The following books (91 items) were received into the Library collection for both the Welshimer and Seminary Libraries through budgeted funds and expense accounts and by donation Summer through Fall Break 2026.

Ebooks

Greek and Roman philosophy: a survey for students of the New Testament

A little exercise for young theologians

Phoebe: a story

Power in weakness: Paul’s transformed vision for ministry

Tennesseans and their history

Seminary Library

Lending

The age of Caesar: five Roman lives

Augustine the African

The Bible and the pursuit of happiness: what the Old and New Testaments teach us about the good life

The Biblical doctrine of the church by William Robinson

A biblical history of Israel by Iain W. Provan, V. Philips Long, and Tremper Longman

The big book on small groups

Called to serve, gifted to lead: a biblical and practical case for women in ministry

Creative bible teaching by Larry Richards and Gary J. Bredfeldt

Creative teaching methods: be an effective Christian teacher

Cultural memory in the Hebrew Bible: Genesis to Kings

The everyday mysticism of C. S. Lewis: spirituality for daily life

Faithful presence: seven disciplines that shape the church for mission

Introduction to medieval theology by Rik Van Nieuwenhove

Israel & the nations: the history of Israel from the Exodus to the fall of the Second Temple

The lady: Clare of Assisi, early documents

The legacy of St Gregory Palamas: studies in Late Byzantine theology and its reception

The life of Christina of Markyate by Samuel Fanous, Henrietta leyser, and C. H. Talbot

Live laugh love: the secret history of white Christian women and the world they made by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Luke: a commentary by John T. Carroll

Mary and Martha: women in the world of Jesus

Medieval Christianity: a new history by Kevin Madigan

Meditations: thumps heard around the Eucharist

The mimetic tradition of reform in the West

Narsai: selected sermons

On the Incarnation by Athanasius, John Behr, and C. S. Lewis

The Opuscula and the Dispute with Pyrrhus: the theological and polemical works

Out of the silent planet

The pastoral theology of the Early Church

The politics of redemption: the doctrine, the matter, the law, and grace

Scriptural allusions and exegetical techniques in the book of Revelation

Teaching inclusively in higher education

To Preach or not to preach: women’s ministry then and now.

“Uncle Bud” Robinson: enduring lessons from an early twentieth-century simple folk preacher

Wolfgang Musculus: (1497-1563):  destin d’un autodidacte lorrain au siècle des Réformes:  étude basée sur la biographie établie par son fils, la correspondance personnelle et de nombreux autres documents d’époque

A women’s history of the Christian church: two thousand years of female leadership

The works of Saint Augustine: A translation for the 21st century

New Testament Seminar

Acts by Robert P. Menzies and Craig S. Keener

Boy Jesus: growing up Judean in turbulent times

Christian life in the Greco-Roman city: the civic and architectural contexts of early Christianity

Colossians and Philemon by Holly Beers

Galatians through the centuries by John Riches

Greed as idolatry: the origin and meaning of a Pauline metaphor

Israel’s scriptures in the New Testament: a critical synopsis

James revisited: Christology and biblical theology in the letter of James by Brandon D. Crowe

The letter to the Ephesians: an exegetical and theological commentary by Thomas R. Schreiner

New Testament ethics: revisiting the moral vision of the New Testament

Patterns of women’s leadership in early Christianity

Reference

Galatians: a new translation with introduction and commentary by J. Louis Martyn

Archives

Called to serve, gifted to lead: a biblical and practical case for women in ministry by Dawn Gentry

Meditations: thumps heard around the Eucharist by Calvin Ross

Welshimer Library

Lending

Collected poems, 1957-1982 by Wendell Berry

Creative interventions with traumatized children

Crossing to safety

Facing Gaia: eight lectures on the new climatic regime

Felicity by Mary Oliver

Five views on the gospel by Michael F. Bird, Jason Matson, Scot McKnight, Michael Scott Horton, David A. deSilva, Julie C. Ma, and Shively T. J. Smith

Frederick Douglass: a life in American history

The great work: our way into the future by Thomas Berry

How early America sounded

How to worship for all its worth: a guide for pastors, worship leaders, and students

Interdisciplinarity by Joe Moran

Judaism: a guide for Christians by Tzvi Novick

Listening to nineteenth-century America

Oryx and Crake: a novel by Margaret Atwood

Penelope’s bones: a new history of Homer’s world through the women written out of it

The power: a novel by Naomi Alderman

Red bird: poems by Mary Oliver

A Short history of the United States by Robert V. Remini

Thinking through Paul: an introduction to his life, letters, and theology

Three short novels: Nathan Coulter, Remembering, A world lost by Wendell Berry

Treating trauma and traumatic grief in children and adolescents

What we can know: a novel by Ian McEwan

The worship architect: a blueprint for designing culturally relevant and biblically faithful services

Juvenile

Cope field

Every Monday Mabel

Fireworks

Song of a blackbird

Reference

The book of Ecclesiastes by Tremper Longman

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

Office Reference

MLA Handbook, 2021

Planning new and remodeled archival facilities

Archives

The community cook book by King’s Daughters of the Milligan College Christian Church.

