Milligan Library Life

by the staff of P.H. Welshimer Memorial Library & Seminary Library

New Books and Media Received (April 2026)

The following books (34 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 2026.

Seminary Library

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Abba’s child: the cry of the heart for intimate belonging

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years

The book of Daniel by Aubrey E. Buster and John H. Walton

The book of Ecclesiastes by Tremper Longman

The Cambridge history of ancient Christianity

E M Bounds, the classic collection on prayer

Early Christian theology: a history by J. Warren Smith

Environmental missions: planting churches and trees

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

In and out of church: the moral arc of spiritual change in America

Just peacemaking: the new paradigm for the ethics of peace and war

Letters to a young pastor: Timothy conversations between father and son

A long obedience in the same direction: discipleship in an instant society

Method matters: essays on the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in honor of David L. Petersen

Resonance: a sociology of our relationship to the world

Revelation by Rodney Lawrence Petersen and Gerald Lewis Bray

Time and world by Harmut Rosa

The uncontrollability of the world by Harmut Rosa

New Testament Seminar

Deuteronomy by Johanna W. H. Van Wijk-Bos, Ahida Calderón Pilarski, and Barbara E. Reid

A handbook to second-century Christianity by Michael F. Bird and Scott D. Harrower

Reference

Africa Bible commentary :a one-volume commentary from over 100 African scholars

New Testament Seminar Reference

The Greek New Testament, Sixth revised edition

Welshimer Library

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 Hard neighbors: the Scotch-Irish invasion of Native America and the making of an American identity

The origins of the criminal justice system: historical explorations by the justice-involved

Juvenile

The big mess and other stories

El Colorido reino de Dios: historias de la Biblia: La historia de la gran familia de Dios*

God’s colorful easter: the good news is for everyone*

God’s colorful kingdom storybook Bible: the story of God’s big diverse family*

My first Bible storybook =Mi primer libro de historias bíblicas*

New Testament storybook for kids*

The Story for children: a storybook Bible*

*Gail Phillips Bible Storybook Collection

Archives

The Oxford compendium of hope (chapter by Kellie Brown)

The political Poe by Michael Blouin

Rediscovering the good news of the gospel: asking the right questions and putting the pieces together by Bruce Gibson


New Books and Media Received (March 2026)

The following books (51 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 2026.

Ebooks

Anchor Yale Bible dictionary, 6 volumes

Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went From Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed

Seminary Library

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Acts: a commentary for biblical preaching and teaching by John D. Harvey and David Gentino

The Amarna letters: the Syro-Levantine correspondence by Jacob Lauinger and Tyler R. Yoder

America’s theologian beyond America: Jonathan Edwards, Israel and China

The Christian metaphysics of St Maximus the Confessor: creation, world-order, and redemption

Decolonizing evangelicalism: an 11:59 p.m. conversation

Digital minimalism: choosing a focused life in a noisy world

Faith and trust: an introduction to Judeo-Arabic thought

Genesis: a commentary by David L. Petersen

Hidden with Christ in God: a theology of Colossians and Philemon

How to study the Bible’s use of the Bible: seven hermeneutical choices for the Old and New Testaments

Human interaction with the natural world in wisdom literature and beyond: essays in honour of Tova L. Forti

Journey to Eloheh: how indigenous values lead us to harmony and well-being

Mission and the cultural other: a closer look

The new voice of God: language, worldview, and the Cherokee Bible

On fasting and feasts by Basil, Susan R. Holman, Mark DelCogliano

Prayers of the Eucharist: early and reformed:  texts translated and edited with introductions

The problem of the Christian master: Augustine in the afterlife of slavery

Propagandists of the Book: Protestant missions, Christian literacy, and the making of Brazilian evangelicalism  Pedro Feitoza.

