New Books and Media Received (April 2025)

The following books (57 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation in April 2025.

Ebooks

Living and Dying Well in Philippians: A Comparative Analysis of Ancient Sources

St. Maximilian Kolbe : The Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner, OFM Conv: Volume 6

Seminary Library

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Acts 1-9:42 by Steve Walton, Nancy L. DeClaissé-Walford, and David B. Capes

The anti-greed gospel: why the love of money is the root of racism and how the Church can create a new way forward

Black contemplative preaching: a hidden history of prayer, proclamation, and prophetic witness

Christianity and critical race theory: a faithful and constructive conversation

Colossians by Clinton E. Arnold

Deep reading: practices to subvert the vices of our distracted, hostile, and consumeristic age

Dietrich Bonhoeffer–the last eight days: the untold story of the journey to Flossenbürg

Exploring world mission: context & challenges

Holy ground: climate change, preaching, and the apocalypse of place

“I grew up in the church”: how American Evangelical women tell their stories

Introducción al Nuevo Testamento: un estudio histórico, literario y teológico

Is it a sermon?: art, activism, and genre fluidity in African American preaching

Judaism is about love: recovering the heart of Jewish life

Libraries, handbooks, encyclopedias: ancient and early medieval repositories of knowledge and their religious aspects

The moral vision of Proverbs: a virtue-oriented approach to wisdom

The Nicene Creed: a scriptural, historical, and theological commentary

Reckoning with history: settler colonialism, slavery, and the making of American Christianity

Sexuality, ideology and the Bible: Antipodean engagements

Slavery in early Christianity

Transpacific political theology: perspectives, paradigms, proposals

Archives
Drama of the divine economy: creator and creation in early Christian theology and piety

Scrappy flock of sheep

Welshimer Library

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Art unpacked: 50 works of art: uncovered, explored, explained:  with over 850 images

Black scare / red scare: theorizing capitalist racism in the United States

A concise history of the Aztecs

The contemporary International Committee of the Red Cross: challenges, changes, controversies

Decisions for sustainability: facts and values

The dictionary people: the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English dictionary

Early jazz: a concise introduction, from its beginnings through 1929

The hollow parties: the many pasts and disordered present of American party politics

How to think like a philosopher: twelve key principles for more humane, balanced, and rational thinking

King noir: the crime fiction of Stephen King

Land of extraction: property, fracking, and settler colonialism

The long journey of English: a geographical history of the language

Manual diagnóstico y estadístico de los trastornos mentales: DSM-5-TR

Midnight rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham

More than words: how to think about writing in the age of AI

Never again: Germans and genocide after the Holocaust

President Garfield: from radical to unifier

The privacy fallacy: harm and power in the information economy

The pursuit of happiness: how classical writers on virtue inspired the lives of the founders and defined America

Race, rights, and rifles: the origins of the NRA and contemporary gun culture

The sisterhood:how a network of Black women writers changed American culture

Social media and adolescent health

Until justice be done: America’s first civil rights movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Juvenile
My daddy is a cowboy

Noel, an unforgettable night!

Noodles on a bicycle

Towed by Toad

Up, up, ever up!: Junko Tabei: a life in the mountains

Reference
Acts 1-9:42 by Steve Walton, Nancy L. DeClaissé-Walford, and David B. Capes

Colossians by Clinton E. Arnold

Genesis 1-11: a new translation with introduction and commentary by Ronald S. Hendel

Jonah: a commentary by L. Juliana M. Claassens

Manual diagnóstico y estadístico de los trastornos mentales: DSM-5-TR

New Books and Media Received (March 2025)

The following books (62 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation in March 2025.

E-books

The Principles of Judaism

Seminary Library

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Anti-semitism before the Holocaust

The art of being a creature:  meditations on humus and humility

Ecclesiastes 1-5:  a critical and exegetical commentary by Stuart Weeks

Ecclesiastes 5-12:  a critical and exegetical commentary by Stuart Weeks

Ephesians by Mark D. Roberts, Tremper Longman, and Scot McKnight

Fifty-One Armenian Antiphons Attributed to Ephraem the Syrian: The First Complete English Translation of the Armenian Text with Comments on the Syriac … (Eastern Mediterranean Texts and Contexts).

