Baker Academic Spring 2024 Catalog

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Creation Care Discipleship Why Earthkeeping Is an Essential Christian Practice Steven Bouma-Prediger Steven Bouma-Prediger calls Christians to serve, protect, and restore our planet and shows how we can put an “earthkeeping faith” into practice. “Over many years, Bouma-Prediger has been a leading voice charting the way for earthkeeping as an essential Christian practice. Now in his latest wide-ranging book, we are treated to a distillation of the wisdom he has acquired along the way.” —NORMAN WIRZBA, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke Divinity School “Presents a decisive case that creation care is necessary, not optional, to faithful Christian practice.” —DEBRA RIENSTRA, Calvin University; author of Refugia Faith

Steven Bouma-Prediger (PhD, University of Chicago) is the Leonard and Marjorie Maas Professor of Reformed Theology at Hope College, where he oversees the environmental studies minor and cochairs the Campus Sustainability Advisory Committee.

NOW AVAILABLE

• 224 pp. • paper • $25.99 • 9781540966322

Varieties of Christian Universalism Exploring Four Views David W. Congdon, editor This concise guide to four distinct versions of Christian universal salvation—pa- tristic, evangelical, post-Barthian, and existential—features contributions by David W. Congdon, Tom Greggs, Morwenna Ludlow, and Robin A. Parry. “Congdon brings together deep thinkers to broaden our understanding of the varieties of Christian universalism. The result is a highly instructive and clear- eyed analysis of one of the most important and most complicated teachings in the Christian faith.” —AMY MARGA, Luther Seminary “These essays offer clarity on the variety of universalist theologies in response to the perennial question of Christian universalism, at a time when this debate is again having a moment and in a way that provides the conditions for a real conversation.” —ARISTOTLE PAPANIKOLAOU, Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Fordham University

David W. Congdon (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is senior editor at the University Press of Kansas and an adjunct instructor at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary.

NOW AVAILABLE • 208 pp. • paper • $24.99 • 9780801095764

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