A Catholic German philosopher who lived from 1904 to 1997, Josef Pieper shaped theological luminaries like Joseph Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar.
In this clearly written book, T.L. Holtzen explains why the complicated debates about the doctrine of justification before and after the Reformation still matter today.
Transforming Friendship
Investing in the Next Generation
Lessons from John Stott and Others
By John Wyatt
IVP, 176 pages, $13.99
John Wyatt’s book is not only timely, but it...
Christopher Webster’s presentation of important Classical achievements such as St. Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury (George Steuart, 1790-92) is novel and enlightening.
Passions of the Soul
By Rowan Williams
Bloomsbury Continuum, 121 + xxxiv pages, $15
At the heart of this slender volume is a series of retreat addresses...
This book is a user manual to the International Version of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer published by InterVarsity Press in 2021, edited by Bray and Keane. Once that initial confusion is cleared up, the book’s intention becomes quite clear: it introduces non-Anglican evangelicals discovering liturgy for the first time to a venerable and time-tested expression of Christian worship, a solid, stately liturgy with a Reformation edge.
Karen Stiller focuses on several words — fruit, body, money, hospitality, humility, beauty, church, remembering, and sorrow — to explain how holiness might become real in our lives.
Autism and Worship
A Liturgical Theology
By Armand Léon van Ommen
Baylor, 263 pages, $44.99
In 2015, my wife and I were struggling to raise our two young...
The phrases “Praise and Worship” and “Contemporary Worship” have a great deal of explanatory power for understanding large swathes of the modern church.
The Meaning of Singleness:
Retrieving an Eschatological Vision for the Contemporary Church
By Danielle Treweek
IVP Academic, 336 pages, $35
This important book by Danielle Treweek, a deacon...
Fratelli Tutti
A Global Commentary
Edited by William T. Cavanaugh, Carlos Mendoza Álvarez, Ikenna Ugochuwku Okafor, and Daniel Franklin
Cascade Books, 360 pages, $64
Here a set of...
Christ the Logos of Creation:
An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics
By John Betz
Emmaus Academic, 592 pages, $59.95
In this ambitious work, John Betz aims to reinvigorate the...