Sometimes described as "people of the book," Christ-followers the world over have found Scripture to offer life-giving words. What is true of any number of Christian institutions is also true of Baylor...
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...
by Byron R. Johnson, Alfreda Alvarez Wubbenhorst and William Wubbenhorst
Price: $69.99
ISBN: 9781481323505
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: December 2025
Format: Hardcover
The Faith Factor and Social Welfare: Evidence, Practice, Policy comprises case studies and impact evaluations on the important work done by faith-based organizations (FBOs) in the United States to...
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...
Why have such varied traditions of worship come down through history? The field of liturgical studies readily acknowledges that each tradition of worship has sought, in its own way, to worship faithfully....
Palestinian Christian Theology from the 1980s to the Present
by Maayan Karen Raveh
Price: $64.99
ISBN: 9781481323703
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
"If Jesus were to be born today, he would be born under the rubble of Gaza."This powerful statement of Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac captures the physical and spiritual landscape of Palestinian Christians....
From the late first century to the end of late antiquity, three rival traditions—pagan, Jewish, and Christian—found themselves at odds over one issue in particular: the nature of the relationship...
To read a passage repeatedly, to examine its ambiguities, to probe its place in a larger text, to reflect on its relationship to other texts by the same author and its place within the canon of Scripture—all...
The second century of the Common Era was a time of significant transition, innovation, and upheaval for the Greco-Roman world. In the midst of great societal changes the relatively new religious movement...
Scholars today tend to view the birth narratives of Jesus as substantially less reliable than the rest of the canonical Gospel accounts. Indeed, many recent studies of the historical Jesus pass over...
The devil—styled by Calvin as "God’s adversary and ours"—is ubiquitous in the witness of the New Testament. Yet contemporary Christian doctrine generally remains dumbfounded about what to do with...
The concept of natural law—universal moral knowledge—is often associated with Stoic philosophers, Thomas Aquinas, or the medieval Jewish rabbis. But Jews in the Second Temple period had their own...
Toward a Deeper Practical Theology of Mental Health
by John Swinton
Edited by Angela H. Reed
Price: $27.99
ISBN: 9781481324717
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
What if our well-intentioned efforts to promote mental health inadvertently perpetuate systems that cause mental unwellness? What if the resilience we encourage only equips individuals to endure rather...
Apocalyptic Pastoral Theology in Paul's Thessalonian Letters
by Jamie Davies
Foreword by Susan Grove Eastman
Price: $42.99
ISBN: 9781481324502
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
Writing a study in apocalyptic pastoral theology may sound like an exercise in "performative self-contradiction." But such an endeavor reminds us that the imminent expectation of the Lord’s return,...
Exploring medieval spirituality invites us to delve into a remote world. This introduction is a guide to understanding how medieval believers experienced divine presence in manifold ways. God became...
Preaching is typically considered to be a practice confined to ministry within the institutional church. Studies of preaching are often filtered through the lens of the pulpit, with Black women rarely...