New Testament Seminar

The embodied God: seeing the divine in Luke-Acts and the early church

Haggai and Malachi by Stacy Nicole Davis, Barbara E. Reid, and Carol J. Dempsey

The next quest for the historical Jesus by James G. Crossley and Chris Keith

The origin and persistence of evil in Galatians

Psalms: books 4-5 by Nancy L. DeClaissé-Walford

Revelation by Lynn R. Huber, Gail R. O’Day, Amy-Jill Levine, and Barbara E. Reid

Trust in atonement: God, creation, and reconciliation

Zechariah by Leslie J. Hoppe, Lauress Wilkins Lawrence, Barbara E. Reid, and Athalya Brenner-Idan

Reference

The Oxford handbook of the Bible and the Reformation 

New Testament Seminar Reference

A textual commentary on the Greek New Testament: a companion to the sixth edition of the United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament

Office Reference

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association: the official guide to APA style, 7th edition

Welshimer Library

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Child and adolescent mental health in social work: a casebook

Emerson’s civil wars: spirit and society in the age of abolition

The foreign invention of British art

How painting happens: (and why it matters)

How to think like an economist: great economists who shaped the world and what they can teach us

J.S. Bach: the organ works

Johnson City 150 years: the 150 year story

The story of Jesus continues: a survey of the Acts of the Apostles

Juvenile

All the blues in the sky

Legendary frybread drive-in: intertribal stories

Our lake

Sisters in the wind

Stalactite & Stalagmite: a big tale from a little cave

Stop that mop!

Sundust

The undead fox of Deadwood Forest

Reference

The book of Daniel by Aubrey E. Buster, Aubrey E. and John H. Walton

Genesis: a commentary by David L. Petersen

Tennessee blue book

A textual commentary on the Greek New Testament: a companion to the sixth edition of the United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament


New Books and Media Received (February 2026)

The following books (31 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 2026.

Seminary Library

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Acts by Scot McKnight

American Christian nationalism: neither American nor Christian

The annotated Book of Mormon by Grant Hardy

The Bible throughout the ages: its nature, interpretation, and relevance for today

The challenge of Acts: rediscovering what the church was and is

Cyril of Alexandria: Against Julian:  introduction and translation

Elements of biblical exegesis: a basic guide for students and ministers

Excavations at Tawilan in Southern Jordan

The Gospel of Mark: a theological reading by José Enrique Aguilar Chiu

Has archaeology buried the Bible?

How Catholics encounter the Bible

Jesus, contradicted: why the Gospels tell the same story differently

Judges 13-21: a new translation with commentary by Jack M. Sasson

Latter-day Saint theology among Christian theologies

The lay of the land: a self-taught photographer’s journey to find faith, love, and happiness

Modern genre theory: an introduction for biblical studies

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

Rebecca Sue: a sister’s reflections on disability, faith, and love

The religion of whiteness: how racism distorts Christian faith

Remarriage in early Christianity by A. Andrew Das

The scandal of the kingdom: how the parables of Jesus revolutionize life with God

The shape of joy: the transformative power of moving beyond yourself

The surprising genius of Jesus: what the gospels reveal about the greatest teacher

Vivid rhetoric and visual persuasion: ekphrasis in early Christian literature

New Testament Seminar Reference Oversize
New Testament papyri facsimiles: P45, P46, P47

New Testament papyrus P47 :a transcription

Welshimer Library

Juvenile
The house no one sees

The nine moons of Han Yu and Luli

A sea of lemon trees: the Corrido of Roberto Alvarez

The teacher of nomad land: a World War II story

The tunneler tunnels in the tunnel


New Books and Media Received (October 2025 – January 2026)

The following books (134 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation from October 2025 to January 2026.

Ebooks
The fearless Christian university

Fontes Nicaenae Synodi : the contemporary sources for the study of the Council of Nicaea (304-337)

“Silence” in translation 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 in Myanmar and the development of critical contextual hermeneutic

Spiritual Theology A Systematic Study of the Christian Life

They flew : a history of the impossible

Seminary Library

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The 1837 debate on Roman Catholicism between Bishop John Purcell and Alexander Campbell: the world is large enough for us all

Attunement: the art and politics of feminist theology

Becoming God’s family: why the Church still matters

Christendom: the triumph of a religion, AD 300-1300

Church for everyone: building a multi-inclusive community for emerging generations

