Baker Academic Fall 2022 Catalog

BIBLE ALSO OF INTEREST to PROFESSORS from BRAZOS PRESS

CELEBRITIES FOR JESUS How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church Katelyn Beaty Award-winning journalist Katelyn Beaty explains how and why celebrity is woven into the fabric of the evangelical movement, identifies ways fame goes awry, shows how we all unwittingly foster a celebrity culture, and offers a renewed vision of ordinary faithfulness. “A must-read for anyone invested in the fate of evangelicalism.” — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) “This book should be required reading for all who love the church.” —RICH VILLODAS, pastor of New Life Fellowship; author of The Deeply Formed Life

Katelyn Beaty is a writer, journalist, editor, and keen observer of trends in the American church. She has written for the New York Times , the New Yorker , the Washington Post , Religion News Service, and the Atlantic and has commented on faith and culture for CNN, ABC, NPR, and the Associated Press.

NOW AVAILABLE • 208 pp. • cloth • $24.99 • 9781587435188

LOW ANTHROPOLOGY The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others (and Yourself) David Zahl David Zahl argues that having an accurate view of humans helps us avoid the temptation to divide the world into good and bad people, provides the foun- dation for real relationships rooted in vulnerability, and leads us to a more liberating view of human nature, sin, and grace. “A remarkably perceptive, funny, subversive, and nourishing book.” —OLIVER BURKEMAN, New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals “A refreshing and much-needed antidote to our cultural fixation on achievement and self-optimization.” —MEGHAN O’GIEBLYN, author of God, Human, Animal, Machine

David Zahl is founder and director of Mockingbird Ministries, editor in chief of the Mockingbird blog, and cohost of the Mockingcast podcast. He wrote the critically acclaimed book Seculosity and has written for Christianity Today and the Washington Post .

SEPTEMBER 2022 • 208 pp. • cloth • $26.99 • 9781587435560

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