Take & Read: Theology
Five new books that address today’s theological challenges
Karl Barth
What is the church’s true crisis of decline?
It’s probably not what you think.
Karl Barth’s affair with Charlotte von Kirschbaum wasn’t the only major conflict behind his theology
Christiane Tietz explores them all in the first full-length biography since Eberhard Busch’s in 1976.
Before you had a human parent, you had a perfect one.
The audacity to preach the gospel
Will Willimon tells preachers to put aside sentimentality.
Karl Barth’s gift to the church
Kimlyn Bender has produced a reading guide to assist nonspecialists.
James Cone and the liberating spirit of blackness
In his final memoir, Cone’s testimony resounds.
A Ghanaian theologian considers demons
Are they real? and other questions in Esther Acolatse’s work.
I had to learn to preach in "receive" mode rather than "send" mode.
The state killed Kelly Gissendaner despite the evidence of a changed life. This points to a desire for retribution rather than reformation.
I don’t know what a perfect first-century family looked like, but I’m certain that Joseph and Mary didn’t qualify.
Hauerwas, by Nicholas M. Healy
Nicholas Healy's central methodological criticism of Stanley Hauerwas is that he "is concerned with the logic of coming to believe and the logic of Christian living rather more than the logic of belief."
Drawn to Freedom, by Eberhard Busch
In this long, freewheeling conversation with the Heidelberg Catechism, Eberhard Busch sometimes uses the document for leverage against distortions in the contemporary church, and sometimes challenges its assumptions.
Emil Brunner: A Reappraisal, by Alister E. McGrath
Alistair McGrath offers an intellectual history of Emil Brunner's life and thought—and pleads for a recovery of his theology.