Christian Studies

More than commonplace truisms, the biblical Book of Proverbs is an anthology of teachings designed to help you live with a sense of self-responsibility. Its wisdom, compiled in the seventh century BCE and credited to King Solomon... Read more

The complete text of this lost Gospel--which is older than the four traditional Gospels and based on sayings in Aramaic--contains the original words, teachings, and ideas spoken by Jesus. Read more

Books in the Westminster Bible Companion series assist laity in their study of the Bible as a guide to Christian faith and practice. Each volume explains the biblical book in its original historical context and explores its significance for faithful livin Read more

Students of biblical Greek and Hebrew may not know everything they need to know, but they do know there’s a lot they need to know!
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Foreword by Bishop Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and author of Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times Read more

The Real Jesus—the first book to challenge the findings of the Jesus Seminar, the controversial group of two hundred scholars who claim Jesus only said 18 percent of what the Gospels attribute to him—"is at the center of the newest round in what has been Read more

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was a French Jesuit theologian and scientist renowned for his pioneering field work in paleontology. His visionary writings on the reconciliation of faith and evolutionary theory aroused the suspicions of the Vatican Read more

Author Greg Garrett argues that a faith that focuses solely on personal morality and the afterlife misses much of the point of Jesus' message, which is centered on loving each other and loving God, Read more

In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote retelling the entire history of religion with deepest respect and a keen commitment to accuracy. Read more

Franciscan Lectio is for all those on a spiritual journey who long to see the world more beautifully and deeply and become more attentive and present. Read more

Tom Wright shows us the liveliness of cosmopolitan Corinth and reveals the wisdom and challenge of Paul's writing, bringing out the pastoral sensitivity and deep insight that make this letter one of Paul's crowning achievements. Read more

N. T. Wright's eye-opening comments on these letters are combined, passage-by-passage, with his fresh and inviting new translation of the Bible text. Read more

N. T. Wright's For Everyone series has undertaken a tremendous task: to provide guides to all the books of the New Testament, and to include in them his own translation of the entire text. Read more

N. T. Wright manages to unravel the great complexity of the extraordinary Gospel of John, making use of his scholar's understanding, yet writing in an approachable and anecdotal style. Read more

N.T. Wright makes use of his vast understanding, yet writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, managing to unravel the great complexity of this extraordinary gospel. Read more