Gordon Carkner Summer Reads 2025
Reggie L. Williams, Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance.
Jordan Senner, John Webster: The Shape and Development of His Theology.
Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Mere Christian Hermeneutics: Transfiguring What it Means to Read the Bible Theologically.
Patrick Schreiner, The Transfiguration of Christ: An Exegetical and Theological Reading.
John M. Owen IV, The Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order.
David E. Fitch, Reckoning with Power: Why the Church Fails When it is on the Wrong Side of Power.
Thomas Albert Howard, Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History.
Jacob Alan Cook, Worldview Theory, Whiteness, and the Future of Evangelical Faith.
David P. Gushee, The Moral Teachings of Jesus: Radical Instruction in the Will of God.
Rebekah Eklund, The Beatitudes Through the Ages.
Lanta Davis, Becoming by Beholding: The Power of the Imagination in Spiritual Formation.
Judith Wolfe, The Theological Imagination: Perception and Interpretation in Life, Art, and Faith.
Leslie Leyland Fields, Nearing a Far God: Praying the Psalms with Our Whole Selves.
Calvin Miller, Walking with the Saints: Through the Best and Worst Times of Our Lives.
Fellipe do Vale, Gender as Love: A Theological Account of Human Identity, Embodied Desire, and Our Own Social Worlds.
Darrell L. Whiteman, Crossing Cultures with the Gospel: Anthropological Wisdom for Effective Christian Witness.
Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference. See the video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3TqcUEFR58
Dennis Danielson, Professor Emeritus UBC English & Christopher M. Graney, Associate Astronomer, Specola Vaticana, Starring the Earth: Seeking our Planet and Other Worlds from Copernicus to NASA. Oxford University Press (fall 2025).
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