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
Written for academically inclined readers of theology and the arts, Good News Resounding extends Wood’s legacy and testifies to the power of the classroom to shape future generations of readers, theologians, and Christians.
A Revolutionary Witness for the Sake of the Gospel
by Ralph C. Wood
Price: $42.99
ISBN: 9781481321877
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2024
Format: Hardcover
Thus does Flannery O’Connor’s radically Christian fiction make her the most important Christian writer this nation has produced, chiefly because it serves to make the Church visible once again.
A Hidden History of Prayer, Proclamation, and Prophetic Witness
by E. Trey Clark
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481321990
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: June 2024
Format: Hardcover
Ultimately, the book presents Black contemplative preaching as a historic and enduring source of theological wisdom that speaks to the political, ecological, and spiritual challenges of our times.
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
Redemption in Poetry and Philosophy highlights the ways in which prose allegedly serves as a redemptive agent for nonbelievers in the modern age, but engenders dangerous notions of self-redemption in contemporary Christians.
In the end, Jasper synthesizes his work, offering some reflections on pedagogy and the changes that have occurred from the 1980s up to the present day.
Linking these literary conceptions with scholarship on the genesis of the historical conception of the Devil and recent work on the role of "othernessin creativity, Parker insightfully suggests how creative literature can feel its way back along the processes--both theological and psychological--that lie behind such constructions of the Adversary.
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...
Further, it reveals that McCarthy, like the Joban author, constructs a theodicy that both rejects the easy stance of a detached and generalized answer to the question of why chaos comes and advances the more pressing question of how life continues in the face of chaos.
Conversing with himself and other powerful minds on fundamental questions of human knowledge and behavior, Emerson produced brilliant essays--both philosophical and literary in the fullest sense--that richly reward closer examination.
Conversing with himself and other powerful minds on fundamental questions of human knowledge and behavior, Emerson produced brilliant essays--both philosophical and literary in the fullest sense--that richly reward closer examination.
Flannery O'Connor reignites O'Connor's own critiques of the modern affinity for perfection, self-sufficiency, and a clear separation between "goodand "bad."
Avenues of Faith gives readers unprecedented access to a world-renowned philosopher’s reflections on the literary masterpieces that have shaped his life and scholarship and that continue to stand the test of time.
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...
