New Books in Christian Studies
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Paul Vigna, "The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
62 hours 24 mins; August 02, 2025
Glenn Richardson, "WOLSEY" (Routledge, 2020)
46 mins; July 30, 2025
Religion in the Lands That Became America
70 hours 8 mins; July 29, 2025
Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality " (Oxford UP, 2024)
73 hours 3 mins; July 29, 2025
Caroline Johnson Hodge, "The God of This House: Christian Domestic Cult Before Constantine" (Penn State UP, 2025)
66 hours 45 mins; July 28, 2025
Matthew V. Novenson, "Paul and Judaism at the End of History" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
63 hours 9 mins; July 28, 2025
John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak" (Northern Illinois UP, 2018)
68 hours 36 mins; July 27, 2025
Christopher Ocker, "Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
38 mins; July 27, 2025
Ian Johnson, "The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao" (Pantheon, 2017)
76 hours 16 mins; July 26, 2025
Amir Hussain, "One God and Two Religions: Christians and Muslims as Neighbors" (Fortress Press, 2025)
59 mins; July 24, 2025
Beth M. Stovell, "Mapping Metaphorical Discourse in the Fourth Gospel: John’s Eternal King" (Brill, 2012)
27 mins; July 24, 2025
Allan Doig, "A History of the Church through its Buildings" (Oxford UP, 2021)
38 mins; July 19, 2025
Gary Kulik, "Conscientious Objectors at War: The Vietnam War's Forgotten Medics" (Texas Tech UP, 2025)
59 mins; July 19, 2025
Daniel C. Matt, "Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation" (Yale UP, 2022)
32 mins; July 19, 2025
Claudia Setzer, "The Progressives' Bible: How Scriptural Interpretation Built a More Just America" (Fortress Publishers, 2024)
61 hours 33 mins; July 18, 2025
Pope Leo XIV (with Christopher White)
57 mins; July 15, 2025
Daniel I. Block, "Hearing the Gospel According to Moses Volume 2: Chapters 12-23" (Inspirata, 2024)
34 mins; July 11, 2025
JĂźrgen Buchenau and David S. Dalton, "Anti-Catholicism in the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1940" (Simon and Schuster, 2024)
64 hours 36 mins; July 11, 2025
John Eldevik, "Reading Prester John: Cultural Fantasy and Its Manuscript Contexts" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)
36 mins; July 06, 2025
Wang Yi, Hannah Nation ed., "Faithful Disobedience: Writings on Church and State from a Chinese House Church Movement" (IVP Academic, 2022)
74 hours 43 mins; July 05, 2025
Jonathon Stuart Wright, "Joseph and Aseneth After Antiquity: A Study in Manuscript Transmission" (de Gruyter, 2025)
63 hours 34 mins; June 30, 2025
Abeneazer G. Urga et al., "Reading James Missiologically: The Missionary Motive, Message, and Methods of James" (William Carey, 2025)
56 mins; June 27, 2025
Jonathan Teubner, "Charity After Augustine: Solidarity, Conflict, and the Practices of Charity in the Latin West" (Oxford UP, 2025)
90 hours 45 mins; June 23, 2025
Candace Lukasik, "Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire" (NYU Press, 2025)
54 mins; June 18, 2025
Stefanie Lenk, "Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
46 mins; June 09, 2025
Girolamo Zanchi, "Confession of the Christian Religion" (Reformation, 2025)
33 mins; June 05, 2025
Sven Trakulhun, "Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
40 mins; June 01, 2025
Stephen Okey, "A Theology of Conversation: An Introduction to David Tracy" (Liturgical Press, 2018)
83 hours 50 mins; May 25, 2025
David G. Bonagura Jr, "100 Tough Questions for Catholics: Common Obstacles to Faith Today" (Sophia Institute, 2025)
67 hours 41 mins; May 23, 2025
Toine van Teeffelen, "The Birthplace of Jesus Is in Palestine: A Memoir" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
63 hours 20 mins; May 23, 2025
Ryan Klejment-Lavin, "Evil: A North Korean Christian Refugee Perspective" (American Society of Missiology, 2024)
46 mins; May 23, 2025
Korshi Dosoo and MarkĂŠta Preininger, "Papyri Copticae Magicae: Coptic Magical Texts, Volume 1: Formularies" (de Gruyter, 2023)
88 hours 50 mins; May 23, 2025
Kirsten Macfarlane, "Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2024)
45 mins; May 22, 2025
Julia McClure, "Empire of Poverty: The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire" (Oxford UP, 2025)
