RESISTING THE BONHOEFFER BRAND: A Life Reconsidered – Charles Marsh

In “Resisting the Bonhoeffer Brand – A Life Reconsidered,” Charles Marsh explores the relationship between theology and biography, fervently affirming that Bonhoeffer scholarship needs the revitalizing energies and spirited debates of the life and legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, revisited in its entirety and wholly uncensored in any form. In this book are soul-stirring reflections on the radical meaning of history and biography from one of the most brilliant, extremely fearless and outspoken theological minds of our times. Charles Marsh, with his historian’s eye and novelist’s pen, crafts a mind-revealing vision of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the man who bravely and boldly stood up for his convictions, fearing none. Charles Marsh eloquently reinterprets Bonhoeffer’s extraordinary life, vividly depicting the latent passions that often simmer undetected but everpresent beneath a scholar’s painstakingly laborious tasks.

SURVIVING JEWEL – Mitri Raheb and Mark A. Lamport

“Surviving Jewel” by Mitri Raheb and Mark A. Lamport is the global story of Christianity in the Middle East, where the Christian church was born and grew for centuries. Christianity is now a marginalized jewel, surviving at great perilous cost, within a turbulent politico-religious conflict. The enduring story of Christianity also accommodates interchange and cooperation. “Surviving Jewel” details the history of the church through the past two thousand years, a story described as “a lost history” by Philip Jenkins. The church of the Middle East is revealed as a precious jewel, still catching the light, sparkling in all its radiant glory. This book has an impressive historico-geographical sweep, highlighting Christian diversity, in a clear-sighted analysis of a journey from past to present, a clarion call to delve into the culture, history, and theology of Middle Eastern Christianity.