Daniel Sommer, 1850-1940; a biography.

Saving local leadership: eight virtues of local leadership that transform communities by Todd M. Smith

Seventy years in the Cumberlands by C. L. Holt

Wired to lead: being the leader the church didn’t think you could be by Suzanne Nadell

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

Lending
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

Lending
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

The following books (68 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 2024.

Seminary Library

Lending
2 Maccabees 1-7: a handbook on the Greek text by Seth Ehorn

2 Maccabees 8-15: a handbook on the Greek text by Seth Ehorn

Advanced strategic planning: a 21st-century model for church and ministry leaders

Black theology and Black faith by Noel Leo Erskine

Blood theology: seeing red in body- and God-talk

The canons of the Quinisext Council (6912)

Chalcedon in context: church councils 400-700

Christianity as a way of life: a systematic theology

The death and life of speculative theology: a Lonergan idea

The five dysfunctions of a team: a leadership fable

Flesh made word: the Protestant interpretation problem and an embodied hermeneutic

The New Cambridge companion to biblical interpretation

Scripture, the genesis of doctrine

Uncharted leadership: 20 case studies to help ministry leaders adapt to uncertainty

Reference
The SBL handbook of style

The SBL study Bible: New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books

Welshimer Library

Lending
Arthur Miller: American witness

Bad Mexicans: race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands

Banking on slavery: financing Southern expansion in the antebellum United States

Before the Holocaust: antisemitic violence and the reaction of German elites and institutions during the Nazi takeover

The Cambridge companion to women in music since 1900

The cathedrals of Pisa, Siena and Florence: a thorough inspection of the medieval construction techniques

Child psychology in twelve questions

Do everything: the biography of Frances Willard

Dr. nurse: science, politics, and the transformation of American nursing

Egyptian art by J. R. Harris

Female genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the dawn of the Constitution

Frederick Douglass: prophet of freedom by David W. Blight

Half American: the heroic story of African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad

Jim Crow’s pink slip: the untold story of Black principal and teacher leadership

Misfire: the Sarajevo assassination and the winding road to World War I

The Mormon experience: a history of the Latter-day Saints

Moving INTO the Classroom: a handbook for movement integration in the elementary classroom

Mozart in motion: his work and his world in pieces

The perversion of Holocaust memory: writing and rewriting the past after 1989

Poor naked wretches: Shakespeare’s working people

Power and prediction: the disruptive economics of artificial intelligence

The problem of democracy: America, the Middle East, and the rise and fall of an idea

Pursuing a career in mental health: a comprehensive guide for aspiring professionals

Reforming criminal justice: a Christian proposal

Reweaving the world: the emergence of ecofeminism

SceneWriting: the missing manual for screenwriters

The seven deadly sins of White Christian nationalism: a call to action

Standby: an approach to theatrical design

States of incarceration: rebellion, reform, and America’s punishment system

The stolen year: how COVID changed children’s lives, and where we go now

Story machines: how computers have become creative writers

To make Negro literature: writing, literary practice & African American authorship

We are not one people: secession and separatism in American politics since 1776

Women in jazz: musicality, femininity, marginalization

Juvenile
The collectors: stories

Elf dog & owl head

Fire from the sky

Fox has a problem

Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow

The girl I am, was and never will be: a speculative memoir of transracial adoption

I did it! By Michael Emberley

In every life by Marla Frazee

Mexikid: a graphic memoir

Salt the water

There was a party for Langston

Worm and Caterpillar are friends

Reference
The book of Numbers by Timothy R. Ashley

The book of Ruth by Peter H. W. Lau

The books of Joel, Obadiah, and Jonah by James D. Nogalski

Zechariah 9-14 and Malachi: a commentary by David L. Petersen

DVDs
Straw dogs (1971)

The dirty dozen (1967)

The following books (103 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 2023 and January 2024.

