The following books (76 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation in December 2024 and January 2025.

Seminary Library

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2 Corinthians by Ben Witherington

2 Corinthians by Timothy George and Scott M. Manetsch

Abundantly more: the theological promise of the arts in a reductionist world

Attentive church leadership: listening and leading in a world we’ve never known

The Biblical Hebrew verb: a linguistic introduction

The church and multiculturalism in contemporary America

Ephesians by David A. deSilva

Exegetical epistles by Jerome and Thomas P. Scheck

Galatians, Ephesians by Gerald Lewis Bray

Great to good: how following Jesus reshapes our ambitions

Growing women in ministry: seven aspects of leadership development

Handbook of contemporary preaching:a wealth of counsel for creative and effective proclamation

John 1-12 by Craig S. Farmer, Timothy George, and Scott M. Manetsch

John 13-21 by Christopher Boyd Brown, Timothy George, and Scott M. Manetsch

Philippians, Colossians by Graham Tomlin

Politics and public policy: a Christian response:  crucial considerations for governing life

Psalms 1-72 by H. J. Selderhuis

Raising disciples: guiding your kids into a faith of their own.

Reading the Bible Latinamente: Latinoa interpretation for the life of the church

Romans by C. Samuel Storms

Shape of Our Lives: A Field Guide for Congregational Formation: A Field Guide for Congregational Formation

When the church harms God’s people: becoming faith communities that resist abuse, pursue truth, and care for the wounded

When your world ends: God’s creative process for rebuilding a life

Why study Christian origins?

The widening of God’s mercy: sexuality within the biblical story

Womanist Midrash by Wilda Gafney

Welshimer Library

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American anarchy: the epic struggle between immigrant radicals and the US government at the dawn of the twentieth century

Anime: a history 2nd edition

Bad Chaucer : the great poet’s greatest mistakes in the Canterbury Tales

Becoming Foucault : the Poitiers years

Cobalt red: how the blood of the Congo powers our lives

Covered with night: a story of murder and indigenous justice in early America

Cuba: an American history

The Doctors Blackwell: how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women–and women to medicine

The Exorcist effect: horror, religion and demonic belief

Fire weather: a true story from a hotter world

The force of truth : critique, genealogy, and truth-telling in Michel Foucault

The free world: art and thought in the Cold War

Freedom’s dominion: a saga of white resistance to federal power

From modes to keys in early modern music theory

The ground breaking: the Tulsa race massacre and an American city’s search for justice

Hegel: the philosopher of freedom

Henry David Thoreau: thinking disobediently

High-impact content marketing: strategies to make your content intentional, engaging and effective

His name is George Floyd: one man’s life and the struggle for racial justice

How the word is passed: a reckoning with the history of slavery across America

I saw death coming: a history of terror and survival in the war against reconstruction

King : a life by Jonathan Eig

Kingdom of characters : the language revolution that made China modern

Lost literacies : experiments in the nineteenth-century US comic strip

MacIntyre’s After Virtue at 40

Master slave husband wife: an epic journey from slavery to freedom

No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers

The opioid epidemic: origins, current state and potential solutions

The Oxford handbook of World War I

Plato and the metaphysical feminine: one hundred and one nights

The pleasures of memory in Shakespeare’s sonnets

Political ideology and social work

Politics and literature at the dawn of World War II

The politics of innocence: how wrongful convictions shape public opinion

The presidency and the American State : leadership and decision making in the Adams, Grant, and Taft administrations

A real right to vote: how a constitutional amendment can safeguard American democracy

The rediscovery of America: native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history

Schubert: a musical wayfarer

South to America: a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation

Southern history remixed: on rock ‘n’ roll and the dilemma of race

The dead are arising: the life of Malcolm X

Theorizing Stephen King

These vivid American documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA photobooks

The understory : an invitation to rootedness and resilience from the forest floor

The undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Warnings: the Holocaust, Ukraine, and endangered American democracy

Watergate: a new history

What works in community news : media startups, news deserts, and the future of the fourth estate

Woman much missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and poetry

Women artists together: art in the age of women’s liberation

The following books (21 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation in November 2024.

