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About the Contributor(s):R. Scott Sullender is Associate Professor of Pastoral Counseling at San Francisco Theological Seminary. He is a licensed psychologist in California and a Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. He is the author of Losses in Later Life: A New Way of Walking with God. His forty years of professional work has focused on the integration of spirituality and psychology in the context of the healing of persons and their families.

About the Contributor(s):Rev. Antonio L├│pez, FSCB, is Provost/Dean and Associate Professor of Theology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, DC. He is author of the book Spirit''s Gift: The Metaphysical Insight of Claude Bruaire.

About the Contributor(s):Deborah Sokolove is Director of the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion and Associate Professor of Art and Worship at Wesley Theological Seminary. She is a regular contributor to ARTS, Lectionary Homiletics, and other journals. In addition to her writing and teaching, she is an artist with an active exhibition schedule.

About the Contributor(s):Tex Sample is the Robert B. and Kathleen Rogers Professor Emeritus of Church and Society at the Saint Paul School of Theology (Kansas City). Author of ten previous books, his most recent is The Future of John Wesley''s Theology (Cascade, 2012). He is a freelance speaker and workshop leader in the United States and overseas and is active in broad-based organizing in Phoenix, Arizona.

About the Contributor(s):Frank O''Hara studied theology at the Gregorian University in Rome from 1951 to 1954 and obtained a baccalaureate there. He obtained a PhD in theology at King''s College London under the supervision of the late Professor E. L. Mascall.

About the Contributor(s):Tobias Brandner (PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland) is a minister of the Swiss Reformed Church and of the Hong Kong Tsung Tsin Mission. For the past twenty years, he has been working in prisons in Europe and Asia--first in Switzerland and since 1997 in Hong Kong. He is also an Assistant Professor of Church History, Missiology, and Ecumenism at the Divinity School of Chung Chi College, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

About the Contributor(s):Gordon P. Hugenberger, PhD, is senior minister of Park Street Church, Boston. He also teaches Old Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

About the Contributor(s):Kevin Ward (PhD) is Senior Lecturer at the Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. His research interests are in the church and religion in contemporary Western societies and he has written extensively in this area.

About the Contributor(s):Ronald F. Marshall (MA, Claremont Graduate School) has been the pastor at First Lutheran Church of West Seattle since he was ordained there in 1979. He is the author of more than fifty articles, specializing in the thought of Martin Luther and S├╕ren Kierkegaard. For more details on Pastor Marshall, go to flcws.org.

About the Contributor(s):Paul Spanring is the minster of Cheddar Baptist Church in Somerset, UK. He has been involved in Christian work in his native country of Austria as well as Micronesia and Africa.

About the Contributor(s):R. Dennis Macaleer has a unique combination of education and experience. He holds an undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering from Princeton University, master''s degrees from Fuller Seminary and Princeton Seminary, a Doctor of Ministry degree in marriage and family, and a PhD in bioethics. He has pastored several churches spanning two continents over a thirty-five year period and currently pastors a church in suburban Pittsburgh.

Description:As one surveys the scholarship on the canonical letter to the Philippians, one notices the lack of attention to women within many scholars'' analyses. To a certain extent, this lack of attention exists because ancient texts often leave out information about women. Using ritual studies, archaeology, and textual evidence, this work brings life to the ritual lives of ancient Philippian women in their own cultural context. The discipline of ritual studies provides new questions that shed more specific light on the lives of women in this fledgling Jesus group. Therefore, ritual studies brings clarity to early Philippian women''s reception of the letter. Furthermore, this ritual background helps modern readers visualize a more diverse community of Jesus followers in Philippi and provides a clearer picture of the struggles this nascent Jesus community was experiencing.

About the Contributor(s):Svetlana Khobnya is Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Nazarene Theological College, Manchester (UK). She is an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene, a member of the Tyndale Fellowship Society, the British New Testament Society and the Wesleyan Theological Society. This book is based on her PhD thesis submitted to the University of Manchester in 2011.

