CTS Bookshelf

Recent Faculty Releases

Polydoxy

Dr. Laurel C. Schneider
Religious pluralism, the collapse of traditional religious institutions, and the growing impact of religious studies on believers have prompted widespread rethinking of what religion is. Polydoxy offers a brilliant and original theological response to this intellectual crisis by suggesting that there are multiple forms of right belief.

Dreaming of Eden

The Rev. Dr. Susan Thistlethwaite
Through Biblical themes and contemporary media culture, a pragmatic and responsible rethinking of America's idea of its own innocence.

Onslaught Against Innocence

Dr. Andre LaCocque
A close reading of the Yahwists story using both literary and psychological criticism.

Transforming Atonement

Dr. Theodore Jennings
An alternative theology of the cross that grounds the message concerning the cross in the socio-political reality in which it was historically located and points to the way in which this message bears upon contemporary social and ecclesial reality.

Listen My Son: Wisdom to Help African American Fathers

The Rev. Dr. Lee Butler
Straight talk about what it means to be an African American man.

Recent Student/Alumni Releases

Healing Memories

Dick Hattan
An absorbing collection that would take you from the past to the present, from your mind to your heart to your soul, from your inner being to your outer self, and everything else in between.

Part-Time Pastor, Full-Time Church

Dr. Frank A. Thomas (M.Div '81, D.Min '86)
One hundred sermons that display the victorious, although sometimes painful, historical and spiritual pilgrimage of black people in America.

Part-Time Pastor, Full-Time Church

Dr. Robert LaRochelle (D.Min. '07)
Part-Time Pastor, Full-Time Church explores the enriching benefits a bi-vocational or part-time pastor can bring to a church that is facing economic hardships but understands the importance of spiritual development.

Echoes of Mercy

Pauline Doty (M.Div. '77)
An apologetic for faith, hope, and love in action connecting the work of Alfred North Whitehead, process writers, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Henri Nouwen, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Albert Luthuli: Bound by Faith

Scott Couper (M.Div. '99)
Couper argues, contrary to public mythology, that Chief Luthuli, former President of the African National Congress (ANC), did not support the armed struggle in South Africa.