New Books in Christian Studies
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Dale C. Allison, "Night Comes: Death, Imagination, and the Last Things" (Eerdmans, 2016)
49 mins; February 12, 2025
Edward Simon, "The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues: A Visual History" (Cernunnos, 2024)
46 mins; February 10, 2025
Divya Kannan, "Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
36 mins; February 10, 2025
Angela Roskop Erisman, "The Wilderness Narratives in the Hebrew Bible: Religion, Politics, and Biblical Interpretation" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
15 mins; February 04, 2025
Joel M. Rothman, "The Cosmic Journey in the Book of Revelation: Apocalyptic Cosmology and the Experience of Story-Space" (T&T Clark, 2023)
21 mins; January 28, 2025
Constantine R. Campbell, "Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek" (Zondervan Academic, 2024)
51 mins; January 25, 2025
Stephen T. Pardue, "Why Evangelical Theology Needs the Global Church" (Baker Group, 2024)
62 hours 33 mins; January 24, 2025
Michelle D. Brock, "Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and Covenanting in a Seventeenth-Century Scottish Town" (Manchester UP, 2024)
63 hours 36 mins; January 22, 2025
Bianca M. Lopez, "Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
53 mins; January 21, 2025
Andrew Laird, "Aztec Latin: Renaissance Learning and Nahuatl Traditions in Early Colonial Mexico" (Oxford UP, 2024)
43 mins; January 18, 2025
Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, "Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2024)
51 mins; January 15, 2025
David G. Hunter et al., "Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity: Authors, Texts, and Ideas" (Brill, 2024)
52 mins; January 08, 2025
Matthew C. Godfrey, ed., "The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents, Volume 7" (Church Historians Press, 2018)
86 hours 37 mins; January 05, 2025
Olga Borovaya, "The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel: Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era" (Berghahn Books, 2024)
77 hours 59 mins; January 05, 2025
Doris L. Bergen, "Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
127 hours 6 mins; January 02, 2025
Robert D. Miller II, "Yahweh: Origin of a Desert God" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021)
26 mins; December 31, 2024
David Dejong, "A Prophet Like Moses (Deut 18:15, 18): The Origin, History, and Influence of the Mosaic Prophetic Succession" (Brill, 2022)
19 mins; December 27, 2024
Daniel B. Hinshaw, "Journey to Simplicity: The Life and Wisdom of Archimandrite Roman Braga" (St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2023)
97 hours 1 min; December 27, 2024
Farina King, "Diné dóó Gåamalii: Navajo Latter-day Saint Experiences in the Twentieth Century" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
54 mins; December 26, 2024
Markus Vinzent, "Christ's Torah: The Making of the New Testament in the Second Century" (Routledge, 2023)
62 hours 12 mins; December 25, 2024
Amélie Barras, "Faith in Rights: Christian-Inspired NGOs at Work in the United Nations" (Stanford UP, 2024)
56 mins; December 24, 2024
Paula Fredriksen, "Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years" (Princeton UP, 2024)
54 mins; December 23, 2024
Blake Leyerle, "Christians at Home: John Chrysostom and Domestic Rituals in Fourth-Century Antioch" (Penn State UP, 2024)
42 mins; December 23, 2024
Andre Villeneuve, "Divine Marriage from Eden to the End of Days: Communion with God as Nuptial Mystery in the Story of Salvation" (Wipf and Stock, 2021)
18 mins; December 22, 2024
Jan Machielsen, "The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
50 mins; December 20, 2024
Justin Tse, "Sheets of Scattered Sand: Cantonese Protestants and the Secular Dream of the Pacific Rim" (U Notre Dame Press, 2024)
95 hours 0 mins; December 18, 2024
Nathanael Homewood, "Seductive Spirits: Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism" (Stanford UP, 2024)
64 hours 36 mins; December 15, 2024
David J. Collins, SJ, "Disenchanting Albert the Great: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician" (Penn State UP, 2024)
67 hours 26 mins; December 12, 2024
Mou Banerjee, "The Disinherited: The Politics of Christian Conversion in Colonial India" (Harvard UP, 2025)
80 hours 18 mins; December 11, 2024
Michael Plekon, "Ministry Matters: Pastors, Their Life and Work Today" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