Circle of hope: a reckoning with love, power, and justice in an American church

Constructing exile: the emergence of a biblical paradigm

Contextual theological interpretation: an integrated model for reading the Bible

Forgiveness: an alternative account by Matthew Ichihashi Potts

Friendship or enmity?: the Christian and the world in the letter of James

From pulpit to public square: faithful speech beyond church walls

Grains of wheat: suffering and Biblical narratives

Gregory of Nyssa: on the Hexaemeron:  text, translation, and essays

A hermeneutic of imagination: unlocking scripture’s full potential

Hermeneutics: principles and processes of biblical interpretation

Homilies on Psalms 36-38 by Origen, Michael Heintz

The image of God: the problem of evil and the problem of mourning

James and Galatians by Scot McKnight and Becky Castle Miller

The letters to Philemon, the Colossians, and the Ephesians: a socio-rhetorical commentary on the captivity Epistles by Ben Witherington

Liberating people, planet, and religion: intersections of ecology, economics, and Christianity

Mere Christian hermeneutics: transfiguring what it means to read the Bible theologically

The metaphysics of Christology in the late Middle Ages: William of Ockham to Gabriel Biel

Mission, race, and empire: the Episcopal Church in global context

Natural light in Medieval churches

Nicaea 325: reassessing the contemporary sources

Nicaea and the future of Christianity by George E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou

Prophets beyond activism: rethinking the prophetic roots of social justice

The Routledge companion to Eve

Scripture and the authority of God: how to read the Bible today

Silenced: the forgotten story of progressive era Free Methodist women

Social Catholicism for the Twenty-First Century?

Theatrics in patristic preaching and biblical exposition

The theological imagination: perception and interpretation in life, art, and faith

The theology of fear in Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae

Thinning the veil: encountering Jesus Christ in the Book of Revelation

United to Christ, walking in the Spirit: a theology of Ephesians

We follow Christ: helping women to discern God’s call

Writings on the Apocalypse by Gregory, Cassiodorus, Francis X. Gumerlock, Mark DelCogliano, and T.C. Schmidt

New Testament Seminar
Acts: an Interpretation Bible Commentary by Matthew L. Skinner

Babylonian Jews and Sasanian imperialism in late antiquity

Creating sacred places in first century Corinth

Empowering the people: Jesus, healing, and exorcism

Ezra-Nehemiah by Deborah Ann Appler and Terry A. Smith

First Nations Version Psalms and Proverbs: an Indigenous Bible translation

Preaching from the cross: Paul’s theology of proclamation

Re-reading household relationships christologically: Ephesian, empire and egalitarianism

Romans by Christian Eberhart, Mary Ann Beavis, and Barbara E. Reid

The Second Testament: a new translation by Scot McKnight

T & T Clark handbook to social identity in the New Testament

Wisdom of Solomon by Mark Giszczak

Archives
Creating sacred places in first century Corinth by Alisha N. Paddock

Welshimer Library

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After the end: Cold War culture and apocalyptic imaginations in the twenty-first century

AI & I: an intellectual history of artificial intelligence

AI morality by David Edmonds

America’s imagined revolution: the historical novel of Reconstruction

America’s religious history: faith, politics, and the shaping of a nation

Believability: sexual violence, media, and the politics of doubt

Blessing America first: religion, populism, and foreign policy in the Trump administration

Bright circle: five remarkable women in the age of Transcendentalism

The Cambridge companion to literature in a digital age

Campus misinformation: the real threat to free speech in American higher education

The Christmas collection: 53 songs for classical singers:  low voice

Contemporary Aristotelian ethics: Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Spaemann

Contemporary Iran by Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Bettina Richter, Majid ʻAbbāsī, and Maryam Razi

The creative self: beyond individualism

Dante’s Divine comedy: a biography by Joseph Luzzi

Democracy, theatre and performance: from the Greeks to Gandhi

Digital art: 1960s-now

Digital Victorians: from nineteenth-century media to digital humanities

Documents of the Christian church by Henry Bettenson and Chris Maunder

Early modern literature and the bodies of a reformed Eucharist

The ecological plot: how stories gave rise to a science

The emperor and the elephant: Christians and Muslims in the age of Charlemagne

Faith: a very short introduction by Roger Trigg

Genocide, the Holocaust, and Israel-Palestine: first person history in times of crisis

Geographies of travel: impressions of America in the long nineteenth century.

