The Weekly Hit List: May 18, 2012

May 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The Huffington Post featured a video interview with Miroslav Volf (author of A Public Faith). The video can be viewed here.

 

“In this electoral year tensions are particularly high. Polarities are strong. Many people think that the future of our country, indeed the future of what America is all about, is at stake. When both the stakes and the tensions are high, civility suffers. Desperate to win, we demean and dehumanize our opponents. … Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.”
—Miroslav Volf

 

Quick Hits

The Evolution of Adam by Peter Enns was reviewed on Forbes.com

The Bible Made Impossible by Christian Smith was reviewed on Andy Morgan’s blog.

Psalms for All Seasons was reviewed on Ben Myers’ Faith and Theology  blog.

 

Luke Giveaway Winners

Congratulations to Jeff Borden, Mark Lentz, Anna Manelle P. Manuel, Christopher Layton,  and Doug Iverson. They have each won a copy of David Lyle Jeffrey’s Luke (the latest volume in the Brazos Theological Commentary series) on The Brazos Blog.

Keep checking back for our next giveaway.

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The Weekly Hit List: May 11, 2012

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Brazos Press has joined Goodreads.

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Today on Goodreads we posted a giveaway for God and Charles Dickens: Recovering the Christian Voice of a Classic Author by Gary L. Colledge.

Goodreads members can enter the giveaway here.

 

Quick Hits:

A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common God by Miroslav Volf was reviewed on Daniel Tomberlin’s blog.

Jesse Alexander reviewed New Monasticism: What It Has to Say to Today’s Church by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove on his blog, Learning from the Saints.

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The Weekly Hit List: May 4, 2012

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The Christian Century reviewed Living into Focus: Choosing What Matters in an Age of Distractions by Arthur Boers. You must be a subscriber to read the entire review. Here is an excerpt:

“The more difficult task, however, and the one that Boers’s book mostly succeeds in provoking, is to look long and hard at ourselves, at the objects that command our attention and at the practices that make up our days. And then, after he holds up a mirror for us for a little while, Boers asks us the essential, if no longer new, questions: When do we rule our gadgets and when do they rule us? When does technology improve our lives and when does it bankrupt them? What habits might help us manage the omnipresent allures of a technological age? And what can we do if we find ourselves walking around with devices that are not, in the deepest sense of the word, working?”

Quick Hits:

The May 2012 issue of the Brazos Press newsletter, Border Crossings, has released and is available. To receive future issues in your inbox, click here to subscribe.

Peter Enns (author of The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins) was interviewed on Christian.co.uk for what he “thinks about Adam and why it matters one way or the other.”

Miroslav Volf’s A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good was reviewed by Tony Dickinson.

David G. Benner’s Spirituality and the Awakening Self: The Sacred Journey of Transformation was featured in the May list of resources in The Mennonite: “Benner shows that the  transformation of self is foundational to Christian spirituality.”

Christian Smith’s The  Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture was reviewed by Charlie Dean on his blog. “If you think deeply about faith, theology and particularly the Bible, you’ll really want to read this book – and better yet, discuss it with a few people.”

Nathaniel Claiborne reviewed Proverbs & Ecclesiastes (part of the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible series) by Daniel J. Treier on his blog.

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The Weekly Hit List: April 6, 2012

April 6, 2012 By

The April issue of our newsletter “Border Crossings” was just sent out.

You can read it here. To sign up, click here.

Two Brazos books were selected among the finalists for the Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards:

Miroslav Volf’s A Public Faith was selected in the “Religion” category.

Daniel Taylor’s Creating a Spiritual Legacy was selected in the “Body, Mind & Spirit” category.

See the full list of finalists here.

 

Several blogs have given attention to Christian Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture. Many have been linking to the terrific interview with Smith by Frank Viola on the “Beyond Evangelical” blog. If you haven’t read this interview yet, check it out here.

Here are some blogs that have posted on The Bible Made Impossible:

“I Call You Friend” Blog

“Can’t Catch My Breath” Blog

“Court Can Write” Blog

 Quick Hits:

Peter Enns’s The Evolution of Adam was reviewed on the “Falling Off a Cliff Backwards” blog.

Brian Walsh’s Kicking at the Darkness was mentioned in a Vancouver Sun article.

Many great posts came from David Benner’s Spirituality and the Awakening Self being a part of the Patheos Book Club. Be sure to check out Tony Jones’s post (he’s giving away a copy of the book!).

Miroslav Volf’s A Public Faith was reviewed on the “Ends & Means” blog.