42 mins; May 21, 2025
Alan Strathern, "Converting Rulers: Global Patterns, 1450-1850" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
81 hours 1 min; May 20, 2025
Richard Calis, "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius" (Harvard UP, 2025)
61 hours 51 mins; May 19, 2025
Timothy A. Lee, "The Syriac Peshiáš­ta Bible: The New Testament" (Gorgias Press, 2023)
30 mins; May 17, 2025
Rochelle Rojas, "Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525–1675" (Cornell UP, 2025)
45 mins; May 15, 2025
Robert F. Darden and Stephen M. Newby, "Soon and Very Soon: The Transformative Music and Ministry of AndraĂŠ Crouch" (Oxford UP, 2025)
51 mins; May 14, 2025
Claire McNulty, "Edinburgh's Unruly Women: Gender, Discipline, and Power, 1560-1660" (Routledge, 2024)
36 mins; May 13, 2025
Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus" (Doubleday, 2025)
39 mins; May 12, 2025
Art and Its Holy Object (with Steve Auth)
70 hours 32 mins; May 10, 2025
Stephanie Schmidt, "Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain: Missionary Narratives, Nahua Perspectives" (U Texas Press, 2025)
51 mins; May 09, 2025
Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
57 mins; May 08, 2025
Nancy M. Rourke, "Ecological Moral Character: A Catholic Model" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
39 mins; May 07, 2025
Astrid von Schlachta, "Anabaptists: From the Reformation to the 21st Century" (Pandora Press, 2024)
65 hours 51 mins; May 06, 2025
Donald S. Prudlo, "Governing Perfection" (St. Augustine's Press, 2024)
24 mins; May 05, 2025
Aaron Robertson, "The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America" (FSG, 2024)
54 mins; May 04, 2025
Simon Mayall, "The House of War: The Struggle Between Christendom and the Caliphate" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
71 hours 54 mins; May 03, 2025
Miles Pattenden, "Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700" (Oxford UP, 2017)
54 mins; May 02, 2025
Timothy Twining, "The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
70 hours 6 mins; May 01, 2025
Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, "Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts" (Eerdmans, 2025)
71 hours 57 mins; April 30, 2025
Donald S. Prudlo, "Stimulus Pastorum: A Charge to Pastors" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
30 mins; April 29, 2025
John Van Maaren, "The Gospel of Mark's Judaism and the Death of Christ as Ransom for Many" (Mohr Siebeck, 2025)
30 mins; April 26, 2025
Udi Greenberg, "The End of the Schism: Catholics, Protestants, and the Remaking of Christian Life in Europe, 1880s-1970s" (Harvard UP, 2025)
73 hours 56 mins; April 25, 2025
Asa Simon Mittman, "Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England" (Penn State UP, 2024)
66 hours 22 mins; April 24, 2025
Las G. Newman, "To Die in Africa’s Dust: West Indian Missionaries in Western Africa in the Nineteenth Century" (Langham, 2024)
92 hours 52 mins; April 24, 2025
Patrick Schreiner, "The Ascension of Christ: Recovering a Neglected Doctrine" (Lexham Press, 2020)
28 mins; April 22, 2025
Shushma Malik, "The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
42 mins; April 21, 2025
Katie Rose Hejtmanek, "The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon" (NYU Press, 2025)
68 hours 28 mins; April 20, 2025
Samuel Ross, "Qur’an Commentary and the Biblical Turn: A History of Muslim Exegetical Engagement with the Biblical Text" (de Gruyter, 2024)
86 hours 58 mins; April 19, 2025
Faith Tibble, "Crown of Thorns: Humble Gods and Humiliated Kings" (T&T Clark, 2025)
41 mins; April 18, 2025
Jonathan Bryant, "Compassion and the Characterization of the Markan Jesus" (Brill, 2024)
40 mins; April 17, 2025
Salve Regina (with Bishop Athanasius Schneider)
43 mins; April 14, 2025
Nicholas J. Moore, "The Open Sanctuary: Access to God and the Heavenly Temple in the New Testament" (Baker Academic, 2024)
47 mins; April 13, 2025
Anna Maria Busse Berger and Henry Spiller, "Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago" (U California Press, 2025)
69 hours 4 mins; April 08, 2025
Richard Alfred Muller, "Predestination in Early Modern Reformed Theology" (Reformation Heritage Books, 2024)
31 mins; April 07, 2025
Loretta Vandi, "Eufrasia Burlamacchi" (Getty Publications, 2025)
47 mins; April 06, 2025
