevivals in China and Southeast Asia, which directlyinfluenced ten percent of all Chinese Protestants bythe end of the 1930s.Particular attention is given to class, women, and divinehealing. Sung’s revivals appealed to the xiaoshimin, or China’s petty urbanites, who sought a modern spiritualitythat befit their urban lives, yet wanted a religious systemthat addressed their traditional concerns. Womenappeared at Sung’s revivals in disproportionate numbers,because in China and Southeast Asia revivalism andmodernity fueled one another, and women could use thatcombustible mix to cast new places for themselves inlocal societies--even if it meant challenging Sung’s ownperception of women. Sung’s practice of healing, derivedfrom the holiness movement, temporarily challengedChina’s medical pluralism, before eventually becomingpart of it.Analysis of Sung’s ministry suggests that revivalismwas a powerful tool for personal and social revitalization.Through it, Sung not only rebuilt his own life andministry, but he also used revivalism to recreatea distinctively...

Tiberius' unique position as the unrivaled leader of the ancient Roman Empire has not prevented him from being pushed to the sidelines of historical interest. In The Successor, Willemijn van Dijk seeks to remedy this relegation in her compelling portrait of a complicated ancient ruler. The story of Tiberius is one of intrigue. Van Dijk draws readers onto backstreets and into back rooms, bringing Rome to life with vivid portrayals of what it was like to stand on the great Palatine Hill or by the banks of the Tiber. Against this vibrant urban tapestry, van Dijk weaves together the gripping narrative of Tiberius' rise--a complicated game of power, politics, and conspiracy. Van Dijk strips away the varnish of myth to paint an accurate, incisive picture of a man who at the late age of fifty-five became the greatest commander-in-chief of his day. Vivid, scandalous, and thought-provoking, The Successor tells the...