Seminary Library

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Enfleshing freedom: body, race, and being

From the stone age to Christianity, monotheism and the historical process.

Galatians by Nijay K. Gupta, Tremper Longman, and Scot McKnight

A history of women in Christian worship

Isaiah 1-39 by Jeff Fisher

The Mary we forgot: what the Apostle to the Apostles teaches the Church today

The New Testament in color: a multiethnic Bible commentary

Psalms 73-150 by H.J. Selderhuis, Timothy George, and Scott M. Manetsch

Swing low: a history of Black Christianity in the United States

Tao te ching by Leozi, Gia-fu Feng, and Jane English

Traités t. 2 by Mark, Georges-Matthieu de. Durand

Office Reference
The Chicago manual of style, 18^th edition

Welshimer Library

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Ancient Africa: a global history, to 300 CE

Arthur Rackham: a life with illustration

Choosing to be simple: collected poems of Tao Yuanming

Confucius analects: with selection from traditional commentaries

Democracy and the American gothic by Michael Blouin

Dürer by Norbert Wolf and Cynthia Hall

Soviet century: archaeology of a lost world

What the thunder said: how the waste land made poetry modern

Mengzi: with selections from traditional commentaries

The following books (86 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation in October 2024.

Seminary Library

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40 questions about Bible translation

40 questions about the Apostle Paul

Answering the Psalmist’s perplexity: new-covenant newness in the Book of Psalms

Apocriticus by Macarius, Jeremy M Schott, and M J Edwards

The Bible of Edessa by David Phillips

A bird’s-eye view of Luke and Acts: context, story, and themes

Blessed new humanity in Christ: a theology of hope for African Christianity from the book of Ephesians

The blurred cross: a writer’s difficult journey with God

A body of praise: understanding the role of our physical bodies in worship

Bridging the Testaments: the history and theology of God’s people in the Second Temple period

The Cappadocian reshaping of metaphysics: relational being

Chapitres des disciples d’Évagre

Chaplaincy: a comprehensive introduction

Christ and the Bible by John William Wenham

The Christian invention of time: temporality and the literature of late antiquity

Cultural Christians in the early church: a historical and practical introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman world

Demystifying evil: a biblical and personal exploration

Dictionary of the New Testament use of the Old Testament

Divine action in Hebrews: and the ongoing priesthood of Jesus

The divine Christology of the Apostle Paul: retrospect and prospect

Engaging Jesus with our senses: an embodied approach to the Gospels

Fragments of Numenius of Apamea: translation and commentary

Galatians by Kathryn Greene-McCreight

Grabar: an introduction to Classical Armenian

Great story and the great commission by Christopher J H Wright

The headship of men and the abuse of women: are they related in any way?

Hebraism in religion, history, and politics: the third culture

The hope in our scars: finding the bride of Christ in the underground of disillusionment

Improvising church: scripture as the source of harmony, rhythm, and soul

India’s nonviolent freedom struggle: the Thomas Christians, 1599-1799

Indigenous theology and the western worldview: a decolonized approach to Christian doctrine

Interpretation for preaching and teaching: an introduction to biblical hermeneutics

Introduction to biblical interpretation: participating in God’s story of redemption

Jesus & gender: living as sisters and brothers in Christ

Jesus the purifier: John’s gospel and the fourth quest for the historical Jesus

Jesus through medieval eyes: beholding Christ with the artists, mystics, and theologians of the middle ages

Listening to scripture: an introduction to interpreting the Bible

The longest psalm: day-by-day responses to divine self-revelation

Ministry in the new realm: a theology of 2 Corinthians

Naming God: addressing the divine in philosophy, theology and scripture

Nelson Glueck: biblical archaeologist and president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

Nobody’s mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in antiquity and the New Testament

The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church

Pentecostals and the poor: reflections from the Indian context

Philippians by George H Guthrie

Prophets beyond activism: rethinking the prophetic roots of social justice

The quest for gender equity in leadership: biblical teachings on gender equity and illustrations of transformation in Africa

