New Books and Media Received (Summer and First Half of the Fall Semester 2026)

The following books (91 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation Summer through Fall Break 2026.

Ebooks

Greek and Roman philosophy: a survey for students of the New Testament

A little exercise for young theologians

Phoebe: a story

Power in weakness: Paul’s transformed vision for ministry

Tennesseans and their history

Seminary Library

Lending

The age of Caesar: five Roman lives

Augustine the African

The Bible and the pursuit of happiness: what the Old and New Testaments teach us about the good life

The Biblical doctrine of the church by William Robinson

A biblical history of Israel by Iain W. Provan, V. Philips Long, and Tremper Longman

The big book on small groups

Called to serve, gifted to lead: a biblical and practical case for women in ministry

Creative bible teaching by Larry Richards and Gary J. Bredfeldt

Creative teaching methods: be an effective Christian teacher

Cultural memory in the Hebrew Bible: Genesis to Kings

The everyday mysticism of C. S. Lewis: spirituality for daily life

Faithful presence: seven disciplines that shape the church for mission

Introduction to medieval theology by Rik Van Nieuwenhove

Israel & the nations: the history of Israel from the Exodus to the fall of the Second Temple

The lady: Clare of Assisi, early documents

The legacy of St Gregory Palamas: studies in Late Byzantine theology and its reception

The life of Christina of Markyate by Samuel Fanous, Henrietta leyser, and C. H. Talbot

Live laugh love: the secret history of white Christian women and the world they made by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Luke: a commentary by John T. Carroll

Mary and Martha: women in the world of Jesus

Medieval Christianity: a new history by Kevin Madigan

Meditations: thumps heard around the Eucharist

The mimetic tradition of reform in the West

Narsai: selected sermons

On the Incarnation by Athanasius, John Behr, and C. S. Lewis

The Opuscula and the Dispute with Pyrrhus: the theological and polemical works

Out of the silent planet

The pastoral theology of the Early Church

The politics of redemption: the doctrine, the matter, the law, and grace

Scriptural allusions and exegetical techniques in the book of Revelation

Teaching inclusively in higher education

To Preach or not to preach: women’s ministry then and now.

“Uncle Bud” Robinson: enduring lessons from an early twentieth-century simple folk preacher

Wolfgang Musculus: (1497-1563):  destin d’un autodidacte lorrain au siècle des Réformes:  étude basée sur la biographie établie par son fils, la correspondance personnelle et de nombreux autres documents d’époque

A women’s history of the Christian church: two thousand years of female leadership

The works of Saint Augustine: A translation for the 21st century

New Testament Seminar

Acts by Robert P. Menzies and Craig S. Keener

Boy Jesus: growing up Judean in turbulent times

Christian life in the Greco-Roman city: the civic and architectural contexts of early Christianity

Colossians and Philemon by Holly Beers

Galatians through the centuries by John Riches

Greed as idolatry: the origin and meaning of a Pauline metaphor

Israel’s scriptures in the New Testament: a critical synopsis

James revisited: Christology and biblical theology in the letter of James by Brandon D. Crowe

The letter to the Ephesians: an exegetical and theological commentary by Thomas R. Schreiner

New Testament ethics: revisiting the moral vision of the New Testament

Patterns of women’s leadership in early Christianity

Reference

Galatians: a new translation with introduction and commentary by J. Louis Martyn

Archives

Called to serve, gifted to lead: a biblical and practical case for women in ministry by Dawn Gentry

Meditations: thumps heard around the Eucharist by Calvin Ross

Welshimer Library

Lending

Collected poems, 1957-1982 by Wendell Berry

Creative interventions with traumatized children

Crossing to safety

Facing Gaia: eight lectures on the new climatic regime

Felicity by Mary Oliver

Five views on the gospel by Michael F. Bird, Jason Matson, Scot McKnight, Michael Scott Horton, David A. deSilva, Julie C. Ma, and Shively T. J. Smith

Frederick Douglass: a life in American history

The great work: our way into the future by Thomas Berry

How early America sounded

How to worship for all its worth: a guide for pastors, worship leaders, and students

Interdisciplinarity by Joe Moran

Judaism: a guide for Christians by Tzvi Novick

Listening to nineteenth-century America

Oryx and Crake: a novel by Margaret Atwood

Penelope’s bones: a new history of Homer’s world through the women written out of it

The power: a novel by Naomi Alderman

Red bird: poems by Mary Oliver

A Short history of the United States by Robert V. Remini

Thinking through Paul: an introduction to his life, letters, and theology

Three short novels: Nathan Coulter, Remembering, A world lost by Wendell Berry

Treating trauma and traumatic grief in children and adolescents

What we can know: a novel by Ian McEwan

The worship architect: a blueprint for designing culturally relevant and biblically faithful services

Juvenile

Cope field

Every Monday Mabel

Fireworks

Song of a blackbird

Reference

The book of Ecclesiastes by Tremper Longman

I & II Chronicles: a commentary by Louis C. Jonker

Office Reference

MLA Handbook, 2021

Planning new and remodeled archival facilities

Archives

The community cook book by King’s Daughters of the Milligan College Christian Church.

Daniel Sommer, 1850-1940; a biography.

Saving local leadership: eight virtues of local leadership that transform communities by Todd M. Smith

Seventy years in the Cumberlands by C. L. Holt

Wired to lead: being the leader the church didn’t think you could be by Suzanne Nadell