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Restoring the Imagination to Its Central Role in Spiritual FormationBecoming by Beholding restores the imagination to its central role in spiritual formation by recovering key works from the Christian tradition, enabling us to experience the formative power of the imagination for ourselves."This valuable volume invites us to pause from stuffing mental fast food into the hungry spaces in our souls and feast instead on gourmet fare from the Christian past. Whether you are drawn more by the dragons, the cathedrals, or the lady virtues, there is food for the Christian imagination here to linger over and savor."--David I. Smith, Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning, Calvin University"The church--Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox--should thank Lanta Davis for this book. Each page reminds you of the astonishing breadth and beauty and magic of the kingdom of God. Through Davis's exploration of Scripture, medieval bestiaries, poems, cathedrals, icons, and paintings, our imaginations are reignited!"--Jessica Hooten Wilson, Pepperdine University"Becoming by Beholding is a work to behold. Not only is this book a study in beauty, imagination, and spiritual formation; it also models the very practices it preaches. To read it is to witness beauty and imagination at work and thus to leave its pages better formed and more ready to be formed by all the goodness the world has to offer."--Karen Swallow Prior, author of The Evangelical Imagination"Becoming by Beholding ushers us into a rich, strange, and beautiful art gallery that unveils our own hearts and minds. Davis's engaging tour draws deeply from the Christian tradition of spiritual masters to show how the architecture of Chartres Cathedral, iconic imagery of Jesus, Station Island's stations of the cross, and the literary genius of Dante teem with spiritual insights that reveal Christ and his life in us."--Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, Calvin University; author of Glittering Vices"Do you think nonfiction is more serious, grown-up, and useful than moving stories, beautiful buildings, and pretty pictures? Let Davis guide you through the Christian artists and makers who testify across the centuries that the stories and images we behold indelibly shape our souls."--Jeffrey Bilbro, Grove City College; editor-in-chief, Front Porch Republic"With the wisdom of a master guide, Davis takes us on a pilgrimage, excavating the riches of the Christian imaginative tradition. The journey is illuminating and surprising, marked by encounters with holiness."--Justin Ariel Bailey, Dordt University

"A valuable resource for all Bible students"This concise introduction to the New Testament addresses the needs and questions of students in multicultural classrooms who are studying for ministry."It is clear from this book that Echevarría is an erudite scholar of first rate. It is no easy feat to master all the material present in this book. The wonderful news is that the book is written in clear prose that is accessible to both students and pastors. I plan to use this book in my courses."--Osvaldo Padilla, Beeson Divinity School"A beautifully engaging invitation to read the New Testament in light of its literary context and content. Echevarría does not shy away from challenges and areas of scholarly disagreement, but his focus is to draw readers into engaging the text, and he succeeds. This is a book I will recommend readily when asked for a place to begin a deeper experience of the New Testament story and message."--Mariam Kamell Kovalishyn, Regent College"A refreshing departure from typical New Testament introductions. This book transcends traditional critical issues to explore the heart of Scripture's relevance in today's ministry. Echevarría's book both informs and challenges readers through concise summaries, thought-provoking questions, and insightful sidebars that enrich the reading experience. A valuable resource for all Bible students."--Dominick S. Hernández, Talbot en Español, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University"Professors can no longer assume that students in a New Testament introduction course have the background necessary to understand the leading introductory textbooks. Echevarría's succinct overviews will help students digest the message of each New Testament book and will give those who are not familiar with the content of the New Testament a helpful jumpstart in their studies."--Charles L. Quarles, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary"Echevarría has gifted students of the Bible with a truly refreshing and helpful resource. While not jettisoning critical issues, this volume keeps readers' eyes squarely on the message of the New Testament within the context of the Christian canon. I hope this book finds wide use in the classroom!"--Andrew M. King, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Spurgeon College

"A quest for truth in its deepest sense, which draws in every element of human longing and aspiration"The Augustine Way retrieves Augustine's scriptural and ecclesial approach for a healing and hopeful apologetic witness for today."To discover a great thinker of the past as an exciting and challenging contemporary is always a wonderful moment. This book--lively, honest, humane, and wide-ranging--introduces us to one of the most brilliant of all Christian writers and lets us realize just how much good news he has to give amid the muddles and longings of our age."--Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury"How refreshing it is to find apologetics in this book being recovered in its more ancient forms, such as Augustine and his philosophical forebears represented so richly: not as an imperialistic imposition, nor as a merely dispassionate assessment, but as a quest for truth in its deepest sense, which draws in every element of human longing and aspiration."--Rev. Canon Sarah Coakley, FBA, University of Cambridge (emerita)"A superb account of how one of the world's greatest classical theologians can give new depth and vitality to contemporary apologetics. This 'apologetics of retrieval' opens up some theologically rich and apologetically compelling approaches, which will be invaluable to us today as we face new cultural challenges. Essential reading for apologists!"--Alister McGrath, Oxford University"Chatraw and Allen have done Christians an immense service in retrieving the bishop of Hippo's thought for a contemporary apologetics that is robustly ecclesial, culturally responsive, intellectually rigorous, and--most beautifully of all--generously ecumenical."--John Sehorn, Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology"With keen attention to the social imaginary of late modernity, The Augustine Way enlarges our imaginations for how we might persuade others of the truth, beauty, and goodness of the gospel within our current age of anxiety."--Kristen Deede Johnson, Western Theological Seminary"I teach a whole course on what makes theology Augustinian because I believe Augustine has much to offer today's church. I therefore welcome and resonate with the thought experiment behind The Augustine Way--namely, to articulate what Augustine would likely say and do as a pastor and defender of the faith if he were alive today."--Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Anthony Giambrone, OP, offers a biblical theology of the priesthood rooted in the Old and New Testaments."This beautifully written volume manages to pack a very sophisticated set of interpretive proposals into a book that a general theological reader can understand and enjoy. Most modern books on the priesthood either deny the linkage between the Bible and Catholic practice or smuggle in a variety of apologetic readings in an attempt to justify a predetermined position. With characteristic honesty and brilliance, Giambrone provides a much-needed alternative: an exegetically sound grounding of the office of the priesthood in the biblical tradition."--Gary A. Anderson, University of Notre Dame"This is the kind of exegesis I have been waiting for since I became a student of the sacred page. Fr. Giambrone masterfully fulfills the mandate of Dei Verbum 12, effortlessly integrating his outstanding historical scholarship into a balanced, fully canonical Christian hermeneutic. The fruit is a profoundly biblical theology of the priesthood that will illuminate exegetes, fundamental theologians, and dogmaticians alike."--Nina Heereman, St. Patrick's Seminary & University"A splendid work of unimpeachable scholarship from an international biblical scholar. Every seminarian should be given this book to prosper his grace to be a priest. Every priest should read this book to fortify his vocation. Every bishop should buy this book. Additionally, Fr. Giambrone's easy-to-read presentation of biblical themes will help Christ's lay faithful to understand the divinely ordained place that the Catholic priest occupies in the Church."--Romanus Cessario, OP, Ave Maria UniversityPraise for the Catholic Biblical Theology of the Sacraments Series"This series gives to students of the Bible a deeply enriched view of the mesh of relationships within and between biblical texts that are brought to light by the liturgy of the sacraments."--Jennifer Grillo, University of Notre Dame"This series points the way to the theological and exegetical future."--Matthew Levering, Mundelein Seminary