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Releasing September 9, 2025

Traditional Christian virtue and vices like abstinence, gluttony, and sloth make many of us bored or uncomfortable. At their best, these words sound dead or confusing, like incomplete fossils that belong to a distant past awkwardly enshrined in a museum. At worst, they signify a prejudiced past, when these words were wielded like weapons.

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Grace Hamman, Ph.D. (Duke University) is a writer and independent scholar of late medieval poetry and contemplative writing. She is the author of Ask of Old Paths: Medieval Virtues and Vices for a Whole and Holy Life and Jesus through Medieval Eyes: Beholding Christ with the Artists, Mystics, and Theologians of the Middle Ages. Her work has been published by academic and popular outlets, including Plough Quarterly and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She lives near Denver, Colorado with her husband and three young children.

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In this thoroughly researched and wonderfully written gem of a book, Grace Hamman recovers wisdom from a time before modernity’s assault upon the garden of the soul. In Ask of Old Paths we really do find “something a little wild and beautiful.” I love this book!

Brian Zahnd, author of The Wood Between the Worlds

Ask of Old Paths retrieves more than the language of virtue and vice—it turns to Christian history to recover a robust theology of a whole and holy human life. Grace Hamman offers us a rare treasure–rich theology and history, presented in an engaging and accessible manner, for the sake of actual human lives. This is a book that will not only teach you about the virtues and vices, it will inspire you to deeper thought and greater faithfulness.

Kaitlyn Schiess, author of The Ballot and the Bible and co-host of The Holy Post

A wise and beautiful work of scholarship and devotion. Grace Hamman brings her immense knowledge of the medieval world to her exploration of the virtues, and has created a work that both grips the imagination and stirs the heart. This book will be a resource and inspiration for years to come.

Sarah Clarkson, author of Reclaiming Quiet and This Beautiful Truth

Whether 'medieval' as a modifier to 'Christianity' makes you sing with joy, hum with curiosity, or shriek with fear, humble readers will find this book an intellectual and spiritual feast.

Claude Atcho, pastor of Church of the Resurrection, author of Reading Black Books

Under Grace Hamman's tutelage, readers enter a 'school of love.' Jesus through Medieval Eyes challenges our assumptions about Jesus, expanding our vision of him with medieval images.

Jessica Hooten Wilson, Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Great Books, Pepperdine University, author of Reading for the Love of God

Beautifully and engagingly written, this book helps us understand ourselves better by introducing us to our fellow Christians who lived in a world that is at once strikingly strange and strangely familiar.

Fritz Bauerschmidt, professor of theology, Loyola University Maryland, author of The Love That Is God