Lived Experience and the Search for Truth: Revisiting Catholic Sexual Morality
73 hours 39 mins; April 05, 2025
Jonathan Rauch, "Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy" (Yale UP, 2025)
53 mins; April 03, 2025
Wafik W. Wahba, "Global Christianity and Islam: Exploring History, Politics, and Beliefs" (InterVarsity Press, 2025)
63 hours 54 mins; March 29, 2025
Bruce L. Vernarde, "The Miracles of Mary in Twelfth-Century France" (Cornell UP, 2024)
69 hours 56 mins; March 28, 2025
Timothy A. Brookins, "Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Corinthians: Paul, Stoicism, and Spiritual Hierarchy" (Eerdmans, 2024)
60 hours 52 mins; March 27, 2025
Timothy Bertolet, "The Obedience of Sonship: Adamic Obedience and the Heavenly Ascension in Hebrews" (Fontes Press, 2023)
30 mins; March 26, 2025
James M. O’Toole, "For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
64 hours 25 mins; March 24, 2025
David Hollenbach, "Human Rights in a Divided World: Catholicism as a Living Tradition" (Georgetown UP, 2024)
67 hours 56 mins; March 22, 2025
David D. Grafton, "Muhammad in the Seminary: Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century" (NYU Press, 2024)
81 hours 43 mins; March 21, 2025
Managerial Bishops Rule! Peter Brown on Wealth in Early Christianity (JP)
52 mins; March 20, 2025
Colby Gordon, "Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
56 mins; March 18, 2025
Chance E. Bonar, "The Author in Early Christian Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
50 mins; March 17, 2025
Alexandra Verini, "English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
31 mins; March 16, 2025
Catalin-Stefan Popa, "The Making of Syriac Jerusalem" (Routledge, 2023)
67 hours 46 mins; March 14, 2025
Gregory Soderberg, "John Brown of Haddington on Frequent Communion" (Wipf & Stock, 2024)
34 mins; March 11, 2025
Kristin A. Olbertson, "The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
46 mins; March 09, 2025
Manu Pillai, "Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity" (Allen Lane, 2025)
62 hours 51 mins; March 06, 2025
Ellen Fenzel Arnold, "Medieval Riverscapes: Environment and Memory in Northwest Europe, C. 300-1100" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
53 mins; March 01, 2025
Jeffrey Thomas Perry, "Law in American Meetinghouses: Church Discipline and Civil Authority in Kentucky, 1780–1845" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
45 mins; February 27, 2025
Religious Freedom: A Conversation on the Conservative Tradition with John D. Wilsey
45 mins; February 26, 2025
Bernard McGinn, "Modern Mystics: An Introduction" (Herder & Herder, 2023)
104 hours 30 mins; February 25, 2025
Words and Silences: The Thomas Merton Hermitage Tapes
48 mins; February 24, 2025
Sejong Chun, "Paul’s New Creation: Vision for a New World and Community" (Lexington Books, 2023)
30 mins; February 23, 2025
Peter Ramey, "The Word-Hoard Beowulf: A Translation with Commentary" (Angelico Press, 2023)
57 mins; February 22, 2025
Martyn Percy, "The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism: Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England" (Hurst, 2025)
49 mins; February 21, 2025
Andrew Jotischky, "The Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History" (Yale UP, 2024)
29 mins; February 21, 2025
Patrick Riordan, "Human Dignity and Liberal Politics: Catholic Possibilities for the Common Good" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
49 mins; February 20, 2025
Arthur Jan Keefer, "Proverbs 1-9 as an Introduction to the Book of Proverbs" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
25 mins; February 17, 2025
Colleen C. B. Weaver, "The Fruits of Listening: Applying Qualitative Research Methods in the Design of Contextually Responsive Theological Education" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
52 mins; February 16, 2025
Erik Freas, "Palestine's Christians and the Nationalist Cause: The Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods" (Routledge, 2024)
75 hours 48 mins; February 16, 2025
Hunter Price, "Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty" (U Virginia Press, 2024)
63 hours 24 mins; February 16, 2025
Glen L. Thompson, "Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China" (Eerdmans, 2024)
67 hours 45 mins; February 15, 2025