About the Contributor(s):David T. Ngong is originally from Cameroon, Africa, and is Assistant Professor of Religion and Theology at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He is the author of The Holy Spirit and Salvation in African Christian Theology (2010).

Description:Surprisingly, there has never been a comprehensive exegetical study in English of Saint Paul''s view of the second coming, or Parousia, of Christ. In this methodical analysis, Joseph Plevnik brings nearly three decades of research to bear on the question of Paul''s understanding of this most central tenet of the whole Christ event. With careful attention to the concepts and terms underlying the notion of the Lord''s coming, Plevnik examines the key Pauline texts, such as 1 Thess 5:1-11 and 1 Cor 15:23-28. Plevnik then constructs a viable theological interpretation of the great Christian hope, including the language of hope, Christ''s parousia and judgment, conflict at Christ''s return, the place of the church, and Paul''s apocalyptic theology. This volume will be indispensable for any study of Pauline theology, the Parousia, the theology of hope, and apocalypticism.""It is my hope that the book will be not only a scholarly contribution on the topic but also of some personal value to the reader and to the preacher. It may provide a timely reading at the close of the second millennium. The times and seasons, however, are not for us to determine, but a proper preparedness for the Lord''s coming is the message of the New Testament, and of Paul in particular. If the Lord''s coming may no longer be said to be near, it can still be desired. Marana tha.""--Preface

About the Contributor(s):Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell, who works for the Reform movement as a congregational consultant, edited Lesbian Rabbis (2001) and The Open Door (2002).Rabbi Nancy Fuchs Kreimer is the founding director of the Department of Multifaith Studies and Initiatives at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She blogs at www.multifaithworld.org/ and is the author of Parenting as a Spiritual Journey (1998).

About the Contributor(s):Jeff Nowers is Adjunct Lecturer in Theology at Trinity College, University of Toronto.Néstor Medina is Assistant Professor of Theology and Culture at Regent University School of Divinity.

About the Contributor(s):Ron Clark is the minister for the Agape Church of Christ and faculty at George Fox Evangelical Seminary in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Freeing the Oppressed and The God of Second Chances.

Description:"We tend to use words like miracle and mystery in the context of serendipity. In this frank and eloquent account of life transformed by cancer, Deanna Thompson explores these articles of faith as they are also wont to appear--on the hard edges of hope and the dark side of joy." --Krista Tippett, from the ForewordHoping for More is a story of a young religion professor with a stage IV cancer diagnosis and a lousy prognosis for the future. Amid the grief and the grace of her fractured life, this theologian--who is also a wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend--searches for words adequate to express her faltering faith. More Anne Lamott meets Harold Kushner than the teller of a pious, God-saved-me-from-cancer tale, Thompson unpacks the messy realities that arise when faith and suffering collide. Told in shimmering prose, Hoping for More takes readers on an unsentimental journey through the valley of the shadow of cancer--beyond the predictable parameters of prayer, the church, even belief in life after death. What emerges is a novel approach to talking faith and accepting grace when hope is all you''ve got.Endorsements:"Deanna Thompson''s honest and faithful book shows how healing happens in community, and how blessing is found amid doubt and pain. This is a book of grace."--Sara MilesAuthor of Take This Bread (2007) and Jesus Freak (2010)"I learned so much by reading this book, as a pastor, friend, and mother. Thompson''s insights are for everyone who has ever struggled with serious illness or loved someone who has, which means that this book is ultimately for everyone. If you have ever wondered, "What do I say?" or "What do I do?" this book offers wise counsel, with humor, intellect, and, most of all, grace. In Hoping for More, you get to eavesdrop on the intimate thoughts of someone worth listening to. In the end, Thompson''s deepest theological insights are not about cancer but about life itself."--Lillian DanielSenior Minister, First Congregational Church UCC, Glen Ellyn, IllinoisAuthor of This Odd and Wondrous Calling (2009) and Tell It Like It Is: Reclaiming the Practice of Testimony (2006)"Thompson stands in her cancer with rare, radical awakeness to its bracing truth . . . and gives us a moving, life-lived testimony to the graciousness of grace."--Serene JonesPresident of Union Theological Seminary"In Hoping for More, Deanna Thompson presents her extraordinary journey of diagnosis and treatment of stage IV breast cancer. Thanks to her strong personal voice, reading this book is like listening to a friend tell you about part of her life over a cup of tea. Of the many miracles in this book is Deanna''s ability to reflect on her faith, illness, and loved ones at the same time. She quietly offers a systematic theology enriched by living with cancer--making this book a valuable resource for those interested in the intersection of medicine and faith."--Monica A. ColemanAssociate Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions, Claremont School of TheologyAuthor of Not Alone: Reflections on Faith and Depression (2012)About the Contributor(s):Deanna A. Thompson is Professor of Religion at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and author of Crossing the Divide: Luther, Feminism, and the Cross. She lives with her husband and two daughters in St. Paul

