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Improvising Theology according to the Scriptures: An Evangelical Account of the Development of Doctrine (Vanhoozer, 2015)

A chapter by Vanhoozer (starts p. 15) in Allison & Wellum (eds), Building on the Foundations of Evangelical Theology: Essays in Honour of John S. Feinberg

How God Became King (NT Wright, 2013)

“At the heart of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John is this enormous claim that something actually happened right there at the beginning of the first century through the work and death and resurrection of Jesus, something happened which has transformed the world”.

A Place For God? (Hauerwas, 2006)

“Witham has managed the impossible: to tell a coherent story about the diverse and often eccentric Gifford Lectures from their beginning in 1888 to the present. Telling this story involves not only reading the lectures, but also knowing the social, political and intellectual background of the various lecturers”

Ministry As More Than A Helping Profession [with Will Willimon]. (Hauerwas, 1989)

“Parish clergy and seminarians today seem content to have ministry numbered among the “helping professions. ” After all, most professing Christians, from the liberals to the fundamentalists, remain practical atheists. They think the church is sustained by the services it provides or the amount of fellowship and good feeling in the congregation. This form of sentimentality has become the most detrimental corruption of the church and the ministry”.

The Ethicist as Theologian (Hauerwas, 1975)

“I did not become an ethicist because my primary interest was social change or particular moral “issues.” Rather, I became an ethicist because I was (and am) interested in the intellectual issues associated with the truthfulness of Christian discourse.”