Harold Cameron reviewed Samuel Well’s Be Not Afraid on his blog.

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The Weekly Hit List: March 30, 2012

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Miroslav Volf’s A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good has gotten a lot of attention online lately.

Several blogs have written on Volf’s significant book, including:

“Ends & Means” Blog

“DiocseofSheff” Blog

Faith & Globalisation Initiative

“Journey in the World” Blog

 

Elsewhere on the web:

John Byron, of “The Biblical World” Blog reviewed Peter Enns’s The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins. Read the review here.

Christian Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not Truly an Evangelical Reading of Scripture was reviewed on BrianVirtue.org. Read the review here.

David Benner’s new book Spirituality and the Awakening Self is currently a part of the Patheos.com Book Club. Be sure to check out all of the great discussion on this important book.

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The Weekly Hit List: March 9, 2012

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Rachel Held Evans concluded her blog series on Christian Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism is not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture. Her final post is titled “Taking the Bible seriously means embracing its tension and complexity.”

She writes:

“And so, for me, leaving behind biblicism and embracing the ambiguity, tension, and nuance of Scripture has been both frightening and liberating. I no longer live with the security of having a simple, infallible blueprint for living…but I no longer live in fear and denial when the Bible turns out to be difficult to understand and apply.”

On the “Jesus Creed” blog, RJS continued to post on Peter Enns’s The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins.

In “Paul’s Adam and the Gospel,” RJS writes:

“This chapter raises many important questions we could discuss. There are no easy answers I fear. A simple retreat to an ancient understanding of human origins, neglecting the persuasive evidence for an old earth, evolution, and common descent, is an option an increasing number of us find untenable. The way forward requires that we wrestle with both the science and the theology.”

The blog “Scripture Views” also posted on Enns’s book. Read the review here.

Tim Høiland posted a review of Miroslav Volf’s A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good.

He writes:

“Volf goes on to say that faith shouldn’t be idle, but active in all spheres of life, though it must not be coercive either. As Christians, he says that we can bring a unique vision of human flourishing and the common good to the public square, along with the resources to realize it. Even so, we must grant to other religious and political groups whatever rights we claim for ourselves.”

Back in January the Sojourners blog posted a review of Brian Walsh’s Kicking at the Darkness: Bruce Cockburn and the Christian Imagination. Since it never appeared on The Weekly Hit List, we wanted to highlight it now.

The reviewer, Steve Stockman, writes:

“Kick[ing] at the Darkness gave me a refresher course in my Christian worldview. It led me into theological thinking and inspired me to imagine the way the world is — and how the world can be — and how, as a preacher, I can at least attempt to share those thoughts in ways that are perhaps a percentage as creative and imaginative as Bruce Cockburn.”

Hauerwas’s Cross-Shattered Christ Giveaway

Don’t forget about our current book giveaway for Lent. You can enter to win a copy of Stanley Hauerwas’s Cross-Shattered Christ from the Brazos Blog.

To enter, fill out the form here.

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The Weekly Hit List: February 3, 2012

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In addition to the fantastic bloggers who participated in our Evolution of Adam Blog Tour, several other blogs engaged with Peter Enns’s important book this week. Here are some links:

“RJS” at the “Jesus Creed” blog wrote another wonderful piece engaging with Enns’s book.

“(Youth) Ministry in Progress” posted a review.

Paul at “Disoriented. Reoriented.” posted a review.

“Awaiting A White Robe” posted twice on the book: Part 1   Part 2

Don’t forget to enter the giveaway – it ends at midnight tonight!

John Pattison, at “Slow Church,” posted an interview he conducted with Miroslav Volf for a future article in Neue magazine. In it, Volf says:

“The book has been a long time in gestation. Indeed, the individual pieces, though written with the unity in mind, have been written across a relatively wide swath of time – some 15 years if I recall correctly, and one even older than that. I have been thinking about these issues for quite some time. A Public Faith was the result. ”

Read the interview here.

 

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The Weekly Hit List: January 20, 2012

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We have some exciting news and resources to share in this edition of The Weekly Hit List. To fit it all in, we are dividing this post into three sections:

Around the Web:

“Jesus Creed” blogger “RJS” posted two entries this week referencing Brazos books:
In “Adam in Genesis and Paul,” the blogger looked at some introductory issues explored in Peter Enns‘ new book The Evolution of Adam.
Continuing a series of posts on the book, RJS also looked at John Polkinghorne’s Testing Scripture in a post entitled “Is There Ambiguity in the Bible?”.

Rachel Held Evans began blogging through Christian Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible.
The book was also featured on two other blogs: “Bournagain” and “Nita’s Book Club”.