Description:Struck from Behind is a memoir--but not the usual narrative of events. James Howell tells intriguing stories from childhood, romantic life, travel, friendships, tragedies, and wonders, and how God was there, although unnoticed or uninvited at the time. By sharing in retrospect how he now understands God''s presence in seemingly mundane moments, we begin to sense something of God''s way in the world, and in our own lives.Howell has been a successful pastor and published theologian. In Struck from Behind he opens up his own private life as a window into God''s hidden activity. When he remembers, then we too remember God, and begin to notice, and become grateful.Endorsements:""A wordsmith with a purpose, James Howell bares just enough of his romantic pastor''s soul to allow us to better understand our own. His earthy reminiscences are a beautiful invitation to unearth the transcendent in our own messy lives.""--Lillian Daniel, Senior Minister, First Congregational Church, UCC""James Howell is simply incapable of thinking of his life without thinking of the uproarious and creative grace of God. That''s why this book is such a treasure. That God still sends us such preachers is a sign we''ve not been abandoned.""--Jason Byassee, Senior Pastor, Boone United Methodist ChurchAbout the Contributor(s):James Howell is Senior Pastor of Myers Park United Methodist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Adjunct Professor of Preaching at Duke Divinity School. The author of fifteen books, he is a columnist and blogger who has preached all around the world.

About the Contributor(s):Jay Beaman, PhD, is a sociologist and administrative faculty member doing research at Warner Pacific College in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Pentecostal Pacifism (2009). pentecostalpacifism.com Brian K. Pipkin, MAR, is assistant Managing Editor of Pax Pneuma: The Journal of Pentecostals and Charismatics for Peace and Justice. He is the author of ""The Foursquare Church and Pacifism"" in Pentecostals and Nonviolence (2012).

Description:Path of the Purified Heart traces the classic Christian spiritual journey toward transformation into the likeness of Christ in a unique, fascinating way. Drawing on the voices of wise elders from the past and present, Dunham illumines the common path all Christians and spiritual seekers may take toward union with God. Through the motifs of the liturgical year and the labyrinth, the author weaves in her own journey on this path during her ""year of purification.""Endorsements:""Laura Dunham invites the reader to share in the rich convergence in her own life. That convergence includes deep rootage in Reformed faith, alert participation in the great tradition of spirituality, engagement with contemporary masters of spiritual disciplines, and her own critical angle on her own experience. She lines out this convergence according to the liturgical year of the church, giving access that may lead the reader, along with the author, closer to the heart of God.""--Walter BrueggemannColumbia Theological SeminaryAuthor of The Practice of Prophetic Imagination (2012)""In Path of the Purified Heart, Dunham employs all the candor and intimacy of good memoir and all the objectivity of a trained pastor to give us an honest and informative look into Christian mysticism from the perspective of the Reformed tradition."" --Phyllis TickleAuthor of The Divine HoursΓäó series""Rare keen intelligence, simplicity of style, and compelling as literature! This book can teach all of us how transformation is possible if we take seriously one liturgical year and stay attentive. Rev. Laura Dunham has written a book not only different in degree, but different in kind. This is a new contribution to serious seekers in the Christian tradition . . . not only smart and personal but real and ready for any contemporary seeker who wants to go deeper right now.""Mary Margaret Funk, OSBOur Lady of Grace MonasteryAuthor of Into the Depths: A Journey of Loss and Vocation (2010)""Spiritually rich and beautifully written, Laura Dunham not only retrieves important traditions of Christian wisdom, she juxtaposes them in unique, insightful, and fully convincing ways. How does the embodied and transformative process of walking the labyrinth guide us also in the soul''s journey through purification, illumination, and union? How is the church''s liturgical calendar humanized through provocative yet honest personal antidote? In raising these questions Dunham honors Christian traditions as well as her readers.""--Steven Chase, PhDStudium Scholar, St. Benedict''s MonasteryAuthor of Nature as Spiritual Practice (2011)About the Contributor(s):Laura Dunham is a Presbyterian minister and Benedictine oblate. Her professional life spans more than four decades as a college professor and administrator, a pastor and church leader. She now teaches, leads workshops, and writes about spiritual formation and transformation. Her previous books include Graceful Living: Your Faith, Values, and Money in Changing Times. She invites inquiries about her work through her website and blog at www.healingandwisdom.com.

