The Definitive Account of the 1927 Tragedy and Its Legacy at Baylor University
by Todd Copeland
Price: $22.99
ISBN: 9781481323390
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: December 2025
Format: Paperback
On the morning of January 22, 1927, Baylor University’s basketball team set out by bus for Austin to play the University of Texas that night. The game, however, would never be played. Ten of the twenty-two...
In 1966, Michael R. Watts completed his Oxford dissertation on the life of John Clifford (1836-1923). Although Watts intended for the work to be published, he passed away unexpectedly and the dissertation...
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...
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...
Icon and Conscience of Contemporary Christian Music
by Terry W. York
Price: $27.99
ISBN: 9781481316729
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Paperback
At the age of four or five, a young boy made his way to the piano in his Chicago home and picked out a recognizable tune. His German-American parents sensed they had witnessed something special. They...
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....
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,...
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...
Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man
by Daryl R. Ireland
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481312707
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: August 2020
Format: Hardcover
Dubbed the "Billy Sunday of China" for the staggering number of people he led to Christ, John Song has captured the imagination of generations of readers. His story, as it became popular in the West,...
Politics, prestige, power--monster, angel, emperor.Tiberius' unique position as the unrivaled leader of the ancient Roman Empire has not prevented him from being pushed to the sidelines of historical...
At the end of the nineteenth century, Augustus Strong emerged as one of the most influential church leaders and theologians in America. But, as Grant Wacker reveals in this masterful study, Strong also...
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...
Uldine Utley defined the "girl evangelist" of the 1920s and 1930s. She began her preaching career at age eleven, published a monthly magazine by age twelve, and by age fourteen was regularly packing the largest...
