Essays on Literature and Theology in Honor of Ralph C. Wood
Edited by Rachel Toombs
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481322539
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Hardcover
Ralph C. Wood’s teaching and writing career over fifty years helped readers and students be attentive to the way literature renders the theologically abstract concretely. Wood has modeled serious...
A Revolutionary Witness for the Sake of the Gospel
by Ralph C. Wood
Price: $42.99
ISBN: 9781481321877
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Hardcover
G. K. Chesterton famously claimed that America is "a nation with the soul of a church." He was wrong. In Flannery O’Connor and the Church Made Visible, Ralph Wood argues that our churches have the...
The industrialization of print technologies in early nineteenth-century America transformed print culture in ways that parallel the transformation wrought by the digital revolution. Understanding how...
A Hidden History of Prayer, Proclamation, and Prophetic Witness
by E. Trey Clark
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481321990
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: July 2024
Format: Hardcover
Stereotypical images of African American Christian spirituality eclipse the profound diversity of Black preaching. As a result, contemplative preaching has become one of the most overlooked streams...
Wordsworth, Kant, and the Making of the Post-Christian Imagination
by Simon Haines
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781602587809
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: December 2023
Format: Paperback
A biblical understanding of redemption requires the sacrificial death of Jesus. In the post-Christian world envisioned by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his Enlightenment contemporaries, the Christ-centric...
For some, the Bible and literature are at odds. The Bible, it is argued, is not properly literature but a piece of outmoded fiction that ought not to be studied or taken seriously. However, the relationship...
G. K. Chesterton is often praised as the "Great Optimist"--God's rotund jester. In this fresh and daring endeavor, Ralph Wood turns a critical eye on Chesterton's corpus to reveal the beef-and-ale believer's...
The Scottish poet, author, and Christian minister George MacDonald is widely known as an inspiration for the works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Lewis Carroll, among others. Nineteenth century...
Does the Devil lie at the heart of the creative process? In The Devil as Muse, Fred Parker offers an entirely fresh reflection on the age-old question, echoing William Blake's famous statement: "the...
In this thoughtful and carefully argued book, John Desmond uncovers Christian and transcendent elements in Seamus Heaney's poetry by reading it through the intellectual perspectives of the well-known...
How is life possible in a world of evil, suffering, and chaos? Christians have historically been inept at offering adequate answers as to why people’s lives are derailed by sudden chaos and, even...
In Emerson and Other Minds, Michael J. Colacurcio traces the long arc of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings. While Emerson seldom argues academically in his essays, he intends the essays to be primary...
In Emerson and Other Minds, Michael J. Colacurcio traces the long arc of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings. While Emerson seldom argues academically in his essays, he intends the essays to be primary...
Flannery O'Connor is one of America's most unique Southern authors. Shortly after she began her writing career she was diagnosed with lupus. Despite her illness, O'Connor authored more than two dozen...
Death opens the gates to resurrection. The pathways to faith are diverse, but all carry components of death and renewal. In Avenues of Faith: Conversations with Jonathan Guilbault, Charles Taylor takes...
American Literary Cultures highlights literature written by regional authors—particularly those of Texas and the Southwest—and includes readings representative of a broad array of American...