Glad to the brink of fear: a portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson

A history of the Muslim world: from its origins to the dawn of modernity

Holocaust heroines: Jewish women saving Jewish children

How to be sustainable: business strategies for leading change

How women became poets: a gender history of Greek literature

Inside knowledge: incarcerated people on the failures of the American prison

Investing in children’s mental health

Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” reimagined

Liminal minorities: religious difference and mass violence in Muslim societies

Lost souls: Soviet displaced persons and the birth of the Cold War

Making algebra meaningful: a visual approach to math literacy for all

The making of European music in the long eighteenth century

The most powerful court in the world: a history of the Supreme Court of the United States

Nature-first cities: restoring relationships with ecosystems and with each other

Open scholarship in the humanities by Paul Longley Arthur and Lydia Hearn

The origin and significance of zero: an interdisciplinary perspective

Orwell’s ghosts: wisdoms and warnings for the twenty-first century

Painting with Monet by Harmon Siegel and Claude Monet

Poesis in extremis: literature witnessing the Holocaust

Policing patients: treatment and surveillance on the frontlines of the opioid crisis

Positioning women in conflict studies: how women’s status affects political violence

Precious beyond measure: a history of Korean ceramics

The quest of the historical Muhammad and other studies on formative Islam

The question of unworthy life: eugenics and Germany’s twentieth century

Religion in plain view: public aesthetics of American display

Reversed gaze: an African ethnography of American anthropology

Scholarship, community, faith: Milligan celebrates 150 years by Clinton J. Holloway and A. Lee Fierbaugh

Seeing red: Russian propaganda and American news

She played and sang: Jane Austen and music

Silent film and the formations of U.S. literary culture: literature in motion

Spaces on the spectrum: how autism movements resist experts and create knowledge

Taming the machine: ethically harness the power of AI

Teaching popular culture in the humanities classroom

Understanding and reducing anxiety in the primary school: theory and practice for building a compassionate culture for all educators and children

Unequal health: anti-black racism and the threat to America’s health

Virtue ethics in Christian perspective

Who needs college anymore?: imagining a future where degrees won’t matter

Women at odds: indifference, antagonism, and progress in late Victorian literature

Women writing musicals: the legacy that the history books left out

Youth and sustainable peacebuilding by Helen Berents, Catherine E. Bolten, and Siobhán McEvoy-Levy

Reference
Judges 13-21: a new translation with commentary by Jack M. Sasson

The new Oxford annotated Bible: New Revised Standard version with the Apocrypha: an ecumenical study Bible, 5th edition

Office Reference
Scholarship, community, faith: Milligan celebrates 150 years by Clinton J. Holloway and A. Lee Fierbaugh

Archives
King noir: the crime fiction of Stephen King by Michael Blouin (and others)


New Books and Media Received (September 2025)

The following books (19 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 2025.

Seminary Library

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Bucolici Graeci by Theocritus, A. S. F. Gow

The cross and the tent peg: how Jesus retraced Jael’s story

Euripides by David Kovacs

Menander by W. Geoffrey Arnott

On the Hymn to Zeus in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon

Welshimer Library

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Adolescent co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders

Art during wartime: painting everyday life in the Civil War North

Berlioz and his world

The case for critical literacy: a history of reading in writing studies

The grapes of wrath

Hungry roots: how food communicates Appalachia’s search for resilience

Imagining progress: science, faith, and child mortality in America

In Poe’s wake: travels in the graphic and the atmospheric

The Jesuits in the United States: a concise history

Methane studios: 21st century schizoid brand illustration and design

Middlemarch: Authoritative text, backgrounds and contemporary reactions, criticism

The psychology of trauma

TikTok Broadway: musical theatre fandom in the digital age

The United States governed by six hundred thousand despots: a true story of slavery: a rediscovered narrative, with a full biography