Re-enchanting the text: discovering the Bible as sacred, dangerous, and mysterious

The return of the kingdom: a biblical theology of God’s reign

Revelation by Thomas R Schreiner

The rewards of learning Greek and Hebrew: discovering the richness of the Bible in its original languages

Seven challenges that shaped the New Testament: understanding the inherent tensions of early Christian faith

The shape of Matthew’s story

The storied life: Christian writing as art and worship

Taking the cross to youth ministry

The afternoon of Christianity: the courage to change

Three powers in heaven: the emergence of theology and the parting of the ways

Towards an African narrative theology

The Transfiguration of Christ: an exegetical and theological reading

The wisdom of Sirach by Walter T Wilson

Archives
Marakwet: an ethnographic study of religious and cultural identity in Africa by Samuel K. Elolia

Maximus the Confessor: Jesus Christ and the transfiguration of the world by Paul M. Blowers

Raising disciples: guiding your kids into a faith of their own by Teresa Roberts

Redrawing the blueprints for the Early Church: historical ecclesiology in and around the Stone-Campbell Movement

Son, we need to talk: coping with my son’s suicide by E. LeRoy Lawson

Reference
Dictionary of Paul and his letters: a compendium of contemporary biblical scholarship, 2^nd Edition

The Chicago Manual of Style, 18^th edition

Welshimer Library

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The architecture of suspense: the built world in the films of Alfred Hitchcock

A critical and exegetical commentary on 1 Peter in 2 volumes by Travis B. Williams and David G. Horrell

Enheduana: the complete poems of the world’s first author

Faithful politics: ten approaches to Christian citizenship and why it matters

Gods and mortals: ancient Greek myths for modern readers

The new Roman empire: a history of Byzantium

Sublime ideas: drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Three women artists: expanding abstract expressionism in the American West

Truth and repair: how trauma survivors envision justice

The year that broke politics: collusion and chaos in the presidential election of 1968

Reference
The Chicago Manual of Style, 18^th edition

The singer’s musical theatre anthology, Duets v. 3

The singer’s musical theatre anthology, Duets v. 4

Archives
Death comes uninvited by Ken Lang

A life of crime: reflections on crime, policing, and a broken justice system by Ken Lang

One lost soul: Richard Nixon’s search for salvation by Daniel Silliman

Standing in death’s shadow: more true stories from a homicide detective by Ken Lang

Walking among the dead: true stories from a homicide detective by Ken Lang

Office Reference
The Chicago Manual of Style, 18^th edition

The following books (95 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation in September 2024.

Seminary Library

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Agur’s wisdom and the coherence of Proverbs 30

Balai of Qenneshrin: hymns

Basics of verbal aspect in biblical Greek

A chorus of prophetic voices: introducing the prophetic literature of ancient Israel

Cities of the biblical world

The city of Babylon: a history, c. 2000 BC – AD 116

A critical and exegetical commentary on 1 Peter in 2 volumes

Depicting deity: a metatheological approach

Emotional intelligence for religious leaders

Exegetical journeys in biblical Greek: 90 days of guided reading

The expectation gap: the tiny, vast space between our beliefs and experience of God

From idols to icons: the rise of the devotional image in early Christianity

Gender and Christian ethics by Adrian Thatcher

The genius of the gospels: the fifth annual mid-year lectures delivered at Western Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary

Gregory Palamas: the Hesychast controversy and the debate with Islam:  documents relating to Gregory Palamas

The guide to the perplexed: a new translation

The hermeneutics of sacred architecture: experience, interpretation, comparison

The history of Galilee, 1538-1949: mysticism, modernization, and war

Human anguish and God’s power

The idea of semitic monotheism: the rise and fall of a scholarly myth

In the beginning was the image: art and the Reformation Bible

Innocence of Pontius Pilate: how the roman trial of Jesus shaped history

Jesus and his parables by Craig B. Manning

Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Shephelah: papers presented at a colloquium of the Swiss Society for Ancient Near Eastern Studies held at the University of Bern, September 6, 2014

