A century and a half after his birth, Rainer Maria Rilke remains woven into English-speaking culture in ways unexpected for a difficult modern poet, and especially one writing in German. Many readers...
The significance of the work of Yang Huilin (Professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing) is widely recognized in numerous scholarly fields. Professor...
Literary and Philosophical Investigations of the Apocalypse of John
by Sean M. McDonough
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481323345
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: August 2025
Format: Hardcover
The book of Revelation is strange, to put it mildly. An informed reading reveals John’s pastoral intent is very much in keeping with typical New Testament instruction regarding God, Jesus, and the...
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...
There is a complex relationship between the meaning of Scripture and the ways it is used. Sometimes the meaning constrains Scripture's use, and sometimes Scripture's use casts new and fresh light onto...
Edited by David Lyle Jeffrey and Robert C. Roberts
Price: $54.99
ISBN: 9781481320436
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: March 2024
Format: Paperback
Fides quaerens intellectum is the idea that living faith naturally seeks a more complete understanding of God in relation to his creation. It has motivated Christian education from the very start. Although...
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...
God spoke, and all that is and all that ever will be came into existence. God alone can be called uncreated and Creator, and creation can only accomplish that which already exists within God's imagination....
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...
Art is an outworking of God's creative process, a tangible participation in the shaping of the world. Through our artistic endeavors, we both express our understanding of creation and imbue that...
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...
