Books published by Baylor University Press

Instead of pitting a people of faith against a secular humanist elite, this book helps Americans understand the religious differences that divide, appreciate the public agreements that allow us to live with religious differences, evaluate how existing democratic processes alleviate divisions, and identify ways Americans can agree to disagree.

When Cone wrote Black Theology and Black Power, he signalled to the world that the American black faith tradition would no longer recognize the confines of the church walls as the extent of its purview in society. Black Faith and Public Talk continues Cone's theme of power in the public realm.

Crafts both a theology of disability and a theology informed by disability. The result is a Christian theology that not only connects with our present social, medical, and scientific understanding of disability but also one that empowers a set of best practices appropriate to our late modern context.

Featuring essays by prominent social scientists, this is the first book-length, systematic examination of the relationship between religion and social capital and what effects religious social capital has on democratic life in the United States.

Provides a critical assessment of the scholarship on "Luke-Acts". This study divides thematically, with individual chapters covering the subjects of history and eschatology, the role of the Old Testament, Christology, the Holy Spirit, conversion, and the church. Each chapter considers the theological problems unique to each theme in "Luke-Acts".