Description:Despite a wealth of literature on the ""missional church"" and ""missional living,"" few resources help Christians and churches think through what it means to be disciples of Jesus Christ and what specific practices help cultivate lives of discipleship. Written from, with, and for the church, Pilgrim Practices: Discipleship for a Missional Church introduces Christian practices from the Letter of James to help guide Christians and churches in their journey of discipleship. This book frames discipleship in a way that has been largely abandoned in modern congregational literature, as fundamentally an issue of identity--an identity that is necessarily formed and practiced in and with the church community. It is a lifestyle that cannot be lived on one''s own. Discipleship ultimately means engaging with others on a journey of faith sustained and cultivated through certain practices--pilgrim practices. The practices examined in this book develop and direct the risky pilgrim journey of Christians, transforming pilgrims into disciples--as the Body of Christ--who participate with God in God''s mission in the world. In this time of transient identities, individualist impulses, and fleeting commitments, this book offers specific practices to help Christians form their identity as disciples and to help Christian communities live their calling as the pilgrim Body of Christ in the world.Endorsements:""Kristopher Norris''s Pilgrim Practices is a winsome treatment of the Christian life organized around the key themes of pilgrimage and practice. Norris retrieves the ancient understanding of Christianity as not merely a set of doctrines but a people''s way of living as an alternative community on missional pilgrimage in the world. The book begins with a helpful exposition of this basic vision, which is followed by a quite rich discussion of key practices of Christian discipleship as these are revealed in the Epistle of James. This book is original, honest, humble, and always engaging. I strongly recommend it.""-David P. GusheeDistinguished University Professor of Christian EthicsMercer University""With writing as vivid and engaging as his vision of the Church, Kris Norris opens up fresh sky over what it means to follow Jesus in the world. I already want to read it again.""--Julie Pennington-RussellPastor, First Baptist Church, Decatur, GA ""Pilgrim Practices is a great example of what can happen when a scholar lands in a local congregation and real lives become fertile soil for ideas. The demonstration plot of real community breathes life into Norris'' theology. The result is a study of James that will benefit any congregation that''s eager to join God''s mission right where they are.""-Jonathan Wilson-Hartgroveauthor of God''s Economy and co-compiler, Common Prayer""It seems like there is a lot of talk these days about the ''missional church.'' But Kris Norris puts biblical flesh on those bones and helps those of us who want to be real disciples of Christ take the next steps. It''s about receiving and entering into a new identity--about falling in love with Christ, Christ''s people, and Christ''s work in the world. Norris walks us through the book of James and into a pattern for a bolder and more authentic way of living.""-Stephen A. Hayner President, Columbia Theological Seminary""Pilgrim Practices: Discipleship for a Missional Church, like the Letter of James on which it is based, is full of wisdom and passion. It is a poignant and powerful explanation of Christian discipleship, offering a compelling journey guide for individuals to follow Jesus in the context of missional communities. I especially appreciated the clear call to engage in ''practices'' that form identity and define what it means to be fully human.""--Daniel VestalExecutive Coordinator, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Atlanta, Georgia ""A refreshing and honest look at two critical ingredients for a New Testament church in our twenty-first-century world

