Theology

Recommended by the Reverend George M. Maxwell, Jr., Vicar of The Cathedral of St. Philip. Read more

Written for secular historians of religion and believers alike, How Jesus Became God will engage anyone interested in the historical developments that led to the affirmation at the heart of Christianity: Jesus was, and is, God. 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

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

Confronting the woeful legacy of a centuries'-old theology, Johnson shows how the beauty of our faith tradition is deepened by being rooted in ecological reality. Read more

In a rich survey of literature and popular media, Garrett compares cultural accounts of death and the afterlife with those found in scripture. Read more

Rooted in solid, orthodox Christian scholarship, this one-of-a-kind book investigates everything there is to know about one of the most fascinating, yet often misunderstood, subjects of all time. Read more

Systematically examines the theological writings of LGBTIQ people of color in order to reflect upon the theological significance of the intersections of race and queer sexuality across multiple ethnic and cultural groups. Read more

Catholicity is a conscious awareness of how everything —the sun, moon, stars, Kepler, Saturn, maple trees, muddy rivers, amoeba, bacteria and all peoples of the earth — form a whole. Read more

From the introduction: " {Wisdom is} a precise and comprehensive science of spiritual transformation that has existed since the headwaters of the great world religions and is in fact their common ground." Paperback Read more

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was only thirty-nine years old when he was executed in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, yet his courage, vision, and brilliance have greatly influenced the twentieth-century Church and theology. Particularly through his bestselling c Read more

In an arrogant age that asks, "Why are Muslims so violent", this book asks from an unlikely perspective why Christians also are. Read more