Scholarship - New Publications
The Emmaus Readers: Listening for God in Contemporary Fiction
edited by Gary Schmidt and Susan Felch
Paraclete Press, 2008
"It's rare for an edited anthology to be consistently good, let alone exceptional, but this unassuming collection of essays on 12 novels with religious themes offers rich satisfaction. The essayists—all Calvin College professors and staff members—formed a group called "the Emmaus readers" in 2006 to better understand the role of faith in creating and interpreting fiction."
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review »
Real Texts: Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines
by Elizabeth Vander Lei and
Dean Ward
Pearson Longman, 2008
Real Texts is a new kind of reader for freshman composition-a collection of texts by academic, professional, and student writers that model the very best practices of writing within and across disciplines, from communication to chemistry, from nursing to education.
John Calvin Rediscovered:
The Impact of His Social and
Economic Thought
Edited by James D. Bratt and
Edward Dommen
Westminster John Knox Press, 2007
Having grown out of a 2004 consultation sponsored by the John Knox International Reformed Center, the University of Geneva, and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, the essays in John Calvin Rediscovered revive the social and economic thought of John Calvin, first exploring Calvin in his own time and then turning to Calvin's global influence. In addition to the editors, contributors include Lukas Vischer, Elsie Anne McKee, Robert Kingdon, Francois Dermange, Eberhard Busch, Eduardo Galaso Faria, Seong-Won Park, Christoph Stuckelberger, and Peter Opitz.
Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible
Edited by Christiana de Groot and
Marion Ann Taylor
Society of Biblical Literature, 2007
Women have been thoughtful readers and interpreters of scripture throughout the ages, yet the usual history of biblical interpretation includes few women’s voices. To introduce readers to this untapped source for the history of biblical interpretation, this volume presents forgotten works from the nineteenth century written by women—including Grace Aguilar, Florence Nightingale, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others—from various faith backgrounds, countries, and social classes engaging contemporary biblical scholarship. Due to their exclusion from the academy, women’s interpretive writings addressed primarily a nonscholarly audience and were written in a variety of genres: novels and poetry, catechisms, manuals for Bible study, and commentaries on the books of the Bible. To recover these nineteenth-century women interpreters of the Bible, each essay in this volume locates a female author in her historical, ecclesiastical, and interpretive context, focusing on particular biblical passages to clarify an author’s contributions as well as to explore how her reading of the text was shaped by her experience as a woman.