Kierkegaard and the new nationalism: a contemporary reinterpretation of the attack upon Christendom

Leadership or servanthood?: walking in the steps of Jesus

Leading at a higher level: Blanchard on leadership and creating high performing organizations

The library of paradise: a history of contemplative reading in the monasteries of the Church of the East

Macrina the Younger, philosopher of God

The medieval clergy, 800-1250: a sourcebook

The message of Judges: grace abounding

The Mishnah: an introduction by Jacob Neusner

The mysteries of Christianity

The NIV: the making of a contemporary translation

The Oxford annotated Mishnah: a new translation of the Mishnah with introductions and notes

The power of transformation: re-imagining the parables of Jesus

Proclaiming the parables: preaching and teaching the kingdom of God

Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs by David C. Fink and Timothy George

Reforming the household of God: Paul’s models of belonging

Rise and fall of Christian Ireland

Romans: a structural, thematic, and exegetical commentary by Aaron Sherwood

Romans: text, readers, and the history of interpretation by Stephen Westerholm

The saved and the damned: a history of the Reformation

Saying no to say yes: everyday boundaries and pastoral excellence

Seeing and understanding Jesus: a literary and theological commentary on Mark 8:22-9:13

Spirituality and mental health across cultures

Teilhard de Chardin: an analysis and assessment

The Americanization of the apocalypse: creating America’s own Bible

Two views on homosexuality, the Bible, and the Church

Wesley-Langshaw correspondence: Charles Wesley, his sons, and the Lancaster organists

When in Romans: an invitation to linger with the gospel according to Paul

Wisdom of Ben Sira

Women and religion: global lives in focus

Women and the church: from devil’s gateway to discipleship

Worship in an age of anxiety: how Churches can create space for healing

Yahweh and the origins of ancient Israel: insights from the archaeological record

Yes She Can: biblical and practical reflections on women in leadership in the church

New Testament Seminar
The new perspective on grace: Paul and the gospel after Paul and the gift

Romans: a commentary by Beverly Roberts Gaventa

Archives
Campbellism examined

Core 52: a fifteen-minute daily guide to build your Bible IQ in a year

On target: creating a faith development plan for your church

Preaching James: preaching classic texts

Quest 52: a fifteen-minute-a-day yearlong pursuit of Jesus

Teach with success

Welshimer Library

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2001, a space odyssey

Bach in the world: music, society, and representation in Bach’s cantatas

Beethoven in the bunker: musicians under the Nazi regime

The Cambridge companion to Latin American independence

Caves of the South Cumberland Plateau by Justin Whitmel Earley

Christian nationalism and the birth of the war on drugs

Cry, the beloved country

Decolonizing journalism: a guide to reporting in Indigenous communities

Don’t forget to live: Goethe and the tradition of spiritual exercises

English begins at Jamestown: narrating the history of a language

Fantasy: how it works by Larry E. Matthews and Bob Biddix

A fever in the heartland: the Ku Klux Klan’s plot to take over America, and the woman who stopped them

Habits of the household: practicing the story of God in everyday family rhythms

Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the rise of right-wing extremism

In the shadow of invisibility: Ralph Ellison and the promise of American democracy

Keeping your children’s ministry on mission: practical strategies for discipling the next generation

The little book of exoplanets by Fred Brouwers and Eileen J. Stevens

A little history of music by Joshua Winn

On Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Charles Darwin and Jan A. Pechenik

One lost soul: Richard Nixon’s search for salvation by Daniel Silliman

The opt-out family: how to give your kids what technology can’t

The Oxford handbook of religion and Europe

Patriots to pioneers: the first Tennessee volunteers

The readable Darwin: The origin of species edited for modern readers

Selected short stories of William Faulkner.

Show them Jesus: teaching the gospel to kids

What sorrows labour in my parent’s breast?: a history of the enslaved Black family

When you see fireflies: equipping leaders and parents to minister effectively to generation alpha

Reference
Romans: a commentary by Beverly Roberts Gaventa

DVDs
Wit, 2001