Books published by Baylor University Press

With impressively clear prose and a superb command of history, Randall Balmer offers a spirited history of evangelical Christianity in the United States. Situating developments in evangelicalism in their wider historical context, he demonstrates the ways American social and cultural settings influenced the course of the evangelical tradition.

The sources in this unique anthology, accidentals modernized and accompanied by careful notes and detailed historical, literary, and theological introductions, immerse readers in this world and allow them to explore comprehensively--for the first time--what was lost, what was transformed, and what was preserved in the English Reformation.--Stefano Colavecchia "Sixteenth Century Journal"

The melding of indigenous Korean religions and Christianity led to a highly localized Korean Christianity that flourished in the early modern era. The Making of Korean Christianity sorts fact from myth in this exhaustive examination of the local and global forces that shaped Christianity on the Korean Peninsula.

Explores the ways in which Revelation, when read as the last book in the Christian Bible, is in actuality a crafted and contentious word. Contributors reveal the intricate intertextual interplay between this apocalyptically charged book, its resonances with the Old Testament, and its political implications.

A convenient pedagogical and reference tool that explains the form and syntax of the biblical text, offers guidance for deciding between competing semantic analyses, engages important text-critical questions, and addresses questions relating to the Greek text that are frequently overlooked or ignored by standard commentaries.

Witherington offers a comprehensive description of evangelical theology while concurrently providing an insistent corrective to its departures from both tradition and text.--Benjamin B. De Van "Wesley and Methodist Studies"

Serves as a basic introduction to the variety of ways contemporary historians have applied their Christian convictions to historical research and reconstruction. Christian teachers and students developing their own sense of the past will benefit from exploring the variety of Christian historiographical approaches described.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a new-found love of spontaneity transformed Christian worship and revolutionised the Enlightenment's 'culture of sensibility'. This book tells the story of how and why spontaneity came to be so revered. It shows that the rise of spontaneity was intimately connected to the forces of commerce and science.

His theology is one for all people, offered through the lens of a particular people, not for individual possession but for redemption and transformation into something new.--Timothy Jones, Ph. D. student, Boston University School of Theology "Homiletic"

By recognizing the gifts of creation that have been scientifically uncovered, Origins presents a new way to understand this universe of grace and reason.--J. Daniel McDonald, Boyce College "Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies"

In a distinctly Chinese voice, Yang presents the legacy of Western missionaries in a new light, contributing greatly to now vigorous Sino-Christian theology.--Thomas Harvey "Scottish Journal of Theology"

Collects the work of renowned scholars on the importance and mission of Christian higher education. Placing Baylor University at the centre of these discussions, this compendium celebrates Judge Kenneth W. Starr's first year of presidency at Baylor University and underscores the necessity of Christian higher education in a global context.

The Old Testament is often maligned as an outmoded and even dangerous text. Iain Provan counters that such easy and popular readings misunderstand the Old Testament. He opposes modern misconceptions of the Old Testament by addressing ten fundamental questions that the biblical text should - and according to Provan does - answer.

The depth and breadth of Parson's chapters root Luke's narrative strategy, interpretive moves, and theological imagination in the pagan, Jewish, and Christian contexts of the period.--John A. Darr, Boston College "Catholic Biblical Quarterly "

Analyses the polysemy of recognition operative in the thought of two contemporary French thinkers, Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) and Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005). Michael Sohn shows that recognition appears prominently throughout the works of Levinas and Ricoeur, which exist at the intersection of phenomenology, ethics, politics, and religion.

Offers teachers and students a comprehensive guide to the grammar and vocabulary of Galatians. A perfect supplement to any commentary, this volume's lexical, analytical, and syntactical analysis is a helpful tool in navigating New Testament literature.

Roots each of the New Testament's twenty-seven writings in their historical, literary, and theological contexts. A true "Reference Edition", Carl Holladay provides thorough, detailed, and exacting overviews, background material, and textual analysis.

Offers teachers and students a comprehensive guide to the grammar and vocabulary of Mark. A perfect supplement to any commentary, this volume's lexical, analytical, and syntactical analysis is a helpful tool in navigating New Testament literature.

Recounts the eighty-year life of Baylor University's most recognizable founder - Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor. Drawing on the personal records of Baylor himself, Eugene Baker constructs a complete history of the founder, from his ancestral roots until the time of his death in 1873.

Poets are our best readers, contends Gardner, and his deft analysis forges a fresh path into the issues and tensions of John's Gospel.--Chris Beneke, Bently University "The Historian"

Pain disintegrates a person, fracturing self and relationships. This title charts the multifaceted personal and social problems caused by chronic pain and surveys professional efforts to mitigate and manage it.

Explores the impact of British classics - the study of Greco-Roman antiquity, with an emphasis on the classical Latin and Greek languages - beyond the borders of Britain itself, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: inside the academy as specialized scholarship and teaching, outside the academy as a mode of social and cultural formation.

Sets aside the broad assumptions usually applied to the study of black churches and analyzes the three factors most necessary for social engagement - theological orientation, organisation of community development initiatives, and gender-based spheres of labor and leadership.

With crisp prose and intellectual fairness, Family Politics traces the treatment of the family in the philosophies of leading political thinkers of the modern world. In an effort to address contemporary society's disputes over the meanings of marriage and family, Scott Yenor examines a roster of major modern political philosophers.

Juel seeks to nourish readers in developing richer imaginations about who God is and how Christians meet God through reading the Bible.--James Henry Harris "Homiletic"

Koskie, and Michael Pasquarello III, Wesley, Wesleyans, and Reading Bible as Scripture ultimately attempts to underscore what it means to stand in the Wesleyan stream and bring about holiness through--and within--daily occurrences.--Donald A. Bullen, Liverpool Hope University "Theological Book Review"

In his now classic Two Powers in Heaven, Alan Segal examines rabbinic evidence about early manifestations of the "two powers" heresy within Judaism. An important addition to New Testament and Gnostic scholarship, Two Powers in Heaven is made available once again for a new generation.

Declining memberships. Pastoral scandals. A fear of secularism and the New Atheism. Christians are worried about the church's future. This book proposes a way forward, and grounds renewal in the good and life-giving work of the Holy Spirit.