The following books (40 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 2024.

Seminary Library

Lending
1 Samuel by Ralph W. Kleim and Bruce Manning Metzger

Biblical anthropology: a philosophical, medical, and sociological sourcebook

Ezra: a new translation with introduction and commentary by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi

Feminist theory and Christian theology: cartographies of grace

Humilitas: a lost key to life, love, and leadership

Isaiah 34-66 by John D. W. Watts

Jonah: a new translation with introduction and commentary by Rhiannon Graybill, John Kaltner, and Steven L. McKenzie

Joshua 13-24: a new translation with introduction and commentary by Thomas B. Dozeman

Micah: a new translation with introduction and commentary by Bob Becking

On the human image of God by Gregory and John Behr

New Testament Seminar
Greek grammar beyond the basics: an exegetical syntax of the New Testament: with scripture, subject, and Greek word indexes

Welshimer Library

Lending
Accessible elections: how the states can help Americans vote

The all-consuming nation: chasing the American dream since World War II

Beethoven: a political artist in revolutionary times

Belief and cult: rethinking Roman religion

Black Shakespeare: reading and misreading race

The Bloomsbury introduction to postmodern realist fiction: resisting master narratives

Byzantine and Renaissance philosophy

The caregiving ambition: what it is and why it matters at home and work

The classical and Christian origins of American politics: political theology, natural law, and the American founding

Convoys: the British struggle against Napoleonic Europe and America

From big bang to big data: a history of the media

Gems of exquisite beauty: how hymnody carried classical music to America

The index of prohibited books: four centuries of struggle over word and image for the greater glory of God

The John Adams reader: essential writings on an American composer

Just war and ordered liberty

Literacy in a long blues note: Black women’s literature and music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Oxford handbook of Virginia Woolf

Reclaiming John Steinbeck: writing for the future of humanity

The religious journey of Dwight D. Eisenhower: duty, God, and country

Sacred foundations: the religious and medieval roots of the European state

Sister novelists: the trailblazing Porter sisters, who paved the way for Austen and the Brontës

Van Dyck and the making of English portraiture

Watermarks: Leonardo da Vinci and the mastery of nature

Wearing God: clothing, laughter, fire, and other overlooked ways of meeting God

“Whatever it is, I’m against it”: resistance to change in higher education

White: the history of a color

Juvenile
Big by Vashti Harrison

The eyes and the impossible

The many assassinations of Samir, the seller of dreams

The following books (82 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 2023.

Seminary Library

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A is for alabaster: 52 reflections on the stories of scripture

Apostolic letters of faith, hope, and love: Galatians, 1 Peter, and 1 John

Beyond the Greek New Testament: advanced readings for students of biblical studies

The bible vs. biblical womanhood: how God’s word consistently affirms gender equality

Biblical exegesis: a beginner’s handbook by John H. Hayes and Carl R. Holladay

Bonhoeffer as youth worker: a theological vision for discipleship and life together

Breaking bread: the emergence of Eucharist and agape in early Christian communities

The Cambridge companion to the Hebrew Bible and ethics

Chasing the devil at Foggy Bottom: the future of religion in American diplomacy

The church in an age of secular mysticisms: why spiritualities without God fail to transform us

Climate, catastrophe, and faith: how changes in climate drive religious upheaval

A commonwealth of hope: Augustine’s political thought

Connections: a lectionary commentary for preaching and worship, Year A v. 1-3 and Year B, v. 1-3

De Castro Marim à Faïfo: naissance et développement du padroado portugais d’Orient des origines à 1659

Death, the end of history, and beyond: eschatology in the Bible

Democracy and the soul of America

Eve isn’t evil: feminist readings of the Bible to upend our assumptions

Exclusion & embrace: a theological exploration of identity, otherness, and reconciliation

Flood and fury: Old Testament violence and the Shalom of God

For such a time as this: twenty-six women of vision and faith tell their stories

Fully alive: the apocalyptic humanism of Karl Barth

A Jewish Paul: the Messiah’s herald to the gentiles

Just church: Catholic social teaching, synodality, and women

The Lord’s prayer: Matthew 6 and Luke 11 for the life of the church

Margery Kempe: a mixed life

Opening the field of practical theology: an introduction

Origen of Alexandria: master theologian of the early church

Origins of New Testament Christology: an introduction to the traditions and titles applied to Jesus

The Oxford handbook of ecclesiology

The pastor’s bookshelf: why reading matters for ministry

The patristic doctrine of redemption: a study of the development of doctrine during the first five centuries

Philosopher of the heart: the restless life of Søren Kierkegaard

Postcolonial politics and theology: unraveling empire for a global world

Qualitative research: a multi-methods approach to projects for Doctor of Ministry dissertations