Seminary Library

Lending
1 & 2 Thessalonians by Seyoon Kim and F. F. Bruce

Aramaic Ezra and Daniel: a handbook on the Aramaic text

Becoming human: the Holy Spirit and the rhetoric of race

Beyond the individual: Stoic philosophy on community and connection

The Bible among ruins: time, material remains, and the world of the biblical writers

The Cambridge companion to Plato

Canaanite in the Amarna tablets: a linguistic analysis of the mixed dialect used by scribes from Canaan

Concise lexicon of the Greek New Testament

The experience of God: icons of the mystery

Homilies on the Psalms: Codex Monacensis Graecus 314

Hope is here!: spiritual practices for pursuing justice and beloved community

The kingdom of Kush: the Napatan and Meroitic empires

The kingdom, the power, and the glory: American evangelicals in an age of extremism

Moralia et ascetica armeniaca =The oft-repeated discourses = Yačaxapatum čaṙkʻ

Performing early Christian literature: audience experience and interpretation of the Gospels

Practicing Christians, practical atheists: how cultural liturgies and everyday social practices shape the Christian life

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

Songs for the fast and Pascha 

A spirituality of fundraising

Text history of the Greek Ecclesiastes: introduction to the Göttingen Septuagint edition of Ecclesiastes

Wisdom in Christian tradition: the patristic roots of modern Russian sophiology

Women who do: female disciples in the Gospels

Women-church: theology and practice of feminist liturgical communities

New Testament Seminar
1-2 Peter and Jude by Pheme Perkins, Eloise M. Rosenblatt, Patricia M. McDonald, Linda M. Maloney, Barbara E. Reid

Acts of the Apostles by Linda M. Maloney, Ivoni Richter Reimer, Mary Ann Beavis, Barbara E. Reid

Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung by Hildegard Temporini, Wolfgang Haase, Joseph Vogt

John by Mary L. Coloe, Mary Ann Beavis, Barbara E. Reid

Luke by Barbara E. Reid, Shelly Matthews, Amy-Jill Levine

Mark by Warren Carter, Sarah Tanzer, Barbara E. Reid

Matthew: an interpretation Bible commentary by Mark Allan Powell

Phenomenal phenomena: biblical and multicultural accounts of spirits and exorcism

Psalms: books 2-3 by Denise Dombkowski Hopkins

The Routledge handbook of early Christian philosophy

Archives
Creative followership: in the shadow of greatness: my journey to President of Chick-fil-a

Jimmy’s stories: preaching what I practiced at Chick-fil-A

Welshimer Library

Lending
And there was light: Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle

The Cambridge companion to Amy Beach

Christianity and science by Herman Bavinck, Nathaniel Gray Sutanto, James Perman Eglinton, Cory C. Brock

Coal, cages, crisis: the rise of the prison economy in Central Appalachia

Counterpoetics of modernity: on Irish poetry and modernism

Culture and language at crossed purposes: the unsettled records of American settlement

Documenting the documentary: close readings of documentary film and video

Dvořák’s prophecy: and the vexed fate of Black classical music

Ethel Rosenberg: an American tragedy

The everyday crusade: Christian nationalism in American politics

Florence Price: American composer

From spirituals to symphonies: African-American women composers and their music

Future morality

Gin, Jesus, & Jim Crow: Prohibition and the transformation of racial and religious politics in the South

Hallelujah junction: composing an American life

Israel’s moment: international support for and opposition to establishing the jewish state, 1945-1949

John Adams: a research and information guide

John Adams’s Nixon in China: musical analysis historical and political perspectives

Music & monarchy

Musical landscapes in color: conversations with Black American composers

The new Cambridge companion to Samuel Johnson

A new history of documentary film

Nineteenth century art: a critical history

Our data, ourselves: a personal guide to digital privacy

The Pope at war: the secret history of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler

Raising Lazarus: hope, justice, and the future of America’s overdose crisis

Reading Confederate monuments

Rough draft of history: a century of US social movements in the news

Slenderman: online obsession, mental illness, and the violent crime of two Midwestern girls

Social media and crisis communication

Vaccines in the global era: how to deal safely and effectively with the pandemics of our time

What’s prison for?: punishment and rehabilitation in the age of mass incarceration

Woman: the American history of an idea

“You are not expected to understand this”: how 26 lines of code changed the world

Juvenile
Abraham, God’s friend

Children’s Bible

The Church begins

David and his son

God gives his son

God gives the law

God makes the world

God speaks through prophets

The good news

The highest tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s life, leadership, and legacy

Ish by Peter H. Reynolds

Jesus’ death for us

Jesus works miracles

Jesus, son of Mary

The little boat that almost sank: Matthew 14:22-33 ; Mark 6:45-51 for children

Little boy

My book of Bible stories: a Frances Hook picture book:  with stories

Night golf

Peach Boy and other Japanese children’s favorite stories

Thirty-three multicultural tales to tell

Three men who walked in fire: Daniel 3 for children

The weaving of a dream: a Chinese folktale

Which way to Nineveh?

Reference
1 & 2 Thessalonians by Seyoon Kim and F. F. Bruce

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

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

Leviticus: a commentary by Erhard S. Gerstenberger

DVDs
Barbie (2023)

Oppenheimer (2023)

Archives
Advances in plasma processes for polymers II

Church camp chaos

Daily wisdom for women 2022 devotional collection

God bless us every one! devotional inspiration from A Christmas carol by Charles Dickens

Oh baby!