Brazos Press imprint: 204 books
Becoming Friends
Worship, Justice, and the Practice of Christian Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
How do Christians understand friendship and intimacy? How does worship form Christians into a community of the friends of God? What virtues does God call us to incorporate into our lives? In Becoming Friends, Paul Wadell explores the connections between worship, justice, friendship, and the life we...
Rethinking Christ and Culture
A Post-Christendom Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
In 1951, theologian H. Richard Niebuhr published Christ and Culture, a hugely influential book that set the agenda for the church and cultural engagement for the next several decades. But Niebuhr's model was devised in and for a predominantly Christian cultural setting. How do we best understand the...
Can These Bones Live?
A Catholic Baptist Engagement with Ecclesiology, Hermeneutics, and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
In this book, Barry Harvey offers a doctrine of the church that combines Baptist distinctives and origins with an unbending commitment to the visible church as the social body of Christ. Writing from a postliberal, post-Constantinian perspective, Harvey outlines how the church, in its current Western...
The Conviction of Things Not Seen
Worship and Ministry in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
A unique resource for identifying issues involved in Protestant pastoral ministry and adjusting pastoral approach to those issues.
Letters to a Young Calvinist
An Invitation to the Reformed Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Who would have guessed that something as austere as Calvinism would become a hot topic in today's postmodern culture? At the 500th anniversary of John Calvin's birth, new generations have discovered and embraced a "New Calvinism," finding in the Reformed tradition a rich theological vision....
by Lauren F. Winner
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
SEX. Splashed across magazine covers, billboards, and computer screens--sex is casual, aggressive, and absolutely everywhere. And everybody's doing it, right?
In Real Sex, heralded young author Lauren F. Winner speaks candidly to Christians about the difficulty--and the importance--of sexual...
Singled Out: Why Celibacy Must Be Reinvented in Today's Church
Why Celibacy Must Be Reinvented in Today's Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Authors Christine Colón and Bonnie Field thought that by a certain age they would each be married. But they watched that age come and go--and still no walks down the aisle.
In Singled Out, they reflect on their experience--and that of an increasing number of Christians. Rejecting overly simplistic...
by Jim Wallis
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
There is a war going on in our nation's political discourse. Polarizing labels--left/right, Republican/Democrat, young/old, rich/poor, traditional/progressive--define and divide us. And in the process we've lost a vision for the common good.
Jim Wallis believes our life together can be better....
Mere Discipleship
Radical Christianity in a Rebellious World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
What does it mean to be a disciple of Christ today? And are Christians really prepared for the answers? In Mere Discipleship, Lee Camp sets forth his vision of what it means to truly follow Christ, challenging Christians to put obedience to Jesus as Lord ahead of allegiances to all earthly authorities--be...
The Future of Our Faith
An Intergenerational Conversation on Critical Issues Facing the Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Younger Christians are leaving the church in droves, frustrated and disillusioned by the track record of American Christianity. Older Christians, who still lead most churches, are concerned about this trend. But the generations don't see eye to eye on many things. Here two evangelical leaders forty...
The Redemption of Love
Rescuing Marriage and Sexuality from the Economics of a Fallen World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Competing answers to dilemmas involving love, sex, marriage, and family scream to us from nearly everywhere. The Redemption of Love reveals what the Bible has to say about these issues by applying the growing economic study of religion.
Using Genesis, Jesus, Paul, and the Song of Songs, Carrie...
David (Ancient-Future Bible Study: Experience Scripture through Lectio Divina)
Shepherd and King of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Ancient-Future Bible Study incorporates contemporary study of the Bible with an experience of the church's most ancient way of reading Scripture, lectio divina. This time-honored practice consists of five basic movements: biblical study (lectio), reflection (meditatio), prayer (oratio), discernment...
Kingdom Conspiracy
Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
An Award-Winning Challenge to Popular Ideas of the Kingdom
According to Scot McKnight, "kingdom" is the biblical term most misused by Christians today. It has taken on meanings that are completely at odds with what the Bible says and has become a buzzword for both social justice and...
Pastor Paul (Theological Explorations for the Church Catholic)
Nurturing a Culture of Christoformity in the Church
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Being a pastor is a complicated calling. Pastors are often pulled in multiple directions and must "become all things to all people" (1 Cor. 9:22). What does the New Testament say (or not say) about the pastoral calling? And what can we learn about it from the apostle Paul?
According...