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American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James by Andrea Knutson 9780195370928
RRP: $189.15Booksplease Price: $144.24This study examines how the concept of conversion and specifically the legacy of the doctrine of preparation, as articulated in Puritan Reform theology as transplanted to the Massachusetts Bay... -
Princetonians, 1748-1768: A Biographical Dictionary by James McLachlan 9780691616636
RRP: $214.50Booksplease Price: $168.83Benjamin Rush, William Paterson, David Ramsay, Oliver Ellsworth, Jonathan Edwards, Jr.--these are only a few of the remarkable men who attended the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University)... -
The Book of Heaven: An Anthology of Writings from Ancient to Modern Times by Carol Zaleski 9780195119336
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $44.81In every culture, in every epoch, human beings have yearned for heaven-the kingdom of God, abode of the elect, fount of enlightenment, mirror of hopes and desires. Now, in The Book of Heaven, Carol... -
Religion and Its Reformation in America, Beginnings to 1730: An Anthology of Primary Sources by Michael J. Colacurcio 9781602583016
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $155.59Beginning with a brief look at what the European colonists were able to make of indigenous beliefs and practices, and ending in 1730 - the year before the first published work of the Rev. Jonathan... -
Issues in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion by Eugene Thomas Long 9781402001673
Booksplease Price: $176.59This collection of original articles, written by leading contemporary European and American philosophers of religion, is presented in celebration of the publication of the fiftieth volume of the... -
Our Selves/Our Past: Psychological Approaches to American History by Robert J. Brugger 9780801823824
Booksplease Price: $57.27More concerned than ever with questions of theory and method in their work, contemporary historians find themselves turning to other disciplines for the ideas that help them piece together the puzzle... -
The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity by Paul L. Gavrilyuk 9780521769204
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $175.48Is it possible to see, hear, touch, smell and taste God? How do we understand the biblical promise that the 'pure in heart' will 'see God'? Christian thinkers as diverse as Origen of Alexandria,... -
Letters from Wales: Memories and Encounters in Literature and Life by Sam Adams 9781914595073
Booksplease Price: $52.03Since 1996, Sam Adams's 'Letter from Wales' column has been appearing in PN Review, one of the most highly-regarded UK poetry magazines, offering insight and appreciation of Welsh writing, culture... -
The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times by David W. Kling 9780195310214
RRP: $75.06Booksplease Price: $50.54No one can doubt that the Bible has exerted a tremendous influence on Western civilization since the dawn of Christianity. But few of us have considered the precise nature of that influence in... -
Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction by Mark A. Noll
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.65Mark A. Noll presents a fresh and accessible history of Protestantism from the era of Martin Luther to the present day. Beginning with the founding of Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, and Anabaptist... -
Irresistible Beauty: Beholding Triune Glory in the Face of Jesus Christ by Samuel G. Parkison
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.97What hath beauty to do with systematic theology? In this new monograph, Samuel G. Parkison explores this question by examining the relationship between Christ's divine beauty and regeneration and... -
The Routledge Research Companion to the History of Evangelicalism by Andrew Atherstone
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $88.20Evangelicalism, an inter-denominational religious movement that has grown to become one of the most pervasive expressions of world Christianity in the early twenty-first century, had its origins in... -
The Altar Call: The Origins and Present Usage by David Bennett 9780761818397
Booksplease Price: $168.54The Altar Call is a thorough examination of the public invitation practice within Christian evangelism. In addition to giving a comprehensive historical background that spans three continents, The... -
American Ethics: A Source Book from Edwards to Dewey by Guy W. Stroh 9780761818267
Booksplease Price: $140.09American Ethics: A Source Book From Edwards to Dewey presents a rich collection of 70 source readings in American Ethics from the early Puritans and their foremost spokesman Jonathan Edwards to the... -
The Wondrous Cross by Stephen R. Holmes 9781842275412
Booksplease Price: $29.82Stephen Holmes has been described as one of the bright lights of the new generation of evangelical theologians. In this book he offers an accessible and enlightening account of the way the saving... -
Crossing the Bloodline Angela Platt 9781788649001
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.03Offering an affectionate and often humorous peek into a child's world as she matures, Crossing the Bloodline touches on universal human experiences from sibling rivalry to love; from loss to the... -
New Directions in Philosophy by Peter A. French
RRP: $66.79Booksplease Price: $61.27The American Philosophers contains papers by current leading philosophers and political theorists that explore the work of the major American philosophers from the colonial period to the present,... -
Ravished by Beauty: The Surprising Legacy of Reformed Spirituality by Belden C. Lane 9780199755080
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $64.94In this novel exploration of Reformed spirituality, Belden C. Lane uncovers a "green theology" that celebrates a community of jubilant creatures of all languages and species. Lane reveals an... -
The Spirit, the Affections, and the Christian Tradition by Dale M. Coulter 9780268100049
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $78.39This book explores the role of emotions and affections in the Christian tradition from historical and theological perspectives, especially related to the work of the Holy Spirit. Although historians... -
The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century: The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church by David Hempton 9781845114404
Booksplease Price: $110.51David Hempton's history of the vibrant period between 1650 and 1832 engages with a truly global story: that of Christianity not only in Europe and North America, but also in Latin America, Africa,... -
