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

Lending
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.

The following books (81 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 2023.

Seminary Library

Archives
Christian family activities for families with preschoolers

Crash course on the Old Testament: six sessions

The father, the son, & the brother’s ghost: twenty years gone: revisiting a tragedy and a trilogy

My life as I lived it: autobiography

Lending
The Bible told them so: how Southern Evangelicals fought to preserve white supremacy C. S. Lewis and the Christian worldview

Claiming the call to preach: four female pioneers of preaching in nineteenth-century America

Created to thrive: cultivating abuse-free faith communities

Eyes to see and ears to hear women: sexual assault as a crisis of evangelical theology

Gender and ministry: [the role of the woman in the work and worship of the church]

Jesus and woman: an exciting discovery of what he offered her

Les lettres du patriarche nestorien Timothée I: Étude critique avec, en appendice, la lettre de Timothée I aux moines du couvent de Mār Mārōn (traduction latine et texte chaldéed)

Lives of Syriac saints by Sebastian P. Brock, Jeanee-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Aramando Elkhoury, Rodrigue Constantin

The Mediterranean diaspora in late Antiquity: what Christianity cost the Jews

Motherhood: a confession by Natalie Carnes

Numbers by Philip J. Budd

On earth as it is in heaven: religion in modern Latin America

Palästinisches Hieratisch: die Zahl- und Sonderzeichen in der althebräischen Schrift

Preaching the Gospel: collected sermons on discipleship, mission, peace, justice, and the sacraments

Selected metrical homilies by Jacob, Armando Elkhoury, Robert A. Kitchen, Sebastian P. Brock

A week in the life of Rome

Women and the religion of ancient Israel

New Testament Seminar
The Apollinarian Christologies: a study of the writings of Apollinarius of Laodicea

Being ‘in Christ’ in the letters of Paul: saved through Christ and in his hands

A former Jew: Paul and the dialectics of race

Honor, patronage, kinship, and purity: unlocking New Testament culture

Introduction to the New Testament by Carl R. Holladay

Lives of the eminent philosophers by Diogenes Laertius, Pamela Mensch, Jim Miller

The Passion as liturgy: a study in the origin of the Passion narratives in the four Gospels

Platonist philosophy 80 BC to AD 250: an introduction and collection of sources in translation

Prophetic Jesus, prophetic church: the challenge of Luke-Acts to contemporary Christians

Shaping the past to define the present: Luke-Acts and apologetic historiography

Women in classical antiquity from birth to death  

Welshimer Library

Lending
The afterlife in popular culture: heaven, hell, and the underworld in the American imagination

Bauhaus: a graphic novel

Black artists in America: from the Great Depression to civil rights

Can we unlearn racism?: what South Africa teaches us about Whiteness

Covering the border war: how the news media creates crime, race, nation, and the USA-Mexico divide

Criminology and moral philosophy: empirical methods and the study of values

Cultivating student success: a multifaceted approach to working with emerging adults in higher education

The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity

Designing a world for everyone: 30 years of inclusive design

The digital mindset: what it really takes to thrive in the age of data, algorithms, and AI

Ethics in the digital domain

Forever prisoners: how the United States made the world’s largest immigrant detention system

Fortress dark and stern: the Soviet home front during World War II

The future of business journalism: why it matters for Wall Street and Main Street

Happiness: a history

Horror fiction in the 20th century: exploring literature’s most chilling genre

How democracies live: power, statecraft, and freedom in modern societies

The imperial presidency and American politics: governance by edicts and coups

The Inca: lost civilizations

The Italian Renaissance and the origins of the modern humanities: an intellectual history, 1400-1800

The Japanese myths: a guide to gods, heroes and spirits

Judaism, antisemitism, and Holocaust: making the connections

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Korea: a history

The making of a story: a Norton guide to creative writing

The movement: the African American struggle for civil rights

Neighborhood watch: policing white spaces in America

On justice: philosophy, history, foundations

Parable of the sower

Parable of the talents

The passion of Anne Hutchinson: an extraordinary woman, the Puritan patriarchs, and the world they made and lost

Philosophy of mind: a very short introduction

Pick a pocket or two: a history of British musical theatre

Race, class, and social welfare: American populism since the New Deal

Raphael by Paul Joannides

Rivals for power: presidential-congressional relations

Seeing like an activist: civil disobedience and the civil rights movement

Shakespeare’s ‘lady editors’: a new history of the Shakespearean text

Sheer misery: soldiers in battle in WWII

Should you believe Wikipedia?: online communities and the construction of knowledge

The southern key: class, race, and radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s

Surviving solitary: living and working in restricted housing units

Under the iron heel: the Wobblies and the capitalist war on radical workers

Under the skin: the hidden toll of racism on American lives and on the health of our nation

Understanding the transnational lives and literacies of immigrant children

A vertical art: on poetry

You don’t know us Negroes: and other essays  

Office
Compact copyright: quick answers to common questions

The following books (174 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation in June through August 2023.

