Dennis Edwards

This five-views work brings together an all-star lineup of Pauline scholars to offer a constructive, interdenominational, up-to-date conversation on key issues of Pauline theology. The editors begin with an informative recent history of biblical tradition related to the perspectives on Paul. John M. G. Barclay, A. Andrew Das, James D. G. Dunn, Brant Pitre, and Magnus Zetterholm then discuss how to interpret Paul's writings and theology, especially the apostle's view of salvation. The book concludes with an assessment of the perspectives from a pastoral point of view by Dennis Edwards.

IVP Readers' Choice Award Stop outsourcing justice! Many local churches don't know what to do about justice. We tend to compartmentalize it as merely a strategy for outreach, and we often outsource it to parachurch justice ministries. While these organizations do good work, individual congregations are left disconnected from God's just purposes in the world. Adam Gustine calls the local church to be just and do justice. He provides a theological vision for our identity as a just people, where God's character and the pursuit of shalom infuses every aspect of our congregational DNA. As we grow in becoming just, the church becomes a prophetic alternative to the broken systems of the world and a parable of God's intentions for human flourishing and societal transformation. This renewed vision for the church leads us into cultivating a just life together—in community, discipleship, worship, and more—extending justice out into the world in concrete ways. Let's hold being and doing together, so we can become just, compassionate communities that restore shalom and bring hope to the world.

Denis Edwards is a professorial fellow in theology at Australian Catholic University (ACU), Adelaide campus. He is a member of ACU's Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, a fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion, and a member of the International Methodist-Roman Catholic Commission.

"When water scientist Francis Allenton discovers an authentic caduceus in a Grecian shop, his life and work plunge into mysteries, ancient and new. Edwards knows the territory, that same territory that drives NASA to search for traces of water on Mars and the outer planets, that has driven humankind to quest for the elusive Fountain of Youth." (Jory Sherman, Author of The Baron Decision) A fictional exploration of how our most precious natural resource, water, can be manipulated for profit and to the determent of humanity.