63 hours 10 mins; December 11, 2024
Nick Posegay and Melonie Schmierer-Lee, "The Illustrated Cairo Genizah" (Gorgias Press, 2024)
63 hours 57 mins; December 11, 2024
Shannon Gayk, "Apocalyptic Ecologies: From Creation to Doom in Middle English Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
54 mins; December 06, 2024
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, "Women and the Reformations: A Global History" (Yale UP, 2024)
74 hours 41 mins; December 06, 2024
Charles C. Helmer IV, "The Lord Who Listens: A Dogmatic Inquiry Into God as Hearer" (Brill, 2024)
45 mins; December 05, 2024
Talking with a Man Who Returned from the Dead (with Paul Zucarelli)
72 hours 32 mins; November 28, 2024
Yii-Jan Lin, "Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration" (Yale UP, 2024)
48 mins; November 28, 2024
Denys Turner, "Dante the Theologian" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
83 hours 9 mins; November 27, 2024
Nina Valbousquet, "Lukewarm Souls: The Vatican facing the Shoah" (La Découverte, 2024)
64 hours 19 mins; November 26, 2024
W. Paul Reeve, et al., "This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah" (Oxford UP, 2024)
57 mins; November 26, 2024
Julia Kelto Lillis, "Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity" (U California Press, 2022)
64 hours 3 mins; November 25, 2024
Leila K. Norako, "Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery, 1300-1500" (Cornell UP, 2024)
87 hours 32 mins; November 22, 2024
Matthew Elia, "The Problem of the Christian Master: Augustine in the Afterlife of Slavery" (Yale UP, 2024)
78 hours 15 mins; November 11, 2024
Gabe Durham, "Bible Adventures" (Boss Fight Books, 2015)
29 mins; November 10, 2024
Parker Palmer on the Israel-Gaza War
57 mins; November 09, 2024
Holy, Catholic, Apostolic (with Paul Zucarelli)
73 hours 18 mins; November 07, 2024
Mark Stoyle, "A Murderous Midsummer: The Western Rising of 1549" (Yale UP, 2022)
46 mins; November 03, 2024
Nicholas Spencer, "Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion" (Oneworld, 2024)
55 mins; November 01, 2024
Alister E. McGrath, "The Nature of Christian Doctrine: Its Origins, Development, and Function" (Oxford UP, 2024)
41 mins; October 28, 2024
Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
66 hours 58 mins; October 28, 2024
Dominick HernĂĄndez, "The Prosperity of the Wicked: A Theological Challenge in the Book of Job and in Ancient Near Eastern Literature" (Gorgias Press, 2022)
23 mins; October 24, 2024
S4E11 Religion and Republic: A Conversation with Miles Smith
52 mins; October 23, 2024
Peter Joshua Atkins, "The Animalising Affliction of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4: Reading Across the Human-Animal Boundary" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
44 mins; October 16, 2024
Luke Clossey, "Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520" (Open Book, 2024)
34 mins; October 09, 2024
Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
81 hours 28 mins; October 09, 2024
William Cook Miller, "The Enthusiast: Anatomy of the Fanatic in Seventeenth-Century British Culture" (Cornell UP, 2023)
59 mins; October 03, 2024
Jerome E. Copulsky, "American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order" (Yale UP, 2024)
74 hours 43 mins; October 01, 2024
Harrison Perkins, "Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction" (Lexham Academic, 2024)
35 mins; October 01, 2024
Mercy Ships (with Reanne Newquist)
57 mins; October 01, 2024
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, "Desert Ascetics of Egypt" (ARC Humanities Press, 2020)
61 hours 37 mins; September 30, 2024
Uroơ Kovač, "The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon" (Berghahn Books, 2022)
75 hours 27 mins; September 30, 2024
Courtney Ann Irby, "Guiding God's Marriage: Faith and Social Change in Premarital Counseling" (NYU Press, 2024)
64 hours 34 mins; September 27, 2024
Steve Tibble, "Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land" (Yale UP, 2024)
56 mins; September 24, 2024
Tone Bleie, "A New Testament: Scandinavian Missionaries and Santal Chiefs from Company and British Crown Rule to Independence" (Solum Bokvennen, 2023)
45 mins; September 20, 2024
Iemima Ploscariu, "Alternative Evangelicals: Challenging Nationalism in Interwar Romania's Multi-ethnic Borderlands" (Brill, 2024)
48 mins; September 19, 2024
Jason Ramsey, "Reckoning with Change in YucatĂĄn: Histories of Care and Threat on a Former Hacienda" (Routledge, 2023)