The real Mary: why evangelical Christians can embrace the Mother of Jesus

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

Religious transformation in Maya Guatemala: cultural collapse and Christian Pentecostal revitalization

A sacred unity: further steps to an ecology of mind

The saint and the count: a case study for reading like a historian

A short history of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich

“Son of Man”: Volume 1, Early Jewish literature

A Syriac service-book from Turfan: Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin MIK III 45

The Syriac World: in search of a forgotten Christianity

T&T Clark handbook of ecclesiology

The unfinished search for common ground: reimagining Howard Thurman’s life and work

Union with the resurrected Christ: eschatological new creation and New Testament biblical theology

What can you do with your bible training?: traditional and nontraditionl vocational paths

What kind of Christianity: a history of slavery and anti-Black racism in the Presbyterian church

When church stops working: a future for your congregation beyond more money, programs, and innovation

The whole language: the power of extravagant tenderness

Why do you trouble this woman?: women and the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola

Wisdom for faithful reading: principles and practices for Old Testament interpretation

Women and the gender of God by Amy L. B. Peeler

New Testament Seminar
Septuaginta: Vetus Testamentum Graecum v. 11, pt. 2; v. 12, pt. 3; v. 7, pt. 2

Archives
Come to the table: meditations on the Lord’s Supper by George M. Knox and Ronald E. Heine

Life in Utah; or, The mysteries and crimes of Mormonism: Being an exposé of the secret rites and ceremonies of the Latter-Day Saints, with a full and authentic history of polygamy and the Mormon sect from its origin to the present time by J. H. Beadle

The man from Mars Hill: the life and times of T.B. Larimore by J. M. Powell

Strange texts, but grand truths by Clarence Edward Noble Macartney

Preaching in the footsteps of Hitler by Otis Gatewood

Welshimer Library

Lending
The age of acrimony: how Americans fought to fix their democracy, 1865-1915

Art and myth in ancient Greece

By her hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and women artists in Italy, 1500-1800

C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church

Die Flache: design and lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902-1911

Digital authoritarianism in the Middle East: deception, disinformation and social media

Entertaining ethics: lessons in media ethics from popular culture

The essential Greek historians

Family conflict by Heather E. Canary, Heather E. and Daniel J. Canary

Hieronymus Bosch: time and transformation in The garden of earthly delights

Improvising the score: rethinking modern film music through jazz

Muslims and the making of modern Europe

Nonconformers: a new history of self-taught artists

The personality of math: a key to learning and teaching math

Poland 1945: war and peace

The racial Muslim: when racism quashes religious freedom

Rewriting the Chicano movement: new histories of Mexican American activism in the civil rights era

Science denial: why it happens and what to do about it.

Small power: how local parties shape elections

Social media, freedom of speech and the future of our democracy

What you need to know about Alzheimer’s disease

What’s your pronoun?: beyond he & she

The wretched atom: America’s global gamble with peaceful nuclear technology

The following books (29 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 2023.

Seminary Library

Lending
Christopraxis: a practical theology of the cross, 2014.

The perfect balance: a study of Matthew 1-18, 1975.

Welshimer Library

Juvenile
Iveliz explains it all, 2023. Newbery 2023 Honor Book.

Lending
Benjamin Franklin: cultural Protestant, 2021.

The cause of freedom: a concise history of African Americans, 2021.

Climate change, literature, and environmental justice: poetics of dissent and repair, 2021.

Climate lyricism, 2022.

Democracy’s child: young people and the politics of control, leverage, and agency, 2022.

The Enlightenment: the pursuit of happiness, 1680-1790, 2023.

The flag and the cross: white Christian nationalism and the threat to American democracy, 2022.

How people matter: why it affects health, happiness, love, work, and society, 2021.

The Internet is not what you think it is: a history, a philosophy, a warning, 2022.

Just health: treating structural racism to heal America, 2022.

Last witches of England: a tragedy of sorcery and superstition.,2023.

Majority minority, 2022.

Making darkness light: a life of John Milton, 2021.

The monster’s bones: the discovery of T. Rex and how it shook our world, 2023.

Narrating trauma: Victorian novels and modern stress disorders, 2022.

The only wonderful things: the creative partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis, 2021.

Our plastic problem and how to solve it, 2022.

Pushing cool: big tobacco, racial marketing, and the untold story of the menthol cigarette, 2021.

The roots of American individualism: political myth in the age of Jackson, 2022.

Soviet judgment at Nuremberg: a new history of the international military tribunal after World War II, 2020.

The trials of Harry S. Truman: the extraordinary presidency of an ordinary man, 1945-1953, 2023.

Understanding cancer, 2022.

Vermeer and the art of love, 2022.

What is American literature?, 2022.

Why we hate: understanding the roots of human conflict, 2022.

Women and musical salons in the Enlightenment, 2022.