Grasp the fullness of the Christian life with works on ethics and spiritual formation from Baker Academic and Brazos Press! With works discussing various topics such as natural law ethics, the role of mortality on morality, and the role of the Lord's Supper in Christian living, these works will help you better understand what it means to walk in the footsteps of Jesus.

Christian thinkers in the twenty-first century have given careful thought to the issues surrounding spiritual growth. With the Baker Academic and Brazos Press Spiritual Formation collection, you get a plethora of works designed to help you think critically about habits that lead to conformity to the image of God. Whether visiting the world of Narnia or sitting down with Jesus at the Lord’s Supper, these authors seek to aid you in living the Christian life.

Discover resources to help you think through the Christian walk with works on ethics from Baker Academic and Brazos Press. Christians have historically been concerned with right belief and right action. With works by noted ethicists such as David Clyde Jones, Craig Boyd, and Samuel Wells, their insights are yours to draw on as you consider various ethical issues and topics.

How does Christian formation happen and what are its moral implications? This text brings into conversation three disciplines that are crucial for Christian formation—social science, biblical studies/hermeneutics, and ethics—to present a cohesive, dynamic vision of human wholeness and spiritual holiness. Drawing upon research in these three disciplines, the authors weave together insights from their respective fields to address the relationship between personal and communal formation, moral deve...

The classic theories of Aristotle, Kant, and Mill have influenced Christian thought in morality and ethics for centuries. But they can go only so far, writes ethicist Wyndy Corbin Reuschling in Reviving Evangelical Ethics: The Promises and Pitfalls of Classic Models of Morality. In this readable book she introduces and overviews the three classic philosophical schools of ethics: virtue, deontology, and teleology. While the philosophers’ approaches to virtue, duty, and utility have been used wid...

In this four volume collection by Jeannine K. Brown, readers are invited into a rich exploration of biblical interpretation, theology, and the practical application of scripture. Together, these four books form a cohesive and insightful journey, providing readers with a nuanced understanding of biblical communication, narrative richness, spiritual growth, and the diverse literary tapestry of the New Testament.

The church is called to be the agency through which God is not only known but through which his kingdom is also advanced. This book, therefore, is an attempt to examine the church's influence on communities through social justice practices as part of advancing the gospel of the kingdom of God. The book brings out results of a study about a congregation's significant impact on a local community through varied social justice programs. The book also provides relevant recommendations on how such initiatives can be improved for a more effective kingdom-driven ministry to local communities. It is hoped that the example of J. Jireh Ministry Church provides a case worthy of emulation by other churches, congregations, and similar faith-based community organizations for ministering to social justice needs at the local level.

This far reaching collection includes many of the premiere resources available for biblical study, theology, ministry, history, and more. These resources from Baker Publishing Group feature stand alone volumes as well as dedicated series, with contributions from leading scholars such as Douglas Moo, D.A. Carson, Darrell Bock, Peter Leithart, Thomas Schreiner, and many more. With these resources from trusted guides you will discover new and challenging insights as you dig even deeper in your studies.

For many Christians, spirituality and ethics are in separate mental and experiential compartments. Spirituality may be understood as an inner experience, while ethics is focused on decisions or positions on issues. Both of these views reduce spirituality and morality in Christian faith and practice, and ignore the centrality of desire for God and the things of God as key focal points for spiritual and moral formation. These aspects of Christian formation must be located in their scriptural and theological contexts in order to understand more fully what God desires for human life. This focus on desire provides content and context to Christian spirituality and morality. We are drawn outward to focus on God and the good of others while we learn to embody virtues, such as compassion, courage, self-control, gratitude, humility, and hope. Practices are crucial ways by which we learn to incarnate our ultimate desire of love for God and for what God desires in the pursuit of justice and…