New Books and Media Received (December 2024 and January 2025)

The following books (76 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 2024 and January 2025.

Seminary Library

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2 Corinthians by Ben Witherington

2 Corinthians by Timothy George and Scott M. Manetsch

Abundantly more: the theological promise of the arts in a reductionist world

Attentive church leadership: listening and leading in a world we’ve never known

The Biblical Hebrew verb: a linguistic introduction

The church and multiculturalism in contemporary America

Ephesians by David A. deSilva

Exegetical epistles by Jerome and Thomas P. Scheck

Galatians, Ephesians by Gerald Lewis Bray

Great to good: how following Jesus reshapes our ambitions

Growing women in ministry: seven aspects of leadership development

Handbook of contemporary preaching:a wealth of counsel for creative and effective proclamation

John 1-12 by Craig S. Farmer, Timothy George, and Scott M. Manetsch

John 13-21 by Christopher Boyd Brown, Timothy George, and Scott M. Manetsch

Philippians, Colossians by Graham Tomlin

Politics and public policy: a Christian response:  crucial considerations for governing life

Psalms 1-72 by H. J. Selderhuis

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

Reading the Bible Latinamente: Latinoa interpretation for the life of the church

Romans by C. Samuel Storms

Shape of Our Lives: A Field Guide for Congregational Formation: A Field Guide for Congregational Formation

When the church harms God’s people: becoming faith communities that resist abuse, pursue truth, and care for the wounded

When your world ends: God’s creative process for rebuilding a life

Why study Christian origins?

The widening of God’s mercy: sexuality within the biblical story

Womanist Midrash by Wilda Gafney

Welshimer Library

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American anarchy: the epic struggle between immigrant radicals and the US government at the dawn of the twentieth century

Anime: a history 2nd edition

Bad Chaucer : the great poet’s greatest mistakes in the Canterbury Tales

Becoming Foucault : the Poitiers years

Cobalt red: how the blood of the Congo powers our lives

Covered with night: a story of murder and indigenous justice in early America

Cuba: an American history

The Doctors Blackwell: how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women–and women to medicine

The Exorcist effect: horror, religion and demonic belief

Fire weather: a true story from a hotter world

The force of truth : critique, genealogy, and truth-telling in Michel Foucault

The free world: art and thought in the Cold War

Freedom’s dominion: a saga of white resistance to federal power

From modes to keys in early modern music theory

The ground breaking: the Tulsa race massacre and an American city’s search for justice

Hegel: the philosopher of freedom

Henry David Thoreau: thinking disobediently

High-impact content marketing: strategies to make your content intentional, engaging and effective

His name is George Floyd: one man’s life and the struggle for racial justice

How the word is passed: a reckoning with the history of slavery across America

I saw death coming: a history of terror and survival in the war against reconstruction

King : a life by Jonathan Eig

Kingdom of characters : the language revolution that made China modern

Lost literacies : experiments in the nineteenth-century US comic strip

MacIntyre’s After Virtue at 40

Master slave husband wife: an epic journey from slavery to freedom

No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers

The opioid epidemic: origins, current state and potential solutions

The Oxford handbook of World War I

Plato and the metaphysical feminine: one hundred and one nights

The pleasures of memory in Shakespeare’s sonnets

Political ideology and social work

Politics and literature at the dawn of World War II

The politics of innocence: how wrongful convictions shape public opinion

The presidency and the American State : leadership and decision making in the Adams, Grant, and Taft administrations

A real right to vote: how a constitutional amendment can safeguard American democracy

The rediscovery of America: native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history

Schubert: a musical wayfarer

South to America: a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation

Southern history remixed: on rock ‘n’ roll and the dilemma of race

The dead are arising: the life of Malcolm X

Theorizing Stephen King

These vivid American documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA photobooks

The understory : an invitation to rootedness and resilience from the forest floor

The undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Warnings: the Holocaust, Ukraine, and endangered American democracy

Watergate: a new history

What works in community news : media startups, news deserts, and the future of the fourth estate

Woman much missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and poetry

Women artists together: art in the age of women’s liberation