Description:In Glimpses of Another Land, Eric Miller takes the reader across the American landscape in quest of insight into our times. For those facing challenges and choices from all sides, Miller offers not analysis so much as reorientation--the kind of sharpened vision that redirects movement. An age featuring 9/11 as its defining moment surely requires probing reflection and judgment. Here Eric Miller, with an alert eye and keen voice, provides both.Endorsements:""Eric Miller is one of the most thoughtful and graceful writers today--a combination of intelligence, humility, and faithful insight. I try to read everything he writes. What a gift to have so many of his essays collected in one place!"" --Mark Galli, senior managing editor of Christianity Today""Whether he writes about the Amish, popular Christian music, or the Pittsburgh Steelers, Eric Miller''s prose sings with grace, passion, wit, Pennsylvania patriotism, and, suffusing it all, a sense of hope. His is an America of neighbors, faith, and peace, not vacuous pop culture and political cant. In the tradition of Christopher Lasch and Wendell Berry, Eric Miller illumines for us a way back home.""--Bill Kauffman, author of Ain''t My America""It''s fitting that Eric Miller begins this book by talking about hope and longing. Grounded in a specific time and place, clear-eyed about our troubles, these essays offer bright glimpses of another land.""--John Wilson, editor of Books & Culture""Eric Miller is quickly becoming one of the best evangelical cultural critics at work among us today. Always timely, never trendy, usually salty, never cynical, his essays have a winsome way of delighting us in the good, drawing us out of ourselves in longing for a better, more humane and divine mode of living in the world . . . May his tribe increase and find a way of loving the rest of us in. May they help us keep our hope alive.""--Douglas A. Sweeney, author of The American Evangelical Story""These essays invite a new generation to appreciate an older legacy of post-partisan political hope. Here is a voice that echoes with Burke, Chesterton, Berry, and above all, Christopher Lasch. Miller''s pointed insights and intimate prose are invitations to both reflection and delight.""--James K. A. Smith, author of The Devil Reads Derrida""Eric Miller is my favorite Christian cultural critic. I have been absorbing his writings for over a decade, and they never fail to inspire me with hope for something better, something real. If you haven''t read him, you must. These essays will challenge you to think differently about what it means to be a human being in this world."" --John Fea, author of The Way of Improvement Leads HomeAbout the Contributor(s):Eric Miller is Professor of American History at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch (2010) and coeditor of Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian''s Vocation (2010).

Description:This edited volume brings Ahn Byung-Mu''s minjung theology into dialogue with twenty-first-century readers. Ahn Byung-Mu was one of the pioneers of Korean minjung theology. The centerpiece of his minjung theology is focused on the Greek word ochlos, understood as the divested, marginalized, powerless people. Part 1 introduces readers to his life and theological legacy. Part 2 includes four important writings of Ahn Byung-Mu: ""Jesus and Minjung in the Gospel of Mark,"" ""Minjung Theology in the Gospel of Mark,"" ""The Transmitters of Jesus Event Tradition,"" and ""Minjok, Minjung, and Church."" Part 3 contains a collection of articles from international scholars who evaluate and engage Ahn''s ochlos/minjung theology in their own fields and formulate critical readings of minjung theology. Responses include postcolonial, black-theology, and feminist perspectives.

