Yale Divinity School
409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06515Featured Titles for Spring
Ecologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology (Oxford University Press 2008, $35.00 cl)
by Willis Jenkins
In this his first book, YDS' own Willis Jenkins, Margaret Farley Assistant Professor of Social Ethics, presents a field-shaping introduction to Christian environmental ethics that offers resources for renewing theology. By being particularly sensitive to the ways in which environmental problems are made intelligible to Christian moral experience, Jenkins guides his readers towards a fuller understanding of Christianity and ecology (from the jacket).
Beloved: Henri Nouwen in Conversation, with audio CD (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing 2007, $20.00 cl)
by Henri J. M. Nouwen with Philip Roderick
In the summer of 1992, Roderick, leader of the Quiet Garden Movement, arranged an interview with Nouwen at a British retreat center. Never before published, this volume, which includes the text of the conversation as well as questions and invitations for reflection, takes on a special value by the inclusion of an audio CD of Roderick and Nouwen's original conversation.
A Just and True Love. Feminism at the Frontiers of Theological Ethics: Essays in Honor of Margaret A. Farley (University of Notre Dame Press 2007, $45.00 cl)
by Maura A. Ryan and Brian F. Linnane, S.J., eds.
This collection of fifteen essays, published in honor of the distinguished and "transformative" work of YDS' beloved Margaret Farley, includes contributions from many in the YDS community, including Gene Outka, Serene Jones, and Letty Russell.
The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World (Seven Stories Pr 2007,$29.95 cl)
by Bob Abernethy and William Bole and contributers to PBS' Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly
Edited by Abernethy (M.Div '86 ) and Bole, this volume "presents fifty-nine extraordinary contributors speaking candidly about their search for meaning in their own personal lives, their experience of God, and for some, the struggle to reconcile faith and doubt." (from the jacket). Includes contributions from William Sloane Coffin, Martin Marty, Stanley Hauerwas, Barbara Brown Taylor and many others .
Monuments: America's History in Art and Memory (Random House Publishers 2007, $45.00 cl)
by Judith Dupré
Dupré, a current YDS/ISM student and author of the critically acclaimed Churches, has here created an amazing and stunningly illustrated tribute to American landmarks, both those classic and dear to us as well as those more contemporary and surprising. Includes 250 photographs, rare illustrations, and stories and interviews with the artists and architects behind these memorable works.