Lunchroom theology: pushing tables together in a fractured world

Preaching hope in darkness: help for pastors in addressing suicide from the pulpit

Preaching points: 55 tips for improving your pulpit ministry

Preaching to a divided nation: a seven-step model for promoting reconciliation and unity

Protestant bodies:  gesture in the English reformation

Sex, tech, and faith: ethics for a digital age

Shbītho: monastic prayers from the Syriac tradition

Unfamiliar selves in the Hebrew bible: possession and other spirit phenomena 

You’re not listening: what you’re missing and why it matters

New Testament Seminar
1 Thessalonians by Florence Morgan Gillman and Mary Ann Beavis

Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah by Marie-Theres. Wacker

Christmaker: a life of John the Baptist

Currents in the interpretation of Paul: collected essays

John of history, Baptist of faith: the quest for the historical baptizer

Paul and Asklepios: the Greco-Roman quest for healing and the apostolic mission

Pneumaformity: transformation by the spirit in Paul

The state of Pauline studies: a survey of recent research

Reference
The New Testament in color: a multiethnic Bible commentary

Archives
Reviving the ancient faith: the story of Churches of Christ in America

Sarudzai saves the village

 

Welshimer Library

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AI snake oil: what artificial intelligence can do, what it can’t, and how to tell the difference

Collaboration: a potential history of photography

Demanding witness: women and the trauma of homecoming in Greek tragedy

Gospel thrillers: conspiracy, fiction, and the vulnerable Bible

The purposeful graduate: why colleges must talk to students about vocation

Race, politics, and Irish America: a gothic history

Route 66 and the formation of a national cultural icon: mother road to mythic American byway

Vergil: the poet’s life by Sarah Ruden

Juvenile
Across so many seas

The action Bible: God’s redemptive story

The action storybook bible: an interactive adventure through God’s redemptive story

Un año de historias bíblicas: un tesoro de 48 historias entrañables de la Palabra de Dios

La Biblia en acción: la historia redentora de Dios

Birth of the Chosen One: a First Nations retelling of the Christmas story

The book of belonging: Bible stories for kind & contemplative kids

Bright red fruit

Brownstone

Children of God storybook Bible

Compound fracture

The deep dark

The first state of being

Fox versus fox

Henry, Like Always: Book 1

Home in a lunchbox

Jesus: a gospel

Magnolia Wu unfolds it all

One big open sky

Road home

The things God made: explore God’s creation through the Bible, science, and art

Reference
The New Testament in color: a multiethnic Bible commentary

Office
A librarian’s toolbox: what you need to know

Archives
Carolina basketball school

Democracy and the American Gothic

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

Theorizing Stephen King

New Books and Media Received (February 2025)

The following books (49 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation in February 2025.

Individual Ebooks

Anti-Semitism before the Holocaust

Called beyond our selves: vocation and the common good

Seminary Library

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African Christian theology:  journal of the association for Christian theological, v. 1, no. 1

African Christian theology:  journal of the association for Christian theological, v. 1, no. 2

Behind the scenes of the New Testament: cultural, social, and historical contexts 

Comfort in the ashes:  explorations in the book of Job to support trauma survivors 

Ephesians:  a pastoral and contextual commentary by Brian C. Wintle and Ken Gnanakan

How ableism fuels racism:  dismantling the hierarchy of bodies in the church 

Hymnes, t. 1 by Romanus

Hymnes, t. 4 by Romanus

Hymnes, t. 5 by Romanus

Hymns of repentance by Romanus

Turning points in American church history:  how pivotal events shaped a nation and a faith 

Walking with God through the valley:  recovering the purpose of biblical lament 

Welshimer Library

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The art of the literary poster: the Leonard A Lauder Collection

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

Becoming Foucault: the Poitiers years

The Cambridge history of European Romantic literature

Counterfeit countess: the jewish woman who rescued thousands of poles during the holocaust

Emoji and social media paralanguage

England’s insular imagining: the Elizabethan erasure of Scotland

Falsehoods fly: why misinformation spreads and how to stop it

The fine art of literary fist-fighting: how a bunch of rabble-rousers, outsiders, and ne’er-do-wells concocted creative nonfiction

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

I dread the thought of the place: the Battle of Antietam and the end of the Maryland Campaign

The inner Civil War: northern intellectuals and the crisis of the Union

Jazz and American culture by Michael Borshuk

King : a life by Jonathan Eig

Kingdom of characters: the language revolution that made China modern

A learning community built on strengths: inspiring educators to positively impact student lives

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

The lost princess: women writers and the history of classic fairy tales

MacIntyre’s After Virtue at 40

No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era

The Oxford handbook of World War II

The pleasures of memory in Shakespeare’s sonnets

Politics and literature at the dawn of World War II

Power, image, and memory: historical subjects in art

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

The private Civil War: popular thought during the sectional conflict

Social work and the grand challenge to eliminate racism: concepts, theory, and evidence based approaches

Theorizing Stephen King by Michael Blouin

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

The undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

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

Why we vote by Owen M. Fiss

Writing on the social network: digital literacy practices in social media’s first decade

Archives
Beyond the texts: an archaeological portrait of ancient Israel and Judah by William G. Dever

My nine lives: sixty years in Israeli and biblical archaeology by William G. Dever

New Books and Media Received (December 2024 and January 2025)

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

New Books and Media Received (November 2024)

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, 18th 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