Seminary Library

DVDs
Prophetic voices: The complete series

Lending
40 questions about women in ministry        

Amos: a handbook on the Greek text by W. Edward Glenny

The beginning and end of all things: a biblical theology of creation and new creation   

Being God’s image: why creation still matters        

Biblical boundaries of forgiveness: a biblical and ethical study of forgiveness as it relates to repentance, reconciliation, and justice     

Black fundamentalists: conservative Christianity and racial identity in the segregation era       

The Cambridge companion to Hildegard of Bingen

The care of souls: cultivating a pastor’s heart         

The Church after innovation: questioning our obsession with work, creativity, and entrepreneurship

Churches and the crisis of decline: a hopeful, practical ecclesiology for a secular age     

Confronting racial injustice: theory and praxis for the church       

Created or constructed?: the great gender debate

Development in mission: a guide for transforming global poverty and ourselves            

Europe and the Levant in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance   

Evangelicals and presidential politics: from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump        

Faith seeking understanding: an introduction to Christian theology         

Flourishing in ministry: how to cultivate clergy wellbeing

The flourishing pastor: recovering the lost art of shepherd leadership     

The idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism: a new theory of people, exile, and Israelite identity

The incomparable God: readings in biblical theology         

Let justice roll down  

Lifting the veil: imagination and the Kingdom of God        

Literature and culture in the Roman Empire, 96-235: cross-cultural interactions

Man God: rediscovering the Lord Jesus Christ         

The meaning of Christ: a Mahāyāna theology        

The meaning of singleness: retrieving an eschatological vision for the contemporary church    

Mystical theology: the science of love         

The Negro Bible – the slave Bible: select parts of the holy Bible, selected for the use of the Negro slaves, in the British West-India Islands           

Oral Roberts and the rise of the prosperity gospel  

Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Person and nature in the theological poems of St. Gregory of Nazianzus

Revelation for the rest of us: a prophetic call to follow Jesus as a dissident disciple        

Son, we need to talk: coping with my son’s suicide

The spirit, ethics, and eternal life: Paul’s vision for the Christian life in Galatians            

Sustaining ministry: foundations and practices for serving faithfully        

The Syriac Peshitta Bible with English translation. 

Tell her story: how women led, taught, and ministered in the early church         

Theodore Abū Qurrah: the intellectual profile of an Arab Christian writer of the first Abbasid century

Worship by faith alone: Thomas Cranmer, the Book of common prayer, and the reformation of liturgy

Welshimer Library

Archives
Composition as conversation: seven virtues for effective writing by Heather M. Hoover

A crocus in the desert: devotions, prayers, and stories for women experiencing infertility by Nancy Canestrari Williams

DVDs

Around the world in 80 days

Crazed fruit

Pierre Etaix collection

The sand pebbles

Juvenile
Choosing brave: how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement (Caldecott 2023 Honor Book)

Hot dog (Caldecott 2023 Medal Winner)

Queer ducks (and other animals): the natural world of animal sexuality (Printz 2023 Honor Book)

Scout’s honor (Printz 2023 Honor Book)

Lending
Afterlives of data: life and debt under capitalist surveillance

Aftermath: life in the fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955

The agitators: three friends who fought for abolition and women’s rights

America on fire: the untold history of police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s

American television during a television presidency

Bauhuas: a graphic novel

The bell of treason: the 1938 Munich agreement in Czechoslovakia

Beyond sustainability: a thriving environment

Beyond the code: a philosophical guide to engineering ethics

The Black Death: a new history of the great mortality in Europe, 1347-1500

Black women and public health: strategies to name, locate, and change systems of power

The Bloomsbury reader in the study of myth

The border within: the economics of immigration in an age of fear

The brain on youth sports: the science, the myths, and the future

The Cambridge companion to American theatre since 1945

The Cambridge companion to early American literature

Candide or Optimism: the Robert M. Adams translation, backgrounds, criticism

Challenges and choices for patient, carer and professional at the end of life: living with uncertainty

Charlie Brown’s America: the popular politics of Peanuts

The colors of love: multiracial people in interracial relationships

Command and persuade: crime, law, and the state across history

Composition as conversation: seven virtues for effective writing

The Count of Monte Cristo

Creative acts for curious people: how to think, create, and lead in unconventional ways

Death before sentencing: ending rampant suicide, overdoses, brutality, and malpractice in America’s jails

Democratize work: the case for reorganizing the economy

Digital Black feminism

Dividing paradise: rural inequality and the diminishing American dream

Dyslexia in higher education: anxiety and coping skills

Early modern childhood: an introduction

Economics for a fragile planet

Educational foundations: philosophical and historical perspectives

Ellis Island: a people’s history

Environmental postcolonialism: a literary response.

