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David P Gushee
The growing movement of post-evangelicalism highlights an opportunity to elevate and center the moral teachings of Jesus. So many of those who identify as Christian intuitively know that their old…
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This volume explores Christianity's relationship with democracy in a global perspective.
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Rethink traditional evangelical Christian teachings about LGBTQ inclusion. Gushee takes the reader along his personal and theological journey about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender inclusion in the Church.
Ashley Hardingham
Increasing numbers of evangelical churches are now considering the question of the inclusion of those from LGBT+ communities, not only as attenders, but as involved and committed members and leaders…
Michael W Austin
"An exploration of humility and love as central to Christian formation"--
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David P. Gushee
David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University. A foremost expert in the field of…
Argues that there is in US politics an ‘evangelical centre’ of voters who do not identify with the politics and religion of either the right or the left. This title…
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Originally published in 1994 (Fortress Press), this work is made available again in a new edition. Gushee (moral philosophy, Union University) incorporates new research on the Holocaust as well as…
This book contains fifteen essays originally presented at a conference on evangelical Christianity and global peacemaking held at Georgetown University in September 2012, together with a critical analysis of the…
In the Fray collects David Gushee’s most significant essays over twenty years as a Christian intellectual. Most of the essays were written in situations of ethical conflict on the highly…
About the Contributor(s): David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University, and the author/editor of…
American democracy is in danger. How do we protect it from authoritarian reactionary Christianity?
On January 6, 2021, hundreds of Americans stormed the Capitol to prevent the certification of their…
In this provocative tell-all, David Gushee opens the door to the frictions and schisms of evangelicalism, tells his own story of leaving, and shows that you, too, can find a…
David Gushee analyzes what went wrong with U.S. white evangelicalism in areas such as evangelical identity, biblical interpretation, church life, sexuality, politics, and race, and offers a new way forward…
Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Grace Ji-Sun Kim explores the historical origins and theological implications of the myth of the white male God. Examining the roots of the distortion and its harmful impact on the…
David P Gushee (Union University, Jackson, Tennessee)
Offers a look at how Baptists have formed and sustained scholarly life in America. This title is based on a group of Baptist scholars interested in critically examining the history…
Phil Needham
Following Rabbi Jesus is a surprising exposure of who the Jesus we find in the Gospels really is, what he teaches those who dare to follow him, and how he…
David P Gushee, Steve Watson
The After Evangelicalism Group Study Guide encourages people to read and reflect together on Christianity after evangelicalism.
Mark Wingfield
Why Churches Need to Talk about Sexuality is for congregational leaders and others who want to understand the debates about human sexuality and who desire to follow a process to…
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Brian D Cunnington
The culture wars show no sign of abating. Same-sex sexuality continues to be one of the most brutal and bloody fronts in those wars and Christians, the fiercest combatants. Friendships…
Justin R Phillips
White evangelicals have struggled to understand or enter into modern conversations on race and racism, because their inherited and imagined world has not prepared them for this moment. American Southerners…
Richard H Hiers
Biblical Israelites were sojourners–immigrants, refugees, and resident aliens in lands other than their own–for the greater part of two thousand years. Experiences as sojourners shaped their attitudes toward foreigners who…
David P Gushee,Glen H Stassen
A comprehensive update of the leading Christian ethics textbook of the 21st century. Ever since its original publication in 2003, Glen Stassen and David Gushee’s Kingdom Ethics has offered students…
Jacob Alan Cook
Examining key white evangelical voices from the last century, Jacob Cook deconstructs the concept of worldviews based on current conversations in psychology, sociology, critical race studies, and theology. He engages…
Encouragement for students to reflect on the nature and task of ministry in the 21st century and to seek education to equip them for ministry.
Lisa Graham McMinn
In this newly revised edition of Sexuality and Holy Longing, author Lisa Graham McMinn beautifully describes how people are created by God for relationship, and our sexuality guarantees that we…
A comprehensive one-stop manual on what it means to live Christianly.
Peter Enns, author of The Bible Tells Me So
What does it mean to be a Christian in today’s…
Isaac B Sharp
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear evangelical ?
For many, the answer is white,patriarchal,conservative, or fundamentalist –but as Isaac B. Sharp reveals, the…
Brandan J Robertson
One of the most fiercely debated topics in modern Christianity centers on the inclusion of sexual and gender minorities into the full life of the church. Dozens of scholars have…
Examining key white evangelical voices from the last century, Jacob Cook deconstructs the concept of "worldviews" based on current conversations in psychology, sociology, critical race studies, and theology. He engages…
David P. Gushee,Isaac B. Sharp
Just as it is impossible to understand the American religious landscape without some familiarity with evangelicalism, one cannot grasp the shape of contemporary Christian ethics without knowing the contributions of…
