Is discipleship about personal sanctification or social reform?

Believers are divided on a question central to Christian identity: what does it mean to follow Jesus? For centuries, imitating Christ meant…

Johnson believes Christian spirituality needs an intellectual recasting that takes seriously the life of ordinary people in a world shaped by modernity rather than the monastery by discerning the narrative…

A selection of sermons or homilies preached over a fifty-year period explicitly linked to the church’s liturgical year–thus, In Season. The sermons exemplify how engagement with lectionary texts, the church’s…

Focusing on the Gospel as it appears and not on its source or origin, this commentary explores just what Luke is saying and how he says it.

In the first book to challenge the findings of the Jesus Seminar, the controversial group of 200 scholars who claim Jesus only said 18 percent of what the Gospels attribute…

Johnson, a New Testament scholar and Catholic theologian, clarifies the history of the Creed, discussing its evolution from the first decades of the Christian Church to the present day.

The 27 first-century compositions that became the New Testament are more famous than well-known. For those seeking an adult approach to ancient religious literature, this introduction provides a fresh perspective…