Ethics in higher education: promoting equity and inclusion through case-based inquiry

Extra bold: a feminist inclusive anti-racist nonbinary field guide for graphic designers

A feminist critique of police stops

Fitting the facts of crime: an invitation to biopsychosocial criminology

Fixing stories: local newsmaking and international media in Turkey and Syria

Free speech and campus civility: promoting challenging but constructive dialog in higher education

George Washington and political fatherhood: the endurance of a national myth

Good energy: renewable power and the design of everyday life

Halfway house: prisoner reentry and the shadow of carceral care

A handbook on counseling African American women: psychological symptoms, treatments, and case studies

Hidden harmonies: women and music in popular entertainment

The history of political thought: a very short introduction

Hope: a literary history

Imagined audiences: how journalists perceive and pursue the public

Improving communication in mental health settings: evidence-based recommendations from practitioner-led research

Islamic art: past, present, future

Islamic art and architecture

Just pursuit: a black prosecutor’s fight for fairness

Keats’s odes: a lover’s discourse

Kindred spirits: Chinua Achebe and Toni Morrison

Latinas in the criminal justice system: victims, targets, and offenders

Leading with values: strategies for making ethical decisions in business and life

LGBTQ life in America: examining the facts

Life in Stalin’s Soviet Union

Living positive with imperfection: a memoir

Local interests: politics, policy, and interest groups in US city governments

Love lives: from Cinderella to Frozen

The making of an alliance: the origins and development of the US-Israel relationship

Managing organizations to sustain passion for public service

Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975-1990

Merce Cunningham: after the arbitrary

Michelangelo’s painting: selected essays

A Molecule away from madness: tales of the hijacked brain

Nature and therapy: understanding counselling and psychotherapy in outdoor spaces

Nausea

Necropolitics: the religious crisis of mass incarceration in America

Neuromatic, or, a particular history of religion and the brain

Oil, the state, and war: the foreign policies of petrostates

On women’s films: across worlds and generations

The operetta empire: music theater in early twentieth-century Vienna

Overcoming addiction: seven imperfect solutions and the end of America’s greatest epidemic

The Oxford handbook of philosophy and disability

Partial truths: how fractions distort our thinking

The patriarchs: the origins of inequality

Permanent crisis: the humanities in a disenchanted age

The philosophical athlete

Poland 1939: the outbreak of World War II

Policing Black bodies: how Black lives are surveilled and how to work for change

Policing welfare: punitive adversarialism in public assistance

Political science and the problem of social order

Prisons of debt: the afterlives of incarcerated fathers

Puritan spirits in the abolitionist imagination

Queering law and order: LGBTQ communities and the criminal justice system

Racism, not race: answers to frequently asked questions

The Reagan revolution and the rise of the New Right: a reference guide

Reconsidering reparations

Redistributing the poor: jails, hospitals, and the crisis of law and fiscal austerity

Rejecting retributivism: free will, punishment, and criminal justice

The relevance of Alan Watts in contemporary culture: understanding contributions and controversies

Rethinking the new technology of journalism: how slowing down will save the news

Revolutionary Europe: politics, community and culture in transnational context, 1775-1922  Gavin Murray-Miller.

Savage tales: the writings of Paul Gauguin

The Second: race and guns in a fatally unequal America

The second founding: an introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment

Smashing the liquor machine: a global history of prohibition

The stigma of mental illness: models and methods of stigma reduction

Story movements: how documentaries empower people and inspire social change

Strategic creativity: a business field guide to advertising, branding, and design

The sum of us: what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together

Surrealism beyond borders

Syringe exchange programs and the opioid epidemic: government and nonprofit practices and policies

Three novels: Molloy ; Malone dies ; the unnamable

To know the soul of a people: religion, race, and the making of Southern folk

Toni Morrison and the natural world: an ecology of color

Trans and non-binary gender healthcare for psychiatrists, psychologists, and other health professionals

Transforming the War on Drugs: warriors, victims, and vulnerable regions

Twenty million angry men: the case for including convicted felons in our jury system

Understanding coronavirus

Understanding eyewitness events: theory and applications

Understanding research methods: an overview of the essentials

The underwater eye: how the movie camera opened the depths and unleashed new realms of fantasy

University and public behavioral health organization collaboration: models for success in justice contexts

A violent peace: media, truth, and power at the League of Nations

What happened to the vital center?: presidentialism, populist revolt, and the fracturing of America

When freedom speaks: the boundaries and boundlessness of our First Amendment right

Whiteness and antiracism: beyond white privilege pedagogy

The words that made us: America’s constitutional conversation, 1760-1840

Writing in music: a brief guide  

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

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