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professor of English at Wheaton (Ill.) College and an authority on the Bible as literature. Both have written glowing endorsements for Fant’s book. Fant hopes to see readers recognize God’s hand in the human experience. He also wants to see more reflective reading and writing. “We should see writing as one of the ways we can articulate and refine our understanding of human experience,” Fant said. “When we read and write communally, we see connections.” Ray Van Neste, Associate Professor of Christian Studies and Director of the R.C. Ryan Center for Biblical Studies, has been involved with two book projects in recent months. Entrusted with the Gospel: Paul’s Theology in the Pastoral Epistles (Broadman and Holman) is a multiauthored volume that contains Van Neste’s chapter “Cohesion and Structure in the Pastoral Epistles.” “The book as a whole is an overview of a scholarly discussion about these letters,” Van Neste said. In The Holman Christian Standard Study Bible (2010), Van Neste contributed the study notes on the pastoral epistles. Gary Smith, Professor of Christian Studies, has published a monumental two-volume commentary on Isaiah. The highly acclaimed second volume on chapters 40-66 was released in 2009. Smith’s previous commentaries were written on the minor prophets of Amos, Hosea and Micah. He has also worked as a translator on four Bible translation teams.
Brad Green, Associate Professor of Christian Studies, said his book, The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life (Crossway, 2010) has been on his mind for some time. “The book begins with a simple observation and a simple question: wherever the cross is planted the academy follows,” Green said. “Why is this the case? What is it about the gospel that encourages and generates intellectual deliberation and thought?” Green’s book asserts that the Christian vision of God, man and the world generates intellectual deliberation and argues that, at the end of the day, it is only the Christian understanding of reality that can really account for the life of the mind. Colin Gunton and the Failure of Augustine: The Theology of Colin Gunton in Light of Augustine, also by Green, is being published by Wipf and Stock this year. Green is also editing and writing Shapers of Christian Orthodoxy: Engaging with Early and Medieval Theologians (Apollos, 2010) and (InterVarsity Press, 2010).
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