Sigler Press
Specializing in Rare and Out of Print Theological Texts
Specializing in Rare and Out of Print Theological Texts
Four centuries ago, theology began insisting on returning to its sources — original languages, original texts, questions asked freshly rather than inherited whole. That impulse never really stopped. It moved through the Enlightenment's insistence on reason and evidence, into the nineteenth century's patient, sometimes unsettling work of reading scripture as history, and into a twentieth century that fractured gloriously into a dozen schools at once — existentialist, liberationist, narrative, process, and more — each convinced it had found the thread worth pulling.
What you inherit today, browsing a shelf of theology, is the accumulated argument of all of it: scholars answering their teachers, their rivals, and sometimes themselves across a lifetime of revised editions. The guides below are an invitation into a few corners of that argument — not exhaustive, just enough of a way in to make the wider conversation worth wandering into on your own.
A history of Pauline studies — from Luther's Reformation reading of Romans through the Tübingen School to the New Perspective on Paul.
A collector's guide to Ernst Käsemann's major works — his break with Bultmann over the historical Jesus, his Romans commentary, and Pauline apocalyptic.
A collector's guide to Wolfhart Pannenberg's Systematic Theology and his early work with the Pannenberg Circle at Heidelberg.
A guide to Abraham Malherbe's work on Paul, Hellenistic moral philosophy, and the Anchor Bible commentary on the Thessalonian letters.
A guide to W.D. Davies's Paul and Rabbinic Judaism and his lasting influence on Pauline studies and the New Perspective on Paul.
Practical advice for building a collection of rare or out-of-print books in theology, biblical studies, and ancient history.
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