Description:Poems of Devotion is a collection of the finest recent poems in the devotional mode, which the editor examines in detail in the introductory essay. The seventy-seven poets collected here demonstrate the ongoing vitality of poetry as a spiritual practice, in the long tradition of poets, psalmists, and mystics from the East and West. This is an anthology that will prove deeply rewarding in the classroom, at home, or in the library of your religious institution.Endorsements:""The phrase ''contemporary devotional poetry'' is more likely to conjure images of treacly holiday greeting cards than literature of the highest order. But this anthology, on the contrary, bears witness to the perennial human desire to adore--and to question, Job-like--the Almighty. This is a generous and inclusive selection, containing not only modern masters but also emerging voices. Above all, it is a reminder that the best writing is, in the end, an offering to the Mystery.""--Gregory Wolfe, editor of ImageAbout the Contributor(s):Luke Hankins is the author of a book of poems, Weak Devotions (Wipf & Stock, 2011). His chapbook of translations of French poems by Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, I Was Afraid of Vowels . . . Their Paleness, was published in 2011 by Q Avenue Press. He is Senior Editor at Asheville Poetry Review, where he has served on staff since 2006.

Description:How does the proclamation of good news to the poor in Luke''s Gospel relate to wealth and poverty? What does Luke-Acts mean to affluent Christians and churches in our time?In a fresh, systematic way, Professor Pilgrim surveys Old Testament tradition on the poor and describes the Jesus movement as background for understanding Luke-Acts.Endorsements:Dr. Pilgrim underscores Luke''s unique interpretation of the Jesus tradition and so pinpoints Luke''s concern for the right use of possessions in the Christian Life.--- J. Christiaan Beker, Princeton SeminaryThis well-informed book brilliantly illumines the thematic of wealth and poverty in Luke-Acts. Dr. Pilgrim challenges Christians of all denominations to probe the contemporary meaning of following Jesus, the preacher of Good News to the poor.-- Robert J. Karris, Catholic Theological UnionJesus had much to say about possessions and their use, but what bearing do His words have on our real world? Dr. Pilgrim probes St. Luke''s endeavor to answer that question and at the same time alerts today''s Christians to a fresh vision of intelligent discipleship in caring community.-- Frederick W. Danker, Christ Seminary-SeminexAbout the Contributor(s):Walter E. Pilgrim was Associate Professor of Theology and Director of Continuing Theological Education at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma. He received his Th.D. in New Testament from Princeton Seminary.

Description:Joseph A. Sittler (1904-1987) was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, distinguished for his pioneering work in ecology and for his preeminence as a preacher. He gave both the Beecher Lectures at Yale and the Noble Lectures at Harvard. As the "preacher''s theologian," Sittler approached the interpretation of Scripture with a clear understanding of current critical scholarship, but also in the freedom of the gospel at the center of Scripture and with the humility of a theologian of the cross. In following the trajectory of the text into the preaching situation he gave a lively, timeless, and eloquent expression to the fact that the interpretation of texts is in the service of proclamation.This collection of readings from Sittler''s rich legacy contains a great many presentations and sermons that have never before appeared in print. Theologically serious preaching, close attention to language, engagement with the best of sacred and secular culture, and a deep respect for the text, all characteristics of Sittler''s work, are the sort of features that continue to edify. They remain as benchmarks for good preaching even as styles and contexts evolve.Endorsements:"This book is a trove for discerning preachers. The text comes from one of the premier American theologians of the twentieth century. His vast work has been sifted for us by two similarly significant theologians of the present century: Richard Lischer and James M. Childs. Through their careful editing, we see three great minds at play in the field of homiletics and theology. After reading all the how-to books on preaching, read this one for the ''why to'' of preaching. It will fund both beginning and experienced preachers with theological purpose through a preaching career."--Clay Schmit, Provost, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary"A problem with the legacy of a life like Sittler''s, devoted as it is to the spoken word, is it disappears when its sound waves have died. . . . Yet, this book by its very existence demonstrates, ironically, how valid and valuable written rhetoric is, can be, and as books like this one live on, will be."--From the foreword by Martin E. MartyAbout the Contributor(s):Richard Lischer is James T. and Alice Mead Cleland Professor of Preaching at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. He is the author of The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America (1995) and The End of Words: The Language of Reconciliation in a Culture of Violence (2005).James M. Childs Jr., formerly the Joseph A. Sittler Professor of Theology and Ethics at Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio, now serves there as Senior Research Professor. He is the author of Ethics in the Community of Promise: Faith, Formation, and Decision (2nd ed., 2006) and The Way of Peace: Christian Life in the Face of Discord (2008).