Race and Redemption in Puritan New England by Richard A. Bailey 9780199377824
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $48.98As colonists made their way to New England in the early seventeenth century, they hoped their efforts would stand as a "citty upon a hill." Living the godly life preached by John Winthrop would have... -
Biblia Americana: America's First Bible Commentary. Volume 3: Joshua - 2 Chronicles by Cotton Mather 9783161524370
RRP: $359.58Booksplease Price: $78.55Scheduled to appear in 10 volumes, the scholarly edition of Cotton Mather's Biblia Americana (1693-1728) makes available for the first time the oldest comprehensive commentary on the Bible composed... -
Histories and Fallacies: Problems Faced in the Writing of History by Carl R. Trueman
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.27A primer for dealing with conceptual and methodological problems in history and presents classic historical problems as a way to examine what history is, what it means, and how it can be told and... -
Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts by Sarah Covington
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51The Reformation was one of the defining cultural turning points in Western history, even if there is a longstanding stereotype that Protestants did away with art and material culture. Rather than... -
Can God Be Free? by William L. Rowe
Booksplease Price: $79.95In the three major religions of the West, God is understood to be a being whose goodness, knowledge, and power are such that it is impossible for any being, including God himself, to have a greater... -
Spontaneous Particulars: Telepathy of Archives by Susan Howe
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.50Great American writers-William Carlos Williams, Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Noah Webster, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Henry James-all in the physicality of their archival manuscripts... -
Hollywood & God Robert Polito 9780226103655
Booksplease Price: $30.85Hollywood & God is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing - even lurid-hallucination. From the... -
John Calvin's American Legacy by Thomas Davis 9780195390988
RRP: $61.41Booksplease Price: $59.55John Calvin's American Legacy explores the ways Calvin and the Calvinist tradition have influenced American life. Though there are books that trace the role Calvin and Calvinism have played in the... -
Why I Write Poetry: Essays on Becoming a Poet, Keeping Going and Advice for the Writing Life by Ian Humphreys 9781913437299
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.62What motivates poets in the 21st century? How do they find their voice? What themes and subject matters inspire them? How do they cope with set-backs and deal with success? What keeps them writing?... -
Hard Drive by Paul Stephenson 9781800173279
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.76When his partner suddenly died, life changed utterly for Paul Stephenson. Hard Drive is the outcome of his revisiting a world he thought he knew, but which had been upended. In poems that are... -
That This by Susan Howe 9780811219181
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.06"What treasures of knowledge we cluster around." That This is a collection in three pieces. "Disappearance Approach," an essay about Howe's husband's sudden death-"land of darkness or darkness itself... -
Voices and Visions: Interviews with the Contemporary English-Language Poets of Wales by Kathryn Gray 9783034319713
RRP: $129.77Booksplease Price: $115.67Voices and Visions: Interviews with the Contemporary English-Language Poets of Wales captures the perspectives of key Anglophone Welsh and Wales-associated poets who have emerged in the wake of... -
Enlightened Evangelicalism: The Life and Thought of John Erskine by Jonathan Yeager 9780199772551
RRP: $214.50Booksplease Price: $204.50John Erskine was the leading evangelical in the Church of Scotland in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Educated in an enlightened setting at Edinburgh University, he learned to appreciate... -
Piety and Dissent: Race, Gender, and Biblical Rhetoric in Early American Autobiography by Eileen Razzari Elrod
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.24For pious converts to Christianity in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century New England, all reality was shaped by religious devotion and biblical text. It is therefore not surprising that... -
Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third Reich: Baron, Popper, Strauss, Auerbach by David Weinstein
RRP: $181.33Booksplease Price: $165.09Hans Baron, Karl Popper, Leo Strauss and Erich Auerbach were among the many German-speaking Jewish intellectuals who fled Continental Europe with the rise of Nazism in the 1930s. Their scholarship,... -
A Place Called Paradise: Culture and Community in Northampton, Massachusetts, 1654-2004 by Kerry W. Buckley
Booksplease Price: $78.57In 1790, President Timothy Dwight of Yale offered this description of Northampton, a town situated on the banks of the Connecticut River in western Massachusetts: ""The inhabitants of this valley... -
Reformed Theology and Visual Culture: The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards by William A. Dyrness 9780521833233
RRP: $212.55Booksplease Price: $204.93With the walls of their churches bereft of imagery and colour and their worship centered around sermons with carefully constructed outlines (as opposed to movement and drama), Reformed Protestants... -
Cormac McCarthy's Violent Destinies: The Poetics of Determinism and Fatalism by Brad Bannon
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $78.39Since the release of his first novel, The Orchard Keeper, in 1965, Cormac McCarthy's characters, intricate plots, and sometimes forbidding settings have captivated the attention of countless readers... -
the last polar bear on earth Rhian Elizabeth 9781912109470
RRP: $15.60Booksplease Price: $12.44poems about being sick and being in love. finding out you've got a serious illness like multiple sclerosis is a bit like falling in love. you are never quite the same again. when you get your... -
Being Saved: Explorations in Human Salvation by Marc Cortez 9780334054955
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $71.76With contributions from leading theologians and philosophers, "Being Saved: Explorations in Human Salvation" brings together a series of essays on the major topics relating to the doctrine of...