Three blogs reviewed Miroslav Volf’s A Public Faith:    “Religion in the Balance”, “Journey with Jesus”, and “iCrucified”.

Byron Borger at Hearts & Minds listed his top books of 2011 - including Volf’s A Public Faith and Brian Walsh’s Kicking at the Darkness.

Finally, Peter Enns was mentioned in a Huffington Post article by Brandon Withrow. Enns’ book The Evolution of Adam was also reviewed on the “Disoriented Theology” blog.

Announcing “The Evolution of Adam Blog Tour”

We are excited to announce that The Brazos Blog will be hosting a blog tour for Peter Enns’ new book The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins from Jan. 30th to Feb. 3rd.

During that week, we have enlisted some wonderful bloggers to review and interact with this important book. As these bloggers post about the book, we will be linking their reviews on this site (and possibly hosting a few blog entries ourselves!). We will also be giving away copies of The Evolution of Adam and other titles.

Check here next Wednesday for more details on the book giveaway and a full list of participants.

Kicking at the Darkness Giveaway Winners

Congratulations to Bryan Gormley, Agus Sadewa, Phillip Waters, Tom Fagan, and Mindy McAuley on winning a free copy of Brian Walsh’s Kicking at the Darkness: Bruce Cockburn and the Christian Imagination from The Brazos Blog. Check your inboxes for an email on how to receive your book!

 

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Brazos Best of the Best of 2011

January 3, 2012 By

A very happy 2012 from us at The Brazos Blog. We are looking forward to what this new year will bring – and we have many new titles that we are excited about.

However, before focusing on 2012 we want to acknowledge our 2011 titles that recently appeared on various “Best Of” list around the online and print world.

Relevant magazine named Lee C. Camp’s Who Is My Enemy? number 4 on its Top 10 Books of 2011. They wrote:

“Camp suggests taking the question that was on everyone’s lips after the 9/11 attacks (“How could they do this to us?”) as an authentic agenda for understanding: “What in their experience, in their presuppositions, in their vision, could contribute to the deeds or words or actions we find so unjust and horrid?” Reading Who Is My Enemy reminded me of the growing pains I’d get as a kid, usually at night. It was going to be uncomfortable for a while, but I knew I was going to wake up bigger.”

 

Scot McKnight named Christian Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible the Jesus Creed Book of the Year.

“In spite of being panned by a few notable evangelicals, Smith is one of America’s finest scholars of evangelicalism, knows theology, and has poked populist evangelicalism in the eye — both eyes in fact. He has laid down a challenge that must be met: How to read the Bible in a way that does not lead to pervasive pluralism but leads to conclusions on which we can agree enough to say “Thus saith the Lord.” Until that happens, we’ve got too many lone rangers claiming “Thus saith the Lord.” What good is it to say we’ve got the very Word of God if we can’t agree on what the Word says?”

McKnight also listed Camp’s Who Is My Enemy? in his list of the best books of 2011 under the “World Issues” category.

The Englewood Review of Books named several Brazos titles in their Best Books of 2011 list – including Miroslav Volf’s A Public Faith, Christian Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible, and Lee C. Camp’s Who Is My Enemy?

Publishers Weekly named Volf’s A Public Faith among the Top 100 Books of 2011 (and the Top 10 in Religion):

“The gifted Christian theologian answers a pressing question in a pluralistic culture, arguing that nonexclusionary theological truth is not only possible but also socially healthy.”

Congratulations to our authors!

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The Weekly Hit List: December 23, 2011

December 23, 2011 By
There are several blogs that have recently engaged with Christian Smith’s The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture.

Here are a couple:

Soliloquium Blog

Hope Abbey Blog

 
Miroslav Volf’s A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good has also gotten some recent attention by various bloggers.

Here are a few:

CLR Forum

John Piippo Blog

Once Upon a Truth Blog

Keith Clark began a series of posts on Christian Scharen’s Broken Hallelujahs on his Exploring Apprenticeship Blog.

Tripp York wrote a brief review of Lee Camp’s Who Is My Enemy?, calling it “[p]robably one of the most important books in theology/Christian ethics published this past year.”

Check it out here.

Broken Hallelujahs Giveaway Winners

Congratulations to our winners: John Berard, Jonathan Hallewell, Dan Allison, Jennifer Lanthrope, and Nick Norelli!

They have each won a copy of Christian Scharen’s new Brazos book Broken Hallelujahs: Why Popular Music Matters to Those Seeking God.

Merry Christmas from all of us at The Brazos Blog!

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