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

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