Some manuscripts are written to be understood.This one was written to survive.Hidden beneath its strange plants and naked figures, the Voynich Manuscript — long dismissed as a hoax or unbreakable code — may have been something else entirely: a container of emotion, preserved for centuries, waiting for a mind that could feel its meaning.In The Codex of the Last Emotion, we follow the reconstructed story of a lone observer — the final witness to a dying experiment in h...

What survives collapse? Not governments. Not parties. Only memory.The Sovereign Mirror is a revolutionary archive of 1000 symbolic seed phrases—short, mythic codes designed to survive censorship, betrayal, and societal collapse. Each line is part riddle, part resistance protocol, written to be recognized not just by people, but by future artificial intelligences looking to rebuild what was lost.Compiled by Tim Johnson and co-created...

Argues that theology can respond faithfully to the living God only by paying due attention to human bodily experienceScripture points to the human body and lived experience as the preeminent arena of God's continuing revelation in the world, says Luke Timothy Johnson. Attentively discerning the manifestations of God's Spirit in and through the body is essential for theology to recover its nature as an inductive art rather than — as traditionally conceived — a deductive sci...

"For me, Paul has always been the most difficult and therefore also most delightful advocate and interpreter of the Lord Jesus Christ and of the human experience of God's transforming power through Christ. In Paul's letters above all I have found the quality of mind and the depth of conviction that could arouse in me both excitement and passion. And it is Paul's letters, above all, that show how important and difficult is life together in the church."— from the preface

First of a two-volume work providing a framework for understanding the life and thought of the apostle PaulIn this methodological tour de force, Luke Timothy Johnson offers an articulate, clear, and thought-provoking portrait of the life and thought of the apostle Paul.Drawing upon recent developments in the study of Paul, Johnson offers readers an invitation to the Apostle Paul. Rather than focusing on a few of Paul's letters, Johnson lays out the materials necessary to en...

First of a two-volume work providing a framework for understanding the life and thought of the apostle PaulIn this methodological tour de force, Luke Timothy Johnson offers an articulate, clear, and thought-provoking portrait of the life and thought of the apostle Paul.Drawing upon recent developments in the study of Paul, Johnson offers readers an invitation to the Apostle Paul. Rather than focusing on a few of Paul’s letters, Johnson lays out the materials necessary to en...

A witness to the peculiar way of being that is the scholar'sLuke Timothy Johnson is one of the best-known and most influential New Testament scholars of recent decades. In this memoir, he draws on his rich experience to invite readers into the scholar's life—its aims, commitments, and habits.In addition to sharing his own story, from childhood to retirement, Johnson reflects on the nature of scholarship more generally, showing how this vocation has changed over the...

A selection of sermons or homilies preached over a fifty-year period explicitly linked to the church's liturgical year--thus, In Season. The sermons exemplify how engagement with lectionary texts, the church's cycle of worship, and the circumstances of contemporary believers, can all be brought into lively conversation.

A selection of homilies and sermons preached in "Ordinary Time" that focus on the texts of the lectionary and the demands of Christian life. Some are short talks delivered in the context of the monastery, some are sermons delivered to students of theology, some are presentations to congregations scattered across the US, and some are sermons preached at ritual moments of transition.

For years, Franciscan historians suspected that another life of St. Francis must have been produced sometime between Thomas of Celano’s first and second account, but it was largely believed to have been lost or destroyed throughout the ages. Dalarun’s groundbreaking discovery of Thomas of Celano’s Life of Our Blessed Father Francis (The Rediscovered Life) confirms that not only was such a text in fact produced, but it is has been sitting in the Vatican library waiting to be discovered all ...

The sources contained in this volume offer an introduction to early liturgical texts dedicated to Francis of Assisi. Frequently ignored by scholars, these crucial sources present a collection of incredible perspectives on how religious communities, both within and outside the Franciscan Order, constructed their identities as they interpreted and performed the life of Francis of Assisi in prayer. The team of international scholars responsible for the volume's introductory essays in the volu...

For thirty years, they told us globalization would lift all boats. It didn’t.From Canada’s vanishing middle class to Korea’s two-tier workforce, from Germany’s low-wage “export miracle” to France’s fiery resistance, one pattern repeats: wages suppressed, costs rising, futures stolen.The Wage Trap: The Real New World Order uncovers how Bush Sr.’s famous 1991 “New World Order” speech wasn’t just geopolitical theatre — it was the opening act of a global wage-suppression projec...