Description:This book approaches the future of John Wesley''s theology in terms of a preferred future by looking back to the Apostle Paul. In a comparison of Wesley''s theology with the writings of St. Paul, Tex Sample maintains that Wesleyans tend to read Paul through Wesley, but that in the future we need to read Wesley through Paul. Key issues between Wesley and Paul are considered in this book: justification by faith, sanctification, the faith in/of Christ, the powers, the individual/social concept in Wesley that is absent in Paul, and, finally, the issue of a justice of the common good. The conclusion develops the implications of this study for the future of the church and its witness.Endorsements:""Scholars have examined the life and thought of John Wesley from many angles. Few, however, have done so with the depth and dexterity of Tex Sample. In accessible and engaging fashion, Sample brings John Wesley into a theological conversation with the first-century world of the Apostle Paul and our own context of the twenty-first century. For those who care about the future of the Wesleyan tradition, this book is a must-read.""--Christopher H. EvansProfessor of the History of Christianity and Methodist StudiesBoston University School of Theology""Tex Sample skillfully engages us in a fruitful and spirited dialogue with the Apostle Paul and John Wesley on the meaning and experience of grace and justification. As a careful scholar, the author brings to the conversation a wide range of biblical interpreters, theologians, and critics. The result is a vision of divine grace that transforms the entire cosmos and calls the church toward a new future.""--Bishop Kenneth L. CarderRuth W. and A. Morris Williams Professor Emeritus of the Practice of Christian MinistryDuke Divinity School""Through an encounter with the ''new'' Paul, Tex Sample challenges us to envision a ''new'' Wesley. He argues we can enrich Wesley''s dynamic understanding of salvation by placing it within the horizon of new creation at the heart of Paul''s gospel. Sample ably introduces us to what is at stake and invites us to join the conversation.--Henry H. Knight IIIDonald and Pearl Wright Professor of Wesleyan StudiesSaint Paul School of Theology""Who but Tex Sample could conceive of, let alone so impressively succeed . . . in bringing John Wesley and the Apostle Paul into fruitful dialogue! Drawing on a broad range of Pauline and Wesleyan scholarship, he presides over a dialogue that is both stimulating in itself and has much to contribute to the church today, especially to its understanding of the indicative and imperative of God''s justice and saving grace.""--Victor Paul FurnishUniversity Distinguished Professor Emeritus of New TestamentSouthern Methodist UniversityAbout the Contributor(s):Tex Sample is the Robert B. and Kathleen Rogers Professor Emeritus of Church and Society at the Saint Paul School of Theology. Active in the church and in community organizing in Phoenix, Arizona, he is the author of ten books, including Powerful Persuasion (2005), Blue Collar Resistance and the Politics of Jesus (2006), and Earthy Mysticism (2008).

Description:William Carey, often dubbed ""The Father of Modern Missions,"" and Adoniram Judson, America''s first intercontinental missionary, were pioneers whose missions overlapped in chronology, geography, and purpose. However, rarely are they both featured in the same volume or compared and contrasted. Here we have unique material by some of the world''s leading experts (such as Timothy George and Michael Haykin) on these two giants of missionary history, with perspectives on these men in ways never seen before. Especially relevant to this current age of World Christianity are the perspectives from India and Burma, the lands which received these men for their missionary enterprise.About the Contributor(s):Allen Yeh is Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies and Missiology at Biola University near Los Angeles, California. He is the co-author of Routes and Radishes and Other Things to Talk About at the Evangelical Crossroads (2010).Chris Chun is Associate Professor of Church History at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary near San Francisco, California. He is the author of The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in the Theology of Andrew Fuller (2012).