92 hours 40 mins; September 17, 2024
Philip Freeman, "Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor" (Yale UP, 2023)
41 mins; September 16, 2024
Aleksandra Djuric Milovanovic, "The Untold Journey of the Nazarene Emigration from Yugoslavia to North America" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
62 hours 20 mins; September 13, 2024
Katharine J. Dell, "The Lord by Wisdom Founded the Earth" (Baylor UP, 2023)
16 mins; September 13, 2024
A Letter from Jesus (with Dann Aungst)
60 hours 30 mins; September 12, 2024
Marilynne Robinson, "Reading Genesis" (FSG, 2024)
33 mins; September 12, 2024
Edel Bhreathnach, "Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
32 mins; September 11, 2024
Martha Rampton, "Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000" (Cornell UP, 2021)
56 mins; September 09, 2024
Tracy Fessenden, “Religion Around Billie Holiday” (Penn State UP, 2018)
63 hours 19 mins; September 08, 2024
Jeannine Hanger, "Sensing Salvation in the Gospel of John: The Embodied, Sensory Qualities of Participation in the I Am Sayings" (Brill, 2023)
33 mins; September 06, 2024
Laura Salah Nasrallah, "Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses: Magic, Aesthetics, and Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
66 hours 28 mins; September 02, 2024
Aleksander Pluskowski, "The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation" (Reaktion, 2024)
56 mins; August 30, 2024
Localism (with Dale Ahlquist)
54 mins; August 29, 2024
Mark Valeri, "The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty" (Oxford UP, 2023)
49 mins; August 29, 2024
Randall Stephens, "The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock n’ Roll" (Harvard UP, 2018)
57 mins; August 28, 2024
Scott Harrower, "Trauma and Recovery in Early North African Christianity" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2024)
54 mins; August 25, 2024
Duane A. Garrett, "Job: Evangelical Exegetical Commentary" (Lexham Academic, 2024)
36 mins; August 22, 2024
Diana V. Edelman and Philippe Guillaume, "The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes" (Equinox, 2024)
73 hours 48 mins; August 21, 2024
Laura S. Lieber, "Staging the Sacred: Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry" (Oxford UP, 2023)
64 hours 36 mins; August 19, 2024
Ahreum Kim, "The Countercultural Victory of 1 John in Greco-Roman Context: Conquering the World" (T&T Clark, 2023)
34 mins; August 18, 2024
Victoria Smolkin, "A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism" (Princeton UP, 2018)
63 hours 31 mins; August 18, 2024
Lesley Smith, "Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
41 mins; August 16, 2024
A Hidden Life (with Brian Zahnd)
67 hours 35 mins; August 15, 2024
Mark Sweetnam, "Paul's Last Letter: A Commentary on the Second Epistle to Timothy" (Wipf and Stock, 2024)
33 mins; August 14, 2024
Teresa Morgan, "The New Testament and the Theology of Trust" (Oxford UP, 2022)
35 mins; August 13, 2024
Zoe Knox, “Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Secular World: From the 1870s to the Present” (Palgrave, 2018)
34 mins; August 13, 2024
Sara J. Charles, "The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
50 mins; August 12, 2024
Cordelia Heß, "The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden" (de Gruyter, 2021)
84 hours 17 mins; August 10, 2024
Katharine Sykes, "Symbolic Reproduction in Early Medieval England" (Oxford UP, 2024)
42 mins; August 08, 2024
Eyal Regev, "The Temple in Early Christianity: Experiencing the Sacred" (Yale UP, 2019)
36 mins; August 07, 2024
Nicholas Orme, "Going to Church in Medieval England" (Yale UP, 2021)
70 hours 27 mins; August 04, 2024
Jonathon Lookadoo, "The Shepherd of Hermas: A Literary, Historical, and Theological Handbook" (T&T Clark, 2021)
68 hours 34 mins; August 04, 2024
Tim Cooper, "When Christians Disagree: Lessons from the Fractured Relationship of John Owen and Richard Baxter" (Crossway, 2024)
35 mins; July 30, 2024
Richard D. Oram, "Where Men No More May Reap Or Sow: The Little Ice Age: Scotland 1400-1850" (Birlinn, 2024)
73 hours 57 mins; July 30, 2024
Robin Darling Young et al, "Evagrius of Pontus: The Gnostic Trilogy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
95 hours 18 mins; July 28, 2024
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., "Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
66 hours 58 mins; July 25, 2024