One of the world's most important New Testament scholars and former Dean of Yale Divinity School, Dr. Keck has produced a clarion call to church renewal that cuts through the conventional ideological labels of "liberal" and "conservative." The church is suffering a malaise brought on by oversecularization in many aspects of church life and it needs to reestablish its sense of confidence about its proper nature and mission. Through an examination of four central aspects of the church's life, Dr. Keck analyzes the current situation, root causes, essential issues, and his vision of renewal cut across ideological labels. Church leaders will appreciate his well-researched presentation and will identify with his passionate argument that today's mainline churches must neither pretend to be triumphalist nor whimper in fright. Rather, the church must restore praise of God to the center of worship and be confident about its nature and mission. Praise for "The Church Confident"... "Professor Keck speaks the truth in love. Love for the church and for the Gospel. Moved by what he calls 'the dual impulses ofloyalty and disaffection,' he turns again and again, with realistic hope, to a grand vision of what it is to be Church and what it is to be Christian. This book not only needs to be read by every minister and seminarian and theological professor, but it is one of those books that needs to be discussed in the church and in the classroom." Dr. Fred B. Craddock, Candler School of Theology, Emory University. "This diagnosis of the ills of the mainline Church is delivered with courage, wit, and insight, and Keck's theological prescription for mremedy provides much-needed strong medicine. This book should be welcomed by every thoughtful person who cares about the future of the Church." Dr. Thomas G. Long, Princeton Theological Seminary. "This book will make some angry, but for most readers, lay and clerical, it will read like the truth and evoke renewed confidence in the future mission of the mainline denominations. I hope it becomes required reading in our seminaries and is widely discussed in our congregations." Dr. John W. Vannorsdall, Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia Availability: Usually ships the next business day. The Church Confident by Leander E. Keck AB1513$17.95 WME Press is the publishing unit of World Methodist Evangelism of The World Methodist Council. P.O. Box 1346, Port Orford, Oregon 97465 USA. Toll-free telephone: 1-866-400-8573. Fax: 1-541-332-1167. E-mail: WMEPress@WorldMethodist.org.